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Preparations

THE PROCESS PRECEDING AN EXCHANGE

Updated 14 marzo 2005.

This is the process that precedes an actual exchange:

Identify partner
Conduct feasibility study
Sign partnership agreement
Apply for collaboration agreement with Fredskorpset
Fredskorpset processes the application
Collaboration agreement signed if granted
Sign participant agreements
Participants recruited
Partner course
Preparatory course for participants
Participants exchanged

Feasibility study

The purpose of the feasibility study is to determine whether there is the basis for a Fredskorpset project, and to promote the development and execution of a sound partnership agreement, which in the next stage of the process will constitute the application for a collaboration agreement. Potential partners apply through the feasibility study for a grant to cover travel, housing and any costs associated with reporting.

The allocation of funds for a feasibility study does not imply that a collaboration agreement is guaranteed. All applications for collaboration agreements will be considered on their individual merits. The results of the feasibility study will be used in assessment of an application for a collaboration agreement.

Concept and objectives

Determine what the partnership aims to achieve from the joint undertaking; the objectives for the Fredskorpset project must be clearly defined. At this stage, the focus should be on the concept and objectives, rather than on participants and finances. Discussion as to who should or might take part should come after the objectives, activities, location and so forth have been determined. Grants are allocated primarily to facilitate the exchanges, and the budgetary work should therefore follow on from discussion of the objectives and their scope. Check whether the partner has the status of a legal entity with the authority to sign a partnership agreement.

The partnership will need to jointly review the templates for the partnership, participant and collaboration agreements during the feasibility study so as to gain an appreciation of the potentials and limitations of the Fredskorpset project. Allow sufficient time for planning of the project. Experience shows that it takes at least nine months from when the planning phase starts until the participants are exchanged.

Fredskorpset urges applicants to contact other partners within the same specialist areas or countries, who are already in the process of implementing a Fredskorpset project, in order to learn from their experiences. Please refer to the list of partners and Fredskorpset projects.

Who participates in the planning?

One person from each organisation has chief responsibility for the planning process. This person will need to obtain full backing for the process and the associated agreements in his/her organisation in the form of a mandate from a decision-making authority, or by a management/board representative participating in the planning process. Fredskorpset advises against permitting potential participants to take part in or being given responsibility for the feasibility study, as the focus should be on the partnership.

Report

Once the feasibility study has been completed, the partnership will need to have produced a brief report with a statement of accounts to show how the allocation has been spent, signed by the general manager. The project accounts must be presented by 15 March of the following year. By 31 August of the following year at the latest, the project accounts must have been certified by a Norwegian public licensed auditor. Fredskorpset must also be presented with a report in instances where the feasibility study does not lead to a partnership and collaboration agreement.

Partnership agreement

The partnership agreement is signed by the partners in Norway and in the South, and describes the partnership’s division of responsibilities and obligations under the Fredskorpset project. The partnership agreement with its annexes and report from the feasibility study constitute the application for a collaboration agreement with Fredskorpset.

The annexes to the partnership agreement are:
Annex 1. Substance of the programme
Annex 2. Grant calculation sheet
Annex 3. Contact information
Annex 4. Contact information for accounting
Annex 5. Emergency plan
Annex 6. Statutes

The partnership’s responsibilities

To designate, and maintain regular contact with, the contact person for each of the partners in the project.
To monitor the participants and the project as a whole.
To ensure that all arrangements for participants have been properly attended to.
To honour their obligations under the partnership agreement.
To ensure that the project is run according to the plans laid down in the partnership agreement and the participant agreement, and that any amendments to these plans are notified to the participants concerned.
To arrange for one or more inspection visits to the project as needs dictate.
To maintain at least monthly contact with all the participants in all the phases of the project.
To ensure that all proper arrangements are made for the social integration of participants with their host partner and in society generally.
To ensure that participants are received in a proper and suitable manner, and to ascertain that participants are assured of proper and suitable conditions in terms of accommodation, working conditions, board, security, etc.
To stay informed of the participants’ address and how the partner can contact the participants. The contact persons are also required to keep the participants and the partners informed as to the contact person’s whereabouts and how to contact him/her.
To ascertain that the participants have attended to the following: visas, tickets, vaccinations, insurance, national insurance, tax, etc. The partnership should ensure that the processes involved in these matters are dealt with sufficiently well in advance of the actual exchange. Their practical arrangement should, however, be left to the participants themselves.

