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From Anonymity to Emerging Village Leadership
- The Journey of Khairabad's Socially Alert Citizens

 

By
Bharat Dogra
Development Journalist

Building Community Resilience to Flood Risks in Kaisarganj Block, U.P., India.

Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh, situated below the boarder of Nepal, is a high flood hazard zone. The districts get flooded when there is high rain in the upstream of rivers in Nepal, and especially when there is overflow discharge from the barrages in the Indo-Nepal boarder. Bahraich District and especially Kaisarganj Block were submerged by flooding from the Ghaghra river from end of July to September 2007.

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BIHAR FLOOD RELIEF PROGRAMME 2008

On 18th of August 2008, the dam in Nepal Kusaha breached causing devastating floods in five districts of Bihar (India). As a result, the river Kosi changed its course several kilometers to the East flooding the border area in Nepal and five districts in Bihar, India. In India, thousands of villages are affected in the rural and semi- urban districts of 1) Araria, 2) Supaul, 3) Madhepura, 4) Saharsa and 5) Purnea.

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Public Participation and Awareness under Yamuna Action Plan II (YAP II)

YAP II is one of the important projects, being implemented by U.P Jal Nigam through its Project offices at Ghaziabad and Agra. It is being implemented in 3 States of the country (Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh) and within UP, 8 towns viz Agra, Mathura Vrindavana, Etawah (all under Agra region) Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Noida, Ghaziabad (under Ghaziabad region) have been selected where river Yamuna passes through.

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Community Health and Girl Child Education Program

Women today are considered as a weaker sex. They have been given subordinate status in society. A considerable amount of abuse and harassment of women also take place within the family. Experiences say education empowers women, increases women’s status in the community and leads to greater input into family and community decision making.

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Vidya Gyan Scholarship Scheme

This challenge has been bravely taken up by Rajiv Gandhi foundation with generous financial support from the Shri Sivasubramaniya Nadar Educational and Charitable Trust in form of a scholarship programme - The VidyaGyan Scholarships. The programme will cover 3 districts of Rae Bareily, Varanasi and Barabanki Uttar Pradesh. Around 1500 scholarships will be awarded to girls studying in class 6 and class 9.This will check the number of dropouts among girls belonging to muslim and dalit families which are the most marginalized and vulnerable sections of the society. The girls’ selection for availing the benefits is primarily on merit.

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Capacity Building Programme:

Training on Women Leadership Development for women staff members working in Development Organizations

07th July to 17th July 2009

 

Training Programme for Trainers on Participatory Training Methodology

27th July to 02nd August 2009

Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development work is an attempt towards improving development practices so as to enhance its contribution to the response to HIV/AIDS.

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Concluded Programs...

  • Orientation Training Programme on Domestic Violence,held on 12th June, '09 full text
  • Consultation workshop on Enhancing Employability of Youth - Role of Civil Society Organizations, held on 17th March '09. full text
  • International Women’s Day Celebration 2009 On the eve of International women’s day, women’s day celebration was organized in Cholapur block of Varanasi. Around 500 women and adolescent girls including elected representatives of PRI’s participated in the program. full text

  • Sahbhagi Shikhan Kendra organized Abhibhavak Sammelan under Vidhya Gyan Scholarship Programme on 11th of Dec 2008. full text

  • From 20th May 2008 Sahbhagi Shikhan Kendra, mirzapur started a Panchayat Jaagrukta abhiyan 2008, one kind of awareness campaign in the Gram Panchayats of City block. This abhiyan was for one week. We covered 10 G.P intensively and some other GP of extensive area. full text

  • Panchayat Diwas Celebrated on 23rd April 2008 16th anniversary of the 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendments at Mirzapur. full text

  • Glimpses of song, dance, painting, quiz competitions organized  in Cholapur Block of Varanasi. view photos

  • Five day Residential Training of Citizen Leaders on Leadership and Group Process (7th March - 11th March 2008) full text

  • A State Level Workshop was organized on Backward Region Grand Fund by Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Department, 23rd and 24th January 2008. full report in Hindi (.pdf) [Download Presentation: Presentation 1 (.ppt), Presentation 2 (.ppt), Presentation 3 (.ppt), Presentation 4 (.ppt), Presentation 5 (.ppt) ].

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