Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra - Oct 2011 Newsletter

CIVIL SOCIETY RESOURCE CENTRE

SSK conducted “Training for SHG Facilitators” at Social Development Center (SDC), Ranchi during 18th -22nd October. The participants from different organizations specially working with SHGs participated in this training program as- Arcelor Mittal India Ltd., JICATCP Shimla, LJK, BRLPS and Vedic Society etc. Twenty one participants comprising male and female participated in this training. Major topics of discussion during the training were as context of SHG formation, group processes as- leadership, conflict resolution, communication etc. in the SHG groups; SHG development processes, stakeholders’ analysis and advocacy, self and personality influencing the skill of a facilitator and documentation processes etc.

It was organized for Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) an international organization of U.S during 19th - 23rd October. 26 participants participated in this training. Participants learned and internalized about the societal context and SHG as vehicle for bringing change in the social and economical condition of poor farmers. Bringing leadership into fore and leadership as major attribute for change was one of the majors of discussion. Besides the core functions of CBO especially SHG, necessary documentation, the group processes as leadership, communication, participation, decision making and conflict resolution were discussed at length. Participants participated in the training with great enthusiasm.

Training on PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) was also conducted by SSK as this is the most widely used data collection tool particularly in micro planning. Having understanding of PRA is important particularly for those who intend to collect data in rural context or with those who are less educated, poor communities etc. The training was conducted during 13th – 16th October in which twenty five participants from BRLPS participated in the training. The focus of the training was given more on understanding the processes and practicing the different PRA exercise in real situation.

SSK also conducted TOT on participatory training during 11th -18th October which was attended by 26 participants from JEEViKA (BRLPS), Bihar. By the end of the training the participants learned and internalized about the concept of participatory training, analyzing training needs, understanding appropriate participatory training methods, tools, techniques, understanding group processes, improving self and personality of a trainer, different roles a trainer has to play during participatory training, designing effective participatory training and its various steps, learning facilitate participatory training sessions and understanding Trainer Team.

SAHBHAGI VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE

4^th Batch of Computer Fundamental Training running under Sahbhagi Vocational Training Centre successfully completed this month. There were 12 participants and most of them were from Dalit, Backward class & other marginalized communities. At the end of the training, girls were more confident, they shared their feelings with us. They expressed, that they learned a lot from this training.

SVTC 4th Batch of Computer fundamental training started from 12th Sep, 2011. From our prior experiences, we felt the need of increasing the duration of the course and increased duration from one month to 45 days. 12 Girls are admitted in this batch also. We provide 1 seperate computer to each girl. Till now, basic computer foundation level topics like hardware/software, desktop, memory, etc. including Notepad, MS Paint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint are completed.

DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESOURCE CENTRE

12th October 2011 International Disaster Risk Reduction Day celebrated at Late Hukum Singh inter collage playground in Kaiserganj, Bahraich. All the 450 hamlet development committee members from 11 gram panchayats participated in this program. The objective of this program was to provide a common platform to share experiences on reducing the disaster’s risk at the local level. The other objective of the program was also to disseminate the message on different efforts made by the community so that others pose to endeavor for the same.

Nepal practical action team visit in Kaiserganj

SSK has been intervening in Tapesipah and Ram Ahata gram panchayat. Both these gram panchayats are fully flood affected. The community of Korian purwa and Ram Sagar Purwa have prepared the disaster Risk Reduction plan facilitated by SSK.

In this process the communities has prepared social map of its respective hamlets. Now they understand the importance of DRR plan in respect of disaster management and concern of floods.

Capacity Building effort for ERs in Sisunda and Chulambha

Gram Panchayat level meeting has been organized at Sisunda and chulambha Gram panchayat in Ram Nagar and Kaiserganj block with newly panchayat elected representatives. Ganesh yadav, Gram pradhan of Sisunda said that this is the first time when all the panchayat members are meeting at a common platform and share his/her experiences. This was also the first time when all the women representatives participated in this meeting. They came out with the fact that they even do not understand their roles and responsibilities as Panchyat representatives. Ms. Kiran and Ms. Neelam said- this is the first time we are sitting in common platform, and it’s a good learning experience. Gram Pradhan said that I will try to regularize meetings at Gram Panchayat level.

