Foundation for Sustainable Development–India

Organization: Foundation for Sustainable Development

About FSD in Jodhpur, India Building on 15 years of international development experience, FSD’s Jodhpur program works with several community-led organizations in the Jodhpur region to maintain local environmental sustainability. India makes up 2.4 percent of the world’s land, while supporting 16 percent of the world’s population. The compounding result is a severely unsustainable use of natural resources for several generations. Currently, India is experiencing rapid and widespread environmental degradation at alarming rates. Tremendous pressure is placed upon the country’s land and natural resources to support the massive overpopulation.
To help address these issues, FSD’s programs supply local villages the representation, technical solutions, and resources needed to address the challenging environmental conditions and mounting resource degradation.

As an FSD Intern in Jodhpur, India, you will…

• Work side-by-side with a Community-Based Organization specializing in one more of the following development sectors: health, youth and education, women’s empowerment, microfinance, human rights, community development and/or environmental issues.
• Receive intensive training in skills essential to sustainable development, such as: community asset mapping, needs assessments, collaborative project design, grant writing, and project monitoring and evaluation.
• Gain grant writing and project management experience through designing and implementing a community-driven development project in partnership with your host organization.
• Access the FSD Alumni Network upon your return home to connect with like-minded individuals who help one another to reach their academic and professional goals through networking and regional events. FSD Alumni have won internationally renowned scholarships, studied at prestigious graduate schools, worked for prominent international development organizations, and have even started their own grassroots organizations.

Recent Interns in Jodhpur, India have…

• Installed renewable energy technology, such as smokeless woodstoves, bio-gas plants, solar stoves, and lamps. BAIF provides the necessary training to rural communities on proper use and long-term maintenance.
• Worked to decentralize control of natural resources to protect the rights of marginalized, rural communities, while educating and empowering individuals to assert their rights.
• Cultivated and promoted water resource development and equitable distribution through various methods, including rainwater harvesting, farm ponds, conservation of natural springs, contour trenching, and lift irrigation.
• Converted eroded, barren land into productive orchards using various eco-friendly practices such as the use of bio-fertilizers, green manure, vermi-compost, and bio-pesticides.
  About FSD
  Founded in 1995, the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) supports the efforts of more than 300 grassroots, community-based partner organizations throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. FSD’s programs provide multi-faceted support that relies on active community participation to mobilize lasting solutions. FSD programs include:
  • Capacity Building: Our professional field staff provides on-site training and networking opportunities to more than 300 community-based organizations worldwide.
  • Training Programs Abroad: FSD provides comprehensive training and immersion programs for interns and volunteers who seek hands-on development experience.
  • Grantmaking: Donations and grants given to FSD are used to support sustainable projects led by our partner organizations.
  • Engaged Philanthropy: FSD Giving Circles organize groups of donors who pool their time, talent, and resources to make international grants to our partner organizations.

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOW
Applications are available at http://fsdinternational.org/apply/application. Late applications will be placed on a wait list and accepted on a case by case basis.

Interested in future programs?
We have sessions starting year aroundhttp://www.fsdinternational.org/apply/startdates
Questions?
Send us an email by http://fsdinternational.org/contactus
Call us at 415.283.4873, ext. 14
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