Post Graduate Diploma in Development Management (PGDDM)
The Post Graduate Diploma in Development Management (PGDDM) is a two-year full-fellowship programme that prepares students to be able to use research to identify development issues and to develop and test reasonable interventions and equips students with managerial tools and techniques for building people organizations and livelihood development activities.The PGDDM curriculum is equally divided between classroom learning and field practice. During the field practice, students design and implement projects and demonstrate their understanding of the theories and management skills learned during the classroom segments. The classroom curriculum comprises core courses on topics such as development theories, community organizing, contextualized development, communication, research, management, and leadership; elective courses are offered to enable specialization according to students’ interest.The Academy’s graduates are placed in Indian NGOs which work at the grassroots level, offer a challenging and professional work environment, and provide remuneration at par with the best in the sector.
Uniqueness of the course
Students who complete the course will have to
- Accept and pursue challenging development career to work with disadvantaged communities and may be becoming life time development worker
- Be creative, conceptual, and critical in thoughts, action and take transformation of socio-economic condition of the poor as mission of their lives.
- Have strong people-focused skills necessary for dealing with communities, building teams and organizations.
- Have the research capabilities necessary to identify development issues, experiment & contextualize interventions and mainstream collaboration.
- Be equipped with managerial tools and techniques for building people organizations and promoting livelihood development activities.
- Be a change agent for bringing equity and justice with actions involving honesty and integrity
The Academy also undertakes knowledge building and management activities through
- Full time Education Programmes
- Internships on development issues for national and international students.
- Research and Consultancy (poverty, human development, microfinance, microinsurance, leadership, water, health, education and disaster management, etc)
- Training and Development Management Education Programmes for practitioners in the development sector at the national and international levels
- Events through seminars, workshops and conferences; and Specialisation in Micro Insurance, Disaster Risk Mitigation & Adaptation and Water for domestic & agriculture usage through the respective resource centres (Advanced Centre for Skill and Knowledge on Micro Insurance (ASKMI), Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction (ACEDRR) and Water Knowledge Centre (WKC) respectively). Advanced Centre for Women Empowerment (ACEWE) and DHAN Centre for Social Enterprises (DCSE).
Structure
Programme in Development Management (PDM) Structure
The PDM’s curriculum is divided into five segments: the Preparatory Segment, the Classroom Segment, the Fieldwork Segment, the Development Practice Segment and INStitutional Pan-India for Reflective Exposure (INSPIRE).
Preparatory Segment
- Experiencing rural life
- identifying coping abilities for the sector
- Remedial courses
Building knowledge and perspectives
- Building creative, critical and analytical skills
- Building creative, critical and analytical skills
- Consolidation of learning
Development Practice Segment
- Enhance action-reflection process
- Building ‘people-focused’ skills
- Practicing management tools
- Exposure to organisational experiences
Fieldwork Segment
- Adapting to field realities
- Shaping beliefs and value systems
- Fact finding
- Application of classroom learning
Eligibility C
- Indian National is only eligible to enroll two year PG Diploma in Development Management offered by Tata-Dhan Academy
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Applicant must be any graduate of Arts/Science/ Social or Bio-sciences/Commerce/Economics passed
with a minimum 60% of marks (or equivalent) awarded by recognized Indian Universities/ Colleges.
Graduates waiting for the final semester results by end June 2018 could also apply. (or)
Applicant must be any Professional graduates in Agriculture and Allied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Medicine and allied courses passed with a minimum 55% of marks (or equivalent) awarded by recognized Indian universities and/or colleges. - Age of the applicant should not be more than 26 years as on 30th June 2018. No age relaxation is given at any circumstances.
- Graduates/Post Graduates / Professional graduates working in Indian Non-government organisations/ Civil society organisations those who fulfill all the above criteria should be eligible to apply
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Willing to work in designated Non-Government Organisation for minimum three years to serve the poor
people with a fairly decent monthly remuneration as per the norms of each NGOs.
( Successful graduates after two years of study will be awarded PG Diploma in Development Management along with the mark sheets after successful completion of three years of services without break)