Lead Activity of Beeralinga

Date: 01/03/09
Leader:Beeralinga

Followers:Jagadeesh & Basavraj.
Location/ Community involved:Govt Boys (PG) BCM Hostel. Dharwad.
Activity & Description Orientation regarding Deshpande Fellowship Program. Cohort-III
Objective/ Goal To motive the adolescents to apply for the Deshpande Fellowship program. Cohort-III.To build brand of Deshpande Foundation.
Strategies:
Power point presentation.
Challenges:
Organizing the students Because they have departmental sports and hostel sports.

Lessons learnt & Output:
 We need to inform concerned person before going to do an activity and
We should fix particular time for the session.
Students were appreciated Deshpande Foundation activities and program.

Budget Details (If any):Rs.60(Bus fare)

Advocacy Module 05/03/09

Resource Person:Smt.Usharani and Vanishree.

                         Really I did not know, what is the Advocacy? Smt. Usharani is a resource person for this module.She has completed her MA and M Phil in Rural Development. Right now, she is working in the KHPT (Karnataka health promotion Trust) organization. She begins the session with the introduction of fellows. In the beginning she told about the content of her presentation and who has inspired to take this stuff. Generally Advocacy is defined as the process of people participating in decision making process which affect their lives. Advocacy is putting a problem on the agenda, providing a solution to that problem and building support for acting on both the problem and solution.

Strategies used: For advocacy it can include lobbying, social marketing information, education and community organizing or many more other tactics.

Basic elements of Advocacy:

1)     Coalitions 2) Objectives 3) Data 4) Fund raising 5) Audience 6) Presentations7) Evaluation.

Some of the steps involved in the Advocacy are:

· Selecting Advocacy Objectives

· Identifying Advocacy Audience

· Developing & Delivering Advocacy Messages

· Making Perusable Presentations

· Fund Raising

· Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts

· These processes may be viewed as fluid as they occur simultaneously.

These things were discussed in detail with some case study and examples which made me more curious about Advocacy. Next the Q-A session started, many fellows asked questions, some of them are, what is the scope of Advocacy? How it will help entrepreneurs? Is it a nonprofit Advocacy or not? This was followed by the Group Activity in which we were given a topic & asked to write the steps involved in that. We got “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN” as the topic. According to our group members opinion we collected all the steps and one among us has presented. Than Usharani has analyzed.

 Second session was taken by Vanishree has explained about her experiences. In the beginning when she wanted to work for positive people her parents, relatives and friends have also convinced her not to go for that. But she has taken firm decision to do work for them and joined an organization called Society for Public Advocacy Development (SPAD). She has explained about her live examples where she has got slap on her face by community woman because of that her husband has involved in sex with other woman.

In the afternoon we had session by Dr.Gopal Dabade, who is President of Drug Action Forum-Karnataka, Convener for All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) and He is also Treasurer of Jagruti. He has given example of IBFAN (International Baby Food Action Network) has 200 groups in more than 100 countries for Advocacy. He has also told that People’s Health Movement (PHM) as a best example of Advocacy. Ha has given many examples and asked us to visit websites relating to Health as examples of Advocacy. Such as www.jagruti.org,http:www.aidanindia.wordpress.com,www.ibfan.org,http://phm-india.org,www.phmovement.org,http://www.righttofoodindia.org..................etc

 

 

 

 

 

Right weapon for the right people at right time on right Place

This is an important and significant 22^ndact enacted in 2005.the Right to Information Act-2005 was enacted on 12^th October. It contains 28 pages and 22 articles. Except for people in the states of Jammu and Kashmir, everybody can access information according to this act in India. This is only one way to get information easily by applying RTI.Anybody can access information under the control of public authorities in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of public authorizes.

In this act we see some important articles like Suo-Muto 4(1) (b), which permits us to get firsthand/basic information, including 17 points under the law regarding each public agency. Section 6(1) is great weapon for retrieving specific information from the public authority by filing RTI through records, documents, memos, e-mail, opinions, advice, press realeases, circulars, reports and electronic formats. Important concepts like “information”, “public authority” and Records. We can compliant under section 18^th (1).

When writing an application to Suo-motu, specific information and plays vital role in the RTI.Our application should be very specific and clear about the applicant. The constitution of a central information commission and state information commission now expedient to provide for certain information to citizens who desire it. Case studies help us to understand easily rather than reading theory. By filing RTI to public authority we come to know the reality of RTI.The successful stories increase our confidence in the future.

Lastly, the three day module on RTI enriched my knowledge. It was a nice experience to do a case study, recap and read successful stories with great file concerning background of RTI.The least I can say is that the street play in the public is showed me it is challenging to convince people and sensitize them regarding Right to Information. Being a social entrepreneur, this is the first filing in my career, so it is good to understand this act.  Click here