31/12/2018
IVDC
Partnership
in
Development
Syed Ashique Mahmood
House 629/685, Road 12, Baitul Aman Housing Society Adabor, Dhaka 1207
Phone: 01711434790
IVDC Partnership in Development
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. IVDC Organizational Description
3. Introduction to Approach and Specialization
4. IVDC and Popular Theatre
5. IVDC'S Experience on Audio-Visual Production
6. IVDC List of Publication
7. IVDC Partnership in Popular Theatre
8. IVDC Training Programme
1. Executive summary
IVDC as a development support organization has delivered training, consultancy and technical services to 335 different organizations, national and international. About 20 thousand development workers and stakeholders at grassroots level have received training and consultancy services from IVDC over previous 19 years. The majority of the participants are those who have received training on popular theatre or village drama from us and applied that in their respective working/program areas.
460 theatre groups have been formed only in BRAC combining more than 6000 field level beneficiaries all over the country since 1998 and they are now staging dramas on many development issues in weekly basis under close supervision of IVDC. Moreover, most of the documentaries, magazines, TV spots and fillers telecasted in Radio and Television channels of Bangladesh concerning education, human rights, development and popular interest are produced by us. We got those programs produced by our production house Tirtho Media Centre. We produced those for UNICEF, ILO, PROSHIKA, BRAC, CRP, Aparajeyo Bangladesh, Sight Savers International, BPKS, NFOWD, LGED and many others. We also sold many of those to BTV produced in our own cost.
We are interested to work as a consultant of your organization for supporting your development programme. We hope that we will be able to meet your expectation.
2. IVDC Organizational Description
Introduction
IVDC was founded in April, 1986 at the combined initiative of local organizers and social workers with broad experience in national level development organization, aiming at providing appropriate development services to self-starter, locally-based groups/organizations and contributing to a process of positive social change in Bangladesh. As a means to achieving this end, IVDC strives to follow a need-based, propel-centered and participatory approach.
Aims an objectives of the organization
1) Identify individuals and organizations committed to self reliant and participatory efforts at grass-roots level.
2) Assist such organizations in the identification and proper utilization of local resources for achieving a self-reliant development process.
3) Provide appropriate development education to organizations and their targeted beneficiaries, in the form of training, informal dialogues, follow up, facilitation of experience sharing between them and other methods and techniques of development communication.
4) Create knowledgeable and committed local leadership that can serve the needs of the poor and destitute people of their communities through creative, appropriate and democratic means.
5) Assist these organizations in creating systematic self-planning, monitoring, evaluation and documentation system to the smooth running of their programmes.
6) Assist in developing sound and effective management systems among such organization.
7) Create networks among the self-starter local organizations for sharing resources and knowledge and the creation of coordinated approaches and strategies that can lead them towards the attainment of a unified goal.
Operational areas and programme outline of IVDC
As a development support organization IVDC is working all over the country through its partner organization. IVDC established a national network of 750 organizations
The whole process of IVDC programmme consists of the following major programme components:
Motivation and organization building
Awareness raising and skill development
Functional education
Popular theatre
IVDC’s stand in ensuring self-support through training and consultancy stems from the enlightened conception that development objectives are better attempted and better achieved without external aid. With such conviction boldly pursued IVDC has so far trained nearly 20,000 development workers, professionals and group leaders of local, national and international GOs and NGOs numbering 335 since training facility started in 1988.
Organization and management
As a development support organization, IVDC having its head office at Shyamoli, Dhaka. The directors of the firm are all professionals with background of economics, sociology, rural development, education, communication and project management specialist. They are all members of various professional societies. The Board of management is in fact, quite capable to handle any volume of project commitment which is one of the advantages for the clients in terms of smooth project operation and management.
The firm has always maintained the highest standard of services to the nation and to its clients. It portraits as a service organization in the true sense of the term and earnestly safeguard the interest of the clients.
Staffing resources
About 108 staffs are employed by IVDC including 38 professionals, sub-professionals and technical personnel. The most senior professionals of the firm have overseas experience and are familiar with integrated studies, grouping several professional disciplines for the purpose of carrying out specific jobs. The professionals of the firm are encouraged to maintain close contracts with their universities or research institutes in order to keep pace with latest developments in their respective field of disciplines.
