The Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA) was established in 1988, with the initiative of leading management development institutions in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region. AMDISA is an international not-for-profit association, and is a “SAARC Recognised Body”. It has 230 members, of which 198 are Institutional Members from the SAARC region, 4 Affiliate Members, 14 Corporate Members and 14 Reciprocal Members.
The mission of AMDISA is to “Promote management excellence in South Asia by networking management development institutions and facilitating their partnership with corporate enterprises and public agencies in the region.”
This is the only Association which networks management development institutions across the South Asian nations, through exchange of information, conducting regional conferences and providing a forum for academics and business leaders. AMDISA organizes institution-building workshops for Heads of Institutions, Faculty Workshops on frontier areas of management and inter-institutional cooperative research on contemporary managerial issues in South Asia.
AMDISA launched a global benchmark quality assurance and accreditation system for Business Schools in this part of the world called as South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS). It is the South Asian system of quality assessment, improvement, and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration. Its fundamental objective, linked to the mission of the AMDISA, is to raise the quality and standard of management education. AMDISA facilitates standard setting, benchmarking, mutual learning, and the dissemination of good practice across borders. The SAQS Quality Label is intended to provide recognition beyond the domestic environment to institutions that, in addition to satisfying high quality standards in their national market, are also credible in the international arena.
AMDISA is registered under Societies Registration Act, under Indian Law and is funded by membership subscription, corporate contributions and project assistance received from regional as well as global agencies and has received assistance from ILO, INTERMAN, Commonwealth Secretariat, Canadian International Agency, Asia-Pacific Development Centre.
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