ENSURING SOCIAL JUSTICE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE BY FORMING CITIZENS’ PARLIAMENT AUTHORITY NETWORKS – (CPAN)

‘ORGANIZING & UNITING THE MOST UN-ORGANIZED CITIZENS INTO A UNITED STRENGTH TO ENSURE SOCIAL JUSTICE WITH GOOD GOVERNANCE AND LASTING PEACE…’
With decades of experiments and endeavours, it’s been well established now that, the development will take root and sustain only when the most un-organized citizens are collectivized into unified strength and empowered with tools and techniques to retain decision-making power in their hands. And it’s done through a democratic social engineering process called ‘Citizens’ Parliament Authority Networks’ – (CPAN), can be initiated by children and youth including farmers and housewives in every village … enabling to take-up ownership of the development and sustenance of the outcomes, thereby protect themselves from external aggression, deception or exploitation, or else, NO amount of external investment can protect or lift the vulnerable communities in the long run.
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SO WHAT EXACTLY THE CPAN IS… AND HOW DOES IT HELP VULNERABLE CITIZENS TO EMERGE AS UNITED STRENGTH TO LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF THEIR SITUATIONS…?

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The ‘Citizen’s Parliament Authority Network’ – (CPAN) is a path-breaking innovative initiative, carefully crafted ‘Dynamic Social Engineering Process of Organizing the most Unorganized-Ordinary Citizens to emerge as United Strength’ against any aggression or exploitation, and a ‘System of Advancing Democracy with a Whole Community Approach’ that creates the ‘Enabling Conditions to Empower the Powerless and Raise Dynamic Leaders’ …thus, altogether lays the foundations for ‘Ensuring De-centralized Governing System’ based on a Shared Vision with Common Goals.

The ‘CPAN’ helps to overcome many odds of socio-cultural and economic hierarchies without fear, intimidation or coercion while expressing their views and emerge as ‘Organized-United Strength with Confidence’ who join hands and garner necessary supports within the communities, take part in the decision-making process, monitor and accelerate the development activities with accountability.

In reality, the goals of this process are to ensure the ‘Decision-making Power’ remains with the newly empowered citizens as dynamic leaders and develop resilient communities over time.

Interestingly, the placement and inbuilt leadership structure of ‘CPAN’ enable any citizen to emerge as leaders and not parachuted extraneous powerhouse, thus shuns the possibilities of exploitation or misleading. The ‘CPAN’ helps Reforming Socio-Cultural Institutes responsible for discriminations against girls of their legitimate equal rights to education, nutrition, health and reproductive health rights leading to early marriage, domestic violence, and unsafe economic migration that gives birth to a host of other challenges, especially human trafficking in person for economic and sexual exploitation, and when the trafficked persons are rescued they’re already infected with incurable diseases like HIV/AIDS etc.

GOALS

to raise and empower collectives of citizens who would be able to resolve many of their challenges by themselves locally…and all the efforts must result in lasting peace which would ultimately sustain the development outcomes. In fact, the adolescent girls we’ve been working with and empowered through ‘CPAN’s leadership development curriculum, are now their opinions are respected in their families and family peace is restored, and that gives them the leverage to determine their age of marriage, family size, choosing a profession and can provide better care for their progeny.

PLEASE NOTE

The Socio-Cultural Norms and Institutions that govern the communities are responsible for discriminations against girls of their legitimate rights… causing early marriage, family violence etc force them to unsafe economic migration that often ends-up in human trafficking in person. And that’s where ‘CPAN’ plays a major role of working along with the leaders of community-based institutes and collectives of the victims to create an ‘enabling-conducive condition’ and garner collective support to reform these ‘Norms & Precepts’ towards resolving these challenges without being biased and antagonizing anyone leading to lasting peace, and that can never be resolved by enforcing laws alone. For example, in a situation where the citizens are overwhelmed with illiteracy, ignorance and patriarchal authority over families, say, ‘child marriage, rights over ancestral property by the married daughter’ etc. The people must be made to understand and accept laws as the foundation for rights, peace and tranquillity, and that’s where the need of mass mobilization comes in.