Advocacy capacity building is core mandate of NCAS. The advocacy capacity building team of NCAS engages in strengthening the capacities of social action groups and citizens on people centered advocacy (PCA) for creating a humane society based on social justice and equity. Capacity building on people centered advocacy is a mode of social action which is used to empower local leadership, institutions and communities. This enables them to realize their potential to become change agents for promoting and protecting human rights. The advocacy capacity building workshops have helped strengthen the practice of people centered advocacy at the national as well as the South Asian regional level. NCAS has designed and developed its own advocacy curriculum and capacity building modules on people centered advocacy.
The advocacy capacity building programmes look into the theory and practice of people centered advocacy; the dynamics of power, politics and policy in the context of people centered advocacy; the character and role of institutions of governance constituting the legislature, the judiciary and the executive and identifying spaces within the system for people centered advocacy; the role of civil society, international actors and media in advocacy: importance of networking and alliance building in people centered advocacy and developing skills and methods required for strategic planning.
The following types of capacity building programmes are conducted at both the national and international level:
Advocacy Orientation Programmes - These are two days programmes focusing on ‘what’ and ‘why’ of people centered advocacy designed for citizen’s groups, college students, NGOs and donor agencies.
Issue based Advocacy Capacity Building Programmes - These are issue specific programmes of 4-11 days duration planned and designed in collaboration with networks and social action groups.
Institutional Advocacy Capacity Building Programme - These programmes are designed for institutions interested in working in an advocacy mode and assist them to incorporate advocacy in their programmes and activities.
Training of Trainers (TOT) - This is a three phased programme designed for the chief functionaries of NGOs, senior level activists and advocacy practitioners. The programme on the one hand develops sound understanding of advocacy processes and on the other builds capacities of participants to facilitate trainings on advocacy.
Advocacy Capacity Building Programme (only at the national level) – This is a weeklong residential programme organized for building the capacities of the chief functionaries of social action groups and civil society organizations. For further information refer to Annual Reports [more]
Community Learning Movement – An action learning programme at the grassroots:
The Community Learning Movement (CLM) is an action learning programme which emphasises building the capacities of communities to advocates for themselves, assert and claim their rights and make systems of local governance accountable thus expanding the vision of people centered advocacy. The programme consists of six workshops which are spread over a duration of 18 months.
At present 20 organisations in the six states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Karnatak and Maharashtra are part of the CLM process. For further details on CLM [more]
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