1.1 EDUCATION AND PROMOTION A. EDUCATION AND TRAINING OVERVIEW The COVID-19 outbreak early this year has to a certain extent affected the implementation of SUHAKAM’s training and education programmes. The Education and Training Division (ETD) had to revise its Workplan in June to ensure that the planned programme were doable during the pandemic. Several face-to-face programmes and activities for the year had to be postponed and replaced with online training sessions. Only a few face-to-face programmes managed to be held before the Movement Control Order (MCO) in March and during the implementation of Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO). Those programmes were conducted with strict adherence to the standard operating procedures (SOP) issued by the National Security Council (NSC) such as physical distancing, the wearing of face mask and the use of MySejahtera apps for registration. On the other hand, the reduction of face-to-face workshops and training programmes this year enable the ETD officers to focus on the ongoing development of training modules. 1. HUMAN RIGHTS BEST PRACTICES (ATHAM) IN SCHOOL PROGRAMME After more than 10 years ATHAM programme being implemented in several selected schools, SUHAKAM believes that it is timely to assess the effectiveness of the programme and to introduce some improvements. Thus, SUHAKAM has allocated a grant to conduct a study on the ATHAM programme during the year. In addition, SUHAKAM also developed a Proposed List of Activities under ATHAM programme for distribution to ATHAM schools. a) Study on the Effectiveness of Human Rights Best Practices (ATHAM) in School Programme at Selected Schools in Malaysia in Improving the Understanding of Human Rights among Schools Community SUHAKAM appointed two teams of researchers led by Assoc. Professor Dr. Rohaida Nordin, Senior Lecturer of Faculty of Law of the Universiti 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2020