Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement Scholarships

Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement Scholarships

GRAAM Scholar Program (GSP)

For a student/trainee, internship is meant to learn as well as gain work experience while working in a relevant organization. Our past experiences with students says that in most of the cases they are engaged with work where learning is minimal. Hence, GRAAM designed a unique concept of one month long ‘scholar program’ where students will gain practical experience of conducting a research/policy study with the field partners under the mentorship of GRAAM, and also publishing their work (if selected) in the annual journal of the organization. Thus, the program has come over with a threefold objective:

* For intern: to provide a combined objective of providing a true grassroots experience blended with a participatory research model to the young scholars. Also, possibility of having a publication disseminated through GRAAM’s bulletin and annual publication.

* For Grassroots organization: to support in documenting their work and helping them to deep routing their understanding about the issues of their community.

* For GRAAM: the pilot studies will provide evidences from grassroots to take forward larger studies and evidence based advocacy.

The program with GRAAM will not only help scholar to gain an experience of working with a multidisciplinary team of GRAAM but also to work in field with local partners, and publish their study.

Why this program is different from other internship programs?

– We mentor the students throughout their internship
– We provide opportunity to work with grassroots organization.
– We provide training on research methodologies.
– We guide the student in designing as well as writing the report.
– We would strive to take the output produced by the scholar to the logical end.
– We provide an opportunity to work in research oriented environment.

Who should apply? (Age is NO bar for the applicant)

– Indian and International citizens.
– Post Graduate students in Social Sciences/Social Work/Development Management/Business Administration from national/international institution.

– Researchers and practitioners in development sector.

Language and other skills:

– Theory classes will be held in English language. The knowledge of Kannada will be an added advantage to understand and interact with community in field/ in practical classes.
– Prior knowledge on development sector (optional).

Selection Process:

Maximum 20 interns will be selected to undertake the course in a year. The program committee at GRAAM will take the final decision based on the documents submitted by the applicant. The scholars would be informed about their selection before 30th April, 2019.

Application Deadline : April 15th, 2019

Duration: 30 days

Periods: (select any one)

1. May 15th 2019 to June 15th 2019
2. June 01st 2019 to June 30th 2019

Scholarship Support:

GRAAM will provide partial scholarship to the needy and deserving candidates. The candidate has to submit a separate letter with a title “request for partial/full scholarship” along with the other documents. The discretion of awarding scholarship is completely rests with the organization.

For more information email us at graam(at)graam.org.in

Contact Dr. Ananya Samajdar, Convener of the Internship Committee internship(at)graam.org.in or graam(at)graam.org.in

For more details please refer the Scholarship Publisher Website

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