Aiming at improving the quality of the justice system in the Western Balkans region, a sustainable methodology and detailed recommendations for evaluation and impact assessment of human rights trainings were developed under the regional action “Judicial training institutes for Quality and Sustainability” (JA-NET).

This process entailed a thorough baseline assessment of existing systems and mechanisms for evaluation and impact assessment of human rights trainings. To this end, a series of consultation meetings were conducted with four national Judicial Training Centres (the School of Magistrates of Albania, the Judicial Training Centre of Montenegro, the Academy for Judges and Prosecutors of North Macedonia and the Judicial Academy of Serbia) to collect relevant input and data.

The developed methodology and tools concern planning, implementation and follow-up stages and aim to initiate or strengthen the capacity of Judicial Training Centres in the Western Balkan region to efficiently evaluate the impact of human rights trainings. In additional, practical, realistic and sustainable recommendations are provided, addressing the judicial training institutions of Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, so as to provide a roadmap for future technical assistance.

The developed methodology will be published shortly on the action’s webpage.

The action "Judicial training institutes for Quality and Sustainability” (JA-NET)" is a part of the joint European union/Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”.