Despite the sensitivity and the social entrepreneurial qualities that leaders of small NGOs have, there
could be critical elements of capacities that may be missing in the organisational leader on many
critical issues related to working with communities. Equally important is to build a second line
strength in any organisation and thus consciously develop such leadership in any organisation. SAMDP
enables ARAVALI to undertake a medium term training programme to cover all elements that are necessary
for senior and middle level staff of smaller organisations. As the name suggests the training programme
covers a range of societal analysis understanding, an understanding of self, communities, their
mobilisation and also a strong focus on management of projects and programmes that any organisation must
undertake. SAMDP is a 40 day training programme organised annually and hosted in a voluntary
organisations. Trainers engaged for the programme are eminent professionals with long experience in
development. Till date ARAVALI has organised 8 batches of SAMDP and trained more than 250 senior and
middle level staff of NGOs. An evolution of the idea is to undertake a long distance learning programme
on SAMDP. Ideas on this will evolve and will be developed further.
