ANNUAL REPORT - WOSCA-Women Organisation for Socio

ANNUAL REPORT
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Women’s Organisation for SocioCultural Awareness (WOSCA)
Registered Office:
At / P.O.- Mandua, Dist- Keonjhar
PIN- 758074, Odisha, India
Tel- 91-6766-253490
Branch Office:
Plot No. 746, Saheed Nagar,
Bhubaneswar
PIN- 758074, Odisha, India
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Message from President …
Dear Friends,
As I write this message, there is much change and promise of progress and
development around us. There are fresh faces, partners and donors joining their
hands towards our organisation and we expect rapid growth in all areas as the
development sector continues to do its best for bringing about social change.
WOSCA encourages volunteers to contribute their time, skills and energies to
enhance the work being carried out at the grass root level. We are happy to
record that in the last year, we have grown from placing a handful of volunteers
as MHAs in our Innovation project implemented with partner NGOs and we
have also succeeded to build new collaborations, partnerships and programs in
order to strengthen our community cadre building program and providing the
entitlement to the community. The largest nos of interns we have had during the
year are postgraduates who have contributed to programs that fitted their
specialization or abilities best. Their contribution directly impacts the lives of
many with whom they interact. It is heartening to note that the ratio of women
volunteers /interns is steadily increasing. Through our training / workshops we
influence volunteers and groups / communities within which they work and
encourage them to contribute to the development sector. By consolidating
activities and expanding our collaborations, we strive to add value to the work
of the volunteers and the partner NGOs. I would like to thank all our committed
volunteers, partner NGOs, supporters, trainers and the WOSCA team members
for all their hard work and dedication, in particular Mrs. Dharitri Rout,
Secretary and my fellow board members.
Dr. Rina Routray
President
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PROGRAMME PARTNERS
GOVERNMENT
D.C. Handicrafts (Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India), National Rural Health Mission (Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare) Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs), Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Dept. of Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Dept. of Women & Child
Development, Govt. of Orissa, NABARD, State Social Welfare Board, (Govt. of Orissa), ATMA (Dept. of
Agriculture), All India Radio (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India)
NON-GOVERNMENT
Plan International, CONCERN WORLDWIDE, IMPACT, DFID-(PACS), CARE-Orissa (India), Centre for World
Solidarity (CWS), EDUKANS Foundation, Old Rourkela Education Society (ORES), Centre for Environment
Education (CEE), CNRI, VANI, ORIEN
GOVERNING BODY
DR. RINA ROUTRAY
President
ADVISORY BOARD
SUNITA MOHANTY
Vice-President
MISS SUKESHI ORAM
Ex-Chairperson, TRIFED;
Former Member of National Mahila
Commission for Women, Govt. of
India
DHARITRI ROUT
Secretary
CHAKRADHARA BISWAL
Educationist
MANSINGH DURGA PRASAD NAYAK
Member
AKSHYAYA KUMAR NAYAK
Retd. D.F.O., Keonjhar
PRAVAT KUMAR PRADHAN
Member
ASHISH CHAKRAVARTY
Advocate
KHAGESWAR MOHANTA
Member
RAJESH KUMAR SAHOO
Chartered Accountant
MANJARI MURMU
Member
BHAGIRATHI MOHANTA
Senior Advocate
LEGAL STATUS
Registered
under Societies Registration Act., 1860 in 1993.
Registered
under IGR in 2004
Registered
under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act., 1976 in 2000.
Registered
under 12 AA of the I.T Act, 1961.
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Activities 2011-2012
Theme
Projects
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Governance and
Livelihood
Empowering poor to claim their livelihood entitlements through
entitlement access and NRM planning.
Tracking Entitlements of Rural Communities (TERcoms)
WADI- Plantation based livelihood development of tribal people.
Poorest Area Civil Society(PACS)- Land access.
Strengthening governance at grassroots- PRI initiatives
Tracking of livelihood entitlements in Disaster prone areas.
Replication of TERcom – Development Marketplace.
Crop demonstration through ATMA
Public hearing and social audit
Farmers and Government Interface program.
Improvement of MNCH care through Male Health Activist(MHA)
Facilitation and training to Gaon Kalyan Samitee.
Health checkup camps
Idea Generation for better MNCH practices.
