annual program progress card

Daltonganj Area Program Annual Report 2013-14

Annual Program Progress Card 2013-14

Daltonganj Area Program

Prepared by: Sk Mosharaf Hossain

Daltonganj Area office

2 No Town, Old Income Tax Office Road

Redma, Daltonganj-822101, Jharkhand


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1 Contents

2 From Area Manager’s Desk

3 Area Profile

About the Area

Vision, Mission and Approach

We are here because

What we do

4 Program Highlights

Healthy and Secure Infants—LS1

Educated and Confident Children---LS2

Skilled and Involved Youth---LS3

Sponsorship Status

Financial Statements

Challenges faced

Next year’s Focus

5 Sponsor Relation and Financial statement

6 Team and Talents

Contents


From Area Manager’s Desk

It’s my pleasure to bring to you Annual Report of Daltonganj Area. The year 2013-14 has been challenging yet rewarding for us. We did accomplish a number of milestones that will be guiding force and motivator to keep up the good works. At the same time many things planned for this year could not be achieved, we take learnings forward and stay committed to complete in upcoming year. Building a strong positive sentiment about the organization at wider stakeholder base at district and block level, forging meaningful coordination at block level, reaching out most unreached DEV children, encouraging participation CBOs, children and community are some of the achievements of the reporting year. Interventions with mothers, caregivers and children were highly successful as it saw enthusiasm and spontaneous participation. Social parameters like immunization rate, incidence of low birth weight, institutional delivery school enrollment, and participatory school governance have satisfactorily improved over status three years back. Slowly but surely things are changing on positive note. Year ahead will be equally challenging and interesting. I am confident that we will remain motivated and renew our commitment and with our actions, we will serve DEV children more meaningfully.

Dr. Ashok Kr. Panda Area Manager


ABOUT THE AREA AND COVERAGE

Daltonganj, where Child Fund India Area Office located, is headquarters of district Palamau and some 185 Kms (114 Mile) from state capital Ranchi. The area intervention fall in three adjoining districts – Palamau, Latehar, and Garwah – in the southwest part eastern Indian state of

Jharkhand, covering 76 poorest villages. The demography of the region is characterized by a predominantly tribal population (66%) from 7 major primitive tribal groups living in remote and relatively inaccessible areas. Majority of them earn their livelihood from seasonal agriculture, hunting, daily-wage labor. As per latest estimate 54% of population live below the Govt. fixed poverty line. Government of India’s Planning Commission has identified the districts as among the poorest in the country.

Daltonganj Area Program started its ambitious journey in serving DEV children way back in 2007 and continuously striving to bring in positivity in the lives of children in need of support. Today we have reached remote and non-descript pockets and touched upon 88000 population with a range of

need-based and life-stage wise program responses. The current operational locus spread across three blocks-Satbarwa, Balumath and Ranka. In serving needy children of this underserved area of Satbarwa and Balumath we have joined hands with two local partners which have strong and commanding

presence at community level. Vedic Society at Satbarwa and Samaj Pragati Kendra at Balumath are with us since 2007 as local partners while at Ranka block we are directly implementing programmatic interventions.

Vision

An India where the disadvantaged, discriminated and excluded child is supported and enabled to grow up playing an active and positive role within family, community and nation.

Mission

To place the child at the center of its activity ensuring that the programs which surround the child are of the highest quality and that recordable differences are made to the quality of life of a large number of children. The programs to be of such quality that they can serve to inspire others including the government to improve the implementation of child centered development initiatives.

