The Integrated Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration Training Group (IDDRTG) is a group of international organisations and training institutions that was formed with a common intention of developing and sharing training materials based on the UN Integrated Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Standards (UN IDDRS). This Group was established with the main objective of supplying harmonized training courses in order to meet the increasing need for highly qualified DDR practitioners, planners, trainers and policy makers.
Consequently, members of the Group try to produce relevant DDR publications/manuals, provide various levels of training courses on DDR and also help one another in identifying and accessing funding.
The current members of the IDDRTG are:
• African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, South Africa
• Bonn International Centre for Conversion, Germany.
• Centre for European Security Studies, The Netherlands.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany
• Ecole de Maintien de la Paix de Bamako Alioune Blondin Beye, Mali.
• Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm.
• Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland.
• Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Centre, Accra.
• Norwegian Defense International Centre, Norway.
• Peace Workers, UK.
• Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Canada.
• Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm.
• Scuola Sant’ Anna, Italy.
• Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze (Center for International Peace Operations), Germany - The Co-Chairs Inter-Agency Working Group - DDR(UNDP and DPKO) are strategic partners of the IDDRTG and therefore have an observer status.
The Lead-Chair of the IDDRTG for 2009/2010 is KAIPTC while the Co-Chair is NODEFIC. The Centre for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA, USA and The Legon Centre for International Affairs, Accra have both applied for membership and would be considered during the Annual General Meeting of the Group in 2010. The International Peace Support Training Centre, Kenya has also been invited to apply for membership. The Group is willing to accept new members provided they meet the requirements stipulated in the Cooperation statement and are willing to abide by its articles. Application for membership could be sent to the co-chairs of the Group.
To further these achievements and discuss on ways forward, the Group conducts annual meetings. Accordingly, the fifth meeting of the Group was held in KAIPTC, from 2-5 June 2009. The main objective of the annual meeting was to evaluate progress and take note of the training experiences of member organisations including course evaluations. The next Annual General Meeting of Group is will be hosted by Folke Bernadotte Academy from 1-3 June 2010.
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