3. Introduction to approach and specialization
IVDC came into being as an initiative concert to respond to the needs to not only development, but chiefly to respond to the support needs for social organizations, especially linked with rural lots. IVDC’s specialization rooted in development communication and through effective communication and enriching out to the rural groups-living miserably along or beneath the poverty line-ensure better output of development endeavors.
Training and allied consultancy services need effective communication and field experience. IVDC specializes in communication while enriches its store with infield experience out of the best experience of its field projects and partner organizations all over the country.
IVDC’s consultancy /support service equally stems in the proven effectiveness of informal and folk-based communication capability. The multi-dimensional support services-all on a non-formal and participatory basis-range included human development, development education and communication, programme management and organizational development. The fields are as follows:
I. Human resource development
II. Training
III. Media Campaign
IV. Action research
V. Adult/non-formal education
VI. Development management
VII. Socio-economic research
VIII. Project preparation and appraisal
IX. Health and nutrition
X. Women affairs
XI. Child rights
XII. Popular theatre
XIII. Media materials development
XIV. Organization building
XV. Social Mobilization
IVDC reputation as development support organization
IVDC Dhaka since its formation in 1986 have gained wide ranging reputation as major development support organization in our country. During this period, IVDC have carried out a significant member of assignments in Bangladesh. The assignments included rural development, socio-economic studies, participatory planning, education/communication materials development, resource mobilization, staff development and capacity building, macro and micro economic planning, rural institutions planning, and media campaign. Since its inception, with regard to projects of same dimension, the firm is considered to be serialized one which it has built up during the last 20 years.
4. IVDC and Popular Theatre
People, committed to quicken the pace of development, often look for appropriate and effective communication methodology. It’s a fact that a media outlet like Popular Theatre is one of the fundamental precondition to development endeavors, since it requires motivation prior to all material and structural resources.
Considering its for-reaching objectives IVDC has attached due importance to Popular Theatre both in terms to performance and resource build-up as well as imparting basic training on how to perform organize, form groups, keep documentation’s and monitor social feedback of Popular Theatre in a profession manner enriched by experience as a pioneer in this field.
IVDC is engaged from the very beginning in the research and application of the development process of the people of Bangladesh at the root level their culture and its updating. From our experience we have been able to establish that awareness raising of the mass people and their empowerment through Folk Media in complementary for their development. Popular theatre has been proved to be the most powerful media among all the branches of Folk Media.
Cardinal behind IVDC`s efforts to promote popular theatre is to accelerate human development through raising awareness of people. IVDC has so far imparted training and consultancy services on promoting popular theatre and now if enters in to various programme partnerships. A Pioneer in the sector we constantly innovate ways and means to prorate popular theatre as the leading trainer, performing forceps organizer and material resource provider to organizations interested to communicate with their target group of people effectively through folk media.
To date IVDC has organized and provide successful training and guidance for 235 government, non-government, national and international organization and has been able to prepare more then 9500 workers through training at the field level to make them active popular theatre solders. All these organizations through implementation of their popular theatre programmes have come to the unanimous decision that there is no alternative to popular theatre as complementary media of development communication.
Under long term agreement with BRAC on providing technical assistance on establishing their Popular Theatre Component 462 theatre groups have been formed combining more than 5000 field level beneficiaries of BRAC all over the country since 1998. About 15,000 dramas concerning development issues of the locality have been staged under technical assistance of IVDC. Popular theatre organized by BRAC in its different working areas has been accepted very well by the villagers and created unexpected awareness on development related issues.
IVDC has also imparted training and provided technical assistance to more than 500 organizations on development and Popular Theatre - including BRAC CCDB, CARITAS, ACTION AID, VERC, RDRS, SCI, GSS, T**D, CWFP, HEED, BRDB, OXFAM, BPHC.
5. IVDC's EXPERIENCE ON AUDIO-VISUAL PRODUCTION
(TV Spot, Filler. Magazine, Documentary, Drama Serial etc.)
