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Creating Sustainable Livelihoods

2015-16Annual Report

Contents

President’s Message

From Executive Director’s Desk

Vision, Mission and Objectives

Core Values

Governance and Management

Livelihood Development Program

Girls Education Program

Rural Development Program

Improving Salt Iodization

Financial Reports

Testimonials

Partners

Board Members

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President's Message

Annual Report 2015-16 2

End Poverty is a vision, a journey and an aspiration for like-minded people within and

outside India. The dream to ‘end poverty’ is manifest with challenges but team EP is committed

to work relentlessly towards poverty reduction in India. I am happy to share that support for our

programs has grown substantially during the year 2015-16. The two new interventions i.e. the

GURUKUL program which aims to build up the skill of youth linked to employment by providing

360 degree life skills along with placement assistance and dairy development program were

launched during the year.

I am very grateful to the GEN Initiatives, U.K. whose continued support since the formation of EP

has been a great source of inspiration. Our very sincere gratitude to Chair- Ms. Sue Burke and

the team GEN that has helped raised funds for EP from the Southall Trust, PHAST, the Waterloo

Foundation and the SAGA Trust, Pakhar Singh Foundation through iPartner from the U.K. I also

acknowledge the support provided by GAIN from Switzerland, Hand-In Hand from Germany.

Many CSR initiatives that have helped EP realise its resolve to make change possible and to

whom we convey our special thanks are: MPHASIS, SAPIENT, inMobi, SAGE (P), AZTEC EXIM,

GODREJ, Valuefirst, Yes Bank, Ammado.com, STYLEM, UL Quality Assurance and many other

individual donors.

I congratulate my team for having achieved more than what our resources permitted in a short

span of time. On behalf of EP, I solicit your continued belief in our work and urge you to join us in

our efforts! In turn, I assure you that we will continue our efforts in the most efficient manner!

Vinod Kaushik

End Poverty is a vision, a journey and an

aspiration for like-minded people within and

outside India. The dream to 'end poverty' is

manifest with challenges but team EP is

committed to work relentlessly towards

poverty reduction in India.

From Executive Director’s Desk

according to their own cultural

manifestations. The mandate is to generate

awareness, build capacity, train and expose

the poor to new ideas, technology, provide

support to those who strive for social change

and self development. The Tijara Block of

Alwar District, Rajasthan was specifically

selected to develop our working model.

EP’s conviction is to work with the people by

engaging with them in a dialogue and not to

impose solutions on them. This model

strengthens micro level people centred self-

managed activities with potential for growth.

Over the years, regular discussions with local

community, stakeholders and service

providers, donors and specialists, the

Government and other NGOs working was

extremely helpful in designing of our

interventions that we humbly present below:

EP’s Kishori Shiksha Program is a holistic

literacy program for adolescent girls. 1686

teenage girls have so far participated in this

well grounded literacy program and been

empowered with skills of expression, literacy,

numeracy, sewing, knowledge about basic

health and environment.

EP’s Ajeevika Craft Centre project is women’s

livelihood program for rural women is also

called Tijara Craft. 300 women are now

trained and actively engaged in making

marketable products. The income goes

directly to their hand and highly valued by

them.

EP’s Sustainable Agriculture Development

Program focuses on increasing farm

productivity. Over 600 farmers benefitted

from the program through: training in

scientific farming, supplying good quality

seeds and making their soil health cards.

EP’s horticulture project ‘Plant a Tree for Life’

is a livelihood as well as environment project

that aims to improve the income of farmers

in a sustainable manner by adopting

horticulture. 6100 fruit saplings were

distributed to 155 farmers from 14 villages

during the year taking the total number to

15100.

EP’s ‘Dairy Development Program’ trained and

organised exposure visits for 500 farmers.

The program aims to improve the health and

productivity of milch animal thereby increase

farmers income.

EP added the Gurukul program during the

year that brings a 360�transformation in the

lives of young and aspiring youth who are

willing to change with a systematic

intervention. 111 youth were trained and

placed through this program.

