How We Work
Our Implementation Model
Our approach blends direct service delivery by The Promise Foundation’s teams, with resource development, training and capacity building through collaborations with other organisations who replicate these services in their locations. Hence we work at multiple levels:
CORE PROJECTS:
Direct Implementation by Promise Teams
At the core of The Promise Foundation’s interventions are programmes conducted directly by our teams in schools, slums, settlements, and rural areas. These intervention are through our:
- Stimulation Intervention Programmes (SIP) that focus on early childhood cognitive stimulation.
- Programmes for Assisted Learning (PAL) which are designed to support literacy learning in the early grades and middle school.
- Jiva programme which focuses on career and livelihood planning during the high school years.
Over the years, our teams have implemented SIP, PAL and Jiva in over 5000 schools, educational institutions and community settings across the country.
Our direct engagement keeps us in touch with changing realities on the ground and points us toward emerging trends and new areas to be addressed.
EXTENSION PROJECTS:
Resource Creation, Training and Capacity Building through Collaborations
Through this modality we engage with other organisations (e.g., governments, non governmental organisations) through partnerships and collaborations. We do this by sharing our research, training and building the capacity of our partners to use material we have developed or adapt our material for use in their contexts.
We also develop material to suit the specific needs of other organisations. These developments are based on surveys and research that we first conduct in order to understand felt needs and thereby develop material that would be culturally, linguistically and economically relevant.
We conduct courses and training programmes based the findings of our research. Our courses are skills oriented and aim at capacity building. Our trainees typically include adults working with children and youth (e.g. teachers, wardens, counsellors, non-formal educators, employment officers, animators, pre-school teachers).
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY, LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Promise offers consultancy to government, non-governmental and corporate organisations as well international organisations. Through these consultancies, we help to conceptualise interventions, create resources, train staff and develop sustainable systems for programme implementation. We also conduct assessments and appraisals.
We have worked with close to 150 organisations that are involved with children and adolescents. Our programmes have been adapted for use in countries such as the Maldives, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Vietnam and our ideas have been presented to representatives of governments in more than 30 countries. We have also worked on rigorous reviews of the existing research-base in the area of literacy and foundation learning to produce evidence briefs and policy briefs for multiple stake holders (e.g., policy makers, grant agencies, monitoring and evaluation teams, trainers, commentators).
Our most important objective is to function as a Resource Group that supports and builds the capacity of other organisations already working for children and youth.
It is through our resource creation and training programmes that we hope to see our research and models replicated on a larger scale.
Promise Resources
- Capacity Building for Career Guidance – Tamilnadu, India.
- Career Guidance for Rural Areas – Vietnam.
- Developing a Culture Sensitive Guidance System – Nepal.
- Employment Skills Training Project – Maldives.
- Integrated Human Development Project – Maldives.
- Psychological Needs Assessment Survey – Rwanda.
- Training Needs of Guidance Officers – North Sri Lanka.