Human Resource is the most important asset in the balance sheet of any society. At Chetana-Vikas, we believe in empowering individuals and communities by developing their human resources in three areas: Knowledge, attitude and skills. We cover two major subject areas: One, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, and, two, women’s empowerment with the following objectives:
- To emphasize human resources development by nurturing local village cadre and leadership with various development skills through consistent and intensive training and learning exposure.
- To create critical consciousness among the people about the society it’s present nature, problems within, their possible solutions and people’s role.
- To organize people for collective action against injustice and to spread awareness about their rights and duties.
For each of the programmes, we meticulously work on three levels: individual level, village level and area level. On average, for each of the programmes, teams of about 100 people are created to implement and to provide villager-to-villager training.
Apart from this, Resource Persons and Alternative Agriculture Resource Centre (AARC) has so far contributed to different Not-for-Profit Organizations (also called NGOs) across various states of India.
Research & Innovations
- Learner-centred methods for persons of all different levels.
- Giving the scope of various options to the learners and then learners select and decide the relevant menu of different topics for themselves.
- Engaging all three ways of learning, hearing, watching, practising.
- Integration of Knowledge-Attitude-Skills.
Future Plans
- In micro-area of Wardha District: HRD of about 100 new farmer families as demo farmers from 20 new representative villages across the district from about 1,000 villages.
- Further emphasis is to engage women farmers.
- Involving representatives of Local Self-e-Governance Bodies (Panchayats), Women’s Self-Help Groups.
- Role of Resource Centre & HRD for 5 States of India, and National Networks.
