Apply to the Sambhaavnaa Fellowship for Social Justice 🌍
Are you ready to question social inequality and injustice, challenge discrimination, communalism, and ecological destruction, and work towards a just, equitable, and inclusive society? Have you always been interested in learning about policy and curriculum-building that centres social justice? Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy invites young changemakers to apply to the third edition of our transformative 10-month Fellowship Programme (March 2025-December 2025).
About Sambhaavnaa Institute
For 15 years, Sambhaavnaa Institute has been organising short-term participatory, reflective, perspective and skill-building programmes on a range of social-political-economic issues. Sambhaavnaa seeks to encourage civil society members, and youth inclined in such directions to develop a critical perspective on the ideas and ideals that define a ‘just’ society – and actively deploy the same in manifesting such a society. Our workshops have panned specific yet intersectional themes like gender, environment, development, economics and finance, caste, communalism, public service delivery, agriculture, and many other topical issues. You will have the opportunity to interact with and learn from resource persons across various fields, including eminent academics, intellectuals, activists, artists, lawyers, and development practitioners. For example, Prashant Bhushan, Harsh Mander, Bhawar Meghwanshi, Jaya Iyer, Manshi Asher and many others (please visit our website to know more about our resource persons).
Why join the Sambhaavnaa Fellowship?
This immersive programme offers a unique opportunity to:
🌟 Engage deeply with critical socio-political issues and develop nuanced perspectives through workshops and programmes.
🌟 Develop hands-on experience in building curriculum for workshops, doing effective documentation and resource-building, and managing social media.
🌟 Learn how to manage logistics and administration in an organizational space.
What does a Sambhaavnaa Fellow do?
The Fellowship period would be one of immense learning for the fellows with a clear expectation from them to contribute with their skills and knowledge to the functioning of Sambhaavnaa. This would happen by attending the different workshops, interacting with participants and resource persons, and possibly also facilitating certain sessions. As a Fellow, your time will be spent along three major dimensions (primary responsibilities):
🔸 Workshop organisation: Assist in outreach, research, logistics for participants and resource persons, and content curation (collating materials – articles, movies, and other resources). Support workshop facilitators as teaching assistants and help ensure a seamless learning experience for participants.
🔸Documentation and social media: Designing and updating social media with workshop-related information, pictures and videos from the workshop, etc. This would also include making reports from the workshop and collecting participant feedback. The report and feedback will be used to review the workshop to determine ways to improve program design, content, and delivery.
🔸 Workshop participation: Attend about 50% of Sambhaavnaa’s workshops, gaining insights into key socio-political issues and building networks with resource persons and participants nationwide.
Depending on available time and bandwidth after fulfilling the primary responsibilities outlined above, the fellow may also engage in the following:
🔸 Personal project: Pursue a topic or theme close to your heart, culminating in an output like a research paper, video story, or session plan.
Who should apply?
We’re looking for passionate individuals (23-30 years old) who:
✔️ Aspire to work for social, economic, political, and environmental justice.
✔️ Are self-driven, a team player, and disciplined.
✔️ Minimum Bachelor’s degree (Master’s is preferable) and are fluent in Hindi and/or English (written and spoken).
✔️ Have basic computer and social media skills (video editing is a bonus!).
What’s in it for you?
💼 Monthly honorarium of ₹10,000
🏡 Accommodation and meals at the Sambhaavnaa campus
🎓 Lifelong connections and mentorship opportunities
📚Work experience relevant to opportunities in the policy, development, and social justice space
Apply now!📅 Deadline: February 2, 2025
📍 For more details about Sambhaavnaa Institute, visit: https://sambhaavnaa.org/
🌟 Link to apply: https://forms.gle/gXq8ur8UR6qkvxqX6