Annual Planning & Review Workshop

1. Improving access to information of Public Schemes in backward districts in India Annual Planning & Review Workshop 19th & 20th May 2016 Ahmedabad

2. Project Title “Community Centered Approach to Enhancing Access to Public Services” Project Action Period: 1st April 2014 – 31stMarch 2019 Reporting Period : 1st April 2015 – 31st March 2016 States : Jharkhand & Madhya Pradesh Districts: Hazaribagh & Koderma (Jharkhand), Betul, Hosangabad & Dindori (Madhya Pradesh)

3. Result

4. Strengthening CBOs • Vision building of various tiers of federation. • Strengthening the governance & operational structures of federation • Support in building and unleashing leadership of women representative. • Facilitating women to understand the phenomena of gender equality and patriarchy in their life. • Taking wellbeing planning exercises and institutional mapping in community groups. • Result • Interface of community institutions with duty bearers/ service providers (Kesla). • Creating space in PRI through electoral process. • Collaborative approach of a federation with district administration in SBA. • Strengthening thematic forums at 11 federation. • Networking with state level campaign – RTF, MAKAAM,SWASHASAN

5. Impacting local governance • Awareness generation on • importance of PRI institutions - roles & responsibilities • Voting rights, voting process • Helping the collectives to develop election manifestos,sharing and get it signed by the candidates • Collectively campaigning for the right candidate • Building synergy between CBOs & EWR through workshops , exposures • Result • Selection of candidates by People’s choices • Preparation of election manifesto based on local need & aspirations • 697 members supported by collectives contested for election, 366 won (JanpadSadaya:10, Sarpanch: 45) • Collectives influencing gram sabha to be “Active & accountable” • Collectives influencing for regular functioning of Panchayat office ( esp. in Jharkhand)

6. Engagement around PRI, Governance & Citizenship Awareness-electoral system processes Training- PRI System, governance and citizenship Internal meeting of fed members for campaign Exposure- governance and citizenship Meeting of EWR on envisaged changes in their panchayats Exposure- governance and citizenship

7. Towards Decentralized Planning • Campaigning by collectives in YBA/ IPPE-II (prepared songs, rally and discussion in tiers of CBOs) • Influencing administration in roll out plan of YBA/IPPE-II and capacitating the planning teams • Grooming of local resource teams at Panchayat level • Ensuring participation of all at village level – positioning the program from Citizen’s perspective • Result • Space for the villagers to plan and also they submitted it in Gram Sabha ( bottom up planning)- thus generating a sense of ownership as citizens and confidence in the system • Grooming of around 200 resource person for participatory planning at the project level. • Active participation of SHGs ensured the participation of women in the planning process. • Preparation of village level plan of around 150 villages, in which a sanction has been done for 5 crores in 16 villages. • Multi stakeholder approach - Administration to political leaders along with the CBOs & Civil societies • Active participation of administration at the grassroots, thus building a sense of confidence among the common masses about the programme.

8. Events on Decentralized planning Training on PRI roles and Responsibility Training to PPT Member on YBA-MGNREGA PRI – CBO workshop Workshop on decentralized planning

9. Impacting ICDS services • Building on the ICDS Citizenship report and capacity building of people • Identification of status of ICDS services at village level. • Awareness of community on provisions of ICDS. • Developed shared understanding between CBO’s and relevant stakeholders. • Helped district administration in addressing malnourishment issue at the center • Result • 70 villages have started accessing mandated provisions under ICDS. • Attendance has significantly increased in the centers with the active participation of community. • Community institutions raising their voice against the malpractices being done in ICDS and helped to maintain transparency. • 20 Model ICDS center has been planned to implement by the District administration in Koderma. • A model training curriculum for MTC has been developed and adopted by district administration.

10. Impacting SBA • Awareness “ Importance of WASH in the life of rural people” • Deliberations on WASH in different tiers of CBOs • Finalize the GPs for piloting WASH. • Training at community level “ Importance of WASH” • Result • Form a separate core committee to spear head the initiative at Federation • Organize workshop of the PRI members of the selected GPs to aware them about WASH • Core Committee members along with the PRI representatives submitted the detailed project report to Executive Engineer (DWSD) and met with different stakeholders to mobilize funds • Fund mobilized for selected 5 GPs consisting of 34 villages and work has been initiated.

11. MGNREGA • Training of village representatives as well as primary members on provisions under MGNREGA. • Supported CBO’s to actively participate in decentralized planning exercise covering MGNREGA as well. • Grooming and capacity building of local resource pool for planning. • Result • Community members of around 150 villages participated in planning exercise and submitted their plan in Gram Sabha. • 48 villages have started accessing provisions of the scheme. • The nature of schemes taken up has changed and has became more pro-poor and people centric. • Labor budget has increased 3 times and more pro-poor small schemes has been included in the plan in Jharkhand.

12. Center for improving access to Information • For improving access to information—19 CIRC— with facilities like internet, laptop, photocopy machine, printer, camera and IEC materials. • Collaboration with DEF for technical training of center incharge. • 10 CIRC started functioning – information about different public services—MGNREGA, Social Security Schemes, ICDS, esamadhan. (grievance redressal)

13. Women Land Rights • Capacity building of a pool of members to be gender champions and impart trainings to all SHG members through 119 trainings generating around 2000 trainee days. • Building awareness on identity of women as farmers and importance of women land rights. • Staff and community trainings to build professionals and women’s collectives capacity. • Networking with organizations and Individuals for change in policy and advocacy like MAKAAM. • Preparing communication materials on broad areas/themes. Early Result • Women have started identifying themselves as farmers. • Discussions around the women land rights have started taking place in various forums of federation. • Some of the members have also registered land in their name. Few members have also bought land in their name.

14. Workshop on land rights SHG member mapping her asset in a training Workshop on land rights Chart of asset mapped in the name of women

15. Visibility DainikBhaskar , Dt. 04-10-2015 Coverage in the local news paper Hindistan, Dt. 10-09-2014 DainikJagran Dt. 30-04-2016

16. Visibility SHG Annual Congregation

17. FINANCE AND CONTRACTTotal cost of the project: 1,267,902 EUREC contribution: 1,000,000 78.87% EU share (%)

18. Struggles/Challenges • Breaking gender stereotype and patriarchal belief especially of duty bearers. • Changing the notion from beneficiary to Citizen among masses • Ensuring access to information on public schemes to common villagers • Balancing collaboration & confrontation with mainstream • Sustain the constancy of efforts at community level • Positioning CBOs as a development partner in mainstream

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