JANAKALYAN 11 Annual Report 2007-08

11
th
year of professional service committed to peoples empowerment
J anakalyanexists toservefour holymothers- manavimata, bhoomata, gomata&gangamata
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Annual Achievement Report 2007-08
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VISION
Creation of an enabling healthy
environment where all individual has
equal access to and control over the
social, cultural, educational and
political institutions with an
economically secured livelihood
MISSION
Janakalyan exists to empower the four
holy mothers so that an economically
secured healthy atmosphere is
developed where all individual identity
has their deserved status through
institution building by 2020
J anakalyan
Janakalyan is a team of professionals committed for peoples empowerment. What
started with 4 rehabilitation colonies of Sindhanur taluk in 1997 to empower refugees
and ensuring their rights has now spread across the district in more than 1000 villages
directly and also through its network partners. A community based organization
transformed as a fully equipped professional institution to handle varieties of
interventions both directly as implementer and also through its network partners as
facilitator.
Besides having a special team for handling refugee rights it has a specialized wing for
NRM based interventions with focus on biodiversity, eco-farming, organic approach,
chain completion, value addition with Intensified Integrated Farming Systems.
Janakalyan has also specialized in health, hygiene, nutrition, sanitation and education
to mothers and children through various innovative strategies and community based
monitoring mechanisms. Education has remained as one of its focal area since from the
inception and has developed a pool of experiences in addressing the issues like drop
out, slow learners, child labors, vocational training, remedial coaching, etc. along with
the formal education programs.
The major activity-frames of Janakalyan are J anaSanghatan, J anaKrishi, J anaJ ala,
J anaRaksha, J anaShakti, J anaUdyogand J anaShiksha; all these are centered to 4
holy mothers manavi mata (woman), bhoomata (soil), gomata (animal) and
gangamata(water). Janakalyan believes in empowerment and sustainability strategies
and all its programs are designed with these core principles. Accountability and
transparency are core values of Janakalyan and maintained at all levels to its highest
level. Janakalyan never considers itself an alternative to Government but a watchdog
for the community. It does believe itself as an assisting agency for the Government in
developing the nation and its citizens.
India lives in its villages and therefore Janakalyan dedicated itself for the upliftment of
the rural communities believing in Gandhijees words. To practice the same in letter and
spirit, Janakalyan has it operates from a remote village with a full fledged office on 2-
acre lush-green campus with a training hall having a capacity for 100 participants with
all modern audio-visual facilities.
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Contents
Chapter Particulars PageNo.
Janakalyan
Interventions on Refugee Rights
Index 1
From the Directors Desk. 2
Highlights of the year 2007-08 3
Chapter I Achieving Self-sufficiency (10 securities) for the farmers through
ecological farming
7
Chapter II Achieving 100% Routine Immunization through Community
Action.
9
Chapter III Achieving efficiency in service delivery through Community
Monitoring.
12
Chapter
IV
Achieving voluntary action among adolescent and
youths.
14
Chapter V Achieving zero dropout by reaching the un-reached 17
Chapter
VI
Achieving Nirmal Gram Puraskar through Total
Sanitation...
21
Chapter
VII
Achieving safe behavioral practices among rural communities through
Behavioral Change Communication.
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Chapter
VIII
Major Publications of Janakalyan .. 26
Financial Position of Janakalyan
Management Team .. 27
Interventions onRefugeeRights
The refugees belong to a caste called Namasudra - Scheduled Caste as per the Gazette
notification of Govt. of India and Govt. of West Bengal but not of Karnataka; hence they
deprived by the benefits those are enjoyed by the people of same caste, resettled elsewhere
in U.P., M.P., Orissa, Assam, West Bengal etc. The efforts initiated in 1997 has sustained till
the year with the support of the communities. A delegation of 11 members led by Mr. Prasen
Raptan met Mr. Jagadish Shettar, honorable Speaker (ex-Revenue Minister) of Government of
Karnataka and also the Sri Tangaraj, IAS, Principal Secretary, Revenue Department and
submitted the memorandum and discussed about the issue.
Constitution of India defines citizenship either by birth or if resides in a place for more than 10
years. However, after 4 decades of rehabilitation also, many of the refugees are not considered
as citizens of India nor their children born in this country. As a consequence, they are deprived
off their basic rights like education, voting power, ration card, etc. Intervention in appropriate
manner needs to be initiated immediately to ensure the rights of children, women and farmers.
Mr. Jagadish Shettar, the Revenue Minister of GoK was invited to the Sindhanur Rehabilitation
Project along with all the government machineries. They assured appropriate action but
unfortunately the government dissolved.
Agriculture is the sole occupation for the survival of these refugees; but inadequate water for
irrigation in the peak season made their life difficult. The farmer is unable to utilize their land
fully, due to non-availability of water. Also the farmers have no proper planning before starting
cultivation which kicks them into utter poverty. Fertility of the soil reduced due to over doses of
chemical fertilizer and pesticides as well as the irrigation water applied in the initial period.
Janakalyan initiated Jana Krishi activities with these refugees.
Primary education must to be in mother tongue; but unfortunately is not true for these refugees.
It is difficult for a 5 year old child to learn a new language other than its mother tongue. Thus,
they left the schools, increased the percentage of illiteracy. Education- the backbone of the
society and how to provide these refugees? Janakalyan started hostels for girl-child in
Sindhanur and also providing stipend for their education.
Most of the women are illiterate; thus, social injustice is very common in the society. Child
marriage is in practice. How to stop these? Janakalyan started legal awareness and SHG
empowerment program for the refugee-women.
Dairy is found as only alternative livelihood option in present context; Investment & marketing
of the produce are the problems. How to overcome it? Janakalyan has started marketing
initiative for the milk with an investment of Rs.40,00,000 on plant and machineries to set up
Pousthik Milk Plant.
The important aspect about these right-based interventions with the refugees of Karnataka is
that, these self-funded activities since 1997 and continued till today. But it is realized that to
make it impact-oriented program, this kind of independent initiative would not help. A nation-
wide campaign needs to be launched soon involving all the refugee-centers in the country;
because the issues of all these refugee-centers are similar and alike.
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FromtheDirectors Desk
J anakalyan has successfully served its primary target
(rehabilitatedrefugee) groupsfor morethanadecadeandI
feel proud to release this report as mark of 11 years of
successful interventionsinthispart of thecountrywhereits
necessityisfelt bytheverycommunitiesfor andbywhomit
isbeingestablished. Unlikeother organizations, J anakalyan
startedwithout anyprior experiencebyanyof itsfounders
but growntothislevel withexpansionof geographical coverage, areasof expertise,
humanaswell asfinancial resources, etc. overaperiodof 11years.
I, being associated with J anakalyan since fromits inception (formulation of
byelaws) at various capacities, amtheonly first handwitness of its incremental
growth over these years. Hundreds of people have come and gone both in its
GoverningBoardas well as in theManagement Teambut I amstill associating
myself withit muchbeforethefoundationof thesocietyon2
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J uly1997.
Theyear 2007-08isanother successful & memorableyear for J anakalyanwherein
J anakalyangot thestatusof Nodal Agencyfor thedistrict for UNICEF supported
projects thereby changing its role fromonly implementation to monitoring &
funding. Responsibility toorganizetheStateLevel Child Rights Convention for
Karnataka was another major yardstick to measure its success as part of the
national process to prepare an alternative report to the UN Child Rights
Convention. Duringtheyear, J anakalyanparticipatedinmanystate, national and
international seminars, workshops, conferences, etc. which aredescribed in this
report underdifferent chapters.
