IDSP opens Learning Spaces for the young majority population to empower them for generating and regenerating responses to the existing challenges. Through its Open Learning Spaces, IDSP provides engaging courses in critical thinking and leadership, as well as professional development to shape a meaningful career path for youth. Learners acquire knowledge and skills necessary to promote human rights, political participation, gender equality, and global citizenship–all of which will help them to improve safety and development in Pakistan. Standards of living and harmony within family units is considerably improved, resulting in lower domestic violence rates, a decrease in early child marriages, shared decision-making, and better social and financial support for all family members. Communities practice conflict resolution, promote youth civic engagement, expand the infrastructure and advance technologies of sustainable energy services, protect children from child labor and exploitation, and adopt sustainable agriculture techniques to improve their local economies. Local governments enhance their human resource capacities to better support progressive polices on public health, community development, and education.
VISION
To Nurture and Develop Individuals and Communities that will Change the Power Structures by Demystifying Processes of Education and Development and Generate Value based Partnerships and Practices at all Levels.
MISSION OF IDSP
In 1998, IDSP has introduced its human resource development courses in order to respond to the pressing needs of remedial initiatives for demystifying existing unjust and exploitative power structures through producing intellectual and practice-oriented potential human resource equipped with knowledge and skills of leadership, development, society, community, politics and economy. The idea of IDSP was originally propped up to create a people-centered open learning space to provide opportunities of learning and practice to deprived, marginalized and excluded youth and people to advocate their cause by building up their capacities in social and development fields. The Theory and practice based courses are knitted into a conceptual framework that starts from study and practice self, family, community and expands to the world at large Internal and external self-assessments and evaluation studies resulted in the comprehensive learning model called Creating Systems of Learning (CSL) Model that revealed and proved that IDSP work was much wider in scope and it had the potential to become a University of Non-formal Education for Community Development keeping in view its interventions in the communities through learners’ ideas of change. IDSP is committed to conviction that it is an open learning space of intellectual learning and activism for excluded and marginalized people and communities across the country and region irrespective of religion, ethnicity, cast and race.
Objective
To create a critical mass of young, vulnerable and excluded people
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By nurturing and developing their potentials as young leaders for change.
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And developing their communities by engaging them in the practices of demystifying the processes of education and development.
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Thus creating a critical mass of knowledgeable and well practices young community leaders, who will eventually mobilize forums, movements for structural and policy changes through democratic, non-violent and rights based actions