Blood donation camps and observation of Breast feeding week
Rajeev Gandhi national crèche center
Sikshya Chetana –Education program
Earth day and eco club facilitation
Forest protection and biodiversity conservation
Awareness building on Climate Change.
Child centered community development program(CCCD)
Study, research and evaluation
Socio Economic study and planning for Minor Irrigation .
Piloting of building rural professionals as community cadre.
Consumer counseling center
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Health and
Education access
Preservation of
environment.
Integrated
development.
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Organisation Structure
WOSCA’s staff -76
Full time- 68
Part Time – 8
GB Members –13(8 female and 5 male)
E B Members – 7 (4 female and 3 male)
WOSCA’s asset worth.
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Empowering poor to claim their livelihood entitlements through entitlement access and NRM planning.
WOSCA is implementing a livelihood development project with the support of CONCERN Worldwide in Ghatagaon
,Harichandanpur and Patna blocks of Keonjhar district covering 10800 families. Sensitizing people to participate in
government food security programs is the key focus of this project. Facilitation of Social security schemes, forest land
rights and MGNREGS through village institutions is the approach followed. Effective facilitation and handholding support
resulted creation of village productive assets i.e ponds , rain water harvesting
structures, plantation of mango plants of worth Rs.2,08,73,000/- through engagement
of 5344 families worked 1,17,063 employment days. WOSCA facilitated the process
of implementation of Social security schemes in its operational area enabling 872
eligible persons to get old age pension, 88 widow got pension and 74 person with
disability got pension. WOSCA facilitated the implementation of Forest Rights Act
through special campaigns. During the campaign it covered 282 villages with 10460
individual claims in 15472.52 acres of forest land and 147 community claims covering
41232.71 acres. Out of the total individual claims
Tracking Entitlements of Rural Communities (TERcoms)
Tracking livelihood Entitlements for Rural Communities (TERcoms) is a mobile
phone based information management and monitoring system for tracking the efficacy
of entitlement delivery under social protection schemes to rural poor in order to
strengthen the demand and supply side of service delivery. This project is being
implemented by WOSCA covering 87000 families of 4 blocks in Keonjhar district of
Odisha with support of Concern Worldwide, IFC-World bank through DM market place.
Village Volunteers are monitoring the entitlements under three major social protection schemes i.e Targeted Public
Distribution System , Pension and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on real time
basis at service delivery points and sends the delivery acknowledgment to central server through mobile. Uptake
Reports on these entitlements are generated monthly and shared with community and Government for action and
remedy. This citizen tracking has strengthened the service delivery mechanism at district level, left out beneficiaries
gained access to PDS and Pension
Organization meets the expenses of volunteers (social entrepreneurs) without external funding
being paid through revenue model.
The revenue model essentially entails one of the following two approaches which will allow the
tracking to go on with generating revenue:
1. Facilitating collection and bulk selling of non-timber forest produce thereby improving
incomes of target population and also generating a margin for the organization
2. Aggregating requirements of agricultural inputs from the target population and affecting savings through bulk
procurement of the same
Impact
3292 poor and socially excluded families gained access to public distribution by citizen
tracking and came under food security net. They were in BPL list since 1997 and un aware
of their status .
3453 widows , differently abled and old aged people started getting monthly pensions.
They were eligible but not getting due to exclusion from BPL list .
4854 bogus PDS cards have been seized by government, many more are awaiting .Annual leakage of 2.4 million USD
have been checked in PDS rice alone.
24700 families are getting proper , timely employment and appropriate wages under MGNREGS.
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WADI Development Project
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In its 3 year of implementation of NABARD supported WADI development programme WADI has been upscaled
from 210 acres to 945 acres for orchard development. Total 945 acres of
land has already been developed with plantation of improved breed mango
and cashew for 1000 beneficiaries covering 10 villages. Appropriate care
and required assistance to the farmers like awareness generation, land
preparation, formation and strengthening of UVS, digging and pitting, pit
filling, application of required manures and pesticides prescribed by
technical specialists, field bonding, Jalakund and well construction with
chain washer pump and site technical guidance has been provided ensuring
proper WADI management by the Organization. As intercropping is one of the
major components in the WADI Project appropriate intercrops during the
gestation period in the unoccupied space have been undertaken in
convergence with ATMA, Keonjhar.
