Draft Op Manual PoP

February, 2010

Phase I – Development of SC &ST Households

under SCSP & TSP Commitment

Operational

Manual for

PoP Strategy

Operational

Manual for

PoP Strategy

Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty

Department of Rural Development

Government of Andhra Pradesh

CONTENTS

1 CONTEXT OF POP STRATEGY...............................................3

1.1 Evolution of IKP:..................................................................................31.2 IKP at a Glance....................................................................................31.3 Rationale for PoP strategy...................................................................4

2 POP STRATEGY....................................................................6

2.1 Vision statement (2018)......................................................................62.2 Mission statement...............................................................................62.3 Proposed components to generate additional income-.......................62.4 Core interventions-.............................................................................72.5 Key Arrangements..............................................................................72.6 Non-Negotiables in PoP Strategy.........................................................8

3 GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS AND EXPANSION PLAN..................9

4 IDENTIFICATION OF POP HOUSEHOLDS........................10

4.1 Defining PoP......................................................................................104.2 Roles and Responsibilities of CRPs during the field work..................104.3 Process of Identifying PoP HH...........................................................10

5 KEY COMPONENTS OF THE STRATEGY

(MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS)..........................................................12

5.1 INSTITUTION BUILDING:....................................................................125.2 CREDIT LINKAGE...............................................................................145.3 NREGS...............................................................................................145.4 CMSA.................................................................................................155.5 Dairy.................................................................................................155.6 Collective Marketing:........................................................................165.7 Jobs / Skill based...............................................................................16

6 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT........................................17

6.1 CBO level:.........................................................................................176.2 Project level:.....................................................................................17

7 ROLE OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS...........................................18

7.1 Community Activists.........................................................................187.2 PoP CCs.............................................................................................197.3 MS Coordinator..................................................................................217.4 Area Coordinator:..............................................................................217.5 The Project Director, DRDA...............................................................22

8 TRAININGS ENVISAGED FOR STAKEHOLDERS (RE-

SKILLING)..................................................................................23

8.1 PoP CAs.............................................................................................238.2 PoP CCs.............................................................................................23

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8.3 MS Coordinator / ACs........................................................................238.4 PD / APD............................................................................................23

9 ROLE OF CBOs (OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY).............24

10 EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND MEASUREMENT.....................25

10.1 General.............................................................................................2510.2 IB / Credit linkage..............................................................................2510.3 NREGS...............................................................................................2510.4 CMSA.................................................................................................26

11 PERFORMANCE INDICATORS.............................................27

12 PILOT ON POP STRATEGY..................................................28

12.1 Identification and training of CRPs on PoP strategy:.........................2812.2 Identification of PoP HH:....................................................................2812.3 Identification /Training of CAs:..........................................................2812.4 Collection of Baseline data:...............................................................29

13 TRACKING EVERY HOUSEHOLD THROUGH DECISION

SUPPORT SYSTEMS (RE-TOOLING)............................................30

13.1 Decision Support Systems for PoP strategy at CA level:...................3113.2 DSS At CC level:................................................................................3113.3 DSS At PD level:................................................................................31

14 BASELINE INFORMATION OF A POP HOUSEHOLD.............32

15 BUDGET FOR POP STRATEGY............................................33

Annexure A: Format for MCP (Micro Credit Plan) of a PoP HH

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Annexure B: Timelines for PoP Strategy (till March 2011)......35

Annexure C – PoP Household schedule for CRPs......................36

Annexure D1 – Fields in Baseline survey of PoP HHs...............37

Annexure D2: Master for the Coded-fields in Baseline Survey...........43

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1 CONTEXT OF POP STRATEGY

1.1 Evolution of IKP:Indira Kranti Patham – a state-wide community driven project

implemented by SERP (Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty) is aimed at alleviating poverty from rural areas in all its dimensions. The main objective is to enable the rural poor in the state, particularly the poorest of the poor, to improve their livelihoods and quality of life. The Project has been working towards the goal of enabling each poor family in the state improve their livelihoods and quality of life and following them up till they come out of poverty. The Poorest of the Poor and Poor households have been identified using the participatory identification tools and different interventions were planned and implemented to achieve the above stated goal.

The IKP focuses on rural poor families in all the 1099 Rural Mandals in 22 rural districts of the State. The IKP evolved in two phases as two projects. The first Phase and first project was Andhra Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project (APDPIP) covering 316 mandals in 6 districts. The second Phase project is Andhra Pradesh Rural Poverty Reduction Project (APRPRP) covering another 548 mandals in 16 districts. The extension of APRPRP covering all rural mandals is now rechristened as Indira Kranti Patham.

1.2 IKP at a Glance

There are 1,06,60,968 members in 9,33,585 SHGs exclusively for women. A total of 36,391 Village Organizations (VOs), 1099 Mandal Samakhyas (MSs) and 22 Zilla Samakhyas have come into existence in 22 districts. As on today, the total Savings and Corpus of SHG Members are Rs.2660.96 Crores and Rs.4508.92 crores respectively.

Micro-Credit considered a major panacea in poverty alleviation is being facilitated by IKP through linking of loans with various nationalized and regional banks. Bank lending has significantly increased from Rs.197.70 Crores in 2001-’02 to Rs. 6649.44 Crores in 2008-09. Further, Rs.9000 crores has been kept as the target for the current financial year 2009-10. In addition, SERP has been playing pivotal role in implementing various novel schemes addressing the social and economic needs of the poor. Few of them are

Community Investment Fund Pavala vaddi or interest subsidy on the loan repaid Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture

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Dairy promotion Collective Marketing of agricultural produce Rural Non-farm livelihoods Health and Nutrition for rural poor women Education for rural children

Dr.Y.S.R. Abhaya Hastham / Insurance Employment generation for the educated rural youth

1.3 Rationale for PoP strategy

It has been the observation in the field that though Institutions of the Poor have been built and strengthened, their outreach to the Poorest of the Poor households still needs to be improved and it requires concentrated and focused attention on these particular households. It may be asked as to why a separate strategy for poorest of the poor when the main objective of the existing programme itself is to eliminate poverty. Since its inception, IKP has been putting constant and diligent effort to eliminate poverty in all its forms. The programme is successful as more than one crore women have got organized into groups and are deriving benefits from various programmes.

SERP, over the years has created an eco-system where multiple opportunities are available for the rural households to access and come out of poverty. But the 20-30% of the PoP households particularly those from SC &ST communities lacked the requisite skills to grab the basket of opportunities available. The presumption that the empowered network of CBOs will facilitate such handholding of the SC&ST households once the IKP staff shift from an intensive SHG focussed facilitation to nurturing the higher level CBO’s like VOs, MMS and ZSs proved premature. It is now evident that the CBOs of poor with their own continuous struggles to keep pace with the vagaries of the rural socio-economic dynamics to come out of poverty are not able to provide quality time and effort to the much more complex socio-economic dynamics that beset SC & ST households.

The poorest of the poor families still need intensive handholding as they are still in the back seat due to various reasons. In a study carried out by some Young Professionals working for IKP in four districts (Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Nellore and Chittoor) on the impact of SHGs over the PoP, the findings showed that a lot needs to be done to bring them on par with the others. The same was portrayed in many of field visits and field based studies and also in the regular MIS. In addition, there are many BPL families who even-after accessing the loans from IKP have fallen prey to the reins of poverty due to inability to absorb the shocks.

