Deepalaya - Enabling Self-Reliance

Process of selecting Sub-Grantees

• Announcement on the Deepalaya website
• Writing to 26 NGOs in North, North West, West and South West Delhi
• Short listing initially 18 NGOs and then 11 NGOs
• Detailed study of 11 NGOs and their project proposals by three teams composed of senior staff of Deepalaya
• Finalization of the findings and recommendations by a broader group consisting of the three teams, Chief Executive and other senior staff of Deepalaya and Dy. Chief of Party, REACH India.

Objective for each Sub-Grantee

Achieve enrollment, retention and mainstreaming of, on an average, 500 out of school children in their respective locations, during February 05 to July 07. Children suffering from any particular backwardness/ neglect/ disability, like children of sex workers, of HIV/ AIDS patients, street children, disabled children, have to be given special consideration.

Enrollment, retention, completion and Mainstreaming defined

Enrollment

Vulnerable children registered in the school and his/her name appearing in the school records in formal schooling systems. The formal schooling system is defined as government schools, full alternative schools registered with National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), and private schools recognized by the government.

Retention

Children who enter in the formal schooling system continue in subsequent years either at the same or advance level

Completion

Completion is defined as remaining enrolled for the entire program and acquiring skills/ competencies as defined by the NGOs.

Mainstreaming

Mainstreaming is defined as transition of students from Direct NGO interventions to formal schooling systems.

Sub-grantees selected and their programme locations

Name of Sub-Grantees	Programme Locations
Alamb - Om Vihar	South West Delhi, Dwarka Sector 15A & 16A (Pappankalan) & Vikas Vihar West Delhi, Om Vihar & Transit Camp, Hastsaal
A.V.Baliga Memorial Trust, B.S.Zafar Marg	North Delhi, Holambi Kalan, Phase-1 & 2 and Narela
Nirmana, Rohini	North Delhi, Haiderpur, S.J. Vihar/ Tikhri Khurd North West Delhi - Bannual Nagar/ Saraswati Vihar
Urbo Rural Integrated Development Assocation (URIDA), Uttam Nagar	South West Delhi, Dwarka Sector-15 (Kakrola) North Delhi, Gangaram Colony, Tikhri Khurd
Association for Self Reliance & Alternatives (ASRA), Vikaspuri	West Delhi, Indira Camp-2/ Vikaspuri, Shiv Vihar/ Hastsaal South West Delhi, Dwarka Sector-3 North West Delhi, Suraj Park
Karmath, Najafgarh	West Delhi, Shyam Vihar, VRM Slum Area, Qutab Vihar, Durga Vihar, Tajpur Colony, Kumar Enclave South West Delhi, Pankaj Garden

Capacity Building Programmes (CBPs) conducted for Sub-Grantees

A total of 403 persons – two to four persons from each Sub-grantee - participated in these CBPs;

They comprised Chief Executives, Programme Coordinators, Accounts Officers, Supervisors and teachers, in accordance with the type of CBP.

• Organizational Development:
  • Training Need Analysis & Developing a Training Programme (2 days)
  • Communication & Presentation in a Training (1 day)
  • Managing Common Problems, Evaluation and Reporting of Training Programmes (1 day)
  • Organizational Assessment (1/2 day)
• Programme related:
  • Orientation on DRIP & Guidelines for proposal formation (1 day)
  • Type & Content of Programme – Consensus reaching exercise (1 day)
  • Scheduling CBPs (1 day)
  • DRIP Objectives & Targets (1 day)
  • Basics of Pedagogy (1 day)
  • Teaching of Science, Mathematics & Social Sciences (3 days)
  • Class Management and Roles of Teacher ( 4 day, for 3 Sub-grantees each for 2 days)
  • Minimum Levels of Learning (1 day)
  • Monitoring & Evaluation (2 days)
  • Exchange of DRIP Implementation Experiences (1/2 day)
  • Documentation
  • Specific Learning Outcomes and Indicators (1 day)
  • Exchange of Experiences by DRIP Partners (1 day)
  • Lesson Design and Principles of Learning (2 days)
  • Multi Grade Teaching (4 days)
  • Making Teaching and Learning Materials for Hindi (1 day)
  • Curriculum Development in 4 subjects (Hindi, English, Maths & EVS) for Level I & II (1 day)
  • Financial Management – Income Tax & FCRA (1 day)

