3. DPIP
INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
The District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP) is an
ambitious poverty alleviation project of the
Government of Madhya Pradesh (a central Indian
state).
The time bound project (2001-2008) is based on the
needs and demands of the community. The project is
co-funded by the World Bank.
Total Project outlay is INR six billion out of which INR
one billion is coming from the contribution of
community (INR 510 million) and the Government of
Madhya Pradesh (INR 490 million). Rest INR five billion
is an IDA (World Bank) loan.
5. DPIP
PROJECT MISSIONPROJECT MISSION
The Mission of the project is EMPOWERING PEOPLE.
•A significant shift from the earlier concept of doling out
grants to the poor.
•The project is empowering the poor and enhancing their
capacities.
• Making them capable of decision making and charting
out their own life paths.
6. DPIP
PROJECT VISION & OBJECTIVESPROJECT VISION & OBJECTIVES
The Project envisages a poverty-free State of Madhya
Pradesh, by improving opportunities for the poor and the
vulnerable, especially women, to meet their own social and
economic development objectives. To achieve this objective the
project is:
Creating income security opportunities for the rural poor;
Empowering active groups of disadvantaged people;
Supporting investments in small sub projects;
Facilitating linkage between Common Interest Groups (CIGs)
and lending institutions/ Market;
Building capacity of CIGs, VDCs and Gram Sabha;
Strengthening Village organizations to promote more
effective, accountable and transparent interventions;
Contd….
7. DPIP
The Project is aimed at changing the following conditions;
The lack of organization and skill among the poor;
The lack of community control over the design,
implementation and financial management of the projects.
The inadequate targeting and inefficient management of
development projets for the poor.
The lack of community participation in development
decision making.
The poor capacity, accountability and lack of coordination
on part of Panchayati Raj Institutions (Multi-tier Statutory
institutions of Local self-governance in India).
The inadequacy of infrastructure, public services and
investment in the villages and/or their inaccessibility to the
poor people.
PROJECT OBJECTIVESPROJECT OBJECTIVES
8. DPIP
PROJECT APPROACHPROJECT APPROACH
Empowering disadvantaged groups by putting funds under their
direct control
Ensuring that groups, in view of their needs, can select and develop
Sub-projects
Regularly supporting and strengthening groups for their
progressive growth and interaction with mainstream processes and
institutions.
Closely monitoring the decision making processes in the CIGs to
ensure group participation,
Contd….
9. DPIP
PROJECT APPROACHPROJECT APPROACH
To develop participation and feeling of ownership, creating
credibility and fostering a culture of local financing, cost
recovery and user charges
Strengthening local governments at the district and village
levels
Ensuring transparency, widespread information
dissemination, communication and learning
10. DPIP
Target Population:Target Population:
The project targets socially and economically disadvantaged
people, especially women and families of the schedule
caste / tribe and marginalized farmers.
53 development blocks and within them clusters of 2906
villages have been selected in 14 districts on the basis of the
level of socio-economic backwardness.
12. DPIP
PROJECT ADMINISTRATIONPROJECT ADMINISTRATION
State Level:
At the state level, there is a M.P. Society for Poverty
Alleviation Initiatives (MPSPAI), which is registered under
the Madhya Pradesh Societies registration Act, 1973.
The General Body is chaired by the Chief Minister and Vice-
chaired by the Minister of Panchayat and Rural development
and executive committee headed by the chief secretary
The State Project Support Unit (S.P.S.U.) is the executive
arm of the society and monitors and supervises project
implementation
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PROJECT ADMINISTRATIONPROJECT ADMINISTRATION
District Level:
At the district level, a District Poverty Initiative
Subcommittee of the District Panchayat is responsible for
review and monitoring of the project. A District Project
Support Unit headed by the District Project Manager with
administrative staff and hired personnel supports the
ZPDPIS.
