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A two-day Zonal Training on Women’s Inclusive Participation and Leadership in Local Governance was held on 17–18 June at BDSSS, Dharwad...
The WEP Coordinators’ Meeting was held on 14 July 2026 at SMSSS, Shivamogga, with the participation of 28 members. The meeting focused ...
The Safeguarding Review Meeting and Capacity Building Programme was conducted on 1 July 2026 at the Regional Resource Centre, KROSS, Be...
A two-day Zonal Training on Women’s Inclusive Participation and Leadership in Local Governance was held on 11–12 June 2026 at the KROSS...
The Governing Body Meeting of the Karnataka Regional Organisation for Social Service (KROSS) was held on 03 June 2026 at Jyoti Vikas So...
A two-day Zonal Level Training on Issue-Based Networking with Like-Minded CSOs was successfully conducted on 20th and 21st May 2026 at ...
A two-day Zonal Level Training on Issue-Based Networking with Like-Minded CSOs was successfully conducted on 13th and 14th May 2026 at ...
The MAANINI State Women Federation Networking and Resource Sharing Meeting cum Review Meeting was held on 24th April 2026 at the KROSS ...
A Review Meeting cum Capacity Building Program of the Women Empowerment Program was conducted from 21st to 23rd April 2026 at the KROSS...
The New Volunteers Orientation Program for the Sparsha Ambassador Initiative was successfully held on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at KROS...
Zonal Level Training on Leadership and Strengthening of Federations was conducted at KROSS, Bangalore on 26th March 2026. The programme...
A Zonal Level Training on “Strengthening of Federation” was conducted at SMSSS on 18th March 2026. The programme witnessed the particip...
The MAANINI State Women Federation, Bangalore, in collaboration with the Samrudi Women Federation, Mangalore, organized the Internation...
A four-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop was attended from 24th to 27th February 2026 by Mr. Rajasekar (WEP Coordinator) at the I...
A Cluster-Level Training on Gender Equality and Justice was conducted on 26th and 27th February 2026 at SAMPADA, Udupi, bringing togeth...
A Cluster-Level Training on Gender Equality and Justice was conducted on 24th and 25th February 2026 at BMSSS, Bangalore, with the part...
The Governing Board Meeting of KROSS was held on 19th February 2026 at the KROSS Resource Centre, Bangalore. The meeting was attended b...
On 16th February 2026, KROSS, in collaboration with Caritas India and 14 Diocesan Social Service Societies of Karnataka, organized the ...
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A two-day Zonal Training on Women’s Inclusive Participation and Leadership in Local Governance was held on 17–18 June at BDSSS, Dharwad...
The WEP Coordinators’ Meeting was held on 14 July 2026 at SMSSS, Shivamogga, with the participation of 28 members. The meeting focused ...
The Safeguarding Review Meeting and Capacity Building Programme was conducted on 1 July 2026 at the Regional Resource Centre, KROSS, Be...
A two-day Zonal Training on Women’s Inclusive Participation and Leadership in Local Governance was held on 11–12 June 2026 at the KROSS...
The Governing Body Meeting of the Karnataka Regional Organisation for Social Service (KROSS) was held on 03 June 2026 at Jyoti Vikas So...
A two-day Zonal Level Training on Issue-Based Networking with Like-Minded CSOs was successfully conducted on 20th and 21st May 2026 at ...
A two-day Zonal Level Training on Issue-Based Networking with Like-Minded CSOs was successfully conducted on 13th and 14th May 2026 at ...
The MAANINI State Women Federation Networking and Resource Sharing Meeting cum Review Meeting was held on 24th April 2026 at the KROSS ...
A Review Meeting cum Capacity Building Program of the Women Empowerment Program was conducted from 21st to 23rd April 2026 at the KROSS...
The New Volunteers Orientation Program for the Sparsha Ambassador Initiative was successfully held on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at KROS...
Zonal Level Training on Leadership and Strengthening of Federations was conducted at KROSS, Bangalore on 26th March 2026. The programme...
A Zonal Level Training on “Strengthening of Federation” was conducted at SMSSS on 18th March 2026. The programme witnessed the particip...
The MAANINI State Women Federation, Bangalore, in collaboration with the Samrudi Women Federation, Mangalore, organized the Internation...
A four-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop was attended from 24th to 27th February 2026 by Mr. Rajasekar (WEP Coordinator) at the I...
A Cluster-Level Training on Gender Equality and Justice was conducted on 26th and 27th February 2026 at SAMPADA, Udupi, bringing togeth...