Improve Access to Land of Socially Excluded Communities
Based on the observation that in some areas, the non-tribals have occupied
lands of socially excluded groups by way of mortgage due to hand loaning
or purchase since couple of generations and the people of the locality adopt
the traditional practice of sharing parental property among the sons instead
of making daughter a shareholder. As the socially excluded communities
like ST/SC, women and minority groups of the area are less educated, they
barely understand about any law of the government on land or about forest
policies. For this WOSCA under the network of ISS implemented the
Livelihood project supported by DFID (PACS) in two blocks of Keonjhar
After the baseline survey through this project those landless communities
have been sensitized on land and forest rights Act. In these two blocks
Block level sensitization meetings have been conducted.
Strengthening governance and grassroots-PRI initiatives
Participation by both men and women is a key cornerstone of good governance which may be either direct or through
legitimate intermediate institutions or representatives and Good governance means that processes and institutions
produce results that meet the needs of society while making the best use of
resources at their disposal. Based on this concept of efficiency in the context of
good governance, WOSCA has been facilitating the Governance Project since
last 7 years. This year 8 nos. of Village plans have been revisited by the Task
force members through the facilitation of the Governance programme. Women
forum members have been capacitated to fight against women rights and equality
and to monitor the village developmental issues related to functioning of GKS,
Women Health and Sanitation and child education with increased participation of
women in Gram Sabha & Palli Sabha. As the Panchayat election was held during
this year WOSCA has organized Khola Manch (Open Forum) & Palla (Folk Show)
to create awareness among the voters towards a free and fair election. In this year, PR & Task force committee
members have been oriented on the procedural aspect of social audit under the good governance system of the
panchayats. 2 nos. of Social Audit has been conducted in two GPs and no. of gaps were identified through the audit and
shared among the Govt and community representatives.
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Tracking Disaster Entitlements of Rural Communities (TEDres) under DIPECHO
India is one of the disaster prone countries among the first ten high disaster prone countries in the world. Poor
people are disproportionately affected by disaster because of their lack of poor capacity to cope with the impacts of
disaster. Government of India as well as the state governments have introduced a series of social assistance
schemes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), Targeted Public Distribution System
(TPDS), Antodaya Annapurna Yojana and Annapurna Yojana to provide social protection
to the poor and vulnerable. These social protection assistance supplements the coping
capacity of the most vulnerable household/ individuals during the post disaster period
also. However, lack of awareness, supply side inefficiencies and malpractices often
deprive the poor people of their entitlements.
In order to strengthen the coping capacities of coastal communities in Odisha and West
Bengal a community-led tracking process of the performance and governance of these
social protection schemes has been initiated. This is being facilitated as part of the larger
DIPECHO Project on “Building disaster resilience of vulnerable communities in Orissa and West Bengal, India.” This
process of entitlements tracking further empowers the community by not ensuring the rights of most vulnerable
during normal time but also in a post-disaster scenario.
Replication of TERcom -Development Market Place Award 2011
During last few years the government has adopted a right based framework to
achieve its development objectives. In all programmes, the thrust has been
put on bringing in effective transparency and accountability. The mobile phone
technology for entitlement tracking is a path finder in the direction on enabling
community to assume a proactive role and make the system more
accountable towards them. On this basis, WOSCA as an applicant of the DM
India competition has won the social entrepreneurs Grant sponsored by World
Bank Team (DM-India) out of the three winners from Odisha. In this
competition WOSCA presented the inclusive business model to scale up the
business. The objective of the project is to inform and empower the
marginalised rural communities to claim their entitlements for livelihood security. The project has been designed in a
way that the organisation will meet the expenses of volunteers (social entrepreneurs) without external funding and
people will get good price in sale of NTFP and pay less in fertiliser purchase, which would be saving for them. Business
focus will be integrated with the existing focus on informing people about their social security entitlements and
empowering them through regular interface with the government to push for corrective measures.
Crop demonstration Programme under ATMA
With an added zeal to the experiences of the year 2010-11, initiative was taken by WOSCA in gearing up and
energizing the demonstration programme for the 2nd year in its operational
areas as one of its prime activities. As the organization had become
successful in its endeavor in the earlier phase and set an example for
replication in other places, it has taken up the challenge for promoting and
making the 2nd year programme a successful one. For creating awareness
about the programmes being supported by the ATMA, a series of
awareness meetings have been organized in every village of the operational
GPs before the implementation of the programme. Under this programme
Seed support namely Groundnut, has been provided to 475 beneficiaries of
8 villages of 3 GP along with Chemical fertilizers & Multi-micro nutrient for
application. For all these activities, Technical inputs were provided by the department of Agriculture during this period.
