PIP Committee Training
Training was imparted to the members of the Participatory Identification of Poorest of Poor (PIP) committees of the CIPs from 1 to 4 May, 2010 at the Jais training Centre. Over 200 members of 40 PIP committees received training from Ms B. Vijaya Bharathi.
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Sensitisation Programme on Financial Inclusion
A special sensitisation programme was
organised on the Micro Credit Plan and Total
Financial Inclusion for Branch Managers from
different banks on November 17, 2008.
Thirty-four Branch Managers from different
blocks of the Mission area were made aware of
the process of MCP. They were also taken on
field trips so that they could observe the
process of MCP being undertaken at the SHG
level.
Training on Community Mobilisation Skills
A TOT session aimed at building the
capacities of volunteers and Mission staff to
present the concept and aspects of the SHGs
through different media such as skits, songs and
stories was organised on September 8-9, 2008.
Targeted active SHG members and mission staff,
the training programme saw the participation of
over 40 SHG members.
Workshop on Community-based Health Insurance
This workshop was organised specially for
VO members and was aimed at orienting them
towards managing their own health insurance. A
total of 35 members participated in this
workshop, held on August 19 and 20, 2008.
Workshop on Gender Issues
Organised at the Jais Training Centre in
collaboration with SERP, this workshop focussed
on gender issues in the context of Up and was
held on August 12, 2008. Over 40 participants
included VO members and project staff. The
workshop was aimed, through simple exercises, at
an understanding of the concept of gender, an
appreciation of the difference between
productive and non-productive work, how to
calculate the sex ratio in villages/communities,
and an understanding that the gender of the
new-born child is not in a woman’s control.
The training was aimed at translating into the
following actions:
- Survey for the family size in the
village and pregnant women;
- Identification of the families having
more number of girls;
- Special thrust and focus on girl’s
education;
- Give information to the adolescent girls
on health issues;
- Conducting the sex ratio exercise in
VOs;
- Providing tuition to the children at the
VO level;
- Conducting discussions on the health
related issues in VOs; and
- Maintaining these records at the VO
level.
Vision Workshop
A Vision-building Workshop was organised to set
the Vision and Mission of RGMVP on July 14 to
16, 2008. Apart from 60 participants from eight
VOs, the Workshop also hosted guests such as Mr
Sohaib Sultan Khan from Pakistan; Ms B.Vijaya
Bharathi from Andhra Pradesh; Mr J.P.Barnard,
NIRD; Mr Sukhbeer Singh, CGM, NABARD, Regional
Office, Lucknow; Mr Dinesh Sharma, Chairman,
Grameen Bank; and representatives from other
partners like NDDB. The session concluded with
remarks from Mr Rahul Gandhi and Mr Khan.
Workshop on Livelihood Opportunities
Available in Central and Eastern Uttar Pradesh
The workshop was organised on June 30, 2008 at
Jais with Mr G. Murlidharan, Livelihood Expert
from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand
(IRMA), as the resource person. The purpose of
the workshop was to identify opportunities for
expansion of existing livelihoods of rural poor
and also to identify the possibilities for new
livelihood activities in rural areas.
Training of Trainers on Participatory Learning and Action (PLA)/
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)Techniques
This training was organised from March 31 to
April 9, 2008, in collaboration with NIRD,
Hyderabad, to equip the Mission staff with the
essential participatory training and learning
skills. A total of 111 Mission functionaries
were trained in two batches including Community
Volunteers, Field Officers, Assistant Project
Managers, and Project Executives. PRA/PLA is the
term used for a growing family of participatory
approaches and methods that emphasise local
knowledge and enable local people to make their
own appraisal, analysis, and plans. PRA /PLA
uses group animation and exercises to facilitate
information sharing, analysis, and action among
stakeholders.
The PLA/ PRA training was aimed at translating
into the following actions
- To conduct Participatory Identification of the
Poor (PIP) to identify the poor and poorest in
the project villages through a participatory
process;
- To collect baseline information (Social
Development Information & Human Development
Information) about project villages; and
- To utilise PLA as the entry point activity for
mobilising the poor and poorest and organising
them into the SHGs.
Training in Dairy Best Practices
Mr Bob Kaiser and Mr Ken Bolton, experts
from the University of Wisconsin, and Dr
Hegde, a veterinarian, trained Dairy CRPs
from 15 Blocks (six Blocks from Raebareli
and nine from Sultanpur) from June 1 to June
9, 2009. The three-day training schedule
during which three batches of CRPs were
trained focussed on the seven best practices
of dairy.
Training in Sustainable Agricultural
Practices
Three sets of training programmes were
conducted by Mr Krishan Rao, an independent
sustainable agriculture expert, spread over
April and May 2009. In the first training
programme, Mr Rao provided training to the
agriculture CRPs from seven blocks (two from
Raebareli and five from Sultanpur) in
organic compost making, SRI, and green
manuring. He also held refresher training
for CRPs from 12 blocks. The second training
programme also in organic compost making,
SRI, and green manuring was aimed at CRPs in
12 blocks. In the third training programme
Mr Rao trained CRPs in paddy seed bed
preparation at a village in Amawan Block.
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