A place for Collective Learning

Background

Withdrawal of the state in provision of social and physical infrastructure and social safety nets, undermining food, environment, employment, economic and personal security has led to sharpening of inequities, reduced access to rights and resulted in an overall increase in human insecurity. The need to create for civil society dialogue, bringing different and diverse actors together, to explore creative and effective ways of addressing these new challenges has increased.

The issues of speed and pace of change is a major challenge to the voluntary sector. NGOs are now forced to intervene with the state, market and civil society and the challenge of replicability and sustainability is changing NGOs from self-organised small systems to differentiated large structures.

YUVA Centre - Capacitating for Social Change

To deepen democracy, it is imperative that the State, Market and Civil Society interact with each other in a responsible, accountable and mature manner. Democracy truly gets “deepened”, when it gets imbibed into the attitudes, norms, culture, behaviour and relationships of every individual and group. The needs of the weakest are met when the democratic values imbibed compel us to value each individual and his/her well-being.

YUVA Centre’s operates with this approach…………..

With the value framework of Deepening Democracy as a common theme across all training processes, it attempts to go beyond transfer of knowledge or skills to engage in transformatory processes. It reaches out to policy makers, allied State systems such as the police, the corporate sector, as well as social groupings such as the street population, indigenous and tribal groups, etc.