More over, progress of the activities is being reviewed jointly by the ATMA team and WOSCA periodically.
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Public Hearing and Social Audit
It is well known that Social Audit is a great means of sensitisation of the plans,
programmes, policies & laws of the Govt. In context of NREGS, it is a process
that enables Government to assess and demonstrate its social, economic and
environmental benefits and limitations of the various stakeholders directly or
indirectly related to the relevant schemes. Owing to this ethics, WOSCA
conducted Social Audit in 20 nos. of GPs of Patna block with a view to bring
transparency, accountability & call for consent, participation, empowerment of
the rural mass at the same time to urge upon the redressal of grievances with
the support of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) Keonjhar. During the
Social Audit programmes, nos. of observations came up to the notice like huge
central assistance lost due to non-fulfilment of conditions and receipt of Utilization Certificates (UCs) not watched in
majority of GPs. Moreover, it was also marked that Unspent Grants not credited to Govt. Accounts, Procurement of
material without inviting Tenders / Quotations, Receipts and payments not entered in the Cash Books, Non-realization
of Taxes, Rent and License fee, Loss of revenue due to non-leasing of Gram ponds / tanks, ferry-ghats, orchards, etc.,
Accounts not maintained properly, no bank reconciliation statements prepared, important records like Muster rolls,
Measurement Books (MBs), Works Register etc. not maintained, Irregularities in Muster Rolls, execution of works. All
these issues were recorded, discussed & shared with the community towards their role in bringing transparency in the
developmental work.
Farmers and Government Interface programme
Agriculture is a major component of the Indian economy as more than 75 % of our
people have their live hood from agriculture and agriculture oriented works. But the
situation, however, started turning adverse with the slowdown in growth rate of output
due to environmental pollution and loss of fertility of land, land degradation, soil
erosion, etc. which then resulted in stagnation or even decline in farmers’ income
leading to agrarian distress. So, newer and advanced methods of agriculture is
needed and to be introduced to the farmers living in the rural areas. Concentrating
on this objective, a Farmers’ meet in the Purumunda GPs under our Project area was
organized on 22nd March 2012 at village Purumunda to share their experiences, problems & issues among themselves
as well as with the Govt. Officers (from Agriculture, Veterinary, Fisheries) and experts from Agriculture, Horticulture,
Fisheries, etc. 610 Farmers (248 Male and 262 Female) along with the members of VDC & Farmers club from the
nearby GPs had also participated in the Krushak Mela. This Mela was marked with various programmes relating to the
farmers and interactive session between the farmers and the agri scientists, Govt. officials, etc. The mela was
inaugurated by Dr. Deepak Samantray Asst Station Director, AIR, Keonjhar followed by the objective sharing of Prog.
Executive Mr.Jayram Munda. Speaking on the occasion all the invited guests asked to the participants to adopt new &
improved technologies in a low cost for high productivity. The programme was followed by the cultural performances.
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Improvement of MNCH care through involvement of male health cadre.
Concern Worldwide supported Innovations for Maternal, Newborn and Child
Health (Innovations) initiative is piloting the innovative use of males in maternal,
newborn and child health (MNCH) service delivery at the community level in
Keonjhar district of Orissa. The project launched in February 2011 by WOSCA with
WORD and RRO, two partner organizations. There are 205 Male Health Activists
(community volunteers) who are working in MNCH projects covering six blocks of
Keonjhar district who serves 6464 children (0-24 months old) and 3581mothers.
This approach builds off of the existing network of female ASHAs
by adding a cadre of Male Health Activists (MHAs) who promote the importance and benefit of maternal
and child health services among male household decision-makers. By acting as a peer educator to
husbands, the MHAs educate them on a variety of factors that could affect the health of their wives and
children, such as the importance of pre- and post-natal care, delivering babies in health institutions and
a woman’s nutritional needs during pregnancy and when she is breastfeeding. In addition to educating
men on maternal and child health, the MHAs work in close collaboration with ASHAs so that health care is more
effectively promoted at the grassroots level. This includes visiting women at-home at critical times during and after
pregnancy, accompanying patients to the closest health facilities when needed, and providing ASHAs an additional
sense of security and support when traveling in very remote and hard-to-access areas or at night.