The credit for achieving this status goes to the transparent, accountable and
systematic management procedurepracticed in theorganization and also to the
dedicatedteamof professionalswhoarecommittedtothecauseof theneedygroups
for whomJ anakalyanexists. Theclear visionof theorganizationgivestheimpetus
toitsworkforcetocarryout mission-drivenactivitiesinorder toachieveitsgoal &
objectivesset forthbytheselflessGoverningBoard. Theefficient management team
evolvesappropriatestrategiesfromtimetotimeinorder toexhibit highest level of
efficiencyinusinghumanandfinancial resources.
J anakalyan is indebtedtoits donors for continuous support in servingits target
groupswithinnovativeandneed-basedinterventions.
2
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July 2008 Prasen Raptan
Shantinagar Executive Director
Highlightsof theyear 2007-08
Like every year, the services of Janakalyan continued for the deprived communities of
Rehabilitation Projects in Karnataka. The regular projects on IIFS with organic approach to
maintain ecological balance; community health, education, sanitation and nutrition status
improvement through various need-based interventions; reaching the un-reached children
through special educational interventions were major (yearlong) programs during the year.
However, besides these, there were few special events of the year which are illustrated below.
State Child Rights Convention: For the 1
st
time, Janakalyan organized a State Level
Convention on Child Rights as part of
a national process to prepare an
alternate report to the UN
Convention on the Rights of Children
in India in Hotel Nripatunga, Raichur
on 4
th
September 2007.
Subsequently, the South India Child
Rights convention was on 18-19
th
September 2007 at Bangalore
wherein the Karnataka state was
represented by Janakalyan by
presenting the situation of children in
Karnataka.
NREGA implementationbycommunity: A mass campaign (dharna) by the villagers against
malpractices in implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 yielded
results; the villagers themselves executed quality works worth Rs.13 lakhs leaving aside the
elected representatives.
District Workshop on Immunization: A district level workshop to sensitize the health
department involving all the Taluk Health Officers
(THO), DHO and RCH Officer on 100%
immunization was organized at Hotel Nripatunga,
Raichur on 7
th
September 2007; the event was
sponsored by UNICEF and implemented by 5
NGOs wherein about 100 staffs participated.
International Workshop on Fund Raising: It
was for 4 days from 22-25
th
August 2007 at Hotel
Jaypee Palace, Agra wherein the participants
were from more than 15 countries of South Asia
with all international cadres of trainers. Mr. Prasen
Raptan, the CEO of Janakalyan participated in the workshop to enhance the fundraising
capacity.
HomeReplacement of aBangladeshi child: Md. Zuber, a 13 years old boy from Bangladesh
found on Secunderabad Railway station was handed over to Janakalyan by Sathi, an
organization working with platform children, who was then reunited with his family with lot of
efforts on 24
th
September 2007.
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Davanageraexposureonwithdrawal strategy: A learning trip for the SWASTHH PLUS team
of Janakalyan as well as other partner NGOs were organized to Davanagera, wherein UNICEF
& NORAD jointly implemented in collaboration with District Administration and NGOs.
Janakalyan organized the trip with the support of UNICEF and the participants ranked the
exposure as the best trip in their lives.
Gender Policyfor J anakalyan: Janakalyan has developed its own institutional gender policy
to become more gender
transparent. The technical
know-how was improved by
attending a weeklong training
program on gender
mainstreaming in development
organization at IRMA between
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July and 3
rd
August 2007.
3
rd
Regional Review of
Village Planning: Janakalyan
made a presentation on its
progress at the 3
rd
regional
review meeting of Village
Planning project on 28-30
th
Aug
2007 at BIRDY, Hyderabad
organized by UNICEF where NGOs from 16 states participated.
Own Campus: Janakalyan has shifted to its own and new campus at Shantinagar,
Rehabilitation Colony No.4 which has been developed as a training center for the women,
farmers as well as youths on its 10
th
foundation day.
Sarpanches trainingat Chattisgarh: Believing in the capacity of Janakalyan, UNICEF invited
to train up the Sarpanches of 5
blocks of Rajnandagao district
of Chattisgarh state on
Community Monitoring Process
using red alerts. More than 500
sarpanches were trained
effectively to improve the
environment around the child &
mother in Rajnandagao district.
Nodal NGO: Janakalyan has
changed its role from
implementation to facilitation
and was identified as the nodal
NGO for Raichur district by
UNICEF to implement sanitation project. Partnering with 4 NGOs, Janakalyan has covered 300
villages of 43 GP from all 5 taluks of Raichur district thereby spreading its operational area to
entire district and reaching thousands of needy families.
Organic Producers Marketing Training:
A 1-day training on cotton value chain was
organized at PUSA New Delhi wherein
Janakalyan was invited as a participant.
India Organic Trade Fairs: Janakalyan
was a delegate for the IOTF which was the
largest national event for marketing of
organic products at PUSA New Delhi.
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CommunityLedTotal Sanitation: CLTS is an innovation by Mr. Kamal Kar and is introduced
in Karnataka by Janakalyan with the support of The Knowledge Link Pvt Ltd, New Delhi
sponsored by Water & Sanitation Program (WSP), New Delhi and UNICEF Hyderabad. About
55 trainers were trained from 5 partner NGOs for 5 days about its application in the field. Unlike
other trainings, this was a field-based training used directly in the villages with community
involvement.
Action Research in Medhak & Vikarabad: In collaboration with The Livelihood School
promoted by BASIX, 2 action research projects are taken up in Medhak & Vikarabad districts of
Andhra Pradesh on 1) usage of press-mud (a sugarcane industry byproduct) to enrich soil
health by converting into compost and 2) entrepreneurship development on green fodder.
Studyof Bijapur livelihoodsituation: The Ants & Partners, Bangalore sponsored a livelihood
opportunities study in World Vision areas of Bijapur district. Janakalyan suggested various
livelihood options available for the SHG members and other individuals in the villages of Bijapur
district as an outcome of this study.
Sanitary Napkin Production Unit: In collaboration with Vivekananda Education Society,
Janakalyan established a sanitary napkin production unit to promote menstrual hygiene among
the rural women and adolescent girls. The rural women as well as adolescent girls in the
villages and schools were trained about the importance of sanitary napkin and why and how to
use it. Sanitary napkin disposal units are also installed in identified high schools of Sindhanur
taluk. The project was spread across the district in almost 300 villages where sanitation project
is being implemented.
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Foundation Day: On completion of 10 years of service to the communities for whom
Janakalyan exists, it felt to celebrate it in a big way as mark of its achievement. It was
celebrated in its new campus on 12
th
January 2008 in collaboration with Vivekananda
Education Society. The daylong
celebration started with a procession
at Sindhanur town by more than 1200
(Shantivahini) volunteers from
Sindhanur and Manvi taluk, who have
been trained by our program. The day
was inaugurated by the Sri Govinda
Reddy, KAS, Assistant Commissioner,
Lingasugur and the Closing remarks
was given by Sri K. Virupakshappa,
the MP of Koppala Constitution in the
gracious presence of Swami
Jnanananda Maharaj.
10
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Annual Achievement Report: To document the decadal contributions of Janakalyan to
the communities, about 1000 copies
of Annual Achievement Report 2006-
07 was published on the occasion of
10
th
Foundation Day of Janakalyan.
