The document provides an update on the EMPHASIS program for a steering committee. It summarizes activities in the first year, including staff recruitment, workshops to build common understanding, mapping activities with NGO partners, and snapshots from field visits. Key processes included establishing common understanding across countries, contracting NGO partners, and overcoming communication divides. Financial status and milestones for the first year in India are also outlined. The discussion section proposes including partner program representatives, establishing source-transit-destination agreements, ensuring regionalism through sharing, and addressing concerns about the neutrality of the secretariat location.

1. For the Steering Committee
EMPHASIS in India
CARE

2. What has happened till
now?

3. Where will EMPHASIS work?
• Nepal-India route
– Source area (Accham and Kanchanpur)
– Transit area (Gaddachouki)
– Destination area (Delhi and National Capital Region)

4. Where will EMPHASIS work?
• Nepal-India route
– Source area (Accham and Kanchanpur)
– Transit area (Gaurifanta)
– Destination area (Delhi and National Capital Region)

5. Where will EMPHASIS work?
• Nepal-India route
– Source area (Accham and Kanchanpur)
– Transit area (Rupaidiya)
– Destination area (Delhi and National Capital Region)

6. Where will EMPHASIS work?
• Bangladesh-India route
– Source area (Jessore and Satkhira)
– Transit area (Petropole and adjoining areas)
– Destination area (Kolkata, Howrah and adjoining areas)
Source
point
Transit
point
Destination
point

7. Who will EMPHASIS work with?
• Impact population:
– Mobile population from Nepal and Bangladesh
to India.
– Both Men and Women
– Come to India for at least three months at a
time
– Spouses left behind at source sites

8. First Year of the Programme
• Knowledge Building Phase
– Build knowledge, information, and analysis while
supporting existing services for the target group.
– Using analysis, clarify assumptions about services for
each of the two migration routes: Inputs → Outputs →
Outcomes → Impact

9. Key Processes – Staff Recruitment
Staff Recruitment process started in September,2009 and
all staff were recruited by January, 2010.
Staff Name Designation Place
Essa Mohammad Rafique Team Leader New Delhi
Nabesh Bohidar Manager (M-E-D) New Delhi
Anju Bala Admn Assistant New Delhi
Anupam Das Partnership Coordinator Kolkata
Surajit Chakraborty Partnership Coordinator Bahraich
Moushumi Kundu Partnership Coordinator New Delhi
Jatin Juneja Finance Officer (part time) New Delhi

10. Key Processes – Common
Understanding
Induction Workshop (New Delhi-October 2009)
• Facilitators
– Audrey Swift
– Andy Melendez
• Key Outcomes:
– Common understanding of the Programme Goals
– Understanding of the key challenges in the
programme

11. Key Processes – Common
Understanding
Inception Workshop (Kathmandu-Oct/Nov
2009)
• Facilitators
– Audrey Swift
– Andy Melendez
– Ayesha Kariapper
– Gulshan Rehman
• Participants: Country teams and NGO
partners
• Key Outcomes:
– Common understanding of the Programme
Goals and objectives
– Understanding of the key challenges in the
programme
– Routes
– Draft Country work plans

12. Key Processes – Common
Understanding
NGO pre-orientation workshop
(New Delhi-Dec 2009)
• Participants: Potential NGO
partners
• Key Outcomes:
– Common understanding of the
Programme Goals and objectives
– Understanding of the key
challenges in the programme
– Routes
– Process for NGO assessment

13. Key Processes – Common
Understanding
CARE Staff Induction workshop (Lucknow-February 2010)
• Facilitators (Md. Rafique & N Bohidar)
• Key Outcomes
– Common understanding of the Programme Goals and objectives
– Understanding of the key challenges in the programme
– Routes
– Work Plans

14. Key Processes – Common
Understanding
• NGO Induction Workshop (New Delhi-
Feb 2010) for NGO staff of Delhi/NCR
• NGO Induction Workshop (Kolkata-
March 2010) for NGO staff of West
Bengal
• NGO Induction Workshop – (Bahraich –
March 2010) for staff of Uttar Pradesh
• Key Outcomes:
– Common understanding of the
Programme Goals and objectives
– Understanding Workplans and
Budgets
– Mapping Exercises
– Understanding on HIV and mobility

15. Key Processes – NGO Partners
Contracted
• As the NGO partners were pre-
selected, a process of NGO
assessment was carried out with all
the five NGOs. (Nov-Dec 2009)
• The NGO assessment was carried out
by a team comprising of both
programme staff and finance staff of
CARE.
• Draft NGO contracts were sent to BIG
through the Secretariat.
• Approval of the contracts were
received in late February.
• NGO contracts were signed from the
first of March

16. Key Processes – Current activities
of the NGO partners
• Mapping + Defining Impact and Sub-Impact population
• Why are these important?
– Need to know who is coming, through which route and settling where.
What is the volume of mobility.
– Pattern of mobility
– Need for mapping data to be rigorous.
– Need for common methodology and outputs
• Status:
– Initial discussions and mapping exercises initiated in all the program
locations.

