Achievements

• A public profile for the Centre as well as networking with other organizations with similar mandates.
  
  
• A process of dialogue amongst the youth and school children on questions of change and adaptation.
  
  
• A cross-region understanding amongst the culturally diverse tribes within the State
  Emergence as a platform for public dialogue on issues of culture, folklore and research.
  
  
• CCRD has been able to develop as an institution of repute in the field of folklore research and media dissemination and also to generate public dialogue on change. This breaking-in period has yielded more of intangible gains in terms of profile and presence, than tangible financial returns.

Lessons learnt

• Local Recruitment: The followed policy of the Centre to recruit staff only from within the State seemed to have boomeranged on us. The available talent is less trained and lack experience. So, when on the one hand employment was generated locally, yet considerable time was spent in training and building up skills, which reflected in part of the work output.
  
  
• Networking: The Centre has not really been able to build a working relationship with organizations in the other states in the northeast region, which was one of the desired goals. This has given rise to a unique situation where our presence is known within Arunachal and in the other parts of the country but not much in our immediate neighboring states.