India Development Service

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WELCOME

Quick Review of 2016 PROJECTS

2017 NEW Projects

Roles & Responsibilities of a Project Coordinator

IDS Partnership with Loyola and IIT

Potential Seminar

Closing Remarks by Steve Bynum

2015/2016 Projects continuing in 2017Project Current

CoordinatorLocation Short Description

SodhanaCharitable Trust

Joanne Drew Andra Pradesh Nutrition Supplementation Program for preschool kids

AMAGU Jerry Gosenpuj Maharashtra Creative awareness about Dowry

PUKAR Nila Vora Mumbai Youth Fellowship & BarefootResearchers for slum areas in Mumbai for addressing their community issues, like water, sanitation, health

GRAVIS Nila Vora Rajasthan Prevention and early detection of Scoliosis for marble mine workers

HEF-NAARI Nilesh Kothari Uttarakhand provide start-up support and business building skills to women artisans to create a sustainable business for woolproducts

Aadhar/Shaishav Prashant Parikh Dahod District, Gujarat Educating Migrant Workers’ children

Community Jagjit Jain Delhi, Rajasthan, MP Community Youth Collective to create youth leaders for social change

Sewa Rural Nila Vora Guajarat Skill Training of youths for income generation

India Pollution Control

Sameer Prasad Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad Primary education and health monintoring for Rag Pickers’ children

WOTR Ron Fernandes Tribal regions of Madhya Pradesh Nutrition and Education for pre-school kids

Medha Varsha Pancholi Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Employability Education for college graduates by providing soft skills

2017 NEW IDS PROJECTS

Details on Climate Healers

Climate healers is a non profit organization with the mission to HEAL the earth’s climate, based in the US and working with the Foundation for Ecological Security(FES) in Odisha.

It is working for over 8 years

Has excellent network of systems experts, ecologists , engineers, sociologists, behavioral scientists, soft ware experts , and innovators

Mewar Angithi Project

Name of NGO: Climate Healers

Title of the project: Mewar Angithi Deployment in Satkosia George Tiger Reserve at Odisha,

Project area and population: Boudh District, very backward area in Odisha,

135 Villages, 13,000 households, buffer zone:250 villages with 250,000 households, and larger area with 1000 villages and 100,000 househods

Project Description

To provide Mewar Angithi (MA), a simple metal grate insert to use in the traditional chula (tc) to high efficiency cook stove( hec), at no cost to about 10% of 13,000 households, as a pilot project and then increase to other people.

Benefit of the MA: reduction in the use of wood by 63%, reduced particulate emissions by 89% and increase thermal efficiency from 9 % to 25%.

( data from MPUAT, Rajasthan)

Background

160 million households in India use firewood for cooking in traditional chulas

This causes causes a lot of black carbon emissions, respillness,shortened life span, and forest degradation, loss of bio diversity, and contribute to global warming

The TC are generally well insulated and reduce conduction heating loss, however they suffer from poor combustion due to poor air flow.

Mewar Angithi

cost

MA costs about 350 Rs each. If we provide it to 1300 households in the first year, it will be about Rs 455,000 ( about $6700)

The insert separates the ash from the wood and allows air flow from under the burning wood, which increases its efficiency.

Current manufacturer: Dhannjay industries, Chennai

Past experience : deployed 150 such units in Rajasthan through NABARD.

(problems with govt subsidy,of Rs 500 for only a new high

efficiency chula at rs 3000 cost)

Save Indian Farmers

Name of NGO: Save Indian Farmers, US working with Sankalpa Rural Development Society(SRDS)

Project: Water conservation through Borwell Recharge System ( Project Jal)

The goal of Project Jal is to provide sustainable rainwater harvesting solution to debt ridden farmers by the means of a bore well recharge system.

Background

Ananthpur district of Andhra Pradesh, where a lot of farmers are reeling under high debt due to borewelldrilling.

Farmers suicide is a serious issue through out the country. In 2014, about 5600 farmers suicide, highest in 2004, with over 18,000 farmers committed suicide

Borewell recharge

https://youtu.be/STNuclpGSx0

Project proposal

Construct about 20 bore wells recharge system in Anathpura District in Andhra Pradesh. ( both women and men farmers)

Typical bore well costs about 2 to 3 lacs of Rupees and they often go dry in a few years as there is no mechanism for recharging the bore wells.

With each recharge system about 37 lakh liters of water per year is harvested.

