Launch of the Certificate programme in NGO management

July 19, 2008

Dear FORUM,

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Joint United Nations

Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) are pleased to announce a distance education

Certificate programme in NGO Management. The launch is be ingorganized at the

Convention Hall, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi on 21st July

2008.

This in itiative aims at enhanc in g managerial and f in ancial capacity of the

NGO sector by dissem in at in g knowledge through distance education to

effectively cover the large number of NGO functionaries, volunteers, community

workers etc. work in g in NGOs or desiring to work in the development sector,

especially those operat in g from remote and rural areas. The curriculum in

cludes a seven day contact programme with an NGO, whereby the students will get

an opportunity to ga in a better understanding of the operational issues and

concerns.

As part of this programme, additional resource materials on management of NGOs

have been dissem in ated at more than 1400 learn in g centres of IGNOU across

the country and will be used by the students as reference material. This also

includes manuals for sett in g up NGOs, model projects etc. This course will

also be available online in the last quarter of 2008.

Moreover, as most grass root health NGOs work at the community level and

communicate in the local dialect, the course on NGO management is be in g

developed in H in di by the Uttar Pradesh Rajashri Tandon Open University

(UPRTOU) for wider outreach. The programme is planned to be offered in all

Indian Languages by the middle of 2009.

For more in formation, please contact;

Sarita Jadav, UNAIDS India, Tel -011-41354545 Extn: 315; email –

jadavs@...

Dr. Neeti Agarwal, Reader, School of Management Studies, IGNOU – Tel – 011 -

-29532073 email - neeti@...

Regards, Sarita

Sarita Jadav

UNAIDS

A-2/35 Safdarjung Enclave

New Delhi -110 029

Tel -41354545, Extn 315

mail - jadavs@...

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