KIX EMAP Skills-Strengthening Workshop: Monitoring the Right to Education
Date: 26 – 27 November 2025
Time: 10:30-12:30 (Geneva / CET)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Languages: English, with simultaneous interpretation to Arabic and Russian
This will be the second workshop in the KIX EMAP Skills-Strengthening Workshop Series. This KIX EMAP skills-strengthening workshop, organised in partnership with the Right to Education Initiative, is focused on monitoring the right to education.
Education is a human right. This means that there are right-holders, mainly learners, who have particular entitlements and freedoms. It also means that there are duty bearers, mainly States, who have particular obligations related to the implementation and realisation of this right. Monitoring the right to education is essential to assess its level of enjoyment (by right-holders) and implementation (by duty-bearers) in order to take the appropriate measures towards its full realisation. Tools exist, including right to education indicators, to facilitate the monitoring of the right to education and ensure its efficiency.
This two-day workshop will help education stakeholders to:
- Recall the content of the right to education (entitlements and obligations) and why we monitor the right to education, highlighting specific reporting mechanisms,
- Strengthen knowledge and skills on how to monitor the right to education with specific monitoring tools,
- Understand better the specific role of each stakeholder in monitoring the right to education, and
- Guide the contextualisation of the monitoring tools with concrete examples.
Participants must plan to attend both days.
Workshop Outline
Session 1. Basics for monitoring the right to education
- Overview of the international treaties guaranteeing the right to education
- Recall of the distinction between binding and non-binding instruments
- Implementation of the right to education at the national level
- Overview of the content of the right to education and related states’ obligations
- Importance of monitoring the right to education and the respective role of each stakeholder (states, academics, civil society organisations)
- What and how we monitor the right to education from a human rights perspective
Session 2. Monitoring a particular dimension of the right to education
Participants will choose a specific dimension of the right to education to focus on in one of three parallel sessions:
- Early childhood care and education. It is a growing issue, and the RTE Initiative has published a specific guide to monitor ECCE from a human rights perspective.
- Access to and participation in education. Monitoring and addressing inequalities in education is essential to guarantee the right to education for everyone on the basis of the rights to equality and non-discrimination.
- Private actors’ involvement in education. This is a growing phenomenon that must be monitored to ensure the right to education is not undermined and is guaranteed for everyone.
Each session will briefly present the content and related states’ obligations of the chosen dimension of the right to education. In breakout rooms, participants will do a practical exercise to respond to specific questions to identify their focus and relevant indicators for their monitoring work.
Facilitators
Delphine Dorsi is the Director of the Right to Education Initiative (RTE). She is a lawyer specialised in human rights and has been working for more than fifteen years in the field of the right to education, engaging in research, advocacy and capacity building, both at local and global levels. She authored, co-authored and supervised the edition of various publications on the right to education and contributed to the drafting of several legal documents. She holds a research Master’s in Human Rights from the University of Strasbourg.
Rajakumari Michaelsamy is a human rights professional with over 17 years of experience in various aspects of human rights, including human rights education, child rights, and the right to education. She currently leads the Early Childhood Care and Education program at the Right to Education Initiative (RTE). She joined RTE in February 2021 and has previously worked with a range of national and international NGOs and organizations, including Amnesty International India. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the University of Essex and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Human Rights Law from the National Law School of India University.
Juliana Lima has been collaborating with RTE on various research and monitoring projects since 2021. On March 2025 she joined RTE’s team as a Project Manager on Monitoring and Advocacy. She has extensive experience in research, advocacy, project management and legal analysis, having worked with governments and civil society organizations — particularly in Lusophone and Francophone Africa — on education policy, impact assessment, and capacity development. Holding a PhD in Political Science, she has designed and led research projects, authored analytical reports, developed monitoring tools, conducted capacity-building initiatives, and contributed to international policy dialogues on education and human rights.
Eligibility
This workshop has limited seats available. Only those based on one of the KIX EMAP partner countries are eligible for this workshop. Individuals working on education policy, planning, practice or research in one of the EMAP countries for whom the skills addressed in this workshop are relevant to their work are welcome to submit an application.
Application
The application deadline is extended to 17 November 2025. Your application can be submitted in English, Arabic or Russian.
Those who are selected to participate in the workshop will receive an invitation by email.
Please spread the news about this event to your colleagues and networks, and on social media: @KIXEMAP, @NORRAG and @RTEInitiative.