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In order to connect the missing links (indeed the main links) with the SHG movement, it becomes crucial for the programme to be PoP-centric. In this context, the need for a new strategy focussing on the PoP household evolved out alongwith the emphasis on enhancing the income levels and the reduction in expenses. SERP is revisiting its strategy for facilitating the PoP Households to come out of poverty by positioning a dedicated facilitation unit which comprises of the IKP staff and trained community members to work intensively for these households. Here, the focus is on the household. Breakthrough in CMSA for PoP Households:

Another compelling factor that played a crucial role in the design of the PoP strategy was the breakthrough that SERP achieved in CMSA.

To be obtained from Raidu sir

For PoP households, this means converting their unproductive assets in the form of small land holdings into a sustainable income generating productive asset.

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Case let on successful PoP CMSA farmer

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2 POP STRATEGY

2.1 Vision statement (2018)

Every poorest of poor family in the state comes out of poverty with increased and sustainable livelihood opportunities established with the aid of an intensive handholding support in a phased manner

2.2 Mission statement Multidimensional Focus on Each individual family to

enhance/strengthen their livelihoods with a special focus on agri-based interventions

Re-orienting supporting staff over the Household focus and on its subsequent income enhancement and re-skilling them accordingly(atleast a rise in INR 60000 per family within 3 years)

Establishing suitable decision support systems to enable better monitoring and corrective mechanisms

Ensuring all related and necessary components implemented within the purview of IKP reach each PoP household

The long term objective of the PoP Strategy is to enable every poorest of the poor household to come out of poverty in a span of 5 to 10 years. The same has to be done in a focused and phased manner starting with organizing them, strengthening their institutions, increasing their asset base, mitigating risks, expanding the livelihoods and increasing their incomes. Every poorest of poor family in the state should earn an additional income of Rs.60,000 per annum with 3 years of intensive handholding support.

2.3 Proposed components to generate additional income-

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2.4 Core interventions-

Every eligible PoP HH is covered in the SHG networkPoP SHGs are strengthened through strong IB inputsEach PoP SHG accesses bank linkage as per their eligibilityEach PoP HH accesses atleast 1 lakh credit in a 3 dosesEach PoP HH accesses at least 100 days of wage employmentEnsure land access:0.25 to 0.5 acres wet (Own or lease) / 0.75 to 1 acres dry (own or assigned)PoP Lands are developed and cultivated through CMSA methodsPoP HHs acquire milch animals through Bank linkage / PoP fundPoP HHs demand and access the needed benefits from various government schemesPoP HHs receive the benefits under components of Health & Nutrition, Education and Gender in a phased mannerPoP HH that are not eligible for SHGs are linked with various government interventions as per their rights and entitlements

2.5 Key Arrangements

Each PoP household will be monitored and followed up for the next 5 to 10 years or till they come out of poverty. This can only be done through dedicated external facilitators and internal animators such as community resource persons and community activists, the strategy of which has been proved successful in every programme implemented by IKP. Hence, a trained Community Activist, who is again from a PoP household, will take the responsibility of continuously guiding 100 PoP households till the above objective is achieved. These CAs will be provided external facilitation support from the community resource persons (CRPs). The PoP community coordinators will nurture, train and guide the work of the CAs and CRPs and ensure that the long term objective is achieved.

The arrangement is as follows:

Focused PoP livelihoods interventions will first happen in those Gram Panchayats corresponding to 4024 villages where NPM is operational in 2009-10 and it will then expand to another 3500 villages planned in

Proposed Component Expected Rise in Income

Wage employment from NREGS Rs.10000 Sustainable Agriculture Rs.25000 to Rs.40000 Premiums from Collective Marketing

Rs.5000 to Rs.10000

Dairy / Livestock Intervention Rs.15000 to Rs.25000

Income from Non-Farm activities, Jobs in urban areas, etc.

Specific to PoP HH

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2010-11. These 7500 villages will fall in 1500 NPM clusters at the rate one cluster for every 5 villages. The participatory identification of all PoP SC/ST families will be completed in the first round and the remaining PoP families in the 2nd round in all villages. It will be initially focused on the NPM villages of 2009/10 and later on 2010/11 villages. Subsequently all villages in the state will be covered.

In addition to identification, the status report of each identified family and SHG through a much comprehensive baseline survey.

PoP C.C will be accountable for IB, NREGS and NPM for identified SC/ST households in all the NPM clusters of his/her mandal. PoP C.C will be strictly accountable for income enhancement of these SC/ST households. The Community Activists, at the rate of one per 100 households, will be accountable for IB, NREGS and NPM.

Until every PoP HH gets an additional income of Rs.60000, the household focus will be continued.

The major steps involved in the implementation of PoP strategy is as mentioned in the figure below.

2.6N

on-Negotiables in PoP Strategy

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i. No single eligible SC/ST Household and most vulnerable HH shall be left out in the village.

ii. All identified and eligible PoP HHs shall be brought into SHG foldiii. All identified PoP wage seeking HHs shall access minimum 100

days of wage employment.

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3 GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS AND EXPANSION PLAN

The PoP strategy will be implemented in all mandals in the state in a phased manner. During 2009-10, the 304 mandals where Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) initiative is being implemented by IKP. Focused PoP livelihoods interventions will first happen in the 4024 villages where NPM is operational in 2009-10 and it will then expand to another 3500 villages planned in 2010-11 covering a total of 480 mandals. These 7500 villages will fall in 1500 NPM clusters at the rate one cluster for every 5 villages.

The expansion plan for PoP Strategy is as follows:a) In 2010/11 – will be present in 75% Area Coordinators clustersb) By 2011/12 – present in every mandal – at least 1 NPM cluster of 5

villages. c) 2011 – 2015 – cover balance Gram panchayats / villages each year.

In the first year of reaching out to a village, start with the identified PoP, SC/ST families.

d) By 2014/15 – reach every village in the state. In 2 years of entering a village all PoP SC/ST families will adopt these practices.

e) By 2015/16 – reach out to every PoP family in the state f) By 2017/18 – the last batch of PoP families ( covered in 2015/16)

achieves livelihoods security through agriculture and livestock intervention

g) Detailed expansion plan is depicted in the figure below in three phases.

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4 IDENTIFICATION OF POP HOUSEHOLDS

4.1 Defining PoPDuring the PIP exercise, which was done about 7 years back,

such persons and families were identified who are kept away from society or being a part of society are forced to face discrimination and are not able to access basic necessities. And those who are marginalized from society, persons who are suffering from AIDS, HIV and other terminal diseases, persons suffering from leprosy and nomadic people. Information was also gathered on child labourers, widows, single women, persons without guardians, the disabled, Joginis, Basivinis and Matangis, traditional folk artists and their families, sex workers, bonded labourers, homeless, beggars, migrants, old people etc.

In the PIP Document, the PoP were defined as those who depend on agricultural work, house work, labourers, those who migrate for 3-4 months, daily wage earners for food, people without property, those who always depend upon others, hutment dwellers, those who go to government hospitals when ill etc.

In PoP Strategy during the first round, all SC/ST households except those employed in Govt. service, will be taken up and households belonging to the most vulnerable sections- will be taken up in second round. The identification of PoP households will be done jointly by the CRPs and the VOs. The EGS CRPs1 will be deployed to the Gram Panchayats where 4000 NPM operational villages are situated for identification of SC/ST households in the village with assistance from the VOs.

4.2 Roles and Responsibilities of CRPs during the field work

Identification of poorest of the poor households along with VO in the allotted villages

Identification of Community Activist for 100 PoP households or for a habitation along with VO with the consent of PoP families.