The Keonjhar pilot project has received endorsement from the National Rural Health Mission and Department of Health
and Family Welfare officials in Orissa. UNICEF, which is Concern Worldwide’s global strategic partner for the
Innovations initiative, is also in support of the pilot. The project will provide insight on new roles that males can play in
community-level health service delivery.
Capacity Building training programme of GKS
The Capacity Building Training Programme of GKS Members supported by
NRHM-Odisha was an attempt to help the GKS members learn the managerial
aspects of GKS and the role of GKS in facilitating improved outreach services to
the undeserved areas, its effective utilization and ensuring proper accountability
through the training which was started from 1st July’11 & completed on 3rd Oct’ 11.
In order to make the two months long capacity building programme of GKS
members sufficiently purposive and effective, WOSCA has covered the total
target of 45 batches in 3 blocks. Apart from the targeted batches 11 additional
batches were trained under special coverage plan for the left out participants.
Following to the MLP programme were implemented in all the three blocks. During the training programme, officials
from the NRHM and CARE have visited the training programme and monitored the progress in the project areas for the
qualitative implementation of the programme. In the 2nd phase Handholding support to 675 members of 225 GKS of
Ghatagaon, Patna & Harichandanpur was provided during the month of November as follow up of the CB training
programme
Health Check Up Camp
WOSCA organized World Health Day with a free health camp for about 375
under-privileged children and their parents. This program was conducted on
Sunday, 12th April 2011 9:30 am to 1 pm with the help of District Red Cross
Society, Keonjhar branch at Basantapur village of Ghatagaon block. This camp
was inaugurated by Mr. Deepak Mishar, President and Mr. Satya Narayan
Mishra, Secretary, Keonjhar Press Club. Among the other eminent guests
included Mr k k Nayak .who provided free medicines. Over 15 committed
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volunteers from the concerned village and WOSCA rendered their voluntary services to carry out the camp smoothly.
Most of the patients which included over 250 children were found victims of malnutrition thereby causing low
hemoglobin and less immunity. Lots of patients complained of cold, skin problems & digestion problems. The patients
were given free consultation and medicines for 3 days and were advised to continue their treatment in the district
hospital.
Idea Generation Campaign-II
‘Innovation for Maternal, Newborn & child Health (Innovation)’ is collaboration between Concern, UNICEF and Ministry
of Health & family Welfare. The initiative seeks to generate innovative ideas to improve the health of women and young
children in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Orissa state in India. By tapping into fresh ideas and bold thinking outside the
traditional boundaries of the health sector, the initiative was taken up with a holistic view to develop, implement and
evaluate innovative ideas that can increase coverage of important maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH)
Interventions. WOSCA, in partnership with CONCERN Worldwide, facilitated the Idea Generation Campaign phase II of
the Innovation programme by organising workshop for the selected groups of people such as women’s groups,
students, health care workers, private sector, Media persons, Senior citizens, NGOs, Government, etc to participate in
the idea-sharing workshop where participants were asked to generate innovative ideas to address challenges which
were identified as some of the main barriers to MNCH care delivery in Orissa. The two days workshop was organised
on presence of the prominent persons, representatives of CONCERN Worldwide and local NGOs.
Blood Donation Camp
People have busy lives and in the midst of their stacked daily schedules they forget
their social responsibilities. The situation is so grim that it has now become the duty
of the patient to carry additional blood with him when being admitted to the hospital.
Our motto with the initiatives we have taken up for spreading the message of blood
donation is ‘contributing to the society through health care’. On this backdrop
WOSCA organized the camp on World Blood Donation Day on 1st October 2011
This year the programme was organized at Red Cross Bhawan, Keonjhar. 34 units
of blood were collected and handed over to District Red Cross Society, Keonjhar.
Observation of World Breast Feeding Week
To find out the achievements and gaps in the existing policy, program and practices in reference to IYCF three
awareness programmes on Breast Feeding practices were organised by WOSCA in association with Dhagotha Yuvak
Sangh as coordinating agency at Ghatagaon, Harichandanpur & Patna block of Keonjhar. The aims of the awareness
programme was to orientate maternal & adolescents on protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal
infant and young child feeding practices at village level. All these programmes were attended by the representatives of
UNICEF and CARE.
