Planning for Vulnerable Sections The Kudumbasree Mission and Asraya Project

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Planning for Vulnerable Sections The
Kudumbasree Mission and Asraya Project

• Presentation by
• SaradaMuraleedharan,
• Executive Director, Kudumbasree
• Government of Kerala

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BACKGROUND

• Decentralized Planning from the IXth Five Year
  Plan onwards
• Evolution of Kudumbasree as CBO of women within
  LSGs
• Community space in Womens Component plan and
  Anti Poverty Sub Plan
• Agency of LSG in plan execution
• Community based organisation for social audit and
  empowering the grama sabha
• Enhanced flow of funds to the poor.
• Improved provision of minimum needs
  infrastructure.
• Coordination for local economic development

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KUDUMBASHREE

• All inclusive organization of poor families, each
  family represented by a women
• Three tier organizational structure
• Neighbourhood Group (15 to 40 families)
• Area Development Society (Panchayat/Municipal
  Ward)
• Community Development Society (Village Panchayats
  / ULBs)
• Deepening democracy through CBOs

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Achievements of Kudumbashree

• Working in partnership with Local Governments
• Excellent outreach and feed back system
• Social capital building
• Anti-poverty Sub-Plan
• Solid demand creation for public services
• Community role in beneficiary identification
• Community based monitoring
• The creation of space for care and public support
  systems led to Asraya

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DESTITUTION

• The poorest of the poor.
• Margins of the economy, society and polity.
• Not a constituency or vote bank.
• Lack of access to basic minimum services.
• No safety net against risks.
• Lacking in capabilities to access their
  entitlements.
• Severity of destitution made worse by physical,
  gender or caste status.

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PROCESS OF ASRAYA PLAN PREPARATION

• Demand based approach after sensitizing Village
  Panchayats.
• Transparent identification on simple socially
  acceptable criteria.
• Initial short listing by NHGs and house visits
  for confirmation.
• Needs identification through interaction with
  families.
• Documentation of current status and needs.
• Preparation of family level plan.
• Integration into Village level plan.

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STEPS

• Constitution of working group
• Situation analysis
• Training of CDS/ADS/NHGs
• Preparation of database of poor
• Need assessment
• Basic insfrastructure
• Health/education
• Access to entitlements (ration card/pensions etc)
• Scope for micro enterprise
• Skill development needs
• Special probelems of the aged, children, women,
  disabled etc
• Suggestions for anti poverty sub plan (NHG-ADS
  CDS)

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Steps contd

• Convergence workshop (working groups and CDS)
• Anti poverty sub plan
• Analysis of the poverty situation in the local
  government.
• Summary of the experience in the last seven
  years.
• Issues and problems related to poverty.
• Suggestions for addressing these issues and
  problems and their priority.
• Suggested schemes and allocations.
• Mode of implementation.
• Monitoring arrangements
• Listing profiling reporting in Grama Sabha
• Package of family specific care services

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First level Identification
1. Kutcha House 2. No access to safe
drinking water 3. No access to sanitary
latrine 4. Illiterate adult in the family
5. Family having not more than one earning member
6. Family getting barely two meals a day or
less 7. Presence of children below 5 years in
the family 8. Alcoholic or drug addict in the
family 9. Scheduled Caste or Scheduled
Tribe family
Any family which attracts 7 - 9 points is at high
risk
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If any one of the following factors is
additionally attracted the family is classified
as Desitute
Second level Identification

• No landed property to create dwelling place
• Spending the night time in public places, streets
  or in the verandas of shops for sleeping.
• Families led by unwed mothers, single parent or
  those separated women living in distress.
• Families led by young widows whom are
  economically poor or having women who had passed
  the age of marriage and remains unmarried.

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Second level Identification Contd..

• Families having members who are subjected to
  severe, chronic and incurable diseases or
  physically and mentally challenged.
• Families having no healthy member to win bread
  for the family.
• Beggars who resort to beggary for livelihood .
• Women subjected to atrocities.

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IMPLEMENTATION

• Convergence of available Schemes
• Resource pooling
• Kudumbashree
• Local Government
• Donations and charities
• Community monitoring
• Extended time frame

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Package of care services

• Food security
• Health
• Old age care
• Pension
• Provision of assets like land shelter
• Provision of basic services like drinking water
  sanitation
• Human development for capability building
• Provision of livelihood support

FRAME WORK OF SOCIAL INCLUSION
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ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR

• General acceptance of the identification process.
• Willingness to provide higher order of assistance
  to the identified families.
• Visible empowerment process
• Progressive access to entitlements
• Food Security
• Health Security
• Social Security
• Human Development
• Minimum needs
• Economic development
• Transformation in the attitudes and approaches of
  officials and elected representatives.
• Political consensus.

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• Possibilities of community based social security
  under the leadership of Local Governments
• First state wide project to target the excluded
  poor destitute - as a distinct category

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