Skillshare International

December 2, 2011

Top three priorities under IPAP

Under the theme of empowerment of Adivasis with a special

focus on access to rights and entitlements - the following are

the top three priorities under IPAP:

- Improving HDI in the context of health and livelihood

- Create and strengthen peoples institutions

- Building social capital viz. Para legal workers, Village Health Volunteers,

Project Coverage

• Project Partners – 13

• States – 7 (Uttarakhand, Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Andhra

Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu

• Districts – 19

• Blocks – 27

• Gram Panchayats – 53

• Villages – 242

• Total Population – 107100 (Male: 53429; Female: 53671)

• Dalit – 17995 (Male: 9119; Female: 8876)

• Adivasis – 61088 (Male: 30124; Female: 30874)

• Muslims – 2217 (Male: 1140; Female: 1077)

Policy Advocacy Initiatives

District & Local Level

Key issues:

• Lack of access to forest rights

• Lack of Access to NREGA

• Lack of access to basic health care services

• Lack of access to safe drinking water, resulting in child morbidity

Major Activities:

• Train community volunteers (Para legal workers) on FRA

• Facilitate formation of Forest Rights Committees

• Building capacity of Gram Sabhas

• Application for job cards under NREGA and necessary follow-up

• Advocating for proper receipt of wages

District & Local Level

Major Activities

• Providing training to Village Health Volunteers in primary

health care, with particular focus on maternal & new born

care

• Registration of pregnant women under JSY

• Registration of Socially excluded communities under RSBY

• Immunization

• Linking Village Health Volunteers to health departments in

respective project areas

District & Local Level

Process:

Strengthening civil society organizations to conduct policy

advocacy involving local community by means of building

social capital

Significant Achievements:

• 5123 households have received land-rights so far out of 8961

submitted

• 22755 households have received job cards so far and 701 families got

job of more than 90 days last year

• 1877 women so far have received the benefits of JSY

• Improvement in the status of children’s health in 5700 HHs

State and zonal level

Key issues:

• High level of maternal and child mortality

• Lack of State level data to track implementation of FRA/NREGA

• Lack of awareness among government officials regarding existing

schemes and programmes

Major activities:

• State level Adivasi Manch to advocate for tribal rights (particularly in

Odisha)

• Tracking implementation of FRA & NREGA (in Odisha particularly)

• Safe Motherhood Campaign (White Ribbon Alliance)

• Advocacy for Disability pension

• Advocacy for suitable access to safe drinking water

State & Zonal Level

Significant achievements:

• Regularity of ASHA workers at local level

• Increased number of institutional delivery

• Ensuring access to emergency medical services in remote

villages(e.g. 108 ambulance to rural areas, palanquins for

hilly/difficult to reach locations),

Challenges:

• Lack of information at State level about the problems of the

remote villagers .

• Lack of government-community interface

Lessons learned: State level advocacy should be followed by central level lobbying for faster results.

National & sub-national level

Key issues:

• Non implementation of FRA, NREGA, NRHM

• Ensuring safe motherhood and child-birth

• Ensuring access to national schemes and programmes at local level.

Major activities:

• Advocacy meeting with NAC member on FRA

Capacity Building

• Strengthened 244 socially excluded groups (including SHGs,

Cooperatives, Child Clubs etc.) to raise voice against social exclusion

and to advocate for their own rights.

• Series of training to CBOs on PESA, FRA, NREGA, Cooperative

management etc.

• All 13 partner organizations have representations from socially

excluded communities in their Governing Body. Among them NEWS,

Trichy is established, led and managed by the representatives of

socially excluded community calle Narikuravas.

• 5 development workers placed (3 doctors, 1 nurse and 1 NTFP expert)

with CSO partners , have provided regular support towards building

capacity . Additionally we have short-term DWs to support partners in

Cooperative management , Strengthening CBOs, resource

mobilization etc.

MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS

Monitoring Mechanism

• Regular field visits

• Regular interactions with the community volunteers and local

leaders.

• Meeting with CBOs

• Monthly expenditure statements

• Quarterly expenditure statements and narrative reporting

• Half yearly & annual planning and review meetings with CSO – IPAP

Project Coordinators and Accountants.

• Monthly reporting by Volunteers (DWs)

• Virtual interaction with CSOs – with the CEOs, Project Coordinators

and Accountants

• Annual Stakeholder workshop where one of the main areas of focus

is Stories of Change.

Best practices

• Focusing on building social capitals for sustainable

development

• Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) who are mostly

women from socially excluded communities,

• Para-legal workers (PLWs), who are youth from

socially excluded communities and ensuring youth

led development

• Engaging local youth in peace building

Best Practices

• Facilitating interaction between partners/ SE community with

policy makers

• Giving visibility to CS partners

• Building skills of local youth to become media advocates

• Using sports to bring in social change through CFH, where

football is used to generate awareness on HIV & AIDS, leading to behavioral and social change

Welcome to Koraput

Joint programming

Skillshare International is implementing a Joint Programme in

Koraput, Orissa with Save the children through common CSO

partner SOVA, by initiating an innovative program ‘Coaching

for Hope’ where football is used as a tool for Social Change.

