Department WOMEN AND CHILD WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Target Beneficiaries 10000
Durations 2 Year(s) 0 Month(s) 5 Day(s)
Budget (INR Lacs) 875
Location District Bengaluru (Urban), Tumakuru
Government Infrastructure/Services/Support Provided
Department of WCD shall facilitate project implementation through relevant approvals and human resource support at the field level
Funding/Physical/Technical Requirements
CSR partners can support either a single or multiple districts or talukas.
Problem
Despite government schemes, services, and laws to improve the health and education status girls,poor health and educational outcomes still persist especially among adolescent girls form vulnerable pockets of Raichur and Yadgir districts due to the following underlying barriers that hamper the wellbeing of girls in the region:
Low value for education of the girl child among families and lack of their support creates low aspiration among girls for continuation in school.
New reports on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are further showing an increase in the number of child marriages and girls drop out from education as a result of the pandemic
Further, the lack of adequate self-esteem, agency and life skills is also making girls vulnerable to mental health related issues and GBV aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic
Existing gender norms leads to boys devaluing girls’ importance in the community. This is further increasing under the conditions of the pandemic as families struggle to cope with the economic burden, and thus prefer getting their girls married off.
Lack of awareness on health and hygiene along with discriminatory upbringing deprives girls of adequate nutrition, health care and hygiene. Lack of access to adequate SRH and nutrition related resources as a result of the pandemic further decreases girls’ well-being.
Objective
Increase secondary school completion rates among adolescent girl role models and among peer girls.
Reduce the proportion married among adolescent girl role models and peer girls.
Increasing nutrition levels among role model girls and peer adolescent girls.
Description
Building girls’ self-esteem and agency:
Enumerate, Identify and form groups of role model adolescent girls and families
Organise modular life skill group sessions and 4-day training on communication and leadership skills for adolescent role models
Organise exposure cum exchange program adolescent role models .
Building parent- child relationships:
Enumerate, Identify and form groups of role model parents; Organise periodic monthly meetings with role-model parent groups
Organize exposure programs for parent groups; Conduct Sammvadas between girls and parents to improve their interactions .
Improve girls’ health and nutritional status:
Form, mentor, and facilitate likeminded peer adolescent girls’ groups (One interaction/week with the role-model groups)
At least one interaction per week by the role-model girls with their respective groups (mentored by the outreach worker once a month)
Organize bimonthly Samvada programmes at the village level of adolescent role -model girls with community leaders.
Ensuring good academic performance:
Organise tutorials and remedial classes for the subjects required by the role model adolescent girls.
Sector / Subsector
Sector: Vulnerable Groups
Subsector:Civic Issues
Eligibility and Documents Required
- TRUST OR SOCIETY BYLA/ DEED
- TRUST OR SOCIETY PAN CARD
- 80G 12A CERTIFICATE
- CSR 1 CERTIFICATE
- NGO DARPAN
- NGO WEBSITE
- MOBILE NO AND EMAIL ID