Training  on Capacity Building of NGO representatives on 5th, 6th and 7th February 2009 will be held in APARD Campus.

The workshop for NGO representatives was conducted on Voluntary Actions, National and State Policies. The objective of this workshop was to get awareness of the policies, Voluntarism and GO-NGO relations and other related topics.

The contents of this programme were:

1. Introduction And Presentation of the Programme.

2. Introduction to Voluntary action and Voluntary Organization

   1. Voluntarism-voluntary action-voluntary organization.

   2. Transition phases in voluntary action:

      • Charity table organization - Voluntary organization - Non-government organization

      • Charity - voluntary service development - human rights

   3. Organisational Identities:

      • Legal Identities

      • Functional Identities

   4. Political Ideologies and voluntary action

3. NGO_GO Relations

   1. National and State Policies on voluntary action

   2. Legal Compliances

   3. Project Funding - Project implementation

4. Organisational Skills

   1. Organising and documenting General/Governing/Executive Body/ Committee Meetings

   2. Planning : Annual Plans - monthly action plans

   3. Finance Planning: Preparing Budget, cash-flow.

   4. Basis of Accounting and Audit

   5. Legal Compliances

   6. Documentation

   7. Preparing reports for various stake holders.

   8. Monitoring and review : Periodic reviews

   9. Preparing for internal and external evaluation

   10. Changing funding scenario

   11. Basics of writing Proposal

   12. Feedback Session and Valedictory

   The outcome of this workshop was successful and a need for such programmes were recommended by the trainees of the workshop.