Gram Panchayat level disaster Risk Reduction committee has been formed in Ahata, Nasirganj, Baharampur and Matrepur gram panchayats. Each HDC has selected 1 to 2 members from its HDC,and than finally 10 members HDC committees were formed at Gram Panchayat level. These committees will work towards Panchyat development specially meant for DRR planning and management at the community level. The committee members will create pressure over gram panchayat to organize regular panchayat meetins,, Gram Sabha meetings and select vulnerable families to be given priority as beneficiaries and being served at community level.

GOVERNANCE RESOURCE CENTRE

PRI Meeting
One day orientation program organized at Shramik Sahayata Kendra Khairabad on 21.10.2011. The objective behind this activity was to sharing of experience of migration project with them and takes valuable suggestions for formulating future strategy.

End line survey (focus group discussion) with all the stakeholder
Focus group discussions are conducted with Migrants and their family, Pravasi Pravasi Samooh, Youth Club, PRI representative, Citizen leaders, Government department etc. The objective behind was to assess about project services and take suggestions for next phase.

Legal counseling session has been organized for the migrants of Mubarakpur and Parsehara Kala on 24 & 28 October 2011. We covered around 100 migrants. In this session we invited resource person (Advocate) from civil court. He counseled all the migrants about their rights.

Further he emphasized on following issue:-

(i) Wages (ii) Contract paper (Ikrarnama before work) (iii) Nature of work and (iv) Identity proof

In the last it said by the relevant Panchayat citizen leaders that whenever any labor faces any problem then they should come to inform to the cluster in charge so that they can verify and work upon that.

The monthly meeting of Advisory committee has been organized in this month at Sharamik Saahayata Kendra Khairabad on 29 Oct, 2011. In the meeting at first discuss about the previous meeting agenda and its follow up. The meeting minutes have distributed to the members. A brief introduction of ongoing project has been shared with the members. Basically learning, achievement and challenges of the pilot phase, so that after making improvement we can move forward in next phase.

The monthly meeting of already formed groups has been organized in their respective villages.Agenda of the meeting was accessing Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. Data collection of all the collective regarding beneficiaries of social security scheme is also a regular activity. Women of Saraswati Pravasi Parivar Smooh of Maluhi Saraiya went to meet Gram Pradhan many times, to demand street in their village, and after a long time their voice is being heard and now a day construction of the street is in progress.

Started new batch of 25 youth for basic computer. 2 students (1 from mobile repairing batch and 1 from computer) got job in different placement agency. Monthly meeting of Kamyabi club is organized at Shramik Sahayata Kendra. Members of youth club gave valuable suggestions regarding the project.

Mobile Kiosk has been organized at intensive area of the project on 19.10.2011. In this month kiosk has been organized at Rahimabad market of Khairabad block. In the kiosk the services given by Shramik Sahayta Kendra has been disseminated with the IEC materials. It is a Muslim dominated area and migrants from this area mostly prefer to go Lucknow and Kanpur for construction and viewing work, rickshaw and auto rickshaw pulling. The migrants who understood and felt the need of ID cards came and apply for the ID cards and others who are locally migrate registered themselves in the format of registration form Citizen leaders of Khairabad Samajik Vikas Prerak Sangh were actively involved in the process of information dissemination and ID and registration.

Registration of migrants and providing of photo identity card is in ongoing process. Registration has been done through intensive and extensive approach. Demand of ID Cards and registration rose from the extensive area. During the project period we registered 1670 migrants among 646 ID card are distributed.

Signature campaign as a part of sanitation campaign is organized Panchasheel colony, loni road, bhopura with Sitapur migrants group. Community people have raised voice for basic sanitation facilities and they will submit the application and signed banner to the respective authority.

Meeting with migrants has been done at Panchsheel Colony, Loni Road bhopura with Sitapur pillow maker migrants group & also at Mahendra Enclave Shashtri Nagar with riksha pullar group on the issue of registration and ID card, JPA policy, sanitation issues and local problem.

