Work with your team, community, or network to utilise Decoding Injustice. This research approach reveals how the design of our economies harms people’s rights by organizing methods for collecting, analyzing, and presenting data around three steps: Interrogate, Illuminate, and Inspire.
We call this a ‘playbook‘ as it supports teams and groups working together and learning from each other. It will support social learning rather than individual learning. This playbook is based on the curriculum of the CESR Decoding Injustice Learning Lab Cohort and allows you to replicate it within your context.
The playbook and the methodology it covers will benefit your team, organisation, community group, network or coalition, if you:
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Are fighting for human rights, economic, social, or environmental justice;
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Working with or within a community facing discrimination, including women, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ groups, or with other intersecting identities that lead to economic marginalization;
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collect data or information, conduct research, or build evidence through other ways about injustices facing your community to support advocacy, campaigning, or organizing;
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have questions about how economic policies affect life in your community;
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are excited to explore new approaches and learning that you could incorporate into your work.
We hope that this playbook will help your group strengthen their abilities to:
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Organize methods for collecting, analyzing, and presenting data (e.g. from official sources, community scorecards, budget analysis) in a creative new way by applying the Decoding Injustice approach in their work
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Think more critically about the strategic questions to consider in conducting “evidence-based” advocacy (e.g. how to identify the power structures that uphold the status quo, and how to decide on the right level of technical detail to include).
You can use the exercises and content in sequence OR on their own, depending on your groups needs and contexts.