tfs quarterly magazine second edition july2015

An Inclusive Development Model

July 2015 Vol. 1 Issue 2 Quarterly Magazine

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ContentsEditorial

An Inclusive Developmnet Model .... 3

InterviewCorporate Social Responsibility: Interview with Sh. Kumar Anurag Pratap, CSR Leader, Capgemini ... 6

Features

Kriti: Livelihood and Education for Urban Poor ... 11

Jignyasa: Mobile Science Lab - Seva Bharathi, Secunderabad ... 13

Watersheds One Concept-Innumerable benefits ... 16

Chief EditorR K Anil

Editorial TeamSarvanan DDhammapal ChawhanNandkumar Pudhari

OrganizersSeva BharathiYouth For Seva

For enquiries contactfollowing

Email:[email protected]@gmail.com

Phone: 040 24610056 +91 9949566499.

They alone live, who live for others.

-Swami Vivekananda

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An Inclusive Development Model By Editor

Paropakaram Vahanti Nadya, Paropakaram Duhanti Gaaya Paropakaram Phalanti Vriksha, Paropakaram Idam Shareeram

{Rivers flow for helping others, Cows give milk for helping others, Trees bear fruits for helping others, similarly this body is also meant for helping others}

Our communities, both individually and collectively, h a v e b e e n contributing to help the needy directly or through dona t ions to the temples and other charitable o r g a n i z a t i o n s.

Contemporary wealth creators like the Birlas, Tatas, Azim Premji, Narayanamurthy changed the definition of corporate philanthropy from donation as tokenism to donate for constructive cause.

However, the UNDP reports indicates that India is falling behind in achieving the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDG), to be reached by 2015 (http://www.in.undp.org/content/india/en/home/library/mdg/the-millennium-development-goals-report-2014/). The corporate CSR departments can consider our states developmental needs, and work with NGOs on specific MDGs of their interest. The 8 MDG targets are as follows: 1. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education 3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women 4. Reduce Child Mortality 5. Improve Maternal Health 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability and 8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development.

In a developing country like ours, which has diversity in every sphere, elected governments and bureaucracy cannot be solely entrusted with the responsibility of bringing about the desired socio-economic change. The need of the hour is to bring out an NGO-corporate partnership.

The NGOs In most cases, NGOs have volunteered to take up the task of working for the development of the community out of their own desire to bring about a positive change in the lives of our fellow citizens, by deciding their own mandate. Hence they are answerable to their own conscience (am I doing the right thing?) and accountable to the society (am I doing the best?)

The NGOs need to improve their participatory processes, place community at the center of their programs by involving them at every stage, and promote and strengthen relevant primary stakeholders institutions for sustainability.

They also need to adapt new technology, learn to use and transfer it to the community. Technology is not only about machines and automation, it is also about processes and systems that reduce drudgery, improve productivity, and add value to the existing way of production/service. They have to collaborate with other NGOs to improve quality of their work, to scale up, and to complement each other to meet the needs of the community.

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Some NGOs are found wanting in monitoring their projects regularly, evaluating their results dispassionately, documenting their processes, and reporting/communicating their learnings/successes/failures. The issue of corporate governance in NGOs also needs to be addressed. They need to have independent and competent Boards, whose members can question their activities in regular meetings and guide the NGOs on their path internally. Their accounts and audit have to be transparent, regular and credible. These are essential if the NGOs wish to attract the attention of serious corporate to collaborate in their quest for development.

The NGOs also have to benchmark against best in class organizations. Even though they have experienced but less educated human resources, they can excel with professionalism. Unlike working as junior partners in government funded projects where there is little scope, if any, for deviating from the pre-decided path, there might be more scope for innovation and improvising in response to the emerging ground realities while partnering as equals with corporate under CSR projects. In either case, NGOs should focus equally on the process as well as on the end product. We should realize that all the results in social and community development projects cannot be captured through quantitative metrics alone. There is a significant qualitative data too that needs to be factored in while measuring the change.

