Impact
DTP’s impact is in the work of more than 3,250 individuals DTP has trained since 1990 – DTP’s alumni. DTP alumni are working every day in over 90 countries for the promotion and protection of human rights, to defend their communities and their natural environment. DTP’s alumni include grassroots activists, award-winning advocates, human rights commissioners, ambassadors, and community leaders.
Awards
- 2019: Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award – Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
- 2015: Sir Ron Wilson Human Rights Award – Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)

DTP’s Award-Winning Alumni
DTP Stories of Change
Respect for human rights is a shared dream that is made real by efforts of individuals working together in their own communities and across borders.
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, DTP’s Founder & Patron
Sr Nicola Emmanuel
At the DTP training program we had a role-play on the Human Rights Council in Geneva. It never occurred to me that I will get a real-life experience at United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to present my case and the issues in Sri Lanka. DTP’s training helped me to take the voices of the victims to Geneva, so that the world could hear them and act.
Mark Munnich
DTP program empowered me to share the knowledge I learnt on the program with others and also helped me to secure an Indigenous Fellowship at the United Nations in Geneva.
Nayela Akter
DTP/MFA have supported CSOs to organise themselves, to identify and prioritise their issues of concern, and to identify solutions. As an outcome of this training, CSOs in Bangladesh submitted their first shadow/parallel report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers.
Theory of Change
