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Reaching the Unreached Project
Tamil Nadu, India
Monitoring Mission
February 2008

Anne Boulton, MA student, Laurentian University and her project supervisor Dr. Marilyn Orr went to Reaching the Unreached project, India for two week monitoring mission. The M.A. in Humanities is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on how interpretation and values shape not only disciplines. We study and texts we read, but, also, the structure and operation of organizations in today’s multicultural world. A unique feature of the Humanities M.A. is the Practicum component. Students spend 120 hours over 12 weeks in an organizational milieu, studying how interpretation and values shape its work. Anne Boulton, a Humanities M.A. student, who opted to do her Practicum placement with the Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA), to work on the project “Reaching the Unreached” in India. 


Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA) advocates for nationally-owned solutions to reduce poverty and promote human development. OIDA sponsor innovative projects; connect countries to global good practices and resources; promote the role of women in development; and, civil society together to coordinate their efforts. OIDA work on poverty reduction is governed by several internationally agreed frameworks such as the Millennium Declaration, the MDGs, and the International Development Goals. Our core services focus on three main areas: Strategies and Policies for Poverty Reduction, Inclusive Globalization, and Support for MDG-Aligned National Development Strategies. OIDA’s work on the strategies and policies for poverty reduction is anchored in three basic principles – the multidimensionality of poverty, the centrality of gender equality and the critical importance of an integrated approach. We believe that economic growth is necessary for sustained poverty reduction, but it is not a sufficient condition. The quality of economic growth is as important as the rate of growth. Poor people should not only benefit equitably from economic growth, they should have the opportunity to actively contribute to its generation.