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IntroductionIntroductionIntroductionIntroduction
Yet another year of collective effort has provided fruitful
results through civil society partnership and
action for the Centre for World Solidarity (CWS). The reporting
period 2010 2011 is noticeable, with
emerging resource centres, along with regional partners, taking
responsibility to design, implement
and evaluate projects.
This year we again take pride on sincerely implementing and
progressing well to reach towards the
goal of the organisation. As a result of the ongoing process of
establishing and strengthening resource
centres, few noteworthy results could be achieved. Now, all five
state level resource centres, one in
each of the five operational states of CWS are established and
being strengthened. Well, the
transition was worth the challenge. The process was spruced up
by; revisiting boundary management,
governance principles and practices, CWS structure and roles and
also the staff performance
appraisal. All these were in the midst of the faltering
disposition of donors to support civil society.
This has also helped us refocus and re-strategise.
CWS work is mainly categorised into three issues: Human Dignity
comprising four themes, i.e., gender
rights, adivasi rights, dalit rights and minority rights;
governance work focusing on strengthening
Panchayat Raj Initiatives (PRI) and the governance bodies; and
the Sustainable Livelihoods issue work
is focusing on themes mainly related to agriculture, forest and
access to water for livelihoods. Core
activities of CWS are implemented basically by the resource
centres.
Under Human Dignity, CWS was able to achieve good results in the
area of counselling, registering of
cases to support women, organise women to assert rights and
entitlements, rescue and send child
labour victims to school, strengthen livelihood of women and
women headed families, settlement of
disputes, creating awareness of panchayats and other village
level institutions to capacitate them for
positive action in villages and facilitate support from
government for support and development of
women.
Under Governance; capacity building of panchayat leaders and
other potential leaders at village level,
facilitating village level micro plans, consultation with
panchayat leaders, civil society and state level
peoples representatives on PRI, PESA and community empowerment
through PRI. Educating
stakeholders on the role, powers and facilities available with
PRI and PESA institutions are a few
major achievements. Activities also benefitted community to gain
different socio-economic
entitlements. Sincere efforts have given results on inclusion of
women in local governance and
bringing transparency in the system.
Good results can be found through efforts related to land
entitlements through FRA, capacity
building, SRI, promoting practices related organic farming,
forest management, and advocacy for
entitlements & proper implementation of schemes. Foray into
value addition of agriculture and forest
related products, is an upcoming activity providing noteworthy
achievement under Sustainable
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Goals and ObjectivesGoals and ObjectivesGoals and
ObjectivesGoals and Objectives
Human DignityHuman DignityHuman DignityHuman Dignity
The larger goal for the current reporting period is, ensure
rights and entitlements, promote
sustainable livelihoods and facilitate a transparent,
accountable and participatory governance of
the marginalised for development and a dignified life. The major
Objectives are:
To nurture, develop and strengthen grassroots civil society
organisations for promotion and protection of rights and justice,
particularly of the marginalised sections of the society, for
achievement of sustainable livelihood through people-centred and
participatory management
of natural resources, and for advancement of people-centred and
participatory governance
To promote and protect human rights, particularly of the
marginalised communities, so as to ensure a culture of human
rights
To ensure sustainable livelihoods of the marginalised
communities so as to eradicate poverty and deprivation
To empower and enable the marginalised communities to
participate in their own governance and development
To network and advocate for people centred policies that would
guarantee peoples rights to livelihood and to participation in
governance and development
Description
With changing demands of the new millennium, CWS strategically
shifted from a need based
approach to a rights framework. Groundwork began with
reorganisation and restructuring process
of CWS. The four main issues adopted or retained in the process
under the Human Dignity theme
are Gender Rights, Adivasi Rights, Dalit Rights and Minority
Rights. Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS
concerns is still inherent to CWS work and the Human Rights work
is being integrated with other
issues.
Our core work focuses to ensure target communities, individually
and collectively, assert and
articulate their rights by building and strengthening their
capacities. Integration and overcoming
the alienation dj-vu also finds priority in CWS work. Demanding
rightful claim for social space
and entitlements are other thrust areas.
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Major Objectives and Strategies
Build partner capacities and perspectives for focused approach.
Promote leadership, strengthen civil society from grassroots and
provide key linkages
to in increase articulation and assertion of community
rights.
Support victims of violation and discrimination and their
families to seek justice. Influence policies through advocacy and
lobby to guarantee rights.
Coverage
Gender Rights: 20 districts in AP, four in TN, 26 in Orissa, 12
in Jharkhand and 15 Districts in Bihar
Minority Rights: One district in A.P, one in Bihar and seven
districts in TN Adivasi Rights: One district in Jharkhand, five in
Orissa, and eight districts in A.P Dalit Rights: 13 districts in
A.P, 12 in Jharkhand, 26 in Orissa, seven in Bihar and nine
districts in TN
Key Activities
Advocacy and lobby for effective implementation of Acts and
policies Counselling and need based legal aid Organising community
on issues for assertion of livelihood and other rights. Building
community capacities through awareness, education, exposure and on
job
learning.
Facilitating linkages to community with government on various
schemes.
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Significant Achievements
Legal aid and counselling support to about 750 women in distress
across five states. In A.P steps were taken at police department
that victims are not arrested under ITPA Act but only culprits
are arrested which is relief for most of the trafficked
survivors.
Around 920 cases of marriages & 1449 cases of migration
documented by ATWGs (Anti Trafficking watch groups) in 180
villages, from 9 trafficking prone districts of Jharkhand.
PIL for 25 missing girls from the projected area is filed in the
Ranchi high court, Jharkhand. Rehabilitated, mainstreamed and
provided economic support to 37 of the 55 rescued victims of
trafficking
in Jharkhand.
