APF Facilitators’ Network (AFN) Competency Framework for Human Rights Facilitators Preamble Paris Principles-compliant NHRIs play a critical role in promoting the effective implementation of human rights standards at the national, regional, community, organisational and individual levels. NHRIs do this through human rights education. The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) is aiming to increase the effectiveness of human rights education by strengthening the practice of facilitation of participantcentred, human rights capacity development. To this end, the APF Facilitators’ Network (AFN)1 has been established to support practitioners build confidence, skills and theory-based practice to work toward education that is transformative – that results in active engagement with, and commitment to, human rights principles and practices. AFN facilitators from around the region have delivered initiatives in their own NHRIs and countries. As a result of sharing experiences and resources, they have identified the need for a competency framework that will: • provide a set of guidelines against which facilitator practice can be planned, monitored and evaluated; • identify areas for professional and personal development; • advise NHRIs as they recruit and promote human rights educators and other personnel tasked with promoting human rights. It is anticipated as an outcome of the APF Human Rights Facilitator Competency Framework, that NHRI facilitators in the Asia Pacific Region will consistently demonstrate good facilitation practice, contributing to the effective implementation of human rights standards at all levels. The competency framework can be used as a standalone document or alongside the Jakarta Guidelines for Human Rights Facilitation which are a set of guiding principles for effective human rights facilitation that have developed by the AFN facilitators since they first met in December 2017. 1 Find out more about the AFN Facilitators Network at https://www.asiapacificforum.net/support/promotingcollaboration/professional-networks/apf-facilitators-network/ 1