Organisations

Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA)

India

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Supath-II, B-Block, 3rd Floor, Opp. Vadaj Bus Terminus,
Ashram Road, Vadaj, Ahmedabad-380013
Ahmedabad 380 004
Gujarat

CHETNA aims to empower children to become active partners for for their own, their families and communities' health and development; to enhance adolescents and women's health status by empowering them to gain control over their own health and development concerns; to support organisations that work in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, through strengthening their capacities to implement and manage affective health education and development programmes for children, adolescents and women. The CHETNA resource centre is open to the CHETNA staff and students CHETNA are partners in the Communication for Health India Network (CHIN). CHETNA regularly develops need based publications - primarily in Gujarati, Hindi and English. The material is extensively, field-tested and efforts are made to ensure that it is gender sensitive, easy to understand and use, as well as relevant. To enhance the readability and ensure that it is user friendly, the text is written creatively in form of story/song/drama etc. and accompanied by attractive illustrations. The publications are widely disseminated throughout India, and can also be ordered online.

Gamos Ltd

UK

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Crown House
231 Kings Road
Reading RG1 4LS

Gamos is a small but influential company working with the social factors surrounding technology use and transfer. A group of professionals who seek to select their clients (Governments and Non Government Agencies) to make the optimum impact. Founded in 1989, Gamos is concerned to use its professional skills for the empowerment of individuals and communities in the poorer sections of society in developing countries. This mainly involves training and research, actively seeking to build capacity in the South.

SPECTRA organisation (Society for Public Education Cultural Training and Rural Action)

India

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E 11, Patel Nagar, Mannaka Road, Alwar, Rajasthan, India-301001i