Approaches ChildFund India believes change in world lies in the change in childhood. That is why cluster’s programmatic intervention are designed in such a way that it ensure a holistic development of the children and community as well thru providing knowledge, financial, technical and

institution-building assistance with the involvement of the local people right from the program design to implementation and evaluation. Since the beginning of the cluster we have adopted life cycle approach looking into age appropriate interventions in each stage of development of child. Hence we are working towards Healthy and Secure Infants (For 0-5 year age group) – Essentially the thematic areas of

interventions under “Healthy and Secure Infants” are Safe motherhood, pre-post natal care,

Area Profile


early childhood development, safe drinking water & sanitation, regular immunization, nutrition, community management of childhood illnesses

Educated and Confident Children (For 5-14 year age group) - The key focus elements in

this phase include quality-driven learning opportunities, child-friendly schools, alternative basic education, participatory school governance, care of HIV/AIDS affected children

Skilled and Involved Youth (for 15 – 24 year age group) – we highly emphasise on

livelihood education & training, youth-friendly reproductive health services & education and leadership & social engagement, training on life-skill education to adolescent girls & boys under “Skilled and Involved Youth”.

WE ARE HERE BECAUSE

Being from one of the poorest states of India these three districts are lagging behind on almost all the social development parameters and therefore need special developmental attention as

Govt. initiative alone proved to be insufficient given the range and scale of development issues which are complex in nature and interlaced. A close look into some key statistics will rationalize our presence and work here.

0-5 Years 6-14 Years 15-24 Years

77% youth get married

before they attained 18

years

Early pregnancy-64%

Only 31% pregnant woman

3 prescribed ANC.

Exclusive breastfeeding-

36%

Complete Immunization-

34%

IMR is as high as 61

Institutional delivery rate is

as low as 24%

Only 43% children have

access to ECD services

Childhood illness

(Dirohoea-34%, malaria-

21%) Knowledge gap amongst

parents and caregivers

54% drop-out rate after 8th

standard.

Parents attach low

importance to children’s

education

Child friendly environment

with joyful learning

opportunity is often

missing.

Poor school infrastructure-

key issue.

Teacher-student ratio is

below the mark.

Community participation in

school governance is very

minimal

86% teachers work on

contractual basis and not trained.

Little provision of special

attention to academically

poor children.

88% drop out rate post

matriculation.

Majority of them are

engaged in menial works.

38% youths migrate only to

work in exploitative

condition.

Only 1.1% youths are

getting trained on some

trades.

Merely 1.3 % youths

completed graduation

Critical deficit of

information and

knowledge about youth

opportunities.

Adolescence is not

properly groomed, often lands up in risky behavior

WHAT WE DO

Keeping in mind, life stage wise issues-its multidimensional nature, intensity and far reaching

consequences we thru a rigorous process, designed community suited projects. While maximum community involvement is ensured in designing and implementing the project, the entire process is guided by ChildFund India team, the local partners and crucial stakeholders. The major program focus in the region includes Health, Education, and Livelihood. Here is a quick look at life stage wise projects.

0-5 Years 6-14 Years 15-24 Years


Project

Improved maternal and child health

Every child is in school

Youths and adolescents have

occupational opportunities

Impact Groups

Newly wed couples, pregnant and

lactating mothers, caregivers, children,

family and community

Children, parents, School

management Committee members

Adolescents and youths

Key Interventions

Capacitating community and

parents

Issue based mass awareness

generation

Community management of

childhood illness

Influencing Govt. apparatus

for better maternal and child

health care facilities.

Promotion of ECD services

Empowering community for

better education of

children.

Child and community

participation in school

development plan.

Capacity building of

teachers.

Special and customized

solution for children who

fare poor.

Influencing Education

department

Promoting formal

Education.

Skilling youth thru job based

vocational training

program.

Empowering youth

capacity thru bridging

information gaps.

Life skill for youths

Youth engagement in

community development

process


HEALTHY AND SECURE INFANTS

Our key interventions under this life stage focus on community management of childhood illness, safe motherhood, ante-natal, neo-natal and post natal care; nutrition, Early Childhood Care and

Development (ECD).

Community volunteers are provided basic knowledge and skill on Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) through various capacitating inputs such as training and sensitization who in turn provide education and support to the community on pregnancy and early childhood care, home-based management of childhood illnesses, appropriate infant feeding practices, growth monitoring, and child immunization. Since the area is prone to fatal illness such as malaria, diarrhea, acute respiratory illness, anemia, malnutrition etc., our community volunteers are actively involved in teaching parents on preventive, curative and ameliorative healthcare systems in combating these issues.

