Training of Trainers for Constitutional Values (CV) Fellowship Programme

This is a curated programme for partner organisations of the Foundation. This is in collaboration with the Philanthropy team of the Foundation. It is a 17-day long  programme (102hrs) distributed into 2 phases (9+8days). 

Why this course and who are the participants?

The Grants team at the Foundation supports organisations who are running a Constitutional Values Fellowship programme. The programme aims to build and strengthen a cadre of leaders in their communities across the country upholding and instilling constitutional values, focusing on values of fraternity, secularism, diversity, plurality and social justice. These fellows contribute to various social initiatives that address the here and now needs of communities, bring about material change in various aspects of citizen’s lives, and in the process to further these constitutional values.  The fellows, through their respective areas of work, connect with the community and engage through dialogue, workshops, cultural events, campaigns creating awareness on the Constitution and connecting it with the everyday life of the citizens. 

The fellowship programme supports individuals who have established, credible work and recognition within their respective communities, coming from different walks of life and backgrounds like community leaders, teachers, artists, lawyers, youth and so on. The programme aims at promoting a culture of sustained community engagement nurtured by constitutionally mandated strong value systems. 

The Grants team has currently about 35 fellowship partners with close to 2000 fellows across 15 states in the country.  Each organisation depending on the size houses 20 to 200 fellows. 

Two trainers from each of the organisations are trained as trainers who are well equipped to deliver these training to the fellows (in case of larger organisations more numbers from the same organisations). In addition, a few additional trainers will be selected who may or may not be from these partner organisations. 

Simple yet interesting pedagogical methods are used to teach the following to the participants:

  • The Constitution making process as an inclusive exercise
  • Constitutional values and fundamental rights
  • Constitution- Preamble to practice
  • The idea of democracy and why India chose to be a democracy
  • The idea of local governance and its relevance in India
  • The pre and post constitutional shifts in India
  • Discrimination
  • Social justice
  • Constitutional remedies and state policies for different issues of discrimination and injustice 
  • Community mapping
  • Community mobilisation/​ collectivisation techniques
  • Grassroots engagement skills 
  • Documentation
  • Culture and Constitution
  • Different tools and techniques for use in the field 
  • Dialogue as a tool for Constitution education in the community
  • Training methods and adult learning principle (for TOT)

After the course, the participants should be able to:

  •  Explain the Core values/​Principles of the Constitution and their applications in personal, professional and social context.
  • Demonstrate skills of facilitation of training sessions for constitutional values fellows, using diverse pedagogical approaches and tools such as case studies, debates, dialogue and games. 
  • Design sessions to enable fellows to identify practices, customs, institutions which adhere to constitutional values and those that violate constitutional values.