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Participation and Action towards Community Empowerment Volume 11, No. 3, July-September 2015

PACEPACEFinancial Literacy Awareness

Afinancial literacy awarenessprogrammesupportedbyNational BankofAgriculture andRegionalDevelopment (NABARD)was conductedat villageNagriofChittorgarh. In the introductory sessionof theevent, Pankaj Yadav,DistrictDevelopment

Manager (DDM), NABARD, Chittorgarh elucidated aboutthe financial system of banks, its components andfunctions. Ashok Sharma, Lead Development Managerwas informed about the need and the benefits of beingassociatedwith thebanks. VedPrakash, District Collector,Chittorgarh said that the Pradhan Mantri Jan-DhanYojana (PMJDY) is ensuring access to various financialservices to the excluded sections.

CP Joshi,MemberofParliament, Chittorgarhprovidedbasic lessons in savings for life-time and investments. OPToshniwal, Deputy Director Social Justice andEmpowerment, informed about various schemes andexplained in detail the procedure for opening the bank

accounts. Gauhar Mahmood, Centre Coordinator, CUTS Centre of Development (CHD) explained the concept of Self HelpGroups (SHGs) and their approach to address poverty.MadanGiri Goswami, Assistant Centre Coordinator, CHD spoke in theconcluding session of the programme and rendered vote of thanks to the eminent guests and the participating villagers.

Social Welfare Camp

On July 29, 2015, a welfare camp was organised at PanchayatSamiti, Chittorgarh, in collaboration with the Department of

Social Justice and Empowerment, District Judicial Authority andMewar Vikalang Sewa Santhan supported by CHD. Ved Prakash,District Collector-Chittorgarh; O P Toshniwal, Deputy Director ofSocial Justice and Empowerment Department (DoSJ&E); PraveenRathore,PradhanofPanchayat Samiti andMSSharma, Chief JudicialMagistrate participated in the programme. People with disabilities(PwDs) were benefited with various schemes like pension, SukhadDampatya Yojana,Mukhyamantri Swarojgar Yojana. Around 29 physically challenged people acquired adaptive living dailyaids.

Priyadarshni SHGs TrainingPriyadarshni Self Help Groups (SHGs) training of two, three andfive-day�s respectively was organised for about 100 women of 10SHGs at Bagore andMandal cluster in July andAugust 2015. The ChildDevelopment ProjectOfficer (CDPO), andAccount Officer of CDPOand Social Justice andEmpowerment officialsvisited and delivered

lectures on relevant issues. Later, the group�s members visited the Institute ofSkills, Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS), Bhilwara, where thewomen learnt about various vocational training courses.

I N S I D E� Capacity Building Workshop forDisabled People SHGs

� Environment Awareness and TreePlantation

� National Environment AwarenessCampaign

� Survey on Mobile and Internet Users� CHDRepresentations� Visitors

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PROGRAMMES & INTERVENTIONS

Capacity Building Workshopfor Disabled People SHGs

On August 21, 2015 a capacity building workshop was organised atSanwaliyaGuestHouse,Nimbaheracitywithanobjective to understand

disability; causes of disability; sensitise members of SHG and community;understanding on SHG concept and its advantages. The workshop alsofacilitated group leaders/members for writing books on accounts,understanding laws, provided orientation on groupmanagement like howto organise meetings and importance of saving. It also explained aboutcredit, bank linkages, informed about participation and livelihoodenhancement plan and discussed other important aspects.

Programme for Physically Challenged Group

OnJuly 03-05, 2015 a three-day trainingwas organisedby Sightsaverson leadership for Disabled People�s Organisation (DPO) members

at Jaipur. About 35 participants comprisingDPOmembers andRajasthanSocial Inclusion Programme (RSIP) staff from all partner organisationsparticipated in the programme. The objectives of the training were tounderstand the situationof peoplewith disabilities in the society and theeconomic, social, educational goals of the DPO. The programme alsoprovided training on developing leadership skills, managerial skills,documentation and reporting proficiencies and awareness generationon legal and government schemes.

