Human Rights Education A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions Chapter 6: Planning and designing human rights education100 101 KEY QUESTIONS • What are the main elements for planning and designing a human rights education activity? • How can a Logic Model be used for planning and designing a human rights education activity? If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there. The point is to know, better than before, which path you are taking and why.101 6.1. INTRODUCTION Every human rights education activity, no matter how small or large, will involve three key stages: planning and design, implementation and evaluation. This chapter talks about the first stage: planning and design. The figure below shows these three stages in a cycle because one human rights education activity will often lead to another. When this happens, it is hoped that the evaluation of the previous activity will help improve the planning and implementation of the following activity, resulting in continuous improvement, relevance and outcomes. Human rights education does not take place in isolation. All human rights education occurs in a context that is affected by many, and sometimes conflicting, factors. It is important that the human rights educator considers these factors in the planning and design process and the influence they may have on the programme or activity. Where possible, participants will be included in the planning and design process. This can happen in a minor way; for example, by asking participants to take part in an initial needs assessment or more completely, by having participants plan and design their own learning experience. Most human rights education happens somewhere in between. With some activities, such as delivering a presentation, facilitating a workshop and being interviewed by the media, the process of planning and design may be short. In others, such as organizing a campaign or implementing a community development project, it may be longer. 50 100 APF Video (2015) Planning human rights education. Available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQD7tpzMOw (5.37). 101 Situation Analysis: An Approach and Method for Analyzing the Context of Projects and Programmes; Global M&E Initiative; available online at http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/approach_and_method.pdf.