PLHIV: Certificate Programme in Leadership and Managerial Proficiency

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Dear Partners and Friends,

As you are aware, Xavier Institute of Management, in collaboration with UNDP is

offering a Certificate Programme in Leadership and Managerial Proficiency (LAMP)

for PLHIV. The programme for the first batch is currently on and we are happy to

extend the last dates for receiving the application forms for Batch II,III and

IV.

(Please contact the undersigned for an application FORM)

Kindly nominate the candidates as early as possible in order to secure admission

for this programme.

Looking forward to your response at the earliest,

With kind regards,

(S.Peppin)

Dr. S. Peppin

Associate Professor and Chief Project Coordinator, LAMP

Xavier Institute of Management

Bhubaneswar-751013

E-MAIL: peppin@...

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Certificate Programme in Leadership and Managerial Proficiency

(LAMP)

(Second Announcement. Last Date Extended. Do Not Miss This Opportunity.)

Call for Applications

Background: Strengthening the capacity of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) has

assumed significant importance in light of the need for promotion of greater

involvement of PLHIV in response to HIV. PLHIV’s involvement is vital not only

in public speaking, counseling and service delivery, but also in policy

formulation, advocacy for effective implementation and monitoring of

programmes/schemes, and negotiations with decision makers. In order to

facilitate and ensure PLHIV’s involvement in all these processes, Xavier

Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) in partnership with the United

Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has designed a “Certificate Programme in

Leadership and Managerial Proficiency (LAMP) .” A brief description of the

programme is given below.

Focus: The Certificate programme will focus on the following:

Competencies required to build the personal capacity of PLHIV

Competencies required to sharpen the professional knowledge and skills of

PLHIV

Target Group: This programme is offered only to the PLHIV.

Duration: The programme is of 6 week duration comprising of 4 weeks of classroom

learning and 2 weeks of field learning.

Programme Venue: The programme is residential and will be held at the

Management Development Centre, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Design: The course is designed at two levels: Level A – for leaders at the state

and national level or those aspring to be; and Level B – for leaders at the

state and district levels. There will be one batch of Level A and three batches

of Level B. Each batch will comprise of 25 candidates. The modules for each

level are given below.

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Level A: Modules for National Level B: Modules for State

No and State Level Leaders and District Level Leaders

1. Computing and MIS (including Documentation) MIS (including Documentation)

2 Project Management (including M & E, LFA) Project Management (including M & E,

LFA)

3 Crisis Management (Conflict, Collaboration, Crisis Management (Conflict,

Collaboration, Decision Making and Negotiation)Decision Making and Negotiation)

4 Human Resource Development and Human Resource Development and

Management (HRD & M)Management (HRD & M)

5 Team Building and Leadership Team Building and Leadership

6 Strategic Management (including Networking) Advocacy

7 Organisation Development (including Governance) Communication

8 Advocacy Business Planning (including Resource Mobilisation and Proposal

Writing)

9 Communication Monitoring and Evaluation of Government Schemes

10 Business Planning (including Resource Personality Development Mobilisation

and Proposal Writing) Basic IT Skills

11 Global Trade Financial Costing and Accounting

12 Basic IT Skills Counselling : Skills & Practices

13 Time Management Training Skills

14 Sustainable Livelihood Models

15 Disaster Management

16 Care and Support Systems for PLHIV

Pedagogy: The teaching methods will include interactive lecture sessions with

the help of power point presentation, group discussion, case analysis,

psychometric tests, business games, and simulation exercises. ‘Learning with

fun’ will form the basis for teaching every module.

XIMB Faculty: The following faculty will facilitate the entire learning process.

Prof. M.N. Tripathi, Prof. M.G. Jomon, Prof. Snigdha Pattnaik, Prof. C .Shambu

Prasad, Prof. Ibha Kumar, Fr. ph, S.J., Fr. Tony Uvari, S.J., Prof.

S.S. Singh, Prof. Subhajyoti Ray, Prof. S.P. Das, Prof. Dipak Mishra, Prof.

S.K. Padhy and Prof. S. Peppin.

Other Resource Persons: Dr. Manoja , Dr.Rashmi Peppin and officers from

UNDP and other organisations.

Special Features:

1. Two week Internship (Organisational Learning)

2. Personal Action Plan to be prepared by the participants

3. Transfer of Learning and Follow-up Action Plan by XIMB/UNDP

4. Physical and Mental Fitness Session: Daily during 6.30-7.15 hrs (Optional)

5. Educational trips to Konark and Puri

Programme Fee and Boarding & Lodging: The entire programme fee, including the

cost of boarding & lodging and travel is provided by UNDP and XIMB.

