This document discusses strategies used by the Northern Mindanao Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project in the Philippines to effectively target and distribute poverty alleviation funds to the poorest households. It describes a three stage process for identifying the poorest households using wealth ranking tools and surveys. Twenty indicators across three dimensions were used to categorize households. Funds were then distributed through strengthened self-help groups composed of 20 poor households each. Rigorous methods were developed to ensure the funds reached the most impoverished.
CAADP is a framework for agricultural development in Africa established by the African Union. It aims to help countries reach higher economic growth through agriculture by increasing public investment in agriculture to 10% of national budgets and agricultural productivity by 6% annually. CAADP has four pillars: sustainable land and water management, market access, food supply and reducing hunger, and agricultural research. Regional Economic Communities play a role by establishing priorities within the pillars and leading political engagement with CAADP at the regional level. Civil society has an important role in providing critical analysis and scrutiny to ensure CAADP achieves its goals of transforming policy, coordination, knowledge and ways of working.
NRLM is India's flagship program for promoting rural livelihoods that was launched in 2011. It aims to reduce poverty through universal social mobilization, financial inclusion, and livelihood promotion. The key strategies of NRLM include bringing poor households into SHG networks for skills training and microfinance, building grassroots institutions, converging with other government programs, and supporting agricultural and non-farm livelihoods through community resource persons.
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made...OECD Governance
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made at the meeting 'Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa' on 5 march 2015 in Madrid
The National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) is Pakistan's largest rural support program, operating in 54 districts across all four provinces. It aims to alleviate poverty by organizing over 1 million poor households into more than 102,000 community organizations. NRSP facilitates these communities to plan and manage development activities that create employment and improve living standards. It identifies local leaders, assesses community needs, and helps communities access resources from the government, donors, and private sector. The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme operates in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral and aims to reduce poverty and gender inequality through collective resource management, community savings programs, and skills training. It pursues poverty reduction, quality of life improvements, institutional development, resource development
The document provides information about Local Poverty Reduction Action Plans (LPRAPs) and Local Poverty Reduction Action Teams (LPRATs). It states that LPRAPs are plans created through participatory processes to directly address the needs of the poor. LPRATs are groups that formulate and monitor LPRAPs. It describes the composition and objectives of LPRATs, which include government and civil society representatives. It outlines the schedule and methodology for LPRAP workshops, as well as criteria for prioritizing projects, which include relevance, urgency, magnitude, importance, and feasibility.
The document provides an overview of the Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment program in India. Key points include:
1) SGSY was established in 1999 by combining several existing rural employment programs. Its goals are to reduce poverty and generate self-employment opportunities through micro-enterprises.
2) The program focuses on organizing the rural poor into self-help groups (SHGs) which receive training and funding to start small businesses. Infrastructure development and identifying key local industries are also priorities.
3) SHGs go through stages of formation, stabilization, obtaining microcredit, and developing micro-enterprises. They are expected to help empower women and
Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC) is proposing a project to strengthen economic and social rights for marginalized farmers in Nepal. The project would have four outcomes: 1) empower home/landless settlers and farmers to claim their land rights, 2) formulate pro-poor land policies, 3) reduce gender inequalities in land rights, and 4) strengthen CSRC's capacity. Over three years, the project would work to secure land entitlements for 21,000 families, promote women's land rights, and build a sustainable land rights movement in Nepal.
CAADP is a framework for agricultural development in Africa established by the African Union. It aims to help countries reach higher economic growth through agriculture by increasing public investment in agriculture to 10% of national budgets and agricultural productivity by 6% annually. CAADP has four pillars: sustainable land and water management, market access, food supply and reducing hunger, and agricultural research. Regional Economic Communities play a role by establishing priorities within the pillars and leading political engagement with CAADP at the regional level. Civil society has an important role in providing critical analysis and scrutiny to ensure CAADP achieves its goals of transforming policy, coordination, knowledge and ways of working.
NRLM is India's flagship program for promoting rural livelihoods that was launched in 2011. It aims to reduce poverty through universal social mobilization, financial inclusion, and livelihood promotion. The key strategies of NRLM include bringing poor households into SHG networks for skills training and microfinance, building grassroots institutions, converging with other government programs, and supporting agricultural and non-farm livelihoods through community resource persons.
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made...OECD Governance
Presentation on 'Women’s Economic and Political Agenda in the post-2015' made at the meeting 'Women in Public Life in the Middle East and North Africa' on 5 march 2015 in Madrid
The National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) is Pakistan's largest rural support program, operating in 54 districts across all four provinces. It aims to alleviate poverty by organizing over 1 million poor households into more than 102,000 community organizations. NRSP facilitates these communities to plan and manage development activities that create employment and improve living standards. It identifies local leaders, assesses community needs, and helps communities access resources from the government, donors, and private sector. The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme operates in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral and aims to reduce poverty and gender inequality through collective resource management, community savings programs, and skills training. It pursues poverty reduction, quality of life improvements, institutional development, resource development
The document provides information about Local Poverty Reduction Action Plans (LPRAPs) and Local Poverty Reduction Action Teams (LPRATs). It states that LPRAPs are plans created through participatory processes to directly address the needs of the poor. LPRATs are groups that formulate and monitor LPRAPs. It describes the composition and objectives of LPRATs, which include government and civil society representatives. It outlines the schedule and methodology for LPRAP workshops, as well as criteria for prioritizing projects, which include relevance, urgency, magnitude, importance, and feasibility.
The document provides an overview of the Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment program in India. Key points include:
1) SGSY was established in 1999 by combining several existing rural employment programs. Its goals are to reduce poverty and generate self-employment opportunities through micro-enterprises.
2) The program focuses on organizing the rural poor into self-help groups (SHGs) which receive training and funding to start small businesses. Infrastructure development and identifying key local industries are also priorities.
3) SHGs go through stages of formation, stabilization, obtaining microcredit, and developing micro-enterprises. They are expected to help empower women and
Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC) is proposing a project to strengthen economic and social rights for marginalized farmers in Nepal. The project would have four outcomes: 1) empower home/landless settlers and farmers to claim their land rights, 2) formulate pro-poor land policies, 3) reduce gender inequalities in land rights, and 4) strengthen CSRC's capacity. Over three years, the project would work to secure land entitlements for 21,000 families, promote women's land rights, and build a sustainable land rights movement in Nepal.
BISAP is the acronym of “Bangladesh Integrated Social Advancement Programme”. It is a non-political, non-profitable, secular and non-government development organization. It came into existence in 1989 in response to the felt-needs of the area of the poor and hard core people, especially problems of endemic poverty, which manifest in landlessness, unemployment, illiteracy, malnutrition and vulnerability to frequent natural disaster, by the active initiative of local social workers, philanthropists and educationists with a view to alleviating poverty through empowerment, education and resource mobilization for improving their life and livelihood and innovating appropriate development strategies to lead the programme towards sustainability.
This document outlines the roles of civil society organizations (CSOs) in grassroots participatory budgeting and bottom-up budgeting processes in the Philippines. It discusses how CSOs can act as fiscalizers that monitor government spending, as advocates that promote public interests, and may sometimes be co-opted by the government. The document also reviews the legal basis for CSO participation in the 1987 Philippine Constitution and laws like the Local Government Code and Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act. It details the composition and functions of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and provides definitions and accreditation processes for CSO representation in local special bodies.
Sarhad Rural Support Programme is a Non Profit Not Govt Organization working for Rural Development through Social Mobilization in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa and Parts of Fata since 1989.
The document discusses the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment program launched by the Government of India in 1999. The key points are:
1) SGSY aims to provide sustainable income and employment to the rural poor living below the poverty line through self-employment opportunities and formation of self-help groups.
2) It focuses on identifying potential economic activities, imparting training and skills development, and providing credit and infrastructure support to establish micro-enterprises.
3) The program is implemented through district rural development agencies, local governments, banks, and NGOs with the goal of reducing poverty and empowering communities through self-employment.