Fredskorpset’s processing of applications

Fredskorpset considers applications on a continuous basis. Applicants will be advised as to whether their application for a collaboration agreement with Fredskorpset has been successful or has been rejected.

If the application is successful:

The collaboration agreement and budget will be finalised by Fredskorpset in conjunction with the partnership within the financial parameters laid down in advance.
A decision will be made as to which preparatory course the participants are to attend.
The grant will be disbursed in accordance with the transfer plan.

Annex 1. Substance of the programme

The substance of the programme document sets out the aim of the Fredskorpset project for the partnership and participant. The substance of the programme document contains:

Objectives

The objectives for the project must be explicit and well defined by the partnership.

The partnership should define:

Primary aims for the project.
The partners’ own interest in the exchange.
Anticipated tangible results.

Participants

The partnership should define:

The project’s target audience
Criteria for selecting participant
Participant’s tasks and responsibilities during the posting abroad
Participant’s role at host partner
Participant’s relationship with the sending partner upon expiry of contract term.

Monitoring

The purpose of monitoring is for the partnership to make regular checks that the exchange project is proceeding according to plan, in order to attain the objectives set out in the partnership agreement. The partnership should determine how it will exchange information concerning the progress of the project; how often this communication will take place; and what measures need to be implemented in order to monitor the participants during the exchange.

Follow-up activities

Great emphasis is given to development of a programme of public relations work and communication of experience for participants at the end of their posting abroad. The main aim of this is to develop the individual participant’s commitment to, and insights into, North-South issues in Norwegian society generally, and among young people specifically. Partners and participants are obliged to carry out 2 months’ full-time follow-up activities post-return. Much of the focus of this will be on communication of experience, commitment and information about the South within their own organisation, or externally to different segments of Norwegian society. South participants will also undertake follow-up activities on their return home, but this will often be more along the lines of communication of experience, and can be completed within a shorter space of time.

Follow-up activities must be performed by participants and partners in collaboration, but it is up to the partnership to draw up the initial programme. The programme of follow-up activities should be adapted to the partners’ and participants’ own interests, abilities, resources and local conditions. On the preparatory course, the participants work through their own personal programme of follow-up activities, and it is therefore important for the partner to have informed the participants of its plans for follow-up activities before the course commences.

In the programme of follow-up activities, the partnership has to determine:

Tangible objectives

The objectives should be closely specified, giving due emphasis to, and clarification of, how the partnership will perform the planned activities.

Target audiences

Specific target audiences for the follow-up activities must be identified; who does the partnership wish to communicate the knowledge to? The selection of target audiences is intimately related to the objectives of the planned follow-up activities. In defining target audiences for follow-up activities, it is preferable to have specific and realistic expectations than to cast the net too wide.

Primary activities

Follow-up activities may consist of a) public relations work on North-South issues, in which the aim is to change attitudes or to engender commitment, or b) communication of experience, focusing on the feedback of know-how and experience, as well as new concepts and methods that can be employed to strengthen one’s own activities. This can be done internally in one’s own organisation, or it can be aimed at external target audiences.

The relevance of various types of follow-up activities for Fredskorpset Youth partners:

	Public relations work	Communication of experience
Internal	Relevant	Somewhat relevant
External	Relevant	Only slightly relevant

School programmes

NORAD and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs have produced a school pack aimed at primary and secondary schools. It consists of two parts, NORAD’s focusing on development and development assistance, while the Ministry’s section deals with the Millennium Goals. The Norwegian United Nations Communication Centre is responsible for distribution of this pack.

Fredskorpset is working towards implementing a system for coordinating the follow-up activities aimed at schools, and it will be beneficial for those Fredskorpset Youth partners who are targeting this audience to tie in their public relations work with the school pack in one way or another.

South participants

All South participants are also obliged to undertake follow-up activities in their own countries, although somewhat less comprehensively. The main focus for this group will typically be the communication of experience within their own organisation/business. Fredskorpset encourages partners in Norway to use South participants in public relations work in Norway. Where this is done, partners should consider whether part of the time devoted to this should be deducted from the two months which South participants are supposed to spend on follow-up activities in their own countries.

Examples of activities:

profiling of Fredskorpset participants in the partner’s in-house journals or on websites
a returning participant may give lectures, talks, slide-shows, drama performances, exhibitions, etc.
the participant may, perhaps in conjunction with his or her partner organisation, get press coverage before or during the posting or after returning home.
the participant may write articles for newspapers, journals, the web or newsletters.
When writing articles, it is important to have an idea of where copy can realistically be submitted.
the partner organisation can use the participants who are on an exchange with them to increase knowledge of the participants’ culture internally within the organisation, in surrounding networks or in follow-up activities aimed at other groups.

