indira kranthi patham education for all – enabling and empowering communities 1
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Indira Kranthi Patham
Education for All –
Enabling and Empowering Communities
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POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGY – THE MISSION OF EDUCATION SECTOR IN
IKP
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“There is no literate population that is poor; no illiterate population that is other than poor.”
- John Galbraith
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The Goal: Alleviation of Rural Poverty through
Women Empowerment
Moving from Livelihoods, Food Security, Marketing,
Dairy, Health and Nutrition etc., the rural women
are now looking for quality Education for their
children, which is the surest way out of poverty.
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The Mission and Role of Education sector of IKP
“An entire generation of children; free from the
burden of poverty; born, educated (elementary
through secondary, higher secondary, higher
education) and employed gainfully is the vision of
the education sector within IKP”
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Vision of IKP: Poverty – Proofing the Next Generation
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SERP Interventions
SOCIAL INITIATIVES OF SERP
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HARNESSING WOMEN GROUPS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
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1. Community managed ECE centres
185 ECE centres are functioning in 3 districts (Adilabad,
Visakapatnam, Warangal) in the state.
It is planned to start nearly 200 new centres in 2009-10
New centres to be opened in these 3 districts and 5
other districts (Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, East
Godavari, Khammam, Ranga Reddy)
Sodhana and Andhra Mahila Sabha have established
state level resource centres.
Regional Resource centres are being established in the
districts.
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Selection of Area
Mandal:
Mandals where Health and Nutrition centres are running
Mandals where Institution Building is strong.
Mandals with higher proportion of SC/ST population/PoP.
Village:
Villages having higher number of children between the ages of 2 –
5 belonging to the Poorest of Poor (POP) families
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Community Ownership
Micro credit plan is prepared by MMS.
The MMS collects monthly fee from the community from the
first year itself.
The money collected from the community is used to create a
corpus fund.
This fund will be used to help run the centres after SERP stops
funding.
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Public Report
The teacher presents a Public Report to the parents and the village
community once every month.
Children of the school demonstrate and exhibit their learning attained
during the preceding month during this presentation.
This kind of reporting strengthens the accountability process and also
fosters closer association with the community.
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ECE Centres
List of centres
Existing Centres 185
New Centres 260
Total Centres 445
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HARNESSING WOMEN GROUPS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
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Safeguarding Child Rights and Enhancing Quality of Education
- A Pilot in three Tribal mandals in Khammam District
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Objectives
Advocating child rights through community participation –
through women groups, gram panchayats, teachers and youth.
Improvement in quality of education at schools through
community participation through women groups, gram
panchayats, teachers and youth.
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Partners
SERP
MVF
MMS
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HARNESSING WOMEN GROUPS FOR ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR
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Approach
Advocating child rights through community participation:
Train the VO members and the Gram Panchayat members to vouch for
children’s rights.
Conduct rallies, meetings and awareness drives for creating awareness about
child rights and education in the community.
Withdraw children from work and mainstream them into full time, formal
day schools.
Form community support structures like ‘Child Rights Protection Forums’
and youth groups to constantly monitor the processes of protecting the rights
of children.
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Approach contd…
Improvement in quality of education at schools through community
participation and monitoring:
Strengthen the capacities of VO members and Gram Panchayats to monitor
the quality of education in schools.
Facilitate proper functioning of school and to improve the quality of
education in the local government schools and make the schools proper
learning centres.
Facilitate institutional planning in schools by making an assessment of the
need gap in the schools.
Ensure increased participation of the community, Gram Panchayats, women
groups and teachers in improving the overall functioning in the schools.
Observing and documenting best practices to be followed in the schools to
make them better learning centres. 20
Activities Orienting the community members on child rights.
Exposure visit to Nalgonda where MVF is working with the local bodies to
build awareness on child labour elimination and child right protection.
Orientation of youth on child labour elimination and child right protection.
111 youth were engaged as full time mobilisers and organisers. They
undertook
Baseline survey in 206 habitations for 15 days in august 2008.
Number of out of school children identified in the survey:
Chintoor – 1797 (11042)
VR Puram – 614 (4953)
Kunavaram – 656 (4946)
118 rallies were conducted in 85 villages during June – July.
Participated in school enrollment drive with the help of women groups and
PRI members.
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Activities
128 education sub committees were formed with 5 VO members each to frequently
visit the schools and monitor their functioning.
218 sub committee members and PRI members were taken on exposure visit to MVF
field intervention in Nalgonda district.
Village level meetings were held before the reopening of schools in June, 2008.
Staff members and the VO members cleaned the premises of all schools before
reopening of the school and tied banners at the entrance welcoming parents.
Welcomed teachers in traditional fashion in 22, 29 and 30 schools of Chintur,
Kunavaram and VR Puram mandals respectively.
Meetings at school level with
Parents and teachers.
MMS and VO members
PRI members and local youth 22
Activities Contd…
Several activities like cultural performances, rallies, slogan writing, sports
competitions etc were conducted to campaign against child labour.
Two RBCs were set up for boys and girls in Rekhapally and Chintoor
during October, 2008. A third RBC was opened in VR Puram in February,
2009.
MEOs, MLOs, MMS team leaders, MRPs, VO leaders and PRI members
addressed parents and youth on importance and their role in bringing
children to school.
Mana Pillalu Mana Badi in Kunavaram and Maa Naate Maa Badi in other 2
mandals.
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No. of students mainstreamed
Mandal Boys Girls
Chintoor 333 236
VR Puram 62 52
Kunavaram 81 65
Total 476 353
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Mandal Boys Girls
Chintoor 97 71
VR Puram 22 38
Kunavaram 58 28
Total 177 137
Enrolled in Schools Enrolled in RBCs
SALIENT FEATURES
Involvement of Gram Panchayats, Women Groups,
Youth and teachers in the project.
Sense of ownership of the school, cultivated
amongst the village community.
Continuous monitoring of the functioning of the
school.
Effective monitoring of the students enrolled
in the schools by the community to ensure
that they do not drop out again.25
Case Studies
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Other Education Interventions
Intervention Place Partner
Accreditation of existing
schools
Warangal district
(Pilot)
CfBT
Mainstreaming Tribal
Dropouts (Above 15 years
of age) through RBCs
A mandal each in
Adilabad,
Warangal and
Khammam
districts
Koyatur
Bhata
Corporate Education for
rural poor at +2 level
23 Districts
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Proposed Model
Collaboration between SSA, SERP, MVF and MMS.Convergence with SSA (Reference: Meeting convened by Principal Secretary, Education SSA on 7-01-09)
Initiate intervention in 30 low female literacy mandals in the state
during 2009-10.
Expected Outcomes: 90% of total ‘out of school children’ would be withdrawn and sent to school
over a period of three years
50% of the Gram Panchayats and the Vos would be equipped to follow up the
child rights issues.
100% registration and certification of births and marriages in the villages.
Ensure 90% retention of children in 50% of the total habitations.
Children passing out of class X will be mapped out and successfully followed
up to pursue higher education28
Budget
Total budget for 3 years: 21.06 Crores
Detailed budget.xls
Project Year Cost per Mandal
Total cost in the year
1st Year 21,20,000 6. 36 Crores
2nd Year 23,32,000 7.00 Crores
3rd Year 25,65,200 7.70 Crores
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THANK YOU!!!
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