The document summarizes the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment program launched by the Government of India. The key points are:
1) SGSY aims to bring families living below the poverty line above it by providing income-generating assets through bank credit and government subsidies.
2) It focuses on a group approach and forming self-help groups, as well as identifying clusters of economic activities.
3) Implementation involves organizing the rural poor into self-help groups, providing training and assets, and linking groups to credit and marketing support.
This document provides an evaluation of poverty alleviation programs in Talata Mafara Local Government, Nigeria. It discusses the concepts and causes of poverty in Nigeria. Several poverty alleviation programs implemented by the Nigerian government and donor agencies are described, including Operation Feed the Nation, the Agriculture Development Program, and programs run by the UNDP, DFID, and World Bank. The document outlines the objectives and research methodology, which included distributing questionnaires and interviews. Data collection aimed to assess the reach and impact of poverty alleviation programs on target groups, and whether they have been effective in reducing poverty levels in rural and urban areas.
This document provides an evaluation of poverty alleviation programs in Talata Mafara Local Government, Nigeria. It discusses the concepts and causes of poverty in Nigeria. Several poverty alleviation programs implemented by the Nigerian government and donor agencies are described, including Operation Feed the Nation, the Agriculture Development Program, and programs run by the UNDP, DFID, and World Bank. The document outlines the objectives and research methodology, which included distributing questionnaires and interviews. Data collection aimed to assess the reach and impact of poverty alleviation programs on target groups, and whether they have been effective in reducing poverty levels in rural and urban areas.
The document summarizes a neighborhood network project in Nigeria led by Mr. Michael Iyanro. The project aims to help underprivileged youth in rural slums through mobile services like healthcare, education, and disaster relief. Over 3,400 members and 9 years (2009-2015), the project impacted 34,000 people. It created connections between communities and opportunities like employment, education, and new businesses. The feedback was positive and the approach is being adopted by other organizations. The project seeks to expand globally but requires more funding and staff support to strengthen its model and membership value.
“… The goal is to “empower” the poor, to provide them with the kind of assistance that will give them the confidence that, on their own, they can break out of poverty."
The document summarizes a project aimed at promoting civil society participation in water and sanitation governance in Pakistan. Key points:
- The project aims to help reduce poverty and achieve water/sanitation MDGs in Pakistan by increasing civil society involvement in governance.
- Over 11,000 people gained access to safe drinking water via new/rehabilitated water sources and disinfection of contaminated sources. Sanitation efforts included triggering communities to stop open defecation and building 40 demonstration latrines.
- Research studies were conducted on water/sanitation budgets, the state of drinking water, and feasibility of appropriate solutions. The organization provided input to help draft provincial water/sanitation strategies.
- While most planned
Poverty eradication action plan of andhra pradeshgeosaibhaskar
The document outlines Andhra Pradesh's poverty eradication action plan, which consolidates various initiatives into an integrated strategy. Key elements include forming over 45,000 women's self-help groups with total savings of Rs. 1500 crore, organizing extreme poor groups under the Velugu program, and developing wastelands. The plan is implemented through four key missions on poverty eradication, water, literacy, and employment generation, as well as the health department. The progress in reducing poverty is due to holistic pro-poor growth strategies and an integrated action plan aligned with the people-owned Janmabhoomi movement and Vision 2020 goals.
Nagorik uddyog’s economic and social contributionAshraf Ahmed
Nagorik Uddyog (NU) is a Bangladeshi NGO established in 1995 to provide justice, promote women's rights, and increase human rights awareness. NU operates in 9 districts through various projects, including providing legal aid, empowering women leaders, strengthening local governments, and advocating for rights to information. However, NU's annual reports lack financial transparency and accountability. With a focus on underserved areas and improvement in reporting, NU can better achieve its social and economic goals.
A single goat or a few hens will not lift a poor family out of poverty, but to participate in a well planned development project based on either a goat or a few hens can be and should be an educational process in which the participants learn to establish income generating activities
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
SACONO is a non-profit organization registered in South Africa that represents non-profits across the country's nine provinces. It was established in 2012 to be the voice of vulnerable communities and close the gap between government and non-profits. SACONO has a 18-member executive committee that oversees its work in capacity building, women's empowerment, youth mobilization, and civil society networking. Its goals are to strengthen the non-profit sector through advocacy, organizing, resource mobilization, and supporting members' work on issues like poverty alleviation, women's and children's rights, and rural development.
6Gender and Alternative and Sustainable Livelihood ProjectsNancy Drost
The document provides information on mainstreaming gender equality in livelihood projects in Ghana. It discusses:
1. Identifying gender issues during the problem identification stage such as differences in access to assets and opportunities between men and women.
2. Designing projects using a logic model to ensure activities will strengthen women's empowerment and challenge inequalities.
3. Implementing activities like linking women to credit schemes and training women in alternative livelihoods. Case studies show how projects have increased women's participation and decision making.
4. Monitoring and evaluating projects using gender disaggregated indicators to track changes in women and men's roles, access, and control of resources.
21st Century Synthesis For Rural Development In Ajk (Pp Tminimizer) (Pp Tmini...Taimur Hyat-Khan
This document summarizes a development plan for rural areas in AJ&K. It discusses establishing village councils and apex bodies to prepare development plans. Key goals include improving livelihoods through skills training, microenterprises in agriculture, mining and tourism. Specific projects proposed include food processing plants, organic farming cooperatives, and developing renewable energy. The document emphasizes an asset-based and participatory approach to development focusing on local resources and community participation.
Peduli is a Government of Indonesia initiative managed by The Asia Foundation to promote social inclusion. It works with 79 civil society partners across 26 provinces and 84 districts to improve access to services, economic opportunities, and participation in community processes for marginalized groups. This program snapshot examines Peduli's emerging approaches, including positioning inclusion as a local governance issue, adopting systems-based approaches, and establishing coalitions for inclusion. By thinking and working politically through locally led and adaptive solutions, Peduli and its partners have made gains in mobilizing social change for excluded communities in diverse contexts.
The document discusses the Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) program in India. Key points:
- DWCRA aims to improve living conditions for rural women and children through self-employment opportunities and access to social services like healthcare, education, and childcare.
- Eligible groups are formed of rural women below the poverty line. They receive a revolving fund of Rs. 25,000 for income generation activities.
- The program strategy includes skill and credit support so groups can supplement their incomes. It encourages collective action, thrift, and makes women self-reliant.
- Administrative roles include officers at the state, district, and block levels to plan, implement and
The IRDP (Integrated Rural Development Program) was introduced in 1979 to provide gainful employment and increase purchasing power for rural poor and weaker sections of society. It aimed to use local resources and science/technology to create simple, economically viable jobs. To manage the program, District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) were established at the district level, governed by a council headed by the DRDA Project Officer. The program was jointly funded by central and state governments and implemented through strengthened development blocks, but suffered issues like inadequate resources, poor asset quality, and delays.
The experiment with seed expansion modelsGunitaPugeja
The document provides instructions for making paper gliders from a pattern to experiment with how different factors affect flight. Students are asked to cut out three paper glider models from a pattern and attach different numbers of paper clips to each to test how weight influences how quickly the gliders descend. Observations are made that gliders with fewer paper clips stay aloft longer as increased weight from more clips causes faster falling. Natural seeds and fluff that move by wind in similar drifting ways are cited as comparisons.
O documento discute como os discípulos de Jesus estavam tristes com sua partida, mas Jesus os conforta dizendo que sua tristeza se transformará em alegria. Ele também diz que devem pedir ao Pai em seu nome.
BISAP is the acronym of “Bangladesh Integrated Social Advancement Programme”. It is a non-political, non-profitable, secular and non-government development organization. It came into existence in 1989 in response to the felt-needs of the area of the poor and hard core people, especially problems of endemic poverty, which manifest in landlessness, unemployment, illiteracy, malnutrition and vulnerability to frequent natural disaster, by the active initiative of local social workers, philanthropists and educationists with a view to alleviating poverty through empowerment, education and resource mobilization for improving their life and livelihood and innovating appropriate development strategies to lead the programme towards sustainability.
