Strengthening Citizen Leadership Programme

Strengthening Citizen Leadership

Objectives

The programme envisaged that a cadre of enlightened/strengthened visionary leadership with strong intermediation skills and strong networks of locally rooted institutions at the grassroots level, which are democratically governed and managed with collective leadership, will emerge through planned interventions. It was hoped that this cadre of enlightened leadership and their networks would facilitate meaningful interface between citizens groups and various governance institutions to articulate their demands and access their rights and entitlements.

Key areas/components

• Preparing profiles of citizen collectives
• Training for citizen collectives and citizen leaders
• Regular meetings and ongoing support
• Organising exposure visits
• Citizen centred interface workshop/meeting
• Awareness building through folk media
• Facilitating networks of citizen collectives

Key outputs

• Citizens’ profiles
• Citizen action at local levels contributed in effective delivery of development programme

Year/period

2002-2006

Client

The Ford Foundation, India