Observation of Nutrition Week

Nutrition is the focal point of health and well-being. Nutrition is directly linked to human resource development, productivity and ultimately to the national growth. Malnutrition in India continues to be at a high level with 42.5% children below the age being underweight and almost 70% being anemic. 22% children are born with low birth weight. Over 40% of underweight children are in India.

The National Nutrition Week is observed every year from 1st to 7th September in order to promote awareness and good health through Nutrition Education. The week was observed in all the three Areas in collaboration with Govt. ICDS department. There were cluster level rallies, workshop and few demonstrations of healthy foods to mark the occasion. The Anaganwadi Workers, Sahiyas and

SHG members took a pledge to aware the community members on Healthy Foods, IFA Tablets and Safe Sanitation. The culmination of the event was at Block Headquarter Ranka where all the Block Officials along with the ChildFund India Area Team were present.

Breastfeeding week: Celebrating with community

Breast feeding is baby’s first immunization, most effective, inexpensive and globally proven

single intervention that can potentially avert child mortality and morbidity. But tragically rate of

breast feeding within an hour of birth in our project area is as low as 25%. Cultural stigma, age

old practices, poor health seeking behavior and inadequate

knowledge on breastfeeding coupled with ingrained myths are the

barriers to promote breastfeeding as an instrument to fight child

mortality. We marked the occasion of “Breastfeeding Week” in

high focus villages. Educating community with special stress on

PMs and LMs, Caregivers, Community based sensitization drive

with participation of VHC and mothers groups, inclusion of AWW

and ANMs were some of the approaches of this intervention.

Youth groups and children included themselves by taking out rally

to generate awareness on importance of breastfeeding. This intervention was rolled out in 12

villages with active participation from PRI members and other village level opinion leaders.

“I am impressed that ChildFund India relying upon local and easily available resources in

combating curse of malnutrition”---BDO, Ranka Block

Program Highlights


Special attention on counseling was paid to 106 LMs and 29 PMs. There were cluster level rallies

and workshops to aware the people about importance of exclusive breastfeeding and colostrum

feeding. The representatives of Govt. Health Department, NRHM and ICDS were present in all

the cluster level activities. This 10-day long event culminated thru a general gathering with

presence of experts from block health department. Two Hindi Dailies had covered this

intervention.

Enhancement of skill set of frontline workers

It was year-start activity primarily meant for all ground workers (CMs, CAs and VVs) organized in coordination with Tumbagarah Navjiban Hospital of Emmanuel Health Association. The Hospital is specialized and has expertise in managing childhood illness, maternal and neo-natal health. For our 47 frontline workers, we organized 2 units of 2-day each capacity enhancement workshop on RCH, SAFE MOTHERHOOD & CHILD SURVIVAL PRACTICES, where 4 child specialists (Dr. Jeevan, Dr. Titus & Dr. Angle) who are involved in public health management system, rigorously trained and built the capacity of participants in the domain of ANC, Intra natal care, Safe Motherhood, IMNCI and Child Survival Practices. The Resource team also oriented the participants on Safe Delivery, New Born care, Importance of Immunization, Breastfeeding and Complimentary Feeding, Signs and Symptoms of Diahorea and its Management, Safe Sanitation and other Hygienic practices, which leads to maximum number of childhood illness. BCC is tool for community management of maternal and neonatal health complication was theme of the workshop. The training was very informative and useful for the field staff. After the training the field staffs are now clear as of what to do and what not to do regarding mother and child health issues and also how to

recognize the signs and symptoms of various mother and child related illness.