Cost of Borewell recharge

Rs 40,000 per borewell recharge system. ( farmer will pay 50% and the other 50% will be from the NGO for consultation, excavation, continuous monitoring and lodging and boarding to the consultants. Farmer will pay for the raw material, labor

for 20 farmers, RS: 400,000 Or about $4000.00

Information about Save Indian Farmers

Working in Ananthpur distrcit since 2015, to help the widows of farmer suicides. So far about 65 such women have been helped.

More info on their website:

http://www.saveindianfarmers.com/web/projects/helping-widows/

Borderless World Foundation

Project Location: Jammu and Kashmir valley

Target group: orphan and poor youth in Srinagar

Project aims to offer IT related training to underprivilaged girls children and provide computer Literacy.

Also to help create opportunities for the children to enlarge technical and vocational skills.

Background

Jammu and Kashmir valley have been through a lot of violence since 1989 resulting in a very large number of orphan children. According to Save the Children, there are close to 200,000 orphans in this area, 15% of whom live in orphanages.

Organization has started working with these young children to provide them a home and shelter called Basera –E- Tabassum ( B-e-T)and Facilitate and Acomplish with Humility (FAH)

B-e-T have 146 inmates in thee facilites, ranging in age from 3-20

Background ( ctd)

UNESCO data show that only 10.36% schools in India have computers, the number much lower in rural area.

Need for computer literacy is high as these young minds need to have the knowledge and skills for employability.

The project area has some of the poorest districts .

B-e-T work

The organization works to provide secure and safe residence, education, medical assistance, boarding and lodging , academic tuitions, counseling and also to provide educational tours, annual picnics, and celebration of Religious and National Festivals.

Income generation and empowerment through different skills such as sanitary napkin making, tailoring, fabric painting etc.

Description of the project

Providing computer education using 15 desk top computers

One computer for two children

30 students at a time

One hour sessions each

5 sessions a day for 5 days a week

150 students to get training every day

Scope of the project

Provide basic computer Literacy, and learning use of Microsfot Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel and Micorsoft Office Power point

for intermediate levels:Provide training for vocation such as Coral Draw, photo shop, Network engineering, soft ware engineering.

For those who want to pursue further, post graduate diploma in Network Engineering and soft ware engineering

Budget and resources

B-e-T have a secure building and a conference room, electrical installations. This room can be used as Computer lab

Cost: 15 computers , each at rs 25,000( total 375 ,000)

Projector: 12,000

Salary for two trainers at 12,000 rs each ( 288,000) and clerical assistance at 8000 rs ( 96,000)

Total project cost 7,71000

Requested funds 500,000( about $ 7352)

Jan Swasthya Sahyog

Title of the Project: Generating Livelihood for adolescent girls

Project area: Chhattisgarh( backward area)

Organization working in this area for last 16 years, primarily in the areas of health, with a community program targeting 54 villages ( population of 33,000).

Vocational training started in 2015, provided training to 129 girls in sewing

Project area

Tribal population surviving on agro-forestry, avg income for a family of 5-7 is around 10-13000 rs a year( about $150-450/year)

Seasonal migration for labor work is very common.

Chhatisgarh is classified as backward area

Project Proposal

Two master trainers who will teach these 129 girls in further skills such as hand embroidery, food preservation and processing,

Also reach 200 more girls in the coming years

To help these girls to form groups and then link them to market for income generation.

Products will be regular clothing as well as fancy bags and other handicraft items.

How the project will be carried out

Training will be every other month, in batches of 20 and they will receive 5 months of intensive training.

Training will be at the peripheral medical center , as well as the Gram Panchayat Bhavans

100 girls trained per year, in multiple skills and 50 of them to remain in long term production of goods.

Budget

Salary and travel for Master trainer: 156,000/year( 6 trips)

Local travel for the Master trainer: 108,000 ( for 6 trips)

Girls who will become trainers: 192,000

Machines: 48,000

Food and snacks: 78,000

Stitching materials: 20,000 etc.

Total cost Rs 652,000 ( $9588 )

Aadhar ProjectIn collaboration with Shaishav

Location: Dahod District in Gujarat (and MP border)

Overview

Support

(Aadhar)

Supplements school education for children of

migrant workers

Goals

Prepare children (age 6-14) for skilled profession with holistic education

Parents are migrant workers

Raise awareness for Right to Education Act and other govt resources

Improve the quality of teaching thru community education center

Community and its residents’ needs

Dahod is one of the most backward tribal area (72% ST)

Literacy rate (58.82%) as of 2011 census

Very poor with low level of education and high migration for employment – mostly seasonabl construction workers

