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DAY.3.SESSION – VI: (i) 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm (ii) 4.00 pm to 5.30 pmPresentation of Case Stories Techniques of Case Study Writing Publishing of Case Story DAY.4.SESSION – VII: (i) 9.30 am to 11.00 am (ii) 11.30 am to 3.00 pmTechniques of Dissemination of Documented Information & Outreach Tools Overall Reflections & Closing BRIEF PROFILE OF THE FACILITATORS Mr. H. Arjjumend attained MSc from G. B. Pant University of Agri. & Tech. in Environmental Science, MRM from Indian Institute of Forest Management (Govt. of India) and few certificate courses from World Bank Institute, Human Rights Education Associates (USA), Green Net (Thailand), Mahidol University (Bangkok), Grolink (Sweden), World Bank Institute (USA) and Transcend University (Austria). He was Commonwealth Professional Fellow 2007 in Wolverhampton/London. Currently he is Social-Impact Fellow 2008-10. He has over 18 years experience of development action, research, documentation, training and advocacy. Previously he was Biologist at Wildlife Institute of India (Govt. of India), Research Officer at NCHSE, CCV Fellow of WWF-India, and Sr. Program Officer at PRIA. He taught at Masters level for about 3 years in MC National University of Journalism, Bhopal. He founded People’s Resource Centre, a consultancy and publication group, in 1999, and served as Consultant to large number of NGOs, support agencies and donors. He is principal co-founder of Grassroots India Trust. He has supervised about 25 study projects and produced over 30 research/discussion papers and technical reports. He is engaged in several social enterprises. He is Managing Trustee and Executive Director of Grassroots India Trust, and leading all other institutions of Grassroots Group including Grassroots Institute. He has conducted/supervised over 28 studies and has got over 35 publications of varied types in his credit.
Ms. Pallavi Upadhyaya has a Masters degree in Public Policy from ICFAI Hyderabad and has done B.Com (Hons) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. She brings with her project management experience in the NGO sector and the ability to successfully work at the grassroots as well as ensure smooth functioning of projects by working closely with key stakeholders. She has worked on programs for girls’ education and also has experience of working in an international setting during her tenure as a supervisor for an International Youth Exchange program. During her various assignments, she has extensively worked on training, documentation as well as monitoring and evaluation of development projects. She has documented annual reports, training modules and survey reports. Her paper on Gender Budgeting was selected for presentation at an international women’s conference, “Women’s World 2008-09” in Madrid, Spain. She is a Guest Faculty to conduct training at Grassroots Institute.
The training was coordinated by young old man, Mr. Chuni Lal, who graduated from H. P. University. After serving in army for 22 years, he established models of sustainable agriculture on his lands. Being a progressive and technologically-appropriate farmer, he received a number of prizes from HP Agriculture University and Department of Agriculture. He co-founded Institute of Resource & Environmental Management (IREM). He attained large number of trainings from Indian Institute of Forest Management, H.P. Agriculture University, Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, H.P. Department of Agriculture, Navdanya, Nirantar, Grassroots Institute, HPMC, H.P. Health Department, and so on. He is presently leading a grassroots movement of conserving the agro-biodiversity in situ and popularizing the organic farming practices among the peasants of Western Himalayas. Apart from a leader of garlic cooperatives in Seraj Valley, he is known social worker in Kullu district. He is currently the Head of Regional Operations of Grassroots India Trust. He is also one of the Trustees of Grassroots India Trust.
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Resource persons were: Mr. Hasrat Arjjumend and Dr. S. S. Samant, Scientist-in-Charge, G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development, Kullu. The venue of the training was famous community education center of Great Himalayan National Park. On 4th day, the participants went on excursion into beautiful jungles of Great Himalayan National Park. There was additional excursion to Manali organized on 30 May 2007. Society for Human Awareness & Rural Action (SHARA), Banjar did all logistic and guiding arrangements during the training
Participants of the training came from different countries of South Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India. Indian states that represented were Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. One representative of Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) also participated, apart from a batch of participants sponsored by Water Aid India. In total, 20 people attended the training.
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Residential Trainings on PROCESS DOCUMENTATION & COMMUNICATION
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Report of
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VIth Residential Training on PROCESS DOCUMENTATION & COMMUNICATION 26-30 June 2008 || Shimla
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VIth
batch of the training received overwhelming response from all
over India and Nepal. We had 25 seats when we announced the training.
But seeing the pressure of applications and insistence of some
of them we had to increase the seats to 32. But at the last moment
we were forced by one additional candidate to make the figure
33. A sizeable number of applications were declined due to over-packing
of the available places. It also created problems in terms of
available vacancies in the Parimahal campus of Shimla where the
accommodation arrangements were already tight.
