Namrata Jaitli has uploaded a document on “Writeshops: a participatory process for documenting social change”. This synthesis document shares the highpoints of the experiences of PRIA by co-facilitating two writeshops, wherein a group of writers came together, shared, made collective sense and finally wrote, alone and with others, on significant issues of social change.
Link to document: http://www.practiceinparticipation.org/index.php/documents/327/124/writeshops-a-participatory-process-for-documenting-social-change
Jamie Myrah has uploaded a document on “Role of Civil Society in Influencing the Effective Implementation of Public Policy”. This report analyzes the strategies, impacts, and learnings from PRIA's project, Strengthening Gender Response of Panchayats in Rajasthan (SGRPR), in the context of India's National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and its aims for facilitating a system of decentralized health planning in rural communities.
Link to document: http://www.practiceinparticipation.org/index.php/documents/815/125/role-of-civil-society-in-influencing-the-effective-implementation-of-public-policy
Debika Goswami has uploaded a video on “Empowering Rural Women of Alaknanda Valley, through Farmers’ Cooperative”. This video depicts the success stories of the rural women of Alaknanda valley in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand; these women, with the help of Himalayan Action Research Centre (HARC).
Link to video: http://www.practiceinparticipation.org/videos/297/104/empowering-rural-women-of-alakna
Nishu Kaul and Anshuman Karol have set up a Forum on ‘20 years of Panchayati Raj – Where we are and the next steps’. Panchayati Raj Institutions have completed 20 years of their constitutional formation in India yet there are many structural and functional challenges. The forum aims to seek answers to some of the key questions, which could help in reviving the Local Government and energising them as real institutions of self – governance.
This report analyzes the strategies, impacts, and learnings from PRIA's project, Strengthening Gender Response of Panchayats in Rajasthan (SGRPR), in the context of India's National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and its aims for facilitating a system of decentralized health planning in rural communities. It examines some of the most critical issues taking place in the implementation of the scheme and how the strategies utilized in SGRPR have served to fill key gaps in its operationalization, resulting in building the capacity of local leaders and citizens to meaningfully participate in the development and implementation of decentralized health plans. The report concludes with a series of recommendations, drawn from these learnings, for how civil society can work more strategically with the state on ensuring the effective implementation of public policy.
PRIA (Society for Participatory Research In Asia), New Delhi
This synthesis document shares the highpoints of the experiences of PRIA by co-facilitating two writeshops, wherein a group of writers came together, shared, made collective sense and finally wrote, alone and with others, on significant issues of social change. It attempts to draw some learnings on writeshops, so that other practitioners can benefit from this experience, and experience the pleasure of writing and facilitating others to write.
PRIA (Society for Participatory Research In Asia), New Delhi
This paper is essentially three stories—of mobilizing young adolescent girls from disadvantaged communities in different parts of India to become adults with a voice, champions of social change when they grow up. The stories, told from different perspectives, describe the programmatic interventions carried out in three projects — Kishori Panchayats in Bihar (undertaken by CENCORED), Addressing Violence Against Dalit Women in Haryana (undertaken by PRIA) and the Vidya-Gyan scholarship programme in Uttar Pradesh (undertaken by Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra). The last section of the paper tries to tease out what facilitates and constrains efforts to mobilize adolescent girls.
HARC, Uttarakhand and Debika Goswami, PRIA, New Delhi.
“Empowering Rural Women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through Farmers’ Cooperative” narrates the success stories of the rural women of Alaknanda valley in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand; these women, with the help of Himalayan Action Research Centre (HARC), have been able to create, control and manage an Agri-business Multipurpose Autonomous Cooperative which acts as a model of inspiration for many other women as well as organisations working on agriculture based livelihood programmes. The main objective behind documenting this participatory practice is to gain insights regarding the participation of the rural women in agriculture related micro enterprise through the formation of a cooperative and the associated processes of their social and economic empowerment. It also analyses the role of HARC as a supporting agency.
The process of documentation has jointly been done by HARC, Dehradun and Kaleshwar and Society for Participatory Research in South Asia (PRIA), New Delhi. The methodology that has been used here includes review of all secondary text, audio and video documentations available at the HARC offices and library, intensive discussions with the women members of the cooperative as well as the HARC team both in Dehradun and Kaleshwar, village level meeting with the SHGs associated with the cooperative in the area of intervention.
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