Capacity Building

Shanti Griha has worked in more than 50 villages since inception. In each of these villages, Shanti Griha has helped strengthen institutional approaches and better project planning and implementaion skills. Working with women, the uneducated, the elders, and also the youth in the villages, Shanti Griha has helped villages form user groups, worked with them in a manner that they themselves can identify what is most important, put it down on paper, and come up with viable plans and proposals that can be sent to our international contributors.

Learning to sit together and plan and involve both genders, important stakeholders, and come up with constructive approaches is in itself a valuable learning that Shanti Griha imparts in the villages that it works with. After coming to verbal agreements, villagers, with the help of one of their own people, write down what they have discussed, give it a project outlook and with Shanti Griha training, create working committees, and are prepared to implement and monitor projects. In suitable cases, they are given computer literacy training, organizational structure training, and language training.

Especially stressed is proper book-keeping, transparent financial processes, and conflict mitigation when such conflicts do occur . Professional accountants, computer teachers, proposal structuring teams, and other inside and outside professionals help Shanti Griha to build the capacity of villagers in a manner that the knowledge stays in the villagers and the knowledge is able to bring them future benefits.