SAMARTH Fellowship Program 2023-24
Apply before 22nd May 23
Sarva SANDHI Foundation Sarva (meaning ‘all, everyone’) and SANDHI (which in Hindi means ‘joining, coming together, or collaboration’) comes together as Sarva SANDHI, founded in 2022, is an NGO in India registered as a Section 08 company registered under the Companies Act, 2013. Sarva SANDHI Foundation is focused to catalyze the social development process in India through a Sustainable Approach of Networking and Developing Holistic Initiatives(SANDHI) for all. SSF is working closely with youth, children, and women to build their social leadership to increase their awareness, participation, and ownership in their growth.
SAMARTH Fellowship is a one-of-a-kind leadership opportunity that aware, engage, and empowers young graduates of India to enter into social development spaces through entry-level jobs and Fellowships in India.
In India, there is a rise in social development Fellowship opportunities for experiential learning, developing youth leadership, and engaging them in social development challenges. But there is a lack of awareness, low trust in youth, little guidance and support channels to mobilise them into such significant Fellowships in India.
With the identification of the need to build capacities of youth with required skills, language, shaping their passion, providing professional mentorship to match the opportunities of entry-level jobs in the social development sector and Fellowships in India.
The SAMARTH Fellowship is a nine-month program to engage young people into three parts: self-development; peer activities; and meeting aspirational career goals through well-defined structural processes. This will immerse them into real-life situations faced by social development spaces.
The leadership program will immerse Fellows into real-life situations faced by social development sector through following channels:
Aware: Raising awareness about the scope of the social development sector and exposure to entry-level roles in jobs & prestigious fellowships in India.
Educate: Facilitating a learning curriculum, knowledge, skill-building resources, and learning exposure visits. Hosting workshops and sessions to enhance the competencies & insightful learning co-creational activities.
Empower & Sustain: Building the capacities & inciting a growth mindset in the youths through structural processes and channelise them to social development processes. Aid them with personalised support channels and co-create prerequisites to place them in aspirational opportunities.
The broader objectives of the SAMARTH Fellowship are:
- Raise awareness about social development roles in jobs and fellowships of India.
- Develop learning and skill-building resources.
- Build capacities of the youth through structural processes.
- Channelise youth leadership into the social development process.
- Create a community pool of social-empathetic leaders.
- Network with academic institutions, social development professionals & organisations, and governments.
Eligibility
- Must be passionate about working in social development spaces.
- Should be an Indian citizen with age, not more than 30 years.
- Must have completed Graduation in any stream or in the last year of the course.
Objectives
- To raise awareness about social development roles in jobs and Fellowships in India.
- To develop learning and skill-building resources.
- To build capacities of the youth through structural processes and channelise them to social development processes.
- To create a community pool of social-empathetic leaders.
- To network with academic institutions, social development professionals & organisations, and governments.
Program Structure
SAMARTH Fellowship Program is designed with a three-pillared approach to ensure proper capacity building of young leaders:
- Knowledge: Awareness about social development roles, opportunities, and identification of needs. Building a foundational understanding of public policy, its implementation, and the key partners involved.
- Competencies: Building organisational skills like communication, documentation, collaboration, strategic planning, and allied. The key focus would be to incite systems thinking approaches.
- Aspirational Career Requisites: Developing personalised resources (like CV, Cover Letter, SOP. LOI, portfolio, allies) to meet the requirements of applying for job and Fellowship opportunities in India.
The Uniqueness of SAMARTH Fellowship
Most Flexible Fellowship: This is a part-time, virtual, and selfdevelopment-focused opportunity with ensuring engagements of 12-15 hours a week.
Democratic values: i.e. of the youths, by the youths, and for the youths. Focused on reaching all the youths of India for awareness, running the leadership program with the passionate ones, and all the strategies would be by the youths.
Fellowship of Fellowships: This Fellowship will guide fellows to make entry into aspirational Fellowship opportunities in India.
Technology-aided-Innovation: Operationalise through every digital platform like website, WhatsApp peer group, e-meets, workshops, in-house publications, learning resources, and personalised conversations.
Fellowship of expressions: The Fellowship will encourage individual expression in all dimensions like stories, blogs, individual passion, empathetic interaction, and allied activities.
Fellowship of social leaders: This fellowship envisions developing passionate youth to take charge, join the development sector, and build themselves into social leaders with the right amount of cognition, compassion, and competencies.
People Behind: Our team has first-hand lived experiences of pain followed by the gains from over 7 prestigious Indian and International Fellowships altogether
The SAMARTH Fellowship Services
SamBodh – A weekly thematic session to build competencies
FellowMania – A fellow-led co-creational learning platform
Mentor-संवा द – Personalised mentorship from mid-social leaders
Opportunity Alerts – Weekly Fellowships & Young Professional opportunities update
Knowledge Publications & Resources – Aid learning through insightful modules, blogs, books, reports, allies.
Learning Expo – Participation in bootcamps at different phases and allied learning exposure events.
Career Saarthi – Building profiles, portfolios, applying opportunities, hand holding recruitment.
Groomed Implementers – Practice competencies in assigned tasks, peer activities, and external opportunities.
Professional referrals and recommendations.
Fellow’s Journey
Our Knowledge Resources
Fellowship Cost to Organisation
Program/ Tuition Fees: ₹ 27000
Knowledge & Publications Resources: ₹ 6000
Mentorship & Career Counselling Fees: ₹9000
Training Events (3): ₹ 30000
Total: ₹ 72000
*Note: The above-mentioned costs are borne by the organisation per Fellow.
In an effort to make the program accessible to all participants, the SAMARTH Fellowship
Program cost a nominal charge of 15% of the total costs to be payable by the Fellows. SSF will sponsor the rest costs of the program.
Fellowship Cost to Fellow
Payable Amount (15% of total costs): ₹ 10,800
Bonafide final year college student (discounted rate): ₹ 10,000
*Note: For final year UG/ PG students, they would be required to submit their identity card and bonafide certificate issued by their respective university/ college to avail the discounts.
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