The next trip to Karachi, Pakistan is coming up on Saturday with myself and my colleague Heather Allen leaving to begin two of the work streams early next week. We will then be joined by two more colleagues to help us finish to deliver the work streams over the final week. This is our fifth visit in a two year project for the private arm of the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The project has been to establish mediation as a means of resolving commercial disputes in the courts in Karachi. A mediation centre has been established, the Karachi Centre for Dispute Resolution (KCDR) and a group a mediators trained to the international standard of CEDR accreditation. The centre has begun to receive cases from the Karachi high and districts courts and resolve them through mediation.
This trip involves 4 different work streams:
- Mentoring of newly trained mediator: This involves observing actual mediation and providing feedback to the mediators on how to develop their practice
- A 6 day mediator skills training course: to train 18 new mediators in the skills ands process of mediation which will result in assessment for CEDR accreditation.
- Master trainers Course: 6 mediators will train as mediator trainers. These trainers will then shadow us on the mediators skills course above to gain practical experience in training delivery
- Developing an ADR Curricula for Universities.: A workshop to further develop the framework curricula drafted by CEDR.
All these work streams will be delivered in a 2 week period so it is is going to be an intensive period of work but will be extremely rewarding as well. Past trips have been interesting and rewarding and we have made very many friends in Karachi who I look forward to meeting up with again.
This trip has been 2 months in the planning , a stage which is crucial if delivery on the ground is to go smoothly. We are all ready now so the next post on this blog will be on Sunday from Pakistan.
Cheers
James
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