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Our
Identity |
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Neighbourhood Community Network,
NCN, is a secular non-governmental organisation committed to promoting the
concept of neighbourhood parliaments.
NCN is registered as a non-profit
society in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Registered No. 289 of
1999).
The working office is at Nagercoil,
a municpal town and headquarters of Kanyakumari District, the southernmost
district of India. |
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Our
Vision |
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NCN envisions a world where, through
multi-tier global federation of neighbourhood parliaments, people are in
control of governance processes and thus ensure their well-being and
dignity. |
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Our Basic Assumptions
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People themselves are the best
agents to ensure their own well-being.
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Processes and programme for
people's well-being deliver best results when people themselves have the
scope to participate in, monitor and control such processes and
programmes.
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such participation, monitoring and
control by people presuppose that people have the forums to come
together as people and to identify, discuss and decide on the challenges
they have and the options before them.
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The forums meant for such
participation have necessarily to be of the right size that people do
not find them unhandleable or unmanageable.
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The bigger the forum the more the
small voices of the 'small people' get lost, and such people feel
alienated and helpless.
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Forums that are small enough for
the small voices to be heard and at the same time big enough that the
forums sustain themselves, when networked for wider impact, can bring
the world back into the hands of the poor. |
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Our Objectives |
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To dedicate ourselves to promote
the formation of Neighbourhood Forums and their networks at various
levels to ensure effective participation and control by people in
processes and decisions that affect them.
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Seek to ensure that these
structures get integrated into the existing constitutional provisions
for mandatory participation in Gramsabhas, Panchayats, etc.
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Work for a situation where most of
the governmental as well as other programmes get converged at the level
of such neighbourhood decision-making forums.
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Give a special focus on the poor,
the women and other disadvantaged groups so as to enable them for
effective participation as equals.
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Work towards building an
alternative power structure for people, especially those at the
base. |
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Our Mission |
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To spread the concept of
participatory governance realized through multi-tier federation of
neighbourhood parliaments.
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To promote organization and
strengthening of neighbourhood parliaments throughout the world.
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Our Functions |
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Creating awareness and interest
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Preparing
brochures, articles, newspaper-columns, books and booklets and using
websites.
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Arranging
consultations at the levels of the district, state, region, nation
etc.
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Attending
national and other meetings of other organizations and
networks.
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Projecting
model pilot programmes.
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Getting people
together at various levels and linking them through various relevant
forums
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Gradually
evolving district chapters, state chapters, etc.
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Getting them
plan their own programmes on subsidiarity basis.
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Finding
enthusiasts in all countries and getting them form their own chapters to
become mutually-supporting forces.
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Having a
consultancy group of professionals to bring competency at various
levels.
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Finding
similar organizations and networks in various areas and linking up with
them.
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Training
leaders.
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Lobbying with
governments and non-governmental structures to get the process
integrated into various other programmes.
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Publishing a
newsletter to serve as a link. |
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