A Cluster-Level Training on Gender Equality and Justice was conducted on 24th and 25th February 2026 at BMSSS, Bangalore, with the part...
The Governing Board Meeting of KROSS was held on 19th February 2026 at the KROSS Resource Centre, Bangalore. The meeting was attended b...
On 16th February 2026, KROSS, in collaboration with Caritas India and 14 Diocesan Social Service Societies of Karnataka, organized the ...
A Cluster-Level Training on Gender Equality and Justice was conducted on 12th and 13th February 2026 at MSSS, Badravathi, with the part...
A Safeguarding Training of Trainers (ToT) Program was conducted at KROSS from 10th to 13th February 2026, organized by Caritas India.Th...
Cluster-Level Training on Gender Equality and Justice was conducted on 10th and 11th February 2026 at BDDS, Ballari, with the participa...
A Review Meeting-cum-Capacity Building Training was conducted at KROSS from 20th to 22nd January 2026, with the participation of 68 rep...
A monitoring visit under the Samrudi Programme was conducted at ORBIT, Humnabad on 12th January 2026. During the visit, Self-Help Group...
Mr. Rajasekar, Women Empowerment Project Coordinator participated in the 55th Development Dynamics Course (DDC) held from 21 November t...
A three-day Capacity Building Workshop for Misereor Partner Organisations on Safe Environment for Vulnerable Groups in India against Se...
The Governing Board Meeting of KROSS was held on 04 December 2025 at Bodhana Pastoral Centre, Jedikatte, Bhadravathi. The meeting broug...
The Caritas India and Karnataka Region Partners Meeting was held on 04 December 2025 at Bodhana Pastoral Centre, Jedikatte, Bhadravathi...
A Cross Learning Workshop on the Institutionalisation of Safeguarding in Social Ministry was organised by Caritas Asia in Jakarta from ...
Cluster level training programme on Free Legal Aid Services was organized at JVSSS, Mandya on 9th and 10th October 2025. The training w...
A two-day training programme on Free Legal Aid Services was held at CODP, Mangaluru, on 9th and 10th October 2025. The training was org...
A two-day training programme on Free Legal Aid Services was organized at SMSSS, Shivamogga, on 8th and 9th October 2025. The training a...
A two-day training programme on Free Legal Aid Services was conducted at Orbit, Humnabad, on 7th and 8th October 2025. The training aim...
A Mandatory Safeguarding Orientation was conducted at SMSSS – Shivamogga on September 29, 2025, at Chaitanya, Shivamogga. A total of 56...
On September 19, 2025, the students of Peoples Cooperative Arts and Science College, Munnad, Kasaragod, Kerala, visited KROSS as part o...
A one-day training on “Strengthening of State Level Federation (SLF)” was organized at SMSSS, Shivamogga on 17th September 2025, with t...
KROSS organized a two-day training programme on Government Schemes on 26th and 27th August 2025. A total of 32 women from partner organ...
The Regional Forum Directors Synodal Meeting cum RFAP Review Meeting was held on 25th and 26th August 2025 at the Tamil Nadu Social Ser...
The Annual General Body Meeting of KROSS was convened on 23rd August 2025 under the leadership of the President. It brought together Go...
A four-day Capacity Building Training on Safeguarding was conducted from 19th to 22nd August 2025 in Pune for MISEREOR partner organisa...
The Governing Board Meeting of KROSS was held on 22nd August 2025 under the leadership of the President. Fourteen Partner Directors wer...
The Women Empowerment Program Review Meeting was held from 18th to 20th August 2025. The first day focused on capacity-building trainin...
An orientation programme on Safeguarding was conducted for the staff members of SMSSS, Shivamogga, with the objective of creating aware...
Sister Evelyn from the Bagalkote Ashadeep Institute visited the members of the Navajyoti Federation of Sadhana Taluk and District Feder...
Cluster Level Training on Gender Equality and Gender Justice was conducted on 10th and 11th July 2025 at KDDC, Karwar. Trainers facilit...
As part of the Women Empowerment Programme, TLF (Taluk Level Federation) and DLF (District Level Federation) trainings were conducted a...
A two-day Cluster Level Training on Gender Equality and Gender Justice was successfully conducted at ORBIT, Humnabad, on 08th and 09th ...
The MAANINI State Women Federation conducted its General Body Meeting cum Capacity Building Training on 3rd July 2025 at KROSS, Bengalu...