The monthly meeting of the resource group isorganized at Sharamik Sahayta Kendra, Ghaziabad. In the meeting the members took part and gave their valuable suggestion. In the meting the ongoing project activities of source and destination end and also progress till date has been shared with the members. The future plan (regarding expansion of the project) has been shared with the members. It has been discussed that we have focused on a particular pocket with migrant issue, so we should organize the interfacing meeting with govt. which will help to interven.

An interfacing meeting is organized at Panchsheel colony between labor department and community people. In this meeting community people shared that there is no any government school in their surrounding area and further they are not able to send their children in highly expensive private school so kindly make arrangement of any school. Labor department official said that they will try to open a labor child school in the surrounding area.

A workshop on Right to Education and School Sanitation was organized on 17th October, 2011 at the hotel clark of Varanasi District. SSK carried out a citizen Report card Survey on School Sanitation. According to report presented at workshop poor sanitation and hygiene facilities in school played important role enhancing the number of drop outs. A number stakeholder from civil society organizations, academia and media were participated in the consultation and shared their work experience on RTE. The consultation was chaired by Mr. Ram Asrey Dubey (District Panchayati Raj officer), Mr. D.G.Tiwari (Deputy basic Shiksha Adhikari), and Mr. Haji Mukhtar (president of quami welfare society).

Exposure visits is a key work in capacity building role. Exposure visit facilitates learning; it entails two or more parties where one is learning from the other. Keeping this view one exposure visit to Akhil Bharti Samaj Sewa Snasthan, Chitrakoot was planned from 19th October, 2011 to 22nd October, 2011. The objective of the workshop was to promotes issues of good practices and a process of building on underlying, two parties by interfacing with other. Major learning through the activity was SHG formulation, Women empowerment and collective action as well as they also learned watershed technology also seen by the CCAs.

With perspective of adolescent confidence building, two days training on ‘Leadership’ was organized on 24th and 25th October, 2011 in DARE office in Varanasi for the adolescent group of Cholapur Gram panchayat. Through the training general understanding on own development, importance of confidence building and effective communication skill and its importance have discussed. The participatory and play method was used in the training.

Empowering Muslim and SC Communities to have enhanced access to their related to opportunity for education and better health services

One day orientation meeting was organized of animators at SSK Varanasi on 5 October,2011. This meeting was attended by 15 animators and project staff. The objective of the meeting was to orient the animators about the SSK and PACS project. The major agenda discussed the meeting were; introduction of SSK, organizational and reporting structure, society and their perspective of society, roles and responsibility as change agents, as well as organizational rules and regulation. Total 20 participants were participants in the meeting.

PACS programme has officially commenced from 15th September, 2011. To establish a bench mark and understand the real situation at the ground level PACS team planned to conduct a baseline survey in

all states and by all CSOs. To obtain this objective three days training on baseline organized at Tarang Banquets, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow from 20th to 22nd October, 2011. The major issues shared in the training were; introduction of M&E, PACS baseline, base line sampling, mock session and conducting interview. One field practice was also done by all participants at the village of Ajiz Nagar, Barabanki district.

The month of October was filled with field level support. The project staffs and animators focused mainly on rapport building exercise especially in newly adopted villages. In this context team organized community meeting at villge level, group meeting, contact with different stakeholders and met PRI members, health and ICDS workers, identified panchayat building and other suitable places to establish village Resource center.

Guardian interface meeting was organized at VIRC of Bhavanipur and Rampur. The main agenda of the meeting was to sensitize the guardian’s towards domestic violence to the and also maintaining a friendly relationship of the guardian with respect to the study of their girl child. Being a guardian how to treat to their developing girls. It was not one way communication forum some issues related to girls’ in the village also shared by the guardian. During the meeting Guardian have shared major issues of their respective village of the violence and domestic violence and also aware with their responsibility as a guardian. About 50 Guardian have participated in the meeting from Dhaurhara Justice Panchayat.