Summer always remains a peak season in Shimla. This puts further pressure on available venues of Shimla. The booking in Parimahal was cancelled thrice as a result of mounted pressure from political lobbies who sought the booking on same dates. The warden of Parimahal campus somehow managed the accommodation for the trainees amid tremendous political pressure. Ultimately, the training could be organized at the same venue. All
33 participants joined the training who came from DFID-supported
Community Support Program (Nepal), CARE India (CG), Sakthi-Vidiyal
(Madurai), Aagaz Foundation (New Delhi), Navajeevan Bala Bhavan
(Vijaywada), Forum for Child Rights (Vijaywada), PRAYASAM (Kolkata),
United Mission to Nepal (Kathmandu), Upward Bound Program (Patna),
M. V. Foundation (Secunderabad), Action India (New Delhi), White
Lotus Trust (New Delhi), Abhivyakti Media for Development (Nashik)
and couple of other organizations. 17 participants joined Brief
profile of the facilitators is mentioned as under: Dr.
M. Aslam Ansari holds Post-Doctorate in Mass Communication
from Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester,
England; Doctorate in Extension Education from IVRI, Izatnagar,
and Post
graduation in Agriculture Communication & Extension from G.B.
Pant University of Agri. & Tech. Pantnagar (UK). He has about
20 years experience of working in Corporate sector (Mudra Communications,
Bangalore/ MICA), Government sector (U.P. Academy of Administration,
Nainital), NGO sector (Prerana Population Resource Centre, Lucknow)
and Academic sector (Lucknow University; Allahabad Agriculture Institute
Deemed University, Allahabad; and G. B. Pant University, Pantnagar).
He has about 50 publications in national and international journals
of repute. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Agriculture Communication
at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. He has
delievered large number of trainings to government officers including
IAS, IPS and PCS cadres, to managers of development agencies and
NGOs, and field workers of health projects. He was core resource
person for SIPFSA/ USAID. He is also the Trustee of Grassroots India
Trust.Mr.
H. Arjjumend attained MSc from G. B. Pant University of
Agri. & Tech. in Environmental Science, MRM from Indian Institute
of Forest Management (Govt. of India) and few certificate courses
from World Bank Institute, 
Human Rights Education Associates (USA), Green Net (Thailand), Grolink
(Sweden) and Transcend University (Belgium). He was Commonwealth
Professional Fellow 2007 in Wolverhampton/ London. Currently he
is Social-Impact Fellow. He has over 16 years experience
of development action, research, documentation and media writing.
Previously he was Biologist at Wildlife Institute of India (Govt.
of India), Research Officer at NCHSE, CCV Fellow of WWF-India, and
Sr. Program Officer at PRIA. He taught at Masters level for about
3 years in MC National University of Journalism, Bhopal. He founded
People’s Resource Centre, a consultancy and publication group,
in 1999, and served as Consultant to large number of NGOs, support
agencies and donors. He is principal co-founder of Grassroots India
Trust. He has supervised about 25 study projects and produced over
30 research/discussion papers and technical reports. He is engaged
in several social enterprises. He is Managing Trustee and Executive
Director of Grassroots India Trust, and leading the establishment
process of all other institutions of Grassroots Group including
Grassroots Institute.Dr.
Amrit Varsha Gandhi is Senior Lecturer in the Department
of History at Post Graduate Centre, Himacha
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Pradesh University, Shimla. Prior to the teaching assignments she
worked as Research Officer in Research & Publications Division
at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti House (New Delhi)
for about 15 years. She was associated with the editing and publication
of historical documents so as to reach wide range of scholars interested
mainly on the period of Indian National movement. Some of the works
she was associated with include: Selected Works of Motilal Nehru
(7 volumes); Selected Works of Acharya Narendra Deva, (4 volumes
in English & 2 volumes in Hindi); Selected Works of Jaya Prakash
Narayan (3 volumes). Since then is engaged in research on modern
period of Indian History and contemporary issues. She has contributed
articles in Historical journals and presented papers at seminars/
workshops. Besides, her interest in women issues is kept alive by
engaging in research and awareness programmes organized by UGC and
various organizations. She is the executive member of the Centre
for Women’s Studies, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.Mr.
