Training and counseling in human rights and gender and internships: 

(i)   Training and Counseling

Since 1997, MHRRC has activity engaged in providing capacity building support to partner CSOs through training and counseling. MHRRC has provided advise and counseling to complement all the areas that it has provided training and grant funding.  Advice and Counseling has proved successful largely because it has the advantage of a one-to-one couching which imparts knowledge and skills in a work situation and therefore facilitates learning and development.  Since 1997, MHRRC has delivered over 50 training session with complementary advise and counseling and has built capacity of partner CSOs in such areas as human rights (including the Human Rights Based Approach to programming, project proposal development, project management, finance and budgeting, research skills and methodologies, human rights monitoring, advocacy and lobbying.      

(ii) Internships and professional attachments
MHRRC has been offering attachments and internships to staff members of the NGOs as well as students from the various constituent colleges of the University of Malawi. Under such an initiative, staff from NGOs and students are attached to the Centre to learn specific skills while working with MHRRC officers various projects over an agreed period of time. This has helped to impart skills and knowledge to NGOs staff and University students which they have eventually used and applied in their various NGOs and workplaces.  

At the same time, MHRRC has benefited from the attachment of Professional Volunteers from overseas. Since 1997, MHRRC has had the placement of three (3) professionals from Canada through the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and four Human Rights Officers from Denmark through the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). Such professional attachments have added value to the work of the Centre by bringing about a cross-fertilization of ideas and international and regional focus to human rights work.