Science and Technology Research Institutes Most of the outputs of research do not reach the user on the ground who can use it to improve the productivity of his work. Because of the widespread poverty prevalent in our country, scientists need to be cognizant of their larger social responsibility of bringing the benefits of their valuable

research to the user in the village - who could be a farmer, a dairy producer, a weaver, a primary school teacher, small entrepreneur, or a cottage industry - and help them add value to their output. They need to go out in to the field to identify the problems and work on them. One can understand the importance of research in pure science for extending the frontiers of knowledge, but we should be equally interested in applied science which is useful for transforming the society.

We are happy to know that Ministry of Agriculture is planning a scheme Mera Gaon, Mera Gaurav - in which about 8,000 ICAR scientists will each adopt a village to promote best farming practices and government policies.

In the formal sector, India has a large chain of science labs in CSIR, ICAR and ICMR with highly experienced scientists doing research in various aspects related to our day-to-day life, such as health, nutrition, fuels, roads, housing, agriculture, animal husbandry, horticulture, fisheries. Some of them have their own systems of lab-to-land of reaching out to the end users. However they need to explore more avenues of Action Research (where scientists can take up projects jointly in the field in partnership with the NGOs and other experienced primary stakeholders ), of Extension (where the research institutes can share their results to scale up by leveraging the reach of NGOs on the ground), and a two-way dialogue (where NGOs can suggest problems that need solutions, and the scientists can obtain feedback from the end-users and improve upon their products).

The Corporate The amount being spent under CSR by the Corporate is actually a liability in their


Balance Sheets belonging to the owners (shareholders) of the company. However, society has bestowed upon them the responsibility of utilizing it for the welfare of other stakeholders of their business - who may or may not be in the immediate vicinity of the company because of the belief that they can produce better results by using these funds more efficiently and effectively, just as they do in their core business. In the process, if the corporate can leverage it for generating goodwill for its company and the brand, it is a win-win for all the parties. But the question that the corporate should be seized with is, are we doing the best for the community? Is our CSR activity really contributing to their sustainable development and bringing about a transformative change in their lives?

Instead of going for only the low hanging fruits, such as some simple, one-time activities in their immediate geographical neighborhood, it would be useful if the corporate can think of taking up challenging, long-term programs that are commensurate with their companys capabilities, which need sustained work and have longer gestation periods before the intended goals are achieved.

The corporate can consider going out of their comfort zone, and choose to work in under-developed, remote and difficult locations such as the tribal regions in Adilabad, and Khammam, farther areas in Mahabubnagar, Srikakulam, and Vijayanagaram. It is more challenging to work in these places where external help is not readily available.

NGO-Corporate PartnershipJust as the industrial/corporate work is specialized and needs trained and qualified experts to handle the tasks, so is the field of rural and community development. Hence, the corporate can either spend

their funds themselves through their own staff, or identify likeminded and dedicated organizations experienced in working in the field and support them. In any case, corporate do not like taking up anything that is not in the domain of their core competency, instead they outsource (such as payroll management, transport etc.) to the best players in the business. They can consider doing the same with their CSR resources, without compromising on their expectations (of getting the best bang for their bucks). Apart from the mandatory amount (as a percent of net profit) to be spent under CSR, they also have enormous expertise in Marketing and ICT, which can be adapted and transferred to the context of social development by working with the NGOs.

While collaborating with each other, we should have a reasonable understanding of each others strengths and weaknesses, so that we can complement each other to achieve the best possible results and also avoid duplication. How does a Corporate go about selecting a project/NGO for funding? What sort of due diligence is required to be done? There are organizations that do commendable work in bringing about a positive change in difficult situations, but they might not be able to communicate (websites, annual reports in English) well with external audiences; while there are others who are media savvy and internet friendly, but with nothing much to show on the ground. They should be able to sift the wheat from the chaff!!

Based on our experience e in Tech for Seva symposium, we believe that the main drivers of community development - the NGOs and the Corporate sector cooperate and leverage each others strengths in ushering in the desired change in peoples lives.


