An Najah and Al Quds Universities have conducted a two day planning workshop in Amman to achieve the following objectives

The workshop aimed to achieve the following objectives:

• To share the priorities for the program with all faculty members of the two universities.
• To review the last 8 months, celebrate what we’ve achieved and understand the challenges we need to address.
• Engage faculty members and project staff in a dialogue to explore and develop our understanding of the project implementation strategies.
• Identify new ways of working together to support the implementation of the strategy
• Further develop the curriculum of the Criminal Law Master, and come up with one curriculum for the two universities.
• Identify research areas for the Criminal Law Master and agree on priorities.
• Collectively, identify development and training opportunities.

The workshop lasted for two days (attached is the agenda Annex1). 21-22/March 2014.

During the workshop, the two universities have worked together on revising the Criminal Law syllabuses and curriculum, developed the terms of reference for the full time researchers and junior researchers, identified the research topics to be undertaken during the first year of implementation and discussed in a participatory approach the capacity development needs of faculty members and project staff.