SOPAR-Bala Vikasa: Community-driven Development Training Program
- India
About Program
The Community Driven Development Internship (CDD) is a one-month internship program in India for individuals who want to experience enriching and accredited learning dedicated to community development. Through its People Development Training Center, Bala Vikasa hosts Community Driven Development (CDD) training sessions four times a year: January, September, November, and July (2 weeks). Drawn from our own experiences and best practices in the field over the last 45 years, and designed to be positive, relevant and practical, the CDD program aims to create development leaders by imparting relevant conceptual methodologies and knowledge, enhancing hands-on skills and changing the attitudes of development professionals, bureaucrats and students, from around the world. Through a cohesive combination of theoretical modules and field visits to various Bala Vikasa projects, participants are exposed to learning anchored in ground realities.
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Program Highlights
- Program is held four times a year: January, September, November, and July (2 weeks)
- Multicultural experience: course participants come from all over the world
- Training accredited by certain Canadian universities
- Campus-like environment at the People Development Training Center
- Field project visits: field observation of our internationally recognized approach and practices
Program Impact
Participants will develop but not limited to skills like development communications, conflict resolution, neuro linguistic programming and social entrepreneurship. Beside developing skills to be agents of change, participants will also be learning community development approaches and methodologies that theoretically prepared them to engage in developmental work.
The program is open to anyone interested in gaining training and field experience in international development : University (all levels), college students or professionals and retirees, NGO’s and INGO’s, organizations working with Canada’s first nations, public servants of the GOC, etc. Fluency in spoken and written English is required
Students interested in attending the CDD program please send your resume and motivation letter to/ contact us for more information at: shobha@sopar.ca
