Buniayd Baseline Facilitation Shop Training of DSS

It was a vision to empower the diocese to use their intellectual capacity and field knowledge to work in group for creating their own questionnaire for the baseline in their region.

It started with the Introduction of baseline, and then frequent discussion began, Caritas India facilitated the proceedings (including Mr Joseph, Mr Shaju, Mr Vinod and Mr Aneesh ) and   framed  4 groups of all the 10 partners from Bundelkhand and Maharashtra diocese the best part was that everyone shared their own experience of working in the field area and the issues that they generally see with the villagers. Since all the partners were ready with their Situational Analysis and Problem Tree, So it became easier in framing the questions and 6 major issues were identified (including Agriculture, Entitlements,  Skill development, Migration, Forest and Water).

On the Second day we finalized the questions and went in the 2 field areas of Poone Diocese for the field testing, there we talked to Sarpanch, Anagawadi workers and villagers; we filled the Village Profile and Farmers Profile while trying to identify the problems that we faced filling the interview schedule. After when we returned back we had very enjoying cultural event facilitated by Caritas India and the other partners.

On the last day we discussed on all the pros and cons of the questionnaire and refined it, than all the partners sat in their group and worked on their questionnaire to finalize it. Lastly, we had a concluding session including vote of thanks by Caritas India and Partner DSS and discussion on the 3 days workshop while improvements that needs to be worked on during the other workshops.

Achievements:

·         All the partners’ diocese created their own questionnaire.

·         They themselves indentified the errors in the interview schedule and rectified it.

·         They went with the final “Village Profile and Household Profile” to their respective diocese.

·         They have already started working on the baseline in their areal.

Alok Tripathy

Project Manager

Harit Prayas(MVSS, Sagar)