Area 8807 sq km

Population 11,77,954

No of sub division 2

No of blocks 14

Gram Panchayats 226

Sex ratio 999

Infant Mortality Rate 72

SOVA Background: Koraput at a glance

Over 50% population is Scheduled Tribe 50.66% ST, 13.41% SC, 26% Other

84% families live below the poverty line

Literacy rate: 35.72 28th out of 30 in Orissa

81% of the population lives in rural areas

About 52% of the population districts are tribal's

72% of house holds are living below poverty line

According to a report of State AIDS control society

Orissa, “Koraput has, the largest number of HIV

infected people among the tribal districts of Orissa”.

1218 are HIV + as per ICTC reports

Migrant work, day labor

Growth of industries

Talking about sex is taboo

National highway hub for truck

drivers

Low literacy rate

Health seeking behaviour

Alcoholism

Low awareness level

High prevalence of TB

Lack of information

Inaccessible health services

Poverty

SOVA Background: Koraput vulnerabilities

• “Coaching for Hope” is an innovative initiative launched by Skillshare International for the first time in India in SOVA , Koraput, Orissa in the DFID funded IPAP project under the joint initiative with Save the Children.

“Coaching for Hope”

• To disseminate the knowledge on HIV and AIDS among their peer groups through foot ball.

• To develop best football coaches among the rural youth.

OBJECTIVES

• Selection from 8 villages 15 youths

• The inauguration in India and first time in Koraput .

• Trained for 7 days by international coaches

• International coach Mr. Jacob and Mr. Dan trained them on football and how it links with HIV.

•Supported with materials and football kit

Workshop 1: HIV/AIDS –

the facts Workshop 2: HIV/AIDS – transmission and personal risk Workshop 3: abstinence, be faithful, condom use what is your choice. Workshop 4: using condom correctly and risk situations Workshop 5: condom negotiation Workshop 6: sexually transmitted infections Workshop 7: HIV testing Workshop 8: living positively with HIV/AIDS

1 Selected villages

level youth

Process

Lesson learnt

• Leadership of youth increases when they take more initiative in implementing their own activities.

• Football being a very popular game especially among youth it is an effective medium of spreading message on HIV and AIDS through this game.

• Developing training materials and football kit for the participants at village level will create interest in learning more about HIV and AIDS.

• Students who have dropped

out from school if are selected

as local coaches it would be

more effective, as they will

create more rapport in football.

• Participation of girls is not there

• 26 No of Workshops have been

completed in 4 villages with 4 trained coach in which the y have discriminated knowledge and skills on HIV and football to 86 youths.

• 4 Youth clubs have been formed and now they have developed their skill on football and issues related to HIV , child rights and protection. And also taking up issues related to village development.

• Youth are mobilizing Condom from govt. Agencies and promoted at village level.

• The confidence level among the trained coach have improved, now they are participating in local event of village and district level. Like PARAB, debate etc.

Progress till date

Daitari Kuldeep Daitari Kuldeep of Sindhipar (Amlabadi Colony) Damanjodi belongs to a

Schedule caste family and is studying +2 ARTS. He belongs to a very

poor family. Football is his passion and he love to play football.

Football is a very famous game among the youths in his area. He has

participated in a few tournaments in his local area, and has a dream

to play for India.

• Kuldeep is a very shy person by nature and was very shy of talking to people.

Although he had some information about HIV and AIDS, but he had never

spoken about it openly.

• After being selected for Coaching for Hope program by SOVA he was very

happy. He took the training form SOVA by international coaches about foot

techniques and how it is linked with HIV. Now his confidence has increased

and he is now capable to speak on any issues openly without any fear.

• He is now able to speak to his friends and college students about football

.Now they go to him to ask for any questions w it is easy to inform the

community about HIV and AIDS thon HIV and AIDS. His aim now is to change

the life style of the community. Norough football as football is a very

interesting game for all.

• He now wants to form a football club .

• He hopes to play for India.

• He is also developing his English speaking skills and also enhancing more skills

on control over football

• Presently Kuldeep is conducting the first workshop on the facts

on HIV. He has motivated a few friends and they are now

interested to know more about football techniques. He

conducted all the 8 workshops of coaching for hope program

and is also attending different events of the district like PARAB

• He is also developing a youth club in his village.

Karmaveer Chakra for Daitari Kudeep

• On 27th November 2011, Daitari Kuldeep was felicitated the

i-CONGO Karmaveer Chakra for his innovative ways of spreading

Awareness of HIV and AIDS in the Community through Football-

Coaching for Hope

Daitari Kuldeep with Karmaveer Chakra and Citation

Thank you.