The course has a built in evaluation system.  Each participant is required to present a written evaluation and each resource person is also expected to do the same. Every year CRG invites independent scholars of renown, social activists and administrators to evaluate the course.  This year Professor Rajesh Kharat of Bombay University (Mumbai, India) evaluated the course.  Excerpts from their evaluation are presented in Section 14. 

Follow-Up 

Considering the growing popularity of the course the advisory committee in 2006 asked the CRG organisers to look into possibilities of organizing short courses in collaboration with willing centres and departments of Universities in India as follow-up activity. On the basis of such advice the CRG is now in the process of designing a number of short courses for different Universities and research centres.  This year one such course will be held in February 2008 in Hyderabad. A few others are in the pipeline and discussions are being held with some university departments and law schools for holding short-duration courses.    

Apart from this a number of workshops on forced migration were held in different parts of South Asia. The CRG also collaborated with a number of institutions and organised a number of public lectures. This year three fellowships were given to the participants of the Winter Course and a delegation of CRG’s senior scholars is expected to visit some centres of advanced learning in Finland. Also CRG conducted many research projects on

the theme of forced migration. Two issues of Refugee Watch (Nos. 28 & 29) – CRG’s flagship journal - were also brought out and became part of the reading material supplied to the participants. The course is also complemented by a series of workshops on internal displacement organized by CRG in different parts of India in 2007. For a detailed report on follow-up activities please read Section 15.

The follow-up activities of the winter course have now assumed the character of an entire programme with other allied work. The course in simple terms has become a round-the-year event developing synergies with human rights bodies and academic institutions. The CRG established the forced migration desk to look after the entire programme.