2017 DHAN Foundation Water Matters
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Water Matters Annual Report 2017 DHAN Foundation Water Matters Annual Report 2017 DHAN Foundation Contents 5 Abbreviations & Acronyms 7 Introduction to DHAN Foundation 11 Water Matters Perspectives, Principles and Practices of DHAN’s Water Initiatives Advanced Themes 53 Kalanjiam Community Banking 64 Vayalagam Tankfed Agriculture Development Themes 68 Coastal Conservation and Livelihoods 72 Rainfed Farming Development 75 Sustainable Healthcare Advancement 79 Social Security for Building Resilience 83 Working with Panchayats 86 Tata-Dhan Academy 89 Information and Communication Technology for Poor 92 DHAN - Karunai Illam 94 New Themes 98 Centres for Integration 101 Impact 123 Financial Statements 136 Acknowledgement 139 Board of Trustees 142 DHAN Foundation - Addresses Abbreviations & Acronyms ACEDRR Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction ASKMI Advanced Centre for Skill and Knowledge on Mutual Insurance BCC Behaviour Change Communication CALL Coastal Conservation and Livelihoods CDA Cluster Development Association CIT4D Communication and Information Technology for Development CURE Centre for Urban Water Resources DEWATS Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems DHAN Development of Humane Action DPA DHAN People Academy DRC DHAN Resource Centre KDFS Kalanjiam Development Financial Services KRCH Kalanjiam Reproductive and Child Health KTL Kalanjium Thozhilagam Limited LIFE Livelihood Initiative with Functional Education MAVIM Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal MDG Millennium Development Goal MFG Microfinance Group MGNREGS Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme NABARD National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development NRM Natural Resource Management Annual Report 2017 5 NWDPRA National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas PDM Programme in Development Management PMG Primary Marketing Group PPG Primary Producer Group SHG Self Help Group SUHAM Sustainable Healthcare Advancement TDA Tata-Dhan Academy TFA Tank Farmers’ Association VIC Village Information Centre VTADP Vayalagam Tankfed Agriculture Development Programme VTDC Village Tourism Development Committee WASH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 6 DHAN Foundation Introduction to DHAN Foundation Development of Humane Action (DHAN) Foundation, a professional development VISION organisation, was initiated on October 2, 1997. It brings highly motivated, educated young women “Building people and institutions as resource and men to the development sector. They would centres for development innovations, scaling- make new innovations in development to root out up and impacting policy to enable the poor poverty from the country. The Foundation works to and marginalised communities for poverty make significant changes in the livelihoods of the reduction, self-reliance and gender equity” poor through innovative themes and institutions. The broad purposes for which DHAN stands VALUES are: DHAN has rooted in values, such as Grassroots 1. Mothering of Development Innovations: The action, Collaboration, Enabling, Innovation, institution intends to promote and nurture Excellence, and Self-Regulation. DHAN believes new ideas on development themes, such as microfinance, small scale irrigation, dry land that these values are its core strength needed to agriculture, and working with Panchayats which realize its Vision and Mission. can impact on poverty in a significant manner. DEVELOPMENT APPROACH 2. Promoting Institutions to reach scale: Exclusive thematic organisations will be promoted to take up development work with a Building Social Capital sub-sectoral focus. The primary role will be to (Organising the promote and ensure that quality benefits reach a Unorganised large number of poor. 3. Human Resource Development: The institution would bring young professionals into the development sector and give them an opportunity to practice and develop relevant Thematic Focus knowledge, attitudes and skills needed for long Mainstream (Downscaling Collaboration term work. development technology) (Enabling environment) The principles guiding DHAN are 1. Engaging high quality human resources to work DHAN Foundation’s development approach entails a at the grassroots. The focus would be to enable system of inter-linked components. There is a three- the poor, not deliver services. way link between thematic focus, social capital and mainstream collaboration to promote sustainable 2. Valuing collaboration with mainstream development for the poor. institutions and Government to demonstrate new and effective intervention to link them DHAN lays high emphasis on thematic focus. It with the people. builds social capital by organising the unorganised 3. Promoting people’s organisations to ensure poor communities around the themes of water, entitlements and to build an effective demand microfinance, rainfed farming, information and system to promote people’s interest. communication technologies, and local governance. 