Volunteers Mela: World Youth Day
was celebrated with more than 1200 youths (male &
female) on 12.1.2008 at Vivekananda School
campus with Sanitation theme in the International Year of Sanitation 2008.
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Chapter I
AchievingSelf-sufficiency(10securities)for thefarmers throughecological farming
Satisfied with the performance of the Self-sufficiency model for tail end farmers, Janakalyan felt
its necessity to scale it up with more number of
farmers and Hivos is pleased to extend the
support for 50 more farmers for 4 years. The
Internally Initiated External Evaluation (IIEE)
report executed by Prof. Rajendra Poddar of
University of Agricultural Sciences,
Dhawad also reported its suitability to
these refugees in the present context.
The result sharing program conducted
with 3 categories of farmers from the
project area depicts that it is worth investing in pukur in the tail end. The data from the farms of
participating farmers and their neighbors are furnished below for comparison.
Farmers withoutpukur Farmers withownpukur Farmers withHIVOSsupportedpukur
Nameof
farmers
Expen
diture
Return Net
Profit
Nameof
farmers
Expend
iture
Return Net
Profit
Nameof
farmers
Expend
iture
Return Net
Profit
Subhash Bisw 35,000 90,000 55,000 Bikash Adhik 35,000 110,000 75,000 Smt Debi S 39,225 109,772 70,547
Ranjan Monda 15,000 45,000 30,000 Narayan Mond 31,000 80,000 49,000 Sri Abinash 22,813 72,135 49,322
Ratikanta Bis 30,000 70,000 40,000 Bijan Haldar 45,000 118,000 73,000 Sri Anil B 11,188 34,294 23,106
Bipul Mondal 50,000 100,000 50,000 Sabuj Roy 35,000 75,000 40,000 Sri Babu M 43,072 114,500 71,428
Gobardhan 48,000 100,000 52,000 Hriday Biswas 50,000 150,000 100,000Sri Devanand 27,953 93,405 65,452
Nimai Sarkar 20,000 60,000 40,000 Gandhiraj Bep 40,000 105,000 65,000 Sri Jagadish 28,825 104,360 75,535
Shyamalal 22,000 65,000 43,000 kanti Mondal 25,000 60,000 35,000 Sri Jeetendra 40,391 89,155 48,764
Rasaraj Patra 25,000 75,000 50,000 Bishwa Mond 30,000 70,000 40,000 Sri Khadu Mo 22,516 66,720 44,204
Ramesh Mond 30,000 80,000 50,000 Buddadeb Maj 30,000 65,000 35,000 Sri Manisnkar 66,679 144,127 77,448
Satya Majumd 25,000 70,000 45,000 Jaharlal Roy 35,000 80,000 45,000 Sri Manranjan 26,069 90,140 64,071
Samarendu S 40,000 100,000 60,000 Pramatho 27,000 60,000 33,000 Sri Pradeep D 24,358 57,500 33,142
Sadhu S 25,000 70,000 45,000 Ashim Mondal 42,000 90,000 48,000 Sri Rajndrnath 60,080 107,600 47,520
Anil Roy 22,000 63,000 41,000 Dinesh Sarkar 40,000 80,000 40,000 Sri Subhash 64,682 165,336 100,654
Chandi Chara 20,000 60,000 40,000 Satyapriya M 15,000 45,000 30,000 Sri Sudhanya S 63,926 103,695 39,769
Madhav Bawal 35,000 120,000 85,000 Sri Mantu Bisw 3,940 15,840 11,900
Prabhash Moh 35,000 100,000 65,000 Sri Sunil Biswa 70,660 126,100 55,440
Sri Nakul Sard 58,320 122,330 64,010
Total 407,0001048,000641,000 Total 550,000 1408,000 858,000 Total0 674,697 1,617,009 942,312
Average/ farm 29,071 74,857 45,786Average/farm 34,375 88,000 53,625 Average/farm 39,688 95,118 55,430
Average/ acre 5,814 14,971 9,157Average/ acre 6,875 17,600 10,725 Average/ acre 7,938 19,024 11,086
While an exclusive volume of report is brought for this project and the salient features of the
project are only covered here. The details could be referred in The Livelihood Model.
FieldDayonSRI paddy
Excavationinprogress
The farmers were taken to 2 exposures at Neermanvi and Belgaum which played a major role
to this success during the year. The Best Farmer award of Rs.50,000 & Rs.30,000 is instituted
to first and second best farmers among the participating farmers and also Rs.20,000 to the staff
responsible for making the farmer as best which geared up the practices and brought to this
status.
About 3 field days were organized
during the year to reach out to more
number of farmers from the vicinity
and proved to be as an effective
communicating tool as far as
agricultural interventions are
concerned. These field days were on
a) organic approaches, b) SRI paddy
and c) IIFS concept.
As an innovative tool to learn and get motivated by
the works of their fellow farmer periodic farm-based
meeting was organized on rotational basis from one
farm to the others. This being a daylong event, all
participating farmers gathered on one farm in the
morning and go through the farms to observe the
activities followed by discussion throughout the day.
After lunch, they prepare a plan of action for fortnight and process continues in next farm.
SRI paddygrownbySubhashRoy
Nurserygrownbyfarmer inthefarm
BiogenicPesticides
preparedbyfarmer
Orchardgrownbyfarmer
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The happiest moment during the year was when Sri Subhash Palekar visited one of our IIFS
(organic) farms and appreciated the efforts accompanied by the MLA and DySP of the area. It
was a surprise visit organized by the MLA Sri Hampanagouda Badarli. Mr. Sudhanya Sikdar,
one of the farmers, was invited in the training program organized at Sindhanur for more than
5000 farmers to share his experiences.
Indicator-basedFarmInformationBoard
IIFSFieldDayat SudhanyaFarm
Vermicompostpit
Sri SubhashPalekar onPedal Pump
Livemulchinginthefarm
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Chapter II
Achieving100%RoutineImmunizationthroughCommunityAction
The caste-class nexus in the villages and the status of basic services among the hamlets is
very poor in Raichur district. The social dynamics of hamlets / camps that are located either in
the peripheries of the main villages or as an isolated habitation geographically cut-off, however,
remain the same. Ghettoized and often homogeneous families belong to the ex-untouchable
castes groups or other groups that occupy the lower rungs in the social hierarchy. The
historical deprivation of these communities reflect in the vicious cycle of poverty vis-a-vis low
literacy, poor health status, engagement in low productive economic activities, high under-
employment, etc. The survey conducted by Janakalyan has confirmed that women and children
who are left out of service delivery network- whether through the health, education, DWCD or
Panchayat departments are from such hamlets / camps. This exclusion from services that
can be attributed to the obvious reason of social distance is further worsened by the physical
distance from the main village with no facility to commute. Often, front line functionaries justify
their less frequent visits to these hamlets / camps on account of the low receptivity or response
levels of the community members.
It is in this context, Janakalyan felt the necessity to fill this gap, especially for the mother & child
and designed a project to reach out and achieve 100% routine immunization in all 34 gram
panchayats (231 villages) of Sindhanur taluk and 105 villages of Manvi taluk.
A village-wise target sheet was prepared by house-to-house survey to know the present status
of the immunization in villages in the beginning of the project in September 2007. Then about
1100 volunteers were trained from these 231+105 villages who assisted the frontline
ProjectOrientationWorkshopatNripatungahotel on7.8.2007withDHO, THOs and100field
staffsfacilitatedbyPrasenRaptan, Secretary, J anakalyan
functionaries to achieve 100% routine immunization. The theme of volunteers training was
concept of program, roles and responsibilities, age-wise immunization details, importance of
immunization, and how to mobilize the children during immunization day. A taluk level meeting
was conducted with THO, MO, ANMs, MHW, BHEs about 100% routine immunization program
in Sindhanur & Manvi Taluks at the beginning of the program.
