Practitioner- Community Action Lab

Community Action Labs (CAL); congruent to Development Blocks are TRI’s direct engagement with communities and local institutions, these are spaces for learning and demonstration; and closely draws intersectional supports with other two Practices : Public Policy in Action (PPiA) and Bending Markets for Flourishing Localities (BMFL); and provides the foundational terra firma to design and evolve solutions.

Engagement in CAL Blocks focuses on developing locality compacts drawing purpose driven collaborative of community collectives, local governance, and public functionaries to address integrated development aspirations of communities. In the CAL Block our efforts on intersectoral strategy is driven through the centrifugal force of “Community First” synergised with fostering institutional mechanisms and process protocols to achieve the tri-sector power of active citizenship, effective state and market engagement to drive development outcomes

As a CAL Professional, you are a key team member of the Community Action Labs (CAL). Your responsibilities, while indicative and not exhaustive, include:

• Ensure that the grass roots delivery is carried out in a planned, professional, systematic and coordinated way, through scoping, exploration and investigation to begin; form new relationships across broad spectrums of our communities and strengthen and develop already existing ones
• Practice the community led approach to develop plans and deliver results
• Collaborate with women collectives, Panchayats, and other community groups to design, execute, and monitor community development projects
• Conduct needs assessments, identify key areas for intervention and develop a detailed implementation plan
• Develop and implement training programs to build the capacity of community organizations and leaders
• Support the development of policies and strategies that promote sustainable development and resilience
• Collaborate with block administration, local authorities and stakeholders to enhance resource mobilization and policy advocacy.
• To monitor, record, evaluate work and provide reports and information as required in order to ensure a consistently high-quality provision and demonstrate the impact of interventions