17. Key Processes – Overcoming the
communication divide across countries
• Communication & KM - Ning
• One Stop Shop
– Chat, Forum, Tele, Google-docs, Blog, Events,
Calendar, Map, Groups, Photos, videos, audios,
Transliteration, Archives, Intra, Google-search, SMS-
web, Wiki
• Status
– Started in Dec 09, Analytics show high usage
– Will require dedicated facilitator support

18. EMPHASIS KM Processes
Discussion Transcripts Knowledge Assets
Chat, Tele, Video Conf
or Resources
consisting of
E-forum discussion Discussion summary Recommended
Documents,
Blogs Consolidated Replies Websites,
Contacts,
Organizations…
SMS, Audio, Video Final Blog
Group work Collaborative Document
FGD, Field or Immersion Visit Reports, Guidelines, budgets Archives
Transliteration Translated docs

19. Financial Status
• Total Budget for EMPHASIS: £ 4,999,969
Regional Budget : £ 2,143,821
Nepal Budget : £ 830,541
India Budget : £ 1,316,884
Bangladesh Budget : £ 708,723
• Project Start date is 3rd Aug’09 and ending on 2nd Aug’14.
• Fund Code PN / FC : CSD010 / CS019
• Expenditure till Dec’09 for Care India is £ 18,811.48.
• Have signed the MOU with 5 Sub grantees in Year 1.
• Constraints
– Waiting for the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976 (FCRA)
approval due to which we are not able to draw down the money from
Care UK.

20. Snapshots of Activities in the Field
• EMPHASIS team crosses
the heavily guarded Indo-
Bangladesh Border

21. Snapshots of Activities in the Field
• EMPHASIS team at
the Indo-Nepal Border
at Rupadiya

22. Snapshots of Activities in the Field
• EMPHASIS team at
the Indo-Nepal Border
at Gaurifanta

23. We enjoy our work too
• Some amazing sights
and tastes

24. Snapshots of Activities in the Field
• Visitor to EMPHASIS –
Richard Greenhalgh
(chair of CARE-UK
Board)

25. Snapshots of Activities in the Field
• Visitor to EMPHASIS – Jane Adisu &
Nino Gurgulia

26. Milestones in the First Year - India
# Milestones for Year One - India Timeline Status
1 Recruitment of all staff at country and regional End Qr 2 Completed
level
2 Training of partner NGOs on M&E End of Qr 4 Will be done once
M&E system is
developed
3 Establishment of 1 Drop in Centre in Nepal, End of Qr 3 On Schedule - Will be
Bangladesh and India done by April
4 Mapping of existing service providers End of Qr 3 On Schedule – Will
be completed by April
5 First capacity building session with at least 5 End of Qr 4 Will be done
NGOs/CBOs each in all countries
6 First capacity building session with border End of Qr 4 Will be done
security/ police in India and Nepal
7 Publication of first set of leaflets and posters in End of Qr 4 Will be done after
India and Bangladesh BCC strategy is
developed

27. Proposals for
the Steering Committee

28. Discussion: Program
• Get Inputs from Team by including one
rep
• Liaison EMPHASIS with other programs
– RAKS THAI (CARE Thailand)
– ISOFI (CARE Gender and Sexuality)
– RAB (FHI India, Nepal)
– NACO Mobility programs
– ACP (AIDS Competence Process)

29. Source, Transit, Destination (STD)
Agreements of inception workshop
• Mapping data to decide STD.
• “Nepal will not interfere with what is the
Destination, and India will not pressurize a
change in the Source”.

30. Region & Sharing
• Regionalism of the program directly
dependent on sharing across the region
• Vital: a share facilitator - TOR shared
• Other Suggestions:
– Host Archives and workspace on CARE India
web space till EMPHASIS has its own
– Share all field visit reports as Blog in Ning
– 1 comment by ACD/day in Ning – 1 minute!
– e-mails to e-group hosted on CARE India list

31. Neutrality of Secretariat
• No Indian representation in Secretariat
• Maoist enforce recruitment of Nepalis
• Maoist disruptions in Nepal
• Red shirts in Thailand
• So, Shift Secretariat to Delhi, India

32. THANKS
http://emphasis.ning.com