RATING SCALE UPKARAN: a tool for the CBOs by the CBOs

As a result of the learning meeting cycle held in Satna the last month we had a brief discussion on the monitoring tools that need to be developed for rating the CBOs at the field level. Henceforth, Harit Prayas Team, Sagar had taken up the issue very seriously and the Rating Scale Upkaran on an 8:10 points, of the ongoing CBOs of our villages was circulated among the team members for a period of 10 days and their further improvement to it. As result of which the cluster coordinators suggested to have a practical experiment on the CBOs (both MMs and FCs) which are 6-7 months and 3-4 months, so to have a clear picture as to which CBOs will fit the monitoring factors of the tool so developed in a positive reflection/motivating way.

The rating scale was implemented on 3 MMs and 3FCs, and the results were not that disappointing.

s.no	CBO name	Structure	Months Old	Village	Responsible cluster coordinator	Rating
1	Pooja	MM	2months	Dovi	Hari singh	Weak
2	Hariyali	FC	3months			Weak
3	Radha	MM	7months	Samnapur kalam	Raja patel	Moderate
4	Sangham	FC	6months			Moderate
5	Narmada	MM	6months	Semra	Rajendre Thakur	Moderate
6	Mahadev	FC	7months			Moderate

One of the major innovations that we found was that the tool needed some more rating points that were introduced by the CBO members themselves after the implementation on a trial basis. We also introduced a new idea which was on the implementation strategy of the monitoring tool; the cluster coordinators decided to do a cross checking of their responsible fields related CBOs by the other cluster coordinator  and henceforth they have learned to know each other’s works and learn from each other, instead of evaluating their own CBOs. Furthermore, it has also motivated the CBOs to know how much importance they hold in the Harit Prayas records and learn more after evaluating self achievements and enhance their capacities to be evaluated more highly in days to come.

The tool is planned to be experimented every quarterly on all the CBOs that are 6-7 months old.

This tool will continue to evaluate the CBO that are formed under the Harit Prayas Pariyojna to be authentic and qualitative.

Thanks once again to the learning cycle meet

Courtsey: HARIT PRAYAS MVSS Sagar team