Rajiv Gandhi Creche Programme
This programme is supported by Central Social Welfare Board, Govt. of India since the
year 2000 and implemented at Nischintpur village of Sadar block of Keonjhar district. The
Creche centre is providing day time nursing support to the working women’s children of the
area with greater convergence between various programs as crucial inputs to the larger
mission of WOSCA. The students are being provided nutritious food in the day time and
free health check up facility is also provided by the organization to children in each month.
This year seven children passed out the schedule age of 5 years have been sent to the
nearest primary school for further study.
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Sikshya Chetana Programme
Aiming to provide quality education to the marginalized children, WOSCA has been
implementing Siksha Chetana Programme in 13 villages of Rutisila and Manoharpur
GP of Ghatagaon Block with the active support of ORES-Developemnt Focus &
Edukans since last three years. In this year under this project WOSCA has
structured children assembly bringing 350 children to one platform for exploration of
their potential and to develop the decision making capacity to generate demand
which resulted in submission of memorandum and ensured a place in the newly
constituted School Management Committee. Keeping the primary objective of school
health and sanitation programme, WOSCA organized School Health Programme in
the project areas covering 400 children. As a measure of local solution ensuring Community participation WOSCA
trained and sensitised 65 institutional structures like, School Management Committee (SMC), Parent Teacher
Association (PTA), Mother Teacher Association (MTA), Cluster Level Association (CLA) Community based trainers
(CBT). During this year WOSCA has been successfully formed & strengthened “Taskforce” (EWG & CLA) to monitor the
day to day transaction of the school. Moreover, WOSCA also ccarried out successful enrolment drive resulting cent
percent enrolment and reducing the dropout rate to 10%. To make the school a better place for children with joyful
learning environment 80 Teachers trained on TLM
“A Billion Acts of Green” – Earth Day programme
To sensitize the school children, teachers and guardians on their role and
responsibilities in adopting the low carbon lifestyle, WOSCA in association with Earth
Day Network (UNDP-SGP-GEF, CEE, Ministry of Environment & Forest, Arcellor
Mittal), facilitated no. of awareness programmes like orientation to School Children,
Teachers & Guardians on what does the “A Billion Acts of Green” mean. The impact
of human activities on earth’s climate has been receiving increasing attention with
the recognition of the problem of global warming. Thus in the direct initiative of the
program on “A Billions Acts of Green”, no. of awareness programs were organized
by WOSCA in various places of Keonjhar Sadar and Ghatagaon block of Keonjhar
district. As it is well known fact that pollution and its adverse effects are not confined
to urban areas alone and the rural areas are also suffering the fall out of pollution, organisation’s concerns deserved
urgent attention for a concerned action. In tune with the spirit of the program five schools were selected as nodal points
for dissemination of information. The Programme was started with the Pledge of Green Acts suggesting the role of
school children, Banners and posters describing the role of conscious citizens in its various aspects. In all these
programmes Mr. Kulamani Pradhan, Environmentalist and Lecturer of Botany explained the role of the children in this
global initiative.
Forest protection and biodiversity conservation
Post follow up project activities under SGP-GEF-MoEF-CEE is being taken up by WOSCA
through it’s other development projects. The best practices evolved from the project was
replication of IGP activities by women to reduce the pressure on forest and environment
education action by students. Bothe the best practices have been mainstreamed in the
livelihood projects where NRM planning is being facilitated by women SHG members and
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community led conservation plan is being taken up by 27 panchyats in Ghatagaon and Sadr blocks of keonjhar.
Similarly in 34 schools student formed eco club and spearheading the key environment messages to peers and along
with that they used to aware junior students on waste water management. There are 800 students are involved in this
peer demonstration. There are 234 FRCs have been strengthened through supporting the government initiatives on
Forest Land Rights. They have been sensitized to act on Bio Diversity conservation while applying for community forest
land.
Awareness building on climate change
As the climate change is the burning issues that is coming ahead and has a
widespread impact on the lives of tribals. Hence with the involvement of school
children there was a campaign launched to aware the family on climate change
issues and how it is going to affect the life of tribal children in 24 schools in
Ghatagaon and Harichandanpur blocks. The school children made ambassadors
to spread the key messages on importance of forest and water bodies in the life
of forest dependent families among their own family members. The campaign
through a competition was organized with the help of local schools, panchyats and voluntary resource persons
from DD College keonjhar. There are all together 1630 school students were involved in this campaign.
