Scheme Assessment Pratichi 2017
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Assessment of Kanyashree Prakalpa Prepared by Pratichi Institute In association with Economic Information Technology Supported by The Department of Women & Child Development, Government of West Bengal and UNICEF, Kolkata 2017 The Team Susmita Bandyopadhyay, Piyali Pal, Swagata Nandi, Joyeeta Dey, Pia Sen, Subhra Das, Manabesh Sarkar, Mukhlesur Rahaman Gain, Sangram Mukherjee, Subhro Bhattacharjee, Tanmoy Dutta, Sujata Gupta, Sakila Khatun, Abdur Raffique, Saumik Mukherjee, Shantabhanu Sen, Arabinda Nandi and Anita Dixit. Advised by Manabi Majumdar, Kumar Rana, Dilip Ghosh, Ashokendu Sengupta and Sabir Ahamed Logistical Support Sumanta Paul, Piuli Chakraborty and Mrinal Mondal Table of Contents List of Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... i List of tables ..................................................................................................................................... ii List of charts .................................................................................................................................... iv List of Detailed Tables – District Wise (Annexure) ............................................................................. vi Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... viii 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Local Prevalence of Child Marriage ................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Causes of Child Marriage ................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Effects of Child Marriage ................................................................................................................. 5 1.4 Details and rationale of Kanyashree Prakalpa ................................................................................. 6 1.5 Chapter Schemes of the Report .................................................................................................... 14 2 Objectives and Methodology of the Assessment ...................................................................... 15 2.1 Objectives of the Assessment........................................................................................................ 15 2.2 Instruments of research and sample selection ............................................................................. 19 2.3 Prior training and discussion schedule .......................................................................................... 19 2.4 Selection of households ................................................................................................................ 20 2.5 Focus Group Discussions ............................................................................................................... 21 2.6 Individual interviews ..................................................................................................................... 21 2.7 Weightage...................................................................................................................................... 22 3 Reach of the Scheme ............................................................................................................... 25 3.1 The reach of education amongst girls in West Bengal .................................................................. 25 3.2 Expansion of Kanyashree ............................................................................................................... 30 3.3 Challenges before Kanyashree as a CCT ........................................................................................ 38 4 Processes and Implementation of Kanyashree Prakalpa ........................................................... 44 4.1 Implementation Mechanism ......................................................................................................... 44 4.2 Awareness regarding the scheme ................................................................................................. 46 4.3 Probing Deeper into eligibility criteria .......................................................................................... 58 4.4 Age and related documentation: .................................................................................................. 59 4.5 Banking issues ................................................................................................................................ 61 4.6 Availability of Application Forms ................................................................................................... 66 4.7 E-Governance ................................................................................................................................ 69 4.8 Limited cooperation by the colleges ............................................................................................. 76 4.9 Reporting on fund transfers to beneficiaries ................................................................................ 76 5 Decision Making Pathways of Adolescent Girls ......................................................................... 79 5.1 Educational aspirations of girls ...................................................................................................... 79 5.2 Marital Aspirations ........................................................................................................................ 82 5.3 Career Aspirations ......................................................................................................................... 86 5.4 Digital Inclusion ............................................................................................................................. 88 5.5 Awareness of the legal age of marriage ........................................................................................ 89 5.6 Knowledge of the consequences of child marriage ...................................................................... 91 5.7 Financial Literacy ........................................................................................................................... 92 5.8 Financial Priorities ......................................................................................................................... 93 5.9 Voice and Grievance Redressal ..................................................................................................... 93 5.10 Mobilization of girls’ groups .......................................................................................................... 94 6 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations ............................................................................... 97 6.1 Broad-basing scheme implementation ......................................................................................... 97 6.2 Income ........................................................................................................................................... 97 6.3 Focus of the scheme ...................................................................................................................... 98 6.4 Role of implementing agencies ..................................................................................................... 99 6.5 Implementation model: ................................................................................................................. 99 6.6 Human resources: .......................................................................................................................... 99 6.7 Web portal related ...................................................................................................................... 100 6.8 Banking ........................................................................................................................................ 100 6.9 Issues requiring communication focus ........................................................................................ 101 Annexures .................................................................................................................................... 103 A. 1 Child Marriage: Historical and international context .......................................................... 103 A. 2 Selection of Villages and Wards for Kanyashree Prakalpa ................................................... 106 A. 3 Assessment of Kanyashree Prakalpa: Girls Questionnaire ................................................... 122 A. 4 Assessment of Kanyashree Prakalpa: Boys Questionnaire ................................................... 143 A. 5 Evaluation of Kanyashree Prakalpa: House-Listing form ...................................................... 161 A. 6 Detailed Framework of the five-day training programme on boys’ and girls’ questionnaires 163 A. 7 List of meeting & training programme prior to conducting the study ................................... 165 A. 8 Instructions for the Qualitative Study of the Kanyashree Project ......................................... 166 A. 9 Calculation of weights........................................................................................................ 174 A. 10 Detailed Tables (District –wise) .....................................................................................