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CENTER FOR LIBERAL LEADERSHIP
Propagating Liberalism among Youth

Sunday, June 18, 2006

CLL SERVICES

A. Workshops and Seminars on Liberal Values and Principles

This is a common activity requested by KALIPI Chapters and other youth organization, especially if the seminar on liberal values being requested is the Basic Orientation on Liberal Democracy (BOLD), the prerequisite activity for membership in KALIPI and its allied sectoral organizations. Activities within this cluster deal with education on the basic principles and concepts of liberalism.

B. Workshops, Seminars and Youth Camps on Leadership and Good Governance

CLL gives importance on leadership and good governance component of organization. CLL believes that in order to function more effectively and efficiently, organization should understand the basic of leadership and its practice, and the best way to address this is through seminar- workshops and youth camps.

This service aims to develop the skills and know-how of the officers, operations personnel and members of the organization. These are usually 3-day-2-night affairs with as much practical application activities as there are lectures.


C. Discussions and Seminars on pertinent economic, political and social issues

CLL is also providing a venue that would tackle pertinent economic, political and social issues through discussions and seminars. This would help KALIPI members and other liberal-minded youth in having clear liberal positions. This is in effect helping the Filipino youth in having an in-depth understanding of specific issue concerning not only their sector but the country in general.

D. Skills Development

It aims to impart with the young liberals some knowledge, tips and strategies on how to develop their skills on writing, media-handling and communication (which includes website developing, blogging and podcasting), resource mobilization & management, organizing an event and campaigning.

E. Campaign Management Training

KALIPI is a political organization. Inevitably, it and its chapters must engage in the foremost of political activities: electoral exercises and issue advocacy. This cluster aims to train chapter members in the conduct of programs and policies that will effectively meet the objectives of their campaign, whether it be to put into office one of their own, or to advocate a particular position in an issue.

F. Strategic Planning Sessions

Planning and mapping out the direction of an organization are important activities, sometimes even more so than the actual execution. This cluster aims to assist chapters and other youth organization with the same democratic ideals in the identification of and development of their programs and goals and the means in which these goals can be met.

G. Governance in Action

This cluster deals with facilitating the need of KALIPI members and liberal-minded youth for a viable practicum to fulfill their requirements for graduation or to qualify for a job. CLL will make extensive use of the liberal network to ensure that they get the most effective hands-on training available and appropriate for their chosen discipline.

H. Research and Development

The CLL will also act as a clearinghouse for information regarding the many issues confronting the youth sector (and beyond). CLL also needs a comprehensive program of research and development to keep its programs and techniques effective and up-to-date. This cluster aims to provide CLL – and KALIPI – and other youth organizations with same democratic ideals with the knowledge base necessary to properly fulfill its mandate.

OBJECTIVES OF CLL


  • Stimulate research and practical application in the areas of liberal leadership, issue advocacy and organizational operations.
  • Develop the skills and knowledge of KALIPI members and other liberal-minded youth through various training activities.
  • Support the leadership and governance development agenda of KALIPI by inculcating the necessary skills and knowledge among its membership.

CENTER FOR LIBERAL LEADERSHIP

To say that training activities are important to the viability, continuity and even very existence of an organization, especially those involved in political action, is an understatement indeed.

Through seminars, forums, workshops, focus group discussions, leadership camps and other activities, members of an organization gain the skills and knowledge necessary for them to be effective in their membership, thus greatly increases the ability of the organization to achieve its goals. Training activities also allow an organization to pass on the experience it’s older and more seasoned members gained through long years of operations and forge a bond between the old and the new.


It is within this context that the Center for Liberal Leadership (CLL) was conceived. The Kabataang Liberal ng Pilipinas (the young liberals of the Philippines), one of the oldest and most active youth organization in the country, has had a long tradition of providing training for its chapters and other youth organizations pursuing same democratic ideals.


But these activities were more or less done in a per-need basis. But the increase in frequency of such activities in the last five years has allowed KALIPI’s National Secretariat to develop protocols and procedures that have become norms in the conduct of each activity. The CLL was thus created in order to gather these practices into a formal doctrine, and to allow for greater development of mechanisms and techniques for training members of the youth wing.