High rate of crime and corruption as well as drug abuse

Borders MP and heavy traffic for alcohol

Schools are far away from communities (govt provides transportation as well as hostel facilities)

Govt hostel do not cover 1st and last month of school year so no support for kids during this time (food and supervision)

Community requested to improve learning outcomes and employment relevant skills

Type of services offered

Target five villages: Rawalikheda, Junapani, Navagam, Davaliya and Himala in Dahod District

Size: About 3000 families – 15,000 population

Adhar and Shaishav will collaborate

Adhar – primarily supports forced migrants rights

Shaishav – working with children rights and quality education in Bhavanagardistrict in Gujarat

Citizen Resource Center in Junapani village – information center as well as main working office

Establish community education center in each village

Held part-time (after school) in each village

Provide cultural, life skills, sports and other developmental activities for holistic development

Goal is to encourage and support mainstream education

Express their creativity and develop compassionate values

Once a month – in school program to supplement education

Goals of the project

Outcome Indicator Methodology Main Stakeholders

1. Every child in the project areas have

an access to education, reducing the

generational cycle of forced migration

and unskilled work

1.1 Number of children enrolled to

Anganwadi

Door – to – door community

outreach, case – by – case

follow up and motivation

Children 3-6 years of age

1.2. Number of children enrolled in

schools

Raising awareness about RTE,

door – to – door community

outreach, case – by – case

follow up and motivation

Children 6 – 14 years of

age

1.3 Number of children provided

life skills and child rights trainings

in ‘Balghars’ / CEC

Community outreach Children 6 - 14 years of

age

2. Improve the quality of life for migrant

children

2.1. Children receive quality

education, which increases their

self – esteem

Education at CEC through

activities. Additionally

activities such as Balmela,

Leadership training, Sports and

cultural activities etc.

Children 6 - 14 years of

age

2.2 Children are knowledgeable

about their rights and support

available to them

Children rights training in the

children of CEC, Leadership

training

Children 6 - 14 years of

age

2.3. Level of addiction and abuse

decreases because of the life skills

training

Life skills training in CEC Children 6 - 14 years of

age

Long term Funding

Gujarat is rich state and so not much funding available from the center

Alternate funding sources are limited

Working with another funder – AWARE

Looking for longer term intervention – which is hard for organization such as ours to support

FinancialADHAR's Proposed Budget for IDS for the period April 2017 to March 2018

Sr. No. Particulars Calculation Total (INR) Total (USD)68.16

A Educational Activities at School & Commonities

1 Teaching learning Materials 15,000 15,000 220 library books and other AV materials

2 Balmela , Sports & Cultural Activities Rs.6000 each for 5 villages 30,000 30,000 440

3 Leadership Camps 2 camps in a year for two days 40,000 40,000 587 in vacation time

Total A 85,000 1,247 B Staff salary for program

1 Coordinator Rs.11000 for 12 months 132,000 132,000 1,937

2 Supervisor at Dahod Rs.8000 for 12 months 96,000 96,000 1,408

3 Volunteer (Full Time - 2) Rs.6000 for 12 months x 2 144,000 144,000 2,113

4 Volunteer (Part Time - 12) Rs. 1500 for 12 months x 12 216,000 216,000 3,169

Total B 588,000 8,627 C General Expenses

1 Travel expenses Rs.3000 for 12 month 36,000 36,000 528

2 Communication & xerox Rs.1500 for 12 month 18,000 18,000 264

3 Staff capacity Building 10,000 10,000 147

Total C 64,000 939

D Citizen Resource centre at Junapani Rs.1500 Rent of office for 12 month 18,000 264

Non Recurring (Office Furniture & Equipments) 20,000 293

E Support by shaishav 50,000 734

Total Program Cost 825,000 12,104

F Total Admin Cost 10% of total project cost 82,500 1,210

Total Project Cost 907,500 13,314

Roles & Responsibilities of Project Coordinator

1. Once Project is approved, send a note to project coordinator in India informing that the project is accepted

2. Fill out the Expense Reimbursement Form, have another Board member co-sign it, and send it to Jagjit

3. Send the first installment with acceptance letter – First installment should typically be half of the approved amount.

4. Inform project coordinator in India that the subsequent funds will be contingent upon receiving at least two progress reports in a year.

5. If no progress report is received, follow up with the project and inform that no funds will be distributed unless progress report is received.

6. Keep track of funding that has been sent for your project – DO not rely on Jagjit to keep track of the funding that has been sent for your project

7. At the end of each year, provide a summary of the project in format requested. This is needed for the Annual Report. Request high resolution pictures for the Annual Report.