The PHC level meetings in 14 PHCs of Sindhanur & Manvi taluk were conducted monthly to
discuss progress in immunization and to draw an action plan for the subsequent months, plan
for regular immunization day in all the villages and participation in mass immunization
programs.
Besides
participating in the
fixed immunization
day, we also had
organized special
immunization day
for the left-out
mothers & children.
Major roles played
by the volunteers
and staffs were
mobilizing the
children and
pregnant mothers,
assisting ANMs and
PHC level reviewmeetingwithdoctors
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male health worker in immunizing the children and pregnant mothers. Further, on the previous
day mike announcement was done in all villages. In main villages, a name slip for the potential
children was distributed to their parents on the previous day. Further, at the end of the day a
review of the list was done and the missed out children were called for immunization by door-
to-door visits. The data sheet as at the end of the program looks like-
Sl.
No.
Particulars Manvi Sindhanur
1 No. of PHCs 5 9
2 No. of sub centers 24 47
3 No. of villages 109 224
4 Villages where immunization completed 90 212
5 Incomplete villages 19 12
6 Villages attended by Janakalyan staffs 90 192
0-1.5 yrs children 68 85% (8PHC) 30% Turvihal
7
% of immunization
done No. of PL 50 90% (8PHC) 50% Turvihal
Meetings were conducted with pregnant mothers, lactating mothers, VDMC members and
discussed about importance of vaccination, pregnancy registration within 16 weeks, ANC
checkups, TT injection, health care, institutional delivery, etc. and obtained their help in
disseminating the message and mobilizing the potential candidates for immunization. Further,
house-to-house visits, meeting of immunization committee, schools children, prabhat pheri, etc.
were some of the other outreach activities.
Recommendations: To make the program more effective following could be practiced in
future-
Preferably immunization shall be in the early hours of the day or in the evening
Organize thematic training / orientation to the communities directly
Availability of vaccines need to be ensured
The program should be on long term basis not less than a year to show visible impacts
Filling up of the vacancies in the health department, especially the frontline functionaries is
important to achieve 100% routine immunization
Superiors need to instruct their subordinates for cooperating the volunteers in achieving the
goal
Still better communication and coordination mechanism between NGO staffs / volunteers and
frontline functionaries.
Lessons forwardtoachieve100%routineimmunization
J ointimplementationof theimmunizationactivities
Volunteers : Motivates, mobilizes andcoordinates
Frontlinefunctionaries: immunize
Most of the denial cases have come forward to immunize their children after
joint motivational campaignbyvolunteers, staff, frontlinefunctionaries, opinion
leaders andyouths
The joint effort of GP members, youths and volunteers in the village on the
previous dayyieldedresults
Pregnantwomenmeetingdemystifiedmanyunscientificbelief amongstwomen
Gaps &Issues inachieving100%RoutineImmunization
Immunization in 2-3 villages on the same day by 1 ANM become practically difficult
Vacancies in front line functionaries caused irregular immunization in few villages
Lack of timely supply of medicine / vaccines
ANM does not open BCC vaccine if there is less than 5 children in a village
Lack of vehicle/transportation to reach the remote & small village
The balance of immunization on the day of staff training and / or holidays are not
covered
Seasonal engagement of community during the routine immunization day
It takes time to change the mindset of the people
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Chapter III
AchievingefficiencyinservicedeliverythroughCommunityMonitoring
Community Monitoring Project (CMP) was launched on 1
st
June 2005 in Sindhanur taluk by
Janakalyan to improve the service delivery mechanism in School, Water, Sanitation, Health
and Hygiene through the government machineries. The project was withdrawn in September
2008 and the major focus during this period was red alert monitoring. The red alerts which were
monitored in health, education, sanitation and nutrition sectors are furnished in the table below.
Health Education Sanitation Nutrition
1.Registration of pregnant
women by 16 weeks
2.Pregnant women receiving 3
ANC check up, 100 IFA tablets
& TT Injections
3.Deliveries are attended by
either ANM or qualified above
4.Children aged 12 months are
fully immunized
5.Births are registered within 21
days and birth certificates are
issued / received
6.Children with diahorrea receive
ORS and competent care for
acute respiratory illness
7.Children aged 5
years & 10
months enter in
class I
8.Children enrolled
in schools have
minimum
attendance of
75%
9.Children enrolled
in class 1, 2, 3 &
4
th
in 2006 will
be in next class
in 2007
10. Peopl
e /
community
wash hands
at critical
times
11. Home
s have
usable toilets
12. Home
s with
wastes
disposal
systems
13. Infants
below 6 months
are exclusively
breast fed
14. Children
in 0-3 years
receive 2 dozes
of Vitamin A
every year
15. Reductio
n in 34 grade
level
malnutrition in
under 5 years
children
The red alert monitoring was planned at Village, GP, PHC, Block, District and State level but
could reach up to Block level only during the period.
v Village Level Review: This is first
level of review where almost all red alerts
are addressed by the concerned frontline
functionaries. In this review all the NHLs
from every NHG of the village participate
where AWW, ANM & HM participate to
address the red alerts of their concerned
departments. This review happened every
month at Anganawadi or school.
v GP Level Review: The VDMC
convener of each village of particular Gram
Panchayat participates in this review where
GP president & secretary reviews the red
alerts. Mostly the sanitation related red
alerts are discussed at this level and
addressed by the concerned GP secretary.
Such review takes place once in a month at
GP head quarter.
v PHClevel review: At PHC level, the
review takes place once in two months
where the Medical Officer conducts the
review in presence of Anganawadi
Supervisors & Cluster Resource Person. Redalertmonitoringprocess
The GP level conveners of concerns GPs also participate in the meeting. The red alerts
which are not addressed by the frontline functionaries in the previous months are discussed
at this level.
v Block Level Review: The taluk level review is conducted on quarterly basis where
Executive Officer of Taluk Panchayat conducts the review in the presence of THO, CDPO,
BEO, BRP, etc. The PHC level
monitoring committee
conveners also participate in
this review meeting.
Efforts were put to strengthen
the village level institutions by
conducting training for the
members. Such trainings were
on red alerts concept, water &
sanitation, nutrition and health,
etc. To keep the project
initiatives rolling on, emphasis
was given to strengthen the
capacity of the members at the
grassroot through various
training interventions as it was known that the project would be terminated from September
2007 onward.
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It was felt that the participation of the elected representatives would improve the quality of the
program and with this objectives orientation programs for MLA, ZP members, TP members, GP
presidents, etc. were conducted during the year on red alert concepts and their role. This was
also to handover the process of monitoring by them after withdrawal of the project support.
CommunityCapacityBuildingTraining
Chapter IV
Achievingvoluntaryactionamongadolescentandyouths
The district of Raichur being the integrated district for UNICEF and thus Janakalyan has been
implementing various activities to promote child well being indicators that contribute to the
MDGs. Convergence or integration of programs was envisaged through a process called
village level micro planning, in which the communities are made aware of and enabled to self-
assess the status of the well being of women and children so that they can make their own
social action plans. Village planning was initiated in Sindhanur taluk in June 2005 and the
planning activities have successfully been completed in about 181 villages.
