HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING-BASED APPROACH (2)
Policy makers may not be able to factor all concerns identified by individuals and groups into their plans. There may be scores of issues on the agenda as more nd more specialised groups present their demands. Thus, policy-makers may be harassed. They become overloaded and seem to go beyond what political scientists refer to as "their load-bearing capacity". This results into yet another serious bottleneck in the decision-making process. When the public programmes become unbearable for policy-makers and frustration takes the better part of citizens, it is the most intelligent and crafty ones who manage to manipulate the system to achieve their own ends. The public authorities are incapable of solving every problem deemed important by a section of the society.
Nevertheless, the public programme is the area where policy-makers see the signals to act and target their priorities. The media channels and the citizens are the main builders of the public programme.
Develop skills likely to motivate the citizens to claim their rights and exercise their duties as far as public programmes are concerned.
It is therefore important to put the trainees into appropriate learning situations to motivate them to act directly on public policy issues which touch on their daily lives including those affecting their community, look for solutions and directly defend the inclusion of such solutions by the public authorities responsible for addressing those concerns.
Source: Project Citizen, An Introduction. Margaret S. Branson. [Online]. Page accessed on 15/06/2012.