: Aa Foundation for Community Development

Key focus area

By Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES) Posted on Wed 13 Jun 2012, over 12 years ago

Dear AA,

As Dipti ji already mentioned about your extensive & integrated activities of water & sanitation. I would like to know::

As water & sanitation is vast term, what would be your key focus area under water & sanitation ??

Key focus area

By Aa Foundation for Community Development Posted on Thu 14 Jun 2012, over 12 years ago

Community based Rainwater harvesting,
Ecofriendly toilets for community
Water filters for families
Capacity building workshop for the community and other stake holders.

Primary Focus

By Peer Water Exchange Posted on Mon 25 Jun 2012, over 12 years ago

Dear Varalakshmi,

I can see that you are interested to take up different activities on watsan at same time, have you choke out how you will implement the project with a small team?

do you have a concrete implementation plan? plz share it.

Kusum

Primary Focus

By Aa Foundation for Community Development Posted on Sun 01 Jul 2012, over 12 years ago

Dear kusum
We wil be playing facilitator role , the system already exist and we have to communicate , organise resources and capapcity building work session which there are technical people and groups,
As of now I am not thingking to expand with more people, again it will be isolated from community and system . we are going to identify community level people in the village and strengren them so that the resource remains in the village.

And I a have a network of volunteers team(students , professionals,) who will support for this work.

Linkages with the Government

By GRAVIS Posted on Sun 01 Jul 2012, over 12 years ago

Dear friends at Aa Foundation,

Your vision is clear and impressive. As a new organization, we wish you all the best in achieving your targets. It seems that the links with the local government will be crucial for you in order to reach anganwadis and schools. What steps have you taken or intend to take to strengthen these links.

Thanks,

Prakash Tyagi
GRAVIS

Linkages with the Government

By Aa Foundation for Community Development Posted on Sun 01 Jul 2012, over 12 years ago

Dear prakash, yes working with government is a challenge,but the government is biggest implementer ,reaches in large scale , so creating model , trying out methods , trying new strategies along with the government becomes important and let us not forget they are our one of the stake holders.
My experience says ,if you do things isolated not involving community or donor ,or local governance , then it is not a replicable module, your remain isolated successful.in a small way. Also to draw the resources from al the side , increase participation , networking and advocating the issues we need to be with the concerned department , people. One to educate them, (awareness), to learn, and towards sustainability.

My experience with childlabour issue and child protection on this strategeis have gained momentum in law building more safer network, notifications , system by the government and I do think/work using this strategy.

Linkages with the Government

By Aa Foundation for Community Development Posted on Sun 01 Jul 2012, over 12 years ago

Anganwadi's are right now in a very poor condition all over the country, many studies , survey says the serious intervention is needed , As I am also part of child rights group in state , we are having series of discussion and debate , experimenting to improve the condition of the exsisting anganwadi's in the state , and many other NGO's do .

Without government , any donor can adopt one or two , or many anganwadi's for improving but still their role is limited (also question of safety norms they follow) and what is the state responsibility?(interms of allocation of budget/law/implementation).

So As a small organization , I have taken 3 wards in Bangalore(16 anganwadi's-only for technical advice) and 10 in Malur villages, We are trying to bring awareness among community , parents that they are first stake holder and they have greater role in seeing functioning of anganwadi in their village , same thing with school , strengthening School monitoring committee , grampanchayat on importance of education , forming child right committees at school and at GP level. Participating in state level campaigns, conducting 100% enrollment campaigning, identifying dropout and enrolling, child rights information for teachers/GP/Community.

Linkages with the Government

By GRAVIS Posted on Mon 02 Jul 2012, over 12 years ago

Thanks Varalakshmi for your detailed reply. It seems you are working very actively on developing strong links, which will be very important for your future work. Best wishes.

Prakash