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Index literacy cohort

Learns to read, question and use the indexes and their correction log.

Joining
Fungua
Decides by
Simple majority
To form
3 members
Visibility
Listed in public once active

What it is for

Runs a course team, a cohort or a peer study group, with learning records that show progress and do not certify competence.

Who it draws on

Every cell is interdisciplinary: anyone may ask to join. These are the fields it needs most.

Expertise

  • Capacity development and technical assistance
  • Work, skills and occupational safety
  • Human development, poverty and inequality

Taaluma

  • Psychology and behavioural science
  • Sociology and demography

Jinsi inavyoendeshwa

Roles a cell of this type must fill before it is listed
JukumuWhat it doesAt least
FacilitatorPlans the sessions and keeps the cohort or study group moving.1
SecretaryKeeps the records: minutes, decisions, the member list and the cell log.1
Safeguarding contactAn adult named to receive and act on any concern about the safety of a member.0
Decisions
Simple majority. More than half of the votes cast for or against.
Kinga
  • Quorum rules. Who must take part for a result to count.

How to join

Open. Anyone signed in can join.

What a new cell starts with

Projects

  • Cohort plan
  • Study sessions
  • Peer review of work

First issues

  • Choose the course or path
  • Set the session calendar
  • Agree how peer feedback works

Open calls

  • Learners for the next cohort

What it connects to

Learning
Courses, cohorts and the learning path for each role.
Translation
Translate the cell's pages, documents and guides with reviewed translations.
Forms
Intake, sign-up and survey forms with consent recorded.

Its space has: discussion, activity, documents and library, meetings and events, proposals and decisions, learning, outputs.

Projects it often runs

  • Training and cohort. Run a course, a cohort or a peer study series.
  • Exercise. Plan and run a tabletop or field exercise, recorded as a learning record.
  • Dialogue series. Convene institutions on a shared risk and record what they agree to explore.

Agreements it signs

  • Cell charter (required). The mission, scope, host, roles, governance model and how the cell closes.
  • Membership agreement (required). What members commit to, how they join and leave, and how credit is recorded.
  • Intellectual property and open licence (required). Who owns the outputs and the open licence they are published under.
  • Code of conduct and safeguarding (required). How members treat each other, how concerns are raised, and who acts on them.

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