This document outlines the roles of civil society organizations (CSOs) in grassroots participatory budgeting and bottom-up budgeting processes in the Philippines. It discusses how CSOs can act as fiscalizers that monitor government spending, as advocates that promote public interests, and may sometimes be co-opted by the government. The document also reviews the legal basis for CSO participation in the 1987 Philippine Constitution and laws like the Local Government Code and Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act. It details the composition and functions of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and provides definitions and accreditation processes for CSO representation in local special bodies.
Sarhad Rural Support Programme is a Non Profit Not Govt Organization working for Rural Development through Social Mobilization in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa and Parts of Fata since 1989.
The document discusses the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment program launched by the Government of India in 1999. The key points are:
1) SGSY aims to provide sustainable income and employment to the rural poor living below the poverty line through self-employment opportunities and formation of self-help groups.
2) It focuses on identifying potential economic activities, imparting training and skills development, and providing credit and infrastructure support to establish micro-enterprises.
3) The program is implemented through district rural development agencies, local governments, banks, and NGOs with the goal of reducing poverty and empowering communities through self-employment.
The document summarizes the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY), a self-employment program launched by the Government of India. The key points are:
1) SGSY aims to bring families living below the poverty line above it by providing income-generating assets through bank credit and government subsidies.
2) It focuses on a group approach and forming self-help groups, as well as identifying clusters of economic activities.
3) Implementation involves organizing the rural poor into self-help groups, providing training and assets, and linking groups to credit and marketing support.
This document provides an evaluation of poverty alleviation programs in Talata Mafara Local Government, Nigeria. It discusses the concepts and causes of poverty in Nigeria. Several poverty alleviation programs implemented by the Nigerian government and donor agencies are described, including Operation Feed the Nation, the Agriculture Development Program, and programs run by the UNDP, DFID, and World Bank. The document outlines the objectives and research methodology, which included distributing questionnaires and interviews. Data collection aimed to assess the reach and impact of poverty alleviation programs on target groups, and whether they have been effective in reducing poverty levels in rural and urban areas.
This document provides an evaluation of poverty alleviation programs in Talata Mafara Local Government, Nigeria. It discusses the concepts and causes of poverty in Nigeria. Several poverty alleviation programs implemented by the Nigerian government and donor agencies are described, including Operation Feed the Nation, the Agriculture Development Program, and programs run by the UNDP, DFID, and World Bank. The document outlines the objectives and research methodology, which included distributing questionnaires and interviews. Data collection aimed to assess the reach and impact of poverty alleviation programs on target groups, and whether they have been effective in reducing poverty levels in rural and urban areas.
The document summarizes a neighborhood network project in Nigeria led by Mr. Michael Iyanro. The project aims to help underprivileged youth in rural slums through mobile services like healthcare, education, and disaster relief. Over 3,400 members and 9 years (2009-2015), the project impacted 34,000 people. It created connections between communities and opportunities like employment, education, and new businesses. The feedback was positive and the approach is being adopted by other organizations. The project seeks to expand globally but requires more funding and staff support to strengthen its model and membership value.
“… The goal is to “empower” the poor, to provide them with the kind of assistance that will give them the confidence that, on their own, they can break out of poverty."
The document summarizes a project aimed at promoting civil society participation in water and sanitation governance in Pakistan. Key points:
- The project aims to help reduce poverty and achieve water/sanitation MDGs in Pakistan by increasing civil society involvement in governance.
- Over 11,000 people gained access to safe drinking water via new/rehabilitated water sources and disinfection of contaminated sources. Sanitation efforts included triggering communities to stop open defecation and building 40 demonstration latrines.
- Research studies were conducted on water/sanitation budgets, the state of drinking water, and feasibility of appropriate solutions. The organization provided input to help draft provincial water/sanitation strategies.
- While most planned
Poverty eradication action plan of andhra pradeshgeosaibhaskar
The document outlines Andhra Pradesh's poverty eradication action plan, which consolidates various initiatives into an integrated strategy. Key elements include forming over 45,000 women's self-help groups with total savings of Rs. 1500 crore, organizing extreme poor groups under the Velugu program, and developing wastelands. The plan is implemented through four key missions on poverty eradication, water, literacy, and employment generation, as well as the health department. The progress in reducing poverty is due to holistic pro-poor growth strategies and an integrated action plan aligned with the people-owned Janmabhoomi movement and Vision 2020 goals.
Nagorik uddyog’s economic and social contributionAshraf Ahmed
Nagorik Uddyog (NU) is a Bangladeshi NGO established in 1995 to provide justice, promote women's rights, and increase human rights awareness. NU operates in 9 districts through various projects, including providing legal aid, empowering women leaders, strengthening local governments, and advocating for rights to information. However, NU's annual reports lack financial transparency and accountability. With a focus on underserved areas and improvement in reporting, NU can better achieve its social and economic goals.
A single goat or a few hens will not lift a poor family out of poverty, but to participate in a well planned development project based on either a goat or a few hens can be and should be an educational process in which the participants learn to establish income generating activities
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
SACONO is a non-profit organization registered in South Africa that represents non-profits across the country's nine provinces. It was established in 2012 to be the voice of vulnerable communities and close the gap between government and non-profits. SACONO has a 18-member executive committee that oversees its work in capacity building, women's empowerment, youth mobilization, and civil society networking. Its goals are to strengthen the non-profit sector through advocacy, organizing, resource mobilization, and supporting members' work on issues like poverty alleviation, women's and children's rights, and rural development.
6Gender and Alternative and Sustainable Livelihood ProjectsNancy Drost
The document provides information on mainstreaming gender equality in livelihood projects in Ghana. It discusses:
1. Identifying gender issues during the problem identification stage such as differences in access to assets and opportunities between men and women.
2. Designing projects using a logic model to ensure activities will strengthen women's empowerment and challenge inequalities.
3. Implementing activities like linking women to credit schemes and training women in alternative livelihoods. Case studies show how projects have increased women's participation and decision making.
4. Monitoring and evaluating projects using gender disaggregated indicators to track changes in women and men's roles, access, and control of resources.
21st Century Synthesis For Rural Development In Ajk (Pp Tminimizer) (Pp Tmini...Taimur Hyat-Khan
This document summarizes a development plan for rural areas in AJ&K. It discusses establishing village councils and apex bodies to prepare development plans. Key goals include improving livelihoods through skills training, microenterprises in agriculture, mining and tourism. Specific projects proposed include food processing plants, organic farming cooperatives, and developing renewable energy. The document emphasizes an asset-based and participatory approach to development focusing on local resources and community participation.
Peduli is a Government of Indonesia initiative managed by The Asia Foundation to promote social inclusion. It works with 79 civil society partners across 26 provinces and 84 districts to improve access to services, economic opportunities, and participation in community processes for marginalized groups. This program snapshot examines Peduli's emerging approaches, including positioning inclusion as a local governance issue, adopting systems-based approaches, and establishing coalitions for inclusion. By thinking and working politically through locally led and adaptive solutions, Peduli and its partners have made gains in mobilizing social change for excluded communities in diverse contexts.
The document discusses the Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) program in India. Key points:
- DWCRA aims to improve living conditions for rural women and children through self-employment opportunities and access to social services like healthcare, education, and childcare.
- Eligible groups are formed of rural women below the poverty line. They receive a revolving fund of Rs. 25,000 for income generation activities.
- The program strategy includes skill and credit support so groups can supplement their incomes. It encourages collective action, thrift, and makes women self-reliant.