A Safeguarding Review Meeting was conducted at KROSS on 26th June 2025. A total of 11 safeguarding point persons from 11 partner organi...
Ms. Monica Rachel. A, Documentation Officer and Mr. Raja Sekar, HR, participated in Symposium 2025 organized by HCL Tech Grant on 20th ...
The Governing Board meeting of KROSS was held on 03rd June 2025 at CODP, Mangalore. The meeting was attended by the Vice President of K...
An Interface and Prospective Collaboration Meeting with CMDC and DSSSs was held on 20th May 2025 at KROSS. The session brought together...
A focused training session was conducted for the next phase of the Women Empowerment Programme (WEP) project proposal on 20th May 2025 ...
An online meeting for Point Persons from various partner organizations was successfully conducted on 15th May 2025. The session focused...
On April 25, 2025, the KROSS team, accompanied by WEP coordinators from 14 partner organizations, undertook a field exposure visit to t...
A 2-day WEP review meeting was held at KROSS, with 42 participants from 14 partner organizations on 8th & 9th April 2025. Each organiza...
On April 3, 2025, a reflection session was held to evaluate the Women’s Empowerment Program (WEP) with the Directors of Diocesan Social...
The Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop organized by Caritas India was held from 19th to 21st March 2025 in New Delhi, with 42 particip...
A series of Gender Training sessions was conducted across six partner organisations—CMSSS, CODP, DKRDS, KIDS, ODP and ORBIT—throughout ...
Three-day Women Empowerment Program (WEP) Review Meeting from November 12th to 13th, 2025, followed by a Capacity Building Training-cum...
The MAANINI anniversary, along with International Women’s Day, was celebrated with great enthusiasm on March 8, 2025, at Sacred Heart C...
The Regional Level Lenten Campaign for Hunger and Disease was successfully launched at the Diocese of Mandya & at St. Alphonsa Church, ...
A seminar on “Staying Compliant with Taxation and Regulatory Updates for NGOs” was successfully conducted on February 28, 2025, in asso...
The Governing Board meeting of Kross was held on 21st February 2025 at the KROSS Resource and Training Centre. The meeting was attended...
On 14th February 2025, a Cluster-Level Training on Safeguarding was successfully conducted at BDSSS, Dharwada. The training aimed to in...
A Cluster-Level Training on Safeguarding was conducted on 13th February 2025 at MSSS, Badravathi, concentrating on the essential princi...
A Cluster-Level Training on Safeguarding was organized on 12th February 2025 at Sampada, Udupi, focusing on the fundamentals of safegua...
A Cluster-Level Training on the Community-Led Approach was conducted on 11th and 12th February 2025 at Sampada, Udupi. Participants fro...
A Cluster-Level Training on Safeguarding was conducted on 11th February 2025 at CMSSS, Hassan. The session focused on the basics of saf...
A two-day Cluster-Level Training on the Community-Led Approach was successfully conducted on 10th and 11th February 2025 at CMSSS, Hass...
A three-day Capacity Building Workshop, organized by Caritas India in New Delhi from November 5th to 7th, 2025, brought together repres...
On 25th January 2025, a significant meeting of priests and religious advocates was held at KROSS, where a collective deliberation took ...
A cluster-level training on Government Schemes and Entitlements took place at KROSS, Bangalore, on 23rd and 24th January 2025. The even...
A cluster-level training on Government Schemes and Entitlements was held at CODP, Mangalore, on 22nd and 23rd January 2025. The trainin...
Cluster-level training on Schemes and Entitlements was conducted at SMSSS, Shimoga, on 20th and 21st January 2025. The training saw act...
Cluster-level training on Schemes and Entitlements was held at BDDS Ballari on 20th and 21st January 2025, with active participation fr...
On January 16th, 2025, the Karnataka Regional Catholic Bishop Council (KRCBC), in collaboration with the Karnataka Regional Catholic Ed...
An online debriefing session for the internal evaluation of the Women Empowerment Program was held on 14th January 2025. The evaluators...
An online meeting of the Maanini State-Level Women Federation was held on 13th January 2025. The primary agenda was planning for the up...
An online meeting was conducted on January 10th, 2025, for the newly joined staff members of the Women Empowerment Program (WEP). The s...
On January 1, 2025, the Maanini Women’s group gathered for a meeting at SMSSS Shimoga, where key figures including MSSS, SMSSS WEP Coor...
On December 16, 2024, KROSS conducted a one-day orientation session at Matralli ODP, Mysore, focusing on the child protection ecosystem...