Survey and registration of cases in 23 police stations and 46
Panchayats has been done. 50 cases are registered in police
stations and 177 cases are found in the villages in Bihar.
Economic support extended to 45 survivors of VAW to restart
their life in AP. Around 52 marriages registered by PR
representatives in 300-400 villages in 7 trafficking prone
districts of
Orissa.
14 atrocity cases referred for public hearing (Jan Adalat) in
Orissa
13000 acres of land was identified from 69 villages of 8
mandals, during the V phase of land distribution, 2465 acres of
land was distributed to 1003 landless families in Orissa.
About 1500 single women attained awareness on womens rights in
AP. A circular issued for increasing in the list of Service
Providers in the state of AP. 20,000 Muslim women are organized and
obtained awareness on womens rights in TN, Bihar and AP. 1500 child
labourers sent back to schools and about 300 women relieved from
domestic violence across
five states.
4000 human days generated and 1050 acres of land developed
through NREGAS across five states. Got three special GOs in
implementation of NREGAS in A.P, GO MS No 80, G.O No 245, and GO
No. 240
and Circular No.700/IGS/RM (SP) and Circular No. 999PMSP 2011
with regard to formation and
strengthening of Srama Shakthi Sanghas at village level.
500 Dalits formed as wage seekers associations avail NREGA
program.
16 dispute/conflict cases between Adivasis and Dalits which
would lead to unrest, settled amicably by peace committees and
village leaders in Orissa.
152 Dalit, Adivasi and small organizations working in 20
districts are made part APNA and listed in the GO MS. No. 80. The
Rural Development Department is conducting monthly review meetings
with APNA
members regularly in AP.
Increased participation by Adivasi women in gram sabha meetings
lead to demanding land entitlements rights under FRA and
compensation in case of no job against unemployment under NREGA. 30
Adivasi
women of 10 SHGs have prepared micro plans and further validated
the plan at Gram Sabha in Orissa
Forest protection committees submitted claims on 254 acres of
land through 76 Adivasi group and 4 non Adivasi groups to the
district level committee in Orissa
1580 families from 28 villages filed applications for land patta
under FRA out of which 473 families received titled deeds. 53
Tribals have used RTI Act to get information relating to their
entitlements under
different Schemes. 18 villages placed the developed village
livelihood plan before the local
administration. 5386 families from 70 villages received job
cards under MGNREGS. Database on
entitlement schemes like MGNREGS, PDS, and FRA developed for 70
villages in AP and Orissa.
A state level civil society platform created to interface with
the Government for advocacy on displacement and Resettlement &
Rehabilitation Policy in AP.
Developing Village Water Security Development Plans in six
Panchayats of six districts of AP as part of right to drinking
water
Created awareness among community on Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene issues across 18 districts in AP
120 adolescent girls got trained under Menstrual Hygiene
Management across 18 districts in AP
In Bihar, struggle for land rights of dalits has received
support from the government as it declared to give Rs 20000 /- for
homestead land.
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Case Study:
A victim of false promise of Marriage gets compensationA victim
of false promise of Marriage gets compensationA victim of false
promise of Marriage gets compensationA victim of false promise of
Marriage gets compensation
24 years old Purnima Mallick (SC), D/O-Nani Mallick, is a victim
of single motherhood. She belongs to a Dalit
family of Arindabad village under Jajpur district. In 2010,
Purnima had a premarital affair with Sudhir
Dwivedy, 28 years, from a Brahman community of the same
village.
As a result of the affair they opted for court marriage without
the knowledge of either families and finally
married in the District court Jajpur in 2010. As Sudhir belongs
to a Brahmin family, his family members did
not accept the inter-caste marriage and also disallowed her to
stay in their house. The couple rented a house
in Keonjhar and continued their marital life. When Purnima broke
the news of her pregnancy, Sudhir
deserted her and absconded. Later, without informing her Sudhir
married another lady from his own caste.
In the meantime, Purnima was blessed with a female child. She is
living under miserable condition in her
parental home with her four month girl child and was waiting for
justice.
A FIR was lodged against Sudhir at Bari police station, Jajpur.
The police immediately intervened in the case.
Sudhir was soon arrested. The case was forwarded to the District
Court. Subsequently, an enquiry was
conducted by the Additional DSP and the matter was reported to
the District Welfare Officer. Purnima was
granted a compensation of Rs.25,000/- being a destitute
women.
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GovernanceGovernanceGovernanceGovernance
Description
The Governance theme of CWS focuses on strengthening Panchayati
Raj Institutions (PRIs) and the
grassroots democratic governance bodies. The 73rd
Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, while
conferring constitutional status to PRIs, envisaged empowering
PRIs towards democratic
decentralization through devolution of powers, finances and
functionaries. It also foresees democratic
institutions by ensuring participation from marginalized
sections, specially women, dalits, tribals and
minorities. However, implementation of the Act was ineffective
as devolution of powers was only on
paper and marginalized sections were not in a position to
exercise authority due to various reasons
like deficient awareness on the Act, their rights etc.
In the context of the CWS vision of creating vibrant self
reliant rural communities and the PRIs being
central to it, it was found relevant to work on implementation
of the 73rd
constitutional amendment
in its true spirit. Interventions were initiated in the year
2000 and there is a timely shift on the focus
and strategy based on experiences gained and external
developments. Presently, focus is on
empowering and strengthening capacities of PRIs to develop micro
plans, prioritize and address
development issues of communities for achieving sustainable
development and social justice.
Types of Programme
Pre-election voter awareness campaign. Strengthening of PRIs,
particularly Gram Panchayats through capacity building and
awareness
programmes and handholding to translate the learnings into
practice.