- Administrative roles include officers at the state, district, and block levels to plan, implement and
The IRDP (Integrated Rural Development Program) was introduced in 1979 to provide gainful employment and increase purchasing power for rural poor and weaker sections of society. It aimed to use local resources and science/technology to create simple, economically viable jobs. To manage the program, District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) were established at the district level, governed by a council headed by the DRDA Project Officer. The program was jointly funded by central and state governments and implemented through strengthened development blocks, but suffered issues like inadequate resources, poor asset quality, and delays.
The experiment with seed expansion modelsGunitaPugeja
The document provides instructions for making paper gliders from a pattern to experiment with how different factors affect flight. Students are asked to cut out three paper glider models from a pattern and attach different numbers of paper clips to each to test how weight influences how quickly the gliders descend. Observations are made that gliders with fewer paper clips stay aloft longer as increased weight from more clips causes faster falling. Natural seeds and fluff that move by wind in similar drifting ways are cited as comparisons.
O documento discute como os discípulos de Jesus estavam tristes com sua partida, mas Jesus os conforta dizendo que sua tristeza se transformará em alegria. Ele também diz que devem pedir ao Pai em seu nome.
Shreeshail Totad seeks a position that allows growth and learning. He has a B.E in Mechanical Engineering and over 5 years of experience designing heat exchangers, tanks, and other equipment for power and industrial plants. His skills include thermal calculations, 3D modeling, cost estimation, and proposal development. Currently he works as a Proposal Engineer at GE Godavari Engineering, preparing bids, specifications, and technical proposals for surface condensers, heaters, and other equipment.
Several students made promises to improve their behavior and academics in the new year, including Pedro Dias who promised to behave better in class, Miguel who said he would stop being late, Pedro Orfao who would try to keep his voice down, and Vera who would control her euphoria. The document warns that failing to meet these promises could result in problems like expulsion or losing points. It concludes by asking the reader to share their own New Year's resolution.
Vanessa Counaert is a marketing manager and business designer based in Belgium. She has experience leading design processes that put users at the center and use methods like user research, prototyping, and testing. Her background includes developing marketing strategies and brand alignment for Baxter in Asia Pacific and introducing new technologies like a vein finder device to help patients learn self-injection for hemophilia treatment.
This document is an investor presentation for Battery Energy Storage Systems - Technologies LLC (BESS-Tech). It summarizes BESS-Tech's mission to develop a high-performance, low-cost lithium-ion battery anode to enable revolutionary batteries. If funded, BESS-Tech will advance customer programs, expand manufacturing partnerships, and generate more intellectual property over the next 18 months. BESS-Tech is seeking $1 million in current seed funding.
Es un instrumento importante de apoyo a quienes hacen promoción de la vacunación. Este material es aprovechado por estudiantes voluntarios para explicar y motivar a las madres sobre la vacunación completa de los niños antes de cumplir un año.
Dr. Samiran Sona Gauri is an experienced post-doctoral fellow with over 7 years of research experience in natural product analysis and biotechnology. He has published over 18 research papers, filed 3 patents, and has expertise in chromatographic separation, small molecule analysis, and characterization of new prebiotics.
1. A drinking water supply scheme in the village of Sarul Barri Bari in Bagh, AJK had become non-operational after its water tank sank and leaked from many sides over 10 years ago despite attempts by NGOs and the government to repair it.
2. During a visit to inaugurate another water scheme, the local community asked officials to also repair the old non-functional tank, which could provide water to many households. The officials and community agreed to jointly repair the tank with minimal funds from the officials and labor from the community.
3. The tank was repaired for 294,000 Pakistani rupees by dismantling the concrete roof and using the iron in the base of
El documento presenta los resultados de una encuesta sobre las diferencias físicas y personales entre adolescentes. La encuesta encontró que los adolescentes necesitan estudios, libertad y estabilidad familiar para desarrollarse plenamente, y que aceptar la diversidad requiere madurez y responsabilidad. El documento concluye que se aprendió sobre el significado de la adolescencia y la importancia de reconocer las condiciones que favorecen el desarrollo integral de los adolescentes.
Osa suomalaisista toimii jo tänä päivänä tehokkaasti kiertotalouden logiikkaa hyödyntäen, mutta valtaosalle meistä kiertotalous ei ole vielä konkretisoitunut arjen teoiksi ja toimintamalleiksi. Lassila & Tikanojan teettämän tutkimuksen mukaan monet meistä haluaisivat osallistua kiertotalouteen nykyistä enemmän, jos homma tehdään meille helpoksi ja luodaan palveluita, jotka vastaavat todelliseen tarpeeseen.
Types of attic insulation used in hot and cold climateslee shin
This document discusses different types of attic insulation used in hot and cold climates. For hot climates, rolled and blown-in fiberglass or cellulose insulations are commonly used, along with radiant barriers. For cold climates, loose fill cellulose and rock wool batt insulations are effective at preventing cold air entry. Proper attic insulation installation is important for moderating indoor temperatures and reducing energy costs year-round.
A new initiative in 1969 aimed to improve economic conditions and reduce income disparities in rural areas through several programmes. However, these programmes had limitations like being restricted to small areas, benefiting the same target groups, and unsatisfactory administration. As a result, the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was introduced in 1978 to provide a more ambitious programme to deal with rural poverty across India. The IRDP aimed to help poor families raise themselves out of poverty and create additional employment opportunities in rural areas through viable projects partially subsidized by banks. However, the IRDP also faced issues like misidentification of beneficiaries and lack of infrastructure and credit support.
A new initiative in 1969 aimed to improve economic conditions and reduce income disparities in rural areas through several programmes. However, these programmes had limitations like being restricted to small areas, benefiting the same target groups, and unsatisfactory administration. As a result, the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was introduced in 1978 to provide a more ambitious programme to deal with rural poverty across India. The IRDP aimed to help poor families raise themselves out of poverty and create additional employment opportunities in rural areas through viable projects partially subsidized by banks. However, the IRDP also faced issues like misidentification of beneficiaries and lack of infrastructure and credit support.
The document discusses a study conducted in 30 char-based unions in Sirajganj district of Bangladesh to analyze the social integration and inclusion of ultra-poor households supported by the PRADG project. It provides background information on the ultra-poor population in char lands and objectives of the study. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods including interviews, focus group discussions, and review of documents to understand the social integration process and its impact on people's lives and livelihoods.
Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development Summit; 19-21 August 2014; African ...Nixon Ganduri
Overally, 70% of the South African poor live in Rural Areas (Government of South Africa 2000); where the most primary school completion is on average more than 20% lower, nearly twice as many children suffer from malnutrition, and maternal mortality rates are twice as high when compared with other countries. Some 5% of rural households report no cash income whatsoever. Despite being rural dwellers, more than one million African households have no access to demarcated arable land. While up to 12 % in South Africa depend on state pensions as their only source of cash income. As much as 26% of rural households entirely depend on remittances from urban centers for their cash income. Severe job losses in several industries are likely to have worsened the situation of late. Superimposed on this is the growing impact of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods. It is I guess an unfortunate reality that in a country like South Africa in which 20% of the population is HIV positive, 25.6% are unemployed, the sustainability of rural livelihoods is still not considered a priority issue as is meant to be by some stakeholders.
The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was the major self-employment scheme in India from 1980-1999, aiming to generate sustainable incomes for rural poor families and help them cross the poverty line. However, numerous studies found conceptual and implementation problems with IRDP, including a lack of coordination between programs, low and insufficient investment per family, and poor targeting that allowed non-poor families to participate. As a result, many IRDP beneficiaries failed to retain assets or generate enough income to escape poverty. The document discusses reforms needed to poverty alleviation programs like IRDP to make them more effective.
1) The document summarizes a livelihood development project in Koggala, Sri Lanka that aimed to include the most marginalized communities, such as the disabled, elderly, and female-headed households, in mainstream development efforts.
2) The project conducted sensitization workshops to identify and select 300 marginalized families, and trained volunteers from those communities. It formed self-help groups for beneficiaries and provided livelihood and financial skills training.
