Gurukulam
Akshara, is a not-for-profit development support organization, is initiated by practicing development management professionals to fulfill the need for affordable and timely professional support to individual organizations in development sector.
Akshara came into being on October 2, 1998 and it has been formally registered on March 17, 1999 (Regn. # 1720 / 99 under Public Societies Registration (Telangana Area) Act 1350F.
Akshara’s raison d’etre is to promote, support, sustain and offer appropriate support services to development organizations/groups/individuals and government organizations for the purpose of contributing to professionalism in the development sector, integrated human development and ecological integrity/security.
Akshara sees itself as a leading contributor in accelerating the pace of professionalism in the development (livelihoods) sector by 2010.
Guiding Values
- Hope that poverty can be eradicated
- Faith in the Capacity of the People
- People's Collective Effort
- Teamwork/learning and Learning Organization
- Excellence
- Significance
- Integrity
Activity focus
Training, Consulting and Action Initiatives towards- building the professional skills and capacities of the development workers and organisations;
- developing the professional tool kits/products for use of development workers and organisations;
- extending affordable professional support to development organisations and other stake holders;
- offering independent professional opinion on development programs/processes and organisations;
- building replicable models of development/development processes; and
- taking up programs that are important but not being addressed adequately at present.
Thematic Focus
- Rural Livelihoods: Four Arrows
- Micro-finance
- Watershed management
- Tribal affairs
- Poverty Reduction
- Cooperation and People's Institutions
Collective Expertise
- Livelihoods Enhancement Processes
- Participatory Processes
- Learning Processes
- Visioning and Institution Building
- Strategic Planning
- Human Resource Management
- Project Monitoring & Evaluation
- Finance
- Systems
- Information & Communication Technology
All activities are initiated on its own, sponsored and/or on a specific request of a specific group on a specific need.