Lessons From Practice
What is happening on the ground? Which organisations/individuals are working towards what ends? What have been their successes and challenges? A comprehensive insight from the practice of organisations is presented in this section. A collaboration between academics and practitioners has been most fruitful here as academics have ventured into the field and put into words their own lived experiences with those of the practitioners who have shared their efforts and learnings with complete trust in this collaboration.
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The Promise of Education in the Lives of Urban Adivasis: Lessons from Muskaan
By Ritika Gupta | Sept 26, 2019
Muskaan is an NGO working with vulnerable children and youth living in bastis in Bhopal on the issues of education, identity, violence, health and nutrition.
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Early Intervention Programme: Lessons from National Institute of Speech and Hearing
By Ankur Madan | July 2, 2019
According to the 2011 Census data, 7.01 percent of children in the age group of 0 – 6 years in India have a disability, inborn or acquired. In this regard, early identification and intervention services can play a crucial role in prevention as well as remediation of the developmental delays that occur in young children.
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Safeguarding Tribal Languages: Lessons from Bhasha’s Adivasi Academy
By Shipra Suneja, Ritika Gupta, Rema Devi | May 14, 2019
Many languages cease to exist globally every year. The language of the marginalised, particularly, stands the risk of extinction (Devy, 2010). Losing a language would also mean losing the arts, rituals, beliefs and lifestyles of the community and its people. This report is based on our short visit to the Adivasi Academy. The objective of the visit was to understand Bhasha’s educational programs for Adivasi children.
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A Two-Pronged Strategy Towards Empowering People with Disabilities: Lessons from Arushi, Bhopal
By Shefali Tripathi Mehta, Ankur Madan | Oct 24, 2019
The focus of Arushi’s work is towards Inclusion and their approach is two-prolonged. On the one hand, they empower people with disabilities (PWDs) and on the other, they sensitise people without disabilities about the needs, requirements and the capabilities of PWDs.
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दिव्यांगजनों के सशक्तिकरण की दिशा में एक द्विआयामी रणनीति : आरुषि से प्राप्त सबक
द्वारा: शेफ़ाली त्रिपाठी मेहता, अंकुर मदान | Feb 9, 2022
दिव्यांगता सम्बन्धी जागरूकता पर आरुषि द्वारा निर्मित लगभग 120 पोस्टर बांग्लादेश, श्रीलंका और पाकिस्तान के गैर‑सरकारी संगठनों सहित, सरकारी एजेंसियों और निजी संगठनों द्वारा इस्तेमाल किए जाते हैं, जो दिव्यांगता से सम्बन्धित मुद्दों के लिए समर्थन जुटाने और जागरूकता फैलाने के लिए इस्तेमाल में लाए जाते हैं। उर्दू, असमिया, गुरुमुखी, बंगाली और तेलुगु सहित कई भारतीय भाषाओं में अनुवादित पोस्टर देश भर में प्रदर्शित किए गए हैं।
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Ecological Assessment of a Biodiversity Park: Status and Future Challenges
The model of conservation of village commons shown by the Kunjer Gram Panchayat is easily replicable and could be applied across the state. It is recommended that regular training programmes be offered by the District Administration (Baran) where village officials from all districts in Rajasthan can be called to see the benefits associated with such conservation measures.
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Creating Leaders from Poor and Marginalised Social Groups: Grassroots Leadership Development Programme, CORO, Mumbai (Part 1)
Almost all these fellows came not only from poor families and marginalised groups but also from difficult and/or disabling circumstances. Most of them encountered different forms of discrimination. Girls and women have faced sexual harassment and violence in their social context. Social life was highly restricted for most of these women. The GLDP has enhanced their capabilities along multiple dimensions.
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Creating Leaders from Poor and Marginalised Social Groups: Grassroots Leadership Development Programme, CORO, Mumbai (Part 2)
Women need to understand the deep-rooted social ideas that make them dependent on their husbands. They need to be prepared by like everyone else and view education and employment as the main basis for their personal, financial and social security (and then see marriage as a possible relationship between two equal human beings)
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Online Teacher Professional Development: Learnings and Reflections for Classroom Engagement
The challenge of an online course lies in making it interactive and lively to sustain the interest and attention of the participants. The Tamil language teaching certificate course had six modules, each of two hours. In Puducherry, compared to English and Mathematics, there are very few in-service capacity development programmes conducted in Tamil teaching.
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Online Teacher Professional Development: Lessons from Puducherry
In a face-to-face session, the facilitator can always know the participants’ state of mind and can crack a joke or play a game to break the monotony and capture their attention. Also during a face-to-face interactions, power point presentations are only secondary; the facilitator is the primary point of interaction. In online sessions, PowerPoint presentations, play a central role in keeping the participants engaged as a facilitator cannot see the reaction of the participants and the participants cannot see the facilitator.
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Challenges in Scaling-up Actions of an NGO: Lessons from Kheti Virasat Mission
The organisation receives funding from individual donors from India and abroad (non-resident Indians). Though ‘giving’ for charity, altruistic or social purposes is catching up among Indians, this is not enough for an adequate amount of resources flowing towards social purposes. Though many middle-class Indians afford to provide some money towards this, they are yet to see the importance of doing so. There is a lot more money flowing towards religious purposes and festivals than for social purposes.
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Promoting Organic Farming: Lessons from Kheti Virasat Mission, Punjab
A number of non-governmental organizations promote the production and marketing of organic vegetables as an intervention to improve the health of the soil, the quality… -
Sustaining the momentum of a transformation: Lessons from CHIRAG
By V Santhakumar, Anant Gangola, Subrat Mishra | Sept 5, 2019
CHIRAG, in the Kumaon region, is an NGO working on a number of issues, including water, conservation, education, livelihoods, and empowerment of women.
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Management of Commons: Lessons from Foundation for Ecological Security
By V Santhakumar, Anant Gangola, Subrat Mishra | Aug 22, 2019
The primary focus of the Foundation for Ecological Security is the ecological restoration and conservation of land and water resources in the uplands and other eco-fragile degraded and marginalised zones of the country.
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Inclusion of People with Disabilities: Lessons from Association of People with Disability
By V Santhakumar, Ankur Madan, Subrat Mishra | Nov 6, 2018
The Association of People with Disability (APD) acknowledges that disability rehabilitation is not merely a medical or a health issue, but more a social, human rights and justice issue. People with Disabilities (PWDs) encounter multi-dimensional barriers, and hence, APD follows a ‘combination of social and human rights model of disability’. -
Altruistic Provision of Education & Healthcare: Lok Biradari Prakalp, Hemalkasa, Maharashtra
It is noted in India that ST families with a literate head of the household have a significantly lesser chance of being below the poverty line. Similarly, even a few years of school education may enhance the chances of getting rural non-farm employment which has notably a higher wage than agricultural work.
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Do Higher Levels of Education Make People Environment-Friendly?
In general, people are probably reluctant to adopt those eco-friendly behaviour that have a significant personal cost, even though they are aware of the importance of doing so. This is evident from the correlations seen in empirical studies between environmental attitude and low-cost pro-environmental behaviour (e.g. recycling).