Nairruti Jani’s Blog

Each member of the class, please send me your UTA email id so that I can give you access to post on this blog. You can write your id in the comments to this post.

Thank you,

Nairruti

Relationship of poor laws with current welfare systems

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-Jani

This part of the course provides students with a range of proven human rights advocacy methods and critical concepts as a means for them to reflect on and deepen their own work. The course will look at the theoretical foundations and critical issues of human rights advocacy, elements of advocacy planning, and strategies for action.

In this course, participants should deepen their knowledge about advocacy and its relationship to: Politics and Democracy; Citizenship and Rights; Power, Empowerment and Citizen Education and Action. Participants will gain basic skills and knowledge in: visioning; contextual analysis; problem/issue identification; analysis and prioritisation; power mapping; goal/objective setting; analysis of advocacy arenas and strategies; message development, reports and media; public outreach and mobilization; lobbying and negotiation; advocacy leadership and coalition building; and assessment of success.

The course involves detailed reading, on-line working groups, interaction with students and instructor/facilitator and assignments and participation in online ‘Advocacy blog’. The course is based on a participatory, active learning approach, with an emphasis on peer-to-peer learning. Participants will do the required readings, prepare interim and final assignments and participate in group discussions. The reference text will be A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: An Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation, by Lisa VeneKlaasen and Valerie Miller. The assignment on advocacy can be a written advocacy paper on subject of your choice , letter to the congress representative on any important current issue or a media advocacy presentation. All assignments have to be uploaded on the advocacy blog.

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