A five-day workshop on prevention and redressal of sexual assault on girls in Odisha was inaugurated at KISS and KIIT on March 6.
Corporate leaders and representatives of the civil society from 40 countries are participating in the workshop as mentor, while senior police officers, bureaucrats, legal luminaries, media, and corporate officials as well as NGOs from India are mentees.
Both the mentors and mentees are called Kalinga Fellows.
The three high level objectives of five-day strategy event are to build a set of breakthrough strategies that will prevent and redress sexual assaults on girls in India, to provide each participant leadership techniques, skills and method to enable them to lead this agenda both at the fellowship and afterwards, and to create a cohesive governance team to work together to drive these strategies during and after the event.
During this five-day programme, each participant will be provided leadership techniques, skills and methods which will enable them to lead this agenda during the fellowship and for one year afterwards. leaders of big companies like Apple, HSBC, Google, MARS, So Just Add Water and Dentsu Aegis as well as NGOs like FXB, BRIDGE, Ashoka, HHH, Pearson, lakhyam, Prajwala, EKJUT, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and others are participating.
Each participant is matched with a mentor both throughout the five-day event and one year afterwards.
They will receive a year of mentoring and coaching to supporting them in achieving their vision. It is also a capability development programme, teaching the participants some of the most of the contemporary leadership strategy techniques, skills and methods which they can apply in their leadership programme after the event.
An initiative of KIIT and KISS founder Dr Achyuta Samanta, the fellowship is imparted by BRIDGE in association with FXB India, Ashoka Foundation and Dasra through Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).