Civic Empowerment and Social Movements (Mar 5-16 2012)

According to the organiser of this workshop, MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation (MS-TCDC), by the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding of the dimensions and challenges of different approaches to empowerment for poor and marginalised people and be able to design, plan, and offer advice based on the needs and wishes of the people themselves. Participants will also gain a better understanding of social movements, how they form and the dynamics involved, as well as an appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses, risks and pitfalls. This course therefore, offers participants knowledge, core skills and tools required to run effective civic empowerment programmes and be able to support and facilitate movement building for social justice.

The training course will cover the following:

• Civil and political rights, civic education, and agency
• Civic empowerment and the five element model
• Governance, poverty, women’s rights, and gender dynamics
• Power analysis, and strengths and weaknesses of approaches to empowerment
• Social mobilisation, solidarity, and social movements
• Civic competencies: methods and techniques, skills and tools

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Registration information:
This training is intended for practitioners working with civil society organisations, government, and other development agencies who are operating at both policy and programming levels and who are dealing with process facilitation, management, and operationalisation of empowerment initiatives.

Course fee:
Single room US$ 1390
Shared double US$ 1170

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