Everybody Needs Back Up Courses

It is designed to provide an entry into the civil society field, to recognize the basic concepts and debates in the field, to introduce approaches and essential skills that can define the change, want to be created in civil society field. Everybody Needs Backup Courses consists of 4 training topic. Each training is designed independently but also in a way that supports each other.

• 101 - An Overview of Civil Society
• 102 - Organization Design and Management for CSOs
• 103 - Rights-Based Approach and Mainstreaming
• 104 - Communication-Based Participation and Advocacy

Everybody Needs Backup Courses is a comprehensive and structured, 4-month capacity building program that combines practical field experience with academic and professional knowledge. It provides an opportunity to experience and reflect on the subject and concepts that are at the heart of organizational capacity building based on the approach of learning by doing and adult education.

• To define the basic concepts, approaches, and debates related to civil society within the historical process and position one’s self within the civil society ecosystem.
• To reinforce organizational design and organizational capacity concepts and learn the essentials of organization management.
• To understand the concept of mainstreaming with a rights-based approach and the importance of establishing an inclusive perspective.
• To discuss communication skills and define participation and advocacy activities based on communication.
   

Activists, volunteers, and employees who are new to the civil society field and want to increase their knowledge and skills about basic concepts, as well as anyone who has been in this field for a long time and wants to refresh their knowledge and skills can participate in Everybody Needs Backup Courses. There is no need for any basic knowledge or skills related to the topics covered to follow the program.