Overall, it has been a year with many

rewarding moments, as well as challenges.

We made good progress including building

valuable partnerships.

Dr. Rachna Singh

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EP's conviction is to work with

the people by engaging with

them in a dialogue and not to

impose solutions on them.

End Poverty has been

working since 2009 to

enable a community to

build up their skills socially

and economically and

reach out for change

IntroductionEnd Poverty (EP) is a forward looking, catalyst organization with a mandate to contribute towards

poverty reduction in India by designing and testing innovative and self-sustaining development

programs with active people participation approach. EP has been working in Alwar district of

Rajasthan with vulnerable populations for seven years on sustainable livelihood creation,

education and rural development. During the year 2015-16, several activities were carried out in

the area of livelihood creation, girls’ education and rural development benefitting 1552 people.

It has now reached 50 villages covering 3352 families. EP’s programs are now spreading and

becoming popular in the local community and villages which were not keen earlier are now

approaching EP to initiate programs in their villages. EP actively participated in various

Government promoted programs and mobilised people for UID, Jan Dhan Yojana, old age

pension, health program, rural development, and public health and engineering department etc.

During the year, new program on youth employment was launched in Bangalore and dairy

development program was launched in Tijara.

VisionEP’s vision is the economic development of poor and needy

people in its operational area through education, training and

capacity building.

MissionTo develop the capacity and skills of the members of socially

and economically disadvantaged communities in India in such a

way that they are better able to identify and help meet their

needs and to participate more fully in society.

To act as a catalyst to improve education in the selected areas

with focus on out of school girls and primary school.

To promote economic upliftment of small and marginal farmers

including dairy farmers by way of improving their farm

management practices, facilitating fair & transparent

procurement activity and providing market linkages for

remunerative pricing.

To empower women by way of 'group' formation, capacity

building, skill up gradation and sustainable livelihood creation.

To generate employment opportunities for youths through

training, capacity building and skill up-gradation.

To build capacity of the villagers for taking up infrastructure

development works in their villages like rural roads, housing,

drinking water, sanitation etc.

Objectives


Core Values

Transparency: EP will remain

transparent in its dealings with the

government, the public, donors,

partners, beneficiaries, and other

interested parties. Basic financial

information, governance structure,

activities, and listing of officers and

partnerships are open and accessible

to public scrutiny and it will make

effort to inform the public about its

work and the origin and use of its

resources. Except as needed to

protect human rights or for personal

matters and proprietary information.

Truthfulness: EP will be truthful in its

dealings with its donors, project

beneficiaries, staff, members, partner

organizations, government, and the

general public. Any information given

out should be accurate, whether

regarding itself and its projects, or

regarding any individual, organization,

project, or legislation.

Accountability: EP is accountable for

its actions and decisions, primarily to

the community it serves, and also to

its funding agencies, the government,

staff and volunteers, members,

partner organizations, and the public

at large.

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Governance &Management

The Governing Board (GB) consists of seven

members. Board members are appointed by

the EP Board based on profiles,

competences, relevant expertise and

networks required. The GB convenes four

times a year at least. Each meeting is held as

per agenda and minutes of the meetings are

recorded and maintained. Every quarter, the

management team reports to the GB on the

progress of the organisation by means of the

quarterly reports. These reports also contain

a financial report on the realisation and the

prognosis in comparison to the budget

estimate. The management drafts an annual

report and annual accounts annually. These

are submitted to the Governing Board for

approval.

Board

Management

EP is a flat organisation with an open and

dynamic work culture. The management

team consists of Executive Director (ED), the

heads of the departments which are

appointed by the ED, in conformance with EP

HR and Admin policy. The GB appoints the

ED and supervises the functioning of the ED

and the organisation. Apart from this

supervisory task, the board also serves as a

sounding board and advisor on strategic

topics. In principle, the management team

convenes monthly, based on the agenda,

which is determined previously. In the

meetings, topics are discussed that have

organisation-wide or strategic importance,

such as: strategic plan, annual action plan,

budget estimate and budget, progress of the

organisation, annual report, human

resources, large activities and new initiatives,

progress of the alliances, developments in

the context of the organisation, specific risks,

external and internal audits and inspections,

the quality system, etc.