Admission criteria: XIMB is pleased to invite applications from interested PLHIV

who fulfill the following criteria:

Working Knowledge of English (Ability to understand and communicate in English)

Knowledge of critical issues in HIV and interest for future application of

learning

Time and capacity to travel to Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar and

other places in India for class room and field learning

Preference will be given to those who hold a graduate or post graduate

degree/diploma in any stream

Application form: (Please contact the undersigned) Send the filled in

application form to: Mr. Sumant Mishra, Project Secretary, Xavier Institute of

Management, Bhubaneswar-751013, Tel: 0674-3983713, Fax:0674-2300995, E-mail:

sumant@....

Last date for receipt of Application form at XIMB:

For Batch II For Batch III For Batch IV

25th February 2007 25th March 2007 25th April 2007

Date for Admission Interview: If needed, some applicants may be called for an

interview and the exact date and venue for the interview will be announced

later.

Schedule: Programme will begin for:

Batch II: 19thMarch 2007

Batch III: 4th June 2007

Batch IV: 19thJune 2007

For More Details:

You may contact any one of the following persons.

Dr.S. Peppin, XIMB

0674-3983719 0674-2300995 peppin@...

Prof. M.N. Tripathi, XIMB

0674-3983822 0674-2300995 mnt@...

Ms. Shoran Philips, XIMB

0674-3983713 0674-3983719 shoran@...

About XIMB:

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) has completed 20 years of

purposeful existence, offering management education “with a human face”. During

this short span of its existence, XIMB has established an identity of its own,

and a consistent position among the best B-schools in the country. It is known

not only for its Post-Graduate Programmes but also for developmental projects.

The Institute owes its origin to a “Social Contract” between the Government of

Orissa and the Orissa Jesuit Society (OJS). The Management of the Institute is

in the hands of a Board of Governors, consisting of Jesuit Fathers, senior

representatives of the Government of India and Orissa State Government, eminent

industrialists and educationists.

THE CAMPUS

The Institute is located in a 20 acres verdant campus in the neighbourhood of

NALCO, Satyam Computers, Software Technology Park and other renowned business

houses and institutions. The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled and houses the

office complex, library and computer centre complex, class room complex,

auditorium complex, Management Development Centre, hostels for boys and girls,

executive hostel and CENDERET office complex. The Institute faculty stay on the

campus in the faculty quarters. In addition, the Institute provides a floodlit

basketball court, indoor badminton court, tennis court, gymnasium, and

well-maintained playing fields for cricket, volley ball and soccer.

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

The Institute has set up a Management Development Centre on campus with all

modern facilities. It has 34 twin-seated A/C rooms with round the clock

Internet connection. It has four training halls with all training aids.

Recently, the Institute has built a hi-tech A/C auditorium, which can seat 850

people.

PROGRAMMES

The Institute offers three postgraduate programmes, one doctoral programme and

one certificate programme. They are:

PGP - Two-Year Full-Time Post-Graduate Programme in Business Management

(residential)

PGPRM - Two-Year Full-Time Post-Graduate Programme in Rural Management

(residential)

Ex-PGP - Three-Year Part-Time Post-Graduate Programme in Business Management for

working executives

FPM - Fellow Programme in Management (residential)

PGCBM - One-Year Part-Time Post-Graduate Certificate Programme in Business

Management

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

XIMB has entered into formal collaborative arrangements with the following

institutions:

LOYOLA College of land, Baltimore, land, http://chf.loyola.edu

Graduate School of Business Economics, Warsaw, Poland, http://wshifm.edu.pl

REIMS Management School, Reims Cedex-France, www.reims-ms.fr

EUROMED Marseille Institute of Management, France, www.euromed-marseille.com

University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa,

www.usb.sun.ac.za

College of Management Law & Languages, Siauliai, Lithuania, www.kolegija.com

UFSIA, Antwerp, Belgium, www.ua.ac.be

Facultad de Economia –IQS, Barcelona, Spain, http://www.iqs.edu

For more details on XIMB, please visit http://www.ximb.ac.in.

XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar-751013, India

Tel: +91-674-3012345, Fax: +91-674-2300995, Web: http://www.ximb.ac.in

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Shashi Sudhir

Programme Officer

UNDP

55 Lodi Estate

New Delhi 110 003, India

Tel: 91-11-24628877

Fax: 91-11-24654604

e-mail: <shashi.sudhir@...>