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Index literacy cohort

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

Joining
Vula
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

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  • Psychology and behavioural science
  • Sociology and demography

How it is run

Roles a cell of this type must fill before it is listed
RoleInto eyenzayoAt 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.
Safeguards
  • 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.
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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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