Submitting the final list of PoP HHs as per the household schedule

4.3 Process of Identifying PoP HH

4.3.1 Guiding DocumentsBefore going to the allotted village for identification PoP HH, the concerned PoP CC will obtain and hand over to the CRP teams the following documents.

1 EGS CRPs are those who worked for IKP EGS convergence in which they had gained hands on experience in identifying PoP households

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PIP data from MMS / VO SHG member data from MMS/Web Ration cardholders list from MRO office NREGS Wage Seekers list from MCC

A consolidated list of SC/ST PoP HHs will be prepared by CRPs from the above documents.

4.3.2 VO meetingOn arrival of CRPs in the villages, the concerned VO will organize VO Meeting in which the PoP strategy will be discussed. At the same time the concerned PRI representatives also will be informed on the purpose of CRPs visit.

4.3.3 Door to Door SurveyCRP team will then carry out a door to door survey as per the prescribed format enclosed in the Annexure D. Once entire village is covered with NONE of the PoP household is left out, then they will finalize the list of SC/ST PoP households along with VO.

4.3.4 Finalization of PoP listFinalized list of PoP HHs will be declared in the VO Meeting in the presence of PRI representatives. The necessary resolutions will be accordingly made. The CRPs will then firm up the household schedules for the finalized PoP households.

4.3.5 ComputerizationOn receiving the lists of PoP households and also the household

schedules from the VOs, the CC will verify the same and get them entered in the prescribed software.

4.3.6 Monitoring of PoP Identification processThe following mandal level functionaries will be available to guide and hand hold the CRPs during the PoP identification process.

Community Coordinator Paralegal Community Surveyor MTC / MBK (EGS)

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5 KEY COMPONENTS OF THE STRATEGY (MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS)

5.1 INSTITUTION BUILDING:The core focus of PoP Strategy is on upbringing of each individual

household out of poverty. The Community based organisations are the vehicles to taken these households from below poverty to above poverty level. This is invariably required for ensuring sustainability of the programme in the long-term. Hence the proposed PoP strategy will include the IB components whose major activities are as follows.

Organizing all eligible PoP Households into Groups, if they are not already in Groups

Reviving defunct PoP groups, if there are any Redefining the Panchasutras for PoP Groups, keeping in view their

inability to follow the existing norms. Care will be taken to ensure that all Books of the SHGs to which

PoP households are linked are updated Categorisation of SHGs into PoP / Poor

o The SHGs to which PoP HHs linked will be categorised into PoP SHGs (all are having PoP HH), mixed SHGs (having other than PoP HHs)

o All Technical and Financial support will be provided to a PoP SHG whereas technical support will be provided to a mixed SHG

5.1.1 VO RT CRPsIn addition, the existing VORT CRPs2 will be re-deployed to each of these

PoP Mandals to focus on the identified PoP households. The VO RT strategy will be expanded to cover the all PoP mandals by positioning new teams in these mandals. The major expected outcomes from VORT CRP Strategy are

Organizing all the left over POP and Poor

Revival of dormant and defunct groups

SHGs switching over to regular meetings, regular savings and

internal lending

Regular Bookkeeping by SHGs adopted

Trained Bookkeepers available for all SHGs as per need

SHGs preparing MCPs and ToPs for livelihoods

2 VO Resource Teams are meant for strengthening the IB activities happening in a mandal with SHG focus.

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VO adopting monthly meeting system and meeting process with

norms and Bookkeeping

SHGs and VO adopting social agenda in their meetings

5.1.2 Senior CRP Strategy:a. Objective of Sr. CRP The support of Senior CRP teams will also be provided at the rate 3

PoP mandals per team. They will focus on IB strengthening at VO level and mandal level

Facilitating to adopt the best practices of MS meeting process

Facilitate to conduct MS-meetings with members full participation and decision making by the MS RGB

Adopting MS-level operational and financial management norms to achieve self-management and self-reliance

MS to act as a sensitive support organization for VOs & SHGs

Creating 4 to 5 resource VOs in a mandal for replicating best practices in other VOs.

b. Senior CRPs action plan: First three (3) rounds the team will work on standard MS-seating

arrangement, agenda preparation, meeting norms and meeting process

Fourth and fifth round the team will work on review of VOs through Masanivekas, performance review of staff and action plans

Sixth and seventh round the team will work on CIF management, recovery and re-cycling process, record keeping, MCP process etc

Eighth and ninth round the team will work on identifying resource VOs and strengthening through capacity building.

Tenth and Eleventh round the team will work on MS-level functional committees, their role & responsibilities and reporting mechanism.

Twelfth round the team will work on creation of internal Sr,CRPs, capacity building and tying them up for other mandals of the district.

During the team visit:a) on the first day, the team will attend the scheduled MS-

meeting and facilitate the meeting process b) on the second day, the team will give intensive training to

MS-EC as per the plan.

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c) on the third day, the team will visit one VO covered under CRP strategy and give necessary training

d) After completion on mandal the team will go to other mandal e) After completion of 12 days work the team will give feedback

to PD, DRDA

5.2 CREDIT LINKAGEAs credit is basic for strengthening any livelihood based activity, it

will be ensured that every PoP household achieves minimum level of credit linkage for carrying out the plan as prescribed in the PoP MCP.

Micro credit plans will be prepared for every PoP household according to their need and available skills. For preparation of MCPs, support of VO RT CRPs will be utilized and the skills will be imparted to the Community activists. PoP MCP is given in Annexure.

SCSP/ TSP funds under SGSY: The 50% of total amount allotted for centrally sponsored scheme of SGSY is earmarked amount for SCs and STs.

Each PoP SHG will attain the bank linkage according to its eligibility.

In addition, the TFI CRP teams in these PoP Mandals will focus on linking the PoP Groups to banks as per MCP

The PoP fund at the rate of Rs.5 lakh per mandal will be made available established for each PoP mandal. This fund will be granted to MMS for releasing it in-turn as a loan to PoP households.

The recycled CIF fund and MMS/VO owned funds will primarily be dedicated for the identified PoP households.

5.3 NREGS The PoP labourer households will be formed into Fixed Labour

Groups according to the SHGs they belong to. This is implemented for all SC/ST SGHs based on the G.O 339. In this context, one CA taking care of 100 households will have FLGs as many number of SC/ST SHGs.

Each FLG will have a working Mate. CA will be playing a co-ordination role by providing awareness on rights and entitlements to PoP HH through these working mates

The FLGs will be facilitated to apply for work for atleast 100 days in a financial year. NREGS implementation department will ensure that atleast two lakh worth works are allotted to each of these groups from the shelf so that each of these households will be provided 100 days.

Priority will be given to those works that focuses on improving the lands owned by PoP Households. In case there are no lands for

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development, the groups shall identify such works which may help them to enhance their livelihoods.

In addition, wherever NREGS – RSA is implemented as per GO 392 in these PoP mandals, the dry and barren lands of PoP household will be brought under cultivation by adopting the practices of Rain-fed Sustainable Agriculture

A Separate web-based monitoring will be made available for tracking the PoP household in their access to NREGS.

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5.4 CMSACMSA started with non chemical pesticide management of

agriculture as the first intervention. The programme components were deepened gradually to include soil fertility management with local natural resources. The idea was to eventually eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers. The movement towards ‘zero fertilisers’ is gradual so as not to affect the production of foodgrains or per acre yields of foodgrains. The other deepening attempted was community managed seed banks to ensure seed sovereignty of the farmers. Some of the star practices of CMSA that will be promoted to the PoP households are

Access to 0.25 to 0.50 acres of wet land (own or on lease), and, 0.75 to 1.00 acres of dry land ( own or assigned land) will be ensured.