SPECTRA-ALWAR

SPECTRA is a voluntary, non-profit and non-government organization,
registered under Rajasthan society’s act 1958. SPECTRA has been working
since 1996-97 in the rural and interior pockets of Rajasthan to fulfil the
educational and other social needs and requirements of deprived rural population.
Programme covered by SPECTRA include: agricultural improvement, wasteland development, education, rural
industries for income generation, development of alternative energy sources and women development and
awareness generation. The core strategy of SPECTRA to develop an optimal mechanism for rural Society
especially deprived sections, with commitment for sustainable livelihood & improved quality of life which is
achieved through different developmental programs & effective application of local resources in association with
community. SPECTRA realised that agriculture is a demanding area to work rural population; therefore we
started the intervention on focusing land development activities.
Land development activity is an integral part of our agriculture and horticultural programme. It is the thrust area
of the organisation to develop and revive water harvesting practices and creating new rain water harvesting
structures. Thus, SPECTRA organize targeted families into small functional groups and make plans to help them
to make better use of their land resources. The broader vision and mission of our organisation reveals around
the work with excluded and deprived communities with commitment for sustainable livelihood and improved
quality of life.
Vision:
We at SPECTRA ORGANISATION envision a society where women have the guaranteed opportunities of
development that enables them exercise their right to education, health, livelihood and social security.
Mission:
SPECTRA ORGANISATION is dedicated for uplifting the status of women especially those from
the marginalized section of the society through various development initiatives.
Objectives
 To encourage mainstreaming of child recreation centres with mainstream education.
 To encourage implementation and use of new tools and techniques by teachers for improvement in
quality of elementary education.
 To integrate the programmes and services moving from welfare towards development in long term
sustainability for tribal and rural communities.
 To prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and its related illness and death.
 To improve health-related quality of life and well-being for all individuals
 To improve pregnancy planning and spacing, and prevent unintended pregnancy.
 To create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
 To improve the healthy development, health, safety, and well-being of adolescents and young adults.
 To work for the cause and care of deprived rural societies and improve their quality of life.
Introduction
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 To ensure the community`s active involvement and support in rural development programme for its sustainability
 To build the capacity of Government and NGOs in rural development programmes especially NRM and SHG programmes.
Our major objectives involve:
 To improve the socioeconomic condition of the small and marginalized section of the community particularly tribal and women through various integrated rural development initiatives and innovations.
 To develop and implement poverty focus participatory approach in watershed development and water resource development program, which is sustainable and can be replicable to other areas of Rajasthan
 To establish village base institutions such as society, saving and thrift credit group, SHGs etc for strengthening the process of participatory development in field of agriculture, health etc.
 To setup knowledge centre for the rural peoples in the areas of watershed development and other aspects of NRM base livelihoods.
 To promote organic production and their marketing in the area of agriculture.
 To built up the capacity of community for self-reliant so that they can be able to identify their problems and self develop the solution through team spirit.
 Reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV.
 Promote respiratory health through better prevention, detection, treatment, and education efforts.
 Reduce illness, disability, and death related to tobacco use and second hand smoke exposure.
 Increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for people living with HIV.
 Reducing HIV-related health disparities.
Area of Intervention: -
Presently, SPECTRA organization has been working in Jalore ,Banswara , Jodhpur and Alwar district namely Ahore , Sajjangarh , Umarain, Kishangarh bass, Tijara, Ramgarh and Rajgarh as well as 95 villages of Nuh Mewat of Haryana , Khargaon in MP and three blocks of Jodhopur namely Osian, Balesar and Bhopalgarh in Rajasthan. We have working in 300 villages in very remote area of blocks.
These are the most backward blocks in the district on Female literacy indicators. Agriculture and animal husbandry are the main occupations for livelihood, as it happens to be a totally non-urbanized and non-industrialized area. It has a high proportion scheduled castes, Tribal and Minority (Meo Muslims), the most backward communities in the caste hierarchy. High proportion of disadvantaged communities in the total population and low indicators of development (Sex ratio and literacy rates), all indicate that this is a backward poor rural area.
Major programmes and projects run by SPECTRA
SPECTRA works in Rajasthan highest-need, hardest-to-reach areas
Collaborating locally to bring health within reach:-
SPECTRA ORG. began working in Rajasthan in 1996 to address some of the country’s crucial health problems. Over more than three decades, our program in the region has grown to become one of our largest. We work in some of the country’s highest-need and hardest-to-reach areas, collaborating with governments, communities, companies, researchers, and public health practitioners to find health solutions.
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Preventing disease through vaccines and immunizations:-
SPECTRA ORG. works in Rajasthan to help develop new vaccines and vaccine technologies and strengthen immunization services to reach even the most remote villages. We’re advancing new vaccines against malaria, meningitis, pneumococcal disease (the most common cause of severe pneumonia), and rotavirus (the most common cause of severe diarrhea) by collaborating with partners on vaccine development, formulation, manufacturing, and compliance with regulatory authorities.
We work closely with the Government of Rajasthan to strengthen health systems to introduce new vaccines and improve access to immunization services. SPECTRA ORG. is helping to increase immunization coverage for young children in the slums of the state of Rajasthan. Through our partnership with the Rajasthan government, we helped ensure that children state wide received vaccine against Japanese encephalitis, a debilitating disease that in Rajasthan strikes mainly poor, rural communities. We helped introduce hepatitis B vaccine in the routine immunization program. The vaccine is now available free of cost in most state immunization programs.
SPECTRA ORG. also facilitates research in Rajasthan on methods to protect vaccines from damage due to exposure to extreme temperatures during transport and storage. Because reuse of needles can increase the risk of spreading HIV, hepatitis B, and other infections, SPECTRA ORG. has supported manufacturers to mass-produce single-use syringes to make them available and affordable.
Improving health for mothers and children:-
Every year, thousands of children in Rajasthan die within a month of birth. Thousands more survive, but grow up weak or sickly. Often, these outcomes could be avoided with increased health education. Through SPECTRA ORG enhancing Rajasthan’s health system while helping families understand simple steps they can take to help their babies thrive.
Despite advances, women in Rajasthan continue to be threatened by two highly preventable causes of death: postpartum haemorrhage and cervical cancer. Rajasthan’s maternal mortality rate is 407 per
Access to safe water and healthy food:-
Millions of poor families in Rajasthan lack access to safe drinking water, a condition that poses a daily threat to their health. We conducted extensive testing with potential users to design a household water treatment and storage device for Rajasthann families. Now, we’re collaborating with manufacturers and distributors to provide a product that has the potential to make safe drinking water available and affordable.
Controlling tuberculosis:-
Rajasthan has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. With 1.8 million cases occurring annually and 333,000 deaths from TB, Rajasthan accounts for one-fifth of the world’s new TB cases and two-thirds of the cases in Southeast Asia. More than 70 percent of cases occur in the economically productive 15– to 54-year-old age group. Their deaths take a terrible toll on families and economies. SPECTRA ORG. supports the State government and across all districts by strengthening communication, laboratories, infection control, and surveillance of multidrug-resistant TB.
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Capacity Building & Preparation Of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Plan Supported by EU-SPP State Water Resource and Planning Department, Rajasthan
SPECTRA introduced integrated water resources management plan in Osian, Balesar and Bhopalgarh blocks of Jodhopur in Rajasthan. Agriculture and watershed are the thrust area of the organisation. Integrated water resources management is a systematic process for the sustainable development, allocation and monitoring of water resource use in the context of social, economic and environmental objectives.

