Knowledge for Social Changes and Critical Advocacy for Transformations of Development Paradigms
In the midst of unremitting erosion of food sovereignty and lack of sustainability in livelihood at the age of neo-liberal economic-ecological plunder along with the adverse impacts of climate changes, enormous embezzlement of Forest Rights and lack of Land and Water rights, erosion of grassroots democracy, institutional ineffectiveness of PRIs and LSGIs and growing number of human trafficking and various forms of migration, we are engaged in alternative developmental knowledge-based advocacy at the various stratum of society.
Knowledgeis an inextricable part of development intervention of 21st century and SPAR as a development, research and advocacy organization designed its flagship programme COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & NETWORKING in an interdisciplinary way with immense space foe knowledge sharing and synthesis through direct action and reflection, dissemination, solidarity and research.
The basic concept of the knowledge component envisaged programmes like lies in the dissemination and distribution of knowledge on various thematic areas of concerns, which are directly affecting and influencing the life and livelihood of the marginalized communities in our areas of intervention.
Since, in all the regions, either we are working directly with the people or through the small development organizations we will identify potential community development activist who will be capacitated through a series of trainings, meetings, inter-group sharing and exposure to different issue-based activities and people’s movements.
This informed group of activists will be responsible for initiating various alternative actions and experiments at the community level.
Simultaneously they will be able to effectively communicate and advocate alternative development planning, initiatives and implementation.
Through the involvement of the workers and activists of the larger network partners SPAR may enhance the scope of these initiatives to strengthen the process of pro-poor sustainable development with a larger coverage.
At the micro-level of policy making these empowered groups will endeavor pro-people lobbying and grass-root advocacy through effective communication with the people.
The spirit of the advocacy and lobbying will not be restricted at the micro periphery but would thrive to analyze and act on the correlation between macro and micro policy initiatives.
There will be concentrated training and workshops on thematic issues relevant both in the macro and micro intervention and simultaneously there will be effective exposure for the community-based advocacy activists to the diverse thematic innovative interventions, which they can replicate in the community. | 
