Capacity building was at the core of the interregional training workshop held in New Delhi, India, 23 – 27 April 2007

The workshop aimed at developing competencies in a comprehensive and practical manner, equipping the participants to use the Toolkit on Ethics Education, developed by the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children. The participants were nominated by GNRC Coordinators and came from most of the regions where GNRC network is present and active. The young adults are identified as resource persons for the GNRC network and they will continue to be involved and utilized for the dissemination and use of the recently redrafted Toolkit.

The participants learned how to use the toolkit using different methodologies conducive to interfaith learning and how to prepare a program on ethics education through interfaith learning. They learned skills on how to deliver sessions with children and they discussed together ways to nurture values in children and provide space for children’s innate spirituality.

The workshop included a tour of Delhi focusing on visits to the different religious communities present in the Indian context. The participants visited the biggest mosque in South Asia, the synagogue, a protestant church, the Sikh gurdwara and the Bahai Lotus temple. At all the different religious places representatives of each religious tradition introduced and shared perspectives of the specific religious tradition.

The Training Workshop in Delhi was facilitated by Ms Riham Kawar from Jordan and Ms Maria Lucia Uribe, Ms Mahal da Costa and Ms Agneta Ucko from the Geneva based Interfaith Council Secretariat. The GNRC Coordinator for the Central Asia and Caucasus region, Ms. Razia Ismail Abbasi, arranged with her local team the logistics for the workshop and assisted the facilitators’ team with an interactive session on Child Rights. She was supported by the GNRC Coordinators from the South Asia region and the Arab States region.