These lands will be developed and cultivated through CMSA methods – ‘zero pesticide’, ‘zero chemical fertilisers’, drought proofing, micro irrigation, horticulture, fodder crops, ‘zero tillage’, etc

Facilitation for adopting SRI (System of Rice Intensification) in atleast 0.25 Acres and poly crop models of vegetable cultivation in another 0.25 Acres land

Promoting 36X36 models in POP house holds in the backyard of their houses. In addition to meeting the nutrition requirement of the family, the surplus produce will be made available market for enhancing their operational income.

Promoting NADEP compost pits, an alternate method of composting with less requirement of dung.

5.5 Dairy

Dairy or livestock activities are carried out by the PoP household next to Agriculture. Integrated farming practices will certainly ensure increased incomes with reduced expenses. In addition to expanding the livelihood options, dairy will be complementary activity to many of the methods of CMSA.

Depending on the PoP MCPs, the livestock requirement of the PoP household will be met through credit linkage from banks or exclusive CIF or funds from SCSP/TSP

The surplus milk produce with a PoP household will be marketed through the dairy units that are existing already in these mandals.

Gradually the BMCUs will be expanded to all of the PoP mandals

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5.6 Collective Marketing:The Collective Marketing is facilitated to enable the rural poor to

identify all available possible resources primarily Forest produce, Agricultural Commodities and all traditional livelihoods practiced in the villages with an objective to improve the quality of life. Various strategies adopted here are

Direct Marketing MSP operations Agriculture Inputs NPM / CMSA base

5.7 Jobs / Skill basedEmployment for the rural educated youth in organised sector is

being provided by EGMM (Employment Generated and monitoring mission), a separate body working exclusively for this purpose. In case, a PoP household is having a son or daughter who has completed matriculation but remain unemployed, steps will be taken to ensure that they are imparted the proper training and the subsequent employment in the organised sectors.

Further, depending upon the skills acquired by the members of PoP family, the livelihood options will be adopted and the same will be reflected in the MCPs.

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DPMUPD-DRDA, APD (General)

Cluster LevelArea CoordinatorCluster Level

Area Coordinator

Mandal LevelPoP Community coordinator

SPMUCEO, ACEO, PoP Strategic Unit

Village LevelCommunity Activist

6 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

6.1 CBO level:The PoP Strategy will be implemented within the purview of existing structure under both community and supporting staff. Changes will be incorporated only in the skills requirement and with the associated tools. In each level of the federations, an exclusive sub-committee for monitoring the progress of PoP families will be constituted. The foremost responsibility of these members is to ensure that the progress of these families is upto the mark on all dimensions. In case of any deviations, they need to take up the corrective measures accordingly.

6.2 Project level:

At the project level, a separate team will be constituted in State Project Management Unit for dedicated monitoring of PoP strategy. At present, the land unit is taking charge of it. This PoP unit will co-ordinate with different components of SERP to ensure that all those needed in the PoP mandals and PoP households reach them accordingly. Similarly, the Project Directors of DRDAs will be supervising at district level with the support from Additional PD (General). At mandal level, the PoP Community Coordinator will be implementing the strategy in letter and spirit. APM (EGS) will be the anchor person for information dissemination between the APDs and the CCs. Community activist works at the village level focussing on 100households or a habitation.

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Mandal Samakhya –PoP Sub-Committee

Village Organization –PoP Sub-Committee

PoP Households – Community Activist

Zilla Samakhya –PoP Sub-Committee

7 ROLE OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS

7.1 Community ActivistsCommunity Activist is one of the 100 PoP families with a willingness to help the other PoP households in her village/habitation to come out of poverty.

7.1.1 Roles and Responsibilities of CAs Bringing all the PoP households, for whom they are responsible,

into SHG fold if they are not members of SHGs.

Carrying out base line survey along with CRPs.

Ensuring maintenance of Pancha Sutras in all the SHGs(regular weekly meetings, regular Savings, lending, regular repayments and maintenance of books of accounts)

Ensuring that the PoP SHGs improve on the grading scale regularly

Attending all the training programmes conducted by CCs or DMGs or any other

Maintaining household wise MIS

Supporting CRPs in Preparation of PoP MCPs for each households

Providing hand holding support to all the POP families in identifying new livelihood interventions or value additions

Providing support in accessing rights and entitlements under NREGS-AP with the working mates of FLGs

Attending VO meeting and briefing the VOs

Attending all the review meetings conducted at cluster/mandal/district level

To facilitate the adoption of CMSA methodologies by PoP households in coordination with NPM VA

Any other responsibility assigned by the concerned PoP CC

7.1.2 Selection Criteria for CAs Must be a resident of that particular village/habitation

Shall be a member of one of the identified PoP family

Preferably qualified SSC or equivalent

Accessing wage employment under NREGS

Priority to single women/having experience in SHG book keeping

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Should be in the age group of 25 to 45 years

Shall not be in the VO-EC/OB

Shall not be a public representative ex., sarpanch, MPTC, ward member or any other posts

7.1.3 Selection process Taking into consideration all the above points the CRPs and VO in

consultation with the identified 100 PoP families will select the CAs.

If there are more aspirants for CA, the person supported by more PoP families will become CA and a panel of CAs will be maintained with the aspirants in VO.

The minutes of this meeting for identification of CA have to be recorded with the signatures of all the families including VO-OB and CRPs in the books of VO.

7.1.4 Reporting Community Activist will report to concerned VO and submit all

the reports and tour diary to VO.

Will also report to concerned PoP CC.

7.1.5 Payment CAs taken for PoP strategy will be paid a lump sum honorarium

per month from VO on verification of tour diaries and work done.

The honorarium will be fixed according to the number of PoP HHs handled by a CA.

In addition the CAs will be entitled to get performance based incentives.

7.2 PoP CCsThere will be one PoP Community Coordinator in each of the 480 mandals across the state. There are 12 districts in which there is a shortfall of PoP CCs and in 10 districts they are in surplus.

Where there is shortfall, the mainstream APM (MS Coordination) and one MBK will take care of the programme in their mandals.

Wherever there are surplus CCs, they will be positioned @ 2 per mandal.

In 4 districts, Chittoor, Ananthapur, Prakasam and Vizianagaram, new mandals will be identified as there are more CCs available even after allotment @ 2 per mandal. These mandals will be identified based on the expansion plan of NPM

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in 2011-12. The CCs will concentrate on IB and NREGA till NPM enters those mandals.

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7.2.1 Roles and Responsibilities of CCs

1. Mainly responsible for additional income improvement of Rs.60000 annually for each identified PoP HH in the mandal through NREGS, NPM, Dairy or from any other sources

2. Identification of PoP HH with the help of EGS CRPs and computerizing them into the necessary software

3. Ensure proper selection of CAs for every 100 PoP household or

for a habitation through CRPs.

4. Providing training to CAs and reviewing them every fortnight and ensuring payment of their honorarium

5. Ensure completion of base line survey of all the PoP families in

the mandal through CAs

6. Incorporate all the data pertaining to PoP households in the web

site and maintain data in the mandal as well as at VO level

7. Preparation of training schedules for PoP SHGs and implementation of the same

8. Incorporating the changes in the existing Panchasutra according to the needs of the PoP HH

9. Facilitating discussions regarding issues and resolving of the identified issues happen at the PoP SHG through agenda

10. Identifying Book keepers, imparting them the necessary training through trainers and ensuring that all PoP SHG books are updated regularly

11. Preparation of MCPs for PoP HHs and PoP SHGs (economic, social and basic needs) and linking of credit for the prepared MCPs through CIF, owned funds of VO/MMS and Banks linkages

12. Co-ordinating with APM (MS coordinator) for ensuring that bank linkages reach PoP SHGs according to their eligibility

13. Converging with NPM component for adopting of NPM methods in either leased / owned lands and ensuring that their income levels enhance.

