Organisation Understanding

Host Organisation: Gram Vikas

Faculty Guide: Prof. D. P. Mishra

Presented By: Archana Purohit

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Objectives of the Study

 To develop an understanding of the

functioning of the organisation

 To know about the context in which it

evolved, strategies adopted over a period of
time, its structure and activities undertaken,
critical issues affecting its operation and its
future plans.
Scope of the study

 Operational areas of two districts, Ganjam

and Bolangir , of the 14 districts

METHODOLOGY:
 unstructured interviews
 in-depth discussions
 direct observation
 literature review
Sources of Data

 Primary Data Sources

 Management staff
 Other Employees
 Beneficiaries

 Secondary Data Sources

 Annual Reports
 Studies conducted by Gram Vikas
 Other Reports
 Introduction

 Registered as a society under the societies

registration act, 1860 since January, 1979.

 VISION:
An equitable and sustainable society where people
live in peace with dignity.

 MISSION :
To promote a process which is sustainable, socially
inclusive and gender equitable, to enable critical
masses of poor and marginalized rural people or
communities to achieve a dignified quality of life.
 Gram Vikas at present

 Working with Nearly 100,000 people and 20,000

households in 450 villages
 More than 300 employees in 12 project areas
 Sanitation project covering 7600 families in 87
villages with a corpus of 9.3 million
 4 residential schools and 120 balwadi centres
 430 acres of land development last year in 48 villages
 748 self help groups in 269 villages with 239 groups
linked to financial institutions
 Handling funds to the tune of 10-12 crores each year
 Emerging focus on rural energy with ongoing work
on gassifier and bio-diesel
Evolution of Gram Vikas

 Founded by volunteers from YSMD, Chennai who

stayed back in Orissa after relief work in 1971
cyclone
 First non-gandhian, non-church voluntary
organisation of Orissa
 Registered in 1979
 Health as an entry point in the tribal areas of Ganjam
district
 Formation of Kerandimal Gana Sangram Parishad &
integrated tribal development programme
 Collaboration with local government through biogas
programme
 Construction of 54000 biogas plants during 1983-
1993
Contd…

 Rural Health & Environment Programme

 Emphasis on mobilising peoples’ contribution
and capacity building of local institutions
 Programme on livelihoods, natural resource
management and building support team
 Emerging role as facilitator of people in
mobilising government funds for development
work
 Realisation of the importance of sources of
energy in the life of people and trial projects on
micro- hydro, bio-diesel and gassifier
 Organisation Structure
G e n e ra l B o dy

G o ve rn i n g B o a rd

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A d d i t i o n a l P M IT D P Li v e l i h o o d s/ B M P / V S B K PM ED /F i n a n ce A d vi s or E l e ctro n i c D a ta P roce ssi n g RH EP P a n ch a ya ti

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O ff.A sst A re a C o o rd i n a to r O ffi c e A ssts S e n i o r S u p e rvi s o rs

C l u ste r co o rd i n a to r S up e rvi s o rs
 Design

 Structure : Hierarchical
 Complexity : High
 Formalisation: high
 Centralisation : medium
 Size : large
 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

 Recruitment : advertisement in local colleges

and campus recruitment to some extent
 selection
 Pay and promotion: different for different
departments
 Male : female ratio: 85:15
 Average salary: Rs. 4250
 High turnover at managerial level
MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEMS

 Separate planning, monitoring, evaluation and

documentation department
 Annual and bi-annual review and planning
exercise
 Monthly management team meetings
 Monthly project co-ordinators’ meeting at head
office level
 Monthly staff meetings at project level
 Internal audit department and external audits
 Periodic external evaluations
 MAJOR CHALLENGES FACED AND
STRATEGIES ADOPTED

 Target for next 10 years – to be able to work

with atleast 1% of Orissa population i.e. 100,000
households and enable them achieve a dignified
qualified of life.
 CHALLENGES :
• Lack of credibility to the voluntary sector
• Inability to attract qualified professionals due to
the remote working conditions
• Recruitment and retention of women in
challenging work conditions
Contd….
 Strategies adopted:
• Gaining visibility
• Networking with governmental agencies and
commissions
• Recruitment at local level and provision of in-
house training
• Resource mobilization for developmental
work mostly through governmental schemes
 MAJOR PARTNERS OF GRAM VIKAS

 Christian aid, UK
 SCIAF, UK
 Catholic Relief Services
 SDC
 European Union
 CARE
 Orissa Development Action Forum
 DRDA under DPAP, ACA, WORLP and prime
minister’s relief fund
 EZE, ICCO, Bread For The World etc.
The Path Ahead

Articulation of movement and action network

for transformation of rural areas (MANTRA)
statement of millennium vision and mission in
the context of Gram Vikas completing 25
years
significance of mobilising a critical mass in the
context of Orissa
THANK YOU