Sensitization of mothers/caregivers on care of new born, LBW babies and routine immunization

Several sensitization meeting-cum campaigns round the year were organized for mothers and caregivers on care of new born, LBW babies and routine immunization at Ranka, Satbarwa and Balumath area. The main objective was to disseminate knowledge and professional skills of mothers/ caregivers on care of new born, LBW babies and routine immunization. Total 763 community members benefited from this program

ECCDE (Early Child Care Centre and education) for Birhor Children

Birhor children of Birhortola fall under one of the most primitive tribes. Till date the community lives on hunting, collecting roots & shoots. Most of the time parents of these children are out for hunting and collecting roots and shoots and do not take care of the education of their children and children’s are deprived of basic primary education. Often children’s are deprived of food and become victims of malnutrition. To address this critical issue of illiteracy and malnutrition the partner organization through the support of ChildFund India is running an ECCDE (Early Child Care Centre and education) for Birhor Children at Birhortola, Balumath where about 25 Birhor Children of the age group 3-6 years come and get pre-school education and supplementary nutrition support.

“With every training we get to know some unique things that are pertinent to child and mother

health status of our area; will try new learning on the field”---Mrs. Sushma Devi, Community

Animator of Vedic Society.


Program Achievements: Key Stats

Pregnant and lactating mothers

603 pregnant mothers were made sure to have 3 compulsory ANC check-ups Consumption of IFA by pregnant mothers was raised to 32% from 19%. 448 pregnant ladies have received direct/indirect assistance for institutional

delivery. TT dose for 872 pregnant mothers have been ensured. Around 600 community members were educated on prevention and treatment of

pregnancy related complications thru series of BCC interventions. Infant and under 5 children

1042 children were assisted to be fully immunized. With our interventions 308 children in the age bracket of 9-35 months received

Vitamin A Supplementations. Regular home visits tracked the growth trend of around 550 U5 children. 450 U5 children were intervened thru center based care and support. Around 3000 community members were sanitized on proper child caring and

feeding practices, health and sanitation of children, importance of safe drinking water and community led prevention and treatment of easily communicable

diseases. 399 eligible children were supported to be enrolled at primary school thru ECD

centers.

EDUCATED AND CONFIDENT CHILDREN

We thru Area Program provide quality learning opportunity for children, increasing their accessibility to basic education regardless of what caste, gender and ethnicity they belong to. In order to create social, participatory and learning opportunities, ChildFund India put into practice programs, which promote compulsory education. Bridge course centers under Back to School Program have been established for school dropouts, child labors and out of school children to

impart education on the subject of Hindi, English, Mathematics, and Science. Centers for slow learners have been established for imparting extra classes to children with low learning level or grasping power, helping them improve their class performance. Our school support program for vulnerable children focuses on mitigating school dropouts because of poverty through material support (food, clothing, school fees, school dress etc).

ECD centers have been established to provide a space to the young ones for pre-school

education, especially in villages where government-run centers under Integrated Child Development Scheme are not available or functional. Besides, Child Clubs are also being established and strengthened through training, supplying of sports and recreational material, competitions, sports and psycho-social services for the holistic development of children. Taking lead in Bal Panchyat formation and strengthening

After RTE came into being, formation of Bal Panchyat and its strengthening is school mandate. Observing our child-centric works and interventions, local schools roped in us to help them with our club formation expertise. We have so far helped them in terms of forming Bal panchyat activities at schools, orientation by resource persons, Organizing 09 inter child club debate on roles of Bal Panchayat in ensuring RTE, preventing child labour, school retention etc Besides, we conducted 19 units of co-curricular activity (Singing, drawing and recitation) organized for 419 children, 18 units of Strengthening training organized for Child Club Members


on Bal Sansad at Primary School where 647 Child Club members participated, Bal Panchayat was initiated, 03 child parliament initiated with 49 children.

Different competition among children at school level on personal hygiene.

To promote standard practices relating to personal hygiene and sanitation among children we organized in 14 schools of the area in order to sensitize the students on personal hygiene. The teacher and students took active part in these competitions. There were drawing and quiz competitions for the children, who were very eager answer the questions and put on the paper their dream village or school. Apart we shared with them how to wash hands and other body parts with demonstration.

