Association for Stimulating Know how (ASK), is a capacity building organization, engaging with grassroots communities, NGOs, Government and Corporate to enhance thinking, reflection, learning and action to achieve equitable development and social justice.
ASK started with a vision back in year 1993 to establish as a “capacity building organization” which has evolved over the years creating its own standards and benchmarks in the development sector. The organization provides a challenging working environment to each professional to think beyond the conventional practices and not letting them to be complacent. This makes ASK a dynamic organization and relevant in the present development scenario. We have been picking up new areas of work as per own vision and our core competency by building our perspective on the same and then developing innovative interventions. This has lead to diversity in our intervention and number of stakeholders we engage with.
ASK is unique in the sense that our reach ranges from the grassroots to multilaterals and we understand and share our perspectives from local to global level. ASK is an open organization which has established credibility among its partner organizations. We continuously build our capacity and making improvements so that we can better engage with our partners in building in their capacity. ASK doesn’t compromise on its values and beliefs and maintains integrity. ASK is working as a self supported organization for the last 17 years. We charge for our services and provide quality inputs to our partners maintaining transparency and accountability. ASK follows a facilitating process with the partners to institutionalize the capacity building in their organization. We aim for bringing a “measurable change” to the primary beneficiary at the grassroot level through engaging with partners in a process rather than an event. The customized inputs are provided to the partners as per their need, need of the community and the context.
Learning is the inherent and inseparable part of ASK which provides growing, challenging environment to each professional working in ASK where performance matters more than years of experience. This helps in exposing each professional of ASK to a varied themes of development thereby providing a rich exp. ASK believes in the capacity of each individual and helps them in identifying their inherent potential. The responsibilities are thus assigned to them as per their identified potential and interest.
