- Dear IFAN Members,
- Here is the agenda for next IFAN meet.
- Kindly give your suggestions, comments and feedback. Most important is how will you contribute in this given agenda to achieve liberalism, your role, and your efforts. Please reply soon.
IFAN as network, which provides a platform for the members to exchange ideas, and explore ways of collaborating with each others, in order to build synergy towards a wider liberal movement in India.
In the last two meetings of IFAN, we have worked to provide a structure and direction to the network. In last meeting, Alumni’s have also shared their area of interest and the area where they can promote liberal ideas. At the 2008 meeting, we could strive towards a few specific outputs. With this in mind, we may like to discuss the following objectives for the next IFAN meeting, which could be held in the first week of April 2008.
Objectives:
1. IFAN members discuss on activities how they would engage themselves in improving understanding of liberal ideas and promoting liberal values and also add value to members of the network.
Once common grounds are found, the members might break up in different working groups to explore in details the possible areas of cooperation, and the nature of that collaboration, with the aim of coming up with specific programme of activities from each of working groups.
2. FNSt is proposing a national Liberal Convention for later this year. And IFAN members may discuss the possible way they could contribute to making this a success. Particularly, suggesting themes and topics, identifying speakers and resource persons, and pursuing with the resource persons to ensure their participation. Also, where possible, volunteering to participate in the organizational aspects of the conference.
3. FNSt is supporting to build afresh a liberal youth movement - Liberal Youth Forum of India (LYF-India). IFAN meeting may be coordinated with the launch of LYF-India, and the core group of LYF-India members may be invited to participate in IFAN as observers, to explore another possible area of collaboration.
In the last two meetings of IFAN, we have worked to provide a structure and direction to the network. In last meeting, Alumni’s have also shared their area of interest and the area where they can promote liberal ideas. At the 2008 meeting, we could strive towards a few specific outputs. With this in mind, we may like to discuss the following objectives for the next IFAN meeting, which could be held in the first week of April 2008.
Objectives:
1. IFAN members discuss on activities how they would engage themselves in improving understanding of liberal ideas and promoting liberal values and also add value to members of the network.
Once common grounds are found, the members might break up in different working groups to explore in details the possible areas of cooperation, and the nature of that collaboration, with the aim of coming up with specific programme of activities from each of working groups.
2. FNSt is proposing a national Liberal Convention for later this year. And IFAN members may discuss the possible way they could contribute to making this a success. Particularly, suggesting themes and topics, identifying speakers and resource persons, and pursuing with the resource persons to ensure their participation. Also, where possible, volunteering to participate in the organizational aspects of the conference.
3. FNSt is supporting to build afresh a liberal youth movement - Liberal Youth Forum of India (LYF-India). IFAN meeting may be coordinated with the launch of LYF-India, and the core group of LYF-India members may be invited to participate in IFAN as observers, to explore another possible area of collaboration.
Regards,
Ashraf Ahmed Shaikh
National Coordinator
IFAN
1 comment:
Dear FNSt Alumnis,
We wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR and Wish you all have great success in your endeavour this year.
With the new year, we need to plan our next meeting of IFAN. FNSt had a meeting with IFAN Core-committee members last week to decide on the agenda for the next IFAN meeting.
We discussed that in our next meeting we would like to strive towards a few specific outputs, for which we need your valuable suggestions. The suggestions should be on how you as IFAN member would like to do activity this year and engage yourself or your organisation in improving understanding of liberal ideas and promoting liberal values and also add value to members of the network.
A draft of the next meeting agenda has been prepared and Arshad has posted it here.
We request you to kindly send in your suggestions or comments with regards to your contribution and agenda for IFAN meeting. This would enable us to accordingly extend an invitation to participate in the next IFAN meeting. We plan to have meeting in the first week of April, 2008.
The suggestions could be either emailed to us or could be included in this blog.
We would appreciate an early response preferably in next two weeks.
Warm regards,
Nupur Hasija
Executive, Coordination
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