Belonging – SMMAMS Malaysia

Name of the activity: Belonging

Country/NMO: SMMAMS Malaysia

Program: Ethics and Human Rights in Health

Contact information: contact [email protected] to get in touch with the Activity Coordinator

Type of the activity: First-time Activity

Category: Education

Focus area: Rights of patients, doctors and medical students, Peace, peacebuilding and health

Sustainable Development Goals addressed: SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities)

Problem statement:

Lack of awareness and understanding of the issues of statelessness among medical students and how to identify, prevent and reduce emergence of new stateless cases in future. 

Target groups:

• General population
• Medical students
• Healthcare Students
• Other Students
• Youth
• Migrants
• Refugees
• Homeless people

Beneficiaries:

• Children
• Youth
• Migrants
• Refugees
• Homeless people

Objectives:

To train participants to understand the causes of being stateless.

To train participants to understand the consequences of being stateless.

To train participants to identify the categories of persons with risk of statelessness. 

To train participants to identify ways to prevent and reduce new stateless cases. 

To train participants to protect basic needs of humans of the stateless community.

Indicators of Success:

At least 60% participants achieve an 80% increase in knowledge on the causes of being stateless by the end of the activity. 

At least 60% participants achieve 80% increase in knowledge on the consequences of being stateless by the end of the activity. 

At least 60% participants achieve an 80% increase in knowledge on identifying people at risk of statelessness by the end of the activity. 

At least 60% participants achieve an 80% increase in knowledge on preventing and reducing new stateless cases by the end of the activity. 

At least 60% participants achieve an 80% increase in knowledge on basic human rights of stateless communities and protect them by the end of the activity.

Methodology:

Belonging  is a one day workshop with talks and discussion. Started with 3 sessions of peer-to-peer breakout room discussion, it fosters a bond of peer teaching and personalised learning experience for participants. A topic will be given in each session, such as ‘What are the causes of statelessness?’, and ‘What are the consequences of being stateless?’. Each break out room session will be hosted by one facilitator from SCORP and will only last for 10 minutes. Then, everyone will be called back to the main room to share the end results of their discussion. A facilitator from SCORP will show slides to make a conclusion for the questions. The breakout room discussion is then followed by a panel discussion. 3 panelists from different NGOs will be invited and discussion will be moderated by a moderator from SCORP. Latest situation of statelessness in Malaysia will be discussed and recommendations on how medical students can do as part of the advocacy work will be addressed.

Plans for evaluation:

Post-event evaluation form will be sent to participants to :

– Assess participants’ level of understanding on issues of statelessness on the scale of 1 to 5.

– Assess participants’ motivation to make an impact after attending the Belonging workshop.

– Collect feedback on Belonging workshop and panel discussion.

External collaborations:

none