ISI-BLRprogram(calender 2001-2002)

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I. ANDHRA PRADESH UNIT

Title: Training of Dalit Leaders for Local Self-Governance

Course Code: AP-01 (date: October'2001 at Chittoor).
Course Code: AP-02 (date: November'2001 at Mehaboobnagar.)

Duration : 3 days
Participants : 30

Objectives:

To widen the knowledge of elected representatives-belonging to weaker sections-on various aspects of local self-governance.
To equip them with necessary skills for effective functioning.

Contents:

The concept of local self-governance
Panchayat structures
Powers, functions and finances to PRIs
Management of local resources
Skills in articulation, Planning,decision-making and conflict resolution.
Leadership styles.

Methodology: Lectures
                      Participatory Group Activities
                      Personal reading and Assimilation
                      Audio-Visual Presentations
                      Informal sessions

Target Groups : Sarpanches and Mandal representatives

Resource Team : Indian Social Institute - Bangalore
DAPPU-Hyderabad

Coordinator : Mrs. Annie Namala

Title: Refresher Course for Dalit Cadres

Course Code: AP-03 (date: June'2001 at Mehaboobnagar).
Course Code: AP-04 (date: July'2001 at Chittoor.)
Course Code: AP-05 (date: July'2001 at Vijayawada)
Course Code: AP-06 (date: August'2001 at Vijayawada/Hyderabad)

Duration      : 2 days
Participants : 15
Medium       : Telugu.

Methodology : Lectures
Interview Schedule
Participatory Group Activities

Target Groups: Dalit cadres who had undergone the two-month Training during June-August,2000.

Resource Team : Indian Social Institute-Bangalore
DAPPU- Hyderabad

Coordinator : Mrs. Annie Namala.

Title: NLP for Dalits, Tribals and Minorities

Course Code: AP-14 (date: June 2001 at Guntur). Medium: Telugu
Course Code: AP-19 (date: July 2001 at Hyderabad)Medium: English

Duration : 3 days
Participants : 20

Methodology: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has powerful tools to change inner perspectives, beliefs, prejudicesand attitudes. NLP stresses the positive side of life, it provides skills to get what we want and desire, and how to do things with efficiency and excellence.

Target Groups: Dalits,Tribals, Minorities , Marginalised groups, youth, women in rural areas, University students of AICUF.

Resource Team : Socio-Cultural Centre- Guntur

Coordinator: A.X.J.Bosco S.J.

II. KARNATAKA UNIT

Title:Training on Leadership for Local Self-Governance

Course Code: KA-01 (date: 18-20 June 2001 at Kollegal).     Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-02 (date: 25-27 June 2001 at Nagarabavi)Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-03 (date: 2-4 July 2001 at Chintamani)      Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-04 (date: August 1- 3, 2001 at Madhugiri) Medium: Kannada

Duration : 3 days
Participants : 25

Objectives:

To widen the knowledge of elected representatives-belonging to weaker sections-on various aspects of local self-governance;
to equip them with necessary skills for effective functioning.

Contents:

The concept of local-self governance
Panchayat Structures
Powers, functions and finances to PRIs
Management of local resources
Skills in articulation, planning, decision making and conflict-resolution.
Leadership styles

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activities
Personal reading and Assimilation
Audio-Visual Presentations
Informal Sessions

Target Group: Elected PRI Members- Both men and women belonging to SC, ST, OBC, Minority Communities and Elected Women.

Resource Team: Indian Social Institute- Bangalore
ISST-Bangalore

Coordinator-Mr.Chand Peer

Title: Minority Rights: Challenges and Responses

Course Code: KA-05 (date: 21-25 May,2001 at ODP, Mysore) Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-06 (date: 25-29 June,2001 at Mangalore)   Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-07 (date: 27-31 August,2001 at ISI,Bangalore) Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-08 (date:15-19 october 2001 at Gulbarga)   Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-09 ( date: 3-7 December 2001at Dharwad) Medium: Kannada

Duration : 5 days
Participants : 40

Objectives:

To enable the participants to understand mechanisms of social, political, economic and cultural oppressions;
To facilitate a critical understanding of the machinations of communal forces;
To equip them with skills for promoting local leadership in groups/communities for countering communal/fundamental forces.