Networking of the Elected Representatives, Advocacy and Lobbying
for the Devolution of Powers, Funds and Functionaries to the
PRIs.
Advocacy and Lobbying for implementation of Panchayats Extension
to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA).
Campaign for the conduct of Elections Empowerment of elected
women representatives
Objectives
Empower the marginalised (women, dalits, adivasis and
minorities) to participate in local governance and development
processes
Empower and strengthen the capacities of the PRIs Ensure
transparency and accountability in local governance Address the
development issues of the communities towards achieving
Sustainable
development and Social Justice
Develop plan at GP level and initiate interventions for
integrating at Mandal and district levels
Track the process of devolution of powers, funds and
functionaries at District, Mandal and GP levels in selected
districts, identify issues and lobby with the Government.
Undertake research and develop resource materials on topical
themes and dissemination.
Facilitate formation of Networks of elected representatives and
build their capacities towards advocating for devolution of powers
to institutions of local governance
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Coverage
In Andhra Pradesh (AP), 45 Gram Panchayats in 9 Mandals of 8
districts and three scheduled area
Panchayats in one Mandal of East Godavari district. In Orissa,
we work in 14 Gram Panchayats in 5
blocks of 2 districts. In Jharkhand, about 1500 people are
covered through consultancy meetings,
workshops and circulation of booklets on PRI. In Bihar, six
panchayats in Siwan district, seven
panchayats in Manasi block and 4 panchayats of Makhdumpur block
of Jehanabad district are covered.
Key Achievements
Jharkhand state is yet to hold elections to panchayats ever
since it was carved out into a state from
Bihar in 2000. Demand for elections continue over the PESA and
momentum picked up after the High
Court termed the second provision of clause (g) of section 4 in
the PESA as unconstitutional. The clause
gives hundred percent reservations to tribals to head all three
levels of the local self-governance bodies
in scheduled areas and was termed by the court as excessive,
unreasonable and against principles of
equality prescribed under Article 14 of the Constitution.
During the reporting period CWS collaborated with other
likeminded organizations and networks, to
understand adivasi local self governance and their interest
towards application of adivasi self rule in
villages and demand political parties to include conducting
elections under PESA in their respective
manifestos.
About 1500 adivasi people including MLAs, representatives of
CSOs gained knowledge through below
mentioned consultancy meetings, workshops and circulation of
booklets on PRI.
State level Consultation on PESA with 15 MLAs from ruling and
opposition parties, 40 academicians and NGO representatives at
Ranchi was organised along with CARE, PRIA, GSA, Manthan and
VSO.
Workshop on PESA and Panchayti Raj Act with 50 participants
organized by Shikshit Berojgar Mahila Samiti and ASRA was sponsored
by CWS, at Chaibasa.
Seminar on Role of customary laws/practices for the empowerment
of adivasi women: strength and weakness at Ranchi by Adivasi Womens
Network and CWS. 96 participants from various
organizations including prominent figures like Dr. Ram Dayal
Munda, Dr. Rose Kerketta, and Mr.
P.N. Surin.
Meeting on Tribal Self Governance at Bagraisai, S. Kharsawan
district was organized by Sahyogi Mahila with support from CWS. 33
persons (17 women and 16 men) from various organizations and
tribal leaders participated
Meeting on PR Election at Chaibasa with 20 NGO representatives
from five NGOs was supported by CWS.
Meeting on PRI, PESA and action to be taken during elections
with 30 participants from Manthan, PRIA, Action Aid, UNDP, a 3
member team from Raman Development (hired by UNDP) CWS,
representatives from many other local NGOs, Social Activists and
media.
State level workshop on community empowerment through PR
institution by Manthan Yuva Sansthan, and CWS- JRC. 60 participants
including NGO personnel of various Districts, probable
candidates of panchayat wards, Mukhiya, Panchayat Samity and
Zila Parisad.
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In AP, Gram Panchayats in operational area were capacitated and
facilitated to develop participatory
plans by forming Ward Support Groups (WSGs). Focus was on
fulfilling prioritized needs, followed by
segregating and assigning them to newly formed Functional
Committees (FCs), formed as per section 40
of AP PR Act. The GP with FCs succeeded to link the prioritised
needs with various state and central
Government schemes and programmes. To implement plans they also
used resources from GP and
NGOs. Community contribution came in the form of voluntary
labour. GPs were linked to Mandal
Parishad (intermediate Panchayat) and district Panchayat to
track and access funds and schemes from
different line departments of the state Government.
45 Focused GPs for intervention revised and fine-tuned their
micro plans by identifying and filling gaps.
WSGs and FCs in coordination with GPs took responsibility to
implement MLPs. 2-4 prioritized mostly on
drinking water, sanitation, health and roads were taken up
through Government schemes, such as
MGNREGS, MLA LADS, NGP, drip and sprinkler irrigation, ISLs,
INDIRAMMA, NOAP, New GP Buildings
and BRGF. Effective delivery of government services- health
(ICDS-Anganwadis, ANMs), Education (up
gradation of school from primary to UPS, dropouts, school
sanitation), Housing (INDIRAMMA houses),
Sanitation (construction of side drains, ISLs, NGP) Roads (New
CC roads, repairs to old roads), Drinking
water (de-fluorination plants, pipelines, overhead tanks,
irrigation (drip and sprinklers), were ensured.
Some committees used RTA for collecting information. Social
issues such as child marriages, HIV and
AIDS, domestic violence, female foeticide were identified and
steps initiated to address them. They
prevented and took up issues of child labour and child marriages
in 17 GPs and reduced dropout rate in
five GPs. Awareness on HIV and AIDS, women and health increased
in the community. Birth and death
registrations by GPs was ensured,
At last, the Government of AP has notified the Rules under PESA
Act in March 2011. CWS was
effectively involved in the process of framing rules.
