SIRD, Orissa

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SIRD, Orissa Project Dakshyata
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Brief History

• 1964 - Established by Govt. of India for
  conducting training research in Tribal
  Community Development.
• 1967 - named as Tribal Orientation Study Centre
  (TOSC) under Govt. of Orissa.
• 1975 - renamed as State Training Institute of
  Community Dev. (STICD).
• 1984 - Presently known as State Institute for
  Rural Development (SIRD) acts as Nodal
  Institute of the State for all types of training
  programme related to PR RD.

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Mandate

• To build the Capacity of Rural Development
  functionaries including elected representatives
  at District, Block GP level through training,
  workshops and seminars
• To examine and analyze the programmes on RD PR
  through research, evaluation and documentation.

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Approach

• Decentralization of Training
• HRD of elected representatives and grassroot
  level officials
• Publication Documentation

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Activities

• Academically functionally, associated with
  NIRD, Hyderbad, Ministry of Rural Development,
  Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GOI, NIPCCD, New
  Delhi, Panchayati Raj Department, Govt. of
  Orissa.
• Headed by Addl. Secy., P R Deptt. as Director,
  SIRD with a team of 10 faculties.

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• In House Training programmes on Panchayati Raj,
  NREGA and other programmes on Poverty
  Alleviation Rural Development
• Off-campus Training Programmes at District HQs on
  NREGA, SGSY, Watershed Development, Panchayati
  Raj, Women Empowerment other areas.
• Facilitating Interactive Training Programmes
  through GRAMSAT on various issues relating to PR
  RD.
• Knowledge workers like Programme Officer and
  Computer Programmers, Accountants etc. of
  Panchayati Raj Department are trained on
  PRIASOFT, RURALSOFT, PAMIS at newly created IT
  Centre District HQs.

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• Evaluation of different Development Programmes
  like SGSY, IAY, Watershed Development Basic
  minimum services to GPs.
• Case Studies on Scheme Management, Community
  Participation, Panchayati Raj other priority
  areas on PR R D
• Publication of Panchayati Raj Hand book, Annual
  Report of P R Dept., Panchayat Samachar, EFC in
  Orissa, NFFWP NREGA Booklet in Oriya etc.
• Facilitating exposure visits of Elected
  Representatives of PRIs at State and National
  level

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STATUS OF SIRD AS PER NIRD BASE PAPER
SIRD, Bhubaneswar is ranked as Medium Two
Stream SIRD on the basis of Training Performance
Infrastructure.
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TRAINING ACHIEVEMENTS
Year Course Participants
Conducted
Attended 1997-2002 346 7228 2002
2003 66 1522 2003-2004 95
3418 2004-2005 105 5420 2005-2006 119
7220 2006-2007 128 10942 2007-2008 14
1 8116 (upto Jan., 08)

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EXTENSION TRAINING CENTRE

• Located at Bhubaneswar, Keonjhar Kalahandi.
• Started functioning since 1992 with 10 Districts
  each regionally under its control.
• Training of Panchayat level extension officials,
  PRIs NGO activists.
• ETC, Bhubaneswar - Admn. control of Director,
  SIRD and ETC, Keonjhar Kalahandi under the
  admn. control of PD, DRDA.

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ITPs UNDER GRAMSAT

• Conducting Interactive Training Programmes
  through GRAMSAT on NREGA and all other
  development programmes for the PRIs on 2 days of
  each month.
• Viewed Interacted by Target Audience (PRIs
  Officials Elected Repr.) of all DRDA, Block
  GPs receiving centre of all districts.
• All the PRI representatives are targeted audience
  and Officials from Collector PD, DRDA upto
  Executive Officer of GPs also attended

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Project DAKSHYATA the Panacea

• Since Capacity building through SIRD / ETCs is
  impossible to impart training to one lakh PRI
  Repr. during their 5 Years tenure Project
  Dakshyata has been thought of as a panacea for
  fulfilling the training needs of PRI repr. RD
  functionaries
• Partnership Strategy Builds on multi
  stakeholder partnership collaborative approach
  for promotion of decentralized governance
  involving Government (Central State) civil
  society donors private sector research training
  institutes for gender sensitive local level
  planning service delivery participation
• Establishing an effective efficient pool of
  resource persons in the state for undertaking
  systematic regular training for Capacity
  Building

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• Simple comprehensive strategy modules to be
  developed for stakeholders of the PRI system in
  the state
• Development of comprehensive training materials
  Documentation of best practices processes
  adopted, lesson learnt will be done to facilitate
  replicate capacity building in future
• NGOs/CBOs/CSOs/Govt. institutes will be taken as
  partners in the capacity building exercise
• Conducting training capacity building of
  programme at various level of PRI system and
  institutionalization of capacity building
  process in the state to take up large scale
  training programme

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Project deliverable outline

• Standardized and comprehensive training programme
  designed for the PRIs in Orissa
• A pool of well trained resource persons on PRI
  available at the State and district levels
• SIRD strengthened and granted autonomy as the
  nodal agency to take forward CB agenda of the
  State
• Development of a PRI Capacity Building Policy
  with a clear roadmap for implementation for the
  State

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Action Plan of the Project

• Pool of Resource Persons for training and
  capacity building of PRI repr. other
  stakeholders as identified by SIRD (400 district
  and Block level Master trainer 100 State level
  Master trainer with 50 women trainers)
• (Activities Comprehensive needs assessment
  of PRI repr., deptt. Officials CSOs)
• Training Calendar, comprehensive training modules
  resource materials (Brainstorming state level
  workshop with govt. officials, academic
  institutes, subject matter experts to present and
  choose materials for training modules or training
  content / material like AV films in different
  languages / Curriculum design Preparation of
  resource materials / Training of PRI repr.
  functionaries and related stakeholders / Exposure
  Visit Study Tours)
• Institutionalization of training process
• (Activity Vision document / policies for
  the state govt. for CB
• Operation Manuals (Admn. Financial) for
  SIRD)

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Follow up Action

• Multimedia approach through face to face training
  on resource persons
• GRAMSAT (1 way video 2 way audio)
• Quality Training Materials by experts
• Printed text oriented texts supported by case
  studies, real / animated stories, games, group /
  individual exercises, Role Plays
• Gender Sensitive study materials / tool for
  comprehensive gender sensitization
• Training delivery standards for CB process
• Management and Monitoring of project (Quarterly,
  Annually and Final) Evaluation

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OUTCOME

• DFID supported initiative on CB of PRIs with P
  R Deptt., Govt. of Orissa as implementing partner
  with UNDP entrusted for oversight
  monitoring functions
• Total Project Cost 1591447.04
• Outcome 28000 PRIs repr. 7000 Govt.
  officials to be trained
• Build roadmap for Capacity Building of PRI Repr.
  Govt. Officials in the State in future

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Thank You