Enabling Communities in Jharkhand in India to diversify in Economic Opportunities
Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) & the Indian Institute of Health Management Research University (IIHMRU) has recently launched a Certificate Programme in Rural Livelihoods (CPRL). The certificate programme is a residential programme wherein, over a period of six months, students of the course will be travelling through 10 states of the Central Indian tribal belt, engaging with some of the leading organisations working in the area of in rural livelihoods across 13 centres of training. DEF will be conducting the Functional IT Skills module for 12 days during the six-month programme, which starts from November 15, 2016.
The programme takes a strong field-based learning approach and provides analytical and skill training to existing and aspiring rural professionals who would potentially engage at the block level as leaders driving change within NGOs, government institutions, CBOs or with offices of elected representative of the Panchayati Raj institutions and Self Help Group federations.
The six-month certificate programme introduces participants to:
- Contemporary issues in intervention design, strategies of engagement and recent debates on rural livelihoods interventions in India
- Prepares students with necessary skills and knowledge to pursue ground interventions with a holistic perspective
- Allow participants to hone their skills as team members who would be managing programmes and interventions at the block level
- Facilitate an opportunity for participants to learn 14 core thematic modules within the rural livelihoods domain from some of the leading organisations/resource persons successfully implementing interventions in the field
- Allow participants to reflect on contemporary issues of relevance in central Indian tribal belt from a grounded implementation perspective.
More details of the course and its modules can be found here.
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