OIYP India APs meet

Oxfam India Capacity Building Workshop
1 – 5 December 2011

Sanskriti Kendra New Delhi      

We, a group of young change makers and the Indian Action Partners (APs) with Oxfam International Youth Partnerships (OIYP) had come together for a capacity workshop organized from 1 – 5 December at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi. The following is the brief report of the workshop.

OIYP is a global network of young people who share a vision of just world and are committed to working for peaceful, equitable and sustainable social change within their communities. For every three years, OIYP will have three hundred young people from over hundred countries, sharing a common platform to discuss new ideas and share experiences among each other to enrich skills and capacities for delivering better services at their communities.  So far 1200 young people are part of this network across four generations.  The current cycle of OIYP 2010 – 2013, started with kaleidoscope in New Delhi, India.

Post kaleidoscope, with an objective of bringing together Indian APs and facilitate a process for effective partnerships among APs, Oxfam India has organized an capacity building workshop from 1 – 5 December, 2011 at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi.  The workshop is attended by over 20 APs, across four generations of OIYP, Pallavi Kaushal - Youth Officer from Oxfam India, Geoff Hazell - OIYP Coordinator from Oxfam Australia office and is facilitated by Pramada Menon, eminent social activist and trainer.

The workshop proved successful and effective as the APs could familiarize each others’ work and identify spaces for potential partnerships. The first three days of the workshop was focused on training on Human Rights, UDHR, and deriving Human Rights perspectives on the work APs are already doing. The later two days workshop staged space to discuss the need for networking among APs and also the possible collaborations. By the end of the workshop the APs came out with specific Action Plans on how to support each others work and decided to go ahead with the plans. Realizing the need and positive impact it creates, the APs have decided to have similar workshop in near future and also try to bring in the other APs who missed out this event. It was also decided during the meet that the next workshop will be held in Hyderabad in the third week of February 2012.