About -VIDIYAL

• VIDIYAL means in Tamil vernacular DAWN

• The organization is registered under Civil Service Society act in 1986

VISION AND MISSION

OF VIDIYAL

VISION: Vidiyal envisages a state of model

community living at which the poor and

marginalized people will be socially,

economically empowered.

MISSION: Organizing the people, providing

Education and creating opportunities to

enable them to solve their problems by

them selves for sustained development.

Programme Strategies

• Organizing People’s forum for collective

action enabling to access technical

expertise.

• Sensitizing people about their socio-

economic environment issues.

• Facilitating the access to Government

Programmes.

• Co-ordinating and collaborating with NGO’s

for lobbying and advocacy.

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•TOTAL GROUPS - 250

•TOTAL GROUPS SAVINGS - Rs. 1,25,00,000.00

•MEMBERS - 4000

VIDIYAL SHG LINKAGES UP TO

DEC-2008

TOTAL LINKAGES - 9,49,10,450.00

Total - 5,92,94,850.00Total - 35615600.00

Loan from savings - 43654000.00 Goat Rearing L3 - 12000000.00

PLF - 8750150.00Katcha House - 2323500.00

VLF - 473500.00TAPSETCO - 358000.00

Sanitation - 837200.00NABARD - 13639100.00

RMK - 920000.00EA (Thadco) - 1000000.00

Vidivelli - 4410000.00 RF (Thadco ) - 275000.00

Arogiya agam - 200000.00EA - 3270000.00

German Indian Society - 20000.00

Melania foundation - 30000.00RF - 2750000.00

Activities

•Community Water Purification

•Community Water Shed

•Goat Rearing Learning with ICT

ICTD IN WOMEN CONCILIATION CENTER:

STRENGTHENINGE-GOVERNANCE

TO LIFE LONG LEARNING

VIDIYALRasingapuram 625 528

Theni District,

Tamil Nadu

December 2008

Issues identified

• Poor women have limited access to legal and judicial institutions

• Lack of awareness and knowledge and high transaction costs are the main reasons.

• Legal Aid Cells all over the country not fully optimized.

• Still- high transaction cost..

• Low awareness on various rights

• Less negotiating capacity with legal and judicious institutions

• Low awareness on access to various development programmes.

Solutions..…

• ICT can offer solution by

• Building the capacity

• Reducing the transaction cost

• Developing horizontal network

Project- Goal• Strengthening the role of ICT in providing the legal,

constitutional and human right awareness among women and enable them to interact with appropriate institutional mechanisms

• Developing a model and road map for Legal Aid Cells and National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) in ICT based legal literacy programmes and conciliation process

• Enhancing their negotiation capacity with various stakeholders at the household level, at the community level as well as at the enterprise level for ensuring effective livelihood security.

Approach

• Capacity building through self-directed

learning

• ICT enhances the canvass for self-directed

learning

• VDIYAL learnt this from another project

supported by Common Wealth of Learning

(COL) in the context of savings, crediting and

micro-enterprise management

Project objectives

• Promoting Self-Directed Learning in legal,

constitutional and human rights among

poor women using mobile phones

• Orienting the present Women Conciliation

Centre with ICTs and enabling large scale

interactions with less transaction cost. This

would be done with the establishment of

Village Knowledge Centres

Project objectives……

• Helping the women members identifying their

eligibility in various development programme

of state and central government using Indian

Citizen Eligibility Identification System

(ICLIS)

• strengthening the horizontal transfer of

knowledge in legal, constitutional and human

rights through structured mobile phone

conversations among women

Project area and Target Population

• Theni District in the state of Tamil Nadu

• The project will focus on 4000 women members of Self-Help Groups and their families

Major Project Partners

• Vidivelli Women Federation

• Arul Anandar College, Karumathur, Madurai

• Legal Aid Cell, Government of Tamil Nadu

• Common Wealth of Learning (COL)

• M. S. Swaminathan research Foundation (MSSRF) and

• AIRTEL-IFFCO

Expected outcomes• The negotiating power of the women among the

SHGs will increase. There will be proven

negotiating processes with banks, governments

and marketing agencies.

• At the household level, assets owned by women

will increase.

• Total Credit flow of Rs.2.00 crores from various

financial institutions for micro enterprises

• The project will become a role model for Legal Aid

cells and NALSA.

Expected outputs

• 3,600 person/hours of formal learning

• 10 locally produced VCD materials

• 96 locally produced Voice Mail materials regularly mailed to 250 SHGs and 300 members.

• 26 Women Conciliation Centre Meetings using ICTa

• 600 hrs of conversations relevant to legal,

constitutional, human rights and livelihood through

horizontal transfer of knowledge

• 60 hours of interaction with legal experts and WCC

• Touch Screen Based ICLIS in Three centres with Multi-media based ICLIS software package.

ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY -2009

Proposed week Activity

Promoting self directed learning in Legal,

constitutional and human rights among poor women using mobile phones

Planned Achieved

Month.1

3RD & 4TH

Month.1

4th week on wards

Month.1

1st

Month 1 &2

2nd & 3rd and 1st

Need Assessment

Content development

Orientation training to

Vidiyal staff

Awareness training on

mobile based message

dissemination to SHG

members

Completed

On going as per plan- Content

developed for computer

training

Completed

Completed- 4 trainings @ one

training per village

ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY -2009

Proposed week Activity

Orienting the present Women Conciliation Centre with ICT’s and enabling large scale interactions with the

establishment of VKCs

Planned Achieved

Month. 1

1st, 2nd & 4th

Month.1 & 2

4th &1st & 2nd

Month.1 & 2

4th &1st & 2nd

Community

mobilization and

awareness on VKC’s

Base line survey

Production of VCD

learning materials

4 villages were identified out of 6

interested villages held village

meetings

On going as per the plan-

Questioner finalized and

investigators identified

On going as per the plan- One VCD

developed

ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY -2009

Proposed week Activities

Helping the women identifying their eligibility in

various development programmes using Indian

Citizen Eligibility identification system (ICLIS)

Planned Achieved

Month.1 &2

3rd & 4th and 1st and

2nd

Collection and

compiling of basic

data on development

programmes

On going as per plan-

The Departments like DRDA,

Agriculture, Horticulture, Social

welfare, NIC, WDCL, Agri.,

Engg., Civil Supplies, Adi

Diravida Welfare have been

Approached –

Details regard 18 schemes and

projects obtained and given to

A.A.C for compilation

ACTIVITIES STATUS REPORT UP TO MID FEBRUARY -2009

Proposed week Activities

Strengthening Horizontal transfer of knowledge in

legal, constitutional and human rights through

structured mobile phone conversation among women

Planned Achieved

Month 1

4th week

Month 1

4th week

Not planned any

activity for the first

two months

Monitoring by Vidiyal

team and review by

steering committee

RBM monthly report

to NISG

Completed

Completed, The report will shared

with NISG soon

Other major activities carried out…..

• Stakeholders meeting to discuss and plan the project activities

• Sub contracts were made between the project partners, like between Vidial and Arul Aanandar collage, Vidiyal and Airteletc

• Formation of Project steering committee

• Participatory preparation of project LFA and activity plan

In the future…….• Implementing the project activities as per

the LFA and activity plan already prepared

• Periodical meeting with stakeholders to review the project results and planning for better performance

• Aiming to achieve the outputs as expected and moving towards reaching the outcomes at end of the project period

VIDIYAL Woman SHG member

produced VCDs

VKC EXPOSURE

VKC MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

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