14. DPIP
PROJECT ADMINISTRATIONPROJECT ADMINISTRATION
Village Level:
Project Facilitation Teams, which interacts directly with the
target population, have been selected through a rigorous
recruitment and selection procedure, which has been
internalized by the project. Professionals with background of
rural management, engineering, veterinary and agricultural
sciences have also been recruited to help PFTs in tackling
multi-sectoral activities that communities demand
15. DPIP
CORE PROJECT VALUES & COMPONENTSCORE PROJECT VALUES & COMPONENTS
PROJECT VALUES
Peoples' participation
Empowerment
Process orientation
Decentralization
Learning through experiences
Transparency and collaboration/cooperation
PROJECT COMPONENTS
Establishing communication with people
Group formation and its strengthening
Human resource development and capacity building
Formulation of sub-projects, its appraisal and implementation
Budgeting and disbursements
Monitoring of activities and learning through experiences - Peer
Review
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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGYPROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
Village Entry
Selection of the target people
Lower 70% of the household ranked in the order of poverty
by the "Wealth Ranking"
Wealth Ranking - is a process by which all the households,
in a participatory way, make a list of families, ranking them
in order of their poverty.
Households from the SC/ST
Household where wage earners migrate out for wage labor.
Household having no permanent dwelling or whose house
needs repairing every year (Kuchcha or Mud houses).
Women and all women headed household.
All landless and marginal farmers
17. DPIP
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGYPROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
Entry Point Activity and Mobilization of People
Common Interest Group (CIG) - Common Interest groups
formed of disadvantaged people around a common
activity/interest, are the building blocks of grassroots
devolution and democracy
Gram Sabha and Village Development Committee (VDC) -
Gram Sabha (GS) consist of all the adult members of the
village. As per Rule 5(A) of the M.P. Panchayt Raj Act, 2001,
there shall be a GS in every village.
All the members of CIG will have automatic members of the
VDC for their respective VDCs.
18. DPIP
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGYPROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
Village Budget – No. of target families x INR 20,000 (family
budget = A)
A x 30% = village infrastructure budget = B
Village budget = A + B
Apna Kosh (Village Fund) - The amount (10%) deposited by
CIGs in the Apna Kosh is the corpus available to the village,
which can be used for village investments. Apna Kosh could be
used to access funds from the banks and other government
schemes but this decision will be taken by the VDC.
20. DPIP Village Development Committee is the village level
federation of the CIGs
Apna Kosh fund used by the VDC
VDC registered : 2527
Apna Kosh (Village Fund) : Rs. 32.18 Crs
. Geographical Federations. Geographical Federations
21. DPIP
Membership:
CIG Members involved in similar activities
Registered:
Producer company registered under Company Act.
MACS registered under Mutually Aided Cooperative Society
Act
Objectives:
Market linkage- input procurement & marketing,
Bank linkage – consumptive/productive loan and Insurance.
Knowledge linkage – training & technical knowledge
Activity based FederationActivity based Federation
22. DPIP No. of Agri-producers Company - 15
No. of Milk Producers Company - 01
No of Poultry Producers Company- 01
Shareholder members (Farm Families) 61924
Share capital (RS in Lakh) 73.22
Total turnover till date (RS in Lakh) 580.35
The Vital Statistics…..
23. DPIP
Creation of Social CapitalCreation of Social Capital
• Village Resource Person –1000
• Service Providers – 900
• Para vet - 200
24. DPIP
Total Income (Mean)
Income from all sources (Rs.)
Income
(Rs.)
All Households CIG Non-CIG Non-Project
BLS IS %
Change
BLS IS %
Chang
e
BLS IS %
Change
BLS IS %
Change
Mean 11,32
8
14,87
1
31 8,87
1
13,57
3
53 12,51
6
15,56
5
24 13,35
6
15,41
2
15
(At constant prices)
Impact Assessment
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Contribution in Development ofContribution in Development of
New Policy FrameworkNew Policy Framework
• MPDPIP PFT model has been adopted as new
implementation model
• Convergence among livelihood schemes through creation
of State Livelihood Forum
• State Self Help Groups/Activity based Federation
promotion Policy
• State Employability Enhancement Training Policy
• Creation of Labor Net for Pre and Post Placement
Services