Role of SIGN
The state-level face of eight partner dioceses
It is also a natural platform for the eight partners for cross-learning and gap analysis. The forum — SIGN — is the state-level face, or state-level representative, of the eight partner dioceses, and all of them together own its identity and destiny.
Social Initiatives for Growth and Networking (SIGN) is the official body of the Catholic Bishops of Jharkhand for social concern and human development. It anchors the efforts of the eight Social Service Societies of the dioceses of Ranchi, Gumla, Jamshedpur, Simdega, Khunti, Daltonganj, Hazaribagh and Dumka in promoting a just and humane society based on the gospel values of love, peace, equality and dignity to all.
Role & functions of the forum
What SIGN does for its partners
Capacity building
- Organise thematic trainings
- Organise trainings for diocesan and partner teams
- Help organise diocesan strategic planning
- Training for needs assessment
- Reporting and documentation
- Capacity building of directors and senior staff in project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
- Facilitate diocese-level perspective planning
- Capacity building of middle-level staff on the method of empowerment
- Capacity building for the coordination of people’s organisations
Coordination
- Workshops for planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Monitor planning, implementation and monitoring
- Conduct evaluations, collate reports and information
- Linkages, sharing ideas, workshops, monitoring, movement creation and exposure
- Negotiating with government agencies and NGOs
- Identify common issues for collective interaction at the local level
- Identifying and sharing resources
Pressure group
- Networking
- Advocacy and lobbying
Implementation
- Implementing various projects in collaboration with partners
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Let’s build a just and humane society together.
Whether you are a community, a diocesan partner, a donor, a government department or a like-minded organisation, we would be glad to hear from you.
