PPIA
Fellowships

An intensive change leadership programme that builds young India’s perspective, competence and inspiration to solve the toughest development challenges in the country

Augmenting Public Service Capacity as a Lever of Development Change

What is PPIA Fellowships?

An intensive change leadership programme that builds young India’s perspective, competence and inspiration to solve the toughest development challenges in the country. PPIA Fellows will get exciting opportunity to assist and work closely with the District Administration to provide inputs on strategy setting, planning, implementation, and monitoring of large public programmes.The Fellows will be provided structured guidance by Transforming Rural India (TRI) and senior officials at national or state level. The fellows will be mentored to support District Administration in attaining development outcomes of health & nutrition, education, agriculture & allied activities, basic services; engagement includes data driven governance and public system delivery improvements.

Who is PPIA Fellow?

1. Humanizing

Empathetically brings focus to the humans and processes behind the public systems.

2. Adaptability

Resiliently learns from the complex development challenges of resource-starved geographies.

3. Optimization

Analytically identifies opportunities that strengthen the implementation of large public programmes

3. Advocacy

Passionately champions for a new narrative that focuses on developmental gains of the public administration

3. Partnerships

Strategically facilitates collaborative relationships that can sustainably impact the poorest communities.

Our
Impact

9 States

43 Districts

100+ Blocks

Curriculum

The PPIA Curriculum is the essential component of the Fellowship structure that enables the Fellows to tap into their leadership experience. The rigorous learning curriculum enables them to learn through the experiences directly from the field, reflecting on these experiences and apply their reflections immediately within the district administration. Their learning journey is illustrated as the following:

Tracks

Development Perspectives

Introduction to multidimentional poverty
Levers & opportunities for change in rural India
Understanding democracy and development
Inclusion, diversity & intersectionality
Power & social perspectives on development
Creative, collaborat ve and convergent bureaucracies

Governance Systems &
Processes

Structure of administration and governance in India
Understanding the role of government functionaries in public programmes
“Managing variables, knowns and unkowns within public administration”
Introducing and nurturing sustainable business processes in public programmes
“Understanding day-to-day functions like noting, tendering, proposal writing,etc.”
Mobilising resources for the administration