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| About PRIA |
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| PRIA is an International Centre for Learning and Promotion of Participation and Democratic Governance. Since its inception in 1982, has embarked on a set of
key initiatives focusing on participatory research, citizen-centric development,
capacity building, knowledge building and policy advocacy. With a combination of
training, research and consultancy, it has grounded its work with conceptual rigour
and understanding of social reality to command the strategic direction of
interventions. PRIA works with diverse range of partners at local, national and global
levels. |
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PRIA's professional expertise and practical insights in the following areas are being
utilized by other civil society groups, NGOs, governments, donors, trade unions,
private business and academic institutions around the world: |
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Participatory development methodologies |
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Institutional & Human capacity building for social sector |
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Women's leadership & political empowerment |
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Citizen monitoring & social accountability of services |
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Participatory governance in panchayats |
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Municipal reforms & participatory planning |
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Environmental & occupational health and CSR |
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Adult education & lifelong learning |
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Gender mainstreaming in institutions (including preventing sexual harassment at work) |
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| PRIA adopts three broad approaches in its ongoing programmes. |
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it intervenes directly in the field primarily in the northern & eastern poorer
regions of India, in order to promote 'citizen's collective voices' to make demands on
governance institutions to claim their rights, access services and ensure accountable
utilization of public resources in development programmes. In recent years, 's
interventions have specially targeted Right To Information (RTI) and National Rural
Employment Guarantee Schemes (NREGS). |
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| PRIA provides on-demand advisory and consultancy services to a wide
variety of clients internationally. It utilizes its practical knowledge and professional
expertise in various areas to offer ' participatory and sustainable solutions' to improve
supply sides of development and democracy. |
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| PRIA offers educational programmes in numerous human and social
development themes, drawing from its field experiences, advisory services and
extensive research projects. Within the framework of 'learning for social change',
these educational courses are offered in face-to-face and distance modes,
sometimes specially designed for a client, and many times in partnership with such
premier educational institutions as Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU),
India, University of Victoria (UVIC), Canada and Institute of Development Studies
(IDS), UK. |
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| Through its campaigns, research, education and policy advocacy interventions,
PRIA's overarching mission is to 'make democracy work for all citizens'. |
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| Geographical Coverage |
| The geographical coverage of PRIA at the national level includes direct interventions
in the ten states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa,
Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Sikkim and West Bengal. Other states in India works
through Partners CSOs. |
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| About PRIA Continuing Education |
| PRIA Continuing Education (PCE), the academic wing of PRIA has been established
for transferring the experience, knowledge and learning of PRIA's 27 years in the
meaningful areas of citizen participation, civil society building and democratic
governance. The vast pool of knowledge and learning has been synthesised and
packaged into distance education and face-to-face teaching programmes. The
objective of PCE is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge that has direct
bearing on people-centric social development. |
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| The PRIA International Internship Programme (PIIP) was launched in 2008, to cater
to the needs of global citizens – assisting them to address and learn about
development issues and to provide an exposure to the realities of the Indian context. |
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| Currently PCE runs short-term certificate courses focusing on thematic areas of
PRIA's work and interventions. These include: |
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International Perspectives in Participatory Research (English) |
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Occupational Health and Safety (English) |
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Understanding Gender in Society (English/Hindi) |
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International Perspectives in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (English) |
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International Perspectives on Citizenship, Democracy and Accountability |
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PCE collaborate with universities such as Indira Gandhi National Open University
and University of Victoria to develop and teaches some of its courses. There are
other courses and interventions which are developed and launched by PRIA and of
these the most prominent is the PRIA International Internship Programme (PIIP). |
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