In a significant step towards empowering grassroots governance, recently, the State Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (SIRD), Arunachal Pradesh, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tribhuvan Sahkari University-IRMA, Gujarat. The signing took place in the esteemed presence of Hon’ble Minister Shri Ojing Tasing.
Key objectives of this collaboration include:
- Capacity building and training to upskill grassroots functionaries
- Joint research and policy engagement to inform evidence-based planning
- Evaluation and strengthening of training curricula to reflect emerging rural challenges
- Knowledge sharing to integrate innovative practices across both institutions
The collaboration envisions a long-term, impactful engagement that aligns with sustainable rural development goals.
Join the Discussion on MyGov:
- What specific areas should the training modules prioritize for maximum impact?
- What kind of training and skill areas do you think should be prioritized for Panchayati Raj leaders?
- How can we ensure that rural voices are better reflected in research and policy?
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What makes a good grassroots coach?
A grassroots sports coach should have passion for the sport, effective communication skills, patience, organisational abilities and a commitment to player development. These qualities ensure players enjoy the sport and grow both on and off the field.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What is the grassroot development programme?
A bottom-up approach to development where local communities identify and address their own needs, ensuring interventions are tailored to specific cultural and contextual realities.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What are capacity training exercises?
Capacity Training is training that improves the long-term performance potential of the athlete, potentially at the expense of near term performance. Utilization Training is training that improves the near-term performance results of the athlete, potentially at the expense of long term performance potential.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What is the best method to improve the capacity of a process?
Downtime should be categorized as part of a process improvement strategy. These improvements will reduce downtime, improve efficiency across production lines, increase the number of production units per hour and increase total factory capacity.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
How to build more capacity?
Identify the area of capability and three or four specific skills that we want to improve. Then, spend a disproportionate amount of our time working on these skills. Make a plan for how we are going to accomplish our goal to improve those specific skills and capabilities.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What are the pillars of capacity building?
The document defines the six capacity pillars for assessment:- structure, competency, management systems, enabling policies, knowledge and learning and leadership.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What is the grassroots bottom-up approach?
The bottom-up approach refers to a method of democratization that emphasizes grassroots participation and local mobilization as the primary drivers of political change. This approach contrasts with top-down methods, where change is initiated by elites or higher authorities.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What is grassroots growth?
A bottom-up approach to development where local communities identify and address their own needs, ensuring interventions are tailored to specific cultural and contextual realities.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
Grassroots level planning, also known as micro-level or bottom-up planning, is a participatory approach to development where local communities identify their own needs and priorities, formulate solutions and implement them with the support of various stakeholders. It emphasizes community involvement, decentralization of power and tailoring solutions to specific local contexts.
BrahmDevYadav 2 months 3 weeks ago
What are grass root tactics?
There are several tactics used by groups in order to promote or advocate different issues politically, but the main two tactics used in grassroots or "outside" advocacy are education of constituents through holding press conferences or organizing press releases and mobilizing targeted people who will be impacted.