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Thursday, May 14, 2009

SIAO's II Partners Meet : 6th to 8th May, 2009



The Sightsavers International South India Area Office (SIAO) organized its second Partner’s Meet at YMCA International House, Mumbai from 6th to 8th May 2009.

The first day of the meeting was dedicated to the four changed themes of SIAO's SIM card and programme partnership policy. The second day witnessed a discourse on topics ranging from HR Challenges in NGO (Sandeep Kulshehtra), Good Governance at NGOs (Vijan Nandkarni, Credibility Alliance), Role of Resource Mobilization (Katrina Scaife) etc.

Post lunch concurrent sessions were held for CBR and EC partners with following presentations:


CBR Session:

1- Advocacy in Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (Ketan Kothari, SIAO)
2- Helping Communities to take Charge – Micro planning (Dr. Jalidar Adsule, Faculty, Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work)
3- Working with VI and Additional Disabilities (Reena Bhandari, Director, Voice and Vision)


EC Sessions:

1- Hospital Management and Medical Records (Dr Shilpa Tatake, Jupiter Lifeline Hospitals Ltd.)
2 - Breaking the frontiers - Retinoblastoma (Dr Savari Desai, LVPEI- Hyderabad)
3- Diabetic Retinopathy: Sankara Eye Hosp. (Vishwanathan, Pammal)
4- Low Vision: Lotus College of Optometry (Prema Chande, Mumbai)


The third day of the meeting was foccused on accounts personnel with introduction of FAT(Financial Analysis Tool) and its importance. A lot of stress was also given to the main findings of audit process and its compliance.

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