Notification of PESA Rules and subsequent
implementation will go a long way to empower tribals living in
6000 villages spread over nine districts of
the State.
Adivasi PRERs were capacitated through trainings and awareness
meetings (50) on good governance-
Alternative Dispute Resolution, forest rights, Government
schemes, gender equality and
implementation of PESA and scheduled area Acts in three Gram
Panchayats. Tribal elected
representatives became more vocal in asserting their rights and
safeguarding their local resources.
A film was produced in March 2010, as an IEC and advocacy tool,
was widely circulated across the nine
districts through partners, tribal groups and networks of other
CWS programmes.
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In Orissa, village development plans of 14 villages in two GPs
of Keonjhar district and 21 villages in
two GPs of Deogarh district were developed and endorsed at
Panchayat level. Task Force were
formed in the GPs to track Village and Panchayat Plans yielding
significant impacts particularly
enhancing participation of women, tribals and dalits at
decision-making platforms like Palli Sabha and
Gram Sabha. 30 % development activities proposed in village
development plan have been
implemented in the operational villages. Some key achievements
are:
314 BPL individuals linked with different social security
schemes like old age pension, widow pension and antadoya anna
yojana.
11 families availed benefit under National Family Benefit
Scheme.
45 BPL families obtained PDS Card.
70 families got homestead land patta under Vasundhara land
settlement scheme.
387 MGNREGS Job Cards recovered from village contractors.
65 farm ponds approved in two GPs of Deogarh district and 42
farm ponds constructed utilising Rs 8, 40,000 in two GPs of
Keonjhar district.
74 Indira Awas Yojana (construction of house) got approved,
70 out of 172 applications filed for old age pension got
approved
Canal work and construction work of road got approved under
NREGA, and nine sand walls were constructed.
Action plan prepared on NREGA for 21 villages.
Rs 300,000 mobilised to undertake plantation on 20 hectares of
forest area.
1182 households obtained job card under NREGA, 903 number of Job
card holders opened bank account, and 142 households demanded job
and availed 36 days work
3642 individual claims and 42 community claims submitted under
Forest Rights Act.
Two Public hearings in each focused GP relating to Targeted
Public Distribution System and Land entitlements to landless under
land schemes organized under the leadership of Task
Force and GP level Women Forum. Information on number of
beneficiaries having access to
the above-mentioned entitlements was collected from the
community and the government
department by using RTI and presented in the public hearing. Few
Government Officials
attended the Public hearing. Cases of irregularities/discrepancy
were reported for needful
action by the competent authority
Block and District level Forums, formed and strengthened, are
taking up issues preventing Panchayats
discharge their assigned roles and responsibilities.
Interference by Block and Panchayat level
functionaries during beneficiary selection is being challenged.
The Forum of Panchayat leaders is
participating at the State Level Network for decentralization of
powers. The District level Forums
appealed to all Chairpersons of the Panchayats to exercise their
powers and reduce dependency on
government functionaries while managing Panchayat affairs
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Issues like domestic violence, alcoholism, land entitlements of
women under different government
schemes, etc. are being taken up by the Women forums. Some major
activities and results achieved by
these forums are:
Eight domestic violence cases solved by the Barkote block level
women forum in Deogarh.
The women forum lobbied for joint patta for 115 women under
Basundhara homestead land patta scheme.
Utilization of Gaon Kalyan Samity fund under NRHM scheme, Mid
day meal scheme for school children and ICDS for children are
properly managed due to close monitoring by the Forum
Members.
In Keonjhar, the Telkoi block level women forum lobbied for
joint patta in the name of husband and wife over forestland under
FRA and homestead land under Basundhara scheme.
A process to form a state level forum of elected women PR
representatives has started. CSOs like
Sanshriti along with CWS are actively contributing to this
process. Recently, on the occasion of National
Panchayat Day a state level meet of elected women PR members
decided to make this process broad
based to include representation from all districts of the
state.
In line with provisions of the PESA 1996 Act, networking and
alliance building with various stakeholders
was initiated, including efforts on devolution of powers to
access more funds, functions and
functionaries. CWS initiated dialogue with the civil society,
govt. officials, and tribal leaders on the
possibility of preparing a draft rule for effective enforcement
of PESA.
CWS, its partners and PR representatives from the operational
areas, along with other CSOs, dialogued
with the 3rd
State Finance Commission in Orissa to empower Panchayats with
property tax collection. As
a result, decision has been taken by the Government to empower
Panchayats.
Inclusion of women in local governance, and bring transparency
in the system.
Participation of women in village committees in Bihar is
neglected since long, and sensitization of
women on this is a difficult task. But Shakhiree Mahila Vikas
Sansthan (SMVS) established a strong
foothold particularly in Siwan district and has put credible
work in this regard. Vigilance committee of
women has been formed, and the members trained to monitor the
activities of Gram Sabha, Ward
Sabha and other stakeholders. A campaign was organised in six
panchayats to sensitize the community
regarding transparency and various government schemes.
138 committee members got awareness about their roles and
responsibility.
Six meetings held at panchayat level, and 57 elected
representatives have been well informed about their role and
responsibility.
Members are aware on the six types of committees, and for the
first time they came to know that they also become member of the
committee after panchayat election.
4885 members of gram sabha got information about process of
conducting gram sabha.
42 women got job cards.
13 persons got ration card.
43 girls of eighteen year old enrolled as voter.
Social audit organised in three panchayats on three different
government schemes.
