NEISSR organises workshop for students
Dimapur, February 21 (MExN): North East Institute of Social Science and Research (NEISSR) organised three-day workshop on project cycle management and need of social work in different settings of the society for its second year students. The workshop concluded on February 20.
A press release from NEISSR Desk informed that NEISSR is looking at various new avenues and settings of reaching out to heal and meet the needs of the deserving sections of society. It is finding new ways to do social work profession. “We need to reach out to the youth and deserving individuals in the organized and unorganized settings like education and religion based institutions and communities to meet their urgent needs,” said Rev. Dr. CP Anto during the workshop.
Meanwhile, resource person Dr. Lukose P Jacob, Associate Professor, Don Bosco University, Guwahati, said that every school needs a social worker to identify students with development disorders and post traumatic issues to guide them with the help of their parents and other teachers. School is an area of work for social workers to identify children with behaviour disorders and learning difficulties to help them overcome their difficulties - physical, cognitive, social and emotional, communication, he added.
Some of the childhood problems he highlighted were developmental disorders, childhood mental illness, behavioural and emotional disorders, developmental disorders like specific reading disorder/ developmental reading disorder, specific arithmetic disorder, developmental disorder of speech and language. The external disorders, he mentioned, were attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder. The internal disorders were depression, separation anxiety, sibling rivalry, adjustment disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
He also trained the social work students on project cycle management (PCM), a term given to the process of planning and managing projects, programmes and organisation. It is used widely in the business sector and is increasingly being used by developmental organisations, the resource person pointed out.
PCM is based around a project cycle, which ensures that all aspects of projects are considered. A central value of the PCM method is that aspects of the projects are reconsidered throughout the project cycle to ensure that any changes which have occurred are included in the project design. As a result, projects are more likely to be successful and sustainable, Jacob stated. PCM involves a set of planning tools which feed into the logical framework (commonly known as a log frame). The Log frame is a table which gives a summary of the project plans.
Financial management and legal compliance were the other aspects covered. The resource person further dealt on how to monitor and evaluate projects with the participation of primary and secondary stakeholders.