Child Centered Community Development Program (CCCD) ,WOSCA-Plan Project
A child centered community development program (sponsorship project) is being
implemented by WOSCA since December 2011 with support of Plan International
India chapter covering 7083 families from 43 villages of Ghatagaon block of Keonjhar
district. This is a child sponsorship program covering 1500 sponsored children out of
them 80% are girls. In this project WOSCA is working to improve the lives of
disadvantaged children, their families and communities through an approach that
puts children at the center of community development. Focus of the project is to
create an environment where children access their rights to proper healthcare, basic
education, and healthy environment, protection from abuse and exploitation and participation in decisions that affect
their lives. Family and village decision makers are being prepared in a rights based approach to develop the
structures and skills they need to provide a safe and healthy environment in which children are able to realise their full
potential.
Study, Research & Evaluation
As learning is different from education, a learning society is essentially different from a society based on institutionalized
and formal education where knowledge pursues the child instead of child pursues the
knowledge. Our society has always treated learning as a prerequisite for the onward
march of civilization. On these backdrop three interns of XIMB has completed their
Rural Living and Learning Education (RLLE) study on Livelihood security. Earlier to
this two interns of Germany had undertaken their study on Governance & Gender
related issues and Livilihood in Ghatagaon block of Keonjhar district under asa
programme of the German University. On behalf of NPCCD, WOSCA has undertaken
the data collection for the study “Evaluation of Functioning of ASHAs in ICDS Related
Activities" in Keonjhar district of Odisha during the month of March 2011.
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Facilitation of Repair, Renovation & Reconstruction of Water bodies
With a view to achieve the objectives of participatory irrigation management activities consisting of farmers organization
and turn over programme and agricultural intensification programme & formation of farmers interest groups, WOSCA
has undertaken the baseline survey and capacity building activities with systematic motivation and documentation of
records. As per the activities, phase wise intervention plan has been started in 10 nos. of M.I. projects with the support
of Department of Water resources (Minor Irrigation) to develop a self sustainable water users association with the
objectives of Agricultural intensification programme both in the field and office management. Under this programme
organization has worked with the farmers in the ayacut just like a family member and successfully formed and
strengthened 10 nos. of Pani Panchayats followed by a baseline survey on existing water bodies, live stock, etc.
Consumer Counseling Centre
Realizing the urgent and increasing necessity to educate and motivate the consumers to be wary of the quality of the
products and also the possible deficiencies in the services of the growing sector of public utilities, WOSCA has opened
a Consumer Counseling Centre in the premises of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Keonjhar since last
two years. One counselor has been posted at the centre. In addition to this should be equipped to be vigilant with a
discerning eye so as to be able to protect himself from any wrongful act on the part of the trader. In order to be able to
position the consumer in such a state, there is every need not only to evolve legal remedies but also provide reliable
and exhaustive information, which he can access without much effort and expense. Recognizing the importance of the
problem, the Government of India and State Government have initiated steps to introduce dispute redressal mechanism
by way of Consumer Protection Act, but a lot more has to be done in the area of creating awareness on the part of the
consumer to facilitate his seeking suitable remedy wherever there is a need. This becomes more important in the rural
areas, where there is wide spread illiteracy. The need for empowerment of consumers as a class is already well
recognized all over the world.
SOURCES OF FUNDING
Sl. No.
Name of the Donors
Amount (Rs.)
1
CWS
250000.00
2
CONCERN WORLDWIDE
3
ORES
190212.00
4
RCDC
172837.00
5
NABARD
6
XIMB
19500.00
7
UDYAMA
20000.00
8
BIRD
300000.00
9
SSWB
42370.00
10
NRHM
928530.00
11
ATMA
1714322.00
12
DRDA
24000.00
13
HDF
14
PACS
378550.00
15
DM India
732544.00
12595092.00
3118835.00
4160.00
13
16
DIPPECHO
670025.00
17
IMPACT
1253319.00
18
PLAN INTERNATIONAL
2378500.00
TOTAL
24792796.00
GRANT CHART
10%
CONCERN WORLDWIDE
5%
Plan
7%
NABARD
4%
51%
NRHM
ATMA
13%
IMPACT
Others
10%
14