Plan

The latest plan approved is for 2016-17.

Based on this plan, and new insights from

the last year, the organisation drafts an

Annual Plan and presents a budget with a

detailed activity plan. Based on the year's

plan, a personal plan is drafted with each

individual member of staff, which forms the

basis of the end of year evaluation. Halfway

through the year, progress interviews take

place. The plan deals with tasks, results,

competences, training and wellbeing. The

assessment system of EP is connected

directly to remuneration.


Each quarter, the management team

assesses the progress and the prognosis of

the year plan and the budget estimate based

on the quarterly report. This is shared with

the GB and the members of staff. The

members of staff monitor the progress of

the projects that they manage or perform

themselves. halfway through each year,

each department assesses the progress on

the year plan and strategic plan in a mid-

term review, so as to make adaptations

where necessary as a start for the planning

cycle for the following year. Subsequently,

the management team performs an

Monitoring

Stakeholder

EP pursues an open dialogue with all

stakeholders, such as community,

volunteers, professional employees, donors,

corporate and institutional donors, executing

partner organisations and collaborating

organisations. They are, as much as is

relevant, informed about operational

matters, programme results, management

and policy, fundraising and financial matters.

Our stakeholders receive a quarterly

progress report. The content of this report is

adapted to the target audience. They also

receive an annual report and annual account.

The annual report and the annual accounts

are published in English and can be viewed

or downloaded on the EP website. Funders

of specific programmes and projects receive

a report of the programmes they support at

least once a year, depending on the

agreements that have been made with them.

Donors also visit projects that they support,

at their own expense; they are accompanied

when doing this.

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extensive management review, in which the

results from this mid-term review and all

learning points from the previous year are

analysed. Where necessary, points of

improvement are formulated and

adaptations are made to the plans.

EP also organises Annual Stakeholder

Meets where stakeholders review the

progress of current year and make

suggestions for next year plan. Seventh

Annual Stakeholders Meeting was held on

the 28th and 29th of January 2016. Over 60

people from Community, VDG, ACC, KSP,

teachers, Sahayika, farmers, staff,

government representatives, donors and

partners took part in the meeting. The

main objective of the seventh Stakeholder

meeting was to review the impact of EP

programs and plan the way forward for the

year 2020.

In the 21st century, I think the

heroes will be the people who

will improve the quality of life,

fight poverty and introduce

more sustainability.

-Bertrand Piccard, (Golden

Plate Awardee)

ProgramsIn Tijara Block, Alwar our operational area, over 90% people are engaged in agriculture.

Agricultural productivity is low as land holding is small and farmers follow traditional methods of

farming. Farmers have low surplus income and are unable to invest back in farming and take risk

to go for high income crops. Dairy farming is a significant economic activity in the area but in

absence of organised players to procure surplus milk the farmers are in the control of middle

men. Youth lack in education and employable skills and as a result cannot get jobs. Non-farm

sector activities are not popular in the area. Entrepreneurship is low in absence of education,

capacity to invest and availability of credit. In view of this and based on the situation analysis of

the area, consultation with the communities and stakeholder interactions, EP has identified three

main areas to work with. These are livelihood generation, quality education and rural

development. A brief description of EP's achievements during the year 2015-16 is given below.

Livelihood Development Programs

1.1 Women Empowerment Project

EP has set up Ajeevika Craft Centres in 10

villages which is a training cum production

centre where 300 women have been

trained. These women stitch for villagers

and do job work facilitated by EP. During the

year main focus was on skill upgradation

training, streamlining the ACC operations,

new product development, quality

improvement and reduction in rejection,

finishing. New products introduced during

the year were i-pad and laptop covers,

laundry bags, lunch bags, fashion pouches

and the total product range stands at 40.


Women were given exposure and trainings at

G.J. Creations and at Rangsutra, New Delhi.

