About -VIDIYAL. VIDIYAL means in Tamil vernacular DAWN. The organization is registered under Civil Service Society act in 1986

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1 About -VIDIYAL VIDIYAL means in Tamil vernacular DAWN The organization is registered under Civil Service Society act in 1986

2 VISION AND MISSION OF VIDIYAL VISION: Vidiyal envisages a state of model community living at which the poor and marginalized people will be socially, economically empowered. MISSION: Organizing the people, providing Education and creating opportunities to enable them to solve their problems by them selves for sustained development.

3 Programme Strategies Organizing People s forum for collective action enabling to access technical expertise. Sensitizing people about their socioeconomic environment issues. Facilitating the access to Government Programmes. Co-ordinating and collaborating with NGO s for lobbying and advocacy.

4 O R G A N I Z A T I O N

5 VIDIYAL SHG LINKAGES UP TO DEC-2008 TOTAL GROUPS TOTAL GROUPS SAVINGS - Rs. 1,25,00, MEMBERS RF Melania foundation German Indian Society EA RF (Thadco ) EA (Thadco) NABARD TAPSETCO Katcha House Goat Rearing L Total Arogiya agam Vidivelli RMK Sanitation VLF PLF Loan from savings Total - 5,92,94, TOTAL LINKAGES - 9,49,10,450.00

6 Activities Community Water Purification Community Water Shed Goat Rearing Learning with ICT

7 ICTD IN WOMEN CONCILIATION CENTER: STRENGTHENINGE-GOVERNANCE TO LIFE LONG LEARNING VIDIYAL Rasingapuram Theni District, Tamil Nadu December 2008

8 Issues identified Poor women have limited access to legal and judicial institutions Lack of awareness and knowledge and high transaction costs are the main reasons. Legal Aid Cells all over the country not fully optimized. Still- high transaction cost.. Low awareness on various rights Less negotiating capacity with legal and judicious institutions Low awareness on access to various development programmes.

9 Solutions.. ICT can offer solution by Building the capacity Reducing the transaction cost Developing horizontal network

10 Project- Goal Strengthening the role of ICT in providing the legal, constitutional and human right awareness among women and enable them to interact with appropriate institutional mechanisms Developing a model and road map for Legal Aid Cells and National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) in ICT based legal literacy programmes and conciliation process Enhancing their negotiation capacity with various stakeholders at the household level, at the community level as well as at the enterprise level for ensuring effective livelihood security.

11 Approach Capacity building through self-directed learning ICT enhances the canvass for self-directed learning VDIYAL learnt this from another project supported by Common Wealth of Learning (COL) in the context of savings, crediting and micro-enterprise management

12 Project objectives Promoting Self-Directed Learning in legal, constitutional and human rights among poor women using mobile phones Orienting the present Women Conciliation Centre with ICTs and enabling large scale interactions with less transaction cost. This would be done with the establishment of Village Knowledge Centres

13 Project objectives Helping the women members identifying their eligibility in various development programme of state and central government using Indian Citizen Eligibility Identification System (ICLIS) strengthening the horizontal transfer of knowledge in legal, constitutional and human rights through structured mobile phone conversations among women

14 Project area and Target Population Theni District in the state of Tamil Nadu The project will focus on 4000 women members of Self-Help Groups and their families

15 Major Project Partners Vidivelli Women Federation Arul Anandar College, Karumathur, Madurai Legal Aid Cell, Government of Tamil Nadu Common Wealth of Learning (COL) M. S. Swaminathan research Foundation (MSSRF) and AIRTEL-IFFCO

16 Expected outcomes The negotiating power of the women among the SHGs will increase. There will be proven negotiating processes with banks, governments and marketing agencies. At the household level, assets owned by women will increase. Total Credit flow of Rs.2.00 crores from various financial institutions for micro enterprises The project will become a role model for Legal Aid cells and NALSA.

17 Expected outputs 3,600 person/hours of formal learning 10 locally produced VCD materials 96 locally produced Voice Mail materials regularly mailed to 250 SHGs and 300 members. 26 Women Conciliation Centre Meetings using ICTa 600 hrs of conversations relevant to legal, constitutional, human rights and livelihood through horizontal transfer of knowledge 60 hours of interaction with legal experts and WCC Touch Screen Based ICLIS in Three centres with Multi-media based ICLIS software package.

18 ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY Proposed week Activity Promoting self directed learning in Legal, constitutional and human rights among poor women using mobile phones Month.1 3 RD & 4 TH Month.1 4 th week on wards Month.1 1 st Month 1 &2 2 nd & 3 rd and 1st Planned Need Assessment Content development Orientation training to Vidiyal staff Awareness training on mobile based message dissemination to SHG members Achieved Completed On going as per plan- Content developed for computer training Completed Completed- 4 one training per village

19 ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY Proposed week Activity Orienting the present Women Conciliation Centre with ICT s and enabling large scale interactions with the establishment of VKCs Month. 1 1 st, 2 nd & 4 th Month.1 & 2 4 th &1st & 2nd Month.1 & 2 4 th &1st & 2nd Planned Community mobilization and awareness on VKC s Base line survey Production of VCD learning materials Achieved 4 villages were identified out of 6 interested villages held village meetings On going as per the plan- Questioner finalized and investigators identified On going as per the plan- One VCD developed

20 ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY Proposed week Month.1 &2 3 rd & 4 th and 1 st and 2nd Activities Helping the women identifying their eligibility in various development programmes using Indian Citizen Eligibility identification system (ICLIS) Planned Collection and compiling of basic data on development programmes Achieved On going as per plan- The Departments like DRDA, Agriculture, Horticulture, Social welfare, NIC, WDCL, Agri., Engg., Civil Supplies, Adi Diravida Welfare have been Approached Details regard 18 schemes and projects obtained and given to A.A.C for compilation

21 ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY Proposed week Activities Strengthening Horizontal transfer of knowledge in legal, constitutional and human rights through structured mobile phone conversation among women Planned Not planned any activity for the first two months Achieved Month 1 4 th week Month 1 4 th week Monitoring by Vidiyal team and review by steering committee RBM monthly report to NISG Completed Completed, The report will shared with NISG soon

22 Other major activities carried out.. Stakeholders meeting to discuss and plan the project activities Sub contracts were made between the project partners, like between Vidial and Arul Aanandar collage, Vidiyal and Airtel etc Formation of Project steering committee Participatory preparation of project LFA and activity plan

23 In the future. Implementing the project activities as per the LFA and activity plan already prepared Periodical meeting with stakeholders to review the project results and planning for better performance Aiming to achieve the outputs as expected and moving towards reaching the outcomes at end of the project period

24 VIDIYAL Woman SHG member produced VCDs VKC EXPOSURE VKC MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

25 Thanks