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Centre for

Humanistic Development

Empowering lives through sustainable humanistic development

Learn about our organization and our mission to create enabling environments for the participation and empowerment of the youth, women and disadvantaged groups in the development processes. Discover our grassroots studies and collaborations with national and international partners.

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Improve and upgrade your strategic, behavioural, managerial and technical skills with us.

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Stay informed, stay enlightened, with our diverse range of articles designed to spark curiosity and foster meaningful conversations.

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The Story of CHD

Enabling participation in development process.

Established: 2001

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Mission: Catalyze enabling environments for improved participation and enhanced bargaining power of ethnically, socially, economically and geographically disadvantaged groups, especially women, youth and poor.

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After 17 years of service, Dilip K. Sarma, the founder of CHD, resigned his bank job and came back to Assam to lend his expertise for the development of his people, then undergoing a turbulent time in a militancy- infested state.

 

A Guwahati-based research and training organization, Centre for Humanistic Development was established in the year 2001 with the mission to 

Creating Production Systems and Enhancing Efficiencies

Building Efficient Enterprises & Creating Business Leaderships

Self-leadership & Entrepreneurship Development

Designing, Branding, Advertisement & Marketing

Situational Research and Training NGOs and Cooperatives

Our Specializations

Research & Studies

Uncover profound insights, comprehensive analyses, and thought-provoking studies done in collaboration with renowned national and international organizations like UNICEF, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Basix Livelihood School, etc.

Trainings & Handholding

From entrepreneurship training that birthed cooperatives to our flagship 'EDEC Programme', empowering ex-militant youth, explore our legacy of skill development that has created meaningful changes.

Production & Marketing

Browse through the different products produced by women's cooperative societies handheld by us while learning the story of the rural women and their life.

It’s all about a dialogue

A few words from our collaborators and trainees

Thank you Sir. I thought it will be a training on business. But I am feeling it is much more beyond that. Your teaching can be life changing. I am really happy to attend it. I have never attended such training in my life. Your way of teaching is so effective that there is no word to explain it.

A Trainee
Entrepreneurship Training Batch of 2017

CHD's working style is found to be transparent, flexibie and collaborative. They are ready to customize their programme as per need of the beneficiaries at any stage. It is impressive that CHD's leader, Dilip K. Sarma has the understanding of both grassroots and organizational management issues which has helped in our collaborations.

Sarmistha Dutta

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd.

Certificate of Appreciation given to Dilip K. Sarma for providing livelihood and entrepreneurship training to hundreds of youth in the Northeast.

Vijay Mahajan, Former Dean
Institute of Livelihood Research and Training

Founder and Former CEO, Basix Social Enterprise Group

Some Working Partners

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