A budget for the follow-up activities must be drawn up on the basis of the planned activities. Fredskorpset contributes a grant towards implementing follow-up activities by means of the Grant calculation sheet.

Annex 2. Grant calculation sheet

The funding of Fredskorpset projects is done through the allocation of a fixed grant. A set of guidelines are available to show how the grant is calculated.

Annex 3. Contact information for the partners

The partnership must draw up and continually update a list of contacts for the Fredskorpset project. Any changes must be notified immediately to all partners and to Fredskorpset. The list must include names, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail and postal addresses of all contacts.

Annex 4. Contact information for accounting

The partnership must draw up and continually update contact information for the partners’ accountant, auditor and bank. The list must include names, telephone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail and postal addresses and the partners’ bank account numbers. The partners are mutually responsible for immediately notifying each other and Fredskorpset of any changes to this information.

Annex 5. Emergency plan

The partnership has the responsibility for the participants. Accordingly, an emergency plan must be prepared, which deals with the various situations that might arise and how they should be dealt with. The plan must specify who, in an emergency, is responsible for what, and the partnership must designate a crisis management officer and a press officer. Fredskorpset expects the partners to be able to deal with emergencies themselves, but will provide assistance when circumstances warrant it.

The partnership must fill out and keep updated a registration form for each Fredskorpset participant, which must be sent to the partner and the appropriate embassy/consulate in the participant’s host country.

Division of roles and responsibilities in an emergency

Fredskorpset’s chief responsibilities in an emergency are:

to have a contingency plan in place.
to have made all partners aware of their roles and responsibilities.
to be available to exercise executive responsibility if an emergency occurs.
to have all relevant information about the partners and participants readily available in order to deal with emergencies.
to have taken all reasonable steps to prevent emergencies occurring.
to have a clear channel of communication to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
to deal with media relations where this is most appropriate.

A key element in Fredskorpset’s crisis prevention and management vis-à-vis both the media and the situation at hand will be to ensure that the following have been attended to and documented by

Fredskorpset and the various other parties in the system:

To ensure that partnership agreements and participant agreements setting out the rights and obligations of the parties are in place.
To ensure that all relevant data on participants have been reported to Fredskorpset and to the embassy.
To ensure that the preparatory course provides information about all relevant factors concerning personal safety.
To ensure that the partnership has sufficient insight and administrative capacity to manage conflicts, irregularities and emergencies.
To ensure that participants are offered personal counselling during and after an emergency, as required.
To ensure that participants are posted to safe countries.

Primary partner’s chief responsibilities are:

To serve as the partnership’s executive front-line for crisis management in Norway.
To be available to exercise executive responsibility as Fredskorpset’s and Secondary Partner’s main contact for crisis management.
To maintain a clearly defined channel of communication to Secondary Partner.
To maintain an adequate apparatus and the capability for managing irregularities, conflicts and emergencies for participants.
To assess, recommend and implement measures for the good of the participants in emergencies.
To ascertain, on behalf of Fredskorpset, that Secondary Partner and the participants assume their share of the responsibility.
To inform Fredskorpset of any emergency arising in Norway or in the South.
To ensure that the participants are reasonably mature and well-balanced individuals suited to a foreign posting, including that they possess the commitment and the ability to comply with the information provided during the preparatory course, the general guidelines laid down by the partnership for exchanges, and any special guidelines that might be issued in an emergency.
To ensure that accommodation, travel routes and working conditions in the host country are reasonably safe and secure.
To ensure that the participants have access to proper local medical facilities in the event of emergencies/accidents and illness.
To furnish the participants with essential medicines where relevant.

Secondary partner’s chief responsibilities are:

To serve as the partnership’s executive front-line for crisis management in the South.
To maintain a clearly defined channel of communication to Primary Partner.
To maintain an adequate apparatus and capability for managing irregularities, conflicts and emergencies for participants in the South.
To assess, recommend and implement measures for the good of the participants in emergencies.
To monitor continuously the participants’ safety with respect to their accommodation, travel routes and working conditions, and to take active measures to ensure that the participants enjoy a reasonable degree of security.

