Empowering School Management Committees Through Need Based Capacity Building Programme

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This study is an attempt to understand the Needs of School Management Committee Members for building the capacities of SMC members as envisaged in section 21 and 22 of the RTE Act, 2009. Assessing the training needs helps in identifying the specific knowledge and skills required by the target group and to be more efficient and innovative in their task performance. Need analysis can also act as a powerful tool spot the deficiency in the functioning of any system and prepare a priority based and effective course design for any capacity building programme. This paper focuses on the research and its findings on the needs of Capacity building for SMC members. The sample was collected from 216 government schools of Delhi and six SMC members from each school were randomly selected for the present study. The paper includes the methodology adopted for need analysis of SMC members. A questionnaire was developed to analyze the needs of SMC members after having the Focused Group Discussions with the stakeholders related to SMC (including Administrators, Community representatives, the school representatives and NGOs working in the field). The Need-Assessment Performa was filled by the SMC members from government school of Delhi .Apart from the needs of the ground, Need was assessed from the stake holders and SDP (School Development Plan) was also added in the training content to increase the support of SMC members at school level. This paper discusses the design process, implementation process, their findings, challenges, insights and the outcomes of the Need identification. Through assessment of the needs of SMC members, specific focus areas were known and which would further help in content development leading to effective task performance.

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