DHAN Foundation is one of the Professional Non-Governmental Gandhian Organisations, working for the upliftment of the poor. Human Resource Development is one of the core purposes of DHAN Foundation which envisages inducting young professionals to work with the poor people. DHAN has established a special Centre for Human Resource Development (CHRD), which creates opportunity for the young professionals to pursue development career as way of life. DHAN - CHRD ensures a systematic HRD process to select, place and nurture professionals in the following ways
- Enabling individuals for Committing as a Choice to the ‘Cause’ by Self-realization.
- Enabling for experiencing to bring 3C’s – Culture, Commitment and Competencies.
- Enabling for innovating to transform the lives of significant numbers of poor.
- Nurturing to build Attitude, Skills and Knowledge to do Development work for long Term.
- Building Code of Conduct and Self-Regulation on a Continuous Basis.
Professional’s Development Journey : Development Professionals to Development Leader
DHAN Foundation follows the structured investment for grooming the young professionals as development leaders who go through the graduation process of learning through working at different levels in the institution.
Young professionals start their development journey as an Explorers for 3-5 months, become Learners during the apprenticeship phase for 12 months and get graduated as Project Executives as a Contributor by implementing a specific project for minimum three years. Later emerged as Team Leaders to provide operational support and guidance for a batch of executives. The growth path also extended as Programme Leaders to shoulder the strategic responsibility of a particular theme and Strategic Leader of the building the institution.
Both DHAN Foundation and the individuals play a major role in the transformation from a Development Professional to a Development Leader. DHAN professionals undergo multiple different levels and modules of training programme and get equipping for matrix role in the development sector.
"Give a man a fish, you feed for a day!
Teach the man how to fish; you feed him for entire life!"
Fitting the above adage, DHAN Foundation’s approach is in enabling the poor to better their lives and achieve self-reliance. DHAN strongly believes that what poor need is not charity, but hope, not sympathy but entitlement, not delivery of services but an enabling environment to earn those services by themselves. We hope that this enabling approach will facilitate the poor to stand on their own by earning a decent income with dignity. DHAN achieves this by promoting self-reliant people institutions, by organizing the poor and creating an effective demand stream, where the poor have an opportunity to take up collective action for poverty reduction. So, in a nutshell, DHAN doesn’t claim itself working for the poor, but works with the poor, as partners in creating a poverty-free world.
“We ought to have a worker in every villages of India. He/she would depend on the people for
his livelihood, and would guide them and work with them to build up the strength of the
village” Gandhi to Vinoba
“If you stop thinking about yourself, and take up the constructive programme with
determination and faith, so that, you are completely absorbed in it, it will benefit both yourself
and the whole world also…” Vinoba call for the fellow workers.”
Fitting the above adage, DHAN enables the professionals enables the professionals to give back to the society by the way of directly working at the grassroots level. DHAN Professionals organises the poor community and promoting People Institutions. Each DHAN Professional is working with more than 2500-3000 poor families. DHAN Professionals enabling the community to understand their need, prioritise the need, customise the development products. DHAN Professionals enables for the self-reliant and sustainability of the people institutions. Community Leadership programme is the one of the flagship programmes of DHAN, where the leaders are being enabled to govern the people institution. Within 3-5 years, the people institutions are completely governed by the people leaders and the people institution also promoting People Institutions as giving back to society.
How DHAN builds the Professionals for giving back
- Opportunity to recognize your innate potential and capitalize it for the betterment of the society.
- Freedom of autonomy to perform your roles and responsibilities.
- Continuous learning environment, to achieve excellence.
- Exposure to various portfolios and platforms in the vast arena of development sector.
- Constant support and mentoring from senior colleagues and peers.
- Satisfying working environment with value-based conduct.
Our DHAN Family
As of now, DHAN Foundation have more than 750 direct employees and more than 2500 people functionaries working with poor for enabling the poor for poverty eradication. It includes Professionals from Agriculture, Engineers, Doctors, Veterinarian, Civil professionals, Business professionals and para-professionals from different disciplines in different contexts like rural, coastal, urban and tribal.
Applications are accepted from the professionals having minimum 4 years of degree in the stream of Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine (Doctors, Veterinarian) and Business. Also, from the Para-Professionals having minimum 3 years of degree in the Commerce and Business.
Contact : hrm@dhan.org