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We are involved in sharing important information and current policy initiatives in the development sector for strengthening the efforts of all such organizations and NGO's who are involved in development activities.
 

We would like to invite all the NGOs who require support in applying for FCRA, 12A, 80G Certifications and "FUND RAISING" to contact us without any hesitation. Individuals / organizations who are planning to start an NGO also may contact us. The offer of consultancy services is being made free.We are involved in sharing important information and current policy initiatives in the development sector for strengthening the efforts of all such organizations and NGO's who are involved in development activities.

We believe in sharing knowledge and experience and if that can help a few NGOs, why should we not do this.

So do come forward and as a first step, Ask questions??????? All these questions will be answered and we will open a separate page called FAQs which will help NGOs who get to know about us later on....

The services provided by us are as follows:

  • Listing of the members of both the national and international arenas and other categories on our portal.
  • Complete public relation and image management consultancy.
  • Content creation and write-up of the articles.
  • Guidelines for all necessary documentation.
  • Latest updated news related to social organizations.


We provides different sort of services to N.G.O.'s to help them in their day-2-day activities like: Project Report, Consultancy Services, Liasioning Services, Registration Services, Database Services, Website Designing Services, etc

Currently we have prepared database of foreign funding agencies that promotes and funds projects for the third world countries.
This C.D. of Foreign Funding Agencies covers:
1) Name of the organization
2) Contact person (available)
3) Address and telephone numbers
4) Web site and mail address
5) Issues

The MARC Institute of Social Study, the result of an intellectual quest to provide socially relevant and activism-oriented research, aims to study contemporary social, political and economic issues, with an inter-disciplinary perspective. The Institute makes its research findings and recommendations available to government bodies, policy makers, social scientists and workers’ organizations so as to widen their options for action. Advocacy in the area of local governance is another main concern of the Institute. It monitors public policy, takes up relevant research and engages in consistent advocacy. The Institute has since its inception in 2005 sought to bring to the centre stage the issue of participatory local self-government, people centric development and democratic governance

Thrust Areas

 

Governance

Governance is a major area of research of the Institute. It has pioneered research and advocacy on local bodies which have been constitutionally designated as "institutions of self-government."

 

Local Democracy

The main focus of our study includes grassroots democracy, functional, financial and administrative autonomy of local governments, theory and practice of local finance and best practices in local governance.

 

Urban Studies

The Urban Studies department focuses its research on issues related to urban governance and the interface between citizens’ organisations and local government in urban development.

 

Women Studies

The Institute has been working for the last several years in the field of political empowerment of women, gender justice and the role of women in participatory democracy.

 

Globalisation

Globalisation, particularly its impact on local democracy, has been a major focus of our study. The Institute is engaged in studies on various aspects of globalisation and its social impact since early 1990’s. Results of studies and research on this subject have attracted worldwide attention.

 

 

Database on Local Government

Institute has been maintaining a web-enabled database on various aspects of local government in India. It covers national, state and district level data.

 

Human Rights

Impact of decentralization on human rights, human rights initiatives in NE India, police training and reforms and prison reforms are our main areas of research.

North East India Studies

North East India is a focal area of study, research and action of the Institute.

 

International /National Conferences

The Institute has held a number of international conferences on Poverty, Basic Services and Environment :

 

Internship, Exchange Programmes

The Institute encourages graduate and research students to spend time at the Institute as interns. Field studies will be facilitated from here. The Institute also welcomes professors/scholars from Advanced Social Science Research Institute and University Departments to spend a tenure here as Visiting Fellows, Visiting Professors.
For affiliation to the Institute and other details, write to the Foreign Scholars Department, Director's Office, Institute of Social Sciences.

 

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