REACH India

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Reaching
Educating
At-risk
Children
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• Purpose of REACH India
• To attract out-of-school children or children at
  the risk of dropping out and retain in
  educational programs that will lead to formal
  schooling.

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• Managed by
• American Institutes for Research
• Juarez and Associates
• World Education
• Michigan State University.

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• A program that complements the Sarva Shiksha
  Abhiyan

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• Who are our end beneficiaries
• Vulnerable children aged up to 14 years,
  especially the girl child

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 REACH India Program Objectives

• Provide out of school vulnerable children with
  quality elementary education.
• Strengthen NGOs and formal school capacity to
  support, improve education systems for vulnerable
  children, especially girls.
• Strengthen capacity of education systems at
  various levels capable of responding to the needs
  of vulnerable children, especially girls

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• To achieve these objectives, REACH India will
  promote
• scaling up of programs that attract and prepare
  out-of-school children for entry into the formal
  school system
• NGO efforts towards systemic reforms which will
  provide support to formal education system to
  target, enroll and retain vulnerable children in
  schools
• NGOS efforts in networking with NGOs/local
  government for wider outreach
• efforts of larger NGOs to build capacity of
  smaller NGOS
• action research in order to inform your own
  practice/interventions and findings of which is
  to be disseminated widely

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Reach India will focus on Urban regions Delhi,
Mumbai and Kolkata Rural regions Jharkhand,
Chattisgarh and Northern Karnataka
Programme duration up to August 31, 2007
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REACH India

Capacity Building Support Grants
Direct Service Delivery Grants
8 -12 Small NGOs (sub-grantees)
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• Direct Service Delivery Grants
• REACH India will provide funds and technical
  assistance to the NGOs for direct service
  delivery.

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• Capacity Building Support Grants
• Enable the grantee NGOs to
• mentor
• support
• transfer knowledge
• to grass roots, small NGOs in order to improve
  programs to address the needs of out-of school
  children
• Grantee NGOs will help sub-grantees to
• Build capacity through TA
• Provide subgrants for service delivery

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• Capacity Building Support Grants
• Identify the small, nascent NGOs through grant
  application process that
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• are registered and preferably working in
  education for past three years
• have an FCRA
• have consistency of program to REACH India
  objectives
• have governance structure, linkages with the
  communities

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• Capacity Building Support Grants
• Develop a framework for capacity building with
  small NGOS in areas such as organizational
  development, grant management and program
  performance
• Develop service delivery grants program for small
  NGOs
• Develop work plans
• Provide sub grants to small NGOS

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• Sub Grants
• Sub Grants to be provided after the small NGOs
  capacity has been built in the desired area/s to
  the satisfaction of the mentor NGOs, based on
  objective and verifiable criteria.
• Sub grants will be provided for an average
  duration of 2 years.

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• Process of Grant Application
• First phase Pre-grant application
• Compilation of NGO addresses
• Soliciting NGO pre-grant applications
• Screening of NGOs for second phase based on the
  listed criteria

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• Process of Grant Application

• Second Phase
• Releasing the grant application
• Submission of grant applications by NGOs
• Screening by REACH India team
• Review by grant selection committee
• Review by USAID
• Award of grants