Interview with Sh. Kumar Anurag Pratap, CSR Leader, Capgemini

Please tell us about yourself.

As a CSR Leader for Capgemini India, I play multiple role wherein I become initiator sometime, a translator, a bridge bui lder and an

implementer sometime. My role also expects me to prepare the roadmap for effective and impactful CSR intervention which is in sync with our identity as responsible Corporate. I manage the relationship with external charities and act as bridge between Capgemini and Communities.

Can you please briefly explain about Capgemini?

Capgemini is one of the worlds foremost providers of consulting, technology, outsourcing services and local professional services. Present in over 40 countries with almost 145,000 people, the Capgemini Group helps its clients transform in order to improve their performance and competitive positioning.

How does Capgemini define corporate social responsibility [CSR]?

Our Corporate Responsibi l i ty & Sustainability vision is to be leader in sustainable excellence through a bold and influential approach, positively impacting Capgeminis future, our clients, society and the planet.

We recognize that better and harmonized society would need much more than just financial resources. Our goal is to Enhance our identity and reputation as a Responsible Corporate by mobilizing and contributing

with our skills and resources, in building a better and harmonized society through intensive collaboration and cooperation with our multiple stakeholders including communities, customers, governments and employees.

Please throw some light on Capgeminis CSR journey. Preferably India operations.

As a major global employer, we work locally, nationally and internationally with charities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local authorities around inclusivity, diversity and skills for the future. Around the Group, we encourage active involvement of our team members in community development. We witnessed a major shift in our approach from philanthropic based to strategic integration of various stakeholders with the larger aim of positively impacting the communities in which we live and operate.

Our CSR approach in India is based on four thematic areas: these are Education, Employability & Livelihood, Environment and Emergency Response. In all of these thematic engagements with communities, the key enabler is employee engagement.

Education

We believe education is the key differentiator for development- both at community and national level. As a business, we also acknowledge that education is key enabler for transforming population into human resources - an integral factor in the economy. We focus on access, quality and inclusion of education as part of our intervention agenda.


EmployabilityWe experienced that completing certain level of academic years does not ensure instilling of employable skills amongst the youth. The community we operate in has a large number of students not continuing their education after completing certain schooling years. They tend to get into petty jobs with no guarantee of its continuance. To enhance the employability potential of these youths, we have intent of setting up skill building training centers. We have named this program as LEAP (Livelihood Education through Action against Poverty). This program primarily target youths who are school and college dropouts. Along with the hard skills pertaining to training in various identified trades, soft skills will also be part of the comprehensive modules to be delivered. Thus making them equipped for the employment opportunities.

EnvironmentAt Capgemini, we focus both on internal and external efforts to promote and encourage environment protection. We firmly believe that Nurturing Environment for Inclusive Growth should be the basic principle to operate on. Internally we have taken a number of initiatives that are designed towards reducing our per employee carbon emissions, reducing waste and conserving our natural resources. At external level, the focus is on efficiently handling waste, creating digital platform for building solidarity and promoting community action for harmonizing environmental factors.

EmergencyIndia being a vast country often witnesses natural disasters impacting large number of people and their properties. Through our emergency response our effort is to provide immediate relief materials so that communities suffering and hardship can be minimized.

What are your companys recent CSR initiatives?Our CSR policy which articulates the road map that we wish to undertake and governance structure which outlines how we will be taking CSR journey forward has helped us initiate and strengthen multiple community based interventions. Some of the key efforts are

Education We have set a target of reaching out to 5,00,000 children by 2020. We intend to achieve this by launching 4 major programs under the aegis of education.

Capgemini School Adoption ProgramGovernment School adoption program focuses on access, quality and infrastructural support. Making education relevant and engaging for the children, enabling children to enjoy their childhood through availability of play equipments and other resources, providing regular training to teachers and empowering them with tools & aids to conduct their sessions by implementing the learned modules, transforming school principals to be the change leaders and strengthening school management committees to be an influential element in continuing these processes are salient features of this program. Small it may look, but efforts like ensuring functional toilets, safe drinking water, library, science and computer labs as part of school adoption will go a long way in making government school as institutions for children to learn while enjoying their childhood.

