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CARA à cara

Overcoming unfounded FEAR four ways online

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FEAR Let’s consider it: An acronym?

False Evidence Appearing Real Let’s define it: 5 W’s and H

What, where, when, who, why, how? Let’s ask: What are our fears?

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CARA

Yes, it is an acronymCommitmentAccountability ResponsibilityAction

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CARA against FEAR: Unite!

United Nations convention, 1951:Lay down basic minimum standards:

Access to: Documentation, work, courts, education United Nations World Education Forum, Dakar, 2000:

Framework for action on 6 goals:Ensure: Care, lifelong education, life skills training Achieve: Equitability, numeracy, 50% literacy

United Nations post-2015 initiative: Sustainability, voluntarism

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Commitment, an introduction… what?• Engagement •Persistence• Insistence to resolve•And for you?

Commitment, in Dakar Initiative

Six goals, promises to achieve:• Expand early childhood education & care•Provide free & compulsory primary education for all•Promote learning & life skills for youths and adults• Increase adult literacy by 50%•Achieve gender parity & then gender equality• Improve quality of education

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Accountability, an introduction

What is it? How is it evident?Who institutes it & where?Who notices it, who undergoes it, & how? UN: Responsibility, answerability, enforceability

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Accountability, by UN standardsPillay’s three elements: Responsibility, Answerability, Enforceability Duty bearing, Explaining, Comforting to avoid fear

Circle of accountability: Plan, Budget, Implement, Monitor, Evaluate, Redress

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Responsibility, an introduction Being the “go-to” one Knowing how to cultivate respect Knowing how to develop interaction Knowing how & when to take charge, then taking charge

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Responsibility, by UN standardsDepends upon multi-faceted trainingDepends upon experts, expertiseDepends upon clear organization Depends upon everyone’s participation“Best generated from within, by all”

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Action, an introduction What is it?

Movement? Change? Continuity? Evolution? Revolution?

How does it occur & how is it evident? Who institutes it, who notices it, who benefits?

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Action in action, UN-style, togetherCo-ordinate 5 ways

Policy dialogue MonitoringAdvocacy FundingCapacity development

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Action in action, UNAI examples…Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN): WaterUniversity of Bergen & EU: Project Aramaic onlineUni System Puerto Rico (AGMUS): Global citizenshipNorwalk (CT) CC: Education to alleviate poverty

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CARA against FEAR, re-visitedHow to rebuff False Evidence?

Three D’sDefineDiscoverDefeat

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CARA à cara: Learning one to one to manyHow to realize the real?

Make commitments Make everyone accountable Define responsibility & the responsible Profiting from the above, realize action