Gandhi Fellowship and its impact

1. THE JOURNEY
Gandhi Fellow
Piramal Foundation For Education And Leadership

2. WHO WE ARE ?
 Gandhi Fellowship has emerged out of the
quest to reform issues in the 21st century
India and create a conscious set of
individuals who become the future nation
builders of our country.
 The Fellowship is designed to develop young
change leaders who embody and practice
leadership skills that are needed to create
large scale social and public systems change.

3. NATION BUILDERS
• Nation builders in the context of Gandhi fellowship are
committed youth who focus on developing the leadership
skills which are required to create positive, large scale and
lasting change in our society.

5. School Leadership
Development
• Improve Principal Leadership
• Improve Teacher Leadership
• Improve Community Ownership
District Transformation
Program
• Improve Middle Management
Leadership
• Develop Coaches and Facilitators
• Foster intra-dept. collaboration
State Transformation Program
• Improve System level Leadership
• Improve Institutional excellence
• Improve Process & decision
making
Demonstrate Change in Enable Leaders in Strengthen System in
Schools District State
3000+ Schools,
3000+ School Leaders
4 Districts,
600+ District Leaders
10 States,
25K+ System Leaders
KEF is a change management organization which demonstrate,
enable and strengthen public system to improve learning
outcomes of children

6. Rajasthan
Gujarat
Maharashtra
Delhi
Haryana
Uttarakhand
Rajasthan
Jammu &
Kashmir
Gujarat
Maharashtra
Delhi
Haryana
Uttarakhand
Andhra Pradesh
Assam
Jharkhand
Madhya Pradesh
Orissa
2016-17
6 States
2018-19
14 States
In 2017-18, PFEL doubled operations from 6 to 14 states to support
State Governments, improve learning outcomes of children
10
Districts
300 Districts
PLDP/DTP
STP
Bihar
Uttar Pradesh

7. Haryana Rajasthan Assam Andhra Pradesh
Gujarat
Partnered with DoE/SSA of 10 states to support them in effective
implementation of State Transformation Program
J &K Delhi
NITI
AAYOG

8. Gandhi Fellows
Learning and Initiative

9. How we learn and initiate?
 Development Sector knowledge
 Business Modelling
 Fund Raising
 Marketing & Selling
 Policy Influence
 Public System Change .
Leading Social Impact at Scale
 Self – Awareness
 Self-Management
 Self-Motivation
 Positive Psychology
Leading self
 Cultural & Territory knowledge
 Role Specific Knowledge
 Building Social impact solutions
 Enable High Impact on Field
 Technology Integration
 Leverage Data for impact
Leading on Ground Impact
 Communication & Presentation
 Project Management
 Change Management
 Education Sector Knowledge
 Systems & Process Thinking
 Strategic Management
Leading Organization Outcomes
 Collaborative Work
 Facilitation
 Stakeholder Management
 Team Management
Leading People
01
02
03
05
04

10. UNDERSTANDING
THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
 At different educational levels
Panchayat level
Block level
District level
State level
 And assisting institutes that add value to the education
system
SCERT
DIET
SIEMAT

11. BASTE KA BHOJ KAM INITIATIVE
What we did
Conducted a Pilot Study on 33
schools covering 33 districts of
Rajasthan
Dividing the prescribed syllabus on
the basis of term wise division and
consolidating the subject books into
one book per trimester.
Introduced integrated books for class
1 & class 2 comprising of topics from
Hindi, English and Mathematics
trimester wise.
Introduced integrated books for class
3 comprising of topics from Hindi,
English, Mathematics and
Environmental Studies.
Objective
As per the Yashpal Committee
Guidelines the weight of the bag of
students should be reduced in order
to promote healthy learning
environment thus the objective was
to implement the Yashpal Committee
Guidelines.
To relieve the child from the physical
and mental burden of carrying heavy
bags to school and promote holistic
development of the child taking care
of physical and mental needs of the
child
Outcome
The weight of the bag is now just the
half of the weight of the bags earlier.
CLASS Weight of
the bag
earlier(in
kg)
Weight
of the
bag
now (in
kg)
Differ
ence
1 0.900 0.400 0.500
2 0.950 0.400 0.550
3 1.350 0.500 0.850
4 1.450 0.500 0.960
5 1.250 0.500 0.750

12. NISHTHA
• Extended technical and organizational support
during KRP Selection
• Our team transformed the process into a completely
online process.
• A session during the DEC meeting was also taken up
regarding online processes by our team
• Our team also supported during :
1. Conduction of group discussion
2. Online test
3. Interview process.
• Ensuring successful implementation of
technical processes and organizational support
during NISHTHA Teacher Training
• We supported the officials in conducting online
test
• Introduced QR Code for easy access of the test
link
• Fellows also participated in the facilitation
process and extended discussions on the
concept of switch, immunity to change and
other behavioral enhancing topics.

13. Community Balsabha
Objectives of Balsabha
 To inculcate confidence and spirit of teamwork in
students.
 Theme based cultural and educational activities
lead to holistic development of the child
 Regular inspection and support by higher officials
has lead to new innovations and better quality of
balsabha in schools and at community level.
 We also introduced technical ways of tracking the
initiation of Bal Sabha in schools through google
forms, presentation formats and tutorial initially
and then further transformed it into one format
in Shala Darpan
65,000+ schools
84.00,000+ students
20,00,000+ parents
Students
Parents Teacher
Bal sabha

14. SIEMAT
Capacity Building Research Process
• Support curriculum
development for education
officers
• Selection and Induction of
Master Facilitators
• Induction and CPD
workshop planning and
Execution for Master
Facilitates, Master Coaches
and all District Managers
• Need analysis /FGDs for
middle managers
• Capacity building on
Fundamental and Action
research
• Support research workshop and
creation of workshop module
• Create tools and support on
ground execution
• Collaborating with research
assistants for conducting
research on ground and sharing
their learning which will be
disseminated at state by
SIEMAT
• Design implementable solutions
for Leadership Training process
of SIEMAT
• Develop online courses through
Diksha to improve access to
Leadership knowledge
• Establishment of SIEMAT as
State Leadership Academy
• Support to internal process
improvement within SIEMAT
5 Year MoU, signed in 2017, with a focus on providing Technical support to SIEMAT thereby leading to Institutional strengthening
Institutional Development
• Support continuous professional
development of SIEMAT staff
• Provide support to
Institutionalizing monthly meeting
• Provide support in execution of
SIEMAT interventions from State
to District
• Promotion and Marketing of
Institution
• Support in leadership workshops at
district level.
• Develop Standard Quality Metrics
for trainings, recruitment, planning
and research

15. ONGOING ENGAGEMENTS
CDEO OFFICE
• Joint Sambalan visits with ADPC
• Working for block ranking improvement
• Working towards district ranking
improvement
• Developing tutorial for enabling staff to
improve the process of feeding in the
portal
• Participation in District Review
Meetings
DIET OFFICE
• Use of Google form and technology in
registration , feedback and other
function of diet .
• Effective SAMBHALAN and
COACHING by faculty in school visit .
• Using waste of diet to set TLM lab .
• Behavioral and people or self
management skill trainings to Pre
Service & In Service Teacher Educators

16. Way forward…

17. OMNI CHANNEL APPROACH