Firoz Ahmad Firoz is interested in the everyday lives of
ordinary people and is active as social activist and
documentary photographer since 1986. He has worked for various organizations
such as UNESCO, UNICEF, VVGNLI, MoHRD, Lok Jumbish, NYKs, National
Social Watch Coalition, GCAP, UNMDG, ILO, and many more. He spent
5 years in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where his
life transformed to be a photographer. JNU actually influenced him
greatly as an individual. He believes that there is always a typical
world in every picture, and the camera is a medium that teaches
him how to see the typical world. He is living in Delhi and founded
an NGO called “Social Geographic”. It’s focus
is on campaigning on social issues like female foeticide, gender
violence, poverty, child labour, dalits repression, etc. His some
pieces of work may be seen at: www.flickr.com/photos/social_geographic/
The
training was coordinated by young old man, Mr. Chuni Lal,
who graduated from H. P. University. After 
serving in army for 22 years, he established models of sustainable
agriculture on his lands. Being a progressive and technologically-appropriate
farmer, he received a number of prizes from HP Agriculture University
and Department of Agriculture. He co-founded Institute of Resource
& Environmental Management (IREM). He attained large number
of trainings from Indian Institute of Forest Management, H.P. Agriculture
University, Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry,
H.P. Department of Agriculture, Navdanya, Nirantar, Grassroots Institute,
HPMC, H.P. Health Department, and so on. He is presently leading
a grassroots movement of conserving the agro-biodiversity in situ
and popularizing the organic farming practices among the peasants
of Western Himalayas. Apart from a leader of garlic cooperatives
in Seraj Valley, he is known social worker in Kullu district. He
is currently the Head of Regional Operations of Grassroots India
Trust. He is also one of the Trustees of Grassroots India Trust.
LIST
OF PARTICIPANTS |
Ms.
Indira Pancholi, MPhil :: 23 years experience Ms.
Anusha Bharadwaj, B Tech, MBA :: 3 years experience Mr.
Amlan Ganguly, BA, LLB :: 10 years experience Mr.
Anand, MSW :: 7 years experience Ms.
Virangana Rani Mr.
Md. Talha, MA Mr.
Keshav Duwadi, BL :: 8 years experience Mr.
Ganesh Mandekar, MSW :: 12 years experience Mr.
Suraj Kumar, BA, MCA :: 7 years experience Ms.
Priyanka Singh, BA, PGDHR :: 4 years experience Mr.
Bam Bahadur Khadka, BA :: 17 years experience Mr.
Raju Ram Tirwa, MA Mr.
Padam Bahadur Bishwakarma, MA :: 9 years experience Ms.
Shubha Devi B. K, ISc :: 15 years experience Mr.
Kamal Kumar Darlami Magar, Dip. CE :: 5 years experience Mr.
Rohit Kumar Odari, MSc :: 16 years experience Mr.
Bhuwan Singh Sejuwal, MA :: 14 years experience Mr.
Youb Raj Basnet, Graduate :: 13 years experience Mr.
Keshav Prasad Shrestha, MBA, BL :: 20 years experience Mr.
Mahesh Kumar Shahi, MA :: 5 years experience Mr.
Anurag K Srivastava, MA, PGDip :: 8 years experience Mr.
Deepak S. Hate, BSc :: 25 years experience Mr.
Naresh Ramnani, MA, MPhil, DPharma Mr.
Raj Kumar Rai, BA, LLB, MSW :: 18 years experience Mr.
Dilip A Kawade, MSW :: 21 years experience Ms.
Harshita Pandey, MA, MSW :: 9 years experience Mr.
Reji S Kuruvilla, BSc, MSW :: 13 years experience Mrs.
Nazma Sultana, MCom :: 20 years experience Mrs.
Suchitra Pradhan, MA :: 15 years experience
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held at Bajaura,
Kullu (HP) on 22-26 April 2008
1. Mr. O. P.
Mishra, Agriculture Finance Corporation Ltd., New Delhi
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5-day training, organized jointly Grassroots Institute and Grassroots
India Trust, was held at Parshawnath
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from first two organizations. Majority of the participants took
active part in the training and hence learnt adequately from different
sessions. Several participants, however, were found negative due
to their pre-determined mind of touring Shimla and surroundings.
Vidyapeeth (an affiliated research centre of Banaras Hindu University).
In the training important topics taught were: Process Documentation:
Theory & Practice; What should be documented and why; Types
of Documents and Reports of NGOs/Development Projects; General Techniques
of Documentation and Communication; Techniques of Writing Quarterly/
Annual Progress Report of a Project/ Organization; Techniques of
Writing Annual Report of Organization; Techniques of Writing Study
Reports; Techniques of Preparation of Leaflet/ Folder of Organization;
Techniques of Good Presentation of Documents/ Reports; Demonstration
of Making Good Documents on Computer; Power Point Presentations;
Photography and Photo Documentation; Video Documentation: Steps
of Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production Phases; Importance
of Case Story in Process Documentation; Difference between Case
Story and Case Study; Techniques of Case Story Writing; Photo Presentation
with Case Story; Outreach Tools;
Techniques of Dissemination of Documented Information; and 20 Ways
of Communicating the Results/ Organization.