Day15: starting to organize recommendation/deliverable

25日(火) いつものオフィスでの作業日。

派遣3週目に入り、各チーム成果物、最終プレゼンに向けた準備を進め始めています。
Swabhimaan Team(Cathy, Eduardo,私の3人）も, 下記4点を盛り込んだ成果物の作成に向けて、ピッチを上げて取り組んでいます。



Their main concerns are:

Swabhimaan NGO has grown to 25 schools mainly on the basis of interest and financial donations of well meaning individuals. Thus, there is a need to identify and expand sources of funding. Its impact is currently very local and limited to Ludhiana city only. Swabhimaan NGO aspires to increase its visibility beyond the city of Ludhiana and scale up and start similar Swabhimaan NGO schools in other cities of Punjab. Additionally, it would like to network with national and international organizations already existing in the field of education (such as Pratham, an education NGO with national reach) so that free, quality education can become accessible to every child. To accomplish all this they need the assistance of IBM volunteers to review their existing processes and develop a 5-year strategic plan for scaling up. 

Our objective over the 4 weeks in Ludhiana will be:

1. Recommendations on the existing processes of Swabhimaan NGO
2. Develop a 5-year strategic plan to achieve scaling-up and growth objectives of Swabhimaan NGO
3. Recommendations on branding and sustainable funding sources
4. Recommendations on possible partnerships with appropriate national and international organizations

FundraisingやPartnershipの領域で昔の非営利組織での経験が少し活かせる場面がある一方で、今回のプロジェクトは、要はSwabhimaan NGOの今後の経営に対する提言にもなるので、基本スキルではありますが会計/財務に関する知識を事前にもう少しきちんと身につけておくべきだったなと思います。チームにFinance部門に属するメンバーが居るのでチームとして特に問題はありませんが、自分の活動の幅を限定させてしまっている意味で反省の残るところです。

※昼食はChanne BhatureとNan Choorというインド料理。最初は怯えていたストリートフードにもだいぶ慣れてきました。

※オフィスの周辺の風景