Contents:

Societal analysis with special refrence to current trends in Karnataka
State, Democracy, Secularism and multi-religious policy.
Saffronization: Impact and response
Minority Rights: procisions, realisations, violations and remedies
Roles and responsibilities of minority groups in general and FKSCAOs in particular.

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activities
Personal Reading and Assimilation
Audio-Visual Presentations
Informal Sessions

Target Group: Leaders/Functionaries of FKSCAOs

Resource Team: Indian Social Institute-Bangalore, FKSCAO-Bangalore, PUCL-Karnataka, CIPI-Bangalore

Title: Socio-Cultural Analysis of Indian Society

Course Code: KA-10 (20-24 May,2001at Chamarajanagar)Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-11 (10-14 July,2001 at Tumkur) Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-12 (24-28 August,2001 at Mysore)Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-13 (5-9 October,2001 at Belgaum) Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-14 (26-30 November,2001 at Bangalore)Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-15 (4-8 January 2002 at Mangalore)Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-16(16-20 February,2002 at Bijapur) Medium: Kannada
Course Code: KA-17(23-27 March,2002 at Hassan)Medium: Kannada

Duration : 5 days
Participants : 40

Registration Fee: Rs.100/-

Objectives:

To analyse the historical and socio-cultural perspectives of Indigenous people;
To acquire deeper understanding on the current trends such as globaliszation;
To make the cadres understand the implications of and globalisation and saffronization in India/Karnataka and the implications on the Indigenous Population;
To Familiarise the cadres with the life, philosophy and contributions of indigenous leaders;
To examine the status and role of Dalit women in Soceity and Community;
To equip them with adequate skills for social interventions at different levels.

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activities
Personal Reading and Assimilation
Audio-Visual Presentation
Informal sessions

Target Group:

Cadres of Council of Indigenous People-India. These cadres are chosen from SC/ST/OBC and minority communities.

Resource Team: Indian Social Insitute-Bangalore, CIPI-Bangalore, Dharwad University-Dharwad Coordinator-Mr.Chand Peer

Title: Saffronization and Implications for Minority Rights

Course Code: KA-18 RGN(15-19 February,2002 at ISI-Bangalore) MEDIUM: English

Duration: 5 days
Participants: 30

Reg Fee: Rs.100/-

Objectives:

To Sensitize the activists about the minority rights;
To equip them with the skills and knowledge to intervene in the context of minority right violations;
To sharpen their skills in the area of monitoring and fact finding standards.

Contents:

The concept of Minority
Situation of minorities: An overview
Constiutional provisions and minority community
Minority commission: functions scope
Ways and means to safeguard the minority rights
Monitoring, fact finding and reporting

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activities
Audio-visual Presentation
Personal Reading and Assimilation

Target Groups:

Cadres of People's movements
College students belonging to weaker sections
NGO staff of the southern states

Resource Team: ISI-Bangalore, National Law School-Bangalore, PUCL-Karnataka

Coordinator: Mr.Chand Peer

IV. TAMIL NADU UNIT

Title:Movement's Invervention for Dalit Rights

Course Code: TN-01 (16th Apr-6 may, 2001 at IDEAS, Madurai) MEDIUM: Tamil
Course Code: TN-02 (12th Sept-3rd oct,2001 at IDEAS, Madurai) MEDIUM: Tamil

Duration: 21 days
Participants: 40

Overall Objectives:

To equip the cadres with adequate knowledge about the nature and effects of the globalized market economy, religious fundamentalism and caste communalism and hegemony in Tamilnadu;
To enable them get rooted in their history and culture and thus strengthen their group identity and self-image as Dalit Collective;
To help them acquire a clear perspective of Dalit Rights as human rights;
To nurture and strengthen their bonds as Dalit collective with the projection of historical personalities, like Dr Ambedkar, who fought for Dalit Rights;
To develop their skills for effective involvement in the movements and for clear delineation of their role in this movement-building process.