Capgemini Girl Child Sponsorship Program -ENLIGHTUnder the ENLIGHT program, we intend to encompass girls coming from disadvantaged families, the families who are left out in the education journey. These include but not limited to girl children with disabilities,


from HIV/AIDS infected/ affected families, of commercial sex workers and other disadvantaged parents, affected by natural calamities, homeless background, migrant families, trafficked, abused children, girl children in institutions. The real need is evident in these categories who have historically been ignored and stigmatized and still prevail to exist in negligence.

For providing these children access to education along with developing an orientation process for their smooth integration in the mainstream, Capgemini has taken a step towards this direction. We believe in reaching out to these children who otherwise lack the wherewithal and

motivation in their own social systems. We intend to link each girl child with an employee of ours as a part of employee engagement. Sensitization sessions would be conducted for the employees to understand and comprehend the context in which these girls have their existence. Having these girls become part of our journey towards inclusive development would surely prove its merit and provide a model to adopt. This year, we are targeting to reach 1000 girl children across all the locations of our

presence. The process is continuous of learning, modifying and implementing an important aspect to internalize our actions within the corporate setting as well.

Capgemini Scholarships for Technical and Medical EducationFor a knowledge driven economy, a growing number of people in the workforce, today, require higher educational qualification. Recognizing this area of need, we aim to fill this lacuna by awarding scholarships to academically bright students from low income families to pursue Engineering and Medical education in India. This year, we have selected 90 students from this

background and provide them support in the form of means-cum-merit scholarship to pursue technical and medical education. Scholarship is just one form of support; we will combine this with soft skills training and mentoring support through our senior leadership for these scholars.

Capgemini Digital Literacy centreCapgemini Centre for Digital Literacy draws energy from National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) program and aims at


creating at least a digitally literate and empowered person per household in India. The programme would not only bridge the digital divide existing within the country but would also empower communities to adopt and use digital technology for their day to day life.

The Capgemini Centre for Digital Literacy centers aim primarily to engage citizens in diverse age groups in diverse communities across India to significantly impact human development indices. Women, youth and children are the primary target groups.

EmployabilityFor us, the trained human resource is the greatest asset and we value each of our employees immensely for their skill, talent and passion they bring to the business. We also acknowledge existence of large population who has the passion but not the skills to move forward. The LEAP (Livelihood Education Action Against Poverty) program is borne out of this context where we are aiming to train youth with hard and soft skills and make them employable for the industry to hire them. This year, we intend to start the process to make 5000 youth ready for industry by providing them with industry specific skills.

Environment:Decentralized Waste Management System- Acknowledging that Bangalore generates 4000 tons of waste every day; we initiated a decentralized waste management system with active engagement of Municipal Corporation, NGO, and citizens group. This projects aims at managing waste at source by introducing a neighborhood waste management facility which has infrastructure to manage 2-3 tons of segregated wet and dry waste.

This system would make a neighborhood of around 5000 households self sufficient

in terms of its waste management. The resources that are generated as a result include compost which can go back into our soil, enriching it with nutrients to grow more food. On the other hand, all dry waste in the form of paper, plastic, metal and glass can be recycled. We also feel that this is logical extension of Swacch Bharat Campaign where the waste collected gets recycled.

One of our aspiration, and more because we being an IT company, is to create Digital Platform for Environmental Awareness and Capacity Building. Under this, we aim to develop a digital platform for school students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and educationists. This platform will host creative and interactive environment education content and resource materials in the form of books, publications, education manuals, training workbooks, videos and images, and engaging games related to environment conservation. This, first of its kind, digital resource centre is aimed at revitalizing the quality of education in India by providing resources to the education community which will help them infuse environment into the Indian education system. Our big vision for this project is that it will eventually caters to a much wider audience, outside the purview of education, and is viewed as a one- stop destination for the general audience for any educational and informative content on environment.

