Creating a senior leadership pipeline for the Social Sector

ABOUT ARITRA

Aritra in it’s new avatar is a 6-month leadership journey that mid to senior leaders in the Social Sector traverse while they continue to work in full time jobs. The Program aims to accelerate these leaders' movement into senior leadership roles. Aritra equips its Fellows with key organization building skills and perspectives that will help them drive impactful policies, build strong organizations and create a resilient, collaborative network of influence.

CONTEXT FOR THE PHICUS ENGAGEMENT

Aritra was conceived in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) and Dr. Reddy’s Foundation in 2016, as a response to the need for building leader capacities at scale. Phicus, through its experience of working with CSOs (Civil Society Organizations), saw a glaring gap in the quantity and quality of leaders at second line levels within these CSOs. To address this burning need in the sector, Phicus took it upon itself to craft a solution to address this gap.

THE ARITRA REACH

89 leaders, across multiple states, spanning both urban and rural areas have participated in Aritra, over 4 batches. In a hybrid format of online and in-person, Aritra leverages multiple methodologies over a 10-day period (spread across 6 months), and includes coaching, guest lectures, panel discussions, IIMB faculty-led classroom sessions and Phicus-facilitated skill building workshops. The programme spans 3 critical spheres of Leadership – Cause, Organizational and Personal, covering a broad range of topics such as models to scale, changing sectoral landscape, fundamentals of macro-economics, collaboration as a route to growth and impact, making sense of organizations, financial sustainability, organization culture, essentials of people management, future ready competencies for leaders, leading responsibly with joy and personal wellness.

GOING FORWARD

After completing 4 batches and covering 89 leaders, an impact evaluation is being conceived, to measure the impact the programme has had on its participants and their organizations. It is our dream to be able to offer a quality programme of this nature at scale - the foundation for which is currently underway.

Other Showcases

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PANI

Phicus supported the capacity building of all key staff at PANI to help them, in turn, equip the Community Resource Person (CRP) to achieve her goal of becoming an agri-water entrepreneur. Our work spanned training design, facilitation, and design of key people-related systems and processes.

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PRADAN

Phicus assisted PRADAN in crafting its transformation agenda of creating a new model of sustainable agriculture by building a cadre of village based para agro-economists, through re-design of their program and central team structure and processes.

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Agents of Ishq

Phicus helped Agents of Ishq prepare itself to transform from an ‘initiative’ to an ‘organization’, through an articulation of its vision and strategic roadmap.

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Community Action Collab & Shilp

Phicus partnered with Community Action Collaborative (CAC) to design and implement an Institution and Leader Resilience journey for the most marginalised communities in India.

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Growald Climate Fund

Phicus is an Organization Development partner to Growald’s grantee partners across the globe and helps them craft their business plans for growth

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Haqdarshak

Phicus helped craft a Leadership Development Journey for the second line leaders at HAQDARSHAK, to equip them to take on roles of higher responsibility, in the context of upcoming ambitious goals of the organization.

Leader Capability Building Showcases Showcases

Aritra

Phicus as a lead partner and architect of Aritra along with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), conducts an annual leadership accelerator program for mid-career professionals in the impact sector.

Community Capacity Building Showcases Showcases

Milaan Foundation

We partnered with Milaan to redesign their Girl Icon Program. We also designed the training program (complete with content, toolkits and other resources) for the Girl Icons and built the capability of the internal team to deliver this upskilling program.

Community Capacity Building Showcases Showcases

Sahuri

Phicus’ mascot for Agency Building and a channel for behaviour change, Sahuri, empowers diverse communities through engaging and context-relevant information nuggets.