PGDMN programme is designed for individuals with a keen inclination towards social development and desirous of developing skills, knowledge and capabilities in this area, i.e. those who wish to;
- Provide leadership to social development initiatives,
- Start their own NGO,
- Develop themselves as professionals dedicated towards the social development agenda
NGOs can also sponsor / nominate potential staff members to strengthen their own organizations.
The Post Graduate Programme in Management of NGOs was conceived at EDI way back in 1998 as the need was felt to initiate the process of capacity building of those interested in joining the development sector and contributing towards making life better for others. The course is structured in four parts, each dealing with the needs of the NGO sector. This includes the philosophical or the perspective domain; the strategic management and decision making domain; the human resource management domain and the structures, systems, tools and technique domain (including monitoring and financial management). They all add up towards creating and developing managers who will have the required vision as well as necessary skills to handle various tools for making effective decisions thereby increasing and improving overall organizational performance. The programme also aims at qualifying people in social planning and management of development work.
Over last nine years, the programme has evolved as one of the most sought after courses. Students hailing from thirty states and with diverse educational background have successfully completed the programme. These students have found good opportunities to work with reputed development organizations (local to global) and many of our alumni have successfully demonstrated their capacities to manage programmes, in addition to initiating the process of establishing their own organizations.
This one-year PG Programme gives students a good grounding in both practice and theories. The programme distributed over four terms with a total input of 810 hours, makes it equivalent to inputs, which many other post graduate programmes offer over a period of two years. The interactions that the students have with practitioners, the case study and group learning methodology make students develop in-depth understanding of the subjects and the managerial tools.
