ECHO Orientation & Immersion Session

UChicago Center in Delhi

In large-scale social programs, the burden of policy execution falls on the “first-mile workers”, who are usually community members with limited experience. The scarcity of the experts (individual or from organizations), as well as of other resources, make frequent trainer-trainee interactions prohibitive. Post-training handholding or mentoring support for trainees leaves a substantial gap to instil confidence among the trainees. A major focus of our organization has been to explore means of plugging the post-training mentoring gap. An initiative by ECHO India, where this trainer-trainee gap has been successfully bridged through a process of guided mentoring, caught our interest.

International Innovation Corps (IIC) participated in an ECHO “orientation and immersion session” to ascertain its feasibility in the water sector. IIC conducted a session on the model to increase understanding of its scope and working.

Araghyam an International Innovation Corps(IIC) partner in collaboration with ECHO India held a two-day session specifically for the water sector partners.  Around 100 participants comprising CSOs, Govt officials, funding organizations etc. participated at this session.