The National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS) is a social change resource centre that aims at promoting and strengthening rights-based people-centred advocacy. It endeavours to create enabling conditions for people's empowerment at the grass-roots level as well as to facilitate efforts for human rights, social justice and transparent and accountable governance. It primarily provides support to various grass-root initiatives and people's movements by way of capacity building, campaign and media support, and research & documentation.

The Advocacy Internship Programme is capacity building initiative of NCAS that aims at building a cadre of sensitive young leaders for this country, who are equipped with the knowledge, a pro-people rights-based perspective, and skills to pursue social action for social justice.

The internship programme provides an opportunity and space for energetic young men and women to develop a conceptual understanding of social issues within the complexity of socio-economic-political environment, sharpen their political perspective, explore their own potential as leaders for engaging in activism for social change, as well as identify and build the necessary skills. Exposure to and engagement with various people's movements, grass-roots initiatives and struggles of the marginalised for their rights, during the internship, provides them an opportunity to understand themselves as social change agents within the given social reality.

DURATION: 18 months of which six months are dedicated to field work though field placement with grass-root organisations or movements.

WHO CAN APPLY:

• Candidates who want to understand the world in all its complexities.



• Who are eager to learn and take initiative for learning.



• Those who have a social conscience and value social commitment.



• Show sensitivity and commitment towards issues that effect lives of people, especially the marginalised.



• Willing to face challenges as social change agents