4. Promoting livelihoods to address the issues of Localised Peoples’ Organisations are built in poverty directly. urban, rural, tribal and coastal contexts. It is the 5. Enriching the themes and retaining subsectoral most critical step in building the capabilities of the focus as a strategy for growth. communities to handle the development processes Annual Report 2017 7 and its outcomes for ensuring their entitlements by the culture of collegiality, mutuality and solidarity. acquiring bargaining power. Shared purpose, core values and resources (human, financial and physical resources) bind These Peoples’ Organisations provide platform for the institutions of DHAN Collective. DHAN nurturing innovations at the grassroots, scaling– Foundation as the mothering institution would down technologies and contextualising those guide, support and regulate its family institutions on technologies for addressing the issues of poverty, their mission, policies, strategies and values. Each which are highly complex and contextual. institution would define its ‘own unique’ space. The third factor, the mainstream collaboration The Kalanjiam Community Banking Programme, is critical for creating enabling environment for one of DHAN Foundation’s pioneering initiatives the other two factors to perform. The thematic and its first institution, has evolved into an institutions continuously build the capacities of the institution, the ‘Kalanjiam Foundation’, to take up People’s Organisations built around the particular the promotional role. It would scale-up the theme theme to bring relevant mainstream development of Kalanjiam Community Banking and guide the institutions, both private and public institutions people institutions. Vayalagam Tankfed Agriculture closer to the communities. They evolve and nurture the principle of sustainable partnership between Development Programme has evolved into the the People’s Organisations and the mainstream Vayalagam Foundation to work on the theme of institutions. The collaboration process educates both conservation and development of small scale water People’s Organisations and mainstream institutions bodies and stabilise the livelihoods of the farmers about their roles and responsibilities in sustaining dependent on them. Many such institutions would their collaborations. emerge in course of time – efficient, excellent and with unquestioned integrity – in the DHAN Conceptually, the interaction among these Collective of institutions. three factors put the primary institutions at the centre, which are ideal platforms for practicing Strategic Goals (2012-17) participatory democracy and ensuring collective Goal 1: Building social capital by organising the empowerment. unorganised poor households including vulnerable, DHAN plays a promotional role in initiating a differently-abled, and ultra poor/poorest of the theme, building Peoples’ Organisations around poor into sustainable community organisations and them, establishing linkages with mainstream integrating them with local governance/panchayats institutions and sustaining them. The promotional for grassroots democracy role keeps evolving over a period. As the local Sub goal 1.1 Organising additional one million capacity is built, the roles get transferred to poor households besides the existing one people. Simultaneously DHAN as a mothering million including vulnerable, differently-abled, institution promotes thematic organisations as and ultra-poor subsidiaries to upscale the matured themes to continue the promotional role to sustain the Peoples’ Sub goal 1.2 Building 500 nested institutions Organisations in the specific theme. The thematic i.e. federations and movements and working institutions would take up the work of upscaling and with 200 panchayats to demonstrate grassroots deepening of the themes. Building Social Capital democracy with local-governance (Organising the Unorganised) Thematic Focus Sub goal 1.3 Grooming and nurturing 50,000 (Downscaling development technology) Mainstream community leaders for sustaining the people Collaboration (Enabling environment) organizations DHAN Collective Goal 2: Impacting to bring 0.5 million households DHAN Foundation and its institutions form the out of poverty through enhancing livelihoods DHAN Collective. It is to nurture and preserve through thematic interventions such as 8 DHAN Foundation microfinance, agriculture, water and natural and Sub goal 3.4 Development of 10,000 acres of coastal resource conservation and enabling access land through context specific land, water and to entitlements related to social security, health and agriculture related treatments