14. Ensuring all PoP HHs access 100 days of employment under NREGS and their lands are developed under NPM-EGS convergence

15. Monthly Updation of PoP HH database and tracking progress made by each household and ensure that each of them come out of poverty

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16. Provide hand holding support to all the CAs in identifying new

livelihood interventions or value additions for all the PoP families

in the mandal

17. Co-ordinating with other IKP components, Governments agencies, and NGOs so as to enlighten the PoP HH on their rights and entitlements

18. Attend all the training programmes and review meetings at district/region/state level

19. Submit all the necessary reports to the district and state office

7.3 MS Coordinator The Mandal Samakhya Coordinator will provide necessary

support to the PoP CC in discharging his/her responsibilities and also facilitate review by the Mandal Samakhya on the progress the PoP households are making.

He/she will be held accountable for the proper strengthening of PoP SHGs.

He also needs to ensure that proper book-keeping is carried out in all layers from SHG to Mandals

He/she is responsible for facilitating credit linkages for these households or for their PoP SHGs as per their eligibility through banks or CBOs

Ensuring that owned funds of VO and MMS and CIF are released primarily to PoP SHGs and PoP funds released only to PoP SHGs/ PoP HHs

Formation of Sub-committees at VO and MMS and providing necessary training to implement the PoP strategy effectively

In case of non-availability of PoP CC in a mandal, the concerned APM (MS coordinator) will be working on behalf delivering the results as expected in the strategy

Reviewing of PoP CC

In case of tribal mandals where most of the households are STs, the entire work under PoP Strategy needs to be shared between PoP CC and APM (MS co-ordination) to avoid one being overburdened and duplicity of works.

7.4 Area Coordinator: The concerned Area Coordinator will monitor and guide the PoP

strategy in his cluster.

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Co-ordinating between the PoP CCs and the concerned MS Coordinators for effective implementation of the strategy

Monitoring and Reviewing of CRPs involved in the PoP strategy

Monitoring of PoP funds and its utilisation in the strategy

Co-ordinating with other IKP components, Governments agencies, and NGOs so as to enlighten the PoP HH on their rights and entitlements

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7.5 The Project Director, DRDA He / She holds overall responsibility for the short, medium and

long term objectives.

Liasoning between the other line departments/agencies for pursuing issues pertaining to PoP households. For instance, NREGS with DWMA, and credit linkages with banks.

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8 TRAININGS ENVISAGED FOR STAKEHOLDERS (RE-SKILLING)

8.1 PoP CAsThe training of the PoP CAs will be handled by the PoP CCs personally on the following concepts.

PoP Strategy

Basic concepts of SHG/VO/MMS

Baseline survey of PoP households

Book keeping of SHGs

PoP MCPs

Rights and Entitlements of NREGS and other programmes

CMSA methodologies

8.2 PoP CCs PoP Strategy including a field immersion for 10 days

Strengthening IB

Baseline survey of PoP households

Refresher on Book keeping of SHGs / VO

PoP MCPs

Rights and Entitlements of NREGS and other programmes

CMSA methods and NPM-EGS convergence

8.3 MS Coordinator / ACs PoP Strategy

Strengthening IB and PoP MCPs

8.4 PD / APD PoP Strategy

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9 ROLE OF CBOs (OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY)

If any strategy pushed from top of the pyramid, it may not work well at the bottom. As the PoP strategy itself is the felt need from the grass-root level, the role of Community Based organisations is crucial in sustaining the programme over a period of time.

The women SHG movement in Andhra Pradesh has fared well in all spheres from economic empowerment to social empowerment. However there are certain class of people who are still struggling with poverty. In order to bring them alongwith main-stream SHG movement, an exclusive setup like PoP strategy is required.

All the Office Bearers of Zilla Samakhyas, Mandal Samakhyas and Village Organisations will be oriented towards upliftment of PoP households through separate PoP sub-committees formed at each tier. Later they need to monitor the progress made by each of their PoP households in different aspects with the available systems put in place. They should be ready to take any corrective measures required in order to get a family out of poverty.

PoP Sub-committees at MMS and VOs need to monitor and guide

Selection of CAs for a group of 100 households or a habitation Periodical Review of CAs in various components Periodical review of PoP households wrt. CA Payment of working CAs and assessing their performance

Similarly they need to monitor and guide

EGS CRPs in identification of PoP households and selection of Community Activist

VO RT teams in strengthening of IB over PoP SHGs and their Book keeping

POP CRPs in preparation of MCPs for identified PoP households Senior CRPs in strengthening of IB over VOs, MMS

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10EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND MEASUREMENT

10.1 General

List of PoP households in any gram panchayat will be made available in all PoP mandals

Baseline information of each PoP household on assets owned, skills and liabilities will be made available with an interactive software

Every PoP household can be tracked on the parameters like credit linkages, assetization, wage employment from NREGS and the performance of their institutions

The progress made by each household on income enhancement can be tracked. Over a 3 year period of time, additional income of INR 60000 will be earned by each PoP family

Relevant government schemes like SGSY, SSP linked to the identified PoP households who cannot be served by SHG coverage.

10.2 IB / Credit linkage

All eligible PoP households are brought under SHG network All PoP groups improved at least one grade than their present

status. Appropriate MCPs are prepared for each PoP household based on

their needs and skills All PoP groups of 6 months old and above are linked to Banks. All PoP households accessed a loan of minimum Rs.5000 in the 1st

linkage, Rs.10,000 in the 2nd linkage, Rs.20,000 in the 3rd linkage and above and Rs. 40,000 under TFI.

10.3 NREGS

All the PoP households willing to do unskilled manual labour accessed 100 days of wage employment thereby receiving an income of Rs.10000 per annum

All lands belonging to the PoP households are taken up for development till saturation point.

All PoP households understand their Rights and Entitlements under the NREGA

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10.4 CMSA

Reduced cost of cultivation due to lower expenses on account of reduced or no usage of chemical pesticides and fertilizers

Improved incomes on account of marketing premiums due to high quality and taste, and lesser spoilage of crop.

Achieving self – reliance and self sufficiency in food production at community level.

CMSA ensures year round food security. Crop diversity and multi-tiered cropping systems ensures

nutritional security to farm families Once CMSA is established in owned or leased lands of PoP HHs,

they should have earned an additional income ranging from Rs.25000 to Rs.40000 per annum.

Due to efforts of collective marketing, a PoP HH should gain the premiums ranging from Rs.5000 to 10000 per annum.

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11PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Performance of the programme intervention will be measured in terms of the components that each PoP household is able to access or achieve. During the first year of operation, the performance indicators for the perceived three major components IB, EGS and Credit linkage are mentioned in the table below. Based on these parameters, both implementation team and the community institutions will be assessed on a weekly basis. These components will be added on to the list as the strategy evolves itself into consecutive years focusing at the need of a PoP household.

