Annual Report 2012-13 ASSIST BUILDING RUraL INDIA TARGET FAMILIES & POPULATION S. Comm- Total Families Target Population Area Villages No. unities SC ST BC OC MIN Total Male Female Total SC ST BC OC MIN GUNTUR 1 Bollapalli 33 49 2,105 2,317 1,304 108 - 5,834 13,819 13,412 27,231 9,556 11,311 5,806 558 - 2 Chilakaluripet 10 10 778 294 496 82 202 1,852 3,446 3,590 7,036 2,955 1,196 1,970 281 634 3 Edlapadu 11 15 956 396 71 6 7 1,436 2,959 2,856 5,815 3,458 2,041 286 16 14 4 Gutlapalli 25 30 592 1,924 1,132 391 149 4,188 8,909 8,245 17,154 2,378 7,910 4,679 1,519 668 5 Piduguralla 17 31 2,099 771 2,190 538 491 6,089 12,667 12,176 24,843 8,688 3,174 8,901 2,069 2,011 Total: 96 135 6,530 5,702 5,193 1,125 849 19,399 41,800 40,279 82,079 27,035 25,632 21,642 4,443 3,327 PRAKASAM 6 Ballikurava 12 14 1,144 481 303 103 - 2,031 3,860 3,711 7,571 4,315 1,838 1,056 362 - 7 Markapur 25 25 2,170 67 2,776 1,742 110 6,865 15,118 14,492 29,610 9,440 311 12,370 6,968 521 8 Ongole 30 30 4,993 428 2,299 3,485 - 11,205 22,953 22,571 45,524 20,542 1,709 9,636 13,637 - 9 Vetapalem 23 23 31 833 830 225 21 1,940 3,313 3,189 6,502 92 2,732 2,851 771 56 10 Pullalacheruvu 48 48 3,096 2,067 4,090 3,174 272 12,699 25,763 24,949 50,712 13,185 8,621 16,228 12,171 507 Total: 138 140 11,434 3,876 10,298 8,729 403 34,740 71,007 68,912 139,919 47,574 15,211 42,141 33,909 1,084 RANGAREDDY 11 Pudur 44 44 3,029 405 4,166 1,227 868 9,695 23,461 23,365 46,826 14,256 2,586 19,459 4,226 6,299 Total: 44 44 3,029 405 4,166 1,227 868 9,695 23,461 23,365 46,826 14,256 2,586 19,459 4,226 6,299 KRISHNA 12 Avanigadda 11 11 4 35 3,622 22 - 3,683 6,585 6,297 12,882 10 143 12,630 99 - Total: 11 11 4 35 3,622 22 - 3,683 6,585 6,297 12,882 10 143 12,630 99 - Grand Total: 289 330 20,997 10,018 23,279 11,103 2,120 67,517 142,853 138,853 281,706 88,875 43,572 95,872 42,677 10,710 Percentage: 31.10 14.84 34.48 16.44 3.14 50.71 49.29 31.55 15.47 34.03 15.15 3.80 SC - Scheduled Caste; ST - Scheduled Tribe; BC - Backward Caste; OC - Other Castes; MIN - Minorities Contents CONTENTS • Foreword ... 2 • Sensitisation ... 6 • People’s Organisations ... 11 • Women Empowerment ... 15 • Child Development ... 19 • Community Health ... 26 • Habitation Development ... 28 • Safe Water & Water Resources Management ... 34 • Economic Development ... 40 • Capacity Building ... 47 • Partners in Progress ... 49 • Executive Committee Members ... 50 • Auditor’s Report & Financial Statements ... 52 • Future Thrust ... 58 • Target villages ... 60 1 Foreword “The Millennium Development Goals for India have set a target ASSIST has continued to serve the society for one more year, having for 2015, of reducing poverty by 50% (compared to 1993 data). concentrated more on promoting a safeguarding value system About thirty per cent of the population of the country is still living in its target villages in order to maintain the cohesiveness for below the poverty line. Whilst the proportion of the people living their sustainable development. Self-governed community-based below the poverty line has been declining over the years, the rate organisations are the major stakeholders in ASSIST’s target villages. of such a decline has been fairly slow, except in recent times. They identify, plan, execute and monitor the interventions based on Nearly 80 percent of the people living below the poverty line are their felt-needs, thus emerging through the development process. located in rural areas, with a large share coming from the category In this scenario, ASSIST could make significant positive of wage workers.” improvement on the lives of rural poor through development - Annual Report 2012-13, Ministry of Rural Development, process with the support of external agencies. ASSIST is working Government of India with the target communities in 289 villages, spread out in four revenue districts of Andhra Pradesh State. Majority of target “India is today a $1.8 trillion economy, the fourth largest in the villages depend on agriculture to make a living. The situation was World. Its robust and dynamic economy has achieved much in the worse with the failure of the monsoon rains and non-availability last two decades of the reform period.” of canal water from Krishna river for irrigation purposes. As a – India Development Report 2012-13 result, Crop-Holiday was declared by the Government of Andhra With these extreme reality of two sides of same coin, people in Pradesh. The instruction given was not to cultivate the wet land India live in two categories: one category of people becoming with paddy crop as canal water was not available. Hence, the rural richer over the years whilst another category becomes poorer due population had to depend on cultivating the