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Sensitization of Community, CSO and local development
administration on NREGS
84 ward level meetings organized and micro plans developed and
pasted on walls of Panchayat Bhawan & other places. Every
individual knows the priorities of their ward committee and are
always there to safeguard the interest of their ward. These plan
have been merged in
Panchayat plans
Statutory committee on social audit has been formed and members
are also trained on their roles & responsibilities towards
better implementation of government programmes.
Multi-stake Holders Dialogue have been organized to share
learning with line dept.
Farmers groups have been formed to take up agricultural
activities under MNREGA
Major Achievements of the project
Ward members previously complained that Mukhia did not inform
about govt. schemes. Now they attend Panchayat meetings, know
priorities of their ward and try to include their ward for
work under MGNREGS.
Ward level plans are pasted in each ward. Villagers know and
think about development of his ward. Even illiterate people discuss
on the plan and development issues of the ward. Concept of
decentralized planning and vision of developed ward has
emerged.
BDO & Panchayat Sevaks are alert about implementation of
MGNREGS.
After group formation farmers enrolled under MGNREGS. 24 persons
found work in the village instead of migrating to other cities.
During multi-stakeholders dialogue, MGNREGS Programme Officer
acknowledged that percentage of job cards issued in Mansi block has
increased up to 40% in comparison to whole
district of Khagaria.
Orientation of self-help groups, Nukkad Natak and
Multi-stakeholders dialogue on MGNREGS and RTI created awareness on
MGNREGS implementation.
Local Govt. officers and members of Statutory Committees have
been orientated about role and functions of Statutory Committee.
Now they can do Social Audit of Panchayats.
Surveys show that Gram Sabha meetings were not held to plan
works and works undertaken does not necessarily reflect priorities.
In Balha and Amni Panchayat even common people know
priorities for their ward as ward members and community discuss
priorities before presenting in
Gram-Sabha.
In Puducherry (TN), strength, visibility and bargaining power of
elected panchayats federation formed
by CWS is increasing. The Local Administration Minister
announced that powers will be devolved to the
panchayats. Full devolution of power to elected panchayats is
the ultimate objective. This has been
achieved only up to 25% so far. Documentation on the status of
panchayats in Puducherry has been
completed. A video documentation on views of politicians and
panchayat representatives was
broadcasted in Thamizhan TV. Also, a book on panchayats was
published emphasizing the need for
devolution of powers.
The publication and Video documentation on the status of
panchayats in Puducherry has led to
decentralization of efforts by civil society. There are efforts
by others to focus on dalit representatives
and women representatives. These will contribute to achieving
the goal.
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Case Study
Case filed in the Labour Court to get correct wages from
MGNREGS
Khuntapasi village is situated in Jiranga Grama Panchayat under
Harichandanapur Block of Keonjhar district. The
village is 3 kilometres away from the Panchayat headquarter.
Under MGNREGS, in every village, Gram Sanjojaka
has been deployed to facilitate work execution. However, the so
called Gram Sanjojakas are working as
contractors and all construction work in the villages are
implemented by them. This is one of the cases of
MGNREGS irregularity occurred in Khuntapasi village.
In Khuntapasi village, work order of a kachha road from
Khuntapasi village to the end of Panasia Banasahi, under
MGNREGS was issued in the name of Mr Nakula Sahoo, who is
working as Grama Sanjojaka. The work started in
April 2010. The workers/job card holders, who were associated in
this road work were getting wage of Rs70-75/-
per day instead of the minimum wage of Rs 90/-, as declared by
the Government. After knowing these, the
Panchayat level task force members called a Panchayat level
meeting in Khuntapasi and decided to alert people
about their due wages.
As an outcome of this awareness, a few exploited workers raised
voice against the disparity in wage payment of
Grama Sanjojaka. Ultimately, they raised a complaint at the
labour office on dt.07/10/2010 against Mr Nakula,
indicating their claim for Rs.88,000/- (Rupees Eighty eight
thousand only) to be refunded, which was curtailed
from their due payment. This shows the concerted approach of
protest against the injustice done towards the
poor wage workers.
After filing of the petition, the Junior Engineer and Block
Development Officer interacted with the leader of the
labourers and assured them to pay back money if the complaint
with the labour officer was withdrawn. But the
labourers and their leader rejected the offer and opted for
further proceedings from labour department.
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Sustainable LivelihoodsSustainable LivelihoodsSustainable
LivelihoodsSustainable Livelihoods
Description
Community Livelihoods, particularly in rural areas, faces
extraordinary challenges from climate change
process, policies & practices favouring land use for
non-agriculture purpose and from the increasing
market onslaught. Biotechnology too, instead of providing
solutions, seems to be compounding
farmers woes like GM seed material is increasing cultivation
costs and making agriculture unviable.
Moreover, there is a clear rapid land alienation of the
poor.
Our sustainable livelihood (SL) work adapts strategies and
initiatives to develop models that
overcome such challenges. Projects are aimed to make farmers
self-dependant, reduce farming costs,
enhance returns, get more land under agriculture, add value to
produce and increase subsidiary
sources of income. Similarly trials are on to increase value of
items collected from forests. In addition
to protecting forests and working on improving access to forest
produce, focus is also on promoting
alternative livelihoods like value addition, fishery, kitchen
gardens, livestock, poultry, horticulture and
such activities based on suitability and viability.
Work on land development focuses on improving traditional
technologies for better gains, ensuring
land entitlements, improving resources and access to resources
and community management of
common pool resources. Work on influencing policies to favour
the farming and forest communities
can be noticed across the CWS functional areas. Convergence of
CWS activities with other
government schemes like MGNREGS, Food Security schemes can be
seen and CWS work is also linked
to programmes of agricultural, horticultural, forest and other
relevant departments.
