Capacity Assessment and Capacity Development Strategy Report
motivational aspects of training. Creating appropriate incentive structures, handholding and mentoring, promoting organizational affiliations, and exposure visits are some of the key aspects that need to be addressed. Visits to beacon Panchayats were planned as an exposure event. However, these have not been implemented as the attention appears to be on rolling out the training plan. Moreover, if MGSIRD has to organize these exposure visits, it must be recognized that the first task will be identifying beacon Panchayats; if they are not there, a whole lot of attention may have to be necessarily devoted to creating and building some of them. Apparently, examples have been recognized by various faculty members of MGSIRD/ETCs, but systematic attention to identifying a large number of beacon Panchayats will be required. NGOs have greater familiarity in this regard and could be usefully partnered with, but this thought has not surfaced because the overall requirements and time-frames have not been set. At the moment, one only notes these because of their absence in the CD efforts, and the need to plan for inclusion of many such components. Developing a comprehensive CD plan should therefore be the next creative effort by MGSIRD following the success of its training plan.
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Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India