EP participated in a program organised by the

Harvard South Asia Institute and TATA Trust

on Rural Craft based Livelihoods and Capacity

Building– Social Innovative Fund Program in

Ahmedabad. In year 2015-16 three

companies STYLEM, UL Quality Assurance

and LEVIS donated raw materials to the

project for training as well as making

products. Women's work was promoted

through exhibitions in corporate offices,

residential areas and online portals etc.

Products were displayed at Dastkar Jaipur,

Goa, Gurgaon, portals like Jabong.com under

their social responsibility initiative. A new

Brand Name was given to represent the area

and new logo was designed, given as under:

In year 2015-16 we have

set up 10 ACCs where

245 women have been

trained in sewing skills.

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During the year 2015-16 several trainings

were organised covering 588 farmers on the

following themes: Cotton cultivation (42

farmers); Horticulture crop management (155

farmers); Kharif season crop (60 farmers);

Organic farming and its potential benefits (61

farmers); Soil testing and its advantages (200

farmers); Vegetable crop management with

focus on Onion farming (50 farmers). Soil was

tested for 71 farmers at government lab and

soil health cards were prepared for these

farmers.

Training on seed management was imparted to

60 farmers and supplied with good quality seeds.

Exposure visits for 106 farmers organised to:

Government Veterinary Hospital; Grewal Organic

Farm Patan Kalan; Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bawal;

State Agriculture Department, Alwar.

As part of crop diversification and to reduce the

water consumption in agriculture EP is promoting

horticulture farming under the brand name of

Plant a Tree for Life to improve the income of

small farmers in a sustainable manner. 6100

horticulture saplings were distributed to 155

farmers from 14 villages in the year 2015-16

bringing the cumulative number of saplings

donated since 2010 to 15100.


The focus of the sustainable agriculture development program was to guide farmers in scientific

farming with focus on sustainability.

1.2 Sustainable Agriculture Development Project

1.4 Youth Development Project

EP has registered with the Agriculture Skills Council of India under

the government's Prime Minister's Kaushal Vikas Yojana that is the

flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development &

Entrepreneurship (MSDE) to conduct training in the states of

Rajasthan and Haryana

EP has also registered with AISECT for providing digital literacy

under the National Digital Literacy Mission where we join the

vision of the country to 'Make one person in every family digitally

literate' as one of the integral components of the Prime Minister's

vision of “Digital India”.

The Gurukul program builds up the skill of youths linked to

employment by providing training that is designed to cover

experiential learning. The program focuses on poverty alleviation

by building a strong 360-degree life skills, learning and economic

foundation for poor in residential "Gurukuls", along with

placement assistance. The curriculum includes life skills training,

literacy & numeracy and livelihood skill training. Once youth

become Gurukul alumni they are further assisted through

life/guard which is a combination of alumni service, embassy

support and concierge service. EP has successfully trained 111

students and placed 98% with an average salary of Rs 12,000 per

month.

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The dairy development program trains dairy

farmers in scientific dairy farming to improve

animal productivity. Over 500 dairy farmers

were covered under the program. Training

was delivered with the help of Officers from

the Government Animal Husbandry

Department, ABS India and other individual

experts. The topics covered were animal

health, protection from seasonal and

contagious diseases, vaccination &

immunisation, breed improvement, animal

nutrition, clean milk production, and govt

schemes. 180 farmers trained in dairy

farming earlier under Star Scheme were

facilitated in bank linkage for taking loan for

cattle induction.

1.3 Dairy Development Project

Anyone who has ever

struggled with poverty

knows how extremely

expensive it is to be poor.

-James A. Baldwin.


2. Girls Education Program

Kishori Shiksha Program (KSP) targets

adolescent girls who have never been to

school and may never get chance to get the

education. KSP provides literacy, numeracy,

reading and expressive skills along with

vocational, health, environment and

awareness training to girls. The KSP is a 12-

months, holistic literacy program for

adolescent girls who have not been educated

in regular schools. During the year 2015-16,

EP ran 10 centres and 167 girls completed

the course while 417 new girls were enrolled

in the program. State Government has

recognised EP's contribution in providing

education to adolescent girls and End

Poverty in two of its important committee i.e.

the Grievance Redressal Committee of the

Tijara Block Education Office and the Girl

Child Education Committee of the District

Education Department of Alwar District.