An integral part of the village planning project is to respond to the demands articulated through
the village level action plans through district level advocacy and focused sectoral activities in
coordination with the concerned departments. However, to boost up the response plans
especially to make it timely and effective in the villages where micro planning has been
conducted, Janakalyan has prioritized two strategies viz., strengthening the delivery of basic
services through demand generation and enhancing the capacity of the front line functionaries
to improve services among the hard to reach groups. The processes involved in village
planning project are aimed at information empowerment of the communities leading to
increased demand for basic services. Along side, activities of the volunteers and the taluk level
coordination committees provide regular feedback on service delivery to identify and plug up
the gaps.
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Adolescent girls and youths were trained from each village to act upon the social plan (village
action plan) prepared during the micro planning exercise. Janakalyan has taken certain
important decisions while conducting such foundation training to the volunteers in order to
make it very effective and result oriented. The innovations in the training process were-
Conduct 1 batch training every week by overlapping valedictory of 1 batch with inauguration
of the next batch.
Inauguration / valedictory by renowned officers / elected representatives of area from where
volunteers are drawn for the training
DistinctFeatures of J anakalyanadoptedinVillagePlanning
Rapport building visit by facilitator prior to the 5-days exercise.
0 day concept introduced mini meeting with village leaders on zero-day evening
Identification of opinion leaders and individual interaction on the first day of the exercise
Small group meeting with youths, women, leaders throughout the 5-days exercise
Gram Baithak with mike arrangement on first day
Motivational sessions for identified youths (volunteers) from the 1
st
day itself
Each facilitator made responsible for 1-2 THEME of focused group discussions (FGD)
Data of the same village used for FGD and also in triangulation exercise
Conducting youths meeting every evening and sharing the information gathered
Triangulation of data in evening meeting with larger group every day
5 days compulsory stay in the village by the entire team (2 male + 2 female)
Food & accommodation provided by the villagers only not by a leader of the village
Every time new batch of 4 members on rotational basis - avoid stereotype exercise and to
have uniform exercise in all villages
Meeting with pregnant women on ANC, PNC and with SHG members on health and
education
Childreporters workshop
The facilitator to reside in the village in the previous night and escort the volunteers for the
training on the day of inauguration.
Appointed an exclusive 3 members trainers team; 2 in the class room - 1 in the field to invite
next batch of volunteers on alternate day.
Guest lectures by external resource persons were also organized during 5-days training
Motivational Inputs on 1
st
day - why should s/he work without remuneration for his/her
villagers was added in the syllabus.
Designed a certificate with duties & responsibilities overleaf which would remind their duties
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Compulsory residential training sessions till late evening; cultural evening organized to
exhibit their skills
Volunteers must report 0 day (previous day) evening to ensure size of the batch
Guest lectures by concerned department officers were also organized to establish linkage
Wall magazine on days sessions by the volunteers
Demonstration on ORS, hand washing, iodine, etc. in the training
The volunteers are key factor making the village planning a successful event. Whatever little
they perform needs to be appreciated in order to keep their temp on. Here are few tips
Janakalyan used to keep their motivational level high in the process.
Lessons learnt: Janakalyan has capitalized many learning for future interventions as listed
below.
How to use volunteers free time?
Use maximum IEC materials in FGD
than talking
1
st
grama baithak must be very
effective
Time management by all staff is very
much essential
Venue of Grama Baithak is very
important
Venn diagram should be done on last
day of the grama sabha and not in
between
Organize cultural evening in the
PRI members orientation
Gram Baithak to attract parents
Involve women SHGs, Youth Cubs; promote youth clubs wherever possible
Organize special meeting of pregnant women
Conduct FGD wherever the women are involved in work
Conduct FGD in every street, especially in affected areas
Food from any & every households no discrimination of caste, creed or religion
Slogans on village issues in the prabhat pheri
Innovations infollow/ monitoring
mechanism
Every month, 3 village planning
exercises are conducted by 4
members team in 3 weeks & last
week is used for follow up meeting
in the villages by a pair of
facilitators to keep contact with the
volunteers.
The volunteers are invited in
VDMC meeting for review and
planning.
GPO along with the volunteers
monitors the Village Information
Board.
Monthly GP / PHC level
Volunteers Review along with
SWASTHH PLUS red alert review.
Salary mode experimented; not
per village mode for the facilitators
as done by other NGOs.
Volunteers also need to follow up
after training; Cluster Coordinators
are appointed for this task.
Cluster Coordinators to visit 3 GPs
every day to cover all the GPs in a
week.
Recommendations for future interventions:
While taking it forward, one must consider the
following points for effective implementation of
the project.
Demonstration of low cost structures must be
in the house of volunteers to give them some
incentives.
Construct solid wastes disposal systems like
compost, vermi compost, etc. in the villages.
Provide an Identity card to all VP Facilitators,
Cluster Coordinators and volunteers.
Cluster Coordinators must visit the villages
and finalize the date of VPP with community
convenience in advance.
Regular experience sharing & exposure with
other similar organization is necessary.
The VP Facilitators must be provided with
specific knowledge on various indicators
The VP Facilitators cultural skills must be
improved / imparted
More IEC material need to be provided
Strategies to make the government officials
to participate in VPP need to developed
Internal exposure to volunteers to keep the
tempo on.
Refreshers course to volunteers bimonthly
GPO must up date the Village Board
Use more IEC materials in FGD
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Chapter V
Achievingzerodropoutbyreachingtheun-reached
Raichur district has the dubious distinction of finding the bottom most spot in human
development index in Karnataka. Amongst the HDI of 175 countries in the world, Raichur
district is equal to that of the 154
th
country. The district
population is 16,69,762 out of which 12.49 lakhs are from rural
areas. There are about 1187 government and 162 private
primary schools in the district with 293,960 students and 5,069
teachers (teacher-pupil ratio is 1:58).
It is estimated that 32% children are out-of-school because of
varied reasons and total dropouts in the district are 120,645 out
of which 62% are girl-children. These children are regarded as
potential income earners and have already started playing adult
roles; they are EARNINGin the age of LEARNING. The issues
like in-migration, out-migration and child labor are very common
in the district because of varied water availability from one taluk to the other.
Why does a child like playground and not school? is a question to be asked to oneself. Can we
create same amount of interest in child for school? If we design all educational interventions
making this as a central question, we strongly believe, it will bear desired impact on the child.
We believe that the community development is directly related to quality education at
foundation level; all children are not born talent but learn in the process; whatever a child learn
in 6 hours with teachers de-learn in 18 hours of bad company; and above all mothers are more
sensitive towards their child
education.
Raichur being the most
backward district, it is
estimated that about 32%
children are out-of-school in
the age group of 6-14 years;
most of them are engaged in
hazardous activities. While
the total dropout children are about 120,645 whose major share (62%) is of girl child
demarcating clear gender disparity. Further analysis of data related to the dropouts and out-of-
school children depicts that the major contribution is from rural areas.
LiteracyRate PrimaryEducation
Blocks
Male Female Total School Pupils
Deodurg 51.73 27.20 39.56 230 42797
Lingasugur 66.28 36.27 51.39 292 57058
Manvi 54.79 30.71 42.78 246 53224
Raichur 66.28 45.45 56.05 258 72605
Sindhanur 65.46 37.81 51.56 270 68572
District 62.02 36.84 49.54 1296 294256
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Karnataka 67.04
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In the rural context, these children are regarded as potential income earners and play adult
roles. They look at the formal
education system as irrelevant
to their future roles in life. Most
of these children are from the
most vulnerable sections of
rural communities and most of
their wage earning is from
unskilled labor.
