The document discusses an internship project aimed at making the Delhi Positive Women Network (DPWN) self-sustainable. It analyzed issues faced by DPWN like limited funding and members' unwillingness to participate. The intern proposed a catering and commodity business but faced problems securing resources and a workplace. Meetings with members and research were conducted to address issues but lack of interest from the community caused the intervention to fail. The document recommends skill development over direct funding and addressing social stigma through awareness events to better empower communities.

1. DPWN
(Delhi Positive Women Network)
By:
Dr. Tarun joshi

2. AN OVERVIEW (TCHP)
• The Center of Human Progress is an NGO and social entrepreneurship that
supports and enables community empowerment and community-led change
through leadership development.
• It promotes leadership by promoting innovation, knowledge generation, and
knowledge exchange using various platforms, including media (traditional and
new) and technology.

3. • Since its inception in 2008, CHP has worked directly with several young people
and communities and reached out to many more through its projects and
initiatives.
• CHP’s initiatives focus on promoting innovation, building and strengthening
programs, and influencing policies in the areas of leadership, for example, by
focusing on issues such as human rights, health, education, gender, and
livelihoods to name a few.

4. • To achieve these goals it focuses on 5 strategic activities, including:
1. - Social Mobilization & Sustainable Change
2. - Capacity Building & Skills Development
3. - Education & Awareness Building
4. - Communication & Advocacy
5. - Research & Documentation

5. AN OVERVIEW (DPWN)
• It is a network which connects the HIV positive women together in and as an
organization.
• It works for the betterment of the social as well as the financial status of the HIV
Positive women.
• It is right now having more than 700+ members included in the network

6. • The President of the organization is Mrs. Dimple
• The General Secretary of the DPWN Shadipur is Mrs. Laxmi
• The central office is located in Chennai
• They have branch offices all over the India
• The lone source of DPWN funding is from an organization named MAMTA
• MAMTA provide it with annual grant of INR 3,00,000 only 3 monthly basis

7. INTRODUCTION
• In the summer internship which I did in TCHP, I got an exposure of
the issues and difficulties which are being faced by the NGOs and
various other organizations who work in & for the communities. The
project on which I worked was for the self-sustainability of a network
known as DPWN+. It is an organization which works for the advocacy,
empowerment & betterment of the women who had been fallen as a
victim to HIV-AIDS. It has its central office at Chennai and work
under DSACS (Delhi State AIDS Control Society). I came across
various issues which are been faced by the organization for its
survival. I proposed an intervention to make DPWN+ self-sustainable.
For this we followed various steps in research to execute the
intervention in proper way. Later on the intervention was not
successful because of lack of interest of the community members &
various other causes.

8. TASK TAKEN
After looking over the issues mentioned above, it was all crystal clear that in order
to achieve the objective of empowering the DPWN+ members it is necessary that
they should be made self-sustained financially.
To do so I planned to develop an intervention for them. It has to be done keeping in
mind the limitations of the involvement of the community members as per their
health issues and second is that the initial investment too should be minimal as the
whole point of the development of the intervention is to make them financially
independent.

9. PROBLEMS
• Limited funding
• No other source of income
• Non-Willingness of members to participate in the intervention
• Availability of the resources
• Legal issues
• Non-disclosure factor

10. SOLUTIONS
• Self-sustainability of the organization (DPWN)
• Empowerment of its members
• Advocacy of community

11. WHY SELF-SUSTAINABILITY?
• Empowerment of Positive Women
• Proper use of available HR
• Better social and economic status of the DPWN members

12. HOW WE WILL ACHIEVE IT?
Catering Business
Commodity Making

13. ISSUES
Commodity & catering Business
• Place of work
• HR issue
• Resources
• Training
• Social Taboos
• Distribution of Products

14. OUR INITIATIVES
• Set up meetings with the DPWN members
• Rigorous and intensive researches:
1. To overcome the problems
2. To cut down expected cost of production
3. To minimize the strain of work among the DPWN members
4. Various field visits to visualize variety opportunity for the beneficiaries

15. OUTCOMES
• Lack of financial resources for initial investments
• Lack of interest from the community
• Lack of work place
All the above leads to failure of implementation of the intervention

16. • Failure of the project due to lack
of interest by the community
members in working in the project.
• Wrong way of approach by various
NGOs to benefit the community
• Despite of the adversity the General
secretory of the network is carrying on
the good work forward
• Many NGOs (MAMTA and many more)
are working for the empowerment and
advocacy of HIV positive community
CONCLUSIONS
Positives Negatives

17. RECOMMENDATIONS
• Skill development should be encouraged among the communities, rather
than providing them with the money directly to make them self-sustained.
• Events should be organized to make people get rid of the Taboos related to
the HIV.
• Events to eradicate the misconceptions in context to the HIV should be
organized.
• PWN+ should connect all their branches through a separate website.
Through it all the registered members can be accessed from any of the
branch.