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Capacity
Building Training Program (CBTP)
Capacity Building Training Program is one of the major programs
of Insan Foundation Pakistan (IFP) undertaken with the support
of World
Accord Canada through South
Asia Partnership-Pakistan. It is 2 years' program that
aims to enable the partners who work in child rights field
to:
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Gain a deeper
theoretical and practical understanding on the issue
of child labor
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Effectively
generate resources for their programs in child labor
sector
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Design and
launch sustainable and integrated projects to combat
the menace of child labor from different levels
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Learn effective
communication skills that can help abridge communication
gaps between partners and communities, and
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Launch mass
mobilization campaigns for phasing out child labor
The program contains
the following activities for each province:
- link one workshop
with the other
- help partners
enhance their vision and skills by field experiences
- support partners'
to design and launch advocacy initiatives, and
- assist them
to liaison with each other
Taking interactive
learning methodology into cognizance, CBTP is designed to
operate in two yearlong phases, i.e., Punjab and NWFP. The
topics of the training workshops are:
1. Dynamics of
Child Labor and Combat Strategies
2. Effective Community Interventions For Elimination of
Child Labor
3. Legal Instruments on Child Labor in Pakistan
4. Sustainability in Initiatives on Child Labor (Link with
Reports)
The program also
includes field visits and different follow-up activities.
Learning culture:
Capacity Building
Training Program is based on active learning principles,
emphasizing upon group works, role-plays and discussions
and mini-lectures.
IFP has developed
and implemented various new tools in CBTP to assist the
partners in finding their strengths and weaknesses. Special
late night informal events are part of the program to help
them in exploring issues further. The partners are put in
real life solutions to analyze and find solution for them.
Many exercises have been devised to enable them to relate
the workshops' learning to the situations that they face
in communities. Special assignments are also planned in
order to assist them to evaluate themselves and the impact
of the workshops.
What is certainly
more important about CBTP workshops is that despite the
fact their content is overwhelmingly detailed, their function
is to activate, rather than to work as a recipe. Follow-up
activities are actually the source to enhance the capability
to be an effective part of the struggle for change. These
activities include awareness campaigns, networking, jointly
funded community-based initiatives and on-the-field consultancies
and support.
Despite the fact
that the whole program has been designed already, it is
still very flexible to welcome productive changes. On the
basis of regular feedback and reflections from partners,
the strategies of the program remain open to improve.
Partners'
Selection:
CBTP is a program
for organizations working for child rights and education
in Pakistan. Applications for participation in this program
need to be forwarded on special prescribed forms, requiring
from requested agencies to answer a set of questions about
their strengths, weaknesses, organizational systems, service
delivery mechanisms, programs and perceptions and experiences
about child labor. The selection for participation is subject
to qualification of the assessment of the nominees and the
organizations. It is conditional for nominees to have minimum
intermediate qualification and some knowledge about human
rights phenomenon. It is also essential for them to attend
all the training workshops.
In CBTP, preference has been given to the organizations
that nominate one female. To begin the partnership, a Memorandum
of Understanding needs to be signed with Insan Foundation
Pakistan. First ten selected organizations are entitled
to receive bursaries for participation in the program.
CBTP Today:
Punjab and NWFP
phase of CBTP has been completed with a group of 9 organizations
(18 individuals) from 9 districts and 11 organizations (22
individuals) from 10 districts respectively.
The CBTP
partners carry out several activities to the follow-ups
of the workshops. The program has helped establish a network
of NGOs/CBOs collectively designing and implementing the
programs. This network has been established after a process
of training and realization of certain gaps in the existing
child rights struggle. In this sense, it is a need-based
network in which partners help each other not only in deigning
and implementation of their programs but also offering on-the-job
support for further strengthening their organizational and
personal capacities. The idea of forming Youth Assembly
emerged during this exercise, on which IFP is working. Some
of the CBTP partners are the part of National Education
Program for Peace and Tolerance.
At the moment, Insan
Foundation is preparing to take CBTP to the province Sindh
and Balochistan as well.
See Publications: Reports: Workshops: CBTP: Reports
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