Saturday, September 27, 2014

Harit Prayas - 2 Situation of Gram Sabha in Sankargarh Block of Allahabad District


Gram Sabha Ya Kuch or/ Gram Sabha or Something else.........







Harit Prayas Team Interacting With Community






Gram Sabha a real planning commission of India from ground zero but Is it real a planning commission or just corom is being fulfilled in the name of Gramn Sabha. Under Ministry of Panchayti Raj, Gram Sabha has been given special power and after the implementation of 73rd amendment in Panchayati Raj act its power increased but what is its real identity. It’s always shared that any work is done for the development of villager should be passed through gram sabha but is it actually happening.
1.      Gram Sabha has following major responsibilities while functioning in a panchayat:
2.      Conducting development work in the village through MGNREGA
3.      Special Gram Sabha on Nutrition Issues
4.      Special Gram Sabha on Child Sex Ration and Domestic Violence
5.      Special Gram Sabha on Women Empowerment
While initiating the process of baseline for Harit prayas- 2 in Shankar Garh block of Allahabad district in Uttar Pradesh I interacted with lot villagers in different villages like “Takai, Quari No 4, Quari No 5 etc’ to my utter surprise whenever I asked villagers “KYA AP GRAM SABHA KI BAITHAK MA JATE HA” Do you go to the meeting of Gram Sabha. They counter me by asking Gram Sabha KYA HOTI HA. What is Gram Sabha. We say every work in village has been done through Gram Sabha, but people don’t even know what Gram Sabha is. How can we expect about Gram Sabha meeting but I am saying this too that on papers meeting must have happened  and villager  have even signed on the proposal that would have been fictitiously passed and so called Grabha Sabha “KA MEETING HO GYA”.
But “Do we Desire for Change” I believe just by sitting like this Change will not come. Caritas India Harit Prayas Project has initiated its Journey of Change  


 Regards
Alok Tripathy

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Position vacant: HARIT PRAYAS 2!!!

Do you think to bring CHANGE?
Do you want to be the part of one of the most innovative development programme?
Do you want to live with change?

IF YES!

Read the below challenging role!

Caritas India is a lead development organization as well as the largest networked organisation in country would be soon starting 2nd phase of  her development programme-HARIT PRAYAS in Bundelkhand region in three districts –Allahabad ( shankargarh), Jhansi , and Sagar.  For the same we invite applications for the position of Programme specialist to be work with our partner organisations in Allahabad, Sagar and Jhansi .
About HARIT PRAYAS: Caritas India, Caritas Spain and Caritas Italiana entered into a partnership agreement to jointly work for the development of BPL SC, ST and OBC community living under the most vulnerable situation in Bundelkhand region, India. This commitment is translated in to a project titled ‘HARIT PRAYAS-a participatory approach for securing livelihood in 64 villages of 23 districts ( Sagar-MP, Chatarpur-MP and Jhansi-UP) of Bundelkhand region’ implemented by the local partner MVSS-Sagar ( in Sagar) , SSSS-Satna (in Chatarpur) and JCSS-Jhansi (in Jhansi) with funding support from Caritas Spain ( for Chatarpur and Sagar) and Caritas Italiana (for Jhansi)HARIT PRAYAS as a result based programme till Dec 2013 able to achieve 91% of total set results and also able to contribute .099%  in  the development of Bundelkhand region. In terms of reach although programme is being implemented in 64 villages, but its impact is been reached to more than 200 villages and impact could be largely seen in terms of following:
1. A village (Majhota)  in Chatarpur has officially changed its name to HARIT PRAYAS Majhota        
2.A village ( semlapur) in Sagar is 100% CFL electrified village ( 1st in MP)
3.         A village (Kota ) in Chatarpur 100% household practices 100% organic cultivation
4.         A village in Jhansi, where community and panchayt banned veil system
5.     A village in Jhansi where a CBO of Rajputs and Dalits formed 1st time in region and broken all walls of caste system
6.     1st Team where in recruitment process Caritas India has been the part of process and supported her valuable partners for hiring capable team
7.    1st development project in region where social audit of the project has been done
8.    1st project to initiate a concept of leaning cycle with other projects, community, government officials and others NGOs 
9. 1st project to be socially audited by community in India

Position: Programme Specialists

Locations: For three locations: Sagar ( with MVSS-Sagar organisation) , Jhansi (With JCSS-Jhansi organisation and  Allahabad (With Janhit sewasadan organisation)

Functional Area: Programme Management

Qualification & Experience:
·         Post Graduate in Rural Management, Rural Development, Social work, Development Management, agriculture, Horticulture, Sociology, forest management, enterprise development, sustainable development and other related subjects (social sciences) from a reputed institution with at least  60% of marks.
·         Experience in the area of community development especially in sustainable agricultural and government schemes (NREGS) activities through CBOs.
·         Experience in the area of government Liasioning
·         Ability to undertake unaccompanied travel in interior rural areas.
·         At least  1-3 years of experience in development sector

Other skills required
·         Effective verbal and written communications skills in English & Hindi.
·         Excellent command over MS Office ( especially on word, excel & power point)
·         Knowledge and experience of blog writing
·         Action Research

Expertise required (negotiable)
·         On Result Based Management ( RBM)
·         MGNREGA
·         FRA
·         RTI
·         Organic Cultivation

Responsibilities
§         Set overall directions/strategies of the project
§         Regular follow up on implementation and participatory monitoring of the project to attain desirable outputs.
§         Regular liaison with CARITAS INDIA for reporting and guidance. Implementation of overall plans within the district specific context and proper monitoring and reporting.
§         Extensive field visits to support direct actions field area.
§         Liaison with district administration for effective policy advocacy
§         Undertake capacity building initiatives at the grassroots for effective learning and support. Planning and conducting trainings.
§         Prepare best management of capacity building inputs through participatory monitoring and documentation.
§         Review the progress of activities at cluster of villages
§         Develop strategy for intervening with the marginalized sections of the village and provide handholding support to women/ dalit members as per needs.
§         Documentation of capacity building experiences for replication. Ensure timely completion of the activities and proper documentation
§         Providing access to information to Panchayat and Gram Sabha members

Salary and other benefits: 20000/- PM (depends on the individual qualities and experience) plus travel allowance, trainings and opportunity to be the part of an innovative project.


INTERVIEW Detail

Date: 26th Sept 2014
Time: 9.00 am
Process: Registration, Written exam, Group discussion and Panel interview
Documents required: CV, Masters marksheet photo copy
Place of Interview:

Jan Hit Sadan
Near Bethany Convent School
Naini - 211008
Allahabad 

What we look for
While assessing a candidate, we look for job specific skills, comparable experience, ability to work well with others, initiative, analytical & problem solving ability, ability to organize, plan and execute and most importantly, potential. It goes without saying that one must be passionate about working for the development of the people.