“Child Parliament” Round the year 33 trainings of Child Parliament have

been organised. About 453 children took part in it. In this first of all, the children were made aware of the parliamentary process of the country. Then they were being made aware of the Child Parliament system in the schools, their roles and responsibilities and process of functioning in the schools. At present, child parliaments in 14 schools are active and contributing of realization of RtE Act. Meeting of Child Club Members:

During this year focus was given more on strengthening existing Child Clubs and forming new Child Clubs where Child Clubs did not formed. For this number of meetings have been conducted with the Child Club members where child clubs were already formed. In 41 meetings they were again assisted for conducting regular meetings (monthly

meeting) to keep the Club active and live. The child club members were also motivated on how to take up small activities (Child led projects) at club level in the village. They were also taught on the importance of education, health, nutrition, sanitation and hygiene. In some villages Child Club members have already started small savings schemes of Club members.

“We never knew there is so much into hand washing techniques; I like the session will practice it at

home”---Prem, 13 years boy from Satbarwa.



Children (6-14 years)

54 child clubs were reoriented and supported in a bid to improve their club efficacy.

200 children participated in workshop attended by Govt. officials where they articulate a range of issues in the domains of child development and protection.

96 drop-out children brought back to schools after large scale back-to-school campaign, Parents meeting and SMC meeting.

32 SMC were strengthened in making them understand their roles and responsibilities being the member of such crucial school development committee.

A significant change slowly but surely visible among community people in regard to their outlook towards education of children.

SKILLED AND INVOLVED YOUTH

Under this life stage we endeavor to develop skill and confidence among youth nurturing their ability to acquire self-sufficiency, sustainable income and shoulder their responsibilities endowing them with livelihood education, training and employment opportunity. We also emphasize on social engagement of youth by developing their leadership quality and building a cadre of advocates in their community. Youth leadership cum counselling session for career opportunities Training One day youth leadership training was organized with 99 youths of Ranka and Satbarwa area.

The main objective of the training was on club management, leadership development, and their

participation in community development initiatives, discussion on current employment and trade

opportunities and how these benefits can be availed by youths. Apart, regular issue specific

interface meetings with representatives of beneficiaries, PRI members, Health Department,

NRHM, NYK ,media and other stakeholders were organized in all three project locations. The

main objective was to highlight ChildFund’s work in operational area, opportunities to collaborate

and seek any possible support in smooth running of program activities in field.

Orientation of eligible couple on basic health education

In the light of poor sexual health seeing behavior, newly married couples fall prey to various

misconception and myths and ultimately it takes toll on their health and children and risks their

life. With this context, project organized orientation sessions with identified couples. A total of

143 participants were part of this activity organized in two locations. Family planning, sexual

health, reproductive rights and managing health complication were at the core of orientation. An

expert, doctor by profession, was invited as resource person and he facilitated the session.

Youth leadership Training One day youth leadership training was organized for 206 youths in different village. The main

objective of the training was on club management, leadership development and their

participation in community development initiatives. Regular issue specific interface meetings

with representatives of beneficiaries, PRI members, Health Department, NRHM, NYK ,media and

other stakeholders were organized in all three project locations The main focus was to highlight


ChildFund’s work in operational area, opportunities to collaborate and seek any possible support

in smooth running of program activities in field.

Capacity building of Frontline Workers

A two day residential training on ARSH was organized for all the

47 frontline workers (CMs, CAs and VVs) at Hotel Van Vihar

Betla. The training was focused on Adolescent Sexual Rights,

stages of development, Cleanliness and Govy. The Resource

team oriented the participants on MMR, IMR, reducing incidence

of teenage pregnancy, meeting unmet contraceptive needs,

reducing the incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

and reducing the proportion of HIV positive cases. Issues of

adolescents range from undernourishment, sexual harassments,

substance abuse, suicides and a lot of unhappy situations in the

life. Necessary arrangements will be made to link with block health departments so in the event

of any sexual and reproductive condition, youths can receive health care services


Adolescents and Youths

630 adolescents were empowered with life-skill based information. 44 Adolescent girls clubs were given hand holding support for better efficiency in

club management. 37 Youth forums were strengthened so that they can voice up their issues and

concerns and can put those to competent authority. 112 youths have been given leads in exploring job oriented vocational training

opportunities. 240 adolescents were oriented towards Early pregnancy, safe abortion, RTI/STI,

Sexual violence thru series of ARSH Training. 4 Interface meeting with 186 youths are organized where BDO, Local MLA, BEO

guided and motivated participant to continue higher studies, getting enrolled in suitable vocational training institutes and avail opportunities rendered by Government.

