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List of Content Page # Content Executive Summary 1 Institution Building & Capacity Building 3-4 Micro Finance 5-6 Livelihoods 7-8 Social Development 9-10 Human Resource Development 11 Monitoring Evaluation & Learning 12 Administration, Finance & Procurement 13 Annexure Human Resource Status 14 Progress up to Sep’ 09 15-16 JEEViKA Song 17
Executive Summary T he end of this quarter marks an end of two years of main project. In this quarter which is 8 th in series, ranging between July to September, 09 — the project made tremendous progress in terms of credit linking of Self Help Groups (SHGs). More than 1800 SHGs (which is far more than the achievement made so far) with over Rs. 35 Million have been credit linked during the quarter. This has been the result of consistent and focused effort of working with commercial and rural banks, particularly the exposure of bank officials to Andhra Pradesh and entering into institutional collaboration with major commercial and regional rural banks in the form of MOU’s. Signing of MOUs particularly with RRBs gave a great flip to this whole effort as their presences in rural areas are more common than any particular commercial and rural banks. During the quarter the project signed MOUs with four commercial and rural banks: Madhya Bihar Gramin Bank (MBGB), Bihar Kshetriya Gramin Bank (BKGB), Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank (UBGB) and Central Bank of India (CBI). On the institution building and capacity building front, expediting the formation of Village Organisations, revisiting the policies of community cadres and designing and development of VO Flip Charts and training module were some of the major areas where progress were made. There were gaps in CM identification and their training—a special drive was undertaken to reduce this gap. By the end of quarter, out of 852 CMs identified, 679 had received training and now in turn they are providing their services to community Institutions. An exposure visit for master trainers of village organizations to SERP, Andhra Pradesh was organized so that their services could be utilized to reduce the training gaps of community institutions. Induction training for the newly recruited managers was also organized to brief them about the project principles, basic design of the project and their roles and responsibilities. Under the livelihoods front the system of rice intensification (SRI) was scaled up to more than eight thousand farmers (1318.6 acres) of 350 villages in 12 blocks of six districts. The project has tried out to integrate Participatory Varietal Selection & Promotion (PVSP) Programme with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) to create a complementary effect. This has been tried in Khagaria and Purnea district, and the initial results are quite encouraging. The project is also trying to build an alternative extension mechanism for the handholding support of the small and marginal farmers in the form of Village Resource Persons (VRPs). There are around 330 Village Resource Persons (VRPs) who were identified and trained in System of Rice Intensification (SRI). In addition, process of formation of two Women Farmers’ Producers Company, one each in Khagaria and Purnea has been initiated. Project has also decided to universalize the interventions of Health Risk Fund (HRF) and Food Security Fund (FSF) with all eligible Village Organizations. The health saving has been initiated in 116 VOs in which 1137 SHGs are participating. The total cumulative health savings of these VOs has reached to around Rs. 4 lakhs. During this quarter 102 VOs have been given Rs. 5100000/- (Rupees fifty one lakhs only) as HRF. The food security programme has been also scaled up to 54 VOs in which 3564 SHGs members are participating. Under the food security programme Rs. 43.96 lakhs have been released with the help of which 2700 Quintals of food grains have been purchased and disbursed. A comprehensive operational guideline for women outreaches workers along with monitoring parameters and responsibilities of VO have been developed jointly by Janani and JEEViKA. The cumulative figure of the signature literate women has gone up to 40542 from 28908; with a quarterly growth rate of 28.69%. Another significant development of the last quarter was scaling up of the project to 26 new blocks, including two flood ravaged blocks, one each from the districts of Supaul and Madhepura. Establishment of block offices, procurement of furnitures and fixures and recruitment of new staff were the major tasks in which the whole organisation was involved. At the hindsight, a decision to send two staff from older blocks to newer blocks seems to be a good strategy; specifically it helped in replicating the standards of the work done in older blocks to newer blocks. However, in spite of several progresses that the project has made, at all fronts, the disbursements of CIF are far behind the target set in Annual Action Plan. Out of the total planned CIF disbursement of Rs. 16.9 Crores, only 4.1 Crores (till Sept, 09) have been spent, which is 1/4 th of the planned outlay. Therefore the next quarter throws a great challenge to catch up the disbursement as well as the expenditure lags...……………………………………………... Page | 2
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