Researching Country of Origin Information
Finding the right country information can be quite a challenging task. Therefore we offer country of origin information (COI) training to eligibility officers, judges, lawyers, legal counsels and law students.
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All training sessions are based on the training manual developed by ACCORD and COI Network partners. Understanding of COICOI is understood as information used in procedures that assess claims of individuals to refugee status or other forms of international protection. It should help to answer questions by decision-makers and legal advisers about the political, human rights, cultural, economic and social situation as well as the humanitarian situation in countries of origin. |
Training Manuals
You want to read more about researching country of origin information? The COI Network has published a training manual on the methodology and quality standards of COI research. The manual is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian and Russian and can be downloaded as pdf:
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 © 2004 Russian |
 © 2004, updated April 2006 French |
 © 2004, updated April 2006 English |
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| We thank ECRE for the Russian translation of the manual |
Annex: Source desriptions. Use with Romanian, Russian and Spanish manual (already included in English, French, German and Italian manuals) |
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 © 2004, updated April 2006 German |
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 © 2004, updated April 2006 Italian |
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| We thank the National Refugee Office of the Ministry of the Interior Romania for the Romanian translation of the manual | Italian translation by Consiglio Italiano Rifugiati under the ARCO project, financed by the European Commission, ARGO programme |
last update: Thursday, 12 January 2012
Imprint | co-funded by 
, the European Refugee Fund 
and the Austrian Ministry of the Interior 