1) National Resource Centre
Delhi-based national capacity-building, mentoring, knowledge and advocacy hub, to:
i) Train, guide and mentor grassroots activists and CBOs to help them better engage with their communities
ii) Partnership building with like-minded platforms and networks, and linking grassroots activists / CBOs to these regional, state and national pro-poor resources and platforms;
iii) Engage and advocate with state and civil society stakeholders, on policy and practice, to enable activists / CBOs to deliver for their communities
iv) Knowledge-creation, through observing and tracking Misaal interventions; drawing out lessons; and communicating those to suitable audiences; and conduct research on exclusion and inclusion for Muslims and other marginalized groups
v) Act as a national clearing-house for resources, training, and capacity building on issues of marginalization and inclusion of poor Muslim communities
2) Network of grassroots activists, working with local communities – the fellows
i) Seek out and build partnerships nationally, to identify and locate ‘Misaal fellows’ as local activists working with their local communities for access to rights and services, and for building local pro-poor solidarities
ii) Support Misaal fellows through a structured program of training, capacity building, mentoring and hand-holding, to enable them to deliver for the communities