On December 12, 2024, KROSS organized a one-day orientation meeting at BDDS, Ballari, for 19 participants from various government organ...
On December 11, 2024, KROSS organized a one-day orientation meeting at KDDC, Karwar, for 34 participants from various government organi...
The Annual General Body Meeting of MAANINI, the State-Level Women Federation, was held on 10th December 2024 at Anugraha Pastoral Centr...
The KROSS Governing Board meeting was held on December 9, 2024, at Anugraha, Udupi. During the meeting, key program reports were presen...
Capacity Building Program was conducted at KROSS on December 8, 2024, with 68 participants from 13 partner organizations. The program f...
On November 26th, 2024, a group of 32 MSW students from St. Xavier’s College, Pallyamkotai, visited KROSS as part of their curriculum t...
On November 19th, 2024, a group of 16 MSW students from Loyola College, Trivandrum, visited KROSS as part of their academic curriculum....
On 31st October 2024, a team from MISEREOR visited KROSS and its partner organization, ODP. During the visit, they interacted with the ...
An Organizational Development (OD) program was conducted at KROSS on 24th and 25th October 2024. The program aimed to enhance the effec...
On 20th October 2024, Samrudi monitoring field visit was conducted at ORBIT. The purpose of the visit was to assess ongoing activities...
An internal evaluation meeting for the Women Empowerment Program was conducted on 16th and 17th October 2024, with coordinators from 14...
The WEP team visited BDDS Bellary and BDSSS Dharwad on 5th and 6th October 2024 to monitor and support the ongoing women empowerment pr...
On 04th October 2024, the Women Empowerment Program team visited KDDC, Karwar to review the progress of their ongoing initiatives. The ...
On October 3rd, 2024, the Women Empowerment Program team visited the partner organization CODP in Mangalore to monitor and review the p...
In the months of August and September 2025, DLF training programmes were conducted across 14 DSSS with the objective of strengthening g...
On August 30th, 2024, the SAMRUDI Program Coordinator conducted a monitoring field visit to DKRDS, Belthangady to assess the progress. ...
On August 21, 2024, KROSS held a significant Governing Board meeting, at Resource Centre, KROSS, Bangalore bringing together directors ...
On August 16th, 2024, the State-Level Women Federation MAANINI conducted a review meeting at the KROSS office, with the presence of key...
An Orientation on DSP Formulation was successfully conducted at BMSSS on 19th July 2024, aimed at enriching participants from diverse f...
On 19th July 2024, KROSS hosted an orientation on SaFE (Safeguarding) for the point persons from partner organizations. The event aimed...
Training on the strengthening of the federations was conducted at three clusters- ODP, Mysore on 9th July 2024, KDDC, Karwar on 11th Ju...
A two-day Cluster Level Training on Gender Equality and Gender Justice was held at ODP, Mysore on the 18th and 19th of July 2025. The t...
Cluster level training on Gender Equality and Gender Justice was conducted at DKRDS, Belthangady on the 16th and 17th of July 2025. The...
On April 30, 2024, a review meeting for the SAMRUDI rural upliftment foundation program was held, attended by seven representatives fro...
The KROSS WEP Program coordinators Sr. Nancy Lobo and Mrs. Laina. V Lasrado conducted a monitoring field visit to SAMPADA, Udupi on 18 ...
On 06th April 2024, the Kross staff engaged with one of the partner organizations CODP at Thalapady, Mangalore, for a dynamic interacti...
The capacity-building workshop for MPOs in India towards establishing a safe environment for vulnerable groups in India against sexual ...
The inauguration of the State Level Women Federation, held at KROSS on 26th March 2024, marked a momentous occasion in the women empowe...
The Governing Board Meeting took place on February 22nd, 2024, at KROSS, bringing together its 14 partners under the president ship of ...
On January 31, 2024, an essential online meeting was convened focusing on the Partner Safeguarding Capacity Assessment by Br. Anil Seba...
A two-day Zonal Level Training on Strengthening of Federations was conducted at CMSSS, Hassan on the 12th and 13th of June 2025. The tr...
Caritas India, in collaboration with KROSS and supported by Caritas Italiana, conducted a three-day dissemination workshop on Integral ...
The Director’s meeting held on Monday, April 7th, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM focused on developing a concept proposal for submission to th...
A Cluster-Level Training on the Community-Led Approach took place on the 13th and 14th of February 2025 at BDSSS, Dharwada. The event s...
A Cluster-Level Training on the Community-Led Approach was held on the 12th and 13th of February 2025 at MSSS, Badravathi. The event sa...
