PROFILE OF MITHRA

Name of the MITHRA – A Consortium of Development

Group professionals

Address 12-13-443, Street No 1, Taranaka,

Secunderabad, Hyderabad- Andhra Pradesh.
Ms. Nalini. M. - Mobile No – 9440804861.
Contact persons Mr. Anjana Prasad – Mobile No – 9440542765.
Mr. Krishna Mohan – Mobile No – 9393683319.
Mr. Lakshaman Rao – Mobile No – 9291514688

Date of
Establishment January 2003 As an in formal Group,

Registered Yes

Date of Registration 25th January 2008

Registration No 27/2008
Place of Registration Hyderabad
Bank – Name and Corporation Bank- Taranaka, Secundrabad.
Account No A/c No: 4911

Date of Since 2003

Commencement of
Operations
Prelude:

Mithra, Consortium of Development Professionals is an upcoming support group in

Social Development scenario, is a firm having its head quarters in the Tarnaka,
Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, here by sharing details of experience in social
development sector by providing technical expertisation to the respected
organizations, Ingo’s, Corporate sectors Government Institutions in Andhra
Pradesh.

Mithra Consortium of Development Professionals is having three wings for

Research and Documentation, Training and Capacity building and Project planning
and Proposal writing. About 70 experienced development professionals from all
over India are associated with this Consortium. These professionals share
expertise in Urban and rural sectors especially with themes like women & child
development, NRM, livelihoods, RCH-HIV/AIDS, issues of the children Child labor,
disaster preparedness, and Child trafficking.

Mithra Consortium of Development Professionals is also enjoying good reputation

of having some of the big and renowned NGO Networks, INGOs and Grass root
level NGOs as our esteemed clients. Developing strategies for networking and
designing advocacy strategies are one of our key expertise, which enables the
Networks to move as a united and single force. One of the core values of Mithra
are also to be accessible to the esteemed clients ranging from the Grass roots to
INGOs, along with corporate sector having stakes in the Development Sectors,
especially Mithra have working experience with Government of Andhra Pradesh
which always emphasize on sustainable development in both urban and rural
setups. However Mithra feels that, still there is a big gap in development sector in
the form of transformation of technical inputs in to the regional languages which
we are attempting to fill through our approach and strategies.

Expertisation of Mithra :

Participatory Methods are the most valued and concentrated in the group. All the
work undertaken consist Participatory methods to empower communities, skill
building of the staff to independently deal with development issues.
Our competency in the area of health can be looked as TOT for staff involved in
Health programs, Reproductive child health, Seasonality Health assessment
through participatory methods, Health &hygiene, HIV /AIDS ( care &
support/trafficking etc)and Environment.
Capacitating SHG groups on group dynamics, SHG concepts, book keeping,
Gender development leader ship Development and especially in the field like
assessment of Livelihoods and Business development plans for sustainable
entrepreneur programs, and Micro credit plans.,
Our expertise in the field of education can be looked as Advocating for Child
rights, life skill education, Child labour and child trafficking etc.
Disaster preparedness is another crucial area where Mithra has proved its capacity
and capability in developing contingency plans under community based disaster
preparedness programs, having expertisation in developing urban community
flood management includes psycho social care services/counseling plans based
on the emerging issues. School disaster preparedness, School safety net plans are
one of the crucial area in protecting the rights of the children.
RESEARCH methodologies & Manual development is the nucleus of us and keeping
us going. We have been working on Impact assessment Module preparation,
Preparation of tools and systems monitoring and evaluation, developing needs
assessment tools, conducting studies on different issues e.g. Disability, livelihoods
etc.
Event management also one of the core area of MITHRA, which could able to
organize workshops with SAMAJ vikasa under world bank project in urban set up.
Along with research our major strength is documentation and Preparation of
project proposals, Process documentation, Consolidation of field reports, Audit
reports, Annual reports, Profile reports, and Media documentation
One of the core strength of Mithra is Natural Resource Management. It can be
seen in our work in this area through Watershed concept User group concept Book
keeping in watersheds Live stock management Net planning Primary/secondary
stake holders roles and responsibilities Convergence Non pesticide management
Poultry Livelihoods and productive enhancement Gender in watersheds Basic
technical aspects in watersheds Process monitoring in watersheds.
Personality development, Group Building emphasizing on Attitudes and behaviors,
Communication skills, Group concept, Formation and strengthening of
federations, Records management has also been one of the core areas.
TOTs is another major strength of this group. These programs are always based on
the need of client and building Leadership in individuals.
Mithra has always been Gender sensitive and treated as a separate domain and
worked in the areas of Gender sensitization, Gender in livelihoods, Gender in
watersheds, Gender in institution and Gender in disasters
Organisation Development Plans in Project management and Vision building is one
of the core areas of Mithra
CULTURAL AND MASS MEDIA has always been the heart of Mithra in the form of
Cultural promotion through Skits and Street plays.
Mithra also has barged in to Pachyat Raj Institutions through orienting ZPTCs
MPTCs, Sarpanch, ward members on Panchayat Raj act and their Roles and
responsibilities
Our expertise in NREGS-AP is in the form of giving Orientation on the act and the
Roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders
In Right to Information the expertise in analyzing Policies and using RTI for
accessibility of welfare.
Area of Expertisation of MITHRA

• Early Childhood Care and Development

• School Education & Adolescents education.
• Micro finance and SHG concepts, MACS
• Health /RCH/HIV/AIDS
• Promotion of Low cost food and Nutrition programs based on the locally
available resources.
• Gender
• Child Rights & Child Participation
• Livelihoods.
• Psychosocial Counseling.
• Disaster Management.
• ICT for Change.
• Perspective Planning.
 • Organizational Development
• Natural Resource management
• Water and sanitation.