A view of the participants at the 1st Orientation Workshop on 29th October ’04, at which 18 NGOs from West Delhi were represented


Ms. Nandini Prasad, Deputy Chief of Party, REACH INDIA at the meeting of the Deepalaya Senior Staff on 18 December’04, at which Deepalaya’s recommendations to select the 6 sub-grantees were finalized

Mr. Peter, Coordinator DRIP, giving an overview of the Capacity Building Programs to follow, at the workshop on 1st February ’05.
DRIP partners making TLMs at the workshop at Deepalaya on 16 February 2006

Participant Feedback

Average rating of the participants, against a scale of 10, comes to 7.9, 7.8 and 7.8 respectively for Content, Methodology and Usefulness;

I have learnt how to

• Look at an individual child as "unique" and work with the child accordingly
• Develop a training schedule keeping in mind the needs of the beneficiaries
• Analyze a test to know where remedial education is required
• Use everyday objects to teach simplify science
• Develop instruments to assess the effectiveness of training

M.V.Anuradha, Coordinator-DRIP, NIRMANA

I shall put to use the pre-test method more scientifically, I shall prepare teaching and learning aids

Shashikar Bharadwaj, Field Supervisor, AVBM Trust

Learnt what is primary education,
… learnt how to teach Science;
… learnt how to do more involvement of unwilling trainees
… need more training/workshop on Pedagogy
… If training materials were provided before all trainings that would have been more useful

Renu Bala, Teacher, ALAMB

The exchange of experiences in DRIP implementation was very enriching. Learnt a lot through the mutual discussions which took place after each presentation.

Meeta Mishra, Prog Coordinator, ASRA

I have learnt about ‘Indicators’, ‘Disaggregation’ and ‘LFA – Logical Framework Approach’; but all these will lead to lot of paper work, although it will help us to work systematically.

Ashok Kumar, Prog Coordinator, AVBM Trust

I have learnt how to assess critically any programme by preparing LFA; … The sessions were very participatory

Mousamy Gupta, Prog Coordinator, URIDA

I learnt how to formulate SMART Objective and how to use Logframe

Mrs Sushma Chandrasekhar, CE, Karmath

On-the –Spot guidance

Programme and Finance staff of Deepalaya, visit each of the 6 Sub-grantee and their programme locations/Learning Centres, at least once in 45 days, and render support and guidance relating to:

• Class management
• Maintenance of various records and registers
• Reducing drop-outs
• Mainstreaming and retention of students
• Maintenance of accounts
• Addressing organizational problems, if any

Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Manager, Programme (Deepalaya) at the Learning Centre of Nirmana at Haiderpur

Blossoms from the dust – the key is to inculcate desire to study:

A view of URIDA’s Learning Center at Sector-15, Dwarka

Shabnam, is a 10 years old daughter of Mohammad Babu Khan and Bano Begum, who stay at Bharat Vihar, Kakrola in South West Delhi. Babu Khan is old, weak and cannot work. Bano Begum goes out for odd jobs. Though Shabnam wants to study, her parents are not keen and want her to take care of the home, while her mother is away at work. As a result of the repeated visits of the community workers of Alamb to the Khans, Shabnam started attending Alamb’s Learning Centre at Sector-15, Dwarka. Alamb staff continues to visit Babu Khan’s house and ensure that he or Bano attends the parent’s-teacher meet. Alamb’s visits and counseling have started showing some positive change in the attitude of the parents. Alamb hopes that Shabnam will continue to attend the Learning Centre and can be educated in the local government school in the next academic year.

Master Manoj, 10 years old, is the only son of Ramesh and Parvati staying at Bannual Nagar slum. Manoj’s mother is a domestic worker and father also works away from home. Manoj’s parents did not want him to go to school as his two younger sisters are at home. Nirmana’s staff somehow managed to get him to their Non Formal Education Centre at Bannual Nagar. After attending the centre for two months, Manoj got interested in studies and persuaded his parents to send him to school. He appeared for the test in the local MCD School and is now admitted to class II.