BUILT CAPACITIES OF 29 TRIBAL
YOUTHS FROM 6 STATES
JAIPUR, May 2017— The Rural Development sector
today faces complex challenges of growth, equity, climate change, and social
& economic security of the poor and vulnerable communities. This context
has impressed upon the RD programmes of government and non-government
organizations a growing need for intervention strategies that are reflective,
robustly designed, and implemented through an innovative and adaptive approach.
It is therefore clear that there is a
dire necessity to build capacities in the cadre of rural professionals. To
action on the requirement of rural professionals, IIHMR University Jaipur and
BRLF joined hands in November 2016 last year to build capacities of 30 students
from 6 states of Central Indian Tribal belt. 29 of these students successfully
completed their training of their Rural Livelihood Programme and were jointly conferred
with certificates by IIHMR University and Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation.
Dr. Vivek Bhandari, President,
IIHMR University Jaipur said, “It is clear that there is an urgent need to address this capacity building challenge
by preparing a cadre of rural professionals who are capable of engaging in the
rural development sector specially at the sub-district levels; be it through
NGOs, government institutions or as elected representatives of the PRIs and/or
cluster level federation leaders. To support this, IIHMR University and
Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) jointly announced the launch of the
first batch of the Certificate Programme in Rural Livelihoods in November 2016
last year. The programme aimed at combining appropriate knowledge and skill
components through a unique yet inclusive capacity building initiative. About
30 students were admitted to the certificate programme which included 8 from
Orissa, 8 from Rajasthan, 5 from Maharashtra, 4 from Madhya Pradesh, 1 from
Chhattisgarh and 4 from Jharkhand. “
Dr. SD Gupta, Chairperson, IIHMR
University said, “About
70-75% population till date lives in Rural area and out of the 133-crore
population over 17-18 crore people belong to the tribal belt. The Rural
Livelihood programme of BRLF with IIHMR University aimed at training candidates
to master the ability to empower oneself by self-teaching, training and
learning by doing. IIHMR University is India’s foremost university committed to
the health and well-being of people everywhere.
BRLF is an autonomous body set up by Ministry of Rural Development
Government of India with an objective to facilitate civil society action for transforming
lives and livelihoods in the central tribal adivasi belt in the country
initially. This Certificate Programme is
the first among many initiatives of the collaboration between IIHMR University
and the BRLF.”
Mr. Pramathesh Ambasta CEO Bharat
Rural Livelihood Foundation said, “The partnership of BRLF and IIHRM
University has greatly enhanced capacities of these candidates who will
ultimately bring in a paradigm shift in the rural development sector. Students of
this programme have been exposed to tremendous practical knowledge and have
received the best of theoretical knowledge. This exposure has proven
livelihoods interventions from some of the most challenging parts of India. Pedagogically,
the modules explored the embodiment of the concept of learning by doing. We
sincerely thank IIHMR University and 15 knowledge partners under the CB
initiative for making the certificate programme possible. We also intend to allow at least 5 students
from this programme to further pursue MBA Rural Management at the IIHMR
University Jaipur.”
One of the key mandates of BRLF’s
capacity building initiative was to create a pool of rural development
professionals for supporting various development interventions of Government,
CSOs and community at large. This initiative will be part of a series
of capacity building programmes under the BRLF Capacity Building
Initiative, designed and implemented as per the needs of target groups and of
different institutions currently working in the sector (Government and CSOs). As
we complete the first batch successfully, we intend to move on to the next
batch as the course has been a game changer in the rural livelihoods sector. The
design and delivery of the course has provided a unique opportunity to the
tribal youth to learn various livelihoods domains and address the issue of growing
shortage of trained human resources in the sector.
The programme was concluded by
Dr. Ajay Dandekar ( Professor Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi), “The certificate programme had
16 different learning modules in rural livelihoods domain. Participants
of the programme learnt these modules across 12 learning locations in 6 states
of Central Indian tribal belt. These rural professionals have potentially
engaged at block levels as drivers of positive change within Civil Society
Organizations and Government Institutions facilitating effective implementation
of social and economic security programmes/projects for tribal rural India.” He
further said, “One should not leave their land for one’s own social needs. Its
best we create them.”
The program’s most important
motive was to focus on the development of capacities of tribal youth from 6
states of the Central Indian Tribal belt. BRLF
and IIHMR University have brought together 15 leading organizations in the
rural livelihoods sector to facilitate a multi-centre, multi-topic
curriculum that cover different dimensions of rural livelihoods. For
the first batch, 30 candidates were selected from states of Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh. These candidates
belong to Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes/Notified Tribes, and
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups/communities from across BRLF mandated
geographies. The programme featured a rounded curriculum that explicitly
recognizes the value of people’s knowledge and is enabled with cutting edge
practice support tools.
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