Fostering Resilience Initiative: India

In India, there have been recommendations on both the state and national level to create space for the integration of whole child development (WCD) and life skills into school curricula. However, due to an incomplete understanding of WCD as well as a lack of infrastructure in place to support implementing WCD into schools, these recommendations remain in their initial stages and lack actionable steps.

In response to these limitations, the GC-DWC’s Fostering Resilience Initiative (FRI) has partnered with several key stakeholders in Project Sampoorna: a two-pronged approach to amplifying the value of a WCD lens to education in India.

Our Approach

Without proper assessments of the progress, and investigations of key questions, the project will lose its ability to share and communicate core insights. The GC-DWC will advise on the Measurement and Learning portions of the two-pronged approach to ensure that measurement is embedded in the project from its onset. In the first three years, this will include monitoring implementation, assessing the perceived relevance and acceptance of the approach among all key stakeholders, and assessing progress towards 3-year outcomes.

One of the GC-DWC’s first roles will be to lead a Measurement and Learning Workshop for partners in India.

Goals, Progress, and Impact

Although in its early stages of project development, Project Sampoorna has two clear impact goals:

Impact on child: To ensure that each child, in each school, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged for long-term success in college, career, and civic life. 

Impact on society: To build a safe and responsible society which recognizes, safeguards, and prioritizes children’s holistic well-being.