Component Indicators Periodicity of

assessment

Institution

Building

Regularity of savings,

meetings , internal lendings,

repayments and book keeping

of the institutions to which

PoP households annexed with

Weekly or fortnightly

depending on the

convenience of PoP

households

NREGS Number of days of

employment accessed and

wages received by a PoP

household at any point of time

in a financial year

Weekly during the EGS

working season

Credit Linkages Amount and the timeliness of

the credit linked to any PoP

household

Quarterly

Income

Enhancement

Rise in family income due to

the interventions of the PoP

strategy

Quarterly

Performance of each staff involved in implementation of PoP strategy from Project Director – DRDA at District level to Community Activist at Village level will be measured through above indicators using the interactive Decision Support Systems.

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12PILOT ON POP STRATEGY

As the strategy involves identification of the PoP households in 480 mandals through CRPs, positioning an exclusive facilitator (CA or community activist) for a group of households, continuous hand holding them, forming these households into fixed labour groups with working mates etc. it was decided to pilot this initiative in one mandal before scaling it up. The PoP strategy is being field tested in Marpalle Mandal of Ranga Reddy district. The scope of activities envisaged under the pilot is as mentioned below.

12.1 Identification and training of CRPs on PoP strategy:A CRP team alongwith a PoP CC or MTC/Community Surveyor was

sent to each of the 19 Gram Panchayats of Marpalle mandal. The mandal has 11 PoP CCs, 7 EGS MTC/MBKs and 7 Community surveyors. Before going to the field, a two days basic training on PoP strategy was given to the CRPs and the staff involved. The CRPs had identified PoP households in the allotted GP and the exclusive facilitators ie., Community activists during the field work ranging from 7 to 10 days.

12.2 Identification of PoP HH:In the pilot, initial focus was on households belonging to SC/ST

community except those households with employment in Government/private entities. In addition, some of the most vulnerable groups like households with disabled as head of the family and having no stable sources of income, single women and woman headed families who are dependent on daily wage labour and destitutes like old aged people were identified. These households were categorized duly as those who are in SHGs, not covered in SHGs but eligible, not fit for SHG fold, and working under EGS.

12.3 Identification /Training of CAs:A community activist was identified for every 100 PoP households

or for any distant habitation. Primarily, the CA was female literate chosen from the identified households living in the same village. In total, 54 CAs were identified in 19 GPs. The identified CAs were imparted training on PoP strategy and Baseline survey. Initially, the focus was on orientating these CAs towards handholding PoP households and data collection for Baseline Survey. Trainings on SHG concept, book keeping were also provided to them through the Mandal team. Some observations are listed below.

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Each CA has PoP households ranging from 32 to 142 HHs depending on habitations/ Thandas

More CAs are from the age group of 20-25 instead of 25-45 CAs are selected with even less than 10th standard qualification and

there are some illiterates too. This led to induction of men as CAs but later it was revised restricting to females with their family members assisting them initially.

Non members of SHGs or those with little SHGs experience or even unmarried also turned out as CAs.

As far as Honorarium is concerned, CAs were classified into two categories with one below Fifty families and other above Fifty families. The figure given below depicts the no. of CAs for a range of PoP HHs.

12.4 Collection of Baseline data:Baseline of each identified PoP household was collected by the community activist. For this, the support of the PoP CCs of the district was taken. The baseline data was primarily covering the details of PoP family, SHG bank linkage, assets and liabilities, nature of labour etc.

District Ranga ReddyMandal MarpalleTotal No. of GPs 19Total No. of VOs 33No. of PoP HH Identified:

SC 3612ST 514

Other Vulnerables 463

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Act

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Range of PoP HH

Total PoP HH 4619Total CAs Positioned 54

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13TRACKING EVERY HOUSEHOLD THROUGH DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS (RE-TOOLING)

As the focus here is on the household, the progress every household is making in its journey towards povertylessness has to be tracked diligently. This can be done by using IT application. The CRPs, after finalization of PoP households, will handover the household schedules to PoP CC. These households schedules will consist of bare minimum details such as the caste / sub –caste , SHG details, Ration card ID, Job card ID etc. These will be computerized and hosted on the website.

The second stage is a more detailed baseline survey, which will be done by the CAs. The detailed survey sheet will have all the details pertaining to that household in terms of outreach of both Govt. and IKP programmes to that household, credit linkages, asset base, other social and human development indicators etc. This will again be computerized and the report will be available on web. Keeping the base line data as the back drop, the CAs will continue to update the household every month in respect of progress in IB and Bank linkage aspects. The No. of wage days accessed by each household under NREGA can be gathered by linking this data to NREGA website through Job card Id. The strategy is supported by a Decision Support System (DSS) software being developed Infosys technologies, Bangalore. Exclusive web-based software will be made available for entering the initial data of identified PoP households. Later the baseline data will be entered for the identified PoP households. There will also be a provision for regular updation of the software online. The primary screens of the software will be finalized based on the field data. Also the generation of various MIS reports and DSS reports will be finalized based on the field level observations.

The CC will see to that the households are updated in the software based on the manual sheets handed over by the CAs every month and upload it to the web site. There will be performance exception reports to see if any of the households is not able to make progress as intended. Some of the decisions that are perceived at present are mentioned below. The list will be furthered based on the field requirements and that of the community.

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13.1 Decision Support Systems for PoP strategy at CA level:

Alarming poorly attending member Showing PoP HHs having poor bank linkage Member – wise monthly loan repayment schedule reports Alarming a member whenever there is a mismatch between

income source of PoP HH and repayment amounts Grading of PoP SHGs Loan usage analysis for PoP HHs Trainings required for members / SHGs Alarming those HH that perform poorly under EGS

13.2 DSS At CC level:

Alarming poorly performing CAs/SHGs/Members Showing eligibility of bank linkages for PoP SHGs Grading of PoP SHGs Loan usage analysis and asset – credit ratio Trainings required for CAs Bank - Branch wise performance to follow-up for loan

disbursement CA wise / GPs showing poor EGS performance Finding out lands that are yet to be developed depending upon

the season Certain Alarms wrt. Cropping particulars (for instance which

crop will be best suited for which season)

13.3 DSS At PD level: Mandals / CCs showing poor performance in each of the 3

components Grading of Mandals Loan usage analysis / asset-credit ratio at mandal level Bank wise Performance to take follow-up action Mandal wise EGS performance to follow-up with PD-DWMA

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14BASELINE INFORMATION OF A POP HOUSEHOLD

In order to track every PoP household, it is decided to have a detailed baseline survey of that household covering various dimensions. The following major heads are covered under baseline whereas detailed baseline is given in the Annexure B.

a) Attributes covering the family like Ration card, Job card, SHG related

This information will be useful in linking the software with the already existing databases like Abhayahastham, NREGS dynamically

b) Details of each family member including their occupation, education, disability, pension, and insurance

c) Details of SHG member including savings, various loans taken and their usages

d) Details of land owned / leased by the familye) Details of different crops cultivated with their annual yield,

expenses and net incomef) Details of assets owned by the family and also basic amenities

accessed by itg) Details of livestock with annual income and expensesh) Details of loans taken by the families from sources other than

SHGsi) Details of migration of family members

Thus collected baseline will be updated periodically with the CA playing the vital role. This will be the basis for the DSS to function effectively and get updated later.

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15BUDGET FOR POP STRATEGY

Major budget lines under PoP Strategy are mentioned below for the financial years 2010-11 and 2011-12.

