IJB Committee Year Plan 2012-13

2012 IJB Committee 2013 Year Plan

Welcome, It’s the moment you have all been waiting for! Today, we the IJB Committee are happy to share with you our work plan for the year leading to August 2013 and beyond.

This plan is designed to outline the priorities we want to work towards and achieve this year, and maps out what steps we are going to take to get there.

Why make a year plan?

A year plan outlines what the IJB Committee sees as the needs and priorities of JB around the world, and helps us focus our work towards them. Using the steps we outline, we can check that we are on target through the year, and more importantly, so can you! We hope that this year plan makes it easier for any JBer or CISVer to know what we are getting up to.

Although we focus on certain priorities, this doesn’t mean we won’t work on anything else, and we include other projects in our work.

IJB Committee Priorities 2012-2013 Communications

Quality Assurance

Improve our communication channels and ensure they are accessible to all JBers and used effectively.

Measuring and ensuring quality in JB activities and events at all levels, and in the way we work.

Organisation

Human Rights 2013

Organise the ideas, documents, and everything we do in Junior Branch, to make it understandable and useful.

Make the most of our educational content area of the year by encouraging JBs at all levels to work with it.

Other projects Working on other projects such as Peace Day and the Step-Up Curriculum, and ideas that are waiting to be born...

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Introducing...

Anjo will be leading IJB’s project working with Human Rights in 2013.

He is also keen to ensure quality content in training and in how we evaluate our content.

Anjo Educational C ontent

Audrey is one of the driving forces of the JB Pedia working group, as part of the overall communications priority. She is also working on the Step Up Curriculum.

Audrey General

Ramy just totally loves improving things.

That’s why he is working on research and evaluation projects to make sure we have the best way of improving our activities, events and JBs.

Ramy Research & Evaluation

Kristina has 3 main projects: 2 under the communications priority, which are looking after Monthly Digest and working on the new website, but also the Peace Day working group.

Kristina General

You say communications, we say Nour. As well as looking after IJB’s communications channels, she is working with Audrey on JB Pedia, as well as coordinating all communications projects.

Nour Communicatio ns

Our 3 regional teams all do a load of good work, but who helps them share good ideas, and also the work of the Committee? Thomas does, as well as looking after our lists of people.

JB Training? Ryan’s your man for everything from our trainings at RTFs, to neighbourhood workshops, to local training. Ryan is also keeping an eye on the JB Goals and CISV App projects.

Ryan Training

Thomas Regional Teams Liaison

Wait, but if the Committee are doing all the work, what are the IJRs doing? No, instead of sitting back and chilling, they are working to bring all the pieces of the puzzle together!

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James & Cande IJRs

To see a full list of projects, click here

Project

Communications

JB Pedia Bring it up to date, and promote use by all JBers - Nour & Audrey

CISV Website Write and improve JB’s content - Kristina

CISV App - Ryan

Monthly Digest

December

January

February

March

Finish ‘cleaning’.

Start Curiosities and front page

New promotion strategy to get people using it

Focus on getting JB Pedia used regionally, nationally and locally

Writing content for each JB page

Website Launch!

Start exploring ‘myCISV’ section for work

Progress to be reviewed, timescale set out Submissions collected by 25 of each month, released on 5 of following month

IJB’s newsletter - Kristina

Quality Assurance

Planning Templates Ensure consistency and quality in all activities and events - Anjo

JB Evaluation New evaluation tool to reach JB at all levels, and for the IJB Team Ramy

Training Curriculum Finish and implement in JB trainings - Ryan

JB CPR

Other Projects

Human Rights Organisation

A guide for new and struggling JBs - Thomas

JB Goals Working group to update the JB Goals - Ryan

Start working with Minicamp Guide WG

Review template possibilities

Use new JB Goals to start activity planning template

Finalise activity planning template

Survey team to establish evaluation criteria and best tool.

Survey JBs to find out needs for evaluation form

Develop initial skeleton of new tool and get feedback.

Compare equalizer and new tool, get feedback from JBs

Finish curriculum and establish training needs

Outline events to trial the new curriculum

Trial curriculum in neighbourhood workshops

Encourage some use at regional meetings

Start working with WG

Prepare initial plan to get feedback at RMs

31. Draft Goals prepared and sent to IJRs

Organising everything into a new O-15 - IJRs

Work with IO to understand what we need

Work on JB Goals, and use as start for O-15

Right On!

10. Project ready for facebook launch

Provide first activities, and provide training

JB’s project to work with Human Rights in CISV - Anjo

Peace Day 2013 Working group for Peace Day 2013 - Kristina

Step Up Curriculum Work with ISU on youth curriculum - Audrey

Work with transition team on other motions

Skype, find out about Global Truce 2013 Establish and skype with Working Group

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Present draft at Regional Meetings Provide resources and material for regional meetings Infopack ready, present at EJBM & JASPARC

Finish 1st draft

Feedback from ISU, and work on 2nd draft.

April

May

June

July

August

2013+

Get feedback for how we are using it, to improve IJBC. Try creating an IJBC app for info and schedule.

Submissions collected by 25 of each month, released on 5 of following month

Ensure people use planning template.

Improve tool based on feedback, create ‘how to use’ guide and send out

Collect data and analyse it (together with IJR Candidates)

Use data to create report and recommendations

IJBC. Present results.

Keep using the new evaluation tools!

Chapter Development at RTF Estonia

Deliver JB Training at the RTF in Slovenia

IJBC. Present brand new goals.

Submit motion to update O-15 and at RTFs.

Run activities at CISV camps and collect documented activities and experiences.

Support leaders and JBs at camps.

Continue running activities in local JBs and documenting outcomes until the end of the year.

Global Truce Campaign Ready

Communicate with JBs to build ideas and projects.

Promote at IJBC, get commitments for Global Truce

21 September Peace Day 2013!

Finalise curriculum

Work on promotion strategy

Present curriculum and promote working group

New working group revises curriculum.

Decide promotion strategy at IJBC

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But what does this look like?

In 2013...

The new website will have all our information in one place, but everyone can contribute through JB

pedia.

JBers at all levels will receive the right news and

updates.

The equalizer will evolve into a new evaluation tool that will show us exactly what our JBs are like, and how to improve. The training

curriculum and

planning templates will help us ensure consistency and quality in our events, activities and training.

A revised O-15 will bring together our revised JB Goals, description of our events, IJB Team and so on into one

clear, understandable governing document.

Many JBers will get involved in our Human

Rights

Project and Peace Day 2013.

So, it’s time to

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get busy...