WikiGovernance/News
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Welcome to the WikiGovernance node of WikiEducator
A collaborative wiki space to share ideas, resources and insights for Governance
May 2008
The focus area for the Commonwealth of Learning is working through partners to train civil society and government in transparent, inclusive, gender sensitive, evidence-based and accountable decision-making processes:
- Government at the sub-national level(except in cases of very small states, where we may also engage in national level) for both officials and elected representatives;
- Civil society, where some of our initiatives include election issues, learning how to do strategic planning or how to read and prepare a budget, as part of engagement with the School Management Committee/Board. Because we work mainly in Least Developed Countries and Most Fragile States, we must develop ODL materials for people with few literacy skills, as they make up a significant percent of the population of many countries.
Here are the areas in which we are already active:
Pacific -
- Vanuatu - Wan Smolbag – producing a video to be also aired on TV dispelling witchcraft and promoting other approaches to conflict resolution.
- Solomon Islands - Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development – developing and ODL policy and providing open distance learning training for school board staff.
- Papua New Guinea - UPNG - providing training to the 40,000 civil servants in partnership with other training institutions as well as with all levels of government – part of the Public Sector Reform initiative.
South Asia
- Bangladesh - Action Aid – building capacity in ODL and developing materials for People’s Plan of Action (civil society). Also Rupantar – developing ODL for strengthening local level government elected representatives
- India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan – developing a Model for Women’s Empowerment at the Local Level using ODL – just beginning
Africa
- Malawi – Cambridge University, University of Malawi and many other partners (north and south) – developing good governance materials for all levels of government, for civil society and for international development organizations
- Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia – as possible countries – need to be confirmed by ComSec – working with training institutions on rightstreaming (a new approach to include gender mainstreaming) for government.
April 2008
- The Commonwealth of Learning's Leadership, Governance and Empowerment (COLLaGE) discussions begin on: http://groups.google.com/group/collage-community
January 2008
- Planning begins for WikiGovernance wiki skills training workshop, to be held January or February 2008.
- WikiEducator Learning4Content workshops begin, with aims to train 2 500 educators in 53 Commonwealth countries. (To register, please click here.)
December 2007
- Draft proposal for PCF 5 accepted. Invitation to develop full paper on COLLaGE Community for PCF-5.
November 2007
- COL is inviting suggestions for possible speakers and topics for its COLLaGE Community blog - focusing on Leadership, Governance and Empowerment.
- Randy Fisher submits Proposal to PCF5, Accelerating Community/NGO Engagement for ODL Resource Development (Governance).
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