Capacity Building
Building the people and institutions who build change – so impact outlives any single project.
- COMPLIANCE & FILINGS
Features of our Capacity Building Initiatives
16
knowledge partners
From Shiv Nadar University in Delhi NCR and IIHMR University in Jaipur to grassroots CSOs, across 9 states, co-designing and delivering every course.
12,000+
trained since inception
Frontline functionaries, government staff and CSO professionals, across livelihoods, digital skills and natural resource management.
2
direct government partnerships
JSLPS (Jharkhand) and the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board place BRLF-trained professionals inside public delivery systems.
16
module co-learning curriculum
Structured platforms, from CPRL’s curriculum to peer exchanges among CSO partners, help practitioners learn from each other.
Flagship
- Featured Programmes · Shiv Nadar University
MA in Rural Management, Shiv Nadar University
A first-of-its-kind Master’s, co-created by BRLF, preparing young people to lead rural transformation. Its design breaks from convention: a full year spent in the field, a curriculum built around India’s most pressing rural challenges – water, farming, livelihoods, nutrition, sanitation – and faculty drawn from scholars and practitioners with decades of ground experience. The programme deliberately draws students from India’s most disadvantaged regions and communities, and its graduates have been placed with many of the country’s most respected grassroots organisations.
- Featured Programmes · Ministry of Tribal Affairs
The Aadi Karmayogi Abhiyan
Under a partnership with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, BRLF designed and delivered the national training architecture for the Aadi Karmayogi Abhiyan – a cascading model carrying one curriculum from regional centres down to district officials nationwide.
- All initiatives
Explore all Capacity Building Initiatives
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MA in Rural Management, Shiv Nadar University (Delhi NCR)
- Creating a cadre of rural development professionals.
- A full year of immersive fieldwork across India.
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Green Hub Central India Fellowship
- Training tribal youth in video storytelling.
- 10-month residential fellowship based in Bhopal.
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Certificate Program in Rural Livelihoods
- Field-based learning for tribal rural professionals.
- With IIHMR University and 16 knowledge partners.
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MBA in Rural Management
- Scholarships for tribal youth in development management.
- With IIHMR University, Jaipur.
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Refresher Courses for Tribal Youth in Rural Livelihood
- Refreshing livestock skills for CPRL alumni.
- Launched in response to the pandemic.
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Masons and Carpenters Programme
- Training artisans for rural tourism homestays.
- With Hunnarshala Foundation and MP Tourism Board.
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OCEAN (APC Capacity Building)
- Organisational capacity building for smaller CSOs.
- With PRADAN, focused on APC partners.
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EDIT (Digital Tools)
- Digital tools for front-line capacity building.
- Piloted with PRASARI and Arghyam.
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JSLPS Programme
- Custom training for JSLPS field staff.
- 26 active learning days across 5 knowledge partners.
- IMPACT
Want to see what these initiatives have built?
Explore the training modules, evaluation studies and outcomes across our capacity-building work.
