HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN ADITHI

Second Line Lea dership

The founder resource facilitators (Viji Srinivasan, Ganesh Pd. Singh and K. A. Srinivasan) have been developing a second line leadership to work in the field of rural women’s development. These are professional (that is, highly skilled or competent persons in some activity or field, engaged in a profession, esp. requiring advanced knowledge and training) staffs of SPMC of ADITHI and ADITHI related organisations – Asita, Medha, Rashi,  Anamika and Shashi — who have taken initiatives to work with the partner organisations.

The OD Programme         

ADITHI has been working intensely with 26 organisations and groups over the last five years under the then Shrinkhala Project. The various organizations have grown and developed differentially. Some have become totally independent, having their own agenda with direct access to donors – in short independent entities. Some others are still in their nascency depending on ADITHI for managerial and financial support but with the potential to take off. There are others that may not hold on their own despite nurturing.

The need for Organisational Development (OD) was felt to initialize a change process in ADITHI and its partners. ADITHI began as a large family. Gradually, there were projects and human resource additions to ADITHI. With time and experience it was realized that ADITHI has to initiate a change process for sustainability of the organisation, capacity building of the human resource and efficient delivery of services in the field. The OD programme was a project endeavoring to achieve the same systematically within a time frame.

The OD programme aimed at exploring the vision of ADITHI and the partner NGOs and assessing the extent of compatibility/divergence; and to develop and implement a structured plan of interventions for organizational development in areas of strategic planning of goals/objectives and strategies, organizational restructuring, defining staff roles and their development (including team building and monitoring), reviews of existing systems and their improvement. Our endeavor was and still continues to be to re-model ADITHI’s organization structure into a vibrant network of partner Non-Government Organizations of Bihar and thereby establish ADITHI as a strong and progressive network organization.

  After a long term planning, with all the organizations, the OD exercise was initiated. The methodology used was intensive visits and interactions with ADITHI staff and partner NGOs through surveys and questionnaires, workshops and small group sessions and thereafter data analysis of the same. The SPMC’s services were utilized towards this end.

To strengthen and develop ADITHI and its partners, ADITHI had invited support of external OD Consultants for itself and its 26 partner organizations to systematically identify, develop interventions over the next years. Mr.Raju Damle and Mr.A. Mahadevan, management consultants were identified.

The objectives of the programme were –

Ø      To explore the vision of ADITHI and the partner NGOs and assess the extent of compatibility/divergence.

Ø      To crystallize future directions and develop long term plans of ADITHI and its partners.

Ø      To determine the nature of support required for organizational planning and prioritize them.

Ø      To develop and implement a structured plan of interventions for organizational development in areas of strategic planning of goals/objectives and strategies, defining staff roles and their development (including team building and monitoring), reviews of existing systems and their improvement.

The methodology used was intensive visits and interactions with ADITHI staff and partner NGOs by surveys and questionnaires, workshops and small group sessions, data analysis.

A (somewhat arbitrary) classification was done of the NGOs A, B, C. The ‘As’ were those who were totally autonomous, did not look to ADITHI for funds and even at this moment, if severed, would not only survive but survive and perform with dynamism.

These are:-

·        Traditional craftswomen (MVSS-Bhusura)

·        Street Vendors (Nidan, Aprajita and Utensils co-operative set-up

       by Nidan, supported by ADITHI)

·        Inland fisheries  (Sakhi)

·        Tribal women (Basmata SHG - with some assistance)

·        Adolescent girls (Shaktivardhini, Bal Mahila Kalyan)

·       Women in SHG (Centre-DIRECT, Nirdesh)

·        Home- based workers (Adithi home workers)

·        Sharecroppers (Mahila Krishi Vigyan Kendra – with some

 assistance)

This constitutes 48 percent of the 26 organisations and each organization is taking the lead in each sector. ADITHI has been working intensively with the 26 organisations and groups since the OD programme was re-initiated with SDTT’s support. ADITHI and the partner organizations have worked towards exploring their visions and assessing the extent of compatibility or divergence. The various interventions resulted in the NGOs developing and coming forth with their visions and missions and in some cases, articulated more concretely.

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