Wim Kok Center for Excellence and Learning

Training Programs

The Wim Kok Center for Excellence and Learning (CEL) was established in 2019 in response to the need to create a central structure at ICMP responsible for coordinating and maintaining all learning and development activities.

The CEL works to develop the capacity of government and civil society stakeholders in addressing the issue of missing persons by facilitating the transfer of knowledge and expertise. It streamlines instructional design principles, which promote a learner-centered approach to the design and development of training courses and other learning activities. 

“ICMP’s Wim Kok Center for Excellence and Learning (CEL) was formally named after former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, who died in October 2018 and who had been an ICMP Commissioner since 2002. The Commissioners wanted to honor Wim Kok because not only did he bring remarkable energy and commitment to ICMP’s mission, as an experienced political leader he consistently made the case for a systemic response to the complex global challenge of missing persons.”

Her Majesty Queen Noor, Diplomat Magazine, May 2020

“ICMP’s Wim Kok Center for Excellence and Learning (CEL) was formally named after former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, who died in October 2018 and who had been an ICMP Commissioner since 2002. The Commissioners wanted to honor Wim Kok because not only did he bring remarkable energy and commitment to ICMP’s mission, as an experienced political leader he consistently made the case for a systemic response to the complex global challenge of missing persons.”

Her Majesty Queen Noor,
in Diplomat Magazine, May 2020

The CEL maintains a repository of ICMP’s training and peer-reviewed material that includes courses in:

Data collection and data systems
Rights of families of the missing
Outreach to families of the missing
Responsibilities of states
Forensic archaeology
Forensic anthropology
DNA-based identification

Since the beginning of 2022

44+

Training courses delivered.

700+

Government, civil society representatives and families of missing persons trained.

40+

New training packages created.

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