Capacity building of CRPs for identification of PoP HH, strengthening of IB, preparation of MCPs

Field visit of CRP rounds Capacity building of Community Co-ordinators / MS co-ordinators

o PoP Strategy, Baseline, SHG concepts, Book keeping, MCP preparation, NREGS and NPM

Capacity building of Community Activistso PoP Strategy, Baseline, SHG concepts, Book keeping, MCP

preparation, NREGS and NPM Honorarium to Community Activists

o Two rates for those handling less than 50 households and more than 50 households

Capacity building of CBOs especially OB members of VOs, MMS, and ZS

PoP fund to be used as CIF for starting livelihood options for PoP HH Software development and maintenance Data collection and data entry Transport cost for the CAs and CRPs Project management cost at District level and State level

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Annexure A: Format for MCP (Micro Credit Plan) of a PoP HH

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Annexure B: Timelines for PoP Strategy (till March 2011)

Sl.No Activity 2009-10 2010-11

Quarter 4

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

1 Positioning of PoP CCs

2Selection & Training of EGS CRPs

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Identification of PoP HH (SC&ST) in GPs of 4024 NPM villages

4Selection of PoP CAs in GPs of 4024 NPM villages

5Immersion of PoP CCs on PoP HH

6Training of PoP CCs on PoP Strategy

7Computerisation of Identified SC/ST PoP HH

8Training of PoP CCs on Baseline

9Training of PoP CAs on Baseline

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Collection of Baseline data from GPs of 4024 NPM villages

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Computerisation of baseline data from GPs of 4024 NPM villages

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Deployment of VORT CRPs for PoP SHGs strengthening

13

Deployment of Sr.CRP teams for strengthening VOs, MMS in PoP mandals

14 Preparation of PoP MCPs

15Allotment of PoP funds to MMS

16Release of loans to PoP HHs

17Linking of eligible PoP SHGs to Banks

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18Training of PoPCC /CA s on Rights and Entitlements

19Training of PoPCC /CA s on SHG/VO IB concepts

20Training of PoPCC /CA s on Book keeping

21Identification of PoP HH in another 3500 PoP villages

Annexure C – PoP Household schedule for CRPs

SOCIETY FOR ELIMINATION OF POVERTYHousehold details of SC and STs

Name of the District : Name of the Mandal : Name of the Gram Panchayat:

Revenue Village Name : Habitation Name : Name of the CA:

Sl No

Head ofthe HH Surname

Father / Husband Name Caste

Sub Caste

Ration card No

Job card No Remarks

Whether anyone in SHG

If yes, SHG Name

Member name

VO Name

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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Annexure D1 – Fields in Baseline survey of PoP HHs

Field No.

Name of the field Description Data type

Survey details of each HH

Baseline Survey No. Number printed over each survey form

Number of 8 digits

Date of survey Date on which survey is carried out

Date

A Basic attributes of each HH

1 District Name of the rural district Drop down

2 MandalName of the mandal in each district

Drop down

3 Gram PanchayatName of the gram panchayat in each mandal

Drop down

Village Name of the village in each GP Drop down

4 HabitationName of the habitation in each Village Drop down

5 CA nameName of the community activist Text

6 Ration Card no.Unique number of rationcard possesed by each HH

Alphanumeric of 15 digits as per the pattern

7 Arogyasri card To check the availability of this health insurance card with BPL families Radial button

8

Job Card No. Unique number of Job card possesed by each HH

Numeric of 18 digits as per pattern

9Head of the family Name of the head of the

household Text 10 Surname Surname of the family Text

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Father's / Husband's name:

Father's name in general and Husband's name for woman headed families Text

12Caste Caste of the household

(SC/ST/BC/OC/Minority) Drop down13 Sub-Caste Sub caste of the household Drop down

BFamily Member details of each HH

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14 Member name Name of the family member Text

15

Code for Relationship to head of the family

Relationship of family member with ref. to head of the HH

Drop down16 Age Age of family member Number 17 Gender Sex of family member Radial button

18Education Education status of family

member Drop down

19

If school going, type of school

Details of school in which a child/student is studying at present Drop down

20

If EGMM trained, Application ID

Details of educated youth trained under Employment Generation and Marketing Mission

Number of 6 digits

21Occupation Details of occupation of a

family member Drop down

22EGS wageseeker Information about a member

seeking work under NREGS Radial button

23If Disabled, enter type of disablity

Information about status of disability of a family member Drop down

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% Disability Information about Percentage of disability a family member is suffering at Number

25

Enter Chronic disease name

Information about chronic disease, a family member is suffering from Text

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Pension code Information about the type of pension, a family member is getting / eligible Drop down

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Pension ID Information about the Unique number given to pension holders

Number of 6 digits

28

Insurance coverage Information about the type of insurance, a family member is covered under Drop down

29

Insurance Policy No. or Receipt no.

Information about the unique id of either the policy number or the receipt number of the insurance policy a member is holding number

30Is SHG Member (Yes/No)

Information about member belonging to SHG Yes or No

CSHG member details of each HH

31 Name of the SHG Data should come From family Text

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member member screen32 SHG Name The name of the Self Help

Group to which a member belongs. Generally an SHG will have members from 5 to 25 Drop down

33 SHG type - Women/Disabled

Indicates whether SHG is women or disabled basically. Women SHGs can't have any male member whereas Disabled SHGs can have both gender

Can be populated from the SHG database

34 SHG ID 18 digit code generated by TCS software as per the pattern


35 Name of the VO Name of the Village Organisation, the SHG belongs to. A village can have 1 or more VO s and a VO can also spread across 1 or more villages. In general a VO will have SHGs ranging from 5 to 90 numbers Drop down

36 Date of Joining / formation (DD-MM-YY)

Date on which SHG was formed. Or a date on which member joined an existing SHG


37 Bank Name

Bank to which SHG is linked for credit and savings


38 Branch

Location of the bank Branch to which an sHG is linked

Can be populated from the SHG dbase

39 Branch code

Branch code or IFSC code (Indian financial system code)


40 Bank Account no.

Savings account number of individual SHG with the bank


41 Monthly savings Rs. Amount in Rs. Each member of an SHG has agreed to save for

Number of 3 digit

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a month. All members need to save the same agreed amount.

42 Net Savings till date Individual member Savings as on data of survey

Number of 5 digit

43 Meeting details Period of Meeting for SHGs during which it is conducted regularly

Drop down

Loan details of each SHG member

44 Type of loan Type of loan that was given to SHG member Drop down

45 Loan amount taken Loan Amount in Rs. Taken by individual SHG member

Number of 7 digits

46 Total Installments Total number of installments by which the loan needs to be completed

Number of 3 digits

47 Annual Interest Rate

Rate of interest compounded annually Number 2 digits

48 Total Instmt paid (Nos)

It could be in number of instalments paid or amount paid Radial button

Total amount paid (Rs.)

