Introduction:
SORACOD Training Centre is a private business firm. It works in the field of research and community development activities. Community Development is an educational process that brings about changes in daily activities of individuals. Human being is a prime factor of development. The methods of manpower development include education, motivation, training, attitudinal change and group formation or institutional development. The most important thing is to develop the attitude which is mostly connected with the feelings of human beings. Development is hindered by negative attitude. This business deals in ideas, experiences, knowledge and skills. SORACOD Training Centre has adopted the philosophy of increasing higher human values within the frontier of economic life and business activities. This centre creates an environment to exchange and share the ideas and experiences. Development means to understand the reasons of any events or effects in a scientific way. Development means both the elimination of oppression, exploitation, humiliation and promotion of human dignity. In addition to this, development means to build the capacity of the people to see themselves what they are doing. Research means careful and in-depth study of any subjects or issues. Substantial conclusions can not be drawn on any issues without any studies and researches.
Values:
Consultative services can provide necessary support for socioeconomic development.
Development is not possible without the development of human capital.
All the services tend to have economic values.
Ideas and experiences are the most important things in our life.
Vision:
Development is based on humanitarian values, and human factor is the focal point of development process.
Mission:
- Qualitative consultative service
- Socio-economic development
- Human resource development
Goal:
To develop human resources for socio-economic development providing research, training, documentation, publication, information and communication services.
Objectives:
To provide services to individuals, local bodies, NGOs, CBOs, firms/industries and other concerned parties in the field of socio-economic research, community development and social mobilization.
Activities:
- Research Works
- Training
- Documentation and publication
- Consultative servicesResearch
- Socio-economic research
- Activities and Impact evaluation
- Training evaluation
- Programme/Project evaluationTraining
- Participatory Planning Process
- Participatory monitoring and evaluation process
- Thesis, Reports and Proposal writing
- NGO management
- Enterprise Development/Scheme preparation
- Income Generation
- Training of Trainers (ToT)
- Communication and Basic Journalism
- Organizational Development
- Community/Rural Development
- Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
- Rural Drinking Water & Sanitation Programme
- Gender development
- First Aid Training
- Basic Geographical Information System
- Research Methodology
- Process Approach in Development
- Instructional Methods
- Computer (Word, Excel, PageMaker etc.)
- Legal Literacy
- Social mobilization
- Non Formal Education- Adult and Child Literacy Facilitators’ Training
- English and Nepali LanguageDocumentation and Publication
- Thesis/internship papers
- Reports of Training
- Research Papers and other books, articles
- Constitution/bylaws and legal drafts
- Computer analysis, charts and other presentationsInformation and Communication
- Telephone, E-mail, Internet
- Other information relating to research and community developmentConsultative Services
- On the subjects of above activities