Janakalyan believes education
as the backbone of the society.
Given quality education at
foundation level, development
of community will happen its
own.
All children are not born
talent. There are very few who
are good at study from very
beginning; most of the children
learn in the process.
Unfortunately, one who
becomes teacher in the regular
school wishes to have all the good students in the school. They discriminate between the good
and average students in the class. This hurts the mindset of the average and below average
students. They start escaping from school and therefore parents get chance to force them to go
to field to earninstead of school to LEARN. Drop out increases and they enroll their name in
the list of child labors.
Mothers are more sensitive towards their child education. To enroll, retain and ensure
attendance in regular schools, mothers of the children need to be motivated and convinced
through formal and informal meeting. Therefore, the issue is addressed from all the corners
using the tools like a) Pre-school, b) In-school & c) Out-of-school to uproot the causes
completely. Village Institution for (educational) Development of Young-children & Adolescents
(VIDYA) is promoted to involve community in planning and implementing activities from the
day-1 to ensure participation and sustainability.
1. In-Migration: Sindhanur & Manvi blocks have lot of
wet lands demanding lot of work force during the
season. In migration of farmers as well as wage
earners from neighboring districts of Andhra Pradesh
is a common phenomenon and such migrants stays in
the fields with their children having no access to
formal schools. Even if there are schools, due to
language problem most of them are forced into
agricultural laborers and cattle grazing.
2. Out-migration: Lingasugur & Deodurga blocks are
completely dry having maximum SC / ST population.
Migration of able-bodied persons to Maharashtra
range & Bangalore leaving behind the aged people is
a common phenomenon in these blocks. Children
moving out with parents into foreign lands forgo
education and fall prey to different forms of child labor.
Deodurga block is also declared as most backward
taluk in India and its HDI is less than the African
countries.
3. Child Labor: Raichur being the district head quarter
have lots of enterprises. The children from vulnerable
sections of the society are forced to child labor, like
hotel industry, auto garages, domestic help etc., due
to illiteracy and poverty. Part of Raichur being irrigated
the children are also used in cottonseed production,
chilly cultivation, etc.
Whatmakes achildattractingPlaygroundandnotschool?
Any child irrespective of caste, creed, religion & sex prefers playing because it enjoys and
finds factors of interest & recreation in playing. On the contrary, the same child avoids
going school with several efforts of parents, why?
We have learnt in past that it is only because the child does not find any amount of
recreation in our education system but only burden to impart them bookish knowledge that
makes them to drop out from mainstream education.
Dropout Gender disparity
Total Boys Girls
120645 45845 74800
% 38% 62%
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Pre-School: It is now well-acknowledged that good pre-primary education is foundation for
quality education of a child.
Therefore, Janakalyan started 20
Balwadi centers in the villages of
Sindhanur taluks, run & managed
by the community for improving
access to pre-primary education for
rural child, especially girls between
the ages of 4 & 6 years.
In-School: It is known fact that the
children in rural government
schools hardly know how to read &
write even after 5
th
standard.
Further, dropout rate in these
schools is also high, especially in
the rural areas. To create a child-
friendly and learning environment in
the schools, Janakalyan trained the
teachers with behavioral inputs &
accelerated teaching-learning
methods (quality education). Also
the desire so created among the
children that they find equal amount
of satisfaction, which draw them to
the playground (retention). Thus the
effort was to improve quality of
education in rural primary schools.
The tools like ARP (Accelerated
Reading Program), 3R (Reading,
wRiting, aRithmetic), remedial
coaching, providing play kits,
learning kits, mobile library, etc. are
used to achieve this target.
Out-of-School: Special
interventions are necessary to bring
the out-of-school children under the
umbrella. The out-of-school
children in Raichur district are
about 32% whereas that of State is
10.03%. To take the district to the
state average, Janakalyan adopted
strategies like motivating and
convincing their parents, especially
mothers, about importance of
education to send their children to school (enrollment & retention); also by mainstreaming the
out-of-school children, especially girl child labors, by enhancing their learning levels and
creating a microclimate (residential schools) conducive to them. This is to keep child away from
polluted environment for maximum time to avoid neighbors impact (access).
The strategies / institutions those were used as via media
to reach the goal are-
1. Parents Club: Parents usually misuse their time sitting
in the teashops, spade/gamblers houses and thus
become victims of addiction. Idle mind is devils
workshop. Motivating such parents is a daydream. If a
place with recreational facilities is created where they
can assemble together, they will definitely utilize it for
gossiping & time-pass. Different communication
methods can then be used to convey our messages on
importance of education, Child Labor Problems, using
audio, film, slogan, discussion, meetings, seminars,
street plays depending upon the target audience. When
they understand importance of education, they will start
sending their children to the Schools
2. Residential School: In the residential school
(BalvikashManaparivartanaKendra), the Child Labors
are kept for 6 to 18 months, depending on the previous
education level, age, interest, and other criteria. During
this period the efforts are put to change their mentality
and make them to realize the importance of the
education in their life. Less importance is given towards
the educational inputs. This is only to motivate the
children to join the regular Schools (mainstream).
Various techniques like audio-visual, drama, group
discussion, public meeting, exposures, address by
Officers, film shows, picnic etc. can be used to serve
the purpose.
3. Village educational institutions (VIDYA): Through
government primary schools & Anganawadies we can
reach maximum number of children to provide quality
education. Further, the child motivated in our special
schools can also be admitted to these institutions. Such
children are generally little elder than the regular
students but performance may not be at par with the
regular students. There are every chance of again
dropping out and then never join in their life if they dont
receive encouragement and special treatment from
teachers. Thus, the teachers play an important role in
this respect to encourage their participation. Further,
the dropout rate could be checked (who drops out the
schools due to fearing atmosphere) if the teachers
behave like parent. Teachers training are organized by
Janakalyan. VIDYA are promoted to take care of the
village level interventions.
Chapter VI
AchievingNirmal GramPuraskar throughTotal Sanitation
Total Sanitation Campaign, a national program on sanitation is being implemented in Raichur
District since 2001. The NSSO survey carried out in 2004-05 indicated that hygiene practices
related to personal hygiene and disposal of human excreta are practiced by a small proportion
of population in the
district. According to the
survey, only 3.8%
household use toilets in
the district, 0.3% of
mothers dispose off their
childrens excreta safely
and 5.6% of mothers and
caregivers wash their
hands with soap before
feeding children. The
proportion of households
using the toilets has now
gone up to 6.4% in the
district as of September
2007 but still it is
considerably below the
State Average of 16.7%. Low awareness among families in the district has been the major
reason for such poor indicators in hygiene and sanitation.
CommunitytransectwalktotheopendefecationspotinCLTS
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It is in this context, Janakalyan initiated an intervention in 300 villages of the district aiming at
improving the awareness at all levels on hygiene and sanitation through various communication
strategies in the district and community mobilization activities at the local level to improve
sanitary conditions in the villages leading to make these villages fully sanitized.
While an exclusive volume of report is published on achievement of Sanitation Program
through NGO partners in the district, the highlights are furnished in this annual document. The
birds eye view of the progress during the project period is presented in the table below.
