Applications Invited for Measuring Development Programme

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About the Organization:

Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) is a premier, national level Institute for Post Graduate, Fellow Programme and Mid-career/in-service education, research and consulting in rural management.

About the Programme:

“In life what gets measured gets managed”. Hence, measuring or sizing of any problem is the essential first step in tackling it. Measurement not only allows one to compare present situation with past, but also facilitates setting up targets for future. It also indicates where they stand relative to other.

This programme deals with both the conceptual and practical issues in measuring development. It considers different measures of development: poverty, inequality, inclusion, quality of life, human development, gender development, among others.

One of the dilemmas in measurement is choice between alternative measures: How to decide which is a better measure? This training programme provides the clues and the tools to examine different alternative options. The programme explores the policy implications of measures, and further improvement in measures to achieve development with a human face in an environmentally benign manner.

Objectives:

• To provide an in-depth understanding of conceptual issues concerning different measures of development.
• To equip participants with necessary analytical and critical skills to assess different facets of development like poverty, inequality, growth, human development, etc.
• To develop insights into the evolution of different measures and their characteristics, usage, and possible implications.
• To expose participants on different sources of data to measure development and provide hands-on experience of using these datasets.

Benefits of the Programme:

• Best measures are not always the most popular. Success of a measure depends on many factors – from its simplicity to politics of it. This programme enables participants to understand the nuances. Data are indispensable for development practitioner.
• But this training provides the critical aptitude to go beyond data—understand the intentions behind the data and their immediate consequences. Needless to say, all the participants are awarded with certificate from IRMA at the end of the programme.

Who Should Attend:

• Development and management practitioners from all walks of life: Co-operatives, NGOs, Government organizations, executives at supervisory, middle, and senior levels

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