National Training Workshop

July 28-30

Uttandi, Chennai

Participants

EXNORA, Chennai — T.K. Ramkumar, Sangeetha, A. Srinivasan, C. Srinivasan, Vijay Anand, Suresh Bhandari, A. Sathyamurthy, Elangovan
EXNORA, Pune - Sri. Rajaram Iyer
Seva Mandir, Rajasthan - Neelima Khetan, Poonam Abbi
AVARD, Delhi - Ajay Mehta
Vivekananda Gramodyog Kalyan Kendra, Karnataka - Dr. Sudarshan
ASTRA, Karnataka - R. Sastry
India Literacy Project, Karnataka - Sindhu Naik, Ravi M.
Chitrakoot University, Madhya Pradesh - Prof. Karunakaran, Dr. Sanjay
Bhagavatula Charitable Trust, Andhra Pradesh - Dr. Satyamurthy
Indian Institute of Youth Welfare, Maharashtra - Mr. Manohar Golpalwar, Sri. Devidas Ghodeswar, Ms. Vijaya Shah
Jaishankar Memorial Centre (JMC), New Delhi - Ms. Deepa Ranganathan
All India Women’s Conference, New Delhi - Ms. Lalitha Balakrishnan
Safai Vidyalaya, Gujarat - Sri. Ishwarbhai Patel, Sri. Jayesh Patel
Vyakti Vikas Kendra, Gujarat - Col. Yashwant Joshi
Indian Institute of Motivating Self Employment, West Bengal - Sri. Rahul Dasgupta
Centre for Youth and Social Development, Orissa - Sri. Jagadannada
Makkal Sakti Eiyakkam, Tamil Nadu - A.T. Rangamani, Sri M.S. Udayamurthy

Core group members who could not attend because of other commitments:
Sri. Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Uttar Pradesh
Sri. Biplab Halim (IMSE), West Bangal
Dr. Ravi Chopra, Dehradun
Dr. Parameswara Rao, BCT, Andhra Pradesh
 

Summary

A total of 10 State level NGOs and 2 all India Institutions will take the nodal responsibility for the SV programs. The representatives are as follows:
 

	State	NGO	Representative
1	Karnataka	VGKK & Karuna Trust	Dr. Sudarshan
2	Andhra Pradesh	Bhagvatula Charitable Trust	Dr. Parameswar Rao
3	Tamil Nadu	Makkal Shakti	Dr. Udaimurthy
4	Maharashtra	IIYW	Dr. Golpelwar
5	Gujarat	Safai Vidyalaya	Sri. Iswarbhai Patel
6	Madhya Pradesh	Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya	Dr. Karunakaran
7	Rajasthan	Sevamandir	Ms. Nilima Khetan
8	Uttar Pradesh	PSI & Dasholi Gram Swaraj	Dr. Chopra & Sri. Chandi Prasad Bhat
9	Orissa	CYSD	Sri. Jagadananda
10	West Bengal	IMSE	Sri. Biplab Halim
11	All India	AVARD	Sri. Ajay Mehta
12	All India	AIWC	Ms.Lalitha Balakrishnan

• 72 volunteers will work with these nodal NGO and their partners during the first year.
• A RIM volunteer will be referred to as a Samaj Shilpi.
• The RIM SV program will be launched on Oct 2^nd.
• Training guidelines for each region and a general guiding framework were discussed. Each NGO/state will design and implement a training program best suited for their regions within the guiding principles.
• Six cities will participate in the CC program: Chennai, Coimbatore, Cochin, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore. EXNORA will help the state representatives/NGOs design an appropriate strategy. Nagpur, Bhopal and Bhubaneshwar would also like to start a CC program in their cities
• A training module will be designed for the CC program on the same lines as the SV program.
• All plans and budgets will be sent to the National Coordinator for review and request for funding.
• Reporting and monitoring of the SV will be done by the State Coordinator of the state. All reports will be sent to the RIM National Coordinator. Progress reports and plans for CC programs will also be sent to the National Coordinator.
• All RIM partners came forward to provide other forms of support/resources to the SV and CC programs.
• RIM (India) should seriously try to explore other sources of funding (besides RIM-USA).

