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Title: Social Audit Immersion Clinic


1
Social Audit Immersion Clinic
  • Presentation made at World Bank, Washington DC
  • By
  • K.Raju
  • Prl secy to Govt, RD dept
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • 23rd March 2009

2
The Outline of the Session
  • The objectives and methodology
  • What is social auditing?
  • An overview of social Auditing of NREGS in AP
  • Step by step process details
  • Institutionalizing and taking it to scale and the
    lessons

3
The Objectives and methodolgy
  • The objectives
  • To understand social audit from the perspective
    of a practitioner
  • To develop broad framework for social auditing of
    other poverty reduction programs

4
The Objectives and methodolgy
  • The Methodology
  • Presentation on Social auditing of NREGS in AP
  • Participants reflect on the AP case and
    articulate how they would facilitate social
    auditing for their program
  • Challenges and how to address them

5
What is Social Audit?
  • Community is facilitated to
  • Internalise their rights and entitlements
  • Access relevant official records
  • Compare with the actual position on the ground

6
What is Social Audit?
  • Community is facilitated to
  • Analyse deviations/shortfalls if any
  • Identify officials responsible
  • Question the officials in a public forum
  • Secure commitment from officials for corrective
    measures
  • Follow up action monitored

7
An overview of Social Auditing of NREGS in AP
  • Started as pilot in a few villages 3 years back
  • The ground covered in 3 years
  • Social auditing in all villages in the state
  • Institutional arrangements and human resource put
    in place
  • Statutory Rules notified

8
NREGA processes
  • Job card
  • Demand for work
  • Identification of works
  • Worksite management
  • Payment of wages and material costs

9
Social Auditing of NREGS in AP
  • Districts covered 22
  • Habitations covered 50,000
  • Expenditure Audited Rs 2500 Cr
  • Village Social Auditors trained 50,000
  • Peoples reps who attended 30,000

10
Social Auditing of NREGS in AP
  • Wage seekers reached 25 lakhs
  • Applications filed under RTI 1000
  • Documents scrutinized 4 lakhs
  • No. Of MLAs who have About 100
  • attended SAs
  • Amount Recovered Rs 2.50 cr

11
How it happened in AP?
  • Learning from the pilot Social Audits in the
    state
  • Wide range of steps taken to institutionalise
    Social Auditing and to take it to scale
  • This presentation is essentially about how it is
    done

12
Social Auditing of NREGS process details
13
NREGA, 2005- The Objectives
  • Livelihood security to the households in rural
    areas
  • 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to a
    family on demand as a Right

14
Rights and entitlements
  • Minimum wages on weekly or FN basis
  • Equal wages for men and women
  • Worksite facilities
  • Medical expenses for injured/ex-gratia for
    deceased
  • Unemployment allowance if work is not allotted

15
NREGA processes
  • Job card
  • Demand for work
  • Identification of works
  • Worksite management
  • Payment of wages and material costs

16
Social Auditing of NREGS in Mandal
  • Starts with filing of application with Mandal
    Development officer under RTI Act, for a set of
    NREGS documents
  • Documents secured within 7 days

17
Documents accessed
  • List of job card holders
  • List of works sanctioned
  • Estimates of each work
  • Muster rolls
  • Pay orders
  • Material payment vouchers

18
Analysing the documents
  • About 40 literate labour selected as village
    social auditors (VSAs)
  • VSAs trained for 3 days on the process
  • VSAs formed into 5 groups
  • Each groups assisted to analyse the records of 4
    Gram pancayats

19
Community is assisted to undertake social
auditing
  • Each group of VSAs spends 3 days in each
    Grampanchayat
  • Verification with each wage seeker
  • Focused group discussions
  • Inspection of works
  • Recording of variations if any

20
Gram Sabha convened to discuss the findings
  • Findings discussed
  • Corrective measures if any discussed and
    commitment from implementation agency taken

21
Public hearing convened at the Mandal Hqrts
  • Status of the Scheme presented
  • The Mandal Social Audit team read out, strengths,
    weaknesses and important deviations
  • Evidence adduced

22
Public hearing convened at the Mandal Hqrts
  • The officials respond
  • Recovery of money misappropriated
  • Commitment on the corrective measures secured

23
How Social Auditing of NREGS is institutionalized
and taken to scale
24
Policy support
  • Policy support on the access to information
  • To provide information in a way understandable
    people
  • To delivery copies of documents if asked in 7
    days time
  • To host Social Audit reports in web, in public
    domain
  • Commit budget exclusively for social auditing

25
Policy support
  • Statutory Rules on the conduct of social audit
    notified
  • Detailed Govt orders issued

26
Institutional support
  • An independent Unit set up at state level
  • 44 State Resource persons and 440 District
    Resource persons comprising of activists from
    Civil Society Organisations inducted
  • Training modules developed
  • Digitisation of social audits arranged
  • Web site to host Social audit reports

27
Impact and learning from AP experience
  • Deepening of peoples awareness on their rights
  • Valuable input to improve Scheme design
  • Deepening of social accountability
  • Improvement in the grassroots governance

28
Impact and learning from AP experience
  • Social accountability in action-acts as great
    deterrent
  • Prompt action on the findings is necessary to
    harness the power of the social auditing
  • Social auditing is not about corruption or
    catching the corrupt. It is a process of opening
    of public dialogue in the society.

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