Hdrc

Human Development and Research Centre

Journey

2012-13 Seasonal Hostel and April 2013 to present….

Banaskantha District Danta block45 villages

LEP 15 Villages inclusive of 45 villages.

Key Objectives

Enhancing awareness about the RTE at the community level, particularly about the various provisions of the RTE Act such as the SMCs and the SDPs and the various entitlements of children under the same.

To train SMCs and community around the principles of the RTE Act, developing the ownership education issues and tackling the strategies.

Support SMCs for preparation, submission and implementation of SDPs

Pilot an effective interface model among the district and block level officials of the Education Department, elected representatives of the District and Taluka Panchayats, Sarpanches and Panchayat members, school principals and teachers in the Taluka, through the instrumentality of a Block Level SMC Association

Relevance of the LAMP program / Community background Situated at the foothills of the Aravalli Mountain range,

Danta Taluka is a predominantly tribal block, located about 150 km north of Ahmedabad city. It has a total of 186 villages with a tribal population of 52% (2001).

Danta Taluka is home to Adivasi communities such as Dungri Bhils and Garasiya Adivasis (Education status of Dungri garasiya is much lower compared to that of the Dungri Bhils)

Mainly agricultural and mining (marble and quarry labour work)

Literacy rate very low

Continue….. Villages in the inter-state border – highly underdeveloped in

terms of infrastructure, services, education, health etc. Low accessibility of government entitlements There are primary schools in all villages; but not accessible to all

the hamlets, with the children having to walk through forests and fields for over 3-4 kms in certain villages. The school infrastructure is not adequate in all the villages and there is a lot more that needs to be done.

Migration is rampant and people are out of their villages for an average of 6 months in a year, in most of the tribal villages, affecting the education of children to a considerable extent.

The LAMP has for the first time addressed the issue of denial of education to the Adivasi children in a systematic way, through awareness, monitoring RTE Act implementation, capacity building of SMCs and seasonal hostels.

Coverage

No: of Villages Covered: 45

No: of Schools Covered: 45

LEP

Number of LEP classes: 15

Number of girls: 217

Number of boys: 233

RTE-SMC

No: of SMCs Covered: 45

Extent of completion of ActivitiesSr. No. Planned activity Extent of

CompletionRemarks

1. Training of 45 SMCs 100% Complete

2 450 children assisted through LEP

100 % complete L1 Week 11th , Mid line survey completed

3 Block level federation Complete 2 meetings with the roles and responsibility.

4 SMC convention Complete

5 RTE Awareness campaign Complete

6 Citizens leader’s training Complete

7 15 SDP plans Complete 9 SDPs are prepared . Rest of 6 villages have collected data and they need to be put in format

8 15 VER In process

9 BAL MELA Next week. Competitions with the presence of the LEP children parents.

Challenges/ Difficulties and Gaps..

Geographical Area… scattered houses and hamlets …difficult to reach to parents.

Mindset/ attitude of the people … people into hardlabour work and migration – making education apriority in such a context is a challenge

Initial lack of understanding of the depth of program

Late initiation of the programmes

Lack of transport facility.

RTE

Implementatio

n Coverage

Cumulative till

previous month

New covered

this month

Any decrease

in coverage

this month

Tota; Concerted

Areas

Broad based

Areas

No. of SDPs

prepared

5 4 00 9 15 15

RTE Training

Cumulative

number till

previous month

Total trained

this month

Repeat

trainings this

month

Cumulative

number till this

month

Concerted

Areas

Broad based

Areas

No. of SMCs

trained

29 16 00 45 45 45

No. of SMC

members trained

315 137 0 452

No. of Youth

Group

members/Volunt

eers trained

45 32 00 77 45 0

No. of PRI

members trained

19 3 0 22

No. of SHG

members trained

0 0

Total number of

people trained on

RTE

1331 600 0 1931 0

Coverage…. LEP classes 15 III-V - No. of children 450 Girls 217 and boys 233

Learning…… Hamlet wise volunteers enable better implementation

Use of local communication methods for meetings likeDHOL ...

Preplan for community meetings and usage of effectivematerials like List of SMC grants, Charts etc.

Continuous follow up with the volunteers and SMCmembers…

Respecting cultural and community boundaries

Future Vision Expand and replicate the interventions of this year to all

the villages in Danta Taluka and initiate work in a limitednumber of villages in Amirgadh Taluka

Continue the capacity building of SMCs into the next stagewhere community would be fully functional and capable ofdirecting the SDPs

The SMC association of Danta Taluka to be enabled tobecome a model of area level monitoring of RTE,anchoring the collaboration with all the stakeholders –children, the elected representatives, government andcommunity.

Strengthening the community reach through volunteers.

Plan for next 3 years.. Prioritizing the linkages with the education

institutions of the existing villages with thegovernment institutions

Coverage of new villages

SMC district level federation and linkage with thedistrict education body

Cluster level meetings of SMC members

Community support classes

Strengthening the block level SMC formation foradvocacy.