I call for a march from exploitation to

education, from poverty to shared

prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty,

and a march from violence to peace.

-Kailash Satyarthi, (Nobel Laureate)

3. Rural Development Programs

Village Development Groups (VDG) are

developed, nurtured by EP with a purpose to

inspire villagers to take up their village

development work. Initially EP functionary

document the minutes of the meetings, notes

decisions and actions, prepare resolution for

onward submission to concerned

Departments. Subsequently VDG members

assume all roles and responsibility of the

group activities.

During year 2015-16, 14 villages / hamlets

were engaged in diverse developmental

activities for their villages through VDGs that

met monthly to plan on the key issues of

development in their villages. VDG members

were supported in getting identity cards like

the Aadhaar cards made and benefit 626

beneficiaries from six panchayats. Internal

roads were repaired and constructed by the

VDGs members. Construction of 2 Primary

Health Centres commenced as a result of

initiatives taken by VDGs. The Primary School

at Bhalesar was upgraded from Primary to

Middle level where female teachers were

deputed, school boundary and additional

classrooms were built by the District

Education Department with the persuation by

VDG with the concerned Department.

EP successfully implemented the project to

increase penetration of adequately iodized

salt in India. The project focused on

organising Stakeholder Consultations in the

salt industry on a common platform through

a series of meetings held at Ahmedabad,

Chennai and New Delhi. Techno-commercial

and knowledge sharing workshops were

organised by EP and Frontier Growth Advisors

Pvt. Ltd. Engagements with Government

agencies were held throughout the period of

the project.

4. Improving Salt

Iodization

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As long as poverty, injustice and

gross inequality persist in our

world, none of us can truly rest

-Nelson Mandela


Financial Reports

Testimonials

Sue Burke is the Chairperson of the GEN Initiatives U.K. The GEN

has been supporting EP since its inception working around the

full range of EPs work. GEN has full faith in what EP does and has

done since 2009 and will be fully supportive of EP for the

foreseeable future. EP is trusted by villagers in the Tijara Block

and continues to flourish and expand. It has an excellent

reputation in the Alwar District and it's help is often sought by

district and state officials.

EP was appreciated by the Alwar District Administration for

its contribution in the area of Education, Health & water.

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I am ACC Sahayika of Village Jojaka since 2011. My engagement in ACC gives

me immense pleasure as it has not only made me independent and it has

also revived my confidence. Villagers respect me and have stopped being

sceptical about my work. The extra money I earn through ACC has helped me

in getting education for my children, fodder for my buffalo and fuel. The

regular flow of income has reduced borrowing from money lender.

Unnas Khan is a farmer from Patan Khurd village of Tijara and has been

associated with End Poverty since 2012 and have received lemon, guava and

pomegranate trees from the organisation. Till this year my family and friends

have enjoyed the fruits, but from now on I am expecting the harvest of fruits

to be much larger. My family and I are looking forward to selling and earning

from the horticulture produce.”

Bimal, ACC

Mr. Unnas from Village Patan Kalan , Horticulture

Sabila is 13 year old and resides in Siroli Kalan in village Hamiraka. She

attended the KSP center run by Rubia along with her younger sister Faranah.

KSP was a great opportunity. Not only I can read and write now, I can do

calculation and also keep account of milk sold by my family. Earlier we were

always doubtful whether milk vendor giving us the right price for the milk but

now I maintain our records and I match the figure with milk vendor when he

come to make payment. Sabila is keen to study more, “Main aage bhi

padhoongi” she says.

