Part I Introduction to human rights education • the development of human rights educational materials for primary and secondary schools • production and distribution of human rights films and animations. 3.3.7. New Zealand Human Rights Commission The New Zealand Human Rights Commission identifies human rights education as a significant way to fulfil its mandate by: • being an advocate for human rights and promoting and protecting, by education and publicity, respect for, and observance of, human rights • promoting, by research, education and discussion, a better understanding of the human rights dimensions of the Treaty of Waitangi and their relationship with domestic and international human rights law. Encouraging community action (using human rights education as a key approach) is one of three crosscutting approaches which the Commission uses to achieve its priorities.68 3.3.8. APF69 In 2017, and as a result of feedback from its members, the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) initiated a programme to establish the APF Facilitators Network (AFN). It was envisaged that the AFN would build facilitation capacity and capability within NHRIs and across the region. To initiate the AFN, 20 NHRIs took part in a blended learning programme involving both online and faceto-face development. The programme aimed to: • build participants’ understanding and practice of facilitation as it related to adult-centred learning and human rights education, and • initiate a region-wide network of human rights facilitators. The face-to-face workshop component of the programme was held in Jakarta in December 2017. At this workshop facilitators began a process of identifying what they understood facilitation to be and developing a set of guiding principles for effective human rights facilitation. This was the beginning of the Jakarta Guidelines for Human Rights Facilitation (the Guidelines). Since this initial programme, facilitators have delivered initiatives in their own NHRIs and countries. Experiences and resources have been shared online in the APF Learning Community, and at a face-toface network meeting in Bangkok. The Guidelines have been further developed at the Bangkok meeting and through subsequent sub-regional contributions. The APF is aiming to increase the effectiveness of human rights education provision by strengthening the practice of facilitation – that is of, ‘participant-centred’ human rights capacity development rather than ‘teacher/trainer-centred’ instruction on human rights. 68 More information is available online at www.hrc.co.nz/our-work/human-rights-education/. 69 More information is available online at www.asiapacificforum.net/news/apf-facilitators-bolster-human-rights-skills/. Chapter 3: National human rights institutions and human rights education | 27