Ensuring an Entitlement by Realising the Rights of the Communities in NREGS

ARTS is working in 3 panchayts in Seethampet mandals of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. These selected villages cover from exclusive Tribal population of Pedaram , Kadagandi, Shambham Panchayats. In this process, promoting 4 CBOs in these panchats and Mandal level Federation in Seethampet Mnadal.

Objectives:

Ensuring an entitlement through NREG Programme for promoting natural resource development and food security of poor and marginalized

Activities:

• Ensuring the entitlements
• Building participatory &transparent planning process and implementation systems at Panchayat level
• Capacity Building of Communities and field functionaries
• Innovations and pilots
• Evolving as resource organization
• Policy Advocacy

Major Achievements:

• 895 job cards issued after our programme initiation
• Demanding wage seekers for minimum wage per day Rs 80/- to 100/-
• Receipts are providing for Work applications
• Funcationalisation of Graveness system at pachayat level
• Participatory planning for identification of works by the communities for their resource development
• Funcationalisation of wage seeker groups
• Formed Mandal and panchayat level federations
• Facilitation of Grama Sabhas in all panchayts with funcationaries
• IEC material on our programme
• Documentation - results, experiences and impact with case studies and photo graphs

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