| Our Approach |
TARAA's Understanding of Enhancing Capacity for Development TARAA believes that capacity for development is not a neutral endeavour as it is embedded in the notion in which development is conceived as a process of expanding ‘the real freedoms people enjoy’. Freedom depends on social and economic arrangements (such as education and health) as well as political and civil rights (such as liberty to participate in public discussions and scrutiny). “By this analysis, poverty results from inequality of access to resources and power at all levels, between different social and cultural groups and between men and women”. TARAA understands that sustained conscious efforts are necessary towards inclusion of women in the development process. Prof. Amartya Sen in “Development as Freedom” wrote “women are increasingly seen as active agents of change, dynamic promoters of social transformations that can alter the lives of both men and women”. An agent is “someone who acts and brings about change and whose achievements can be judged in terms of her own values and objectives, whether or not we assess them in terms of some external criteria.” Developing capacities at different levels of social organization to meet poverty situations involves continuous learning and sharing, questioning and innovating, analyzing and refining will mark the journey towards supporting local actors to increase their capacities to solve their problems and improve their quality of life thus enjoying their rights and freedoms. TARAA follows the Action Learning Approach as the core process. The aim of the assignment determines the format and size of engagement. Therefore, TARAA works with large systems as well as small and focused groups in the pursuit of transformational change in societies. TARAA seeks to work in partnership and in strategic alliances with networks of organizations, governmental or nongovernmental organizations and with community-based Organizations. |