6. IVDC PUBLICATION FOR NONFORMAL EDUCATION CENTERS STUDENT.
Title Contents
1. TAK DHINA DHIN : Musical Drama for children for grade 1-3
2. ACHINE PURER RAJKANNA : A collection of Rhymes for the children for grade 1-3
3. SONAR BANGLA : Folk poem/ song on problems of rural poor, for grade 4-5
4. CHAIRMAN O MOZOOR : Musical Drama on relation between labour and chairman and exploitation process for grade 4-5
5. PRETHIBI AMARO : Song and poetry book for the children on child rights for grade 4-5
6. DUNIYA BHAGABHAGI : Folk poem book on social exploitation for grade 4-5
7. BAGH O SHAYLER KAHIN : Folk poem book on social exploitation for grade 4-5
8. PEAAR MURGIR KHAMAR : Story book on income generation, for grade 4-5
9. ACHINPURER RAJKANNAYA : Folk Rhymes for grade 1-3
10. KUDRAT ALIR KISHSHA : A series of books on social oppression and exploitation for grade 4-5
11. BHULU O MASTER : Folk poem book on Education for grade 4-5
12. BAGHER BICHER : Folk story book on social exploitation, for grade 3-4
13. EEK JEE CHILO RAJPUTTUR : Folk tales book on humanity for grade 1-3
14. RAJA HOLO RANIR GOLAM : Folk tales books on women rights for grade 4-5
15. KABUL BOLER AGEY : Musical drama book on legal rights of women for grade 4-5
16. AMI : Book for preschool children’s
17. AMRA : Book for preschool children’s
18. SHIAL : Book for preschool children’s,
19. KEE RAJA : Book for preschool children’s,
20. MEGH BRISHTI PANI : Book for preschool children’s.
21. KADBENA BOLCHI : Book for preschool children’s
22. SONAR SATDIN : Book for preschool children’s
23. SCHOOL THEKE PALASH KENO : A musical drama book on teachers and student for grade 4-5
24. LOVAY PAP : Story book on moral learning for children for grade 4-5
25. SHARIR BHALO RAKHETAHOLE : Rhymes on child health education for grade 3-5
26. JUGY JUGY NARI : Historical background of women for grade 4-5
27. BAGHER KAHINI : Social Problem for grade 4-5
28. KAN KATA RAJA : Social Problem for grade 4-5
29. SARBOHARA KUDROT ALI : Social Problem for grade 4-5
30. KUDROT ALIR SUK DHUKHA : Social Problem for grade 4-5
31. BHALOBASAR GOLPO : A Drama book on HIV/AIDS. for grade 4-5
7. IVDC Partnership in Popular Theatre
1. Introduction
IVDC is name of a movement for integrated development especially for rural Bangladesh. For IVDC the logic of its essence and being is to accelerate human development. A group of devoted people as it is IVDC, believes in sharing the development endeavor. The simple and inordinate logic is to create opportunities for people’s physical and mental abilities. We specialize in Development communication and methodology based chiefly on the Folk Media resources strewn sporadically all over Bangladesh.
IVDC’s specialty in promoting Folk Media resources into the modes of development communication tends automatically to choose an integrated approach that being on record of ensuring more dynamics and versatility for development communication.
IVDC has to its credit been entrusted to impart more than 20,000-development worker’s training on a varied range of social interests. IVDC’s stand on self-support stems deep in the training and consultancy services. IVDC - run training programs included national and international level organizations numbering 325 since the program started in 1988.
2. Popular Theatre: Supplementary force of Development.
Bangladesh witnesses a unique combination of Government efforts supported actively by NGOs and a number of local institutions run in individual enterprise. For example BRAC and other such NGOs are running huge micro-credit programs in several parts of the country. But these credit-based sustainable development endeavors could only be meaningfully implemented provided that popular awareness in raised and the level of people’s socio-economic perceptions in lightened to a degree which helps guarantee the best utilization of credit and any financially supported sustenance efforts. Here comes the very active relevance of Popular Theatre to raise mass awareness and perceptions of the issues that tend to concern them directly.
3. Development & Popular Theatre
Popular culture is a highly communicative means of mass entertainment as well as of awareness building campaign to take a message to the people to be better understood easily by the people. Reason behind its so easy communicability lies in the fact that it is played in the people`s language true to their typical characteristics. This unique cultural input addressed direct to the target groups of people, enriching its field orchestration by the people`s exuberant participation, especially from the downtrodden section of poor rural population.
IVDC has been the pioneer in the introduction and training support services on and for the propagation of Popular Theatre. In our actives pursuit to introduce Popular modes of mass communications, we found this media as the most pro-active, reproducible and far reaching in its popular implications as a clandestine media outlet to get at the heart of the people. In our case in Bangladesh it is a undeniable fact that in folk cultural elements we find the true reflection of our rural life and life`s social and socio-economic relations.
IVDC in consideration to contribute to the advancement of the masses serves as a leading training and material resource provider to organizations interested to use popular culture as an effective means of communication.