Thematic Coverage
State Theme Villages Population/families covered
AP Organic Farming, SRI, Marketing, FRA, Grain and
Seed banks, Social Regulations, NAIP, MGNREGS,
bamboo harvesting, traditional seed banks and
embroidery
241 10,742
Bihar Flood and Water Logged Area Management,
Organic Farming and SRI in Bihar, Orissa and AP
49 8,079
Jharkhand Millennium Village Programme, Market Access,
Vocational Education and Training, Community
Forest Management
142 16,550
Orissa SRI, Organic Farming, CFM, FRA 1,048 144,955
TN Millet Cultivation, Protection of Coastal Ecology,
Empowerment of Forest Dependents
55 3,974
1,535 184,300
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Key Activities
1. Protection and conservation of common lands and forests and
strengthening grassroots institutions to state level
federations.
2. Capacity building of NTFP dependent communities on NTFP
collection and value addition of NTFP 3. Facilitation of claims
under FRA 4. Dialogue and facilitation for proper implementation of
FRA, MGNREGA, pricing mechanism and
regulation for NTFP and marketing of forest and agricultural
produce.
5. Facilitation for accessing government schemes for livelihood
generation and social security. 6. Facilitate communities to
interact with government departments and politicians of all levels
to
seek improved access to schemes, facilities and to represent
community opinion on issues and
basic requirements concerning the communities.
7. Expansion of SRI and introduction to SSI, SWI and SR(ragi)I.
8. Value addition and marketing of forest and organic agricultural
produce. 9. Cultivation practices and preparation of organic inputs
for traditional food crops. 10. Activities of land development and
conversion of waste lands to productive lands. 11. Community
management of seed and grain banks 12. Publication of Newsletter
(Thengapalli and Mati Mukti)
Significant Achievements of the Programme
CWS initiatives boosted farmers production from a subsistence to
surplus by adopting different methods
of practices in agriculture. Communities are accessing local
resources better and are managing judiciously
by sharing and conserving. Convergence and integration with
government programmes like MGNREGS is
increasing income levels, enhancing resources and thus
influencing livelihoods in a positive way. Exclusive
work on MGNREGS is being taken up by a network in AP and as a
result 30,000 households have worked
100 days and earned Rs.24,00,00,000/-. Communities are also
being linked to social security schemes.
Forced migration levels are reportedly coming down from a few
villages. For many initiatives, capacity
building is the foundation.
Capacity Building Initiatives
Total
Participants
Nature of Key
Participants
Topics Covered Major Outcome of capacity
building
13,892 Farmers, NTFP
collectors,
Forest
Protection
groups, SHG
members, NGO
representatives,
Government
officials
Water management, Convergence of govt.
Programmes, pump set maintenance &
energy (efficiency) management, SRI,
organic farming, NPM, sustainable
agricultural practices, traditional bio-
pesticides, NREGA, forest rights, value
addition, agri-business, marketing, NTFP,
IGA, kitchen gardens, crop diversification,
land management, cultivation practices,
flood management, millet cultivation.
Water and crop management for
sustainable use in villages; 74
capacitors installed by farmers;
more than 150 farmers adopting
SRI, SWI, SR(ragi)I, SSI; 20-25%
increases in prices in Jharkhand for
some of the NTFP produce; 500
small and marginal farmers form
farmers clubs in Orissa & yield
increased from 1.5 to 3.5 times.
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In Jharkhand successful installation of three lift irrigation
structures prompted govt. to provide another
six lift irrigation schemes. In AP, exclusive work is going on,
on reviving traditional seeds. So far 78 seed
banks are storing 63 traditional seed varieties of 23 crops,
covering 5,009 acres by 1,641 farmers. Under
the activity of strengthening livelihoods, 58 villages are
promoting organic farming, NPM, grain banks (5
villages) and seed banks (5 villages), coffee plantation (108
families), and conversion of degraded and
wastelands in to agriculture. In Orissa, 1,312 farmers from 16
villages are getting an additional income of
Rs.4,300 and some are getting even Rs.12,000. And 400 farmers
have benefitted by trading organic
manure and bio-fertilisers
CWS, with partners support, extended SRI to a wide area and
farmers have started to accept the
techniques. Farmers are more enterprising now and are open to
introducing and adapting this technique
to sugarcane, wheat and ragi. Discussions on introducing this
method to vegetable crops are also going
on. SRI work is being taken up in four CWS working states. In
Orissa SRI has spread to 943 villages of 58
blocks from 13 districts. In Jharkhand more than 300 farmers are
practising SRI.
Beneficiaries Acres Increase in
Production (Qtl)
Average
increase (Qtl)
Net increase in income Avg. Per beneficiary
increase
16942 7814.9 64160.22 8.21 54,536,187 3,219
Forest protection is being taken up strongly by communities from
96 villages in 55,000 acres and an
additional 900 acres has come under the safeguard of communities
this year. Around 90 villages in
Jharkhand can now be termed as model CFM villages. A good
development in Jharkhand is that 5 NTFP
banks have been established and negotiations with traders and
government have lead to increase in the
prices of NTFP by 25%. Use of herbal medicine in the region has
also gone up by 35%. In AP, bamboo
harvesting on scientific lines and its marketing is going on in
100 villages. Embroidery work for tribal
women has provided an additional income of Rs.306,429
In Orissa, 101 siali leaf plate makers, 105 Agarbati makers and
2400 kendu leaf collectors are getting
additional income ranging from Rs.4,500 to 13,000. Community
could also express their demands to 147
villagers to implement projects of Forest Development Authority
and the Orissa Forestry Sector
Development Programme. Saxena Committee has also visited
Budhikarni (Mayurbhanj) to assess FRA
implementation. Communities are supported and facilitated to
reclaim lands under the FRA Act in Orissa,
Jharkhand and AP.
