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Information on
Democratic Leadership Workshop Program (DLWP)
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Executive Summary
National Reconciliation Program (NRP) had facilitated to
conduct the Leadership Development and Management Skills
Workshops in Dublin, Ireland in 2001 and 2002.
Multi-ethnics leaders from the various organizations
based in Thai, China, India and Bangladesh-Burma borders
participated in those workshops, facilitated by the
trainers from the Ireland based Community Action Network
(CAN) and learnt at the Institute of Public
Administration.
After two workshops in Ireland, evaluation made to
continue doing similar workshops in Thailand with the
potential leaders from the organizations based along the
borders. NRP had facilitated to implement three
workshops in 2003 and 2004, in those workshops 65
participants learnt together, facilitated by the
experienced trainers from CAN. From the participants of
the previous workshops, 15 people were chosen to be
trained at the Training of Trainers in 2005. All
workshops were financially supported by the Trocaire. In
2006 May in Chiang Mai, a consultation meeting was done
among the TOT members and finally a core team was formed
with (11) people, including (4) women to facilitating at
the future Democratic Leadership Workshops.
As the process, consultation meetings among the
Democratic Leadership Workshop Team (members of TOT
group), representatives from the NRP, representatives
from the ENC, Delegate of the trainers from CAN and
delegate from Trocaire for the continuation of the
future DLWs. As a result, future Democratic Leadership
Workshops will be implemented by the Steering Committee
and someone from the DLWT is taking position as the
Coordinator for this program.
Ethnic
Nationalities Council (ENC) will be the home
organization of the program and three representatives
from ENC and three representatives from DLWT, totally 6
people are at the Steering Committee to implement the
workshops.
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Project
Description: |
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Purpose of the Democratic Leadership Program: |
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The purpose of the Democratic Leadership Program
operating under the ENC is to promote a democratic
mindset throughout the movement at all levels, through
strategic use of Democratic Leadership Workshops. |
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Strategy we will use to promote this purpose: |
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The primary target groups for workshops will be the
younger generation and ethnic groups, including women's
organizations; however leaders support will be sought
through awareness rising among them and by inviting them
to participate where possible along with the younger
people in DLWs. |
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Vision: |
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To promote Democratic Leadership within movement
organizations |
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To impart the skills needed for the leadership to
practice a democratic style of leadership which empowers
the people to participate in the political process and |
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To encourage members of the movement to embrace
Democratic Leadership concept to their work for
the democratic movement |
Methodology:
We will conduct the workshops using participatory
methodology and try to be relevant to the participants'
situation and skills needed to practice a participatory
methodology within movement to promote civil society.
We
believe targeting younger people and women are a good
strategy for our purpose, as they are more open to
learning about this approach.
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