102- Organizational Design and Management for CSO’s

We know what kind of change we want to create for a fairer, more equal and more accessible world for all of us, but how can we proceed more effectively on the path we set out for this change?

Here, "Organizational Design and Management for CSOs" was designed to guide us, advocating in different thematic areas, on this journey. In this online topic, where we will learn the basic concepts and methods necessary to define and design our organizational structure and capacity, we will also explore our available and accessible resources and make  an introduction to the processes of planning and managing them.

• You will explore the differences of human communication, communication skills and abstraction ability and the background of human’s capacity to organize and cooperate.
• You will take a look at the theoretical discussions on the concept of civil society, you will define the relationship between civil society and politics, public sphere, power, democratization and urbanization.
• You will remember certain milestones of humanity’s long political transformation, you will position civil society development within political history.  
• You will receive information on the fundamental principles and international standards of freedom of participation and association which is the sine qua non for a strong civil society. You will examine the effects of recent economic and political transformations, digital communication and information tools on the development of civil society and new forms of organization, and look at how these have opened the door to a transformation in civil society,
• You will have information about the historical development of the concept of civil society in Turkey.

The face to face training of 101-Fundamentals of Civil Society course lasts three days. 

If you’ve decided to attend 101-Fundamentals of Civil Society online-only, good news! There is no set start and end date. You can start at the time you set and finish at the time you set. We recommend that you spare 2 hours a day and complete the entire program in 2 days.  101-Fundamentals of Civil Society include 1,5 hours of video content, 1,5 hours of podcast content. Reading materials take 1 hour. In other words, the total duration of all content is 4 hours.