Land Entitlements status under FRA
Villages Claims Submitted Claims Settled Claims under
Verification Process Claims reapplied
229 1676 335 174 64
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Social regulations (SR) work has reached out to eight villages.
SR work has further consolidated farmers
understanding on the advantage of using capacitors. By the end
of the reporting period a total of 194
capacitors were installed benefitting 400 open wells and bore
wells that are under sharing and being used
by 953 farmers.
Social Regulations
No
of
GPs
No of
villag
es
HHs
total
sharing
groups
sharing
groups
promoted
in 2010-11
(includes in
total)
total
functional
sources by
March 2011
total area
irrigated (in
acres) kharif &
rabi (2010-11)
No. of
water
receivers
(OWs
+BWs) ( in
2010-11)
additional area
irrigated (in
acres) i.e. area
belonging to
water receivers
Open
Wells
Bore
Wells DI MI DI MI
8 19 1551 438 132 115 407 911.7 1719.8 671 343.2 313.8
DI: Direct irrigation
MI: Micro irrigation (sprinkler and drip irrigation). Here, only
sprinkler irrigation is included.
In Bihar, more than 450 farmers are benefitted through flood and
water logged management activities.
Around 200 acres directly and another 1000 acres through
influence of CWS activities have become
fertile.
In Jharkhand the market access activity is at the initial stage,
hence intensive inputs are going on into the
programme. Presently with introduction of SRI, output from the
fields of farmers adopting SRI has gone
up by 2-3 times and in pulses and vegetables the output has gone
up by 1-2 times. Incomes of farmers are
augmented by alternative sources of income. 497 potential rural
youth have been selected and trained on
agro-related and NTFP vocational courses. 50,000 fry fish
variety seedlings were distributed to 22
farmers taking up fish farming. Initiatives of MVP prompted
agriculture minister of Jharkhand to
inaugurate and attend village fair at MVP activity located
villages.
In Tamil Nadu, 42 farmers have adopted millet production in 42
acres. Millet food festival was organised
in villages to encourage millet crops. Awareness programme
reached out to 155 people on millets. To
protect coastal ecology community are protesting from 20
villages and there are also attempts to convert
shrimp farms to organic farms. To empower forest dependents,
work is successfully going on in 30 villages
by strengthening Village forest committees.
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Banking on Forests and its produce
Agriculture and sale of forest based products are major source
of income for villagers in Jharkhand.
Villagers normally sell forest based products individually at
prices demanded by middlemen.
Under the community forest management program, forests are
protected disallowing rampant cutting
of trees/ branches (cutting is permitted with special permission
from FPCs) and by allowing collecting
and selling of MFP. This does provide some help, but prevalent
exploitation by middlemen limits the
scope.
Thus to create a fair environment for all stakeholders of forest
(villagers, forest officials and
middlemen) and minimise exploitation the idea of an MFP Bank
emerged.
Banks as decided would be operated by SHG members by maintaining
proper books of accounts.
Members from FPC and gram sabha could also be members. NTFP
Products, collected by members,
from forests were deposited at the banks (based on the
characteristics of a product; structures for
storing were built). Through regular meetings with stakeholders,
prices for the products were fixed and
sold to middlemen. Profits from sale were shared equally among
members.
Four such banks have been formed at Bhaiyadih and Baghapathar
villages, in Deoghar districts and
Jitjori and Kurumtand villages of Dumka district. Sale and
purchases are recorded in proper books of
accounts. MFP like, datwan (twigs used as tooth brush), cocoon,
leaf plates, brooms and mahua are
being collected and sold. Seasonal produces like wild mushrooms
priced at Rs. 120-140 are also being
collected and sold, and on average Rs. 250 is being earned by an
individual. Members have internalized
the idea of MFP Banks. This has not only improved their income
but has also boosted their confidence.
The fixed prices for the products have ensured fair trade and
non-exploitation. The success of the
banks is being replicated in other areas as well.
In all of the CWS working areas, farmers income and livelihoods
are being augmented
through additional livelihood sources like poultry, fish
farming, kitchen gardens, value
addition to forest and agriculture produce, livestock rearing,
horticultural programmes.
Government programmes like MGNREGA, Indiramma, drip and
sprinkler irrigation etc are
converged and integrated with CWS programmes to achieve the
objectives. Coverage
through electronic and print media is growing, showcasing the
significance of CWS
achievements.
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ConclusionConclusionConclusionConclusion
Constant efforts to nurture & strengthen partnership with
civil society to reach out for common goals is
the raison dtre of success. Ample testimony will come on this
from our stakeholders. CWS is proud of
the partnership with civil society. Guidance, support and
inspiration from the donor community have
always fuelled our drive towards the commitment.
The results for the reporting period begot great satisfaction,
considering the turbulent atmosphere we
work under and also the constant challenge we take up to shift
the mindset of community and other
stakeholders. Decreasing funds, new challenges of land
alienation, particularly through Special Economic
Zones (SEZ) and infrastructure promotion, increasing corporate
lobby on policy change, changing roles
and requirements from donor community were some of the
challenges the civil society including CWS
had to cope.
However, learning is constant and always demanding. New hurdles,
changing environment keep
challenging and burdening the civil society. CWS hopes to face
up to the challenges and based on the
experiences gained, CWS will put more increased efforts and will
be particularly noticeable in the area of
advocacy and strengthening models in future. There will also be
increased efforts to broaden the
resource base of CWS.
