Past, Present and Future of Development Sector and the Challenges of Leadership Transition
Session with Ashok Kumar Sircar and Manikandan V, moderated by Puja Guha
The development sector in the recent years has seen many significant changes in the regulatory framework, owing to which the organisations working in the sector are witnessing a transformation in their external as well internal environment of working.
While on one hand they are dealing with the changes in the donor-recipient relationship and adapting to new legal compliances; internally they are grappling with the enormous challenge of leadership transition and succession planning.
This webinar discusses some of these real challenges that the sector has been experiencing in recent years and also highlights a few newer developments in the sector.
The webinar will be relevant for all working in the development sector, particularly those working in leadership roles in social sector organisations.
About the speakers
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Ashok Kumar Sircar
Ashok Sircar has worked for 31 years spanning the corporate sector, development sector, and teaching/training. He has been extensively involved in development action and studies in India in the domains of programme design, planning and execution, monitoring-evaluation, research and policy advocacy on issues of local governance, land rights and livelihoods.
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Manikandan V
Manikandan is a development practitioner with more than 16 years of experience in the areas of action research, NGO governance, grant management, fundraising, planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME), and operations including finance and human resource management.
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Puja Guha
Puja is an MA in Development faculty member at Azim Premji University. Her post-doctoral work on Provincial Globalisation was a collaborative programme between the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru and the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR), Netherlands. She worked as a faculty member at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, where she taught Advanced Econometrics to Postgraduate and PhD students before her role at the University.
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