Fellowship Programme for Tribal Community Leaders

Summary

The fellowship supports tribal community leaders to act as catalysts of change in their communities through financial support, networking and learning workshops for them. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Although rural communities face many hardships, very few are prepared to take action to address them since poverty, insecurity and the difficulty involved in doing so hold them back. This fellowship supports tribal women and men, typically from poor households, who have already shown potential but need help to mobilize their community.

Activities

The selected Fellows are supported for a period of two years for which they are provided with a Fellowship amount of Rs.25,000. They are also given targeted support in the form of learning workshops and guidance from experienced field workers.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £557
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £24,896
Total Funding Goal: £25,453

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

A variety of community-specific issues will be addressed and the capacity of the community to address other issues in the future will be enhanced. Communities will feel more encouraged to take responsibility for bringing about social change.

Project Message

The role of community leaders is extremely important as otherwise the poor often just remain mere spectators of processes affecting their lives and expect that the State will solve their problems.
- Mohd. Yaqub Khan, Incharge-GVK (Village Development Fund Programme)

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Neelima Khetan,
Chief Executive
Mohan Sinha Marg
Old, Fatehpura
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91 294 2450960
Email:

Project Sponsor

Manish Bapna

Organisation

Seva Mandir
Seva Mandir Marg Old Fatehpura
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91-294-2450960
http://www.sevamandir.org

Learn more about Seva Mandir and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Democracy and Governance.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 04, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 24, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Progress Report and Wishing You Happy New Year

By Ms. Deepti Ameta - In Charge Reporting and Communications, January 04, 2010 02:11 PM

January 1, 2010

Dear friends,

New Year Greetings from Seva Mandir!

We hope this year brings you all the happiness, peace and prosperity to you. We also hope that we together help reduce the sufferings of our planet this year.

We would like to thank you for all your support that you extended at various points of time to each of our programs. The progress we have been able to make would have not been possible without your support.

A quick update about our fellowship program –

There were 19 fellows selected but 2 of them withdrew from the program because of personal reasons. Now we have about 17 fellows. In May this year a group of 6 students from Nourish International, USA made a documentary on ‘Jati Panchayat’ (caste council) issues in Badgaon Block, which is one of the themes a couple of fellows are working on. A review meeting was held in October along with regular monthly meetings where fellows share their work with mentors and other staff members.

In November on 26th and 27th a two day training on ‘Report and Case Study Writing’ for the fellows was organized. A total of 15 fellows and 8 mentors attended the same.

Since the fellows lack good writing skills; this training was very useful for them. The sessions focused on best practices of report and case study writing. The session was followed by a group exercise. The fellows also received instructions for punctuations, forming new sentences, paragraphs etc. The trainers explained to the fellows to keep a record of their work on a regular basis so as their report and stories cover the significant points of the work done. All the participants enjoyed participating in the training and found it very useful.

We will keep you updated about the progress of this program as often as we can. Do let us know if you any feedback to share on this update. Thank you once again for supporting us.

With warm regards,

Deepti
deepti@sevamandir.org

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