Spectra organisation will ensure the following.
 Recognition that the VWHSC members are critical to local water resources management.
 Active functioning of the VWHSC.

 Implementation of IWRM plans through VWHSC.
 Providing support such as IEC material and literature, and administrative handholding as necessary to the VWHSC /Gram Sabha members.
 Organizing technical and social support as needed by the GPs / VWHSC / Gram Sabha, including from the line department.
 Establish an internal system of coordination and monitoring of GP level activities within the block and reporting to the District IWRM Team.
 Taking immediate corrective measures where necessary to ensure smooth progress and achievement of targets etc.
 Organizing data collected through IWRM plan activity in formats (to be provided by the client) and submitting the same in electronic form to the District IWRM Team on quarterly basis.
Total Sanitation and Swajaldhara programme, Alwar
Supported by State Govt. (Rajasthan) & Central
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 SPECTRA started this programme in Alwar. The goal of the project is universal excess safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, change their hygienic behaviour and general awareness above relationship between safe water sanitation health to motivate to change their behaviour accordingly. This is the greatest challenge for the people living in rural areas. The following activities have been done under the project.
 Conducting social Economic Baseline survey
 Plan and organize IEC activities, such as social mobilization, PLA exercise, HRD activities, VCDs and Awareness Camps according to overall agreed plan.
 Closely monitor, supervise and guide all staff & sub ordinates including Assistant Project Manager, Sector Supervisor and Animators and monitor their performance.
 Organize training and orientations as per schedule and ensure participation in coordination with related sectors and act as resource persons as and when required.
 Coordinate with Block Level Govt. Officers.
 Ensure quality of training’s conducted and provide feedback on training carried out by facilitators. Prepare monthly report and follow up action as agreed in training/meetings.
 Verify and certify data and information provided/ submitted by the juniors.
 Undertake tours up to 20 days in a month.
 Participate and facilitate field visits of Govt. officials / others.
 Accountable for funds used by Field level NGO or by self.
Promotion and capacity building of SHGs Supported by NABARD Jaipur
Spectra started work for SHGs in 58 villages. Spectra has formed 300 SHGs in 58 villages of Kishagarh Bas Tehsil . Beside it under some other projects we have formed 45 SHGs.
15 SHGs have been formed with the help of N.C.L.P. supported programme in which the parents of 100 children have been given training to capacity building and documentation for improving their economic condition.