Coaching centers was visited of Cholapur and Dhaurahara Nyay panchayats. During the visit

preparation of half yearly exams basic methodology of study, regularity of students in the coaching and computer classes, was checked and further shared the same issues. In was noted that, the girls are maintaining their regularity in the coaching centers and as well as computer centers. In the computer centers the progress of the student is satisfactory and good in some centers. In the computer the girls have learnt fundamental of the computer and presently they are practicing for hindi typing.

Democratizing the urban Governance: People participation and Social Accountability

Three days exposure visit of Cambodian Delegates to Varanasi was throughout from 18th to 20th September, 2011. In this delegation team from Cambodia, eleven traits from Government sector, private sector, media and academia were visited in the Varanasi. They have interacted with local system and met with concern authorities to understand the system. They have visited at Varanasi Municipal Corporation, and meet with Commissioner Mr. S K. Singh. Mr. Kaushlendra Singh Mayor of the Varanasi welcomed the delegated and introduced them with system of Varanasi. A part of the Community participation one meeting with area sabha was also organized for them. They interact with the community and understand their basic need and its fluffiness. In the days visit they have visited Interviewed with supervisor of streetlight maintenance department of Nagar Nigam at Sikrol regional office, Interaction with A2Z coordinator on solid waste Management, house tax and GIS cell And helpline counter as well as Sarnath, and Ganga river.


	CIVIL SOCIETY RESOURCE CENTRE
	Trainings for capacity building of Civil Society Organizations
	SSK conducted “Training for SHG Facilitators” at Social Development Center (SDC), Ranchi during 18th -22nd October. The participants from different organizations specially working with SHGs participated in this training program as- Arcelor Mittal India Ltd., JICATCP Shimla, LJK, BRLPS and Vedic Society etc. Twenty one participants comprising male and female participated in this training. Major topics of discussion during the training were as context of SHG formation, group processes as- leadership, conflict resolution, communication etc. in the SHG groups; SHG development processes, stakeholders’ analysis and advocacy, self and personality influencing the skill of a facilitator and documentation processes etc.
	Training on CBO Management
	It was organized for Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) an international organization of U.S during 19th - 23rd October. 26 participants participated in this training. Participants learned and internalized about the societal context and SHG as vehicle for bringing change in the social and economical condition of poor farmers. Bringing leadership into fore and leadership as major attribute for change was one of the majors of discussion. Besides the core functions of CBO especially SHG, necessary documentation, the group processes as leadership, communication, participation, decision making and conflict resolution were discussed at length. Participants participated in the training with great enthusiasm.
	Training on PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal)
	Training on PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) was also conducted by SSK as this is the most widely used data collection tool particularly in micro planning. Having understanding of PRA is important particularly for those who intend to collect data in rural context or with those who are less educated, poor communities etc. The training was conducted during 13th – 16th October in which twenty five participants from BRLPS participated in the training. The focus of the training was given more on understanding the processes and practicing the different PRA exercise in real situation.
	TOT on Participatory Trainng
	SSK also conducted TOT on participatory training during 11th -18th October which was attended by 26 participants from JEEViKA (BRLPS), Bihar. By the end of the training the participants learned and internalized about the concept of participatory training, analyzing training needs, understanding appropriate participatory training methods, tools, techniques, understanding group processes, improving self and personality of a trainer, different roles a trainer has to play during participatory training, designing effective participatory training and its various steps, learning facilitate participatory training sessions and understanding Trainer Team.

	SAHBHAGI VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE
	Fourth Batch of Computer Fundamental Training Completed successfully
	4^th Batch of Computer Fundamental Training running under Sahbhagi Vocational Training Centre successfully completed this month. There were 12 participants and most of them were from Dalit, Backward class & other marginalized communities. At the end of the training, girls were more confident, they shared their feelings with us. They expressed, that they learned a lot from this training.
	Fifth Batch of Computer Fundamental Training Started
	SVTC 4th Batch of Computer fundamental training started from 12th Sep, 2011. From our prior experiences, we felt the need of increasing the duration of the course and increased duration from one month to 45 days. 12 Girls are admitted in this batch also. We provide 1 seperate computer to each girl. Till now, basic computer foundation level topics like hardware/software, desktop, memory, etc. including Notepad, MS Paint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint are completed.

	DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESOURCE CENTRE
	International Disaster Risk Reduction Day
	12th October 2011 International Disaster Risk Reduction Day celebrated at Late Hukum Singh inter collage playground in Kaiserganj, Bahraich. All the 450 hamlet development committee members from 11 gram panchayats participated in this program. The objective of this program was to provide a common platform to share experiences on reducing the disaster’s risk at the local level. The other objective of the program was also to disseminate the message on different efforts made by the community so that others pose to endeavor for the same.
Nepal practical action team visit in Kaiserganj
A team of Practical Action, Nepal visited the two most flood affective blocks of district Bahraich to see the early warning system, during 17th -20th October.Main purpose of this visit is to setup link of flood information from upper stream (Nepal) to downstream (India) in the future. Therefore, community who lived at downstream will get flood information (rainfall forecast) four to five days ahead. The team also visited district disaster management center and acquainted with the early warning system established in the center.
DRR Plan at Korian purwa and Ram Sagar purwa
	SSK has been intervening in Tapesipah and Ram Ahata gram panchayat. Both these gram panchayats are fully flood affected. The community of Korian purwa and Ram Sagar Purwa have prepared the disaster Risk Reduction plan facilitated by SSK. In this process the communities has prepared social map of its respective hamlets. Now they understand the importance of DRR plan in respect of disaster management and concern of floods.
Capacity Building effort for ERs in Sisunda and Chulambha
Gram Panchayat level meeting has been organized at Sisunda and chulambha Gram panchayat in Ram Nagar and Kaiserganj block with newly panchayat elected representatives. Ganesh yadav, Gram pradhan of Sisunda said that this is the first time when all the panchayat members are meeting at a common platform and share his/her experiences. This was also the first time when all the women representatives participated in this meeting. They came out with the fact that they even do not understand their roles and responsibilities as Panchyat representatives. Ms. Kiran and Ms. Neelam said- this is the first time we are sitting in common platform, and it’s a good learning experience. Gram Pradhan said that I will try to regularize meetings at Gram Panchayat level.
Formation of Gram panchayat level Disaster Risk Reduction committee
	Gram Panchayat level disaster Risk Reduction committee has been formed in Ahata, Nasirganj, Baharampur and Matrepur gram panchayats. Each HDC has selected 1 to 2 members from its HDC,and than finally 10 members HDC committees were formed at Gram Panchayat level. These committees will work towards Panchyat development specially meant for DRR planning and management at the community level. The committee members will create pressure over gram panchayat to organize regular panchayat meetins,, Gram Sabha meetings and select vulnerable families to be given priority as beneficiaries and being served at community level.

