Development Professionals and workers
Total Manpower at present
One hundred fifty, previous year it was one hundred twelve and almost 20 experienced Professionals from different fields engaged with their techno-managerial skill and knowledge.
Expertise on
- Institution Building – Community Based Institutions like SHG, Federation in both GP and Block level.
- Capacity Building – Specially Financial Literacy, Financial Management in CBOs, Book keeping, SHG Management, Micro financial Institutions, Entrepreneurship Development, Social Developmental Issues.
- Livelihood Promotion – Hard skill – On Firm & Non Firm based Activities. Soft skill – Project Management, Marketing, Inventory Control.
- Awareness Promotion.
- Action Research & Studies.
- Disaster Management – Planning, Flood Early Warning Advocacy, Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction, GIS based Communication Networking.
- Environment Management – EIA for running and coming up projects on both Mining and Industries.
Total offices cum staff residence
13 in eleven districts in West Bengal and one at Agartala, Tripura.
Geographical spread
State
West Bengal and Tripura.
West Bengal Districts
- Alipurduar
- Bankura
- Birbhum
- Dakshin Dinajpur
- Hooghly
- Jalpaiguri
- Kolkata
- Murshidabad
- Nadia
- Purba Medinipore
- Purulia
Tripura District
- Sepahijala
- West Tripura
- South Tripura
Blocks
5 Blocks.
Gram Panchayats
117 Gram Panchayat.
Urban Area
104 number of wards out of total 151 wards in 6 municipalities spread over 4 districts.
Population – institutionalized under the leadership of SPADE
Approximately 1.5 Lakh.
Resource Centre and Publications
With near about 41 publications on MFI, SHG Management, Cooperative Management, CBDRM, Health issues, Livelihood intervention etc the centre is equipped with training materials and documentation support.