Cardinal behind IVDC`s efforts to promote popular theatre is to accelerate human development through raising awareness of people. IVDC has so far imparted training and consultancy services on promoting popular theatre and now if enters in to various programme partnerships. A Pioneer in the sector we constantly innovate ways and means to prorate popular theatre as the leading trainer, performing forceps organizer and material resource provider to organizations interested to communicate with their target group of people effectively through folk media.
4. Objectives
To develop and enrich popular theatre into a communication network which will come to the great advantage of all development programs in rural areas.
To increase the participation of the disadvantaged and oppressed people of the society in their own advancement efforts by utilizing the popular theatre.
To develop folk media examples using traditional formats to present modern communication messages and to update collected traditional examples to serve development purpose.
To explore and define limits of use and effectiveness of popular theatre in stimulating and sustaining efforts of poor people to obtain self confidence and self reliance.
To serve a continuing focus of inspiration and expertise to many, as yet weak, efforts to use popular theatre in development programms.
5. An invitation Down-to-Earth...
People, committed to quicken the pace of development, often look for appropriate and effective communication methodology. It`s a fact that a media outlet like Popular Theatre is one of the fundamental precondition to development endeavors, since it requires motivation prior to all material and structural resources.
Considering its for-reaching objectives IVDC has attached due importance to Popular Theatre both in terms to performance and resource build-up as well as imparting basic training on how to perform organize, form groups, keep documentation’s and monitor social feedback of Popular Theatre in a profession manner enriched by experience as a pioneer in this field.
6. Popular Theatre and related Services offered by IVDC
Major components of IVDC`s popular Theatre movement includes:
1. Group Formation
2. Popular Theatre workshop
3. Performance Enfield
4. Documentation & Research
5. Training on Popular Theatre
6. Media materials Development
Already IVDC has imparted training and provided technical assistance to 217 organization on development and Popular Theatre including BRAC, CCDB, CARITAS, ACTIONAID, VERC, RDRS, SCI, GSS, T**D, CWFP, HEED BRDB, OXFA, BPHC. Now IVDC is providing long-term technical assistance to BRAC for establishing their Popular Theatre Programme Component.
7. TRAINING SUPPORT FRANCHISE COURSES/PERFORMING PARTNERSHIP
It has been proved that Popular Theatre is one of the most effective as a support component for various development communications. For quite a long time a member of Government and Non-Government organizations have been using Popular Theatre as a supplementary component for various socio-economic project implementation in active collaboration with IVDC and have been benefited from its positive impact, leading to further extension of the existing projects.
BRAC, the country’s largest development organization, experimentally initiated Popular Theatre as a media for development communication in four districts. Success of this initiative ultimately led to extension of Popular Theatre project area to 25 organizational districts. They are contemplating this media to extend throughout their countrywide organizations in active collaboration with us.
IVDC strongly believes that economic assistance or employment alone does not suffice human development. One’s complete individual development requires one’s mental as well as cultural development. One can hardly attain complete development unless one can determine his/her position in the society and measure up his/her mental progress - an impression held by eminent scholars.
As such we would call upon you not to confine your efforts only within strides for people’s Socio-economic development, but also to look beyond material essence of life. We will be too happy to respond to any of your queries relating to Popular Theatre as we are promise - bound to promote this media to ensure rapid communication with your target group of people. Our team of Popular Theatre organizers/ trainers are always ready to stand by your at any corner of the country-near or far.
8. Training Contents
1. Concept of Culture, 2. Culture: Historical Background, 3. Civilization and Culture, 4. Transformation of Culture, 5. Culture, 5. Culture: Social Background, 6. Social Stratification 7. Culture of Domination 8. Peoples Culture, 9. Cultural Media/Forms & its Evolution 10. Theatre & Popular Theatre 11. Development and popular Theatre, 12. Popular Theatre: Process and Methodology, 13. Popular Theatre: Peoples Action for Development in Home and Abroad, 14. Content Selection process and Methodology, 15. Form Selection Process, 16. Story Collection and Selection 17. Character Selection and Analysis, 18. Scene Chart Preparation 19. Story Making and Selection, 20. Process of Forming Drama 21. Discussion on Scene Chart Preparation, 22. Improvisation on the Basis of Selected Story, 23. Characterization, Theatrical Moment, Stage Status, 24. Composition and Acting, 25. Various Types of Drama, 26. Rehearsal and Performance, 27. Discussion with Audience and Evaluation, 28. Popular Theatre and Role of Development Worker, 29. Contribution of Popular Theatre as Complementary Force for Development, 30. Action Plan, 31. Feed back.
