Centre for Development and Research

Annual Report 2016-17

Reg. Office: Field Office: 12 Madhuvan Enclave, Street No.4, GF-2, Alluri Block, PMRC Quarters, Habsiguda, Hyderabad – 500 007. Rampachodavaram - 533 288, E.G.Dt, A.P Tele. No. 040 27178330 Tele. No: +91 8864 243043 Web: www.ceedeer.org Email : [email protected] INDEX Page 1 Introduction 1 2 Operational Area Maps 2 3 Maa Vooru Maa Badi Programme 3 4 MVMB - Operational Area Mandal Maps 8 5 Enrollment Particulars 11 6 Learning Outcomes - 2016-17 12 7 Photographs - Maa Vooru Maa Badi 22 8 Training of Teachers of Primary Schools of ITDA

Rampachodavaram and monitoring the Learning outcomes 32 9 Govt Primary Schools Learning Outcomes - 2016-17 37 Annual Report 2016-17

Centre for Development and Research (CDR) is working for the well being of the tribal People in since 2008. Overall objective that is to “Improve the quality of life of the poorest and most disadvantaged members of tribal society on a sustainable basis through community empowerment” in quite interior and far flung villages in Maredumilli and Y.Ramavaram Mandals. Konda Reddis, a vulnerable tribe, is the predominant section of the tribal population in this Mandals. CDR made a choice to work with the most needy of the tribals in the most remote of the district.

Geographical Conditions of the operational area:

East Godavari district can be broadly classified into three natural divisions, namely, the delta, upland and agency or hill tracts. The general elevation of the district varies from a few meters near the sea to about 300 meters in the hills of the agency. The Eastern Ghats rise by gradations from the level of the coast and spread throughout the agency 11 mandals.

Maredumilli Mandal:

It is composed of 78 villages. It is an interior Tribal habitation with 903.44 Sq. Kms. areas bordering with Khammam District endowed with evergreen Tropical Forest and Wildlife. There are many Tribal groups living and most of them were Primitive Tribes (PTGs). Podu Cultivation, Hunting, Animal Grazing and Forest Produce Collection are the way of living. In some places very good timber, tea, rubber and coffee plantations are existing. Infrastructure like roads, buildings, electricity, health, civic amenities and education is very less in comparison.

Y.Ramavaram Mandal:

Total population of Y. Ramavaram Mandal is 27,950 living in 6,549 Houses, Males are 13,587 and Females are 14,363. Y. Ramavaram consist of 148 Villages and 17 Panchayats . Kunkumamidi is the smallest Village and Donkarai is the biggest Village . It is in the 27 m elevation (altitude). Y. Ramavaram Mandal is bounded by by Maredumilli Mandal towards west , Mandal towards South, Rampachodavaram Mandal towards South, Koyyuru Mandal towards East.

1 2 Maa Vooru Maa Badi Programme

CDR is the architect in designing these community governed schools. It is assisting the community of tribal mothers to run 40 pre-primary schools in as many villages for 3 to 5 year tiny tots. All these activity based schools are located in Maredumilli, Y.Ramavaram and Rampachodavaram Mandals in East Godavari District.

Objectives:

• Provide best quality activity based joyful education to children between 3 to 5 years. • Build self confidence, enthusiasm and cheer among the little children and prepare them to go the Primary school • Schools only in tribal areas and Scheduled Caste habitations • Every school to be entirely owned and governed by the mothers • Establish proof of concept for delivering high quality education in community governed pre primary schools for applying the same concept to Govt. Primary schools.

3 Unique Features of ‘‘Maa Vooru Maa Badi’’ 1. Pancha Teermanalu. Every school is established by the community of mothers. They have to fulfill five essential pre requisites and pass the Pancha Teermanalu. They are

i. Resolve to set up a school ii. Survey the children in prescribed age group identified for enrollment. iii. Identify persons suitable for teaching their children iv. Identify suitable place for the school. v. Nominate a five members School Committee of mothers.

2. Nava Sutralu - Nine Responsibilities

i. Ensure full attendance in the school ii. Two mothers to participate in school activities everyday by rotation at least for one hour iii. Attend weekly display of articles made by children during daily session of creative activities iv. Invite grand parents every week for sharing their stories

4 v. Conduct Badi Panduga on last Saturday of every month vi. Save Rs. 100 every month for every child in school vii. Teams of MMS members to visit every school once every month viii. Celebrate Birthday of the child by planting and protecting two saplings in their field ix. Save Rs. 10 for each pupil every month for meeting the needs of the school

3.Monthly visit of schools by members of Mandala Mahila Samakhya.

 Village Organisation (VO) and the Badi Committee examine the learning outcomes achieved by the children every month.

