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ISABS

Annual Report 2021

Dear Professional Colleagues

On behalf of EB members, I wish all professional members, family and friends a meaningful, prosperous
and healthier 2022.

Early 2021 showed positive signs of recovering from the endemic, but we were caught unawares with
the deadlier Delta variant. Those were some of the toughest times with many of our members down with
COVID.

While many recovered and bounced back with much resilience, unfortunately we lost our beloved Prerana
and Rajanna to COVID. Many of our PMs too lost dear ones to COVID. We also witnessed painful moments
when we lost our stalwarts - Paul Siromani, KK Mehta and C.M. Srivatsava. I pray for their souls to rest in
peace.

While the pandemic played havoc in our personal lives and challenged us professionally, we as a community,
stood together to continuously keep the momentum of creating spaces for learning and transformation
going.

We had many joyous moments to celebrate through our mega UDAAN event, Global ABS Summit and
our experiments with new short programmes through Outreach & SD, which supported us to build new
partnerships with grass-root level and international NGOs.

I am glad that during the visioning exercise in 2020, the EB took a stand to have ISABS expand its footprint
to the international arenas. Our offerings in the past year have had participants and eminent presenters from
across the world – an achievement for ISABS!!

ISABS will soon be having offerings in Malaysia. Look out for updates on this from our Dean Outreach.
PDP continuously strives to keep the PDPians in a learning mode by creating various new learning
opportunities. Glad we could welcome Asha Kiran Kamble as our newest Professional Member.

It was a humbling experience that ISABS could honour and encourage many social impact stalwarts for
their relentless work in addressing social issues through applications of ABS and OD practices. The board
intends to have the ISABS Honour program as an annual event and a policy is defined as well.

It is a proud moment for ISABS that a well-known international publishing house has accepted our book
- T-Group Facilitation: Theory and Practice of Applied Behavioural Science – An ISABS Perspective for
publication later this year. I appreciate the Joint Dean PDP for initiating it, and the commendable job done

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