Sabila, KSP

Sumitra is the Country Director of iPartner India that has been a friend

and supporter of End Poverty since its inception in 2009. iPartner India is

involved with End Poverty to provide programmatic and technical

processes support and financial support for its projects and in reaching

organizational development goals. Sumitra finds that the organization's

work for girls education and women's livelihood is making an impactful

change in a difficult geography.

Mrs. Sumitra Mishra, iPartner India

PartnersEP would like to thank its donors and

partners for their invaluable support. GEN

Initiative UK has been supporting End Poverty

from its inception and has been sharing its

expertise in the area of organisation

development, program management,

connecting EP with other organisations,

supporting EP's core cost. iPartner & Pakhar

Singh Foundation from U.K. and AZTEC Exim

have also been providing program support

from an early stage. Other donors who have

supported EP programs including GAIN from

Switzerland, Hand In Hand from Germany,

Southall Trust from UK, PHAST, the Waterloo

Foundation and the SAGA Trust from the UK,

GWC from China, Mphasis, Sapient, inMobi,

Yes Bank, Valuefirst, Godrej, Sage (P),

Ammado.com, Paytm among many other

corporate and individual donors.

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AZTEC Exim


Board MembersVinod Kaushik (President): Mr.Vinod Kaushik is a Management Graduate from

IRMA. He has over 24 years of experience in organisations like NDDB Dairy

Services as Head of Dairy Value Chain, Jaipur Rugs as CEO, GEN Initiative UK as

India Representative, ANARDE Foundation as Head Management Committee,

Gujarat Ecological Commission, ARCOGUL. Mr. Kaushik has served on CSR

Committee of CII, Agriculture & Water Committee of FICCI, NABARD Committee on

Rural Credit Intensification for Punjab & Haryana, PMRY Committee for Mewat

District

Dr. Rachna Singh: Dr. Rachna Singh holds a Ph.D. in Education from the

University of Delhi. She has over 24 years of diverse work experience including

research, TGT at the Mother's International School, Coordinator of the Indian

European Studies Center, MDI, Faculty & Dean in IILM, Gurgaon, Siver Birch

Special School in Canada, English teacher in Tokyo, Japan. Currently she is the

Executive Director of End Poverty.

Atul Satija: Mr. Atul Satija is an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad. He has 17 years of

experience of start-up businesses, scaling and turning around businesses in some

of the largest and most respected organisations globally. Until recently, he was

the Chief Business Advisor of InMobi. Earlier, Mr. Satija was the Head of Mobile

Business for Japan and Asia-Pacific, and Head of Business Development for India

at Google.

Sukhbir Sharma: Mr. Sukhbir Sharma is an Engineer from CTI, Gwalior. He has

over 36 years experience during which he has worked with leading organizations

like Hotel Meridien, Imperial, Modi Group, DLF, Jindal ( JSW). His work at Bellary

Karnataka has been awarded as the best township in India and in Asia. He is

currently the Sr. Vice President with TCG Real Estate and is actively engaged in

philanthropic initiative

Gurmit Kaur: Ms. Gurmit Kaur is a graduate from the University of Delhi and Post

Graduate from Women's Polytechnic, Delhi. She has over 20 years experience as

an entrepreneur in crafts, garments and jewellery business and works out of Delhi

and Manesar. Gurmit is an engaged social worker and is a Founder Member of

the Manesar Industry Welfare Association and lead its Green Aravali project in

2013-14.

Mohammed Mustafa: Mr. Mohammed Mustafa is an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad

and has over 23 years of experience as a senior professional in the Operations

and Quality Assurance management sector. He has worked with NDDB as Head of

Quality vertical and GSK. Currently he is Group Head - Quality Systems at - TGI

Group, Nigeria.

Naresh Panwar: Mr. Naresh Panwar is an MBA from Sikkim Manipal University

with 17 years of work experience in insurance and development sector. He has

worked with organisations like Anarde Foundation, Agro Ecommerce Pvt. Ltd.,

Birla Sun Life and Max Life Insurance. His is very passionate about engaging with

social development.

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Plant a Tree for Life

Kishori Shiksha Program

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dated 20th February 2009

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2013

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