The Unit provides
resources and undertakes programmes for change agents and organizations with a view to building
constituencies for progressive transformation of people, environment, economy
and society. The programmes on capacity building is conceptualised as social action.
Perspective building and policy literacy is a form of popular education on public policy issues involving people, environment, economy and society. It is a tool for empowerment and is intended to enhance citizens’ participation in the assessment of the impacts of policies and in the formulation of alternatives to current policies. The popular education seeks to help build an understanding of the basic logic of the mainstream (i.e., neo-liberal) economic framework and the corresponding assumptions and objectives, the contexts in which the policies are implemented and the changes that the policies introduce into the political economy. Discussions enable the participants to identify and understand the various players, forces and institutions in the political economy and their role, relationships and dynamics. The programme also attempts to show concrete examples of linkages between macro-policies and micro-conditions, enabling the participants to recognize such linkages in their own specific circumstances.
Focus
● International rights framework
● Players, forces and
institutions and their roles, relationship and dynamics in national and
international levels
Modules
● Neo-liberalism, capitalism,
socialism and development of civilization
● Demystifying Bretton Woods
Institutions and WTO
- WTO and
agreements
- World
Bank and IMF
- Regional Banks
i.e. ADB
● Globalisation and corporatisation
● Poverty, vulnerability and
livelihoods
● Citizenship and Equity
- Gender
- Labour rights
- Specially challenged
(disabled)
- Ethnicity, race, nationality
- child and
adolescents rights
- stigmatised group
● Public expenditure and budget
tracking
● Participation, decision making
and governance
● Human Rights Approaches to
Development
- International
Convention, Treaties and Covenants
- Mechanisms
like MDGs, EFA, Alma Ata,
- players
(UN agencies and specialised agencies)
● State and non-state Actors (NGOs,
CSOs, CBOs, Private sector Organisations, Professional Organisations)
- Rights, Duties
and Responsibilities
- Mobilisation,
networking, institution building and activism
● Action research, Demonstration
and Simulation
Resources
Our
abovementioned ten thematic perspective building tool kits written in open learning
modular format will soon be available.
The easy reading version of those tool kits
will also be available in Bangla.
For more information, please contact our Perspective Building
and Policy Literacy Unit at: info@unnayan.org