The spring campaign for the TPS Global Debates starts March 1 and lasts until March 24th. Register your school to participate and win a trip to New York City July of 2008! Register at www.thepeoplespeak.org!
The IDEA International Tournament of Champions for High School Parliamentary Debate Tournament will take place May 15 – 17, 2008, at Willamette University.
IDEA is once again partnering with the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press to lead an American Parliamentary Debate training May 19th-20th at the FLTRP facilities. The training is part of the FLTRP Cup, to be held in Beijing May 18th-25th.
The UN Foundation, IDEA, and the National Forensic League present the UN Youth Leadership Summit, to be held this July 17th-19th in New York City. You can find information about this exciting event at www.thepeoplespeak.org.
Exchanging good practices in supporting youth debate programs with Rwanda and Uganda.
Calendar of Activities
December 2006
Meeting of the Project Partners
December 2006 - January 2007
Selection of participants for Introductory Debate Training - AJPRODHO and CRY UGANDA will select 25 participants each to participate in the introductory debate training.
February 2007
Introductory Debate Training - 25 participants from Rwanda and 25 participants from Uganda are trained by IDEA trainers (in Kigali and Kampala).
February - June 2007
Piloting of debate events in Rwanda and Uganda - with the assistance of project coordinators from AJPRODHO and CRY Uganda as well as IDEA and IEDC staff, the participants of the introductory training implement debate projects in their communities.
June – August 2007
Study visits facilitated by IEDC and IDEA - 18 participants from AJPRODHO and CRY Uganda will take part in study visits organized by IEDC and IDEA. The study visit to the Netherlands in May 2007 will provide 6 participants (3 from Rwanda and 3 from Uganda) with an opportunity to observe organization of neighborhood debates and the development work of IDEA-NL office.
The study visit to Lithuania facilitated by IEDC will take place at the beginning of June and provide 6 participants (3 from Rwanda and 3 from Uganda) with an opportunity to observe a teacher training in debate, working of school and community based debate clubs and a national youth debate forum.
A study visit facilitated by IDEA will expose 6 participants (3 from Rwanda and 3 from Uganda) to an international debate forum (IDEA Summer Debate Forum) organized by IDEA and its partners in July 2007 in the Czech Republic.
August - November 2007
Preparation of Regional Debate Forum – Project partners will work on the preparation of a week long youth debate forum for young people from Rwanda and Uganda.
November - December 2007
Regional Youth Debate Forum – a one week long youth forum will be organized in either Rwanda or Uganda.
December 2007
Meeting of Project Partners – the last meeting of project partners.
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