The participants’ chief responsibilities are:

To abide by the information provided during the course concerning personal safety, including the prevention of AIDS, physical assault, rape and financial exploitation.
To comply with the general guidelines laid down by the partnership for the posting, and any special guidelines that may be issued in an emergency, including any limitation on freedom of movement.
To accept the partner’s authority in the partnership as the executive body.
To ensure personally that all relevant personal information has been provided to Fredskorpset, the partnership and the embassy.
To draw up a relevant, personal contingency plan jointly with the partner: arrange for access to local medical care of a high standard, keep telephone numbers of emergency services available, a small store of food provisions, travel documents, etc.
In cooperation with the partnership, to abide by any guidelines and recommendations issued by the embassy in a state of emergency and to familiarise themselves with any contingency plan produced by the embassy for foreign nationals residing in the country.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ responsibilities are:

To inform Fredskorpset of risk assessments for countries and regions.
To issue guidelines and recommendations concerning evacuation or other measures in a state of emergency, in Norway or through the embassies.
The embassy/consulate will also in certain cases be able to assist with repatriation as a result of serious illness or injury. The embassy’s/consulate’s responsibility is limited. See the brochure

Assistance to Norwegians travelling abroad published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.dep.no/ud/engelsk/publ/veiledninger/032091-991393/dok-bn.html

Annex 6. Statues

Fredskorpset’s Statutes should be reviewed by the partners and annexed to the partnership agreement.

Collaboration agreement

The collaboration agreement is signed by Fredskorpset and the Primary Partner (on behalf of the partnership) and describes Fredskorpset’s and the partnership’s division of roles and obligations in performance of the Fredskorpset project. A partnership agreement with its annexes constitutes the application for a collaboration agreement. The template for the collaboration agreement is available on the website to enable the partnership to review it, but the final agreement is filled in by Fredskorpset.

The annexes to the collaboration agreement are:

Annex 1. Grant calculation sheet (revised)
Annex 2. Partnership agreement and annexes
Annex 3. Plan for partners’ preparatory course
Annex 4. Template for participant agreement

Plan for partners’ preparatory course (Annex 3 to the collaboration agreement)

The Fredskorpset Youth Programme partners have the primary responsibility for preparation of participants. At the same time, Fredskorpset is required by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to approve the partners’ plans for this phase. In order to do this, the partners are, in turn, required to send a course plan to Fredskorpset as an annex to the collaboration agreement. One of the main premises for the partners’ course plan is the document “Preparing for the exchange – a guide”, which sets out the minimum requirements for the partners’ preparatory course. This document will also be used in evaluation of course plans.

Guidelines for partners’ preparatory course

The plan for the preparatory course sent by the partners to Fredskorpset must contain the following:

a) Learning plan: The learning plan should cover the following:

What is the objective/what are the learning goals for the course?
Theme and content relevant to achieving the objective (see “Preparing for the exchange – a guide”). Will the course deal with any themes besides those stipulated by the above guide?
Teaching methods relevant to achieving the objective of the course; describe which teaching principles will be used on the course.
How will the course be evaluated? When and how will this be done, and how will the evaluation be used in further work on the preparatory course?

b) Timetable

c) List of teaching staff and their backgrounds

Administrative processing and feedback for the course plan

The course plan must be sent to Fredskorpset by 1 June for courses commencing after the summer, and by 1 November for courses commencing in the New Year. Fredskorpset’s course instructors will review the plan, and provide feedback direct to the partner if the course plan is not satisfactory. A revised version must then be sent to the administrative officer for final approval. The partners are required to have had their course plan approved before the participants can commence the course programme.

Fredskorpset may, as part of Fredskorpset’s quality control of the partners’ and Fredskorpset’s own courses, pay observational visits to the partners’ course. The object of such visits is for Fredskorpset to familiarise itself with partner courses, both in terms of method and content, to prevent overlap between partner courses and Fredskorpset’s own courses, and to discuss relevant issues raised by either the partners or Fredskorpset.

Preparing for the exchange – a guide

The partnership has primary responsibility for preparing participants, but Fredskorpset organises a mandatory week for everyone. Partnerships which organise a separate course for participants in their present projects will maintain and enhance their own training programmes. The scope and quality of the partners’ preparatory courses must be at least on a par with the preparatory course organised for the Fredskorpset Primary Programme. In cases where the partners are small-scale, or are otherwise unable to organise a separate preparatory course, Fredskorpset will assist in facilitating joint programmes with other partners.

