Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Development Studies (PGDM-DS)

PGDM-DS is designed to enhance your leadership skills and competencies to develop and implement strategies that enable your social organisation/ enterprise to be strongly positioned for the future.

Both, at the national and international levels, there has been a growing concern towards addressing social, cultural, environmental and economic challenges facing the society, communities and groups. In India, the government sector and corporates have directed efforts towards creating constructive channels and ensuring sustainable benefits. In these development efforts, the voluntary sector has become an integral partner, and over the years earned far more legitimacy, acceptability and trust from both private sector & government.

You, too, can become an integral part of this sector and contribute considerably with your special skills, capabilities and passion to create a better tomorrow!

Who Should Join?

The Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies is open to all individuals who are either considering embarking on entrepreneurial career pathway with social motives or would like to lead and contribute the change in society. Both, at the national and international levels, there has been a growing concern towards addressing social, cultural, environmental and economic challenges facing the society, communities and groups. In India, the government sector and corporates have directed efforts towards creating constructive channels and ensuring sustainable benefits. In these development efforts, the voluntary sector has become an integral partner, and over the years earned far more legitimacy, acceptability and trust from both private sector & government.

PGDM-DS is designed to enhance the leadership skills and competencies of those socially responsible individuals who are:

• budding social entrepreneurs with a vision to develop the world, who aim to identify innovative solutions to social problems and are strongly committed to take up the challenges of solving these social problems
• aspiring to be a Certified Social Development Practitioner; Part of Flagship Missions, Researcher cum social scientists; Social Enterprise counselors; Micro Finance [alternative financial services] leader; Development scholars abroad with international organization
• aspiring for a career in non-profit community based organizations, state, national, and international organizations; grant making organizations, CSR wings of Industrial houses; and be engaged in rural & urban development

The major objectives of the course includes

• building a cadre of new generation development professionals with required knowledge, competence, orientation and values
• transferring the expertise and rich experience of EDI for the promotion of solutions in the areas of Microenterprise, Micro finance, Livelihood promotion, Women entrepreneurship, Group entrepreneurship, Social Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility
• offering rewarding careers in action around
• Overall economic development with inclusive growth
• Sustainable and environment friendly solutions
• Governance
• Use of technology for development

Major Takeaways:

• Engage with subjects including gender and poverty, microfinance, human rights, environmental sustainability, livelihood promotion, civil society organisations and many more.
• Study core and applied management skills subjects, including strategic management, financial management, human resource management, project management and design, monitoring and evaluation, and research methods for development.
• Field Work Segment, Summer Internship and Field Research Segment to augment a practical on-field understanding and exposure of the student's area of interest or forte.

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