When I look back to our CSR journey, I can confidently say that with passionate employees, committed volunteers, concentrated efforts, integrated approach and focused activities have been the critical enablers to achieve what we have achieved today. But these are initial successes. We are aiming for bigger pie both in social sector investment and in having more inspiring narratives to fuel our CSR journey


You have supported and participated in the Tech For Seva conference. Can you please explain how your association with TFS has helped your CSR activities or identifying NGOs?The conference was enriching and provided us with a platform to interact with various NGOs and know the different solution for the problems faced by the community. The comference was very stimulating intellectually and we were proud of our participation in it. Amongst the 300+ we reached out to many where discussions are at advanced level for engagement.

What you expect from TFS team? What kind of activity you are looking at your project area?The conference provided a platform for corporate to collaborate with NGOs. We expect the collaboration to continue and use the technology more effectively and optimize the impact and also to reach more people.

What do you think is the future of corporate social responsibility? Is this truly a paradigm shift that were seeing across India or across the globe in terms of how firms view their roles in society, or is this just a temporary fad?

How do you see CSR 10 years from now?Moving forward, I strongly feel that with emphasis on strategic CSR, the CSR domain itself will witness a transformation- both in construct as well as in practice. The important factors of transparency and accountability coming into picture, corporate will be more vigilant about their spent in the social sector.

On the other side, with more rigor coming into the processes; the civil society has to accommodate itself to be in alignment with the pace at which these systems are unfolding. The exit strategy needs to be in place ensuring support from corporate is result and impact based. The capacity building of organizations, primarily the grassroot NGOs, will also play a vital role in this regard. Rather than letting the organizations be on the receiving end, they should be on equal terms when it comes to discussion on undertaking common projects.

The major shift we should be ready for is to replace the diction of donation/contribution to the language of partnership and collaboration.


Kriti: Livelihood and Education for Urban PoorKriti is a not for profit organization working in the Filmnagar slums in Hyderabad since August 2009. Kriti was started by professionals from the corporate sector who are passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of urban slum dwellers. Kriti believes that working with the women will help improve the whole families well-being. SO, Kriti works on women centric issues, such as livelihoods for women, education of children and gender issues.

Since the day Kriti was established, they have worked on different projects covering health care, financial literacy, health education, immunization, conducting drives to ensure children dont drop out of school, day care centers to enable women to go out and work, skills training and business training for women and a few others.

Currently Kriti supports two projects:Scholarships for children:

We support the education of over 100 children from needy families and also provide mentoring to the children and the mothers. The scholarship program focuses on children in the urban slums areas near Film Nagar in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, India. The parents of the students are mostly daily wage labour, car and auto drivers, office help etc. The mothers (if employed) work mostly as domestic help or work with Kriti. The monthly household income is in the range of Rs. 4,000-12,000.

The scholarship program has been in existence informally since 2010. Initially, the scholarship program was only extended to employees of Kriti. Later, interest in the scholarship program spread through word of mouth and we started receiving

applications from needy children within the slum. In some cases, the schools where the children were studying also recommended other children. These children were in a state of being forced to drop out of school due to lack of money, despite being interested in studies.

Livelihoods for women:

Kritis livelihood project aims to empower poor women by providing them an opportunity to earn income in a safe environment that maintains their dignity. We understand the issues that our women grapple with low self esteem and confidence, social barriers to go out to work, practical constraints such as small children at home and water scarcity. At the Kriti center, over 80 women have learnt tailoring a useful skill by itself. Many have stayed on to form production groups and do tailoring at the center. Here they work in a comfortable all women environment, even bringing their children along when they have to. Some women who are looking for only home based work have learnt to make newspaper bags and they complete the orders at their homes. The women earn a fair wage for the work they do and we strive to keep the center sustainable through regular sales of the products.

In the tailoring center, we make a range of ethnic home linen products and also a range of eco-friendly bags and folders.

We sell the products directly at exhibitions mostly through free stalls at corporates.

For more information on the products and catalogues, please contact Himani Gupta on 9963577727 or [email protected].


