Sayukti Fellowship

The Issue

Dignity and the idea of autonomy engulfed within its umbrage are a necessity for leading a wholesome human life. Lack of awareness and capacity to act are amongst the most lethal impediments in the path of any individual or community to secure dignity for itself. This becomes a graver issue for people from marginalized communities. Interventions by Governments and Non-Governmental Organizations focus primarily on addressing the visible and tangible problems like school enrollments, labor registrations etc. The focus is not on making the people independent active citizens. 

The Action 

The work being done by Sayukti Collective (Research Wing of DEVISE) seeks to tackle this lack of sustainable solutions. Sayukti Collective aims to develop fellowships which provide selected fellows with a gradual and context specific learning curriculum in accordance with their existing capacities. The program will help the fellows to become socially responsible and independent individuals who can carry their community forward. The fellowship aims to train the fellows to become self-sufficient to research about and deal with any socio-legal issues which they and their community face.

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Fellowship Model

The fellowship is directed at youth from marginalized communities, in the age group of 20-25, who aspire to work for social change within their community.  We train them in the basics of law and policy research to build their capacity to identify and engage with the primary problem faced by their respective communities. The training module for fellows is individually designed to suit their unique needs as Individuals.

Workflow for this model includes these steps:

  • Call for Applications to join the fellowship program will be circulated within the city in which Sayukti Collective is functioning (Currently Patna) through social media platforms and through civil society organisations which work with youth in that particular area.
  • Applicants who show genuine interest in learning the various skill sets associated with socio-legal/socio-political research along with having the goal of conducting research within their communities will be selected.
  • Once the fellows have come on board a 4 month training program will start. The program will be molded according to their skill-sets at the time of joining the fellowship. The program will have field based sessions and in-room sessions.
  • Sayukti Collective continuously conducts its own socio-legal research projects. Our attempt is to onboard the fellows in sync with the start of a new project. The research projects form a part of the field based sessions.
  • Through the project the fellow will get hands-on experience of Primary Research, Report Making, and FGDs.
  • The in-house sessions will focus on secondary education, Basic Research Skills, Ethics and Social Responsibility and Basics of Advocacy and Community Outreach.
  • Following that in the last two months the Fellows will have to start working on developing a research project of their own around the primary problem which they identify in their community.

The aforementioned steps anchor our goal of capacity building within the community to conduct law and policy analysis.