In April 2021, the End Violence Lab launched the Colombia INSPIRE Coordination Course, a 15-module online course co-delivered by the End Violence Lab at the University of Edinburgh. As part of the End Violence Lab’s commitment to global learning, this real-time piece addresses how Colombian participants from the Guaviare Department are using course outputs to improve interventions to address the forced recruitment of children by non-state armed forces.
The course was done in partnership with several multisectoral, national, and transnational stakeholders: the National Alliance to End Violence Against Children and Adolescents of Colombia, the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare (ICBF), USAID HEARD, the CDC, and Together for Girls. The course content was co-designed with national partners for practitioners and decision-making authorities engaged with implementation, monitoring and scale-up of INSPIRE interventions in Colombian government departments.