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Jignyasa: Mobile Science Lab - Seva Bharathi, Secunderabad

Current Status of Government SchoolsEvery state has state run schools popularly called as government schools. The teachers in those schools are trained educators who are recruited after passing through various formal training programs. The schools are segregated, with different facilities for girls and boys. The schools follow a pre-set curriculum designed by educators of the respective state.

The quality of education imparted at government schools has much room for improvement. Some of the issues impacting teaching at government schools include:

Improper student-teacher ratio Cramped class rooms Complete absence of science

laboratories

Inadequate libraries Over emphasis on textbook teaching

and concepts

According to the govt. sources, in India 13.3 Lakhs of schools are there and out of them 80% schools are govt. or semi govt. or small private schools. Given the large number of children enrolled in government schools, there is a negative impact on society at large due to the sub-standard primary and secondary education imparted to these children.

One of the main deficiencies in government run schools is the absence science laboratories on the premises. This deprives the children of any exposure to real-world scientific knowledge. Instead the children can only look at a static photo in a textbook. This results in reducing the childrens interest in science.

Jignyasa: An IntroductionSeva Bharathi (http://www.sevabharathi.org) is a pan-Indian NGO with various activities in the fields of education, health awareness, disaster relief, and child welfare. Seva Bharathis new initiative Jignyasa focuses on improving the quality of education in government schools. Jignyasa exposes children to the practical aspect of science concepts by organizing school visits through a mobile science laboratory.

Seva Bharathi started Jignyasa with an aim to give Secondary class students a chance to learn science by performing experiments,

thus giving them not only the pleasure of learning by doing but also rendering the subject enjoyable and easy to understand.

The Jignyasa helps the children in the following ways:


Hands on experience and Interactive teaching.

Exposing children to new ideas and methods.

Linking experiments to school syllabus.

Peer -to-peer instruction.

Improving critical and qualitative thinking

Improving experimental and data analysis skills.

Developing reporting skills (Oral and written).

The mobile science laboratory team demonstrates scientific experiments, which energizes and encourages the students to explore the process further. The experiments are conducted by trained technicians who are able to demonstrate the specific experiment as well as explain the theoretical basis for the experiment. The experiments are conducted inside one of the classrooms in the schools on a pre-arranged schedule. Some of the experiments demonstrated include:

Effects of magnetism on iron particles

Reaction of Sodium metal with water

Generation of hydrogen sulphide gas due to chemical reaction

Presently Seva Bharathi running one mobile science lab under Jignyasa project.

Present Statistics:

No. of Schools covering/month - 48

No. of visits/school/month - 1

Total no. of students benefited - 15000

Seva Bharathi is determined to extend the scope of the Jignyasa program to cover more schools and more than one visit per school. To extend the scope of the program, they are planning for multiple teams, with one van each.

The team is travelling to each location in a van, with all the lab equipment and materials required for the experiments.

If you would like to utilize the mobile science lab in your location or fund for more labs, please contact S Narsimha Murthy 9701914349 or Deva 9014561231.


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Watersheds One Concept-Innumerable BenefitsEfficient and sustainable use of natural resources has become essential for economic development in a country like India where two-thirds of the cropped area is dependent on rainfall without any protective irrigation facilities.

Though our tribal regions and tribal people are the poorest by all indicators, these regions have enormous natural resources in the form of land, water and forests. These resources have to be capitalized through various relevant and effective programmes in the natural resource management to convert these backward regions into progressive regions. Integrated Water Management project (IWMP) is a flagship program of Govt.of India for comprehensive development of Agrarian Economy.

A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place. A watershed is that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community.

The main objectives of the IWMP are to restore the ecological balance by

harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative cover and water.

The outcomes are prevention of soil run-off, regeneration of natural vegetation, rain water harvesting and recharging of

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enables multi-cropping introduction of diverse agro-based

activities, which help to provide sustainable livelihoods

enhances income levels of farmers promote food security improves the quality of lifeNABARD is the nodal agency for implementation of Watersheds throughout the country. Promoted mostly through NGOs. The main reasons for involving NGOs in implementation of watersheds are

To encourage peoples participation in management of natural resources

Capacity building, awareness raising and mobilization of community.

