SRIJAN Infratech and Development Services Pvt. Ltd SIDS is a sister concern of SRIJAN (Self- Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action), a not for profit civil society organization committed to promote sustainable and self reliant development institutions of the poor. SRIJAN (meaning creation in Hindi) was registered as a Public Charitable Trust in January 2000. It now works directly with more than 25000 rural poor families to eradicate poverty in 14 districts of the states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan. (visit www.srijanindia.org for more details)

They build on this rich experience of direct grassroots interventions to support Governments and NGOs in designing programmes which aim to bring prosperity in rural areas. Over the past six years, they have had fruitful collaborations working on large scale livelihoods projects with National Government and State Governments of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Gujarat, Orissa, MP, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and UP. They have also supported large scale livelihoods projects for Government of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

They help in conceptualizing programme/ project components, develop recruitment and selection systems, develop HR policies, and design capacity building strategies.

They are the pioneers in exploring an attitude fit as part of selection methodology for such programmes. They have designed tools which aim to test and identify persons with the right attitude to work in such programmes. They have become the preferred human resource agency for many rural programmes.

As a first, they have successfully designed and piloted performance management systems for large scale livelihoods projects being implemented by various state governments. They have designed detailed job profiles, Key Result Areas, Performance Indicators and a thorough and transparent appraisal and reward systems.