The partners’ preparations

The partners’ preparatory courses must be thoroughly planned and geared to the following objectives:

Giving the participants an insight into the purpose of the partnership and the exchange.
Raising awareness of own organisation, key North-South themes, cross-cultural communication and the country to be visited/host partner.
Providing participant with “tools” for tackling different situations and personal challenges before departure, during the posting and post-return.
Promoting knowledge of, deference to and respect for the culture to be encountered.

Course content requirements

The partners are responsible for the preparatory programme being of a high standard and incorporating as a minimum the following elements

Vision and motivation

Review of the partners’ vision and motivation for international cooperation. Presentation of positive experiences and examples of the benefits of commitment. Other relevant matters relating to the organisation/institution.

Cross-cultural communication and appreciation

Culture and cultural appreciation, key traits of Western and non-Western cultures, world-view and religion. Cross-cultural communication/encounters with people.

Challenges for the individual during the posting

Encountering a different reality, expectations, challenges, group dynamics/teamwork, conflict management. One’s own values and attitudes and those of people one meets, including a “code of conduct”.

North-South issues

The partners should select those themes they see as relevant for their participants. But everyone should possess a certain minimum knowledge of:

Development; what it involves
Poverty; fundamental facts and causes
Strategies for combating poverty
Historical development from a North-South perspective
Globalisation, concentrating on international actors
Human rights and democracy

Country and organisation awareness

And, where required, awareness of special themes.

Organisation and methodology

Fredskorpset sees it as important that participants choose one or more main themes to study in depth during the posting. Such themes must be sufficiently concrete and specific to enable the participants to gain genuine insights from their studies.

Planning of the follow-up activities should be started as early as possible and must be included in the preparatory phase. Organisations/participants should be agreed on the main themes for follow-up activities before departure. It will be beneficial if these are the same themes that the participants are generally expected to familiarise themselves with.

Teaching methods

The preparatory phase should include a section on information gathering and methodology, e.g. an introduction to participatory methods. The general aim is for South and North participants to attend the same course. During the common course, some themes will be addressed in separate South and North participant groups.

Individual counselling

Participants are to have access to dedicated individual counselling before, during and after the posting. The coordinator supervising Youth Programme participants should have access to a professional counsellor to consult on issues that might arise.

Approval of course provisions

In assessing an application, Fredskorpset will review the partners’ plan for the preparatory phase. Fredskorpset reserves the right to approve the course provisions before the signing of the collaboration agreement.

Participant agreement (Annex 4 to the collaboration agreement)

The relationship between the participant and the partner is regulated by a participant agreement similar to an employment contract, and setting out the mutual duties and obligations of the parties to the agreement. The template for the participant agreement is annexed to the collaboration agreement. The template for the participant agreement is drawn up by each individual partner and must as a minimum contain the following paragraphs:

Parties to the agreement
Name of the participant and of the partner signing the agreement.
Legal basis
The participant agreement’s governing law must be stated. This is primarily the national legislation of the country in which the participant will be staying, the partnership agreement between the exchange-project institutions, and the collaboration agreement between the Primary Partner and Fredskorpset.
Ethos of the participant agreement
On which values is the project founded? The agreement should prescribe that it is to be founded on a shared understanding of, and commitment to, the values, principles and methods laid down in Fredskorpset’s Statutes.
Term of the participant agreement
The participant agreement should stipulate the starting date and completion date, and the number of months devoted to each phase of the project.
Termination of the agreement
Specify the criteria on which an agreement may be terminated/renegotiated. The grounds given may be a default in performance of the agreement on the part of the participant or partner, or external factors such as (threat of) military conflict or acts of terror, social unrest or force majeure. The agreement should stipulate that both the sending partner and Fredskorpset are to have the opportunity to assess the suitability of recruited participants, both during the preparatory course and the posting abroad. Following mutual consultation the sending partner shall have the right to terminate the participant agreement and summon the unsuitable participant home. In any case of breach of agreement, the notice of termination should be of the order of one month. After that month of notice, participants will not receive any allowances.
Partner’s responsibilities
State what responsibilities the partner has vis-à-vis the participant (see the partnership agreement and the collaboration agreement).
Participant’s responsibilities
State what responsibility the participant has (see partnership agreement and the collaboration agreement). This section should specify, among things, that the participant is under obligation to attend Fredskorpset’s preparatory course and to undertake follow-up activities post-return.
Participant’s tasks/duties
This section should provide a concise list of the main tasks and duties the Fredskorpset participant is required to perform during the preparatory phase, the posting abroad and in the follow-up phase in Norway and in the South.
Contact information
The agreement should stipulate that the participant is required to keep the partner institution continuously updated as to current contact information about participants and relatives/friends to call in case of emergency. The list shall include names, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail and postal addresses.
Other conditions the partner wishes to add

Recruitment of participants

It is the partners themselves that recruit the participants. Recruitment of participants should not commence until the partners have signed a collaboration agreement with Fredskorpset.