drylands with rain fed to the high rate of inflation and changing living standards. The gap crops and left the wet lands idle. Landless population including between the haves and the have-nots is further widening and thus small and marginal farmers who depend on agriculture had to leading to social unrest in the society. This situation is a burden to either earn a living by rearing livestock or by migrating to other the new generation as they are forced to catch up in this vicious regions in search of work. It also affected not only the agriculture circle. In order to compete in the present day society, it is becoming production in rural areas, but also on the over-all gross domestic tough to bridge the gap and to bring equality in the society. production of the State. 2 Foreword Political disturbance in the demand of a separate Telangana, (through NI-MSME, Hyderabad), ManiTese/Intervita and FAIB nomination of special officers for local bodies and expiry of their from Italy and RRDF, The Netherlands. term of office (which has delayed the elections) have caused a • A Comprehensive Community Development Programme State issue by hampering development. There have been problems was launched in Nehrunagar, Santhamaguluru Mandal of such as: ineffective execution of welfare and developmental Prakasam District, through the use of child sponsorship from programmes with traditional bureaucratic systems; officialised FAIB, Italy. corruption practices and a human tendency to accept such practices (due to ignorance, impatience and lack of courage to • Watershed Development Programme was introduced with the fight). Over the years, it has become a common practice by the support of UMMI, Italy, in Gangupalli, Ravulapuram and opposition political parties to find the loopholes as and when any Gandiganumala Villages of Bollapalli Mandal. new programme has been launched by the Government. As such, • Comprehensive community development to combat the problem due to reasons beyond the scope of the organisation, affected the of child labour in 44 villages of Pudur Mandal with the support implementation of programmes and thereby meeting the objectives of Sonnenhaus, Germany is running with various community was delayed. In the current situation, instead working towards the development interventions. development of the State, the measures and schemes are more politically motivated thereby the welfare of people is compromised. • Water and sanitation programmes were established in Bollapalli and Markapur Areas with the support of FAIB, Italy through the At this point in time, ASSIST would like to highlight the specific provision of water treatment plants and promotion of household interventions of the year: sanitation. • ASSIST has consolidated its efforts in Elachetladibba Village with • Water treatment plants in four villages were promoted with the the Comprehensive Community Development Programme that support of UMMI, Italy. was initiated with the support of RRDF, The Netherlands. This was achieved by strengthening the people’s organisation and • Community development programme in Dande Colony near enhancing local resources. This included mobilising maximum Chirala with the support of Clarinda Still and family, UK and Government support and enabling the community to achieve FAIB, Italy, has started. sustainable development. • Gaps in child development programmes, school sanitation, and • ASSIST has continued to tackle the problem of child labour provision of bore wells were addressed with the support of Give in Piduguralla, Markapur, Vetapalem and Bollapalli areas India through individual donations. with the support of MANITESE/INTERVITA, FAIB from Italy • Land reclamation works were executed in two villages of and Government of Andhra Pradesh. This was achieved by Bollapalli Mandal with the support of Give2Asia. ensuring education for 661 children in a Transitional Education • Child sponsorship programme was executed with the support Centre with boarding facilities and also 703 children in of ISP and other individuals from Italy and Germany. Transitional Education Centres with a mid-day meal provision. Furthermore, this has been achieved by strengthening the On behalf of the children, the target population, the staff and the school’s infrastructure and extending supportive assistance members of ASSIST, I take this opportunity to place on record our to the children, whilst also promoting and strengthening the sincere gratitude to all the supporters spread across the world, people’s organisation in 98 target villages and enhancing without whose extraordinary and kind support, our efforts would livelihood promotion opportunities through ‘micro-credit’ and not have been possible.