3) As a result, over 120 families started new income-generating activities. Savings groups enabled over $100,000 in community savings. Partnerships with local government and organizations expanded services for beneficiaries. The project demonstrated strategies for meaningfully including marginalized communities in development.
Social marginalization is a common issue in development. Physically handicapped people, elderly people, mentally ill people, widows, etc., are the main categories who have been marginalized in the process of development. As their voices are not strong enough to receive the attention of others, hardly anyone seems to notice them. Due to this discrimination, they have been invisible in society and such groups have been put away from development benefits.
The livelihood project of Practical Action with Creative Action and Development with Disabled Network have jointly initiated a programme to test the idea of inclusion of most marginalized categories into the mainstream development process with 300 families living in Koggala area. The project staff had a few rounds of discussions with government officials to create awareness about the intended intervention. Their support was obtained to organize village level sensitization workshops. Families were selected based on the findings of sensitization programmes conducted within 14 villages in the Koggala Divisional Secretariat division. These sensitization programmes had two objectives. The first was to create awareness on marginalization of communities and the second was to identify the most marginalized people for the development process.
Selecting volunteer groups was the next step. Volunteers were from among the same community members who showed interest in working for most marginalized people. There were volunteers from among the most marginalized categories as well. These volunteers had been trained to deal with their issues. Capacity development programmes for most marginalized people on life skills and livelihood skills were conducted throughout the project period of one year. As a result, nearly 126 people initiated self employment activities in the area. It has developed networks among these marginalized groups through the formation of self help groups (SHGs). These SHGs have been empowered to make their voices heard and gain access to services from outside. Savings were encouraged through SHGs and over Rs.100,000 savings have been observed within the groups. The other stakeholders including both state and non-state actors, were organized at divisional secretariat level and linked with entire layers. The idea of this whole exercise was to develop recognition for the most marginalized people within the family, within the neighbourhood and thereby within the society through strengthening their economic livelihoods.
The National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) is Pakistan's largest rural support program, operating in 54 districts across all four provinces. It aims to alleviate poverty by organizing over 1 million poor households into more than 102,000 community organizations. NRSP facilitates these communities to plan and manage development activities that create employment and improve quality of life. It helps communities develop local capital through savings and credit, support education, and connect to government services and private partners. NRSP identifies local needs and priorities and works to arrange necessary resources from community contributions, its own support, or other stakeholders.
The Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) was launched in 1978 with the aim of providing employment opportunities and improving living conditions for rural families below the poverty line. It provides subsidies and loans to target groups for self-employment opportunities. Beneficiaries include small farmers, laborers, artisans, and scheduled castes/tribes with annual incomes below Rs. 11,000. The program is implemented through District Rural Development Agencies at the district level and block staff at local levels, with oversight from state and central government bodies. It aims to empower the rural poor through livelihood generation and linking beneficiaries to other government schemes.
The Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) was launched in 1978 with the aim of providing employment opportunities and improving living conditions for rural families below the poverty line. It provides subsidies and loans to target groups for self-employment opportunities. Beneficiaries include small farmers, laborers, artisans, and scheduled castes/tribes with annual income below Rs. 11,000. Implementation is done through District Rural Development Agencies at the district level and block staff at local levels, with oversight from state and central government bodies. The program funds projects in key areas like basic services, behavior change communication, safe drinking water, and building capacity of local governments.
The document summarizes findings from a project that used Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLGs) to promote financial inclusion among the poor in rural Rwanda. Key findings include:
- VSLGs reached over 143,000 members, 78% of whom were women. They mobilized over $2 million in savings and loaned out over $2 million with a low default rate.
- Baseline and follow-up studies found that VSLG members were more likely to come from the very poor and poor groups, showing the approach effectively reached the poorest.
- The VSL methodology promoted financial literacy by enabling even the very poor to gain experience managing and saving small amounts of money through the village
The document provides details on the PoP (Poorest of the Poor) Strategy being implemented by SERP (Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty) in Andhra Pradesh. Some key points:
1. The strategy aims to provide intensive support to identified PoP households over 5-10 years to help them increase their income and come out of poverty through livelihood interventions like sustainable agriculture, livestock, and wage employment.
2. PoP households will be identified in villages where NPM (Navajeevan Poorna Masthu) is being implemented, starting with 4000 villages in 2009-10. Community activists will provide close monitoring and support to 100 households each.
3. The core
This document discusses rural development programs and projects in Bangladesh. It begins by defining rural development as improving quality of life and economic well-being in isolated, sparsely populated areas. It then outlines the objectives of rural development programs in Bangladesh, which include poverty alleviation, income distribution, employment opportunities, and participation of local people. Several government organizations involved in rural development are described, including their training programs. Major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in rural development in Bangladesh are also listed, along with their focus areas like microfinance, education, health, and sanitation. Challenges to rural development efforts and recommendations to address them are provided at the end.
1) The document reports on gender-based service delivery by AJK Community Development Programme in Pakistan, highlighting progress made in empowering women economically and socially.
2) Key activities discussed include social mobilization of 70,000 community members, over half of whom are women, credit and training programs benefiting thousands of female participants, and efforts to ensure equal participation and decision-making for women at all levels of the program.
3) Achievements include strengthening of women's organizations, provision of skills training and microcredit allowing women to establish small businesses, and empowering women as village leaders and specialists.
To improve the living condition of population in Central African Republic (CAR) specially for vulnerable groups, as a partner, we have created a project called: The Development of Infrastructures for Community and Support for Vulnerable groups in Republic of Central African.
“Growth with Social Justice” has been the basic objective of the development planning in India since independence.In order to achieve these objectives,Government of India has launched several welfare schemes and programme for needy section of society. Different segment of population got benefitted by these welfare schemes, which have led to significant changes. Some of these changes are distinctly visible – especially in the economic sphere with the adoption of new technologies, diversified production, and sophisticated management. Changes have also taken place in the social sphere – with affirmative action for disadvantaged communities and with women enjoying by and large more freedoms than ever before. This seminar attempts to critically analyze the welfare efforts in India and how the changes occur over a period of time in these welfare programmes with special focus on poverty alleviation programme and women empowerment programmes.
The Vice President of the Philippines organized a summit to address poverty where over 700 organizations pledged support. One pledge was from the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation to build dormitories in remote Mindanao to help children access education by having housing closer to their schools. The Vice President and organization both aim to promote education as a way to alleviate poverty. In the past, the Vice President and Yellow Boat of Hope have collaborated on disaster relief projects.
The document summarizes social protection programs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It outlines two main categories of programs - social insurance programs that provide support to public employees, and social assistance programs that target various vulnerable groups. While some programs like the pension system for civil servants are efficient, many programs have issues like limited coverage, political interference in disbursements, inadequate funding, and lack of transparent grievance redressal mechanisms. The document recommends reforms like simplifying procedures, ensuring political non-interference, documenting grievance resolution processes, and increasing provincial revenue collection to improve sustainability of social protection in the region.
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1. argeting the poor in development
programmes and projects is a difficult
process. Taking the poor out of poverty
is even more challenging. In the absence of
explicit poverty-related criteria, a project may
tend to favor the richer and less remote villages.
And even when the poorest villages are chosen,
implementing teams are likely to select those
households that are better organized, more
accessible, and easier to work with. More so,
when interventions are directed to the poor,
development practitioners are confronted with
the task of avoiding the capture of project
benefits by the more influential and relatively
richer members of the village.
The Starter Fund
In reaching out the poor and in improving the lives
of those who reside in 230 barangays or villages
located in 44 municipalities in six provinces in
northern and northeastern Mindanao, Philippines,
the Northern Mindanao Community Initiatives
and Resource Management Project (NMCIREMP)
introduced the Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF).