Association of Mithra :

• Facilitated Net works Partners (AGS & CADME) of Plan International in

assessing the livelihoods & Vocational options for the vulnerable families
and children who are child labour in the operational areas especially for the
coastal communities from Srikakulam to Nellore.

• Facilitated free Cleft and palate operations for Operation Smile

foundation from Mumbai in the state of Andhra Pradesh

• Facilitated Community based disaster Management and school based

disaster management for children programs for UNDP activities in coastal
Andhra.

• Facilitated Water and sanitation workshops in Rayalaseema and Telangana

Regions funded by World Bank and facilitated by Samjvikas in Andhra
Pradesh.

• Facilitated in developing Livelihoods and business development plans for

Child trafficking project facilitated by plan International through 21
partners in Coastal, Rayalseema and Telagana regions.

• Continuously facilitating Legal Literacy workshops for Sex workers/Trans

genders/ Children and the mid level management teams of the Partners
funded by Alliance India in Telangana and Rayalaseema Regions.

• Facilitated Advocacy workshops for the partners supported by save the

children to ensue the rights of the children.

• Conducted study on education system and reasons for drop outs of the
children in fisher folk communities for the organizations SRUJANA &
SWEEP placed at Vizayanagaram and Srikakulam of coastal Andhra
Pradesh.

• Facilitated workshop on Knowledge Olympics which was jointly organized

by CARE India, Alliance India, HllFPPT and TAI from Tamilnadu
state to enhance skills in event management, Public speech, Photography
and Video Graphy for the sex workers/Trans Genders and MSMs.

• Conducted Micro Planning on the issues of the children in disaster prone

Areas of coastal Andhra Pradesh for CJWS, CAMP, Spurthee, SNIRD,
SEEDS, Consider organizations.

• Facilitated workshops at Hyderabad organized by APMSS to Address the

Issues of Adolescents in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

• Facilitated Gender workshops for WASSAN organization supported by

SERP in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
 • Jointly facilitated Advocacy workshops on rights of the children with
APCRAF- Vijayawada.
• Facilitated ICT Project for Adolescent groups at Bapatla Mandal where the
project Implemented by Consider organization supported by CARE India.

Profiles of MITHRA Group; A part of the profile provided the Mithra have nearly
another experienced personnel who have been associated since past 5 years.

Profiles of the Experts In Mithra

Years of Experience
Education
S.no Name in Development Expertisation
Qualifications
Sector
Water sheds/ NRM/gender/
Organisation development
/gender In disastersTOT/event
1. Ms.M.Nalini MA.Social Work 15 years
management/ Training designs,
Micro Finance, SHG capacity
building
Technical Subject Expert related
HIV/AIDS/PLHIVS and MSM/
2. Mr.Jagdeesh MSW 20 years
Disaster Preparedness/
counseling
Child rights/ Street
Theater/Advocacy/ Child
Mr.Laxman
3. MA Sociology 15 years participation/ School based
Rao
disaster preparedness/
Livelihoods and Micro finance
Project and Proposal
Mr. Henry
4. MA. Sociology 30 years development. Analyst and
Thamos
Documentation
Nutrition and Health – RCH.
Disaster Preparedness. Early
5. Mr. Mehar MA social work 20 years
child hoods / Pre schools care/
livelihoods.
Child Policy Analyst and
Education specialist/ Livelihoods/
6. Ms. Sridevi MA. Social work 5 years
Psycho social Care/counseling
skills
Documentary and training for
7. M.Prakash Diploma in video 20 years communities on video
documentation
Diploma in still
8. K.Murali Photography and 12 years Trainings and Still Photography.
Trainings

Mr. Ramana RCH/NRM/Food and Nutrition/

9. MA sociology 18 years
Murthy livelihoods, Forest management

Gender/ Documentation/ micro

Ch.Anjana finance/Disaster preparedness/
10. MA. Sociology 15 years
Prasad School based disaster
preparedness
Research /Child trafficking and
Mr. Bhavani HIV aids & Child Vulnerability/
11. MA. Social work 11years
Sankar counseling Project preparation
and Proposal Development
Care and support programs for
12. Ms. Swathi MA Social Work 1 year
the children and counseling.

Mr. Cultural and Mass Media/

13. Nageshwra MA economics 15 years Psychosocial Care, Disaster
Rao Preparedness
 Research/Participatory
Mr. Krishna
14. MA. Economics 15 years methods/Event
Mohan
management/TOT/Livelihoods

15. Mr. Dinesh ICT specialist 18 years ICT related projects

16. Mr. Sanjay ICT specialists 17 years ICT related projects

Microfinance Specialist/
17. Mr. Ranjan MA Social Work 5 years
BDP/Livelihoods/MACS

Ms. Micro finance/SHG concepts/Leagl

18. MA. Social Work 7 years
Nageshwari Literacy

Research methodologies
19. Mr.Madhu MA.Social work 12 years
/education and Documentation

Mr. Narayana
20. MBA 20 years Fiancé management
swamy