Join DFP 10th Batch

Warm regards from Deshpande fellowship program (DFP)

We are pleased to inform you that the Deshpande Fellowship Program is now receiving applications for tenth batch. Deshpande fellowship program was begun in order to empower a major untapped resource in the development field:hungry young people with plenty of potential to go for in their field who are held back only by their skills and self- confidence. DFP seeks change that and help participate to realize the true potential and ambitions.

This rigorous 7½  month residential leadership development program, Through NGOs visits, village studies, entrepreneurial and Leadership activities and intensive course work, fellows gain skills needed to become true leaders in their chosen field.  

With a concentration on social entrepreneurship and innovation, the DFP has transformed over 200 fellows into entrepreneurial young leaders. 

Kindly spread the words in your colleagues, friends and who interested to become part of the Fellowship Program. 

They can apply directly by using attached application or can be downloaded from online-http://www.dfp.org.in/

For more information you can reach us at fellowship@dfmail.org or  9740011883 and read the attached files

Master of Social Entrepreneurship program launched by Deshpande Education Trust’s Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Hubli, India

Master of Social Entrepreneurship program launched by Deshpande Education Trust’s Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Hubli, India

The Deshpande Education Trust (DET) announces the launch of its Master of Social Entrepreneurship program. The Master of Social Entrepreneurship (MSE) is a two-year residential program affiliated with Karnatak University Dharwad and approved by the Government of Karnataka.  MSE offers students essential skills in social innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership development and business practice taught by scholars and practitioners who actively engage in leading enterprises and promoting entrepreneurship. Applications for the program are due July 30^th 2012 and courses will begin August 22^nd 2012. For more information on the program and admissions process: www.detmse.com

What makes MSE program special?  With an aim to demystify social entrepreneurship for young and creative minds this residential program is carefully designed from a practitioner’s perspective. MSE is hosted by Deshpande Center for Social entrepreneurship (DCSE) that has been a breeding ground of several start-ups, an international network of enterprises and concrete partnerships with over 100 for profits and not –for profits who all are engaged in solving social issues with a compassionate heart and entrepreneurial mind set.

 Two year program is packaged with 25 different courses that blend with cutting edge practical experience as well as personal mentorship through real entrepreneurs. Our international experience in US and Canada where Deshpande centers have been launched in renowned universities with a sole objective to make “learning relevant and responsive to real time challenges” and embark on an even more ambitious aim to help students not just ‘learn’ about entrepreneurship but find the inspirations and tools of becoming an entrepreneur themselves. Learn more about our international work at http://www.detmse.com/network.html

Faculty Profile: One of the distinguishing factors of the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship is its faculty and resource personals. DCSE is gifted with passionate faculty with substantial experience in the social enterprise and related sectors at a global level. For more information http://www.detmse.com/trainer.html

 Who should join MSE?  Graduates in any field who are looking to step into creating or managing a social enterprise themselves. People who are passionate about social issues but still possess an entrepreneurial acumen to venture into innovative and yet sustainable initiatives. We are pleased to share that being located DCSE MSE program brings an added advantage of possibility of getting incubated in our Entrepreneur in Residence program, an incubation centre where several other start-ups will accompany you as you chart the journey of developing a small idea into a big impact. Through our established network of organizations, placement support will be provided to students in both for profit and social enterprises. 

How to apply?

Application can be downloaded at our website. For complete details please visit www.detmse.com    . Seats are limited and deadline for us to receive application is 31^st July 2012. 

Thinking beyond the capacity will lead to the creativity

You all believe this or not, but it is sure and felt one or the other day or incidents. Whenever I start thinking out of the box and which is worthful for the time arises. In today’s class I realize about the creative thinking and idea visualization. Completing an unfinished story and giving an end is as tough as writing a new story. But our group succeeded in shaping a story.

The paint and PPt are the best ways to create our own pictures and put those ideas in clear and concise information about the subject.