General principles

The recruitment processes and the criteria for selection must be open to inspection by the interested parties and Fredskorpset.
Selection must be made jointly by the partners in close dialogue.

Criteria

The partnership sets its own criteria for the selection of participants. It is reasonable for the host partner to determine the most significant conditions making up the criteria, but the partners must nonetheless be in agreement on the criteria for recruitment. The following should form the basis for setting out criteria:

They must be put down in writing.
Requirements regarding language skills must be clearly set out.
The criteria must not appear to exclude or discriminate on the basis of sex, religion, ethnic background, skin colour or sexual orientation
The criteria should prescribe which personal qualities are important for the work

Checklist for Fredskorpset project

Primary Partner is required to send a completed Checklist for Fredskorpset project to Fredskorpset not later than four weeks before the participants are due to attend their course. This checklist must be used to ensure that all the formalities and practicalities of the partnership project and participant postings are in place. Fredskorpset has the right to withdraw the booked places on the course and reschedule the grant transfer plan if any significant formalities are not in place. The checklist must be sent to program@fredskorpset.no

Partner course

Fredskorpset organises a course for partners at least twice a year. The Primary Partner will be convened for a partner course 4-8 weeks before the participants are due to attend the preparatory course. The partner course will include a review of the checklist that the partners will be sending to Fredskorpset four weeks before the participants are due to attend the preparatory course. Fredskorpset Youth Programme and Fredskorpset Primary Programme share the same partner course.

Fredskorpset’s preparatory course

The preparatory course is mandatory and takes place within the space of a week; expected arrival on Sunday afternoon/evening, close and departure on the following Friday morning. There is a maximum of 30 participants, with participants from several partners on the same course.

Two people, one from Fredskorpset and one from a partner, will take the role of course managers for the week and be available to the participants. There will be balanced and professionally founded lectures combined with various means of involving the participants: group work, role-play and other participatory methods.

Main themes

1. Fredskorpset and Norwegian development assistance policy (1½ day)

What is Fredskorpset; vision, objectives, values and methods.
Fredskorpset’s network.
Fredskorpset in the context of development assistance policy:
The main themes in Norwegian development assistance policy
The history of Norwegian development assistance policy; main phases
Norwegian development assistance policy today; focus areas and Fredskorpset’s role.

2. Communication and public relations work (1½ days)

Why public relations work: motivation.
How to communicate. About communication and public relations work from a North-South perspective.
Different tools:
Training in writing/photography
Web publishing
Other tools

3. Encountering real life in another culture (1 day + evening)

How do we interpret real life in different cultures; similarities and differences.
Who am I to my hosts, and who are they in their culture; roles and identity.
Which attitudes and values do I bring with me from Norwegian culture; how do these fit into the culture I encounter?

4. Health and safe conduct (1 day + evening)

Physical health preparedness:
Tropical illnesses
Venereal diseases, including HIV/AIDS
Treatment of minor injuries
Mental health preparedness:
Loneliness and homesickness
Normal reactions in stress and crisis situations
How to seek help and support
How to support one another
Risk preparedness:
Alcohol and other intoxicants
Physical assaults and crime
How to behave/what to do in accidents and other critical situations

Registration for Fredskorpset preparatory course

The following criteria must be met before participants can be registered on a course:

A collaboration agreement with Fredskorpset must have been signed.
The participant agreement between partner and participant must have been signed.

To register participants on a course:

Complete one registration form per participant
Send the registration forms to kurs@fredskorpset.no before the deadline
Visas for South participants should be applied for as soon as the South participants’ names are known and before they are registered for a course.

Confirmation that the participants have been allocated places on the course is sent to the partners after the registration deadline for the course in question. Some courses may be in great demand and hence fully subscribed. In such cases, Fredskorpset may ask the partners to defer some individuals’ participation on the course. The course dates and registration deadlines are published on the website and in Fredskorpset’s newsletter.