The project aims to link capacity building in communities by providing information and advocacy training and will also include a multimedia campaign.

The latter element of the project seeks to build awareness about the importance of human rights.

Head of JFJ, Carolyn Gomes, welcomed the EU delegation's funding, saying that it will help her organisation to achieve its targets more effectively.

Proposed training

Another benefit of the project is the proposed training of each batch of recruits in the Jamaica Constabulary Force in basic human rights and the principles of human rights policing.

Head of the delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Marco Mazzocchi Alemanni, said his organisation was pleased to work with JFJ in arming Jamaicans with well-needed information.

"This project will provide participants with the key information, advocacy skills and legal advice needed for the protection and promotion of their rights, with an emphasis on the fact that rights and responsibilities are two sides of the same coin."

The project aims to link capacity building in communities by providing information and advocacy training and will also include a multimedia campaign.