Project Sampoorna

Fostering collaboratives to promote whole child development perspectives in public education

Sampoorna is a collaborative of education focussed organisations that aim to build a powerful narrative around the whole child development approach in Jharkhand, India. The project seeks to equip children experiencing multi-dimensional challenges with social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies to overcome negative emotional experiences, solve complex problems effectively and strive to grow

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HundrED has shortlisted this innovation to one of its innovation collections. The information on this page has been checked by HundrED.

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2019

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Target group

Students lower

Updated

April 2023

Through Project Sampoorna, we envision a world in which every child and youth, especially those in extreme adversity, have opportunities to develop the core values and capabilities they need to achieve their full potential as individuals and in society. We also aspire to build the capabilities of a child’s ecosystem to nurture this development.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Exposure to such chronic adversities can cause children to develop emotional and behavioural problems, mental health problems, delinquency and criminal offending. UNDP data suggests that nearly, 130 million children in India, under the age of 18 experience multidimensional poverty. Sampoorna seeks to break this inter-generational cycle by empowering children and their ecosystem with SEL skills

What does your innovation look like in practice?

- We believe that a safe and enabling environment at school and home is critical for children to overcome the effects of extreme adversities. Through Sampoorna we are working with school-going adolescent children to equip them with skills to break the intergenerational cycle of perpetuating adversities.

- We aspire to bring a systemic change, by working with key stakeholders in a child’s learning ecosystem i.e. teachers, principals, parents and officials at all levels of the education system. They are informed and trained on SEL competencies such as empathy, self-awareness, and responsible decision, allowing them to imbibe its essence and reflect in all areas of their lives.

- As a collaborative, Sampoorna follows a multi-pronged approach to disseminate SEL competencies, with partners simultaneously leading work on curriculum development and training, in-school demonstration, government engagement and advocacy.

How has it been spreading?

Sampoorna started its implementation with 60 government residential schools in 2019, it has expanded to 121 schools in 2021. In the next 2 years, the program is set to expand to another 325 schools in the state of Jharkhand.

The project has been instrumental in building the system's capacities to ensure sustainability and institutionalising SEL into state systems such as the inclusion of SEL modules in teacher training programs and has been critical in bringing whole child development (WCD) to the forefront of the dialogue on education in the state.
In the next 2-3 years, we aim to demonstrate the evidence of SEL and wish to contextualise and replicate the project in other states of India.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Identifying relevant partners and enabling them to work in cohesion to build strong collaborative is critical to replicating Sampoorna. Concurrently, understanding and contextualising our project design to one’s local situation is also imperative to see visible impact.

Implementation steps

Define broad objectives

Through the lens of the whole child development approach, determine the objective you seek to achieve in your context.

Identify target area of implementation

The target area for implementation can be decided on the basis of 3 criterias: 1. Need for an intervention in Whole child development (WCD). 2. State-level action on driving initiatives in WCD. 3. The capability of the state to integrate proposed interventions

Define outcomes

In the selected geographical context, based on ground realities determine which parts of the ecosystem you wish to engage with the system. In this context determine the outcome you aspire to achieve.

Identify partner organisations

Steps of partner selection:
1. Create an exhaustive list of organisations working in education with experience working with your select stakeholders.
2. Screen organisation based on their experience in whole child development.
3. Conduct an evaluation of shortlisted organisations based on the relevance of their programs in the WCD context, their geographical presence, their credibility and their expertise in bringing systemic change.

Develop a model of intervention

Conduct discussion with shortlisted partners, both on one-on-one level and as a group to assess their suitability and cohesiveness. Based on this develop an integrated model of intervention broadly detailing out the implementation strategy and the roles and responsibilities of each partner in it.

Finalise scale of operation

Based on fund and resource availability, determine the number of institutions/stakeholders with which you wish to initiate the intervention. In this regard, you may restrict the implementation to some areas of the target area of implementation.