Re: Politcal Parties and their Manifesto's
ehsan bhai
manifestos are a good start, and surely everything that every party has listed resonates a chord with some people, some may like one thing more than another or focus, but really speaking as a whole the mainfestos read okay.
I am very interested in seeing plans. I mean the manifesto is a promise or a wish list. How exactly are they going to make it happen.
let me start with an example.
if someone says we will increase level of literacy and do this by opening new schools.
questions that are in my mind are, goals, targets, strategies and measures.
how much will the literacy rate be increased, what is the schedule.
how will it be increased i.e. new schools, expand current schools, grow madrassas curriculum?
where will the new schools be built, why in those locales? how will we pay for it?
where will the new teachers come from, do we ave people available? how will we keep the funnel of educators filled so its not too many and not too few?
where will they be educated, and credentialed?
what is broken in our schools now in terms of teacher training, skills, and how will we correct it, what will the program of correction look like, who will implement it, how will it be staffed.
so aside from a viewpoint on what in general needs to be done, specifics,
what will we do,
when will we do it,
how will we do it,
who will do it,
what do we need to be able to do it
how will we prepare ourselves to do it
how will we pay for it
what are our targets
how will we measure our performance on an ongoing basis
I have never seen this info.
I mean look at presidential debates in US, or even congressional elections and people have facts figures, numbers, plans..
we seem to just go for promises, and manifestos. manifestos are a good start, but is that it?
an often ocverused statement in my field of work is that failing to plan is planning to fail.
thats what it looks like to me.