The NMCIREMP (2003-2009) is an IFAD-assisted
project implemented by the Department of
Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the Region of Caraga
and Region X that aimed to alleviate poverty
among the marginalized sectors composed of
agrarian reform beneficiaries, indigenous peoples,
Targeting and Reaching the Poorest:
the Poverty Alleviation Fund
2. Moving Up Innovations to Scale34
First, during the appraisal phase, the project
selected communities where agrarian reform
beneficiaries, indigenous peoples, and fishers
reside as target areas. The criteria used in
the identification were the degree of poverty,
agricultural productivity potential, and absence of
other donor agencies operating in the area.
Second, the project selected sitios (villages
or neighborhoods) in target barangays with a
high concentration of poor sectors. With the
assistance of non-government organizations
(NGOs) and local government units (LGUs), the
project identified existing people’s organizations
(POs), cooperatives, and local groups (which
the project called community institutions or CI)
as possible project partners, as well as possible
beneficiaries of PAF.
Third, the project targeted the poorest sectors
and groups, namely the agrarian reform
beneficiaries, indigenous peoples, upland
dwellers, and poor fishing households with
special focus on women-headed households.
Those identified were encouraged to form
themselves into SHGs as a pre-condition for
availing PAF. Together with CIs, NGOs used
wealth-ranking tools and other participatory rapid
appraisal (PRA) tools in identifying the poorest
households.
However, during the 2005 IFAD supervision,
the mission found the methods used by NGOs
inadequate. The mission noted that some SHG
members did not belong to the poorest in the
community. The mission observed that the CIs
assisting the NGOs in poverty mapping selected
some of their members to be SHG members as
they deemed it easier to implement the PAF if
some of their members were also SHG members.
To avoid the exclusion of the poorest in the
formation of SGHs, the project designed a new
fisherfolk, and upland dwellers, especially rural
women.
One of the six project components was
Community Institutions and Participatory
Development (CIPD), which sought to assist
the poorest households in selected barangays
through self-help and community initiatives,
supported by the PAF facility. The PAF was
eventually established in 209 barangays of 44
municipalities.
The PAF facility is a starter fund to support
self-help initiatives of poor rural households,
especially women, to help augment household
incomes through income-generating projects.
The intention behind PAF is to provide the poor
access to a wider door out of the poverty trap. It
provides a small grant of P2,000 per household,
which is channeled through self-help groups
(SHGs) composed of about 20 participating rural
households within a given neighborhood or
community.
The PAF beneficiaries are usually located in
remote rural sites and represent the poorer
households in rural communities. Yet, many
questions arose: How would the poorest
households be targeted? How would one ensure
that the fund reaches the poorest and is not just
captured by local leaders and the relatively richer
residents in a barangay? Who would manage the
PAF and how should it be managed? How can it
be ensured that this fund is used for livelihood
and not just for consumption?
Identifying the poorest
households
In selecting the poorest households eligible
for PAF, NMCIREMP adopted three stages of
selection.
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In a random review of survey results in seven
barangays, 135 households (9%) were considered
extremely poor, 302 households (20%) as highly
poor, 885 households (60%) as moderately poor,
and 156 households (11%) as slightly poor. The
extremely and highly poor households were then
targeted as priority recipients of the PAF without
excluding the moderately poor.
Channeling the PAF
through SHGs
To ensure that the PAF would reach the very poor
in the community, SHGs were organized and
strengthened. SHGs were referred to locally as
sihag (meaning, transparent).
Formation of SHGs. The SHGs are informal
groups composed of poor rural households
largely coming from the highly poor category as
identified by the project survey. At least three
SHGs were formed in each barangay. Each
SHG was composed of 20 poor households
on average; thus, there were at least 60 poor
households covered in every barangay. At the
end of the project in 2009, 841 SHGs (including
the gaups among the indigenous peoples or IPs)
method for determining the poorest of the
poor. The project took the poverty indicators
used by NGOs in their PRAs, the indicators
of the Minimum Basic Needs of the Social
Reform Agenda, and poverty indicators from
IFAD’s results and impact management system.
A multistakeholder conference convened by
the project decided on a list of indicators to
determine the poorest in the community. Twenty
indicators were identified on the basis of three
dimensions: (a) survival with seven indicators, (b)
enabling with 10 indicators, and (c) security with
three indicators (Table 1).
Methodology in identifying
the poorest households
Based on the agreed 20 indicators, the
project developed a survey tool that further
categorized the poor households into (a)
extremely poor, (b) highly poor, (c) moderately
poor, and (d) slightly poor. From the initial list
of poor households in every barangay, a survey
team headed by a community development
facilitator (CDF) from the NGO and assisted by
a local community organizer volunteer (LCOV)
conducted a total enumeration of the identified
poor households in every barangay. A survey
instrument was used where each respondent
household was rated 1 to 4,
based on each indicator. An Excel
programme was provided to the
survey team to tabulate the results.
Key informants from the community
(the barangay health worker, the
barangay nutritionist, the barangay
day care worker, the barangay
secretary, the CDF, and the LCOV)
validated the survey results.
4. Moving Up Innovations to Scale36
Dimension No. Indicator
Survival indicators
Demographic 1 Number of dependent children
Health
2 Child mortality in the last 5 years due to illnesses
3 Incidence of persisting communicable diseases and ailments in the family
Food and
nutrition
4 Number of meals per day
5 Type of food consumed
Water and
sanitation
6 Access to safe drinking water
7 Access to sanitary toilet facility
Enabling indicators
Livelihood/
income
8 Source of livelihood/income
9 Regularity of livelihood/income
10 Monthly household income
11 Ratio of household income to household expenditure
Education
12 Educational attainment of family head
13 Number of children attending school
Resources
14 Land tenure status
15 Access to credit
Support
16 Remoteness of house location
17 Access to basic social services
Security indicators
Shelter
18 Type of housing
19 Household assets
Peace and order 20 Exposure to calamities and conflict
Table 1. Poverty indicators for identifying the PAF beneficiaries.
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were established or revived with a total of 18,587
members (56% women, 44% male).
SHGs were organized among the very poor
households in the same neighborhood or vicinity.
This was to facilitate meetings of the SHG
members and to enable them to easily undertake
their group livelihood activities. The organizing of
the SHGs was facilitated by NGOs through their
CDFs who were then assisted by LCOVs.
Strengthening the SHGs. Though they were
informal organizations, SHGs had a set of
officers, livelihood development plan, and
capacity-building activities. NGOs facilitated
the strengthening of SHGs in the following
areas: organizational, financial, and livelihood
management.
To assess the maturity of these SHGs, the project
developed a self-assessment tool called sihaga
(a local term, which means “to make something
more transparent”). Areas of assessment were
on the organizational, financial, and managerial
capacity of the SHGs. The results of the
assessment would describe an SHG as Level 1
(poor), Level 2 (fair), Level 3 (average), or Level
4 (good). These would also point to SHGs what
to improve on and would signal to NGOs what
interventions were needed.
Implementing livelihood
projects through SHGs
Preparation of PAF proposals. SHGs formulated
their livelihood proposals with the assistance of
community institutions, NGOs, and LGUs. Many
of these proposals were written in the local
language following a simple format to ensure that
SHGs would be able to draft their own proposals.
Most of the livelihood proposals were on crop
and vegetable production, livestock (piggery and
poultry raising) trading and vending (rice, sari-sari
store, fish vending).
Review and approval of PAF proposals. A
multistakeholder committee (MSC) established
at the municipal level reviewed and approved
PAF proposals. MSCs were headed by the LGU
Municipal Project Development Coordinator or
the DAR Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer with
representatives of municipal-based government
agencies, the NGO, and the various sectors
(women, farmers, fishermen, and IPs).
Ensuring that PAF
benefits the poor
Technical support from local government units.