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Empowering Women Self Help Groups and Enhancing Livelihoods supported by Letz Dream Foundation
SHGs formation: We identified the poor women through base line survey and women meetings throughout in our projected area. We organised poor rural women into community institutions in the form of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) - each consisting of 10-15 women -- that act as social platforms to address issues of financial inclusion, healthcare, livelihoods, education and the environment. After formation of the group the members are linked to bank.
Agriculture Promotion
Training on Crop Management and SRI Technique: Despite 70 per cent of the population being engaged in agriculture and allied activities, declining food grains production and lack of food security remain the two biggest problems confronting our country. SPECTRA`s approach is to carry out crop productivity enhancement by means of helping the farmers to identify and analyse their crop production problems, and become aware about the opportunities for improving. The main focus under this intervention is on awareness generation and purposive transfer of skills. Initially our staff did assessment of existing cropping and traditional method used in the projected area and discussed them with SHG group
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The SRI programme started in Kishangarh Bass block of Alwar district. Till now we have reached over 1000 farmers across 30 villages. In the beginning the team was facing difficulties to convince the farmers about SRI adoption. Because SRI is a new concept in this area. The team tried to motivate the farmers by using strategies such as external exposures, trainings, regular village meetings, etc to adopt SRI in larger area.
Under the umbrella of SRI technique and crop management, SPECTRA organized 22 trainings of 100 groups which resulted in farmer women have been benefited with this technique. We also established 60 demonstration plot of SRI technique for wheat crop in the area.
Ajola Establishment: For fodder development, Ajola Bed is introduced in the field for cattle-feed. Ajola is green cattle-feed for the increscent of milk production in animal. Women farmers themselves established Ajola bed in their home or near to home.
Dairy Development: SPECTRA works with rural families in the promotion of dairy and animal rearing activities in the project areas of Kishangarh-Bas of Alwar district. In the projected area, rearing practices remain poor, veterinary services are non-existent, and market linkage is absent.
Thus SPECTRA seeks to help bring in better-quality breeds, veterinary care, good rearing practices and marketing system. SPECTRA is expanding its outreach programmes with the linkage of poor women with dairy. SPECTRA started the process of collaboration with Saras, Lotus and Mother Dairy for opening the collection centres. SHGs women are linked to SARAS Dairy in the projected area and milk collection centre are opened to dairy promotion.
Animal Husbandry: Existing rearing pattern and traditional methods are examined in the projected area and provided training of women in feeding and husbandry practices, veterinary care, and the creation of systems for effective marketing. SPECTRA provides assistance for the induction of new animals, while giving attention as well to better housing and veterinary care, especially the provision of immunization against diseases.
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Animal Treatment Camp: Animal Treatment Camps were organized in the projected area of Kishangarh bass. Veterinary doctor and compounder checked the animal and prescribed the medicine to them. Before one day SPECTRA staffs contacted the women to get benefit from the camp.
Community Meeting: Community meetings were organized in Rathibas and Jagta basi villages of Kishangarh bas on 25th and 26th Feb.2014 respectively. SHGs women, Sarpanch, Ward panch and other active members participated in the meeting. SPECTRA staff made aware of LDZ programme and its objective to the community. The discussion was mainly on the concept of SHGs, such as what is SHGs, what is the benefit of it. They also discussed about their traditional methods of agricultural and introduced with SRI technique. Community people also got knowledge about good animal rearing practices, better housing and immunization against disease.
Girls Education Programme (210 Girl Child Education Learning Centres)
Supported by IIMPACT
SPECTRA with collaboration of IIMPACT started Girls Education project through 50 learning centres in projected villages of Kishangarh baas, Ramgarh, and Tijara and Rajgarh blocks of Alwar district. 100 learning centres are running in Nuh Mewat of Haryana. 30 learning centres are running in Khargone of M.P. 30 learning centres are running in Banswara of Rajasthan. The selection of these villages is as per the requirement of educational support in Government schools of that locality. There are some primary issues like low girls’ enrolment, lack of female teachers in Govt. schools, single school teacher, and high dropout rate of students which voice the requirement of the projected support. SPECTRA firmly believe that education plays a significant role in socio-economic development and cultural enrichment of the society and individuals. The major goal is to improve the quality of basic education, ensuring better early caring and learning environments for young children, increasing access to education, retention of the children in school and raising levels of academic achievement.
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“Strengthening girls’ participation in secondary school education” in 10 government schools of Aahore block under Jalore district in Rajasthan supported by Restless Development
We started project on ―Strengthening girls’ participation in secondary school education” in 10 government schools of Aahore block under Jalore district in Rajasthan. This project aims at strengthen the secondary education and the promotion of gender equity in education by reducing the gender gap in access and retention. In Jalor the geographic condition, poor outreach of governmental services and lack of awareness among people makes it a real challenge for our people. We are doing this by involving the services of professionals, youth, local volunteers and services of other government and non government agencies. Jalor district has 8 blocks.
In Jalor district, the condition of Govt. school needed an intervention with ensuring the physical facilities and the retention of the children in Govt School.
The district has the social and cultural barrier to education especially girls are restricted to get education after primary or even they become drop out in 8th or 10th class. They get early married or supposed to stay home because of cultural and religious constraints.
Experience shows that most schools have poor sanitation and hygiene practices. Lack of subject teachers and poor infrastructure are the common problem of this area.
Activities undertaken during the project period