4.Badi Panduga: Monthly Public Report on Learning Outcomes

 Badi Panduga – Festival of Learning – is held in the last Saturday of every month in every school.  All mothers and other villagers also attend.  The Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat is also invited.  The school teacher reports all details of the learning outcomes achieved by each pupil in the school and is discussed thoroughly.  Parents fulfillment of Nava Sutralu during the month is also discussed.  The salary of the teacher is authorized by school Committee only in Badi Panduga

5 Joyful Education - Salient Features:

I. Learning alphabets and numbers by song and action II. Learning through kruthyam (group activity) III. A rich mix of creative activities every day IV. Every Child grows a sapling and learns from its growth V. Every child learns six basic good habits for life. VI. Nature walks once a week VII. Tales from grand parents VIII. Story Telling

Role of CDR:

 The concept, design and frame work for implementation of a community governed school is a seminal contribution of CDR  CDR along with the members of VOs and MMSs selects the Teachers.  CDR trains them in joyful teaching methodology through 7 day Foundation Course.  CDR prepares a monthly lesson plan and trains every teacher every month for 2 days in teaching it well.  CDR trains and ensures complete community ownership and governance by the

6 mothers’ groups.  Provide continuous curriculum support to all the teachers.  CDR is responsible for monthly monitoring and ensuring quality learning outcomes and put them in public domain. Curriculum Support:  Teacher’s Foundation Training: . 7 days foundation training is provided to all the teachers in joyful and activity based teaching methodology.  Monthly Lesson Plan Training: . 2 day advance training is provided to the teachers every month in teaching the next month’s lesson plan.  Cluster Resource Person (CRP) Support . One CRP for every 10 to 12 schools. . CRP will visit every school once every week to assist the teacher in delivering high quality education to pupils.  Monthly evaluation of learning outcomes of every child in every school. . Close scrutiny of outcomes and child centric interventions . Best to bottom school grading in every cluster every month and taking suitable actions for improving the bottom schools

7 8 9 10 Centre for Development and Research (CDR) Maa Vooru Maa badi - East Godavari District - 2016-17 Enrollment, Girls and Boys & Social Groups

Enrolled Children Girls and Boys Girls 3 Years 4 Years 19% 45% 28% Boys 4 Years Girls 26% 3 Years 4 Years 27% 55% Boys 3 Years

Girls Boys 4 Girls Boys 4 Years 3 Years 4 Years Years 3 Years 3 Years 55 45 28 27 26 19

3% 3% Social Groups 5% 3% Konda Reddy 7% koya Dora Konda Dora Konda Kammara Valmiki Kondakaapu 79%

Konda Konda Konda koya Dora Valmiki Kondakaapu Reddy Dora Kammara 79 7 3 3 3 5

11 Centre for Development and Research (CDR) - East Godavari District, A.P Maa Vooru Maa Badi - Learning Outcomes - Year 2016-17 Telugu 100%

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Maths 100%

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Environment Studies 100%

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Songs Recitation 100%

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21 Joyful Learning of Alphabets and Numbers

22 Learning through kruthyam (group activity)

23 A rich mix of creative activities every day

24 Every child grows a sapling and learns from its growth

25 Every child learns basic good habits for life.

26 Nature walk once a week

27 Tales from grand parents

28 Teacher’s Foundation course Training

29 Monthly Lesson Plan Training

30 Uttama Badi Honouring the Teachers

31 Training of Teachers of ITDA Primary Schools and Monitoring of Learning Outcomes in East Godavari Dist, , during academic year 2016-17 .

The Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh decided to partner with CDR for improving the quality of teaching and learning in 860 primary schools of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Rampachodavaram in East Godavari District.

As per the Order of Govt of AP, Tribal Welfare Department and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) executed with ITDA, Rampachidavaram, CDR has undertaken training of 2580 teachers of 860 ITDA and other Govt. primary schools in 13 mandals under the ITDA. More than 27,000 tribal children attend these schools. CDR has designed a 7 day training course specially for this purpose The entire training is structured on activity based teaching methodology for joyful learning. CDR is training these teachers in batches of 60 for one week since February 2016. CDR has completed training 1440 teachers as on 18th January 2017.

The Govt. has also entrusted CDR the task of monitoring of learning outcomes in at least 25 ITDA Primary Schools in each of the 13 mandals.

32 Number of Teachers trained as on 11th June 2016 TRAINED TEACHERS - MANDAL WISE ABSTRACT

Sl.N 1st Batch 2nd Batch 3rd Batch 4th Batch 5th Batch 6th Batch 7th Batch 8th Batch 9th Batch 10th Batch TOTAL Mandal o. Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total

1Maredumilli 3 1 4 3 1 4 4 2 6 2 0 27 1 8 4 2 6 11 3 14 6 2 8 3 1 4 0 0 0 43 13 56

