REPORTING TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES TRAINING GUIDE: Part II — Notes for Facilitators CLOSING SESSION Note for the facilitator Usually Treaty Body reporting training courses are closed by a senior representative of the facilitator’s organization and/or by a senior resource person participating in the course. Besides factoring in time for concluding remarks and distribution of certificates, the closing session of a training course is also an opportunity to get the participants to express (in writing and/or orally) their follow-up commitments to the training i.e. the activities they plan to conduct back home to put in practice what they have learnt during the training. For example, to embark on the drafting of a Treaty Body report. Facilitators can then record these commitments and use them to follow-up on the training. A closing session should not last more than 1 hour. TIP ÎÎHave the certificates ready (i.e. signed and printed) at the outset of the training! ÎÎFollow your organization’s policy as to who should sign the certificates (e.g., signed by both a headquarter and a regional representative of the facilitator’s organization). This session can be structured as follows: 1. Ask participants to identify three activities that they will conduct once back at home as a follow-up to the training and to write them down on a piece of paper (10 minutes). 2. Invite those who would like to do so, to present their commitments in plenary (10 minutes). TIP ÎÎParticipants can take with them their commitments. Otherwise, you can collect them and attach them in your follow-up conversations with each participant. 3. Distribute the final evaluation forms and request to participants to fill them in (15 minutes). 4. Wrap-up/conclusion of the course by a senior resource person, e.g., a Treaty Body expert (5 minutes). 5. Closing remarks by a senior representative of the facilitator’s organization, e.g., OHCHR (5 minutes). 6. Distribution of certificates by both senior resource person and senior representative (15 minutes). TIP 80 ÎÎDo not forget to pick up the completed final evaluation forms!