Fellowship Programme for Tribal Community Leaders

Summary

The fellowship supports tribal community leaders to act as catalysts of change in their communities through financial support, networking and learning workshops for them. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Although rural communities face many hardships, very few are prepared to take action to address them since poverty, insecurity and the difficulty involved in doing so hold them back. This fellowship supports tribal women and men, typically from poor households, who have already shown potential but need help to mobilize their community.

Activities

The selected Fellows are supported for a period of two years for which they are provided with a Fellowship amount of Rs.25,000. They are also given targeted support in the form of learning workshops and guidance from experienced field workers.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $510
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $49,490
Total Funding Goal: $50,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

A variety of community-specific issues will be addressed and the capacity of the community to address other issues in the future will be enhanced. Communities will feel more encouraged to take responsibility for bringing about social change.

Project Message

The role of community leaders is extremely important as otherwise the poor often just remain mere spectators of processes affecting their lives and expect that the State will solve their problems.
- Mohd. Yaqub Khan, Incharge-GVK (Village Development Fund Programme)

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Neelima Khetan,
Chief Executive
Mohan Sinha Marg
Old, Fatehpura
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91 294 2450960
Email:

Project Sponsor

Manish Bapna

Organization

Seva Mandir
Seva Mandir Marg
Old Fatehpura
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91-294-2450960
http://www.sevamandir.org

Learn more about Seva Mandir and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Democracy and Governance.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 05, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 24, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Upcoming workshop

By Dr. Sunita Kumari - In Charge People's Management School, September 05, 2008 04:06 PM

Dear Friend,

Greetings from Seva Mandir, India!

We are grateful to all our donors for keeping their faith in our work and for standing by us.

I am going to give you a brief account of the progress we have made in Fellowship Program and would request all of you to please share your thoughts and comments on our feedback as well as the program.

In the last two we have completed the process of selecting the Fellows. A total of 17 Fellows have been selected so far. This was done by a selection committee that held several rounds of meetings and interviews before selecting the Fellows.

The selected Fellows would be working on various issues of social-change in their respective regions that are related to the social, political and environmental concerns and are affecting their communities considerably. The issues chosen by these Fellows include witch-hunting, desertion of women tracking, the performance of Government Schemes, forest rights issues etc.

We will be organizing an orientation workshop for these fellows very soon. Our next step is to identify mentors for these Fellows who will provide constant hand holding and advise.

The enthusiasm expressed by these Fellows for the programs is very encouraging. We would like to communicate our deep thanks to all our supporters, friends and well wishers for supporting our Fellowship Program. We hope to receive very encouraging results from this program. Please do write to me at sunita@sevamandir.org for any information or doubts.

With warm regards,

Sincerely,

Dr. Sunita Kumari
In Charge People’s Management Program

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