On the first day only I realized the effect of thinking and flow of thought was excellent. In the toast master session I gave three times new ideas about the livelihood interventions. All of these thoughts were very appropriate and worth to implement in my native places.

Today I realized about the importance of thinking beyond the limits and if I go in a way to evolve a particular solution definitely succeed in it.

Scavenger Hunt

It was a nice experience for all of us. it is an effort to introduce sandbox fellows with DF fellows and an activity to learn about Hubli city. we went for Scavenger Hunt with Mari. We decided to win the game and ultimately won that activity on less expenses basis. we spent Rs. 188 and purchased all the materials and took photos from different places. We all enjoyed alot, around 5 km walked and reached the target place within the prescribed time

On 3oth May 2009 I casted my vote in my village. Really it was a nice experience for me. First time I performed my responsibility. I stood in the line and up to then talkrd with the people. I asked people about their feelings about voting and they opined that it is a good opportunity to choose their own government. Before elections we all fellows conducted MARCHING TOWARDS POLLING BOOTH program and could able to see the impact in rural areas. But in urban population the attitude was some what similar and they were away from voting.

Working with children gives happiness and feeling of satisfaction to me. During my leadership activities I interacted with chilren and tried to give career guidance and make them happy through different activities.

I interacted with street children in Unkal during their vacations and explained them about how to utilise the holidays. I found that they all are spending their time in playing. I gave them different ways to utilise their time.

Eco-Tourism

Learning the eco system in the forest gives actual feeling of the environment. We all fellows visited Dandeli forest area, lived in a remote village, learnt their culture, practiced their food habits, wandered in the thick forest, observed the wild animals, played with the tribal children, visited caves, swim in the  river. Totally it was a nice and unforgetable experience for me. This module covered all the tourism perspectives and made me think towards tribal life and eco systm and wild life.

Entrepreneurial Motivation Training

Introduction

Human beings are social animals. Without group life they can’t survive in society. Because every individual or group community is dependent on each other. During group interactions every individual presents a different kind of behavior. To control the behavior and to bring essential changes some external or internal force or stimulus is required.

Entrepreneurial motivation training, which helped to bring out inner feelings, talents and set the goals for next coming days. All the participants came up with their achievement plans. A goal is nothing but a set of standards which will be achieved in the future by adding different values through various actions. The instructor was able to see the changes in the thinking of the participants within three days.

Entrepreneurial motivation training is very essential to social entrepreneurs, because it sparkle the minds and stimulates to identify their inner potentials and gives the platform to express their ideas and thoughts.

Description of the Module

This module mainly focused on the treasures which are existing in the surrounding environment. The instructor made all participants to hunt the treasures within the personality. Here treasure means talents or capacities or skills of an individual. Through the “who am I” and self assessment questionnaire all were able to identify the treasures.

Through the goal setting game participants were identified and learnt different perspectives of human behavior. The message of calculated risk taking, understanding the capacity of the individual and influence of environment on the behavior passed on to the participants.

Goal setting should not be influenced by others or by any rewards. The person who takes the moderate or calculated risk should consider his or her capacity, past experiences and the environment. All these factors lead to success. If a person takes a high risk then success may occur by chance or by luck. In case of low risk there may be one hundred percent success. But the wise person has to take moderate or calculated risk, here the chance of success is typically 70-80 percent. During this stage hope of success and fear of failure are essential to an entrepreneur. These factors increase the risk management skills and gives highest satisfaction.

Key points of the module

The purpose of this module is to assess the thinking process of the participants. Through these activities the instructor explained the process of achievement motive and the criterion to score achievement imagery. An achievement situation involves the achievement goal with the standard of excellence. The achievement syndome ( Means set of concepts which are related to achievement motivation)  should have the following sub-categories,

·         A need (N) to achieve on the part of the person.

·         Anticipation of success or failure in attaining the goal.

·         Activity (Act) successful or not aimed at attaining the goal.

·         Difficulties or blocks (Bp and Bw) to the individuals progress to the goal. There may be personal or external problems.

·         Emotional reactions i.e. positive goal anticipation (Ga+) and negative goal anticipation Ga-).