“With this training we are now better placed to serve the youths and adolescent’s needs and

requirments”---Mr. Monaj Kumar, Community Mobilizer, Ranka Area.


Quota 2394

Male Female Total

Enrolled 999 1387 2386

Sponsored 644 927 1571

Deficit 08

Life Stage wise Enrollment

0-5 Yrs 259 354 612

6-14 Yrs 662 951 1613

15-24 Yrs 79 82 161

999 1387 2386

Program Expenditure

LS 1 2867191

LS 2 1174286

LS 3 1785465

CCP / Sponsor Relation (10% of total Program) 1578561

Program (Total)-A 7,405,503

Program Support (Total)- B 5071364

Total - A+B 12,476,867

SR and Abridged Financial


Important task completed in Sponsor Relation Management

Effective Sponsorship management & streamlining Sponsorship

Periodic visits were undertaken to Area partners VEDIC Society and SPK to resolve the issues between the staffs with the management and streamline SR functioning at Project.

Through continuous handholding support to partners and SR communication compliance over mail and phone have been provided for timely execution.

All Communications has been scrutinized, printed out and dispatched to NO in between July

13 to June 2014. Much effort has been taken to clear 12 months pending.

1197 CPRs of YR 2011-12 & 1420 CPRs of YR 2012-13 have been dispatched to NO.

388 New Enrolment Materials have been sent to National Office to meet the deficit Quota.

3 units of Wall magazine training for children have been organized at SPK, Vedic and Ranka Area.

2 Orientations have been conducted for staffs at SPK and Ranka to ensure timely flow of

letters from children to sponsors.

Updated SR status has been shared during quarterly and monthly meeting to field staffs to ensure SR compliance.

Effective SRIS system in Cluster office

All MCS, CSS and RAM related data have been updated from July 13 to June 14 in SRIS. Benefit Entry and data related to children’s Height and weight entered in SRIS for CPR 2011-

12, 2012-13 & 2013-14. CVS website entry has been done for 3rd, 4th & 5th phase in possible time frame and has

been reported to NO.

Effective Partnership SR management

During quarterly meetings and Staffs training, the field staffs have been given inputs on managing SR and discussion was made on issue revolving to SR effectiveness at filed level.

3 Regular trainings of staffs on innovative SR activities has been done at Ranka, SPK and Vedic to enable them to improve the quality of letters children are writing to their sponsors.

Quality Program Management – SR & Program Integration

4 trainings to Staffs on Age Appropriate Activities have been facilitated to staffs of Ranka

and Vedic Society.

Supported and guided the field staffs at Ranka in organizing Age appropriate activities for children at village level.

SR Quality initiative letter writing training was conducted for enrolled children at Vedic society to help enriching children’s’ writing capabilities.

SR Awareness training for Youth Club and Adolescent girls group has been organized at SPK and Vedic Society.

Guided the area partner staffs in conducting creative and innovative letter writing workshop with children and on organizing letter exchange activity between sponsored and non-sponsored children.


Sponsor’s Visit to Partner Organization Don Bosco Centre

Sarita Tirkey, a young little girl from the area of Don Bosco Centre was lucky to have her

sponsors amidst her on 20th and 21st of November 2013.

The sponsors Mr. Roxley and Mrs. Lee-Ann from Australia

were accompanied by Miss. Ashley of ChildFund Australia.

The visitors were in Ranchi on 19th and visited their

sponsored child on 20th Nov 13. The visitors were happy to

meet their child and family and also to interact with them.

The visitors were overwhelmed by the kind welcome they

received from the family and community. The visitors also

brought some gifts along with them for the child family and

also for the project staffs. They also visited the child’s school

and talked with teachers and students. They also gave some play materials for the students of

the school. Sponsors thanked with appreciation for all the efforts we are making on the ground.