Our operational Area: Tribal mandals of Utnoor and Indervelly, Adilabad dist. (7 watersheds)

Large population of small and marginal farmers

Agriculture excessively dependent on monsoon dry land agriculture

Hilly terrain Average rainfall of 1100 mm one of

the highest in the state

Principal crops Cotton, soya bean, Jowar, Red gram and Paddy.


S.NO Watershed name Area (hectares)Population (families)

Budget (in Cr)

1 Yamaikunta, Indervelly Mandal 975 1.68

2 Harkapur 1060 491 1.07

3 INdervelli 1037 457 1.21

4 Wadagaon 988 416 1.12

5 Mamidiguda 815 189 0.93

6 Chintakarra 1334 394 1.46

7 Lachampur (mega) 4100 1000 4.92

Uniqueness of SISS managed watersheds: Truly participative in nature Peop le s pa r t i c ipa t ion f rom

conceptualization to implementation

Village watershed development committees (VWCs) form the backbone of watershed management.

VWC committees are democratically elected in Gram sabhas.

VWCs are given Responsibilities of maintaining Cheque, Cash, Ledger and other Watershed related books.

Labour groups were formed and opened savings account in group name. Labour payments were done through cheque and provided awareness on personal savings and linkages with bank.

Mutually aided Cooperative societies (MACs) formed in 6 watershed area.

Transparency: Watershed entry point board installed. Provided display boards at village level. Sanction and expenditure details

furnished in VWCs

Translation of NABARD sanction details from English to Telugu

Action Plan details provided year and monthly wise through VWC

Visible Outcomes: Open wells recharged Migration stopped Average 2-3 meters water table rise Productivity increase by 30-35%In a nutshell, SISS watersheds have enabled truly remarkable changes in the lives of people living in Agency areas of Utnoor and Indervelly mandal- not only in terms of enabling long term food security through watershed management practices, but also encouraging the spirit of self reliance through self help, ownership of common resources and also management of these resources through democratically elected representatives.

Through the sustained efforts of SISS, one could sense perceptible changes in the agency areas of Adilabad in terms of organized agricultural activities based on scientific principles, better adaptability to eco system thereby increasing food security, increased incomes and other immeasurable but significant changes in their lifestyles.

For more information you can contact P. Venugopal Reddy @ 9490470064 or [email protected]


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Contact Us:Seva Bharathi, 3-2-106, Nimboli Adda, Kachiguda, Hyderabad Telangana - 500 027, India.

Tel: +91 9949566499, +91 9963077600 | Email: [email protected] : www.sevabharathi.org

One day Workshop for NGOsDate: 20th September, 2015.

Venue: ECE Auditorium, College of Engg., Osmania University Interested NGOs can eMail to [email protected] or call +91 99495 66499

Last date to register : 20th August, 2015

Tech For Seva has identified training as key initiative that can transform the functioning of NGOs. In addition to helping them adopt best management practices, training has the potential to induce professional approaches.The program has been devised keeping in mind the day-to-day challenges faced by them. The program encompasses the following themes:

Developing Project ProposalsNGOs are required to prepare proposals and detailed reports for their projects, primarily to raise funds. The projects need to be aligned with government schemes and CSR initiatives of large corporates to avail financial benefits. TFSs approach is Logical Framework Analysis, which will help the NGOS in effective planning, allocation of necessary resources and successful implementation of projects.

SustainabilityCommunity participation is perhaps the most important step to ensure long term sustainability of an initiative. TFS approach paper aims at promoting NGO initiatives among community based organizations and ensuring their participation.

CommunicationEffective communication with all stakeholders is of prime importance. This in turn helps the NGOs receive their support in the form funds and volunteer participation. TFS would take lead in imparting training in proper documentation and reporting as required by the statute. Encouraging the use of web-based communication through emails, websites and presence on social media also forms part of the program.

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