About Vikas Samvad
Overview
VSS is a Research, Documentation and Capacity building organisation for building a team of socially sensitive cadre, communicators and organised groups with a child centric perspective. It also works for building the capacities of voluntary organizations to work in a research based process.
Vikas Samvad works as a peoples centric Research, Capacity Building, Communication organization. Primarily it focuses on capacity building to a wide network of organisations on Nutrition Security, Agriculture Communication, child rights (especially nutrition, health, Education.), empowerment, women and youth leadership, Constitutional values. In short, Vikas Samvad plays a supportive role for various organizations by giving them the requisite support and building their capacities on process documentation, publication, planning and coordination to take constructive actions forward.
Starting in 2001 as a project, Vikas Samvad is being seen today as an innovation in the field of media in the country, with accent on Madhya Pradesh. The thinking of Vikas Samvad has been to bring about change in the perception of issues related to wider public interest in the media. The thrust is on a change which can pull society out of the web of poverty, exploitation, discrimination and render a plateau of respect, equality and justice. To create a larger change, Vikas Samvad tries not to initiate only a particular section in isolation. Rather, all topics and issues are sought to be addressed holistically, connecting them with one another for a broadened perspective.
Today, Vikas Samvad has emerged as a social research, training and documentation and advocacy group, to be reckoned with. Our efforts seek to address the societal issues from a larger community perspective. Thus, these are assayed in the context of ideas-facts-values-evidences for being taken in public discourse. The emphasis is on emergent change from within rather being thrust from outside. It thus, precludes reliance on outside expertise and rather promotes affirmative action from within and helps in continually taking forward the processes. Keeping this thinking in mind, the group is intensively working on study-analysis and development of reference materials. Continued communication with social workers and public media personnel is the main plank of our work.
Also, we partner with grassroots organisations in the field work and seek to widen our understanding and learning. Our partnerships are across the canvas including the conduct of intensive research, studies and advocating the issues of public and marginalised communities. These are spread across Bundelkhand, Baghelkhand, Mahakaushal, Nimar, Malwa and Nivari regions of Madhya Pradesh.
Engagements
VSS is a Research, Documentation and Capacity building organisation for building a team of socially sensitive cadre, communicators and organised groups with a child centric perspective. It also works for building the capacities of voluntary organizations to work in a research based process.
Vikas Samvad has developed 49 primers, 77 Publication, and 150 Info Packs and knowledge products on Food, Employment and Social Security Schemes, Food Security and Right to Food, Community based Management of nutrition, Diseases and Social Action, Climate Change and Hunger, Poverty and National Food Security Act etc. Which are widely used by various organisations and government functionaries.
The organisation is deeply involved in policy making processes with the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Vikas Samvad is engaging with the Committee of Department of Food and Civil Supplies for making state rules for the implementation of Public Distribution System, ICDS, MDM and Maternity Entitlements under National Food Security Act 2013. Along with that Secretary of Vikas Samvad is also a member of empowered executive committee of Madhya Pradesh State Social Audit Society, the body for setting systems and guidelines for social audit in MGNREGA and All schemes covered under NFSA-2013. Vikas Samvad has been given responsibility by the State Social Audit Society to prepare Guidelines and Formats for NFSA Social Audit.