By Meg Davis
Asian NGOs and government representatives met in Bangkok from March 29-31 at the Asia-Pacific Regional
Consultation on Universal Access. They consulted together to make recommendations on how to ensure universal access to AIDS treatment – one of the Millennium Development Goals. This time, human rights was included, and it was fascinating to see the process and participate in it.
The Know It, Prove It, Change It! A Rights Curriculum for Grassroots Groups series is created to help grassroots organizations in communities affected by HIV/AIDS to understand their basic rights, document rights abuses, and design and implement advocacy campaigns. The Chinese edition is now available for download at: https://www.asiacatalyst.org/news/kipici.html.
由亚洲促进会、东珍人权教育与实践中心、泰国艾滋病治疗行动小组合作编写”了解、证实、改变”系列中的《证实：记录人权侵害》中文版已经发布。
Working with the United
Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society is addressed to
the civil society actors who, every day in every part of the world, contribute to the
promotion, protection and advancement of human rights. This comprehensively
updated and revised second edition puts United Nations human rights bodies and
mechanisms at its center. Speaking to all civil society actors, including but
not only non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Handbook explains how civil
society can engage with various United Nations human rights bodies and
mechanisms. It is the hope of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) that this Handbook will enable more
people to enjoy and make claim to their human rights through these bodies and mechanisms.
Download the English
handbook: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/CivilSociety/Documents/Handbook_en.pdf
下载中文手册：
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/AboutUs/CivilSociety/OHCHR_Handbook_Ch.pdf
By Meg Davis
What’s your vision? Most organizations have a mission statement; the groups we work with in China generally write broad, vague, uninspiring statements in order to meet requirements for registration. These don’t give a sense of their vision to create social change.
By “vision statement”, different groups mean different things. We mean a one-sentence picture of the change your organization will create in the world in 20 or 30 years. This statement goes in the box all the way on the right in the logic model we use in strategic planning. It’s the first piece to create in this approach to strategic planning, and an important way to unify and focus everyone in the organization on a shared goal. Once the vision statement is set, it’s easier to break it down into medium-term goals and immediate actions.
By Meg Davis
There’s no getting around it – for most of us, creating a budget is a joyless task. But while it requires dusting off math skills some of us hoped we’d left behind in school, budgeting can also help you to develop useful and practical plans. This week’s blog post describes how to create a very basic program budget.
We recommend creating a budget that is relatively detailed from the beginning. You may or may not decide to send this detailed budget to donors when you apply for grants (more on this at the end), but you should still create one for internal use in your organization.
