Mithra Profile

PROFILE OF MITHRA Name of the Group

Address

MITHRA – A Consortium of Development professionals

12-13-443, Street No 1, Taranaka, Secunderabad, Hyderabad- Andhra Pradesh. Ms. Nalini. M. - Mobile No – 9440804861.

Contact persons

Mr. Anjana Prasad – Mobile No – 9440542765. Mr. Krishna Mohan – Mobile No – 9393683319. Mr. Lakshaman Rao – Mobile No – 9291514688

Date of Establishment Registered

January 2003 As an in formal Group, Yes

Date of Registration

25th January 2008

Registration No Place of Registration Bank – Name and

27/2008 Hyderabad Corporation Bank- Taranaka, Secundrabad.

Account No Date of

A/c No: 4911 Since 2003

Commencement of Operations Prelude: Mithra, Consortium of Development Professionals is an upcoming support group in Social Development scenario, is a firm having its head quarters in the Tarnaka, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, here by sharing details of experience in social development sector by providing technical expertisation to the respected organizations, Ingo’s, Corporate sectors Government Institutions

in Andhra

Pradesh. Mithra Consortium of Development Professionals is having three wings for Research and Documentation, Training and Capacity building and Project planning and Proposal writing. About 70 experienced development professionals from all

over India are associated with this Consortium.

These professionals share

expertise in Urban and rural sectors especially with themes like women & child development, NRM, livelihoods, RCH-HIV/AIDS, issues of the children Child labor, disaster preparedness, and Child trafficking. Mithra Consortium of Development Professionals is also enjoying good reputation of having some of the big and renowned NGO Networks, INGOs and Grass root level NGOs as our esteemed clients. Developing strategies for networking and designing advocacy strategies are one of our key expertise, which enables the Networks to move as a united and single force. One of the core values of Mithra are also to be accessible to the esteemed clients ranging from the Grass roots to INGOs, along with corporate sector having stakes in the Development Sectors, especially Mithra have working experience with Government of Andhra Pradesh which always emphasize on sustainable development in both urban and rural setups. However Mithra feels that, still there is a big gap in development sector in the form of transformation of technical inputs in to the regional languages which we are attempting to fill through our approach and strategies. Expertisation of Mithra : Participatory Methods are the most valued and concentrated in the group. All the work undertaken consist Participatory methods to empower communities, skill building of the staff to independently deal with development issues. Our competency in the area of health can be looked as TOT for staff involved in Health programs, Reproductive child health, Seasonality Health assessment through

participatory

methods,

Health

&hygiene,

HIV

/AIDS

(

care

&

support/trafficking etc)and Environment. Capacitating SHG groups on group dynamics, SHG concepts, book keeping, Gender development leader ship Development and especially in the field like assessment of

Livelihoods and Business development plans for sustainable

entrepreneur programs, and Micro credit plans., Our expertise in the field of education can be looked as Advocating for Child rights, life skill education, Child labour and child trafficking etc. Disaster preparedness is another crucial area where Mithra has proved its capacity and capability in developing contingency plans under community based disaster preparedness programs, having expertisation in developing urban community flood management includes psycho social care services/counseling plans based on the emerging issues. School disaster preparedness, School safety net plans are one of the crucial area in protecting the rights of the children. RESEARCH methodologies & Manual development is the nucleus of us and keeping us going. We have been working on Impact assessment Module preparation, Preparation of tools and systems monitoring and

evaluation, developing needs

assessment tools, conducting studies on different issues e.g. Disability, livelihoods etc.

Event management also one of the core area of MITHRA, which could able to organize workshops with SAMAJ vikasa under world bank project in urban set up. Along with research our major strength is documentation and Preparation of project proposals, Process documentation, Consolidation of field reports, Audit reports, Annual reports, Profile reports, and Media documentation One of the core strength of Mithra is Natural Resource Management. It can be seen in our work in this area through Watershed concept User group concept Book keeping in watersheds Live stock management Net planning Primary/secondary stake holders roles and responsibilities Convergence Non pesticide management Poultry Livelihoods and productive enhancement Gender in watersheds Basic technical aspects in watersheds Process monitoring in watersheds. Personality development, Group Building emphasizing on Attitudes and behaviors, Communication

skills,

Group

concept,

Formation

and

strengthening

of

federations, Records management has also been one of the core areas. TOTs is another major strength of this group. These programs are always based on the need of client and building Leadership in individuals. Mithra has always been Gender sensitive and treated as a separate domain and worked in the areas of Gender sensitization, Gender in livelihoods, Gender in watersheds, Gender in institution and Gender in disasters Organisation Development Plans in Project management and Vision building is one of the core areas of Mithra CULTURAL AND MASS MEDIA has always been the heart of Mithra in the form of Cultural promotion through Skits and Street plays. Mithra also has barged in to Pachyat Raj Institutions through orienting ZPTCs MPTCs, Sarpanch, ward members on Panchayat Raj act and their Roles and responsibilities Our expertise in NREGS-AP is in the form of giving Orientation on the act and the Roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders In Right to Information the expertise in analyzing Policies and using RTI for accessibility of welfare. Area of Expertisation of MITHRA

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Early Childhood Care and Development School Education & Adolescents education. Micro finance and SHG concepts, MACS Health /RCH/HIV/AIDS Promotion of Low cost food and Nutrition programs based on the locally available resources. Gender Child Rights & Child Participation Livelihoods. Psychosocial Counseling. Disaster Management. ICT for Change. Perspective Planning.

