It is a special course on issues of Good Governance and Democracy, Leadership Training, Research Methodology, Report Writing. The students will also be involved in research as a part of their evaluation. As reinforcements the students will watch films, documentaries, take part in parliamentary form of debates, quiz competition, surf Internet and participate in organizing activities with the programme unit of Democracywatch entitled Action Community.

The course is accredited. It is evaluated on the basis of a course work (opinion poll or social survey) that the students will produce at the end of the term under tutor (s). As incentives a good report will be published in the newsletter.

The idea is also to involve them into projects on issues close to their home. This will increase their relationship with the community, emphasize on learning based on experience (as adult students) and enable them to identify problems on In order to make the course self-sustained in the end we intend to charge a minimum fee. It is Tk. 4500.

The target students will be university/college graduates, NGO workers. They may be former HRD students of Democracywatch or new students.

The Initial idea is to run the course with a small class size that will not exceed 20 in number. After 2½ months of training the students will be discharged for research and internship which will last for 1½ months.

They will work as interns either in our projects or be placed with other partners. Before going for internship they will identify a problem to research on, develop the hypothesis, research questions, and data collecting instruments in the research methodology class. They are supposed to submit their course-work at the end of the training. On completion of the training they will receive a certificate from Democracywatch and a recommendation letter from the NGO where they are placed for internship.

We try to organize an open day prior to enrollment where interested people can come and find out more about the course before they decide to join it.