Finally, an attempt has been made to capture the endeavour of Sarathi Development Foundation in a Video film. INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is the Golden Rule. ISR expands on this by promoting a pro-active stance towards positively influencing and affecting the people and environment in and around one’s immediate circle. Individual Social Responsibility is a moral belief where we as individuals, have a responsibility towards society. Being "socially responsible" is all about individuals behaving ethically and sensitively towards social, economic, and environmental issues. Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation (WCIF), Bulgaria, describes ISR in its position statement on Social Responsibility as "The individual social responsibility includes the engagement of each person towards the community where he lives, which can be expressed as an interest towards what’s happening in the community, as well as in active participation in solving of some of the local problems. ISR may include the following : Charitable acts, including philanthropy such as donation of money. Sparing some time for the less priviledged at orphanage, old-age home, etc. Volunteering for the work related to community viz. blood donation, sanitation and hygiene (PM’s flagship programme – Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan), free tutorials, etc. Individual ethics, such as integrity and honesty. These individual ethics also include the “golden rule” stated above, meaning treating others with empathy and a sense of fairness.
Sarathi solicits nominations for the post from within the target community and ensures that groups of volunteers represent each major sub-community within the larger slum community Documenting findings and developing road maps for future programs Having replicated the integrated planning approach across 682 villages of Lalitpur district, Sarathi has developed and codified protocols governing all key operations, including hiring, surveying, slum planning, training, documentation of findings, and convergence planning with the government into a road map for further scalability ACHIEVEMENTS AND IMPACT The tenth quarter of the project i.e. January 2015 to March 2015 was marked with achievements on Saloni indicators, up streaming voices and participation of adolescent girls, financial inclusion and convergence with government departments and various other development agencies such as banks, vocational training providers. Sarathi also started to go deeper on sustainability issues such as adolescent girls and community leadership. State level specific events offered opportunities to adolescent girls for their participation, expression and celebration reflecting on potential and aspirations of girls. Model Location Lucknow Geographic Outreach 400 Slums Social Outreach 40000 households with population of 200637 Adolescent Girls Impacted 25000 Adolescent Girls Centred Community Action Plans 400 action plans based on adolescent girls and community development indicators Adolescent Girls Groups 1200 groups having13356 adolescent girls Community Volunteers 1600 Women/ Mothers Groups 400 with 4123 women/mothers Brief description reflecting on adolescent girls specific and community specific development and empowerment initiated in 400 slums of Lucknow is given in the Table below. Saloni Model Interventions Basics Adolescent Girls Specific Impact Community Specific Impact Adolescent Girls Groups (AGGs) 1200 Adolescent girls group having 13356 as members. AGGs are providing direct platform to around 54% of total Girls in group have gained the ability to influence their
1368 new girls joined the groups during the quarter. AGGs conduct their meetings as per the meeting calendar developed by them. 4260 meetings of these 1200 groups have been conducted in this quarter. adolescent girls in slums for participation and communication on the issues related to them their families and communities. They are meeting every month. Groups have been instrumental in enhancing knowledge on their development themes and service provisions related to reproductive health, anaemia, immunization, education, nutrition supplements. Adolescent girls in groups are familiar with micro planning and review processes in their meetings. It facilitates them for self advocacy at service provider’s levels, local body, ICDS, schools. The major agenda of these girls group meeting was legal literacy, sanitation and safety and security of girls and women was added in the discussion in group meetings during this quarter directly benefitting around 9371 girls AGG girls have gained knowledge about Anaemia through the group families, service providers and community members on community wide issues such as sanitation, enrollement of children in the schools, repairing of defunct drinking water sources. . 151 Girls groups have advocated and addressed 51 issues including community managed toilets, cleanliness, repairing of water sources, raising service delivery such as absenteeism of ANMs, ICDS worker. AGG’s mobilization initiations have created supportive environment to bring change on marriage systems in all 400 slums. Girls groups have mobilized the community to take services of AWW and health department like immunization and receiving nutritional supplements.
