Discussion on Government-Academic Institutions Partnerships

1. Discussion on Government-Academic Institutions Partnerships December 1, 2014

2. Government-Civil Society Partnerships • Shared Mission for Government and Civil Society • To provide high quality services at competitive cost to beneficiaries in various Care Homes and Institutions run by the DSJ • Improve functioning and capacitate functionaries • Complementary and supplementary roles of state and Civil Society needed to achieve shared goals • Complementarities between academic and co-curricular activities and social sector initiatives of government. • To tap the for Academic Institutions to be strengthened by collaboration with government programmes

3. “Civil Society” under the Policy

4. What is Accreditation for Academic Institutions? • Transparent process by which entities are recognized and selected by a body of multistakeholder representatives • Quality service providers adhering and confirming to certain standards and procedures drawn up to the extent possible in a participatory mode • Working Arrangements Mutually Satisfactory and beneficial related to Care Homes to be worked out: • For First Year Limited to Academic Institutions in the State

5. For What? • Training Efforts • a professional college (say a fine arts college) could collaborate with a home for the mentally challenged to provide specialised training in crafts and arts for the inmates. • Research for discovering specific solutions to the problems of the CARE HOME institutions and needs of the inmates. • academic requirements of students of various professional and general courses hold immense potential to strengthen and in turn be strengthened by collaboration with government programmes • Academic institution can be involved in the care/welfare/rehabilitation function

6. Types of Collaboration • Intense collaboration- A long term link between the educational institution and the welfare institution • Periodic collaboration- Students can regularly spend time with welfare institutions on a periodic basis. • One time collaboration- where a large number of people are required to perform a specific task (such as cleaning up operations), a collaboration can be worked out with an educational institution

7. Sample Activities • Academic institutions can take up action research programmes for improving quality of services of the welfare institutions • Students can be engaged as mentors of inmates of children’s homes and juvenile homes, medical students and social work students can give counselling support • Students can visit inmates of old age homes at regular intervals with a view to alleviating loneliness of the inmates • Institutions can organise entertainment programmes at the care homes • Students from ITIs can regularly inspect the status of plumbing work, electrical installations. Nursing/medical students can regularly examine the inmates of various care homes. Nursing students can do their internship in the care homes. • Students can do their field work with these Care Home Institutions but such research must not be too intrusive

8. Role of DSJ • State Coordination Committee has overall responsibility • SCC/DSJ will act as facilitators for delivery of high quality research relevant for Care Homes • Standardization of research proposals to include a LogFrame, for example • DSJ will provide financial support to Academic Institutions • Not a guarantee –but based on a one to one negotiation when need is identified; and • SCC/DSJ will ensure an appropriate MOU is drafted and signed • To monitor and evaluate the performance of all entities in delivering the required quality of services and agree on indicators in MOU

9. Decision By Whom? • State Level Coordination Committee shall be set up. • Secretary (Social Justice), • Secretary (Higher Education) • Director of Social Justice • Director of Collegiate Education • Director of Technical Education • Director of Medical Education and • State Coordinator of the NSS.

10. Responsibility of State Committee • To take decisions required for the smooth collaboration between the Social Justice Dept and academic institutions • To periodically identify and review areas in which meaningful collaboration is possible • To identify, document and promote best practices • To advise government and universities to include social work in the curriculum of various professional courses. • To identify and map the requirements of institutions of social justice and to match the requirements with the services that can be provided by educational institutions • To work out details of collaboration between each educational institution with the social justice institution concerned.

11. Responsibility of State Committee • Collaboration between each educational institution with the social justice institution • Identifying the number of hours to be spent and number of students to be involved vis -a -vis the needs of the institution and periodicity of visits • Reviewing the status report prepared by academic institutions based on their experience in working with the social justice institutions • Providing certificates to students who have participated in such initiatives • Identifying educational institutions for awards of excellence and other incentives .

12. Responsibility of Academic Institutions • Research and collaborative efforts - rigorous and of high quality • Research Outputs for Enhancing Functioning of Welfare Institutions and in the Best Interests of Residents • Not Intrusive As To Cause Problems For Care Home Residents • Voluntary basis – this should be recorded after they are provided with information on the research, its objectives, as well as informed of their rights to participate or not. • Result Framework in MOU (Indicators to be developed) • Improved Quality of Services Due to Collaboration • Better Public-Acadmic partnerships • Improved Functioning of Academic Institutions

13. Any Questions/Concerns/Suggestions