It could be in number of instalments paid or amount paid Radial button

49 Usage The purpose for which the loan has been utilized for. Drop down

50 Outstanding amount Balance loan amount pending for each member

Number of 7 digits

Receiving datedate by which loan amount in Rs. As taken by individual

D Land details of

each HH 72 Category of Land Defines the category of land by

ownership. Assigned means those assigned to poor by Government. Drop down

73 Survey No Unique number for each piece of land as denominated by land records as possessed by each HH

Alphanumeric 12 digits

74 Extent in acres (Guntas) Area of land owned by HH Number

75 Type of irrigation (coded) Source of Irrigation used Drop down

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76 Under cultivation (Y/N)

Whether the land is under cultivation or not? Radial button

ELivestock Details of each HH

77 Name of the animal Livestock as possessed by each HH No data entry

78 Quantity Number of animals in each category

Number of 3 digits

79 Daily Milk yield for consumption (litres)

Daily Milk yield for consumption (litres)

Number of 2 digits and 2 decimals

80 Surplus Milk for sale (Litres)

Surplus Milk for sale (Litres) Number of 3 digits and 2 decimals

81 Annual income Rs. Income from the animal category in a year

Number of 5 digits

82 Annual Expenses Rs.

Expenses from the animal category in a year

Number of 5 digits

FMigration labour details of each HH

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Name of the family member who goes for migration

Member who goes on migration in a HH

No data entry; shall be populated from family member data screen, if occupation is migrant labour

84Type of work Type of work for which he/she

goes for migration

Presently text, will be made into drop-down

85Place of migration Place to which he/she goes

regularly for migration Text

86From month

Period of migration starting from Drop down

87To month

Period of migration ending with Drop down

88No. of days Number of days for which

he/she goes for migration Number

89Wages per day in Rs. Wage amount Number

GCropping details of each HH

92 Crop

Different crops cultivated. There is a possibility of increasing the crop list No data entry

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93No. of crops in a year

Number of crops being cultivated by the HH in a year

Number (integer)

94Area cultivated in acres Area in which it is cultivated

Number with 2 decimals

95 Yield in QtlYield of crop in quintal for a season


96 Rate / qtl Rate per quintal in Rs.Number with 2 decimals

97 Income in Rs.Income from each crop category for a season


98 Expenses in Rs.Expenses made for each crop category in a season


99 Net IncomeNet income less expenses made


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IAsset details of each HH

100 Type of House Nature of house Drop down

101Status of Indiramma House

Describes the status of house sanctioned under Indiramma housing scheme of AP govt Drop down

102Drinking water facility

Drinking water facility available in a house Drop down

103 Electricity Electricity availability for a HHRadial with Yes or no

104 ToiletsSanitation facility available in a house Drop down

105 Gold Possession of Gold by each HHNumber with 2 decimals

106 Vehicle (Coded)Possession of vehicle by each HH Drop down

107 Television Possession of TV by each HH Drop down

108 TelephonePossession of telephone by each HH Drop down

JExternal loan details

109Loan Source Sources of external loans other

than SHGs / bank linkage Text

110Total loan amount taken Loan amount taken


111Purpose

Purpose for which the loan was taken Drop down

112Instalment Rs. Amount of each instalment in

Rs.Number with 2 decimals

113Total instalments

Total number of installments by which the loan needs to be completed Number

Interest

Rate of interest levied annuallyNumber with 2 decimals

114Instalments paid

It could be in number of instalments paid or amount paid

Radial and number with

115Amount outstanding Balance loan amount pending

for each memberNumber with 2 decimals

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Annexure D2: Master for the Coded-fields in Baseline Survey

1 BFamily Member Details

Col. No. 15

Relationship with Head Code

Details of Relationship

1 Self 2 Husband 3 Wife 4 Son 5 Daughter 6 Daughter in law 7 Son in law 8 Mother 9 Father 10 Father in law 11 Mother in law 12 Brother 13 Sister 14 Grand Father 15 Grand Mother 16 Grand Son 17 Grand Daughter 18 Others

Col. No.18Education Details Code Education

1 Illiterate 2 Only Signature 3 5th and below 4 Below 10th 5 10th Class 6 Intermediate 7 Graduation 8 Post Graduate

9Others(ITI, Polytechnic)

10MBA/MBBS/Eng./DSC

11 Not applicable

Col. No. 19 School Details Code Type of School

1 Anganwadi 2 Govt. School/College

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3Private School/College

4Govt. Residential School/College

5Private Residential School/College

6 Others 7 Not applicable

Col. No. 21

Occupation Details Code Occupation

1 Daily Wage 2 Agriculture 3 Migration labour 4 Skilled labour 5 NTFP collection 6 Traditional crafts 7 Business 8 Employee 9 House wife 10 Student 11 Child labour 12 School drop out 13 Village Activist 14 Bonded labour 15 Doing Nothing 16 Others 17 Not applicable

Col. No. 23 Disability details Code Type of disability

1 Physical Disability 2 Blind 3 Deaf and Dumb 4 Mentally retarded 5 Mentally illness 6 Leprosy cured 7 Dwarf 8 No disability

Col.No.25Chronic Diseases Code Type of Disease

1 Asthma 2 TB 3 Paralysis 4 Cancer 5 Other diseases

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Col. No. 26 Pension Code Code Type of Pension

1 Widow 2 Old age 3 Disabled 4 Weavers 5 Beedi Workers 6 Abhayastham 7 Aids pension 8 Not getting pension

Col. No. 28 Insurance Code Type of Insurance

1 AABY 2 JBY 3 OBY 4 No insurance

2 c SHG Details SHG member loan details

Col. No. 44,51,58,65 Loan details Code Type of loan

1 Revolving fund 2 Bank linkage 1 3 Bank linkage 2 4 Bank linkage 3 5 TFI 6 CIF 7 Bridge Loan 8 RCL 9 CCL 10 SGSY

11Internal loan(SHG savings)

12 Other loans 13 Not taken any loan 14 Not mentioned

Col. No. 49,56,63,70

Details of usage of the loan Code Usage of the loan

1 Domestic needs 2 Agriculture

3Live stock(Buffellos, Sheep,Goats, etc)

4 Health

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5To repay out side loans

6 Education 7 Marriage

8Festivals and functions

9 Petty business 10 House construction

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Agriculture related items(Bullock cart, Tractor, Bore well, Pumpsets)

12 Others 13 Not mentioned

3 d Land details Col. No. 72 Type of Land Code Type of land 1 Owned 2 Assigned 3 Inam 4 No land

Col. No. 75 Irrigation CodeSource of irrigation

1 Barren 2 Rain fed 3 Canals 4 Ponds 5 Borewells 6 wells/pumpsets 7 No irrigation

Migration Details

Col. No.84 Type of work Code

1Labour for masonry works

2Agricultural harvesting

3 Brick kiln labour 4 Mining 5 Stone cutting 6 Begging 7 Forest Produce 8 Mango Harvesting 9 Tobacco Harvesting 10 Other works

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Skilled labour Details

Col.No.91 Type of skills Code 1 Mason 2 Carpenter 3 Tailor 4 Painter 5 Electrician 6 Plumber 7 Motor mechanic 8 Auto drivers 8 Other skills

4 i Asset details

Col. No. 100 House details Code Type of house

1 Pakka 2 Kaccha 3 Indiramma 4 No house

Col. No. 101

Status of Indiramma House Code Status

Not sanctioned

Sanctioned but not started

Under construction Completed

Col. No. 102

Drinking water facility Code Type of facility

1 Pond water 2 Well 3 Public tap 4 Own tap 5 Hand pump

Col. No. 104 Toilets Code Type of toilet

1 Own 2 Public Toilets 3 Open

Col. No. 106

Details of Vehicles Code Vehicle

1 Bicycle 2 Moped/Scooter 3 Motor bike

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4 Bullock cart 5 Auto 6 Tractor 7 Others 8 No vehicle

Col. No. 107 TV Code Type of TV

1 Color 2 Black and White 3 No TV

Col. No. 108 Telephone Code Type of telephone

1 Land line 2 Cell phone 3 No telephone

5 JOther loans details

Col. No. 111 Need of loan Code Usage of the loan

1 Domestic needs 2 Agriculture

3Live stock(Buffellos, Sheep,Goats, etc)

4 Health

5To repay out side loans

6 Education 7 Marriage

8Festivals and functions

9 Petty business 10 House construction

11

Agriculture related items(Bullock cart, Tractor, Bore well, Pumpsets)

12 Others

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