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Institute of Entrepreneurship, Meghalaya
Under IBDLP, the Meghalaya Institute of Entrepreneurship (MIE) has been set up to facilitate rapid economic transformation, by imparting entrepreneurship education and promoting micro and small enterprises involving the youth, women and other critical target groups in the State. The Institute aims to be among the very best in the world in the area of entrepreneurship development and model entrepreneurial services, through creativity and innovation, application of skills and technological inputs for harnessing rich potential of sub sectors, with focus on agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, pisciculture, aromatic and medicinal plantations, animal husbandry and other locally viable, remunerative, and income generation activities.
Objectives
The Institute of Entrepreneurship will coordinate and support the design and implementation of State Government’s Economic Reform Programme with emphasis on employment generation and inclusion. It will undertake action research, provide professional advice and conduct change management programmes for government departments and agencies to help them implement their reform agenda successfully. The Institute will work closely with policy-makers, management experts, institutions and other stakeholders, especially citizens towards ushering in an era of economic self-reliance in the state and the country as a whole.
- To create awareness among various target groups on entrepreneurial opportunities.
- To help and assist unemployed youth- educated and uneducated, urban and rural; in acquiring skills for both wage and self-employment.
- To organise vocational training for skill up-gradation, including establishment of vocational training centres.
- To encourage and assist in setting up enterprises by individuals focusing on first generation entrepreneurs through appropriate trainings.
- To encourage and promote research and special studies on various aspects of entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises.
- To spread entrepreneurial education at school and college level.
- To serve as an apex regional level resource institute for accelerating the process of entrepreneurship development.
- To support and affiliate institutions/organisations in carrying out training and other entrepreneurship development related activities.
- To provide regional/national/international for a for interaction and exchange of experiences helpful for policy formulation in entrepreneurship development at various levels.
Institute of Governance, Meghalaya
The Institute of Governance has been set up as the focal institute in the state of Meghalaya to guide governance reforms in the state, by bringing together and blending the power of knowledge, technology and people for good governance. The Institute will strive to be among the very best in the world in the area of administrative initiatives, institutional reforms and multi-stakeholder partnership to foster growth-oriented and people-centred inclusive governance.
Aim
- To impart information and knowledge aimed at building and promoting good governance to local level institutions/community/primary stakeholders for up scaling people’s zeal in participation, ensuring sustainability of development programmes.
- To provide inputs for strengthening grass root processes of democratic institutions, infusing transparency and accountability in governance.
Objectives
- To serve as the apex level resources institute for development of democratic governance and for ensuring impact across and among the different strata of the society.
- To work with government departments and other stakeholders to analyse key issues in governance, identify solutions, help develop action plans, and support implementation of these plans and reforms agenda.
- To act as a think tank and help translate government’s goals, objectives and policy priorities and reform agenda into tangible reforms actions with focus on principles and practices of good governance.
- To create a repository of best practices, methodologies and tools in governance reforms including successful e-governance applications.
- To support change management and management development programmes in government to effectively carry forward governance reforms and to develop a reform communication strategy for wider implementation.
- To undertake capacity building of stakeholders (Government and non- Government) including local governance institutions and community based organization.
- To conduct awareness building programme on the importance of good governance as the cornerstone of peace and progress in the society.
- To provide support for conflict resolutions for the community institutions.
- To provide support on empowerment for promotion of community and participatory values and ethos.
Institute of Natural Resources, Meghalaya
Conservation is the key to sustainable development. While Development involves the use of natural resources, conservation helps in ensuring sustainability of development for the present without foreclosing the options for future generations”. Meghalaya is endowed with vast natural resources and bio-diversity. However, there has been largely a bypass in the judicious use of natural resources and bio-diversity affecting sustained economic growth and development. The adverse effects are increasingly explicit in terms of increasing poverty, as nearly half of the population in the state is still below the poverty line. Sustainable development of natural resources in the given eco-system is very vital, as economic growth and long term sustainability cannot go hand in hand exploiting the natural resources-base, which has already started deteriorating.
Meghalaya, a hill state with hilly topography and receiving good amount of rainfall would encourage degradation and soil erosion if land resources are not protected, conserved and managed properly. Impaired soil health, siltation of water bodies, accelerated surface water runoff, etc further lead to decline in water and soil productivity. The measures for Climate Change Adaptation further call for a fresh approach toward appropriate natural resources planning and management. All of these warrant a holistic solution to the existing as well as to the emerging problems, which is the need of the hour. In this regard there is a strong need to equip man power with sufficient knowledge and skill in natural resources management who would be the natural resources managers and volunteers to disseminate information about the different aspects concerning natural resources protection and conservation for promoting multiple livelihoods for the different stakeholders and users, particularly the rural farming communities.
The proposed Institute of Natural Resource is an attempt to address the issues regarding sustainable natural resources use by strengthening the capacity of the concerned stakeholders particularly, the farmers and other entrepreneurs who are directly depending on the natural resources for earning their livelihoods. The Institute would facilitate the state of art information technology tools, remote sensing tools, GIS platform, Geo-spatial technology, Geographical Positioning System, etc. for evolving natural resource management plans by integrating new generation methods together with traditional conservation & knowledge.
The Institute of Natural Resources would also be the convergence platform where the line departments, such as, Soil and Water Conservation, Forest and Environment, Livestock, Fisheries, Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture & Weaving, Village and Khadi Industries and Rural Development form the key players. This Institute would facilitate integrated and co-ordinated support services for the line departments in the area of Capacity Building and Human Resource Development relating to management of natural resources for livelihood promotion under the different Missions.
- Vision
To enrich and empower the stakeholders with knowledge on sustainable natural resources utilization for pursuing multiple livelihood promotion activities. - Mission
To facilitate development and dissemination of time-tested conservation technologies and management practices for improved productivity and profitability without deteriorating the natural resource-base. - Objectives
- To develop trained cadres for undertaking natural resources management and livelihood promotion in a more effective and sustainable manner.
- To enter into partnership with Universities, Research & Development Institutions, Trusts, Research & Training Institutes, Centres of Excellence, etc for providing resource support in the field of natural resources management and multiple livelihood promotion.
- To facilitate resource support for the line departments on sustainable natural resources use and livelihood promotion under the different Missions of the IBDLP.
- To facilitate knowledge management on sustainable natural resources use for livelihood promotion for different stakeholders in partnership with line departments and other institutions.
