[special_heading title=”Progress Update from 15th March” subtitle=”a) Health kit has been successfully running in the region, as per last progress report no. of beneficiaries tremendously increased from 549 Household to 705 Household, wherein 649 were Adults and 56 were children. So far medicine for children has been introduced in 11 villages.” animated=”no” font=”secondary”]
  1. Health kit has been successfully running in the region, as per last progress report no. of beneficiaries tremendously increased from 549 Household to 705 Household, wherein 649 were Adults and 56 were children. So far medicine for children has been introduced in 11 villages.
  2. As per last progress report out of total 1787 household toilets for 1360 household had been sanctioned, now this figure has gone upto 1454 household. Out of 1454 sanctioned IHHL, construction of 15 toilets has been completed whereas construction of 150 IHHL are still underway.
  3. 2015-16 MGNREGA village planning have been submitted to their respective panchayats, however planning of rest 10 villages would be submitted by the end of April 2015.
  4. So far our field activist’s (Jan Sathi) have filled up 1223 C1 forms (MGNREGA Application Form) in Darinibadi, same need to be submitted in the respective panchayat offices.
  5. 3 participants from Daringibadi i.e. Manas, Sudhakar and Joel have participated in water testing training in Bhubaneswar Office on 10 and 11th April 2015. Therein 2 Trainers from Arghyam Helped the participants understand some basic concepts of water quality and their relevance. They also had done some hands-on exercises on Water Quality testing on Physical, micro-bacterial and chemical contamination.
  6. As mentioned about the success in food and nutritional security wherein state has announced eight exclusion criteria, as per that our majority population has been included in food and nutritional security. Now administration have started filling up new application form for ration card. Therefore we had ensured that this time no one from our operational area should be excluded, hence our grass root staff i.e. Jansathi were also engaged in disseminating the information in all villages. 

Next Quarterly planning for different trainings

  1. Third phase training to Swastha Sathi in 1st week of May, wherein intensive review would be done and also III phase training would be given to Jansathi to further enhance their capacity and skills.
  1. Training of on building perspective and empowering women on different government schemes:
    1. Primarily on food and nutritional security, such as PDS, ICDS, Mid-Day Meal, MGNREGA.
    2. Behavioral change, such as building perspective on good water and sanitation practices, use of kitchen garden in their everyday meals etc.
  1. As per the baseline survey findings only 50 % household have kitchen gardens, rest 50 % don’t have kitchen gardens in their respective houses. However families having kitchen gardens are not using grown vegetables and fruits in their respective meals. Therefore we need to promote kitchen gardens in upcoming raining season; simultaneously focusing on sensitizing the community on good food habits i.e. how nutrition’s in their meal can be increased by using local self grown vegetables and fruits. In short campaign for kitchen garden would be initiated in entire may through village meetings, incorporating issue of kitchen garden in training on empowerment and behavioral change. So that women should take a lead and promote kitchen gardens in their entire villages.

Other planned tasks for next quarter 

  1. Demanding availability of water i.e. filling the gaps and installation of water related Assets.
  2. Representative from all villages should meet panchayat and blocks officials in order to continuous exerting pressure to fill in the water and sanitation gaps in entire blocks.
  3. Identification of NGO’s/SHG’s/Sarpanch/Contractor for IHHL construction, because toilets have been sanction but people do not have resources to construct it. Therefore we need to link people NGO’s/SHG’s/Sarpanch/Contractor in order to successfully implement the Swach Bharat Abhiyan.
  4. Also doing and advocacy and networking with district and state line departments to escalate the lacunae in the schemes, in order to have policy level changes for successful implementation Swach harat Abiyaan.
  5. Mobilizing hygiene and sanitation related assets under MGNREGA