Indira Kranthi Patham 

Education for All –

Enabling and Empowering Communities

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGY – THE MISSION OF EDUCATION SECTOR IN

IKP

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“There is no literate population that is poor; no illiterate population that is other than poor.”

- John Galbraith

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The Goal: Alleviation of Rural Poverty through

Women Empowerment

Moving from Livelihoods, Food Security, Marketing,

Dairy, Health and Nutrition etc., the rural women

are now looking for quality Education for their

children, which is the surest way out of poverty.

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The Mission and Role of Education sector of IKP

“An entire generation of children; free from the

burden of poverty; born, educated (elementary

through secondary, higher secondary, higher

education) and employed gainfully is the vision of

the education sector within IKP”

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Vision of IKP: Poverty – Proofing the Next Generation

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SERP Interventions

SOCIAL INITIATIVES OF SERP

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HARNESSING WOMEN GROUPS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION

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1. Community managed ECE centres

185 ECE centres are functioning in 3 districts (Adilabad,

Visakapatnam, Warangal) in the state.

It is planned to start nearly 200 new centres in 2009-10

New centres to be opened in these 3 districts and 5

other districts (Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, East

Godavari, Khammam, Ranga Reddy)

Sodhana and Andhra Mahila Sabha have established

state level resource centres.

Regional Resource centres are being established in the

districts.

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Selection of Area

Mandal:

Mandals where Health and Nutrition centres are running

Mandals where Institution Building is strong.

Mandals with higher proportion of SC/ST population/PoP.

Village:

Villages having higher number of children between the ages of 2 –

5 belonging to the Poorest of Poor (POP) families

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Community Ownership

Micro credit plan is prepared by MMS.

The MMS collects monthly fee from the community from the

first year itself.

The money collected from the community is used to create a

corpus fund.

This fund will be used to help run the centres after SERP stops

funding.

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Public Report

The teacher presents a Public Report to the parents and the village

community once every month.

Children of the school demonstrate and exhibit their learning attained

during the preceding month during this presentation.

This kind of reporting strengthens the accountability process and also

fosters closer association with the community.

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ECE Centres

List of centres

Existing Centres 185

New Centres 260

Total Centres 445

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HARNESSING WOMEN GROUPS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION

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Safeguarding Child Rights and Enhancing Quality of Education

- A Pilot in three Tribal mandals in Khammam District

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Objectives

Advocating child rights through community participation –

through women groups, gram panchayats, teachers and youth.

Improvement in quality of education at schools through

community participation through women groups, gram

panchayats, teachers and youth.

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Partners

SERP

MVF

MMS

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HARNESSING WOMEN GROUPS FOR ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR

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Approach

Advocating child rights through community participation:

Train the VO members and the Gram Panchayat members to vouch for

children’s rights.

Conduct rallies, meetings and awareness drives for creating awareness about

child rights and education in the community.

Withdraw children from work and mainstream them into full time, formal

day schools.

Form community support structures like ‘Child Rights Protection Forums’

and youth groups to constantly monitor the processes of protecting the rights

of children.

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Approach contd…

Improvement in quality of education at schools through community

participation and monitoring:

Strengthen the capacities of VO members and Gram Panchayats to monitor

the quality of education in schools.

Facilitate proper functioning of school and to improve the quality of

education in the local government schools and make the schools proper

learning centres.

Facilitate institutional planning in schools by making an assessment of the

need gap in the schools.

Ensure increased participation of the community, Gram Panchayats, women

groups and teachers in improving the overall functioning in the schools.

Observing and documenting best practices to be followed in the schools to

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Activities Orienting the community members on child rights.

Exposure visit to Nalgonda where MVF is working with the local bodies to

build awareness on child labour elimination and child right protection.

Orientation of youth on child labour elimination and child right protection.

111 youth were engaged as full time mobilisers and organisers. They

undertook

Baseline survey in 206 habitations for 15 days in august 2008.

Number of out of school children identified in the survey:

Chintoor – 1797 (11042)

VR Puram – 614 (4953)

Kunavaram – 656 (4946)

118 rallies were conducted in 85 villages during June – July.

Participated in school enrollment drive with the help of women groups and

PRI members.

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Activities

128 education sub committees were formed with 5 VO members each to frequently

visit the schools and monitor their functioning.

218 sub committee members and PRI members were taken on exposure visit to MVF

field intervention in Nalgonda district.

Village level meetings were held before the reopening of schools in June, 2008.

Staff members and the VO members cleaned the premises of all schools before

reopening of the school and tied banners at the entrance welcoming parents.

Welcomed teachers in traditional fashion in 22, 29 and 30 schools of Chintur,

Kunavaram and VR Puram mandals respectively.

Meetings at school level with

Parents and teachers.

MMS and VO members

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Activities Contd…

Several activities like cultural performances, rallies, slogan writing, sports

competitions etc were conducted to campaign against child labour.

Two RBCs were set up for boys and girls in Rekhapally and Chintoor

during October, 2008. A third RBC was opened in VR Puram in February,

2009.

MEOs, MLOs, MMS team leaders, MRPs, VO leaders and PRI members

addressed parents and youth on importance and their role in bringing

children to school.

Mana Pillalu Mana Badi in Kunavaram and Maa Naate Maa Badi in other 2

mandals.

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No. of students mainstreamed

Mandal Boys Girls

Chintoor 333 236

VR Puram 62 52

Kunavaram 81 65

Total 476 353

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Mandal Boys Girls

Chintoor 97 71

VR Puram 22 38

Kunavaram 58 28

Total 177 137

Enrolled in Schools Enrolled in RBCs

SALIENT FEATURES

Involvement of Gram Panchayats, Women Groups,

Youth and teachers in the project.

Sense of ownership of the school, cultivated

amongst the village community.

Continuous monitoring of the functioning of the

school.

Effective monitoring of the students enrolled

in the schools by the community to ensure

that they do not drop out again.25

Case Studies

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Other Education Interventions

Intervention Place Partner

Accreditation of existing

schools

Warangal district

(Pilot)

CfBT

Mainstreaming Tribal

Dropouts (Above 15 years

of age) through RBCs

A mandal each in

Adilabad,

Warangal and

Khammam

districts

Koyatur

Bhata

Corporate Education for

rural poor at +2 level

23 Districts

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Proposed Model

Collaboration between SSA, SERP, MVF and MMS.Convergence with SSA (Reference: Meeting convened by Principal Secretary, Education SSA on 7-01-09)

Initiate intervention in 30 low female literacy mandals in the state

during 2009-10.

Expected Outcomes: 90% of total ‘out of school children’ would be withdrawn and sent to school

over a period of three years

50% of the Gram Panchayats and the Vos would be equipped to follow up the

child rights issues.

100% registration and certification of births and marriages in the villages.

Ensure 90% retention of children in 50% of the total habitations.

Children passing out of class X will be mapped out and successfully followed

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Budget

Total budget for 3 years: 21.06 Crores

Detailed budget.xls

Project Year Cost per Mandal

Total cost in the year

1st Year 21,20,000 6. 36 Crores

2nd Year 23,32,000 7.00 Crores

3rd Year 25,65,200 7.70 Crores

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THANK YOU!!!

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