75th Anniversary of ChildFund International

To celebrate glory of Child Fund’s 75th year, a one day long

event was organized in all the three operational areas of

Ranka, Satbarwa and Balumath. The main theme of the

celebration was to honor the best ECD worker and School

Teachers of the respective blocks and participation of

children and community member in celebration Block

Officials, Representatives from

Education and ICDS department, PRI members, ChildFund India staffs, youths and Children were

also present for the occasion. Singing, speech and drawing completions were organized for

children to mark the occasion and also were given prizes. One best Teachers and One Best ECD

Worker from each block were honored for their service in

their field. These teachers and ECD workers were selected

by the Joint committee of Govt. officials, Parents

representatives and ChildFund Members.

There were two thematic workshops on Malnutrition and ECD

organized to mark the occasion where the children shared

their views and concerns regarding the issues. These

workshops were, attended by sectorial experts, Govt.

officials from the department ICDS and Education, local

intellectuals, Children and community members. The participants ventilated their view points

and issue based concerns. The event was highlighted in three National Dailies. Around 2000

people took part.

Stakeholders Perspective

Increased participation from Govt. departments and office, media personnel, community was

seen this quarter. At the end of the 1st quarter neat outcome is a well-built interface among

different functionaries with ChildFUnd being at the center. Our community based target groups

like VHC, SMC, youth club and child clubs are more articulating and coordinating. Recognizing


our good works, sub-divisional level police and administrative departments have identified us as

a social development catalyst and possible coordination in the form of building change agents

among youth, protecting child from exploitation, IEC materials development on child rights are

being explored.

Biggest challenge

Throughout this year, we were successful in building a solid platform in terms of ensuring

satisfactory community participation, networking with line departments, achieving tangible

outcomes. But biggest challenge ahead is to pick the pace up in next fiscal year and

communicating our success to stakeholders in a commonly understood framework. Other

challenges will also be looked like participation of enrolled children, reaching out to most DEV

children and community, community ownership of interventions, initiating interventions in newly

extended villages, planning and executing activities according to location specific need and

recording outcomes thereof.

Lessons Learnt and Action Plan

Participation and involvement of external stakeholder plays a key role for communicating

activity outcome to a wider spectrum.

Support and participation of key informants and PRI members is needed for enhanced

activity impact.

Follow-up measures for each activity must be ensured while supporting to sustained

response to a cause.

Expertise of Govt officials can be capitalized while dealing with child poverty issues.

All the major activities must be supported with module for better results.

Future

Focus


FUTURE FOCUS

Given the scale of challenges and project mandate Area office will be focusing following areas

for serving DEV children.

Reaching out to those DEV children who are excluded or not covered/less reached by our

program response.

Exploring the possibilities local resource generation both in cash and kind.

Increasing visibility thru dissemination of good practices/model in wider stakeholder

base.

Intensive program response in newly adopted villages.

Special emphasis on year-round child verification to ensure their exact presence.

Capacity building of CBOs and creation of knowledge base at the field level will remain be

thrust areas this year as well.

Documenting good practices and sharing with wide spectrum of stakeholder will assume

greater significance.

Well-performing CBOs (Youth clubs, SHGs, Child clubs etc) will be more actively involved

in implementation process.


In Picture Name of the talent Designation No of years with

ChildFund India

Dr. Ashok Kr.

Panda

Area Manager 2 years

Mr. John Birendra

Lakra

Project Officer-

Ranka

4 years

Mr. Suchit Wilson

Ekka Sponsor Relation

Officer 3 years

Mr. Sovan

Banerjee

Finance officer 1 year

Sk. Mosharaf

Hossain

Program

Coordinator-LS3 4 years

Mr. Nabhojit Dey Sr. Project

Coordinator-VIDYA 6 months

Team and Talents


Ms. Naman Topno Program Officer-

VIDYA 6 months

Ms. Pragya

Khalkho

Community

Mobilizer 2 years

Mr. Manoj Kumar Community

Mobilizer 4 years

Mr. Amrender

Kumar

Community

Mobilizer 2 years

Ms. Sonali Chandra SR Assistant 6 months

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