GOVERNANCE RESOURCE CENTRE
Reducing Vulnerability of Migrant workers Source End
PRI Meeting One day orientation program organized at Shramik Sahayata Kendra Khairabad on 21.10.2011. The objective behind this activity was to sharing of experience of migration project with them and takes valuable suggestions for formulating future strategy.
End line survey (focus group discussion) with all the stakeholder Focus group discussions are conducted with Migrants and their family, Pravasi Pravasi Samooh, Youth Club, PRI representative, Citizen leaders, Government department etc. The objective behind was to assess about project services and take suggestions for next phase.
Legal Counseling
Legal counseling session has been organized for the migrants of Mubarakpur and Parsehara Kala on 24 & 28 October 2011. We covered around 100 migrants. In this session we invited resource person (Advocate) from civil court. He counseled all the migrants about their rights. Further he emphasized on following issue:- (i) Wages (ii) Contract paper (Ikrarnama before work) (iii) Nature of work and (iv) Identity proof In the last it said by the relevant Panchayat citizen leaders that whenever any labor faces any problem then they should come to inform to the cluster in charge so that they can verify and work upon that.
Advisory Committee Meeting
The monthly meeting of Advisory committee has been organized in this month at Sharamik Saahayata Kendra Khairabad on 29 Oct, 2011. In the meeting at first discuss about the previous meeting agenda and its follow up. The meeting minutes have distributed to the members. A brief introduction of ongoing project has been shared with the members. Basically learning, achievement and challenges of the pilot phase, so that after making improvement we can move forward in next phase.
Women Collective (Prawasi Pariwar Samuha)
	The monthly meeting of already formed groups has been organized in their respective villages.Agenda of the meeting was accessing Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. Data collection of all the collective regarding beneficiaries of social security scheme is also a regular activity. Women of Saraswati Pravasi Parivar Smooh of Maluhi Saraiya went to meet Gram Pradhan many times, to demand street in their village, and after a long time their voice is being heard and now a day construction of the street is in progress.
	Youth Mobilization
	Started new batch of 25 youth for basic computer. 2 students (1 from mobile repairing batch and 1 from computer) got job in different placement agency. Monthly meeting of Kamyabi club is organized at Shramik Sahayata Kendra. Members of youth club gave valuable suggestions regarding the project.
Mobile Kiosk
Mobile Kiosk has been organized at intensive area of the project on 19.10.2011. In this month kiosk has been organized at Rahimabad market of Khairabad block. In the kiosk the services given by Shramik Sahayta Kendra has been disseminated with the IEC materials. It is a Muslim dominated area and migrants from this area mostly prefer to go Lucknow and Kanpur for construction and viewing work, rickshaw and auto rickshaw pulling. The migrants who understood and felt the need of ID cards came and apply for the ID cards and others who are locally migrate registered themselves in the format of registration form Citizen leaders of Khairabad Samajik Vikas Prerak Sangh were actively involved in the process of information dissemination and ID and registration.
ID card and registration
Registration of migrants and providing of photo identity card is in ongoing process. Registration has been done through intensive and extensive approach. Demand of ID Cards and registration rose from the extensive area. During the project period we registered 1670 migrants among 646 ID card are distributed.

Reducing Vulnerability of Migrant workers Destination End
Signature campaign
Signature campaign as a part of sanitation campaign is organized Panchasheel colony, loni road, bhopura with Sitapur migrants group. Community people have raised voice for basic sanitation facilities and they will submit the application and signed banner to the respective authority.
Mobilization Meeting with Migrants
Meeting with migrants has been done at Panchsheel Colony, Loni Road bhopura with Sitapur pillow maker migrants group & also at Mahendra Enclave Shashtri Nagar with riksha pullar group on the issue of registration and ID card, JPA policy, sanitation issues and local problem.
Resource Group Meeting
	The monthly meeting of the resource group isorganized at Sharamik Sahayta Kendra, Ghaziabad. In the meeting the members took part and gave their valuable suggestion. In the meting the ongoing project activities of source and destination end and also progress till date has been shared with the members. The future plan (regarding expansion of the project) has been shared with the members. It has been discussed that we have focused on a particular pocket with migrant issue, so we should organize the interfacing meeting with govt. which will help to interven.
Interfacing
An interfacing meeting is organized at Panchsheel colony between labor department and community people. In this meeting community people shared that there is no any government school in their surrounding area and further they are not able to send their children in highly expensive private school so kindly make arrangement of any school. Labor department official said that they will try to open a labor child school in the surrounding area.
End line survey
An end line survey is done among community people to know the impact of health camp.

Promoting Education for Minority Women and girls through Community led Change Agents
District Level Workshop on “Right to Education and School Sanitation”
	A workshop on Right to Education and School Sanitation was organized on 17th October, 2011 at the hotel clark of Varanasi District. SSK carried out a citizen Report card Survey on School Sanitation. According to report presented at workshop poor sanitation and hygiene facilities in school played important role enhancing the number of drop outs. A number stakeholder from civil society organizations, academia and media were participated in the consultation and shared their work experience on RTE. The consultation was chaired by Mr. Ram Asrey Dubey (District Panchayati Raj officer), Mr. D.G.Tiwari (Deputy basic Shiksha Adhikari), and Mr. Haji Mukhtar (president of quami welfare society).
Exposure Visit to ABSSS Chirakoot for Community Change Agents
Exposure visits is a key work in capacity building role. Exposure visit facilitates learning; it entails two or more parties where one is learning from the other. Keeping this view one exposure visit to Akhil Bharti Samaj Sewa Snasthan, Chitrakoot was planned from 19th October, 2011 to 22nd October, 2011. The objective of the workshop was to promotes issues of good practices and a process of building on underlying, two parties by interfacing with other. Major learning through the activity was SHG formulation, Women empowerment and collective action as well as they also learned watershed technology also seen by the CCAs.
Training on “Leadership” to Adolescent girls
	With perspective of adolescent confidence building, two days training on ‘Leadership’ was organized on 24th and 25th October, 2011 in DARE office in Varanasi for the adolescent group of Cholapur Gram panchayat. Through the training general understanding on own development, importance of confidence building and effective communication skill and its importance have discussed. The participatory and play method was used in the training.