Saloni mitras facilitated 32 health camps including RI camps, 258 girls received immunization and 954 girls received free consultation. community members including adolescent girls got opportunity to get a bank account. Facilitated 32 health camps including RI camps where 1520 women and children including adolescent girls were provided immunization and free consultancy. Community Action Plan Community Action Plan has been developed in all 400 slums and revised every month. AGGs, community volunteers, WGs and community as a whole revise the plan every month to track the actions, solutions and incorporate new issues. 399 CAPs have been updated thrice in this quarter, once in every month. These action plans are updated by the community in community meetings after reviewing the progress on the previous plan. Progresses on the issues have been marked and new identified issues have been added to the CAPs. Ownership and understanding for CAP among girls have been increased, and they themselves are updating the Slum Action Plan through conducting community meetings. 1316 girls have restarted their schooling including 127 girls in this quarter. AGG’s mobilization initiations have created supportive environment to bring change on marriage systems in all 400 slums. 11062 girls have received immunization including 5943 girls in this quarter. Now 9994 girls are receiving regular nutritional supplements from the AWC and 2938 304 children from 6-14 years have been enrolled in schools. 3393 families have started washing hands with soap at critical times during this quarter Total 57961 children have been immunized during the project period including 1635 children of this quarter. 936 children have received birth certificate. 919 out of 1028 deliveries are institutional. 25 handpumps have been repaired in 25 slums in this quarter. Water problem of 9 slums have been solved by placing 4 water tanks. Cleaner in 21 slums have
girls have received nutritional supplements in this quarter. New issues related to girls safety and security have been added to the CAP. become regular. Women Groups (WGs) 400 WGs, one in each slum have been formed. Each group has a leader who is responsible to conduct meeting of the group every month. Each group has conducted its meeting thrice in this quarter. These meetings were focused on girl education, right age of the marriage, hygiene and other community related issues. Now women are in support of girls’ education, sanitation and mobility and making other women aware of their rights. 40 Women groups have advocated the issues of immunization and nutritional supplements for girls and these issues have been resolved in 40 slums. Women groups have advocated the community issues and became successful to resolve the community issues including seavage, safe drinking water, toilets, etc. in 40 slums. Change Map Change map is a map of the slum showing each house with eight blocks tracking the behaviour change in each family, each block is an indicator of one behaviour of the key behaviour change issues. The key behaviours are hand washing with soap, exclusive breast feeding, usage of sanitary napkin, HIV knowledge, child marriage, girl education, and 120 girls group have updated 70 change maps. Updating the change map in groups and families has made the group well known to the community. 3453 girls have started using sanitary napkins during menstruation. Girls are able to bring change in their family’s mind set to not marry before they cross 18. No early marriage was Change map is working as a change agent also; everyone gets affected by seeing the neighbour family adapting certain behaviour. Behaviour changes in 3928 families have been noted in this quarter. 3393 families have adapted the behaviour of hand washing with soap at critical time.
immunization of adolescent girls and children. Change map is updated every month according to the behaviour adapted in the families. Total 380 change maps have been updated in this quarter among which 313 change maps have been updated thrice, 42 twice and 15 change maps have been updated once in this quarter. Community members, women group, volunteers and girls groups update these maps. found in this quarter. 5943 girls have been immunized. 866 children out of 1028 born in this quarter are receiving exclusive breast feeding. 1635 children have received complete immunization in this month. Saloni Sanchar Manch Saloni Sanchar Manch is a stage comprising all 4 volunteers, women and girls group leaders, influencers of the community and key service providers to share their issues and get solution for those issues. 47 Sanchar Manch meetings have been organized in this quarter with an agenda of creating favourable atmosphere for the girls to grow, issues of CAP yet not resolved and Saloni Sanchar has provided a stage where girls can ask for a favourable atmosphere to grow. Saloni Sanchar Manch is at its initial stage and we are yet to see the result of this initiative. It has lead all the service providers and community to be present at a common platform. Saloni Sanchar Manch is at its initial stage and we are yet to see the result of this initiative
IFAD CARE INDIA OXFAM BIBLIOGRAPHY / WEBLIOGRAPHY www.jerad.org/ppapers/dnload.php?vl=7&is=2&st=1092 Journal of Environmental Research and Development – Vol.7 no.2A, Oct-Dec 2012 www.pitt.edu/~super7/27011-28001/27831.ppt Owning Her Future – Empowering Adolescent Girls in India - Report published by Dasra, India and The Kiawah Trust, UK https://www.globalgiving.co.uk/projects/develop-girls-leadership-for-change-in-100-slums/ All other information received from Sarathi Development Foundation