·         Help (H) to the striving person from another person.

·         Achievement thema, which means the central plot of the whole story, should explain one core goal.

All these factors are called achievement syndrome and very essential in a story to decide the thinking process of the individual.

Major Learnings of the Module

Following are the major learning of the module.

·         Every individual has many treasures in their personality.

·         He/she has to search and explore the treasures or resources prevailing in the personality.

·         Motivation is the stimulation to achieve a goal and it is essential to every individual.

·         While setting goals the individual should consider his/her abilities, past experiences, and environment.

·         Learn from the success or failure and adopt the leanings.

·         During team work we should not create dependency on us nor should I depend on others in each and every activity.

To become a successful entrepreneur all the features of achievement syndrome should prevail in the personality. The entrepreneur must have the fear of failure and at the same time hope of success and have internal and external motivation traits in the personality in a balanced form. All these factors will focus on achieving the goal.

Leaders in Action

Health

In the present global context health status of an individual, a community as well as a country is an important factor to decide the development indicator. It represents the actual situation of a particular country.

Health is "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity", used by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1948. In 1986, the WHO in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion said health is "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities". Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC), which is composed of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) also define health. Overall health is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of an individual (1).

By looking into the above statements health is includes the nutritional level, reproductive capacity, thinking ability, control over once own behavior, access to safe drinking water, hygiene, sanitation, mental ability. All these factors lead to physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of an individual. This situation can achieve the economic prosperity in the country. Compared to the international standards unfortunately the health status of the general population in India is not satisfactory.

Description of the module

This module mainly focused on the general perception, the determinants, present status of health in India as well as in the global scenario. It also concentrated on the health care service and its delivery system, quality, impact on the general, advantages and disadvantages. During the module fellows came to know the major diseases which are badly affecting on the health of the people. HIV/AIDS is a disease which is causing many deaths and worldwide affecting socially, economically and psychologically too many families. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid ,preseminal fluid, and breast milk.  AIDS is now a pandemic. In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and it killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children. Over three-quarters of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, India and China, retarding economic growth and destroying human capital. These data shows the severity of the problem.

On the second day reproductive health topic was taught. It brought a clear picture about the condition of reproductive and child health in India. Reproductive health is nothing but a state in which people have the ability to reproduce and regulate their fertility, women are able to go through pregnancy and child birth safely, and the outcome of pregnancy is successful in terms of maternal and infant survival and well being. And couples are able to have sexual relations free of the fear of pregnancy and of contracting diseases.

Key points of the module

Health module succeeded in bringing the actual realities of India’s approach towards health care services, promotion of health of the general population and prevention of some diseases and conditions. Accountability in health care services is nothing but the obligation to demonstrate and the responsibility for performance in the light of agreed expectations.  Especially accountability of health practitioners is very essential to establish a sound and effective health system in the country. The instructor with suitable examples made to think towards the eradication of bad practices and systems which are prevailing in the medical field. In the global scenario India stands 118^th place in terms of efficient health care services, whereas 136^th in life expectancy and 127^th in governmental expenditure on health care. The most common medical mistakes that found in the past are leftover during surgery, wrong surgery, unnecessary tests, cosmetic goof ups, not enough anesthesia, delayed treatment, unnecessary drugs, secondary infections, drug dependency and bad handwriting of doctors.

At the same time we could find out the causes for poor accountability in the health sector in India. First thing is bane of present day medical education, it is financially oriented and educational institutions are charging heavy fees. Secondly lack of promotion of rural health care. Thirdly in India there is a gap of using information technology in health sector. we can find out the lack of updated knowledge among medical practissioners and the is gap of favorable relationship between  the doctor and the patient.

Major Learnings of the module

Majority of the population living in rural areas and the medical practissioners are staying in urban areas. This is the drawback of Indian health system. At the same time government is primarily focusing on health care services rather than prevention of the diseases. The equipments and use of technology is of old one.

