Centre for Excellence at CVRU, Khandwa

• Centre for Excellence in People Centric Development at CVRU, Khandwa is housed in Maharshi Karve School of Humanities, Liberal Arts and Languages engages it self with the communities both urban and rural. The Centre for Excellence has evolved people centric paradigm of development, wherein the issues like decentralized planning using participatory appraisal tools like PRAS, CPA, rural and urban resource appraisals, Participatory Net Planning (PNP), PMLD are in vogue. The Centre for Excellence pledges it self to create excellence wherever it works, it is not in -situ quest for excellence but ex-situ venture to create excellence. The Centre operates on a three-pronged strategy of (1) Mobilizing and Building Local Community Institutions, (2) Developing Community Workers by building their capacities, and (3) Decentralized Planning. The strategy of Local Community Institution building revolves around the formation of SHGS, Federations of SHGS, FPOS and FPCs, OFPCs, this a long-drawn process and continued handholding, mentoring and incubation involved in the process. Building a cadre of local community leaders require capacity building using the ASK (Attitude-Skill-Knowledge) Model created and curated carefully by experts and community leaders. The decentralized planning involves participatory tools and also deploys the PMLD (Participatory Monitoring, Learning, Documentation and Dissemination approach. The replicability, scalability and sustainability are the basic denominators of people centric development.
• Centre for Excellence in Water Governance at CVRU, Khandwa is confederated, coherent and collaborative effort of institutions like Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) of Government of Madhya Pradesh, Development Support Centre - not for profit development organization working in the western Indian states of MP, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, Club of Rome an international think tank engages itself in policy advocacy at International and national level for environment, climate change mitigation and management and a corporate like Jain Irrigation Systems Limited. The Centre mandates the river rejuvenation, Nadi Samvad, Ritu Samvad, evolving the courses of higher learning in River Science, conducting research in River Science, Water Science and addressing the issues of water governance. The Centre for Excellence is housed in Rishi Parashar School of Agriculture Science and engages global experts besides a "Professor of Practice" having illustrated expertise in water governance.
• Centre for Excellence in Carbon Management housed in Rishi Parashar School of Agriculture Science is an up coming centre for conducting participatory research and participatory technology development in soil organic carbon management, the centre imbibes with the philosophy of low external input agriculture, precision farming, carbon management, circular economy, waste management, organic farming, natural farming etc. The centre engages itself in developing in certification services under PGS (Participatory Guarantee System) and GGC (Growers Group Certification) under NPOP. Conducting Carbon Sequestration research and evolving a monitoring an management framework is in vogue. Cow based economy to boost the soil organic carbon management is being established under the centre.

List of proposed and or functional Centers for Excellence at CVRU, Khandwa

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