 Train SMCs to strengthen their performance in ensuring all children attend school and monitoring teacher attendance Disseminate information on the roles and responsibilities of SMCs
 New teacher appointments would favour those areas which have had a lack of teachers in the past
 Formation of youth group for the purpose of sensitization of community issues
 Conduct staffs orientation workshop to familiarize of the programme
 Conduct Staff workshop at block level for the purpose of capacity building to support of Govt. School.
 Training will be provided to teachers and pedagogical techniques would be included.
 New primary schools will be upgraded to secondary and it would be preferentially located in underserved areas based on school mapping and survey data.
 Creative Writing, Debate, Quiz competition, Drawing and Music activities will be conducted at school level and the students would be awarded for the best performance.
 Awareness generation regarding the existing Govt. Schemes and programmes to get benefits to beneficiaries.
 Exposure visit of students to the place where they have something for learning
Counselling Centre:
The organization will provide counselling support both psychological and career in Govt. school. Counselling forms an important aspect of their rehabilitation
Counselling helps the students to identify their hidden talent and also provides psychological, emotional and mental support to cope up with their daily personal problems.
Cultural Unit
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Along with secondary education, the organization will promote to develop cultural aesthetics help the students to identify their hidden talent and leadership qualities and boost up their self-esteem. Besides, the classes on music, dance, drama, art and yoga have a therapeutic effect on these students and help them to ease out from their up traumatic experiences.
The children will participate in different cultural functions and would be encouraged to draw or paint for exhibitions, souvenirs and competitions. Talent Sourcing & Selection of LWE Interns Programme Supported by Saint Gobain
The organization started LWE (Learning with Earning) programme in which 10th and 12th pass out student who left their education are identified in rural areas of Rajasthan. On the basis of selection criteria, we provide them skill development course (Polytechnic) along with the placement. Through this programme, we trace out the talent of rural youth which hidden somewhere in them and provide an opportunity to move ahead in their life. SWEEP “Strengthening Women Empowerment through Elected Process-Campaign Supported by THP (The Hunger Project)
Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It involves the building up of a society wherein in women can breathe without the fear of oppression, exploitation, apprehension, discrimination. The empowerment of women can be ensured through legislation for ensuring participation in political decision making.
Such an approach provides the women with a constitutional platform to stand up to men, to raise their voice on issues concerning women oppression, subjugation and related issues and thus in effect, providing them with an identity in an orthodox male dominated socio-political set up, in addition to providing a much needed forum to seek redressal of problems directly affecting them.
The organization initiated the SWEEP campaign in Ramgarh & Kishangarh block of Alwar district to participate of women in and violation free election. Mahila Meetings, Rallies, potential leader workshop and training programmes have been done under SWEEP campaign. Financial Literacy Programme with SHGs in Kishangarh bas of Alwar supported by NABARAD
Under this Financial Literacy Programme, it is taught to SHGs women how to make small savings, management of domestic budget and how to avoid the unnecessary expenditure in their life. Training programme is conducted to make women able to control their financial management in their day to day life. Spectra with collaboration of NABARD provide trainings on financial literacy to SHGs women.
Training and Skill Development Programme Techno Managerial Skills for Rural Women
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Supported By Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. Of India, New Delhi, (NCRI Hyderabad)
SPECTRA organization provided Techno Managerial Skills for Rural Women in Alwar, Rajasthan. Those women were mostly uneducated, socially and economically weaker section from the society. This kind of women is mostly depending upon her husband or father for their needs. To alleviate this situation the training centre offers a lot of techno managerial course at our rural branch offices to enable women to start in new enterprises. As such the techno managerial centre creates entrepreneurial opportunities for women, leading them to enter the rural job market strength economically weak communities through micro and small enterprises. Rural women gaining self-reliance and self-confidence. The idea behind this concept is to mobilize women and improve their quality of life. With increasing self-reliance, rural women are becoming more confident and independent; they have successfully improved the quality of life of rural women in many states and helped them to upgrade their skills. An indication of social change is the increasing number of income generating activities being controlled by women. Besides improving the economic standards of life of women, aim at spreading awareness on issues such as literacy, health, nutrition, family welfare, and legal rights through which they can get Empowerment. In order to accomplish this task, individual rural women should improve their awareness levels, communication skills; simple management techniques so that they can improve their confidence, articulate and effectively communicate with their social partners and economic stakeholders. This is possible only through a comprehensive training and the training agencies are expected to organize a tailor-made training module to suit individual group and should be able to monitor their effectiveness with a view to improve their focus and quality. Youth Leadership Development Programme Supported By Nehru Yuva Kendra
Under Nehru Yuva Kendra, SPECTRA organized vocational training programmes to develop and empower rural youth with focus and problems confronting them. Emphasis has been laid to enhance rural young people’s capacities and thereby enable them to attain sustainable livelihood and become active partners in nation building activities. Under this programme, practical skills provided to 100 rural youth such as engine repairing and motor binding course offered to them. Swawlamban Programme Supported By Ministry of Women and Child Development
Under Swawlamban Scheme 100 widow and SC & ST women were benefited. Its basic objective is to provide training and skill to women to facilitate them obtains employment or self-employment on a sustained basis. The target group under the scheme are the poor and needy women, women from weaker sections of the society, such as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, etc. Women were imparted training on beautician course, Jewellery making, Bag making, and sewing to enhance their livelihood activities. Sabla Training Programme Supported By Ministry of Women and Child Development