1. Communicate Action Points and Summary of Decisions to Dr. Chopra, Dr. Rao and Sri. Chandi Prasad Bhatt & RIM-USA
Responsibility: Sindhu
Expected Completion Date: August 2nd

2. Proceedings to all Participants
Responsibility: Sindhu
Expected Completion Date: August 2nd

3. Follow up with RIM-USA for fellowships, approval for training budgets and honorarium for SVs
Responsibility: Sindhu
Expected Completion Date: August 20th

4. Selection of State Coordinator
Responsibility: Sri. Jagadananada (Orissa), Ajay Mehta (AVARD), Ms. Balakrishnan (AIWC), Dr. Udaimurthy (Tamil Nadu), Dr, Satyamurthy (Andhra Pradesh), Dr. Karunakaran (Madhya Pradesh) (Others have already identified their State Coordinators)
Expected Completion Date: August 15^th

5. All NGOs in the Stimulated Volunteerism program to submit the following by e-mail or postal mail to Sindhu:

• Profile/Short Write-up on the NGO
• Short bio on the NGO-RIM representative
• Resume of the State Coordinator

Responsibility: All NGOs
Expected Completion Date: August 15^th

6. Proposals with Training Plan and Budgets

8. Training Module with Content, Resources & Timetable for Southern Region (TN, AP, Karnataka) SVs
        Responsibility: Ravi M.
        Expected Completion Date: August 15^th

9. Selection of SVs for Southern Region (TN,AP, Karnataka)
        Responsibility: Dr.Satyamurthy, Dr. Udaimurthy, Dr. Sudarshan
        Expected Completion Date: August 15^th

10. Monitoring & Evaluation with Reporting Formats for the Southern Region
        Responsibility: Dr. Udaimurthy
        Expected Completion Date: August 15^th

11. Details of Resources that can be provided for the SV and CC program
        Responsibility: All NGOs
        Expected Completion Date: August 30^th

12. All 72 SVs in place (6 by each Nodal-NGO)
        Responsibility: All NGOs
        Expected Completion Date: Oct 2^nd

LAUNCH OF THE SV PROGRAM IN ALL STATES: Oct 2^nd,2000

13. Preparation of Training Module for CC program
        Responsibility: T.K. Ramkumar with help from Dr. Karunakaran
        Expected Completion Date: -

14. Work out city plans for the CC program

Responsibility : Mr. Iyer (Pune), Deepa (Delhi), Mr. Ramkumar (Coimbatore, Cochin), Sindhu,Ravi M & T.K.Ramkumar (Bangalore), T.K.Ramkumar & Vijaya Shah (Nagpur), T.K.Ramkumar & Jagadannanda (Bhubaneshwar)

16. Identify RIM Fellows as City Coordinators & request RIM- USA for fellowships

Suggested Training Module for CC presented at the conference. The guidelines will be developed further into a full-fledged module and training and action plan will be city specific.

For CC City Coordinators (RIM Fellows)

• Hands on training in EXNORA, Chennai
• 1 month duration
• Urban issues
• Communication skills
• Organising communities
• Setting up micro-enterprise
• Technology skills
• Interaction with govt
• Resource Mapping
• Need identification of the community
• Personality development
• Presentation skills
• Identifying community leaders
• Mentoring street beautifiers
• Self-evaluation and external evaluation of his work
• City coordination committees training
• Training of Street Beautifiers
• Training for mentors of street beautifiers

Training should be city specific — Need to train people and set up a process where NGOs can train their people in the cities. People want to take up activities like lobbying

All the NGOs have offered various resources to strengthen the SV & CC programs. The list below is not exhaustive and the NGOs are supposed to send all the details to the National Office.