• • •

Organizational Development Natural Resource management Water and sanitation.

Association of Mithra :

•

Facilitated Net works Partners (AGS & CADME) of Plan International in assessing the livelihoods & Vocational options for the vulnerable families and children who are child labour in the operational areas especially for the coastal communities from Srikakulam to Nellore.

•

Facilitated free

Cleft and palate operations for Operation Smile

foundation from Mumbai in the state of Andhra Pradesh

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Facilitated Community based disaster Management and school based disaster management for children programs for UNDP activities in coastal Andhra.

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Facilitated Water and sanitation workshops in Rayalaseema and Telangana Regions funded by World Bank and facilitated by Samjvikas in Andhra Pradesh.

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Facilitated in developing Livelihoods and business development plans for Child trafficking project facilitated by plan International through 21 partners in Coastal, Rayalseema and Telagana regions.

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Continuously facilitating Legal Literacy workshops for Sex workers/Trans genders/ Children and the mid level management teams of the Partners funded by Alliance India in Telangana and Rayalaseema Regions.

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Facilitated Advocacy workshops for the partners supported by save the children to ensue the rights of the children.

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Conducted study on education system and reasons for drop outs of the children in fisher folk communities for the organizations SRUJANA & SWEEP placed at Vizayanagaram and Srikakulam of coastal Andhra Pradesh.

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Facilitated workshop on Knowledge Olympics which was jointly organized by CARE India, Alliance India, HllFPPT and TAI from Tamilnadu state to enhance skills in event management, Public speech, Photography and Video Graphy for the sex workers/Trans Genders and MSMs.

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Conducted Micro Planning on the issues of the children in disaster prone Areas of coastal Andhra Pradesh for CJWS, CAMP, Spurthee, SNIRD, SEEDS, Consider organizations.

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Facilitated workshops at Hyderabad organized by APMSS to Address the Issues of Adolescents in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Facilitated Gender workshops for WASSAN organization supported by SERP in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Jointly facilitated Advocacy workshops on rights of the children with APCRAF- Vijayawada.

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Facilitated ICT Project for Adolescent groups at Bapatla Mandal where the project Implemented by Consider organization supported by CARE India.

Profiles of MITHRA Group; A part of the profile provided the Mithra have nearly another experienced personnel who have been associated since past 5 years. Profiles of the Experts In Mithra S.no

Name

Education Qualifications

Years of Experience in Development Sector

Expertisation Water sheds/ NRM/gender/ Organisation development /gender In disastersTOT/event management/ Training designs, Micro Finance, SHG capacity building Technical Subject Expert related HIV/AIDS/PLHIVS and MSM/ Disaster Preparedness/ counseling Child rights/ Street Theater/Advocacy/ Child participation/ School based disaster preparedness/ Livelihoods and Micro finance Project and Proposal development. Analyst and Documentation Nutrition and Health – RCH. Disaster Preparedness. Early child hoods / Pre schools care/ livelihoods. Child Policy Analyst and Education specialist/ Livelihoods/ Psycho social Care/counseling skills

1.

Ms.M.Nalini

MA.Social Work

15 years

2.

Mr.Jagdeesh

MSW

20 years

3.

Mr.Laxman Rao

MA Sociology

15 years

4.

Mr. Henry Thamos

MA. Sociology

30 years

5.

Mr. Mehar

MA social work

20 years

6.

Ms. Sridevi

MA. Social work

5 years

7.

M.Prakash

Diploma in video

20 years

Documentary and training for communities on video documentation

8.

K.Murali

Diploma in still Photography and Trainings

12 years

Trainings and Still Photography.

9.

Mr. Ramana Murthy

MA sociology

18 years

RCH/NRM/Food and Nutrition/ livelihoods, Forest management

10.

Ch.Anjana Prasad

MA. Sociology

15 years

11.

Mr. Bhavani Sankar

MA. Social work

11years

12.

Ms. Swathi

MA Social Work

1 year

13.

Mr. Nageshwra Rao

MA economics

15 years

Gender/ Documentation/ micro finance/Disaster preparedness/ School based disaster preparedness Research /Child trafficking and HIV aids & Child Vulnerability/ counseling Project preparation and Proposal Development Care and support programs for the children and counseling. Cultural and Mass Media/ Psychosocial Care, Disaster Preparedness

14.

Mr. Krishna Mohan

MA. Economics

15 years

Research/Participatory methods/Event management/TOT/Livelihoods

15.

Mr. Dinesh

ICT specialist

18 years

ICT related projects

16.

Mr. Sanjay

ICT specialists

17 years

ICT related projects

17.

Mr. Ranjan

MA Social Work

5 years

Microfinance Specialist/ BDP/Livelihoods/MACS

18.

Ms. Nageshwari

MA. Social Work

7 years

Micro finance/SHG concepts/Leagl Literacy

19.

Mr.Madhu

MA.Social work

12 years

Research methodologies /education and Documentation

20.

Mr. Narayana swamy

MBA

20 years

Fiancé management