KROSS organised and conducted an online meeting with the HCHF partners to plan and prepare of a comprehensive project proposal for cont...
A debriefing session for the internal evaluation of the Women Empowerment Program (WEP) was held on January 16th and 17th, 2025. The se...
Second-year MSW students from St. Alva’s College, Moodubidire, visited KROSS to gain insights into its various programs. During the vis...
Cluster Level Training on Local Resource Mobilization was held at KDDC, Karwar, on December 16th and 17th, 2024, with 39 participants f...
Cluster Level Training on Local Resource Mobilization took place at ODP, Mysore, on December 16th and 17th, 2024, with 38 participants ...
This report provides an overview and evaluation of the Constitutional Rights Training Program conducted on 20 th and 21 st November 202...
A Cluster Level Training on Local Resource Mobilization was conducted at Orbit, Humnabad, on December 12th and 13th, 2024, with 45 part...
The RFAP and SaFE National Review Meeting was held on November 14th and 15th, 2024, in Agra. During the meeting, the KROSS team was rep...
Women Empowerment Program review meeting was held on November 6th and 7th, 2024, at KROSS. Coordinators from 13 DSSS gathered to presen...
Samrudi monitoring field visit was conducted at SSDS, Kalaburgi on 21st October, 2024 to assess the progress and implementation of the ...
In September 2024, a series of gender training sessions were conducted across multiple locations, aimed at promoting gender equality an...
A two-day webinar on the topic “Legal Provisions and Safeguarding Policy: Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH)” was conducted on Sept...
In August 2024, a series of impactful cluster-level training programs on communication and effective learning were successfully conduct...
The Regional Directors meet on Safeguarding and Perspective Planning was conducted by Caritas India on 15 th and 16 th November 2023 at...
A two-day workshop on Regional Perspective Planning and Strategic Engagement was successfully conducted at the Regional Resource Centre...
The Review Meeting of the Women Empowerment Program was held on the 11th and 12th of June 2024, at KROSS, Bangalore. The first day comm...
The Capacity building training on Liaisoning and Public Relations was conducted at KROSS on 13 th June 2024. 64 participants from 14 di...
The online orientation on Safeguarding Standard 1 to the point persons was conducted on 06 th May 2024 at 2 pm with a warm welcome addr...
Orientation on Safeguarding to the Point persons and WEP field staff An orientation on safeguarding and its measures was conducted for ...
A cluster level training on climate change was held at SMSSS, Shivamogga on the 16 th and 17 th of May 2024. The training saw the parti...
Two days training program on climate change at cluster level was organized on 15 th and 16 th May 2024 at DKRDS Belthangadi. 42 women p...
33 participants from 4 clusters (BMSSS, ODP, JVSSS & CMSSS) participated. The training aimed to educate women participants about the im...
A cluster-level training on climate change was convened at BDDS Ballari on 2 nd & 3 rd May 2024. 40 participants from 3 different partn...
Gender training program was successfully conducted at CMSSS Hassan on 18 th March 2024, led by resource person Sr. Nancy Lobo. The even...
The gender training program was conducted at DKRDS, Belthangady on 20 th March 2024. The program was a significant step forward in prom...
The gender training session held in CODP, Mangalore on 19 th March 2024 marked a significant stride towards fostering gender inclusivit...
On 26 th January 2024, Gender training was conducted at BMSSS, Mulabagilu. 22 participants from different SHG groups were present. The ...
On 23 rd February 2024 an online meeting was conducted for the point persons of SaFE. 11 point persons from different partner organizat...
A review meeting of Women Empowerment Programme was held on February 19 th and 20 th , 2024 at Resource cum training Centre, KROSS, Ban...
On 9 th February 2024 Gender Training was conducted at SMSSS, Shimoga. 50 participants from 14 partner organizations were present. The ...
On 8 th February 2024, an internal level gender training was conducted at MSSS, Bhadravathi and SMSSS, Shimoga aiming the participants ...
The online meeting on the Introduction to Safeguarding Policy was successfully held on the 15th of January 2024 at KROSS. The session b...
On 11th and 12th of January 2024, BDSSS, Dharwada hosted a comprehensive Conflict Management Training program, providing the women part...
Conflict is an inevitable aspect of any workplace, often arising from differences in opinions, values, or goals among individuals or gr...
Cluster level Training on the Constitutional Rights was conducted at JVSSS,Mandya on 23rd and 24th of November 2023. 40 participants fr...