Curriculum to support the development of training and advocacy material

The curriculum will address a variety of topics and will be designed in such a way that learners from several disciplines of various levels of experience can create tailored courses by designing their own program of study to meet their training needs.

    It is foreseen that a full curriculum would have four units:

1. Introduction to the Right to Food.
2. Assessing the status of the Right to Food.
3. Implementing measures to realize the Right to Food.
4. Monitoring the Human Right to Adequate Food.

    Each theme comprises:

• Learning goals are basically what the learners will be able to do when they finish the training program.
• Learning concepts are the key messages or understanding that will equip the learner with the knowledge to meet the learning goal. The learning concepts are expressed in sequence.
• The resources section highlights the currently available tools, material, etc in electronic and printed format, together with an indication of the key author or source.

    The target audience for this curriculum is:

• Policy makers, planners and program managers
• Practitioners
• General Public/Civil Society
• NGOs/CSOs
• UN Country teams/FAO

    In order to assist in the formulation and development of the learning content, the curriculum outline provides details and guidance for each lesson as follows:

• Lesson learning objectives which describe the knowledge and skills that the learners will have acquired by the end of the lesson.
• Scope notes for each learning step, which provide advice to authors on the information to include, the topics and concepts to be developed in detail.
• Guidelines and suggestions for authors that help define the scope of the lesson.
• Resource pointers for each lesson, which provide additional sources of information that might be useful to both content authors and the learners.