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Dr. V. Rukmini Rao, (Managing Trustee) Plot No:
55,Road No: 71,Phase III, Jubilee Hills Opp: Jubilee
Public School, HYDERABAD 500 033 Tel.No: 23547714
E-Mail : [email protected]
Mr. Anil K. Singh, Secretary General, (Trustee)
SANSAD, B-38, Upper Ground Floor (Right side), Freedom
Fighters Enclave, IGNOU Road, NEW DELHI 110 068 (Off)
(011) 29531348 Mobile : 09810015250 E-Mail :
[email protected] [email protected]
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Prof. Prabal K. Sen (Trustee)
Entrepreneur Development Centre XLRI: School of
Business & Human Resources Circuit House Area (East)
JAMSHEDPUR 831035 Jharkhand Phone:(O) 91-657-
3983188; Direct 3983333 (R)91-657-3983403;Mobile:
91-9955466746 E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. R. Manohari Das, (Trustee) Institute for Self
Management (ISM), 55, Bharati Dasan Road, Travellers
Bungalow Road, MADURAI 625 016
Tamil Nadu Tel.No: (0452) 2603762 E-Mail :
[email protected]
Prof. Arif A. Waqif, (Trustee)
87, Gaffar Khan Colony, Road No: 10, Banjara Hills,
HYDERABAD 500 034 Telephone No: 23396629
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SECUNDERABAD 500 094 Tel.No: 27114769 E-Mail :
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SANSRISTI,P-II, Jaydeva Vihar, BHUBANESWAR 751
023 Orissa Tel.No: (0674) 2587453 Mobile :
09437004647 E-Mail :
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Chartered Accountant, V.K. FOUNDATION, GANDHIGRAM
624 302 Anna District, Tamil Nadu.
Tel.No: (0451) 2452320 Mobile : 09443737837 E-Mail :
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105, Patliputra Colony, Kurji Road, Patliputra. Patna
800 013 BIHAR
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Reddy Colony, Seri Lingampally, HYDERABAD 500 050
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Saheed Nagar, BHUBANESWAR 751 007 Orissa. Tel.No:
(0674) 2546499 E-Mail : [email protected] Board of Trustees
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List of DonorsList of DonorsList of DonorsList of Donors
Financial Year 2010Financial Year 2010Financial Year
2010Financial Year 2010----11111111
HIVOS, Netherland
EED, Germany
Oxfam-India
AEI, Luxemburg
ASW, Germany
Welthunger Hilfe, Germany
Water aid, United Kingdom
Trocaire, Ireland
Caritas, Switzerland
ICAR, New Delhi
SDTT, Mumbai
Ministry of Panchayatraj, Delhi
Unicef, Delhi
AMR-APARD,AP
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CWS STAFFCWS STAFFCWS STAFFCWS STAFF
FROM 1ST APRIL TO 2010 TO 31ST MARCH 2011FROM 1ST APRIL TO 2010
TO 31ST MARCH 2011FROM 1ST APRIL TO 2010 TO 31ST MARCH 2011FROM 1ST
APRIL TO 2010 TO 31ST MARCH 2011
S.No Name Place S.No Name Place
1 M V Sastri CO 36 N. Jagan Mohan Rao APRC
2 Gnana Prakasam CO 37 Parvathamma APRC
3 B.V. Soma Sastry CO 38 Prameela APRC
4 C.V.Shyamala CO 39 P Lakshmi Narayana APRC
5 L V Prasad CO 40 M. Sudershan * APRC
6 R.V.Ramamohan CO 41 Jyothi Ashwath Reddi * APRC
7 Avanthi N.Rao CO 42 Champa Tigga ** BRC
8 Grace Raja * CO 43 K K Pandy BRC
9 P. Kameshwara Rao CO 44 Pramod Kumar BRC
10 G. Madhavi CO 45 Priya Raju ** BRC
11 P. Srinivas Babu CO 46 Suchita Kumari ** BRC
12 E. Madhavi Latha CO 47 Zakiuddin BRC
13 D. Kalyani CO 48 Deepak Kumar BRC
14 Guduru Jyothi * CO 49 Ajay Kumar Singh * BRC
15 R.S. Ranadheer CO 50 Ghufranul Hassan** BRC
16 R. Janga Reddy CO 51 Reeta Kumari * BRC
17 M. Prakaksh CO 52 Monimoy Sinha JRC
18 S. Anasuya CO 53 Rajshree JRC
19 Parvatamma CO 54 Kishore Kumar Razak JRC
20 Bhagirath CO 55 Rajesh Kumar Jha JRC
21 D. Sanjeev NAIP 56 Ajay Kumar Jha * JRC
22 S. Prudhvi Raj ** NAIP 57 Pushpa Dahanga JRC
23 Seetharamaih NAIP 58 Janaki Dubey JRC
24 M Yugandhar PMEYSA 59 Aruna Marandi JRC
25 G. Celestina PMEYSA 60 Devi Kalyani Patnaik ORC
26 G. Aruna APRC 61 Ronali Pradhan ORC
27 M S Pushpavalli APRC 62 Sunanda Chowdhury ORC
28 N. Sambasiva Rao APRC 63 Rekha Panigrahi ORC
29 G. Sucharita APRC 64 Digambar Sabar ORC
30 N. Jhansi Rani APRC 65 Saroj Kumar Jena ORC
31 Esther Valentina APRC 66 Sailendra Narayana Mishra ORC
32 Vagheesan ** APRC 67 Bijay Ram Senapathi ** ORC
33 Narendra Bondla APRC 68 Subhasmita Mohanty * ORC
34 Irfan Basha APRC 69 G. Uma Shankar TRC
35 Balapurnima * APRC 70 Palanichamy TRC
* Indicates that the staff joined during the period
** Indicates that the staff left during the period
