The Western Balkan partner countries regularly cooperate and exchange practices regionally and with EU+ countries on specific asylum and reception related areas.
Within this context, in October 2020, EASO, in cooperation with UNICEF, Sweden, Germany, UNHCR and IOM, organised a regional workshop on age assessment.
To develop Western Balkan partners’ capacities in the area of asylum, EASO and EU+ trainers are providing support in order to roll out a series of Regional train the trainers’ sessions.
Following the Interview Techniques training module delivered in September 2020, in November, a virtual face-to-face session on Interviewing Vulnerable Persons (including children) was organised.
What is the importance of these training modules?
They foster the development of skills, knowledge and competencies needed for the early identification and subsequent interviewing of vulnerable persons.
Regional train the trainers’ sessions of the Interviewing Vulnerable Persons module
To further develop Western Balkan partners’ capacities to identify and address the requirements of asylum applicants with special needs, EASO is equipping national authorities with a series of EASO practical tools and guides, translated into the relevant languages needed.
EASO and the Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI) are working together on developing regional training sessions.
In this regard, on 8 November, a workshop on training methodology for the MARRI Regional centre was organised.
EASO and MARRI intend to pilot joint cooperation, which would bring forward additional opportunities for regionally organised training and would enable a more effective use of the trainers in the region who have successfully completed the EASO Train-the-Trainers sessions.
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