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AID India Structure by Ravi, Om & Ravishankar |
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AID India structure explained by Om, Ravishankar and Ravi
The session on AID Structure highlighted the current structure of AID-India and the possible ways to expand it in various dimensions. Speakers emphasized the importance of a good structure for any organization as it pools the talents and abilities of its members and extends together, efficiently towards the common cause.
They said that from structural point of view, AID India is different from AID US. While the latter is a city-based organization, former is a more complex entity with field workers and full-timers.
Current AID India structure consists of:-
- An overall Executive Committee (EC) with Head Quarter at Chennai
- City Chapters
- Villages branches
- Village-city program bodies
- Regional offices
EC is a fifteen member committee and is more legal than procedural. They all work in cohesion towards the direction of AID's philosophy. Speakers stressed the fact that the structure in India needs to be centralized first and then be decentralized. Though the expansion is desirable but it should be slow. In reply to a question, speakers told that effectiveness and not the size is the measuring criterion for the success of a chapter. A new AID chapter, for instance, can start as a group of volunteers and then can grow slowly into a full fledged chapter. For sharing the knowledge and improving the effectiveness, speakers called for volunteers to coordinate inter-chapter conference calls. Different action items were prepared at the end of session on these lines.
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