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activites
Audio-Visual Presentations
Caste study> Micro Analysis
Personal Readings and Assimilation

Target Group

Dalit cadres both men and women

Resource Team: ISI-Bangalore, IDEAS-Madurai, ATVI-Chennai

Coordinator: Mr.C.S.Saravanan

Title: Training on Human Rights for Students

Course code: TN-06 (DECEMBER 2001 at IDEAS, Madurai) Medium: Tamil

Duration: 6 days
Participants: 50

Objectives

To deepen their knowledge of and commitment to human rights;
To help them relate human rights perspective with their future professions/careers;
To help them imbibe and cherish secular, democratic and humanistic ideals and ways of thinking and living against the background of weakening position of humanistic and secular culture in the context of the strong assertion of the market, religious fundamentalist and casteist forces.

Methodology:

Lecture
Case study
Personal REading and Assimilation
Games, Stories, Group Work
Audio-Visual Presentation

Target Group: Selected students from all over Tamil Nadu

Resource Team: ISI-Bangalore, People's Watch- TAmilnadu

Coordinator-Mr. C.S.Saravanan

Title: Training on Human Rights for Teachers

Course Code: TN-07 (april 2002 at IDEAS, Madurai)

Duration: 7 days
Participants: 30

Overall objectives:

To equip the trainees with basic tools of analysis for understanding society;
To provide general knowledge about current social trends;
To deepen their knowledge and commitment to Human Rights;
To enable them impart human rights education to students more effectively;
To identify from among them potential trainers in human rights
From long term point of view, to help them to associate themselves in the work of monitoring human rights violations in their respective areas and engage themselves in advocacy work.

Methodology:

Lectures
Sharing of experiences, struggles etc.
Participatory Group Activities
Audio-Visual Presentation
Case Study- Micro analysis
Assimilation

Target group: Selected teachers from all over Tamil Nadu

Resource team: ISI-Bangalore, People's Watch-Tamilnadu

Coordinator: Mr.C.S.Saravanan

Title: Social, Economic and Cultural Rights of the Marginalized: Access, violations and atrocities

Course code: TN-09 ( 12-21 november,2001 at ISI-Bangalore) Medium: English

Duration: 10 days
Participants: 25

Objectives:

To assist the trainees in their learning of a theoretical framework on state, democracy and good governance, on the concept, history and practice of social, economic and cultural rights, the realtion between the state and Human Rights.
To enable the participants to become better acquainted with today's social context in relation to two major trends, namely globalization of the market economy and religio-social fundamentalism andtheir implications for socio, economic and cultural rights of the marginzalised
To facilitate the trainees in their learning of the national and international human rights standards for measuring the performance of the state and civil society;
To equip the trainees with skills for monitoring atrocities against women, dalits and tribals in their efforts to access social, economic and cultural rights.

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activities
Case study workshops
Assimilation
Audio_visual and presentation

Target Groups:

Social activists
Human rights activists
NGOs/movements working on human rights

Resource Team: ISI-Bangalore, People's Watch-Tamilnadu, National Law School-Bangalore Coordinator-Mr.C.S.Saravanan

Title: Social Analysis and Project Planning

Course code: TN-10 ( 11-17 June 2001 at ISI-Bangalore) Medium: English

Duration: 7 days
Participants: 30
Course Fee: Rs.600

Objectives:

To help the AHB partners realize the complex situation of Indian Society and thus analyse the society by providing the tools of analysis;
To enlighten the AHB partners on effective implementation of the project and strenghtening the women CBOs at the grass roots level;
To equip the trainees with effective skills and strategies for planning, lobbying and advocacy.

Methodology:

Lectures
Participatory Group Activities
Audio-Visual Presentation
Assimilation

Target Group: AHB Implementing Parteners- men and women

Resource Team: ISI-Bangalore

Coordinator-Mr.C.S.Saravanan