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Under the Programme, 1000 Adolescent girls were imparted life skills training to enable self‐development and empowerment of them. The objective of the training is to acquire knowledge and develop attitudes and skills which will support them in and promote among them the adoption of healthy and positive behaviour to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Issues were covered in the training of life skills including confidence‐building, development of self-awareness and self‐esteem, decision‐making ability, capacity for critical thinking, better communication skills, awareness of rights and entitlements and coping with stress etc. Nave Jeevan Programme Supported By Ministry of Social justice
Under this programme, 100 rural women had been assisted in sewing course so that they meet their need and social problems. The targeted women were indulged in illegal liquor, we supported and imparted them training for their livelihood enhancement. District Industries Centres Supported By Ministry Industries
100 Unemployed youths were benefited under the schemes with vocational training. They were imparted computer training during the period of the programme to encourage self employment venture. Training for Asha Sahyogini Supported By Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
200 Asha Sahyogini have been trained of under the programme for better improvement in their work. The training was of 7 days in which 25 women were in each batch. Training on Agriculture Supported By Letz Dream Foundation
Despite 70 per cent of the population being engaged in agriculture and allied activities, declining food grains production and lack of food security remain the two biggest problems confronting our country. SPECTRA`s approach is to carry out crop productivity enhancement by means of helping the farmers to identify and analyse their crop production problems, and become aware about the opportunities for improving. The main focus under this training is on awareness generation and purposive transfer of skills. We started to provide trainings for women about the SRI concept to wheat crop. Now thousands of women across the project area have been trained in making organic compost, which retains the fertility of the soil while increasing yield.
The SRI programme started in Kishangarh Bass block of Alwar district. Till now we have reached over 1000 farmers across 30 villages. In the beginning the team was facing difficulties to convince the farmers about SRI adoption. Because SRI is a new concept in this area. The team tried to motivate the farmers by using strategies such as
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external exposures, trainings, regular village meetings, etc to adopt SRI in larger area.
Under the umbrella of SRI technique and crop management, SPECTRA organized 20 trainings of 100 groups which resulted in farmer women have been benefited with this technique.
Training on Animal Husbandry and Dairy Promotion Supported By Letz Dream Foundation
SPECTRAs interventions on Dairy programmes are being extended through the induction of better quality of breeds, the training of women in feeding and husbandry practices, veterinary care, the development of a cadre of village-based service providers, and the creation of systems for effective marketing. Though holding potential, Dairying remains poorly developed in SPECTRAs project areas. In these areas, the population of domestic animals is higher than the national average. Yet milk productivity is low, rearing practices are poor, breeds are non-descript, veterinary services are non-existent, and market linkages do not exist. To fulfil the potential of Dairying in its project areas, SPECTRA provide assistance for the animals, for better housing, veterinary care and immunization against diseases.
Institutional collaboration with SARAS Dairy has helped in setting up milk routes and bulk milk coolers across the programme area. Maximum dairy women farmers have benefited from this intervention. Residential Teacher`s Training Supported By IIMPACT Gurgaon
Teachers Training: 5 Days Residential Teacher Training are conducted for the purpose of capacity building, uniformity of understanding of the programme and improvement in academic work to all teachers of all girls’ education learning centres in Kishangarh Bass, Tijara, Ramgarh and Rajgarh block of Alwar district. SPECTRA with collaboration of IIMPACT started Girls Education project through 40 learning centres in the of villages of Kishangarh baas, Tijara, Ramgarh and Rajgarh blocks of Alwar district. 60 learning centres running in Nuh Mewat, Haryana. The selection of these villages is as per the requirement of educational support in Government schools of that locality. There are some primary issues like low girls’ enrolment, lack of female teachers in Govt. schools, single school teacher, and high dropout rate of students which voice the requirement of the projected support.
Improving livestock
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SPECTRA’s Sustainable Livestock Development
Programme primarily comprise of dairy farming and goat
rearing. This year, we trained 1012 goat families in better
practices. This programme helps families adopt better
rearing practices for higher productivity. Through this
project the women were organized into SHGs and given
more opportunities for growth. It enhanced their capacity
to participate and become owners in the socio-economic
development process. Participating families will achieve
sustainable livelihoods through joining Producer
company/cooperative and participating in the goat and
dairy value chains. 78 SHGs received goats and training
for better animal management practices. As
supplementary income source th e project p articipants were provided with vegetable seeds, seedlings, fodder
seeds and saplings. This project also concentrated on providing trainings to the participants to improve their
skills and knowledge. All the groups members were given trainings on Heifer's Cornerstones, SHG
management, Improved Animal Management, Gender Sensitization, Kitchen Gardening and Fodder Production.
Farmer Producer Company
SPECTRA has started two producer company for the promotion of collective business and better income
The companies promote dairy & market quality bucks
through value chain market analysis and finding scope for
self-sustainability.
The distinguish feature of the company is that the members
are the direct beneficiaries. At the end of financial year,
they receive Limited return on share capital. The board
consist of 10 promoters in which 5 are nominated as
director.
TECHNOLOGY ENABLED GIRL AMBASSADOR (TEGA) Project
SPECTRA with the collaboration of Restless Development started TEGA project which is an innovative project
and started first time in India. TEGA is a research which has been conducted in other countries of the world and
now in India it will be conducted at first time.