Samuha Prerana Ingrid J anakalyan
Deodurg Lingsugur
Lingasug
ur
Raichur Raichur Manvi Manvi Sindhanur Sl
No
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Activities
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1 Staff training 6 6 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 3 4 10 14
2 Media
sensitization
1 0 - - 1 1 - 1 1 0 - - 1 0 1 1
3 Scrolling
message
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
4 VICsetup 5 3 2 - 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 5 1
5 6steps process
5.1VSAG formation 57 52 27 27 25 25 38 38 24 24 24 24 37 37 70 70
5.2Situation analysis 57 52 27 27 25 25 38 38 24 24 24 24 37 37 70 70
5.3VSAG training 57 52 27 27 25 25 38 38 24 24 24 24 37 37 70 70
5.4Facilitate
construction
57 2 27 2 25 1 38 1 24 1 24 1 37 1 70 3
5.5Social Regulation - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -
5.6Link with
government
57 1
(38)
27 1
(14)
25 - 38 - 24 - 24 - 37 1
(22)
70 -
6 RSMsetup 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 1
7 SanitaryPark 1 1 - - 1 1 - - 1 1 - - 1 - 2 1
8 Child friendly
toilet
2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 1
9 Bestpractices 18 0 6 0 12 0 12 0 6 0 6 0 12 8 18 12
10 School Based
Sanitation
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
11 CLTScompletion 15 16 8 8 8 8 9 9 6 6 6 6 7 7 15 15
To build the capacity of the staffs, more than 55 staffs from 4 NGOs covering 5 taluks were
taken to Teerthahalli taluk of Shimoga district and learnt from their experience on achieving
NGP. Similarly, with the sponsorship of
Water & Sanitation Program, New Delhi
and UNICEF, 5 days residential training
for 45 staffs were conducted pulling the
resource persons from The Knowledge
Link Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi on
Community Led Total Sanitation
(CLTS), a wonderful tool to trigger
community action on sanitation.
Collaborated effort initiated with Swami
Vivekananda Youth Movement
(SVYM), Mysore for construction of 500
toilets in Rehabilitation GP with the
financial support from CAPART. The masons are trained on sanitary park at SVYM, Saragur.
Lowcosttoiletwithlocallyavailablematerials
Nagarsi Camp in Raichur, Sopinayakanatanda in Deodurg, Gudihal in Lingsugur and R H
Colony in Sindhanur are marching towards NGP by achieving 100% sanitized village.
On the occasion of 10
th
Anniversary of Janakalyan, a volunteer mela was organized for more
than 1200 youth volunteers of Sindhanur & Manvi taluks. A rally by these 1200 volunteers
wearing uniform T-shirt with a label Nrimal Gram was conducted in all streets of Sindhanur
town and few selected villages on 12.1.2008. There were banners, play-cards with slogans and
other dissemination tools on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene practices.
The key learning of the interventions are-
Involvement of government officials is key component to make the program successful;
especially the projects of this nature where community need to get the support from the
Activeyoungteachers areinvolvedinhygienegamesduringCEEtraining; students campslater
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government. This kind of project also need to converge with existing government schemes
like TSC and thus ensuring their participation is very much essential from the day-1.
The RSM need to be put up 1 in each GP and to be managed by mason only; this can keep
the momentum on in every village if the mason is really in need of works.
Sanitary Park is a good concept and need to be put up 1 in every hobli / on main road
villages; there shall be a person to explain to the visitors. Wherever, it has been constructed
in the TP campus, locking facility is essential. Though, it is recommended to construct the
Sanitary Park in the TP campus, our experience has not been very positive in TP campus.
The sanitary parks constructed in TP campus are like orphans.
Exposure for the VSAG members is necessary to the NGP / ODF gram panchayats; also
some of the VSAG members need to be replaced who cannot give adequate time for the
community works. Another round of training to all members is needed to strengthen their
capacity to convince the community and the appropriate time for training the community is
AprilJune 2008.
Although, the teachers training on hygiene & sanitation were extremely useful, it is learnt that
the school base camps with the students would have been more meaningful and sustainable.
Identify small but good committed partners to implement the project. Big NGOs having many
projects give least priority to this kind of small project.
Spend more time in the family to interact with each and every member to identify the deciding
members and get their commitment on toilet construction.
Long term vision need to be developed among the staffs and NGO about the project. It
should not be a 3 months assignment. Short term assignment to the staff will hinder the
progress of the project
We have to categorize the families into phases like those who are interested to construct
immediately, some in 6 months, some in 1 year and likewise some will construct in 10
th
year
and then target them accordingly.
For making the villages ODF, one needs to concentrate on small villages in the beginning.
Village with homogeneous community is easier for achieving the result.
Chapter VII
Achievingsafebehavioral practices amongrural communities throughBehavioral
ChangeCommunication
The major problems faced by the community in Raichur district are Drought, Famine,
Malnourishment, Migration, Illiteracy, Unemployment, etc. All these root causes have lead to
low Human Resource Development and the two major neglected sectors in Raichur are Health
and Education.
IMR as per
2001 survey
was 57 in
Karnataka and
has been
stagnant for
the last five
years. The
proportion of
low birth weight
babies is 18%
and 72% of
deaths among
infants occur in
the first month
of life. The
child sex ratio
declined from
960 in 1991 to 941 in 2001. Immunization coverage was 54% in the state and complimentary
feeding rate is only 38.4%, lowest in South India. About 72% of children between 6 and 35
months are anemic and 44% children under three years are undernourished. Water quality and
hygiene are
major
problems in
the state
and overall
toilet
coverage is
about 36%
(17% in
rural
areas).
The IMR in
Raichur as
per 2001
census is
67% and
the CBR is
26.5. The
overall
Cluster level networkmeetingfor trainedcommunicators
Communicatorspresentingtheir actionplaninthenetworkmeeting
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literacy rate is only 48.8% and the female literacy rate is only 35.9%. The children fully
undergoing the immunization process is only 45.3% in the district, the lowest in Karnataka.
One of the key reasons for this state of affairs is mainly due to the age old knowledge, skill and
practices still being followed by the community. Experiences around the country are that if
families and communities are to be empowered with appropriate knowledge and skills to
improve care and protection of children; the first requirement is to change mindsets and
behavior among families and within communities which would not only trigger the social change
process but also facilitate program implementation.
It is identified that the 4 key behaviors (see box) need immediate change in order to improve
condition of mother and child.
It is in this context Janakalyan initiated the BCC project aiming that the family and caregivers
have knowledge and skills to carry out critical behaviors that secure survival, growth and
development of children in 34 gram panchayats of Sindhanur taluk. This can be achieved by
following-
1.Mothers initiate breastfeeding within 1 hour of giving birth, and practice exclusive
breastfeeding during the first six months of the babys life.
2.Parents enroll their girls in class I when they reach age of 5 and ensure they complete
primary education
3.Sexually active young people already engaged in risk behaviors adequately protect
themselves
4.Care-givers and children wash their hands after defecation and before handling food
Trainedcommunicatorsinvolvedingroupdiscussion
With this objectives, the BCC initiative have been initiated and the major activities undertaken
to change the behaviors of the communities during the reporting period are identification and
training to the communicators at the village level, who in turn would disseminate the messages
on 4 key issues to the mothers, caregivers, parents of girl children and sexually active people.
About 664 communicators from 165 villages were trained on BCC concept, the roles and
responsibilities of the trained communicators, importance of these 4 key behavioral issues, etc.
for 3 days in 17 batches.
1. Enhanced capacities of front line functionaries of 3 departments viz. DWCD, Zilla
Saksharta Sammitti & NYKS to carry out BCC activities
2. Families and communities have increased exposure to knowledge around breastfeeding,
hand-washing, girl child education and HIV/AIDS
Threedays residential trainingtothevillagecommunicators
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Chapter VIII
Major Publications of J anakalyan
It has always been talked about the NGO sector that though excellent in field implementation
but not equally good in documentation. Janakalyan, therefore, published few reports during the
year and are illustrated below.
