Fahamu has developed a range of distance-learning courses aimed at strengthening the capacity of human rights and civil society organisations. The topics covered are the result of extensive research conducted in Africa into the training needs of such organisations.

Fahamu’s distance-learning methodology, involving CDROMs, email-based facilitation and workshops, has been widely adopted by institutions such as the University of Oxford, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Article 19, the UN-affiliated University for Peace and others. Some 600 organisations and individuals have completed Fahamu’s courses since 2003.

Currently these courses are only available to those participating in courses organised by Fahamu but making these courses available on the web through OpenCourseware will allow anyone with access to the internet to benefit from Fahamu’s unique human rights training materials.