	Empowering Muslim and SC Communities to have enhanced access to their related to opportunity for education and better health services
Orientation of Animators
One day orientation meeting was organized of animators at SSK Varanasi on 5 October,2011. This meeting was attended by 15 animators and project staff. The objective of the meeting was to orient the animators about the SSK and PACS project. The major agenda discussed the meeting were; introduction of SSK, organizational and reporting structure, society and their perspective of society, roles and responsibility as change agents, as well as organizational rules and regulation. Total 20 participants were participants in the meeting.
Training on Baseline surveyCommunity Meeting and rapport building
PACS programme has officially commenced from 15th September, 2011. To establish a bench mark and understand the real situation at the ground level PACS team planned to conduct a baseline survey in
all states and by all CSOs. To obtain this objective three days training on baseline organized at Tarang Banquets, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow from 20th to 22nd October, 2011. The major issues shared in the training were; introduction of M&E, PACS baseline, base line sampling, mock session and conducting interview. One field practice was also done by all participants at the village of Ajiz Nagar, Barabanki district.
Community Meeting and rapport building
	The month of October was filled with field level support. The project staffs and animators focused mainly on rapport building exercise especially in newly adopted villages. In this context team organized community meeting at villge level, group meeting, contact with different stakeholders and met PRI members, health and ICDS workers, identified panchayat building and other suitable places to establish village Resource center.

Muslim and Dalit Girls Child and Women Empowerment Programme
Guardian interface meeting was organized at VIRC of Bhavanipur and Rampur. The main agenda of the meeting was to sensitize the guardian’s towards domestic violence to the and also maintaining a friendly relationship of the guardian with respect to the study of their girl child. Being a guardian how to treat to their developing girls. It was not one way communication forum some issues related to girls’ in the village also shared by the guardian. During the meeting Guardian have shared major issues of their respective village of the violence and domestic violence and also aware with their responsibility as a guardian. About 50 Guardian have participated in the meeting from Dhaurhara Justice Panchayat.
Visit to Coaching and Computer Centers
Coaching centers was visited of Cholapur and Dhaurahara Nyay panchayats. During the visit
preparation of half yearly exams basic methodology of study, regularity of students in the coaching and computer classes, was checked and further shared the same issues. In was noted that, the girls are maintaining their regularity in the coaching centers and as well as computer centers. In the computer centers the progress of the student is satisfactory and good in some centers. In the computer the girls have learnt fundamental of the computer and presently they are practicing for hindi typing.
Democratizing the urban Governance: People participation and Social Accountability
Exposure visit of Cambodian Delegates to Varanasi
	Three days exposure visit of Cambodian Delegates to Varanasi was throughout from 18th to 20th September, 2011. In this delegation team from Cambodia, eleven traits from Government sector, private sector, media and academia were visited in the Varanasi. They have interacted with local system and met with concern authorities to understand the system. They have visited at Varanasi Municipal Corporation, and meet with Commissioner Mr. S K. Singh. Mr. Kaushlendra Singh Mayor of the Varanasi welcomed the delegated and introduced them with system of Varanasi. A part of the Community participation one meeting with area sabha was also organized for them. They interact with the community and understand their basic need and its fluffiness. In the days visit they have visited Interviewed with supervisor of streetlight maintenance department of Nagar Nigam at Sikrol regional office, Interaction with A2Z coordinator on solid waste Management, house tax and GIS cell And helpline counter as well as Sarnath, and Ganga river.

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