Handbook on Village Volunteers: A handbook for the village volunteers trained to induce
voluntarism among the rural youths has been published which guides the volunteers to improve
the health, hygiene, education, sanitation and nutrition situation for mother and child in the
villages. About 500 copies are published.
Annual Achievement Report: On completion of 10 years of dedicated service to the rural
Indians, a book on decadal contributions of Janakalyan was published for wider circulations.
About 1000 copies were distributed among all the stakeholders.
Certificate: An innovative certificate for the trained volunteers was published with roles &
responsibilities overleaf to remind their duties towards the society.
IIEE report: Internally Initiated External Evaluation was conducted for Intensified Integrated
Farming System program by the University of Agricultural Sciences and the report was
published for the stakeholders.
Gender Policy: A gender policy for Janakalyan is developed during the year and published for
internal use to achieve gender transparency in the organization.
Report on NGP: An elaborated report on Nirmal Gram Purashkar on Total Sanitation
Campaign effort of Janakalyan in 300 villages of the district is published as a successful event.
Report on IIFS: A detailed report on interim achievement of the IIFS project is published to
document the progress till date.
BrochureonVP: Village Planning is an initiative to induce voluntarism among rural youths. A
brochure is published for wider circulation among the villagers and youths.
ManagementTeam
The management of Janakalyan was entrusted to the following members of the team during
2007-08.
ManagementTeam
Sri Prasen Raptan B. Tech.(Ag. Engg.), PGDMN Chief Executive Officer
Sri Venkatesh K MSW Project Officer
Sri Shivram Reddy BA Project Officer
Sri Gangappa BA Project Coordinator
Sri Mallikarjun G BA Project Coordinator
Sri Venkatesh A MSW Project Coordinator
Ms Manjushree PUC Project Coordinator
Sri Pradeep Das DiplomainAgriculture Agricultural Specialist
AdministrativeTeam
Sri Swapan Baidya PUC Administrator
Sri Manojit Biswas B. Com Accounts Officer
Sri Hulugappa DCA Documentation Officer
Sri Umesh Sarkar - Office Assistant
ExecutiveTeam
Sri Sudhanya Sikdar Ms. Sharanamma
Sri Khokandas B Ms. Eramma
Sri Sunil Biswas Ms. Jayashree J
Sri Prahlad Biswas Ms. Jayashree K
Sri Radheshyam S Ms. Karibasamma
Sri Krishnadas B Ms. Shanta M
Sri Channappa Ms. Parvati
Sri Gurunath Ms. Ayyamma
Sri Bheemesh Ms. Nagaveni
Sri Basavaraj P Ms. Shilpa M
Sri Nagaraj H Ms. Savita
Sri Dharmendra Ms. Shakuntala
Sri Govinda Ms. Ragumala
Sri Moulasab Ms. Jhansi
Sri Devanna Ms. Swathi K
Sri Nagaraj K Ms. Ratnavva
Sri Kalappa Ms.Krishnaveni
Sri Devappa Ms. Eramma
Sri Raghavendra Ms. Indira
Sri Ghanamatadayya Ms. Ambamma D
Sri Kasimali Ms.Nagaratna
Sri Venkatesh A V Ms. Devamma
Sri Yankappa Ms. Shobha
Sri Nagaraj C Ms. Geeta
Sri Sharabhayya S Ms. Shailaja
Sri Ayyanna Ms. Bheemamma
Sri Devayya Swami Ms. Ambamma
Sri Lingaraj Ms. Husenbee
Sri Basavaraj B Ms. Bhuvaneshwari
Sri Hanumesh Ms. Shilpa T
Ms. Vishalakshi
Ms. Eramma P
Ms. Pushpa
Ms. Eshamma
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Financial Positionof J anakalyan
J ANAKALYAN
RHColonyNo.4, Sindhanur-584128
INCOMETAXASSESMENT2008-2009
CONSOLIDATEDRECEIPT&PAYMENTACCOUNTFORTHEPERIODENDED31.3.2008
RECEIPTS AMOUNT PAYMENTS AMOUNT
ToCashinhand 2,344
By Expenses incurred for various
Projects 81,74,566
ToBankBalances ByAssets Purchases
Syndicate Bank 9633 1,11,930 Two wheelers 98,975
Syndicate Bank 10035 977 Laptop & computers 81,920
Syndicate Bank 10657 10,76,571 Sony LCD 37,200
SBH ADB 52195220073 3,15,629 Furniture & fixtures 1,700
Fixed Deposits 4,56,639 Organic Bazaar plant 2,46,065
ToGrants fromDonors Laptop computers (kind) 41,600
Indian Agencies 52,28,518
Foreign Agencies 30,65,506 Fund returned to UNICEF 3,30,600
ToReceipts Cash&bankbalances
Service charges 1,11,258 Cash on hand 9,532
Contribution toward corpus 10,83,674 Syndicate Bank 9633 5,526
Syndicate Bank 10035 1,521
ToWorkadvancetostaff 82,029 SBH ADB 52195220073 30,566
SBI 30168833165 2,03,784
ToInterestReceipts KBS LAB 1276 2,620
Accrued Interest 1,69,096 FIXEDDEPOSITS
Interest from FD 2,524 Syndicate Bank 12844 18,368
Interest from SB accounts 24,820 SBH ADB 62000016208 47,417
KBS LAB 23,99,555
TOTAL 1,17,31,515 TOTAL 1,17,31,515
As per our report of even date
For P.K. SUBRAMANIAM&Co., For J ANAKALYAN
CHARTEREDACCOUNTANTS
PARTNER Secretary
PLACE: RAICHUR
DATE: 13.05.2008
Our Boardin2007-08
Sri S S Kandagal President
Sri Sudhanya Burman Vice President
Sri Prasen Raptan Secretary & CEO
Sri Jaharlal Roy Treasurer
Sri Sunil Sarkar Joint Secretary
Dr. N B Naravani Member
Sri Raj Iyer Member
Smt. Anima Mazumdar Member
Smt. Usharani Bachar Member
Our Donors in2007-08
Hivos, The Netherlands
Reach India (USAID) through Akshara Foundation
UNICEF Hyderabad
Zilla Panchayat, Raichur
Department of Health & Family Welfare, Raichur
Our Banks
State Bank of Hyderabad (ADB), Sindhanur
State Bank of India, Sindhanur
Syndicate Bank, Jawalagera
KBS LAB, Sindhanur
Our Auditor
P K Subramaniam & Co, Raichur
Registered Office
J anakalyan
Shantinagar
Rehabilitation Colony No.4
Sindhanur 584128
Raichur district, Karnataka, India
Tel: +91 8535 264488, 264140 Fax: +91 8535 23015
e-mail: jankalyana@sancharnet.in
Legal informationaboutJ anakalyan
J anakalyanis registeredunder KarnatakaSocieties RegistrationAct, 1960
J anakalyanis eligibletoreceiveforeigncontributionunder FC(R)Act, 1976
All donations toJ anakalyanis exemptedfromtaxu/s 12A&80Gof ITAct, 1961
PANof J anakalyanis AAATJ 5178QandTANis BLRJ 02258E
J anakalyanalsoregisteredfor voluntaryEPFandthenumber is KN/RCR/39005

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