9. Training Approach & Methodology
Development & Popular Theatre Training Programmes that we usually conducted are highly transparent, flexible interactive non-imposing and are based on the principles of sharing of expertise. It is, is other words, a process of participatory endeavor to augment the pastoral flair of our people’s instinct of enjoying what they need to know and know what they need to enjoy. IVDC believes that an integrated approach towards development is better demonstrated in the human development training process. Where participants are trained to be integrated in the decision making process. Which ultimately pays them with dignity, honour and credibility as responsible members of the society.
10. Training Module
The IVDC training programs are generally conducted through Individual and specific modules that include training. Syllabus/ curriculum, methodology training materials. Physical sotting, display and exhibition, time schedule, feedback and evaluations. Such modules have been arrived at after a long experimental process and through numberour reforms. Readjustment and modifications and they are still in a continuous process of being further modified and perfected. IVDC Developed a Comprehensive Module especially for Development & Popular Theatre Training.
11. Core Trainers Team
IVDC has a 12 member central trainers team. They are all young, energetic, creative and innovative. They possess a varying degree of experience in working with national and international NGO`s/PVO`s. In a; way more or less each of them has recommendable background of attending various workshops, seminars, forums and field programs. They pursue the principles of newer training approaches and sharpen the edge of perception as well as personal vision of way of synthesiding varying procedural patterns and modalities.
12. Media Materials
For Development & Popular Theatre Training IVDC applies different audio-visual forms and experiments through diverse methodologies aiming at maximum training output. The basic materials used include 1. Graphic arts (Visual) e g. posters serialized pictures, cutout, banners, art-card, folders, brochures etc. 2. Literatures: booklets, handouts, case studies, field reports, edited and scanned field performance reports, success stories etc, 3. Folk Media Materials: Punthi (folk poems) Jari (folk songs) role-plays, musical drams, other traditional plays etc. 4. Modern Media Materials: Video film (full length feature film, short film documentary instructional film) sound slide, cassette drama, recorded folk song.
13. Participants
Persons playing major role in their respective organizations or program executives/officers of their organization responsible for leading/execution social development programme and Training administration will be considered for being invited to participate in the Popular Theatre Training course. Besides those core workers staff members of organizations in development and social service who believe that cultural activities can play the key role for social awareness. Members of various social/cultural organizations who aspire to execute their own scheme of endeavors out of locally mobilized resources may also be considered for being invited to take part.
14. Number of Participants
The number of participants per batch should not exist 25. During group discussions, home/field visits, experience sharing sessions, group demonstration, etc, the ratio between trainer and trainee and trainee should be 1:7 to 8. When breaking down the class into smaller groups, the trainer should see to it that a participant is not staying in a certain group in most time. Slow learners should be mixed with faster ones to expose them to an environment of “learning from others”
15. Training Venues
IVDC runs its own well equipped training facilities having a central Hall and Dormitory for Training at Dhaka covering 900 sq.ft. Lecture theater and equally specious Dormitory rest rooms. Besides training’s for project areas are conducted with all attending training facilities. Other than its own training accommodations, training programs are conducted at the facilities of other partner Organization by courtesy of on call requirements suitable for the training. IVDC`s own training facility and Dormitories include fooding and recreational amenities including library, Video and other management’s.
16. Length of Training
Fifteen days is an estimated time needed for Development & Popular Theatre Training. Length of training is subject ot adjust depending on learners ability and should be defined by sponsoring authority.
17. Registration Fee
An amount of Tk. 7,000/= will be charged per participant. This will cover boarding, lodging (single bed), food (lunch, dinner, tea and snacks) and the course material.
Payment to be made by demand draft in favor of IVDC-Dhaka, payable by cash or chaque, 7 days before course begain.
18. Rules And Advice
The Participants in limited to 25 persons. Once the registration is confirmed by IVDC, no refund will e possible thereafter, in case the participant decides to withdraw his/her participation. If, for some reason the registered participant in unable to make it, then the organization can nominate another person. However, the replacement must carry an official letter from his/her organization. Those who are unable to secure confirmed registration for these courses but have already paid can claim a total refund: alternatively opt for the amount being held over for the next Training course.