Environment Awareness and Tree Plantation

DPOhas taken an initiative to create awareness on environmental protection andplantation of trees at Kanera inNimbahera block. DPOmembers conducted self-

advocacy atGramPanchayat andat theblock-level andmotivatedpeople for plantingtrees. Around 250 plants were planted in five gram panchayats of Nimbahera andwere also assigned the responsibility of tree plantation to all gram panchayats formonitoring the growth and survival of trees.

Capacity Building of CHILDLINE Staff

Atwo-day Staff Capacity Building training for CHILDLINE staff was conducted on Child Rights-related Acts i.e. JuvenileJustice Act, Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO), Right to Education, Child Marriage Prohibition Act,

Child Labour Act, UnitedNations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS),Child ProtectionPolicy (CPP) etc. SatishChoudhary, Coordinator, CHILDLINE,Alwar andShailandra SinghYaduvanshi Advocate,Bhilwara delivered important lectures to the CHILDLINE staff.

National EnvironmentAwareness Campaign

Aconference cum tree plantation eventwas organisedunder National Environment Awareness Campaign

(NEAC) at Atal Seva Kendra village Nagri, Chittorgarh onSeptember 27, 2015. NEAC partners as Navkar EducationSociety, Vir Shiromani Pratap Shiksa Samiti Anwalkhedaand Anukul Sansthan, Ghatiawaliwere part of the event.The consultation commenced in the presence of C P Joshi,Member of Parliament, C B Singh Akya, MLA, Sarpanch,Deputy Sarpanch,Ward Panch and school children. SHGs,

women and villagers participated in the programme. About 500 treeswere planted atAtal Seva Kendrawith the help of theparticipants. B S Tanwar, Environmentologist and Non-government Organisation (NGO) representatives delivered talks onenvironmental awareness to bringmore clarity in generating environment awareness in people of Chittorgarh.

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PROGRAMMES & INTERVENTIONS

� Gauhar andMadan Giri Goswami, Assistant Centre Coordinator,CHD met Pankaj Yadav, District Development ManagerChittorgarh and Shiv Kumar Gupta, DDM, Bhilwara to discussabout SHGprogress report, credit linkages to eligible groups, issueof loan recovery and Farmer Producer Organisation (FPOs).

� On July 15, 2015 Madan Lal Keer, Project Coordinator attendedthe consultation on Rajasthan State Electricity RegulatoryCommission (RSEC) at CART office.

� On August 27, 2015 Madan Lal Keer attended State-levelworkshop of NABARD for formation of Farmers� ProducerOrganisation, under Produce Organisation Development andUpliftment Corpus (PRODUCE) Fund at Jaipur.

� On August 27, 2015Madan Giri Goswami attended ameeting toshare a presentation with B D Tripathi, Project Officer, Ministryof Rural Development (MoRD) Jaipur, regarding the Projectproposal submitted on good practices, under Saansad AadarshGram Yojna (SAGY).

Survey on Mobile and Internet Users

CHDconducted surveys for know the response and collect information on the quality of services of 2G/3G frommobile andinternet users from rural and urban areawith help of networking partners in nine districts namely Chittorgarh, Bhilwara,

Pratapgarh, Udaipur, Rajsamand, Dungarpur, Banswara, Bundi and Kota. For this, Rohit Singh, Assistant. Policy Analyst,CUTS CCIER visited to apprise the surveyors on the survey questionnaire for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) project.About 270 respondentswere selected randomly including students, academician, SHGs,women, business units, government/private sector employees, Community BasedOrganisations (CBOs).

Workshop on IEC/BCC Material Development

OnSeptember 05-06, 2015 a two-day follow-up workshop on InformationEducation Communication (IEC)/Behaviour Change Communication (BCC)

material development was organised at Rajasthan Institute of CooperativeEducation andManagement (RICEM), Jaipur. The objective of theworkshopwasto finalise the developed IECmaterials, pre-testing the sameand final printing ofthe the IEC/BCCmaterial. CHDpresented all IECmaterial alongwith posters andstickers andmodified thepreparedmaterial, according to the comments receivedfrom the partners. This will be a kind of pre-test in the project area before finalprinting of the IEC stuff.