2Gangavaram 3 2 5 3 2 50 2 25 0 51 2 3 1 1 21 2 30 0 05 0 50 0 0 19 11 30

3 10 4 14 6 7 13 9 2 11 404404437044404415325 48 23 71

4 Y.Ramavaram 3 0 3 5 1 6 9 3 12 80843720293 12 10 1 11 4 3 7 6 1 7 60 15 75

5 Addateegala 14 5 19 6 11 17 8 1 9 11 2 13 224426213303303112 54 25 79

6Rampachodavaram 4 4 8 3 6 9 6 2 8 1 2 3 13 13 26 112314729448101 43 35 78

7Devipatnam 1 3 4 2 1330 31 0101 11 2323540 46 1 73 03 23 11 34

8Rajahmundry Rural 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 4

9Kakinada 0 0 0 0 0010100000 00 2200000000000012 3

10 Prathipadu 1 0 1 0 0000010100000021322420210193 12

11 Sankavaram 1 0 1 2 0 20 0 00 1100 00 0 01 2 31 1 21 0 13 0 39 4 13

12 0000110110000 00 0000000000000022

13 K.Nanduru 0 0 0 0 0000010100000000000000000010 1

14 Routhalapudi 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 00 0000 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 09 0 99 0 9

15 Chninturu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 12 538112336202314 12 0 12 37 9 46

16 Kunavaram 0 0 0 0 0000 01 0100 00 0001111 21 1 24 0473 10

17 Yetapaka 0 0 0 0 0000010100020202223520220295 14

18 V.R.Puram 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 2 6 5 0 5 4 1 5 6 0 6 25 3 28

TOTAL 40 19 59 30 30 60 41 15 56 49 6 55 36 25 61 24 14 38 38 28 66 47 12 59 43 13 56 51 4 55 399 166 565

33 Sl.No 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 RajahmundryRural Rampachodavaram Rajavommangi Diet Students Diet MEO's &CRPs MEO's Y.Ramavaram Routhalapudi Addateegala Gangavaram Maredumilli Sankavaram Devipatnam Kunavaram Prathipadu K.Nanduru V.R.Puram Chninturu Mandal TOTAL Yetapaka Tuni 9 6 6 19 565 166 399 1st to 10th1st Batches 33 78 35 43 25 37 34 11 23 79 25 75 54 15 71 60 23 30 48 11 56 19 13 43 2 0 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 7 9 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 9 3 3 0 9 2 4 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Male

3 9 Female 28 14 10 46 13 12 Total 4 6 8 1 7 7 5 2 2 1 1 7 9 0 4 0 0 9 9 0 2 0 0 7 7 0 0 0 8 0 4 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 6 1 0 1 0 5 0 5 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 4 7 0 4 0 0 6 2 0 6 0 0 8 5 0 9 0 4 0 3 7 0 4 5 7 0 5 2 1 5 4 9 0 1 5 0 7 1 4 0 9 1 2 0 5 1 3 5 0 2 6 6 1 0 3 0 1 6 1 7 7 2 5 2 0 0 9 6 1 4 7 3 1 0 6 5 6 5 1 5 1 9 5 1 4 6 0 0 3 5 0 1 0 0 1

Male 11th Batch

7 Female 63 46 51 53 56 81 54 36 22 338 83 21 62 63 23 40 55 17 38 61 25 36 35 10 25 69 34 35 26 Total

Male 12th Batch

Female

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Male 13th Batch Number of Teachers trained as on 18th January 2017 Female

Total

Male 14th Batch

Female TRAINED TEACHERS - MANDAL WISE ABSTRACT 10 10 10 Total 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 7 2 1 1 1 0 1 6 1 5

Male 15th Batch

Female 11 012 10 13 10 11 Total 6 4 8 4

Male 16th Batch

3 4 Female 015 10 15 14 17 22 12 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1

Male 17th Batch 7 3 4 Female 22 17 17 26 011 10 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

Male 18th Batch 1 4 6 Female 18 15 43 84 74 74 48 0 0 1 3 1 1440 510 930 214 109 105 80 34 46 97 40 57 48 18 30 44 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Male 19 th Batch

Female 15 12 12 Total 74 97 40 57 0 0 0 8 7 7 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Male 20 th Batch

Female

Total 71 25 9161111262 131 131 156 99 57 42 15 27 0 0 0 0 0 0

Male 21st Batch

Female 15 16 Total 81 84 058 10 48 58 10 48 0 0 0 0 0 0

Male 22nd Batch

Female

Total 1 5160 45 115 13 62 50 24 35 26 16 19 41 59 15 44 90 34 56 10 103 21 82 94 27 67 74 97 40 57 96 151 62 89 02 88 28 60 94 140 41 99 Male TOTAL 0 3 Female 13 13 13 Total 34 Govt Primary School Teachers Activity Based Training Programme.

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Govt Primary School Teachers Activity Based Training Programme.

36 Govt Primary Schools Monitoring - Year 2016-17 Learning Outcomes - 1st Class

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37 37 Govt Primary Schools Monitoring - Year 2016-17 Learning Outcomes - 2nd Class

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37 38 Govt Primary Schools Monitoring - Year 2016-17 Learning Outcomes - 3rd Class

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37 39 Govt Primary School Activity Based Teaching Methods

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