The municipal LGU, through the Municipal
Project Office (MPO), facilitated the overall
implementation of PAF and provided technical
assistance in implementing the SHGs’ PAF
projects, especially in ensuring market outlets
of SHG products. Together with the MSCs,
the MPOs monitored whether PAF projects
were implemented as proposed and not used
for consumption purposes. If more complex
NMCIREMP also covered indigenous peoples
(IPs) in 17 ancestral domains (AD) straddling
Regions X and Caraga. The survey instrument
to identify the poorest in non-IP areas was not
applied to the IPs. NMCIREMP declared that all
IPs in ADs were eligible for PAF, considering that
these people had been marginalized, neglected,
discriminated, and often denied of development
assistance. Instead of forming SHGs, IPs were
organized into their traditional groupings called
gaup, usually a grouping according to tribal clan.
In a gaup, membership would include as many
as 10-30 households.
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SHGs’ every effort and initiative. Aside from
facilitating planning, review, and assessment of
their activities, NGOs coached and mentored the
SHGs.
Reflows for livelihood projects for new SHGs.
Though NMCIREMP regarded PAF as grants,
in actual operation, SHGs returned half of the
PhP40,000 allocated for each SHG to the CIs
as fund caretaker. All repayments and reflows
were used to assist the other poor households,
especially those missed out in the first round of
SHG formation.
Implementation on the same page. The PAF
manual was a key document that guided all
stakeholders in implementing the PAF livelihood
projects. This manual was presented and duly
assistance was needed, the Provincial Project
Coordination Offices provided technical
assistance.
Community institutions as Big Brother to SHGs.
SHGs were linked to registered CIs with sound
financial management in every barangay. The
CIs helped manage the funds and acted as big
brother to small sisters (SHGs) to help them
implement their PAF proposals, especially on
the management of funds. To further ensure that
disbursement of funds was transparent, the PAF
were deposited in conduit banks accredited to
the local government and located nearest the
municipality.
Organizational support from NGOs. NGOs,
through the CDFs and LCOVs, were behind the
Flow of proposals Flow of funds
3b – The MPO endorses the
proposal to the PFO.
4 – Grant funds are then
transferred from the PFO
to the Municipal LGU Trust
Account.
3a – The MSC informs the
MPO of its decision on the
proposal.
5 – The funds in check form
are forwarded to the CI and
deposited in the bank. The
SHGs withdraw funds to
finance their proposals.
2 – Proposals are screened
and approved by the MSC.
The MPO provides technical
assistance in proposal
preparation.
6 – If there are fund reflows
or repayments, these funds
remain in the community
as SHG revolving funds or
capital buildup or to assist
new SHGs.
1 – CIs help SHGs prepare
their proposals and requests
for PAF assistance.
Figure 1. The process of making proposals for PAF availment.
7. Targeting and Reaching the Poorest: the Poverty Alleviation Fund 39
and relatively rich members of the poorest
barangay.
D Reaching out to the very poor and organizing
them into groups like the SHGs should be
coupled with activities that would address
the basic need of the households. This would
give poor households adequate facility to join
community groups such as the SHGs and
later on the CIs. Though difficult to mobilize,
the very poor can be organized and become
productive, through small groups such as
SHGs, which can be viably managed and
supervised. This method gives the very poor
confidence and self-esteem. Processes for
SHGs should be simplified, such as allowing
them to prepare PAF proposals in the local
dialect.
D Collaboration among multistakeholders,
including CIs, LGUs, NGOs, and rural
financing institutions will provide the enabling
space for the very poor to rise up and become
productive. The use of a multistakeholder
approach in implementing the PAF helped
ensure that funds were used for livelihood
development of SHG members.
D The ‘big brother-small sister” approach
wherein the CIs acted as big brother and
the SHGs as small sisters helped SHGs gain
access to government funds as required by
government processes. Through the CIs,
the SHGs gained legal recognition, allowing
them to receive government funds. The
revolving fund scheme that was used in the
financial management of PAF projects by the
community eventually became a simplified
microfinancing tool that reaches the very poor
in the community.
D There is a need to increase the size of PAF.
The PAF facility of PhP 40,000 (pegged at
validated by the community. Compliance was
ensured by adhering to policies and processes
from start to end of a PAF cycle.
Benefits
D A total of 18,587 households were organized
into 841 SHGs. These consisted of poor
households that would not have otherwise
qualified for government assistance as they
were not members of existing CIs. Registered
CIs are usually the conduits of government
assistance.
D There were 17,032 poor households from
SHGs that directly benefited from the PAF.
This was 92% of the SHG members and 30%
of the total 58,000 households reached by
NMCIREMP.
D The income of these poor households
increased. A PAF rapid assessment
conducted in 2004-2009 showed that the
average additional income of households
from PAF was PhP 266 in 2004;
PhP 2,667 in 2005; PhP 1,204 in 2006;
PhP 1.339 in 2007; PhP 694 in 2008; and
PhP 1,651 in 2009. The study showed positive
results but the increases in income were not
enough to create an impact on poverty.
Lessons learned
D Targeting the poor in projects cannot be
achieved only by choosing the poorest
regions, provinces, municipalities, and
barangays. It should be done by self-
assessment at the barangay level to
determine the poorest. This is to avoid the
capture of the project by the most influential
8. Moving Up Innovations to Scale40
PhP2,000 per household) was too little to
create impact. Though there were success
stories on the use of the funds, the proceeds
generated from PAF projects were just
enough to cater to immediate subsistence
needs of the very poor.
D Proper timing should be observed in the
release of PAF, especially for livelihood
projects that are agriculture-based. There is a
need to shorten the processes and duration
of fund releases.
D Scaling up livelihood activities into enterprises
within project duration should be properly
phased, giving enough time for the enterprise
to grow and be sustainable. The project
graduated some livelihood activities into
micro enterprises, but there was not much
time left to nurture their development, thus,
putting into question the sustainability of
these enterprises.
Scaling up
The NMCIREMP experience shows that while it
is difficult to organize the poor and mobilize them
to become productive, the targeting approach
through the PAF can increase the poor’s access
to government services and improve their self-
esteem and social capital while veering them
away from a dole-out mentality.
Replicating PAF targeting
Some LGU partners such as those in Binuangan,
Misamis Oriental and Prosperidad, Agusan del
Sur adopted the project’s process of identifying
the poorest in the community, organizing them
into SHGs, and providing livelihood funds for their
development.
Household-based livelihood projects financed
by PAF paved the way for the development of
group enterprises. In Prosperidad, Agusan del
Sur, SHGs’ PAF projects increased the inventory
of swine in the community. This prompted the
SHGs to venture into meat processing and the
selling of meat choice cuts with the assistance of
the municipal LGU. The new investment needed
workers, so a training was conducted on meat
processing, and a meat processing center was
established. The scaling up was done on the
commodity itself, starting from raising hogs
to processing of swine meat, and the trading
of processed meat products with acceptable
packaging standards.
Building on the success of PAF, NMCIREMP later
introduced a second PAF facility (PAF2), which
was intended to increase the entrepreneurial
capacities of CIs. There were 44 proposals
approved, benefiting a total of 6,261 households
(both members of SHGs and CIs). These were
implemented in the last 2 years of project
implementation.
“I have always dreamed of owning the pigs I
raised, because all my life I have raised pigs
owned by others but never mine. Do not take
away my dream, I have always wanted ‘raising
my own pigs’, which PAF has supported. From
pigs, I now have chickens and goats and able
to help provide more for my family.” DAR/IFAD.
2011. Women: Partners in Weaving Fabrics of
Development.
“We started with PhP 40,000 at PhP 2,000 per
household and we were 20 in all. Now we have
17 hectares on lease to our group for 12 years
planted with coconut-bearing trees and we
harvest quarterly and have bought our own 3
hectares planted with young falcatta trees. We
planted corn and sweet potato in-between rows
of these trees and now our incomes are secured
and stable.” DAR/IFAD. 2011. Women: Partners
in Weaving Fabrics of Development.
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From PAF to LAF: adaptation
by CHARMP2
The Second Cordillera Agricultural and Resource
Management Project (CHARMP2) adopted
NMCIREMP’s targeting approach and provided
funds to jumpstart the economic activities of
target beneficiaries. Learning from NMCIREMP’s
experience, CHARMP2 improved the PAF concept
into a livelihood assistance fund (LAF).
