IFAN 2009
We have committed to organise the following regionalmeets/activities, and have selected coordinators for each region too :
Delhi = 2 - Prashant & Yavnika
Mumbai = 2 - Iris & Mihir
J&K = 2 - Touseef & Dipanker
Kerala = 2 - Sunil / Dhanu
Goa = 1 - Sauvik
UP+Jharkand+Bihar = 1 - Manuwant, Rajesh, Sudhir Pal, Lenin
Bangalore = 2 - Zainab, Trupti
Calcutta+N.E. = 1 - Najeeb
We need to achieve at least 6 of the above for the year, roughly 1meet every alternate month, starting April; though we can follow anyschedule.The target audience for these meets is ourselves and like-minded /liberal individuals and perhaps others who might be interested: IFANmembers, LYF India, LYSA, FNF Partner Orgns.
IFAN 2009 main objectives are :-netowrk should discuss liberal policies for India and disseminatethese to key individuals in politics and industry in different partsof India-network should continuously lobby for liberal draft policies, withspecific aim of involving adults and young leaders-network should Establish a group of at least 5 multipliers /moderators-network should Establish Discussion groups
Possible Topics:1. Financial Crises: Chances & Challenges (liberal perspective)
2.Political Scene form a Liberal perspective
3.IAF seminar topics e.g. What is a Strategy planning workshop forFNF?
4. What's new in the Indian Book market (liberal perspective) -perhaps start a liberal book club
5.Free Trade - Boom or bane (lib persp)
6. Publications on Liberal perspective
7. Liberty & Security
8.Initiate a People to people meet between India and Pakistan LiberalsA possible structure could be to Host a two hour session :30 min: talk on a theme30 min: Q&A on the theme45 min: Moderated discussion on possible liberal strategy on thatparticular issue15 min: Conclusion by resource person and moderator.
The idea is not so much to develop an action plan, but to get into themode of thinking in that manner. The resource person and moderatorcould be rotated each session so as to expose everyone to differentroles.To begin with, the action plan could be hypothetical. But if we canbuild a momentum among the IFAN members, then at least one or two ofthe olans could be adopted by a few of the members and take it to thelevel of implementation, under the auspices of one of the partners.That way IFAN members and FNF partners may begin to develop a moresymbiotic relationship.
