AIF organized Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Online course in two modules. Module one on 1st  to 3rd  October focused on the Basic and Analysis with SPSS and Module two on 8th to 10th  October focused on Advanced Statistical Analysis with SPSS. The lectures were delivered by Dr. Rajesh Raushan, a Demographer, Public Health and Development Researcher. The events were attended by young researchers who were given hands-on training on SPSS.

Anthropos India Foundation organised a two-day Ethnography Training workshop on 16th -17th  October 2021, to promote ethnographic methods. The event was attended by junior and senior scholars who had a chance to interact with faculty members and discuss anthropological methods. The first session by Dr. Haripriya Narasimhan talked about the historical development of ethnographic tools to decipher the complex realities of media and its relation to society. Following this, Dr. Archana Kaushik introduced the participants to key elements of autoethnography and its effective implementation by sharing her personal and professional experiences. Dr Aditya Deshbandu, former faculty at IIM Indore, introduced the participants to the virtual world, highlighting new techniques of Netnography and virtual ethnography. The insights from his research on video games enabled the participants to explore the new virtual reality with traditional tools of ethnography. The session by Professor Bhagwan Roy talked about digital ethnography for Tribal Development. All the sessions provided the participants with the opportunity to interact directly with the experts and seek guidance for their research work, thus fulfilling the motive of this short capacity building workshop.

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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), Government of Odisha and Anthropos India Foundation, together with the support of Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India  organized a month-long Training Program on ‘Digital Ethnography’ for Tribal Research Institutes (TRI) Personnel, from

16^th  November 2021 to 14^th  December 2021. A total of 23 TRI from the country registered for the Workshop and 56 personnel attended the program twice (on every Tuesday and Friday) a week. The participants were guided by experts from Anthropology on ethnographic documentation of the tribes. The capacity building training for a month (27 hours) gave a basic theoretical understanding of ethnography as a method, defining central concepts and focusing on digital ethnography as a new branch of social and cultural research, with new and innovative ways to understand and decipher the life of people through digital medium.

Anthropos India Foundation conducted an online workshop on “Understanding and Applying Anthropological Theories” from 11^th  July 2022 – 16^th  July 2022. The workshop was attended by students, researchers and young faculty members from all over India. The four-day workshop reviewed the major theoretical approaches that make the discipline of Anthropology unique. The lectures by senior faculty members were on evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism, structuralism, interpretive and symbolic anthropology and postmodernism. Focusing on the major schools of thought and major theorists, the workshop continued for four days and helped participants to know the theories with a critical lens and also enabled them to learn how to propose theories in their study.

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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), Government of Odisha and Anthropos India Foundation (AIF), together with the support of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the Government of India organized a seven weeks long Training Program for Tribal Research Institutes Personnel from 18^th  July 2022 to 23^rd  August 2022. A total of 23 TRI from the country registered for the Workshop and 55 personnel attended the program every alternate day of the week. Under the guidance of Prof. A B Ota, Director & Special Secretary of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), Government of Odisha, and Dr Sunita Reddy, Chairperson, Anthropos India Foundation, the program was conducted successfully. The training program was intended to train the TRI personnel in research methods, report writing and presentation skills. The participants were guided by experts from various disciplines from Jawaharlal Nehru University, the University of Delhi and the University of Allahabad. Dr Navaljit Kapoor, Joint Secretary, MoTA, inaugurated the training program with his encouraging address. Other experts, Prof Sanghmitra Acharya Professor, JNU; Prof Ramesh C Gaur Director, NSD; Prof Vaishna Narang Professor (retd), JNU; Dr E Kannan, Dr Sunita Reddy, Dr Nemthianngai Guite, Dr Garima Dalal from different centres of JNU; Dr Prashant Khattri, from the University of Allahabad; Dr Chakraverti Mahajan from the University of Delhi were the experts for the Program. The capacity-building training gave a basic understanding of the research methods covering both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The participants were also trained in proposal writing, report writing, and presentation skills. The training equipped the researchers with various research methods, tools and data collection techniques. The training program was a success and on the last day of the Valedictory session, a few TRI personnel presented their research

proposals. Each proposal was discussed by experts and suggestions were given. Professor A. B. Ota, who meticulously organized the training program, was impressed by the presentations and gave some recommendations to the participants. Dr Sunita Reddy, Founder and Chairperson of Anthropos India Foundation, was the Course Coordinator of the Program, gave her suggestions, and called for more such training programs for TRI personnel in the future. The course was well conducted with the involvement of Dr Gunjan Arora, Mumuksha Porwal and Habiba Haroon, interns from AIF and Madhusmita Sahoo from SCSTRTI.