To improve the and achieve the economic and social progress there should be a major shift in policy making and the health needs to be enforced. Epidemolocal data needs to be gathered for many recent diseases. And the solution for these entire problems is to enhance the publis-private partnership in Indian health care services; prevention should be done in   this sector. These are the main factors which we learnt in the health module.

Logical Framework Analysis

Logical Framework Analysis is a very important tool to describe the project in a simplified manner. It gives the summary of the whole project proposal. Usually this document will be prepared by grant seeking agencies and submit it the funding or donor organizations.  It is an analytical, presentational and management tool which can help planners and managers. It helps to analyze the existing situation during activity preparation and establishes a logical hierarchy of means by which objectives will be reached during the implementation of the project. It also identifies the potential risks to achieving the objectives and to sustainable outcomes and at the same time establishes how to monitor and evaluate outputs and outcomes. In a brief it gives complete picture of the project. All the stakeholders of the project can refer LFA and use wherever they feel necessary.

LFA can be a useful tool in the planning, monitoring, evaluation management of development projects. It is not the only planning tool, and should not be considered an end in itself, but using it encourages the discipline of clear and specific thinking about what the project aims to do and how, and highlighting those aspects upon which success depends. It increases the accountability and commitment of implementing agencies towards the success of the project.

Module Description

As it was a new concept to all fellows the instructor initially gave the meaning of LFA. According Department for International Development (DFID) the Logical Framework as "a tool to help designers of projects think logically about

•      what the project is trying to achieve (the purpose),

•      what things the project needs to do to bring that about (the outputs) and

•              .  What needs to be done to produce these outputs (the activities) ?

By looking above statement A log frame (also known as a Project Framework) is nothing but a tool for planning and managing development Projects. It looks like a table (or framework) and aims to present information about the key components of a project in a clear, concise, logical and systematic way. The log frame model was developed in the United States and has since been adopted and adapted for use by many other donors. Now a day’s all funders prefer LFA. That is why its importance has been increased.

Key Points of the module

In logical framework analysis module the instructor tries to teach the meaning, its importance, the contents and process to prepare the LFA. The specific structure is very essential to a log frame.  The person who prepares has to first define the problem for that he/she has to prepare problem tree. Because LFA is a way of describing a project in a logical way so that it should be well designed, described objectively, Can be evaluated, and clearly structured.

Problem analysis and problem tree helps to prepare a objective tree. Two main approaches for problem tree analysis and objective tree analysis first one is Focal problem method which means development problems (or constraints) are brainstormed by the group, a core or focal problem is identified, and the cause and effect analysis then pivots around the focal problem. And second one is Objectives oriented method; a broad/high level development objective is specified at the start of the analysis, and constraints to achieving this objective are then brainstormed, analyzed  and sorted in to a cause and effect logic. After this process stakeholder analysis has to be done in this process. It includes deciding who these problems actually impact on most, and what the roles and interests of different stakeholders might be in addressing the problems and reaching solutions.

The important activity starts after objective tree analysis that is setting the goal for the project. It means wider problem the project will help to resolve during the specific period. The project should have to have the purpose which gives the immediate impact on the project area or target group i.e. the change or benefit to be achieved by the project. Outputs setting is also an important activity these are the specifically deliverable results expected from the project to attain the purpose. To fulfill the purpose and goal the specific activities should be mentioned in the log frame, these are the tasks to be done to produce the outputs. After that inputs, measurable indicators, means of verification and assumptions should be framed and submitted to funder for the verification and approval.

Major Learning

The module helped to learn about the importance of logical framework in planning and management of development proposals and its various advantages. It reduces the conflict and confusion different stakeholders. It increases the accountability of the project implementing organization towards the donor and beneficiaries. LFA also provides a handy summary to inform project staff, donors, beneficiaries and other stakeholders, which can be referred to throughout the lifecycle of the project. In the present context by looking into the advantages majority of the funding agencies suggests to have the logical framework analysis in the project proposal. That’s why all development workers should know the process of preparing the logical framework analysis.