Impacts of Samvad Soft Skills on the Rural Adolescent Girls and Boys

Abstract

The research report entitled, ‘Impacts of SAMVAD Soft Skills on the Rural Adolescent Girls and Boys’ explores the feasible change SAMVAD has brought in the various strata of life of adolescent girls in the rural area of Badganga Rural Municipality, Kapilvastu. Skills such as tolerating different circumstances, being resilient, fighting against problems and raising their voice for the voiceless provided by the SAMVAD were unheard of. As a result, we are still struggling to cope with the real-life challenges. We are always fond of learning soft skills and their impacts. Therefore, we have chosen this topic for the research report. In order to set out on this journey, we formulated the research question, ‘How do boys and girls narrate their stories on their livelihood through the soft skill intervention given by Strome Foundation?’ The researcher collected the data by taking interviews and observing the selected participants directly going to the field. To answer this question, we have chosen three participants from purposive sampling for the qualitative research method. Each and every interview was recorded, transcribed and analyzed. Then the data was categorized under different themes to generate meaning. The findings show that the method SAMVAD has taken to empower young minds can be the right approach to bring immense change in the adolescents and the positive impacts can be seen in the entire society in terms of girls’ education, child rights, gender issues, environment change, education and awareness in the members of the society. Furthermore, it is found that there are some areas to be improvised as well, which will be clearly mentioned in the recommendation part. The report consists of five chapters. Every chapter is filled with appropriate methodology, process and findings. From the intervention through the Samvad soft skill inculcation process, all the adolescents involved in the Graduate Forum and Graduate Network are more resilient, mature, full of socio-cultural behaviors and lovable in terms of developing relationships with young ones and elderly people. From the IDIs and FGDs, sharing the life soft skills development mechanism of the Samvad is truly admirable and recommendable for the generation and it is important for organizational goodwill around the communal functions. Finally, Samvad intervention for life soft skill development of adolescents in rural areas of Nepal brings awareness to the learners and they start knowing the value of a person in societal functions. Keywords: SAMVAD, adolescents, empowerment, skills