Autistic Minority International

Switzerland

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Autistic Minority International
1200 Geneva

Autistic Minority International is the first and only autism self-advocacy organization active at the global political level. The NGO, founded as a non-profit association under Swiss law in 2013 and headquartered in Geneva, aims to advance the interests of autistics worldwide at and through the United Nations, World Health Organization, human rights treaty bodies, and other international organizations.

We believe that autistic self-advocacy is about more than disability rights. Estimated at one percent of the world's population, or seventy million people, autistics deserve the same protection and rights the international community affords to ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities as well as indigenous peoples. There is an autistic minority in every country on Earth. Only minority status will put an end to discrimination and marginalization and permit all of us to be open about our condition without fear of repercussions. Autism is a distinct culture and identity. The only one we know.

For that reason, we seek to network autism self-advocacy organizations worldwide and act as a focal point for capacity building and the exchange of best practice on how to engage governments at the national, regional, and local level. We promote and assist in the participation of national and local self-advocacy groups at UN conferences and in UN processes and mechanisms. Where no effective national self-advocacy organizations exist, we will establish such. We are open to collaboration with UN member states, the UN system, the wider NGO community, autism charities run by non-autistics, researchers particularly in the social sciences and international law, the private sector, and individuals with a view to shaping global priorities and lifting our concerns onto the UN's agenda.