About this Course

Course Outline

1. What is capacity building?  
2. Why build capacity?  
3. Deep dive into 2-3 capacity building areas  
4. How can you start?  
5. Next steps  

Modules

Two part workshop conducted over two consecutive days

Course Objectives

• Increase knowledge on the topic of capacity building  
• Increase awareness of the capacity building work being done by other NGOs
• Initiate the attending organisation’s capacity building journey

Medium of Instruction 

English  

Who will benefit from this course?  

Persons working in any capacity in any organization that works directly or indirectly with children (those providing child protection services and those working in administrative or other roles), who are desirous of gaining a basic understanding of children, their rights, key legislations relating to child protection and the child-rights based approach.  

Approaches to teaching and learning  

The workshop is designed to be interactive and reflective: NGOs will get an exercise/survey to reflect on their own org’s capacity before the workshop NGOs will be given a tool/framework to diagnose their capacity in 1-2 areas during the workshop Active Q and A during the workshop  

About Atma  

Atma is an Accelerator for Education. Atma's works with high potential education NGOs and social enterprises across India. We are passionate about transforming the Indian education landscape into a place where every child really learns. We work towards this goal by empowering grassroots educational initiatives to grow, amplify and multiply their impact and thus gradually change the future of education and of India. Founded in 2007, Atma has worked with over 80 education organisations that reach out to over 21.4 lakh students.  

Course Staff

Sneha Arora

Sneha holds a MBA in Finance from Indian School of Business . She has a 10 years of work experience across private and development sector and has previously worked with KPMG, PWC, Cairn India and Boston Consulting Group. She specializes in Strategy, Fundraising and Finance.

Abhijat Bedekar

Abhijat holds a Master’s in Information Systems from Georgia State University. He has over 10 years of work experience across private and development sector. He previously worked with PwC US, Accenture India. He has completed the Teach For India Fellowship and led their East/West regional recruitment.

Devina Nigam

Devina has completed her post-graduation in Human Capital Management from XLRI Jamshedpur. She has 10 years of experience in the field of HR and consulting. She has previously worked at Accenture and Godrej - consumer products.