Disabled People Sports Meet

OnSeptember 19, 2015 a SportsMeet for physically challengedpeopleby theDepartmentof Social JusticeandEmpowerment,

Mewar Vikalang Sewa Sansthan and Sanwaliya BahuudhsayVikalang Sewa Sansthan was organised at DoSJ&E campus. C PJoshi, Member of Parliament and O P Toshniwal, Deputy Directorof DoSJ&E were the eminent guests of the programme. On thisday, many sports activities were organised. Children activelyparticipated in the event and enjoyed all the organised activities.Mewar Viklang Seva Sansthan participated in programme andreceived awards and appreciation from the disabledmembers.

� On September 02, 2015 Gauhar and FieldSupervisor participated State-levelConsultation on Strategies for improvingAdolescentGirls�NutritionorganisedbyChetna,Udaipur.

� On September 22, 2015, Radhe ShyamVaihnav,ProjectOfficer of CHDattended aworkshop on�Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006�organised at the Institute of DevelopmentStudies Jaipur supported by CHILDLINE IndiaFoundation and �Save the Children� India.

� On September 29, 2015,Madan Giri GoswamiattendedOpenHouseof Bharat SansharNigamLimited (BSNL) at Nandwai Block Bengu,Chittorgarh. The workshop�s objective was tobuild a good rapport and understandingbetween the service providers and theconsumers.

CHD REPRESENTATIONS

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VISITORS� On July 16-17, 2015, Lavina Rathore, City Coordinator,

CHILDLINE India Foundation made a networking visit. Shemonitored the status of activities undertaken during pastsix-months i.e the outreach activities and provided valuablesuggestions on open house, mass outreach, Child AdvisoryBoard (CAB) and District Child Protection Unit (DCPU)meetings and gave good feedback on the project activities.

� On July 15, 2015 Amit Gordon, Director, CUTS Internationaland Zishan Ali, Assistant Manager, Habitat for Humanityvisited CHD for partnership. Amitmonitored the fieldworkand met CHD staff, examined the monetary managementandverified the fielddata.Duringhis field visit, he interactedwith 10 SHGmembers as part of the assessment process forthe ones interested in the sanitation programme.

� On July 22-23, 2015, S K Gupta, DDM Bhilwara, went for amonitoring cumassessment visit of 14 SHGs atBigod, Bilod,Dhakarkhedi, Singroli along with Gauhar, Madan GiriGoswami for examining book records. They interactedwiththe SHG members and discussed about new incomegenerating activities through SHGs members.

� On August 11, 2015 Kinshuk Sharma, Freelancer, visitedSHGs in Chittorgarh and interacted with the members andexamined the SHGs book records, their financialmanagement and discussed about some of the livelihoodpromotion activities, market linkages and expressed hisdesire to assist the SHGs in financial inclusion, livelihoodactivities with market linkages through partnershippossibilities.

� On August 17-19, 2015, P R Sharma and Neeraj Jha,representatives from Tata Institute of Social Science(TISS) visited CHD to observe best practices inCommunity-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Project. Theonline application was submitted where CHD�sapplicationwas shortlisted as one of the top 30 bestpracticesof India, outof 600applicationentries. Theymet to target the beneficiaries during their visit andrecommended to Nodal Agency to replicate bestpractices in Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna.

� OnSeptember 18-19, 2015Noor JahanKhatun, Statecoordinator (RSIP) visited fewvillages, under theRSIPProject to review the programme activities, forverification of baseline survey, livelihood survey inthe field, assessment of capacity building training tonew SHGs and to review the activities of living skillcamps to the visually impaired. She met eachbeneficiary and collected feedback on the trainingprogrammes.

� On September 25, 2015, Narender, DistrictProgramme Manager (DPM) NHRM visited CHD toacquire an insight of the ongoing projects, especiallythe impact of CHILDLINE Project on the community.

� On September 30, 2015, Archana from ChittorgarhKendriya Sahkar Bank (CKSB), Bhadesar discussedabout the progress of new credit linkages to theeligible SHGs and insisted the Project staff to recovermoney from the non-performing SHGs.

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