OUR UNCONVENTIONAL ORGANISATION
- thoughts from the Library I first heard about the Centre for Policy Alternatives in 1999 through a friend of mine from accountancy class. She said CPA monitored elections and was a kind of research organisation that kept an eye on policy formulation. I was intrigued by the name:Policy Alternatives..? Suited me because I don't believe in the mainstream. I wanted to find out who they were and what they were about. I began work in Admin, and then overheard these other fascinating words - Democracy, governance, human rights, pluralism. What do those words mean? Why was CPA called a “watchdog”? I told Dr Sara that I would like to shift from Accounts to the Library/Documentation, hoping I would have more time to read about what we do! CPA is unique . Here, we challenge conventional ideas, we think out of the box, we ask why, and why not. We don’t accept the status quo merely because it is widely accepted or always happened to be like that, we ask for reason and for justi...