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
their own.
In order to make the course self-sustained in the end
we intend to charge a minimum fee. It is TK. 4000 for
all students.
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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.
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