Activities & Association
Outstanding Performance of Rural Entrepreneurship Development
The Institute is engaged in the task of developing first-generation Rural entrepreneurship for the last 33 years in Madhya Pradesh. During the year 1987-88 to 2018-2019, the Institute has conducted 200 EDPs, provided training to about 7500 youth in 17 districts of the western and northern parts of the state. Rural youth who have been trained in different activities in EDPs have shown encouraging success rate ranging from 75% to 100% in terms of setting-up of Self- employed units. Based on the experiences and requirements of the rural youth, the IISD has been able to develop a need-based model for conducting REDPs. Over the past couple of years, the success of EDPs has generated a lot of demand for IISD’s EDPs model.
Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps
The IISD has been conducting short term Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps for the rural/ urban youth. The specific objectives of the awareness camp are to (1) enable youth to realise their embryonic potential and develop their capabilities to meet the challenges ahead. (2) counsel and motivate youth to seek innovative and challenging career options. (3) cultivate entrepreneurial traits including decision making, moderate risk-taking, creativity, leadership, problem-solving etc. (4) Impart them exposure to potential opportunities existing in business small scale industries and service sectors. Such Camps have successfully inspired and motivated a large number of youth in urban and rural areas.
Bankers -NGOS Meet on Entrepreneurship Development
In the process of Entrepreneurship Development, one of the major external obstacles faced is the non-availability of required, sufficient and timely financial support to trained entrepreneurs. It was, therefore, experienced that the desired success rate could not be achieved in EDPs despite excellent training inputs, because of non-availability of credit from banks. Keeping this in view, IISD conducts workshops for bankers to make them aware of the EDPs approach, follow up, monitoring and role of support system therein. Meets are attended by Lead bank officers, Branch Managers of commercial and Regional rural banks, District De Contact us Managers of NABARD etc. These meets have produced an encouraging response from the bankers for budding entrepreneurs.
Village Development Programmes
Under the scheme of integrated development of villages IISD has been given the responsibility of village Development in three districts Indore, Dhar and Dewas of Madhya Pradesh by NABARD.
Social Research and Evaluation Studies
IISD has conducted many socio-economic research studies in various fields. These studies have been mainly sponsored by International Youth Centre, New Delhi, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Indore Habitat Improvement Project, ODA, Indore Development Authority (IDA), Indore, Directorate of Women & Child Development Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, UNICEF, Bhopal. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, New Delhi, Haresh Shah & Associates, Mumbai, M.P. Handicraft Board, Bhopal, Khadi and Village Industries Commission and Vaikunthbhai Mehta Research Centre For Decentralized Industries, Navi Mumbai.
NGO Capacity Building Workshops & Training
IISD has organized 14 State level NGO capacity building & Training programmes for the Non-Government Organisations in Jhabua, Ujjain, Indore and Bhopal locations. The large number of NGOs participated in the programmes. These programmes have been jointly conducted by Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, New Delhi, NGO Bhavan and IISD Indore
Seminars
State-level Consultation meet was conducted on Children in Difficult Circumstances (CIDC)on 15th June 2016. The program was jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Social Development, Plan India and Academy of Gandhian Studies, Tirupati. Programme on Promotion of Digitization and Prevention of Cyber Crime was organized on 28th March 2018 at Indore. A National Seminar on youth & Cleanliness was jointly conducted by Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, New Delhi, Kothari College and Indian Institute of S Development, Indore
Association and Partnership in Programmes Implementation
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is the partner for the last 30 years. The various other projects implemented by the Institute are mainly sponsored and assisted by the following organisations:
Serial No. |
Programme |
| 01. | National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) |
| 02. | National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) Government of India. (SEP) |
| 03. | Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India |
| 04. | Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India |
| 05. | Ministry of Environment and Forest and EPCO, Bhopal |
| 06. | Madhya Pradesh Udhyami Vikas Sansthan, Government of M.P |
| 07. | Directorate of Women and Child Development, Government of M.P |
| 08. | CAPART, New Delhi |
| 09. | UNICEF, Bhopal |
| 10. | South Asia Partnership- India (SAP-India), New Delhi |
| 11. | Indore Habitat Improvement Project, IDA, Indore & ODA (UK) |
| 12. | Unniti foundation, India, New Delhi |
| 13. | Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, New Delhi |
| 14. | Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) |
| 15. | Regional Rural Banks |
| 16. | Commercial Banks |
| 17. | District/Tehsil/Block level departments of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh |
| 18. | District Handloom, Government of Madhya Pradesh |
| 19. | Educational institutions |
| 20. | District Panchayat, Janpad and local bodies |
| 21. | Non-government/Voluntary organisations |
| 22. | Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya University |