Tuesday, 6 June 2017
Since the inception of the Political Management Training in 2011, the curriculum has been constantly improved and fine-tuned to fit the needs of young progressives in the region. As the last activity of Socdem Asia for 2016, a working group has been convened once again to dissect the training program. The module development team is composed of alumni, faculty members, the SocDem Asia Secretariat and partners, and representatives from Socdem Asia member parties.
The workshop included thematic working groups that worked on the three clusters of the training: Ideology, Skills and Themes. Taking into account the training needs assessment from network member parties, each team went in-depth to examine objectives, core messages, and proposed methods or exercises for each topic. Various pre- and post- training tools were also devised by this team to further improve the learning dividend of the delegates. As a contribution to young progressives leadership building in the region, the workshop also aimed at developing a curriculum that allows for national organizations to echo the content and enables them to attune it to local realities.
The training guide will be handy for trainers and mentors of the PMT courses and those youth organizations echoing the training to their members. The third batch of PMT delegates will be travelling to Manila on May 2017.