The LAF is a fund allotted under the Agribusiness,
Agriculture and Income-Generating Activities
(AAIGA) component of CHARMP2 to finance
livelihood subprojects prioritized in the project
sites. It is a bridge fund for barangay– or
municipal-based group enterprises designed
to improve the bankability of beneficiaries to
give them access to the formal credit system.
LAF supports the development of priority value
chains and capital for groups that will engage
in production, marketing, and other income-
generating activities identified during participatory
planning processes in the project sites.
Similar to NMCIREMP’s PAF, the LAF has the
following features: (1) focus poverty groups,
which are identified by the community with
the assistance of community mobilizers; (2)
productive poor households are organized as
livelihood interest groups (LIGs); (3) poorest
households are given priority for LAF assistance;
(4) proposals are based on projects identified in
the barangay’s participatory project investment
plans; (5) funds are administered by community
financing institutions which will act as big
brother to LIGs. Learning from the NMCIREMP
experience, CHARMP2 added a new twist by
developing an enterprise development plan in
each barangay or municipality. LIG projects are
then linked to barangay or municipal enterprises,
which is part of a value chain. As LIGs treat their
livelihood projects as a business undertaking,
group members undergo enterprise training
such as that offered in the farmer business
school.
Targeting in CONVERGE
An upcoming DAR project called Convergence
on Value-Chain Enhancement for Rural Growth
and Empowerment (CONVERGE) draws lessons
from NMCIREMP’s implementation of PAF2.
CONVERGE conducted thorough production and
marketing analyses of specific commodities and
prepared feasibility studies.
From PAF1 To PAF2
Hog fattening
Hog raising, fresh meat trading, meat processing (tocino, ham,
longaniza), barbecue, lechon, selling of piglets
Cassava production Cassava chips, cassava crackers
Abaca production Abaca weaving, handicraft
Banana production Banana chips
Candle making Scented candle, floorwax making
Sari-sari (variety) store Food catering, selling of motor parts, motor servicing, lending
Table 2. Scaled-up projects from PAF1 to PAF2.
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The strategic focus of the project is rural poverty
reduction through participatory value chain
development with the aim of helping improve the
profitability of household-based farm enterprises.
Its targeting approach is focused on agrarian
reform community (ARC) clusters that have
potential for further agricultural and agribusiness
development, availability of markets, availability of
an ARC cluster development plan, commitment of
participating agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs),
and availability of support services, and where
poverty is high.
The project strategy is to cluster a group of ARCs
with similar agroclimatic and socioeconomic
conditions to encourage business interactions
among ARCs, disseminate better technology,
improve and consolidate production and
marketing of commodities, and establish
agribusinesses so that farmers and farmers’
organizations can obtain the best prices for
their products. Within a cluster, development
starts from the existing ARCs where substantial
development works have been implemented and
expanded to include other ARCs and non-ARC
areas to spread the benefits of ARC development
to a greater number of ARBs and other farmers.
While the main focus of Project CONVERGE
is to work with existing CIs or agrarian reform
beneficiary organizations (ARBOs), DAR will map
out the extent of poverty in each ARC cluster and
will prioritize the poor households to be included
in the value chain development.
Drivers
Government national agencies, especially
those providing services to farmers, fisherfolk,
IPs, micro entrepreneurs, and women are
mandated to reach out to the poor through
their development programmes and projects.
For example, the Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD) has its own national
household targeting system to identify the poor
for its conditional cash transfer programme. DAR
also has its Program Beneficiaries Development
that aims to empower ARBs and provide them
access to necessary support services to make
their land more productive and enable them to
venture in income-generating livelihoods.
Local government units as mandated by the
Local Government Code have the authority,
power, and resources to provide basic services
devolved to them. They are critical drivers for
targeting the poor in their areas of responsibility,
managing the process of development projects
implemented in their locality, and providing
resources for this process. For example, the
municipal LGU of Prosperidad in Agusan del Sur
continued to provide assistance to SHGs even
after the completion of NMCIREMP.
Non-government organizations have the
expertise in social mobilization. They are key in
providing support to LGUs in poverty mapping
and in organizing the very poor into groups such
as the SHGs of NMCIREMP and the LIGs of
CHARMP2.
Community institutions that are based in the
communities can provide support to informal
groups like SHGs. They have a stake in the
community as they expand their membership to
include other households in the community.
Development donor agencies that are into
poverty reduction are keen on a clear targeting
approach to reach the poor. Putting in place
mechanisms such as monitoring, supervision, and
review missions will help push donor-assisted
projects carry out their targeting and delivery
approaches to reach the very poor.
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Spaces
Institutional space. Under NMCIREMP, PAF
involved a livelihood grant of PhP 2,000 given to
the poorest individual households. This was later
revised into LAF where poor households pooled
their resources for joint livelihood undertakings.
The DAR has indicated its interest in documenting
the lessons of PAF for two related purposes:
First, DAR’s approaches have evolved from PAF
to Livelihood Development Fund and then now
to “value chain” under the new CONVERGE
project where DAR is the lead agency. Second,
DAR is currently examining the possibility of a
new approach that provides “matching grants” to
ARBOs. Other government agencies like the DA
are also exploring this approach.
Policy space. The Philippines is committed to
the UN MDG, especially on reducing poverty. The
updated Philippine Development Plan (PDP) aims
to decrease the incidence of poverty to between
18 and 20% by 2016. One of the strategies in the
PDP Midterm Update is directed at improving
the responsiveness of poverty to growth (which
implies higher incomes). The target of poverty
reduction gives a signal to all government
agencies, including LGUs, to look for approaches
that can reach the very poor and lift them out of
poverty.
Pathways
There are several pathways for adapting the
approach of targeting the poorest through PAF
or similar starter funds. This will depend on who
will take the lead. Below are likely pathways for
scaling up.
Pathway 1. The LGU takes the lead in initiating
such a program. This is exemplified by the case
of the LGUs in Binuangan and Prosperidad.
Once development projects are introduced in
their areas, they could refer to their experience
in NMCIREMP. LGUs reached by NMCIREMP
and CHARMP2 would be able to champion this
approach once development funds are made
available to them.
Pathway 2. Introduce the NMCIREMP approach
of targeting coupled with livelihood development
funds to other development projects, partner, and
donor agencies. This is the case of CHARMP2,
where the project adapted key features of the
PAF approach and modified strategies on the
basis of lessons learned as well as the demands
of their area.
Pathway 3. Link SHGs and LIGs to the
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)’s
programme to develop microenterprises and
to other government agencies such as the
Department of Science and Technology (DOST),
which are also helping small enterprises. These
agencies are on a lookout for groups that they
can assist as part of their target to contribute to
poverty reduction efforts in the country.
Pathway 4. Scaling up livelihoods into enterprises
that take on a value chain approach. The
CONVERGE project of DAR is a value chain
approach of a specific commodity. DTI is also
developing a value chain approach of priority
commodities like coffee. The SHGs or LIGs can
be taken as production units that supply the
needed raw or semi-processed materials to be
linked into a specific commodity value chain.
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Agricultural Development. 2012. Women: partners
in weaving fabrics of development.
12. Moving Up Innovations to Scale44
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International Fund for Agricultural Development. 2010.
NMCIREMP Project Completion Report. Rome,
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International Fund for Agricultural Development. 2012.
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Philippines. http://www.ph.undp.org/content/
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Authors
Virginia Verora (vialor1952@gmail.com),
former NMCIREMP officer and
Yolando Arban (y.arban@ifad.org),
IFAD Country Office - Philippines
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Edgar Soriano,
former NMCIREMP M&E officer, for providing data/
information about the SHGs, and the following
NMCIREMP partners that organized the SHGs and
implemented the PAF: LGUs, NGOs, CIs, CFIs, and
the SHGs themselves.