Training & Services

Training and Services                                                     Areas of Expertise in Training

LEAD Fellows are especially equipped and trained to design, develop and implement projects that are equitable, sustainable and developmentally sound. Some of the  training and services that have been provided by LEAD India are:

• LEAD India has helped produce a CD-ROM ‘Diversity’ aimed at encouraging the public to save, plant, cook and eat more weeds. The project is the brainchild of two LEAD Fellows, Kirit Patel and Ravindra Babu. The CD uses words and pictures to illustrate the benefits of weeds, which it prefers to call “uncultivated greens”.
• ‘Developing capacities for environment education and communication amongst teachers and community leaders in Nagaland’- This Project is being developed by LEAD Fellow Amba Jamir; the project focuses on building capacity of teaching community and local community organizations to undertake, plan and implement education and communication programmes for sustainable development and to especially develop a distant learning module to support the capacity building aspects of such an initiative.
• ‘Developing policy on Eco-tourism in Uttaranchal that focuses on community based Eco-tourism’: a project funded by LEAD. The policy framework for Conservation and Tourism in the region has been officially accepted as the policy for the state of Uttaranchal to define objectives and criteria for eco-tourism development in the region.
• LEAD India has been involved in consultations along with TERI for developing National Environment Policy for the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
• LEAD India has also prepared a concept note on ‘Developing an Indian Position on the Global Commons’ for Ministry of Environment and Forests to pilot a process that enables it to develop a national position on issues of global commons which is both nationally realistic and internationally acceptable.
• Mamatha Gowda, a LEAD Fellow has been instrumental in designing and implementing the Government-Citizen Interface for the Public Domain for the Chief Minister of Karnataka on the e-governance project. She is now assisting the Government of Nagaland to do the same.
• Publication of ‘Troubled Islands’, a book that presents writings on the indigenous peoples and environment of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• Regional Session with case studies on ‘Mega Cities and Rural Community Development’, Bangkok and ‘Sustainable Development –Cross Border Resource Flow and Management in the greater Mekong Subregion’ in partnership with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.
• Publication of book ‘Rio, Johannesburg and Beyond’, which provides concerned citizens and national leaders with a comprehensive analysis of India’s environmental problems, and with suggestions for practical, innovative solutions by a team of experts drawn from LEAD’s network. The book was released by the President of India in 2002. The 2nd reprint has a forward written by Kofi Annan.
• LEAD has designed and delivered a Seminar cum workshop on ‘Participatory Approaches for better Governance’ for Government of Nagaland
• National Training Session for Cohort 10 on ‘Globalisation- Regimes and trends in agriculture sector: Opportunities and Challenges for Nagaland’. The findings were presented to the Government of Nagaland with recommendations on how to evolve a state Agriculture policy and an agri- marketing strategy for the state.
• Developing a Road Management Database for the Government of Nagaland.
• Partnership with ICIMOD on evolving an Indian policy on shifting cultivation in North East India and the Eastern Himalayas.

Lead India functions through its multi sectoral network of Fellows. We also develop customized training modules as per client needs. We charge to clients on the basis of management time spent on contracts.If you would like to find out more about what LEAD can do for you or your organization, contact Pragya D Varma, Executive Director, at LEAD India on pragya@leadindia.org