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Rural Development Trust Annual Report 16/17 Rural Development Trust Annual Report 16/17 Management Community-based Rehabilitation Regional Directors Dasaratha Ramudu Executive Director Adoni Anne Ferrer Habitat D. Shanmuka Rao K. Sagar Murthi Programme Director Bathalapalli Moncho Ferrer Ecology M. Mallikarjuna G. Nageswara Reddy Chairman and Director, Sponsorship BK Samudram M. Thippe Swamy Culture and Sports H. Vannurappa M. Nirmal Kumar Kadiri Directors India for India G.R. Prameela Kumari C.R. Sudheendra Rao Education Kalyandurg D. Chandra Sekhar Naidu Communications G. Narayana Reddy E.F. Xavier Women Madakasira Doreen Reddy Monitoring and Evaluation M. Krishna Veni C. Harinarayana Rao Health Srisailam B. Sirrappa Central Procurement K. Mahammad Rafiq G. Mohan Murali Hospitals Uravakonda Dr. Bala Subbaiah Finance P. Mahaboob Bee Sanjeev Sangwan Abbreviations and definitions AIDS GSN Patta Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Gram Swaraj Nidhi (Small Republics Legal papers pertaining Fund) to ownership of land Anganwadi Rural mother and child health care centre HIV PWD of the Government of India Human Immunodeficiency Virus Person with Disability/ Persons with Disabilities ART IFI Anti-retroviral Therapy India for India RDT Rural Development Trust ASV ITDA Anantapur Sports Village Integrated Tribal Development Agency SHG Self Help Group CASA KRC Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action Key Resource Centre Vana Samrakshana Samithi Forest Protection Committee CBR LSIP Community-based Rehabilitation Large Scale Interactive Process VFF Vincent Ferrer Foundation, USA CDC M&E Community Development Committee Monitoring and Evaluation Vikalangula Sangha/Sangham Self help group of persons FVF Mahila Sangha/Sangham with disabilities Fundación Vicente Ferrer, Spain Women self help group WaSH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene inside... 01 02 03 01 03-07 09 Message from Context Timeline Executive Director The people and the land RDT approach Snapshot 2016-17 Broad areas of focus Districts covered by RDT 23-33 35-36 04 11-21 05 06 Empowering the Community Empowering the Individual Nurturing the Land Education for empowerment Learning and skills for employability Ecology: water and land Education as long term strategy and entrepreneurship use management for empowerment Vocational training Water management Education snapshot: a then Farming-associated livelihoods Land use management and now picture Outside farms: five-year Building awareness and solidarity Special-needs schools perspective Promoting equality Unconventional energy Community organization Culture and excellence sources Community groups and their Excellence in sports areas of focus India for India Achievements of organized community groups Healthcare Planning community assets Hospitals Women empowerment Primary health at grassroots level Self help in handling community issues Community-based rehabilitation 39 40-41 07 37-38 08 09 Creating Community Assets Awards and Recognitions Human Resource and Habitat Sector Capacity Building in RDT Achievements 2016-17 10 43 11 44-47 Partnerships in Financial Statement Resource Mobilization Vicente Ferrer “Hope is a beautiful word that should never disappear from our lives.” 01 Message from Executive Director One of the highlights of 2016-17, These LSIPs bring together people, to support them in building was the joint effort of the Andhra representatives: men and women a better future for themselves and for Pradesh government and RDT to from all villages in a region, to talk their children. In 2014, RDT decided help almost 300 families relocate about their needs, to look for solutions to take stock of the direction the organization was headed in and in from a cemetery in Nellore. These and to promote a closer working plotting a course for the future. 540 families will now live in houses relationship with government officials. The objective is to promote leadership staff members, external consultants constructed by RDT, on land qualities in men and women so that and over 600 community members provided by the government. they can take greater responsibility in participated in the articulation of One more step towards a just the development of their communities. strategic plans for the next 10 years and equitable life for all. and the organizational changes The professional school of languages required to get there. RDT’s geographic footprint has reached started in 2012 and has had great RDT’s overall goal is to see that Bhoopalpally district of Telangana state. success. More than 80% youngsters all discriminated persons and We have initiated work in 276 villages secured good jobs every year in the communities, most particularly with Chenchu tribals who have been cities. So RDT opened a new school relocated from the forest, under the children, women, persons with in its complex at Bukkarayasamudram. aegis of the Forest Rights Act, and disabilities and drought affected With this additional school, RDT are facing the challenges of making farmers become empowered and make can accommodate, every year, 100 a life for themselves and their children a giant leap in their ability to exercise youngsters – boys and girls. In this in a new environment. RDT has a team their rights, and in their quality of life. work, we appreciate the dedicated there, of three staff, who are working effort of the highly motivated with people, discussing their problems Our thanks to all of you and to the volunteer teachers from Spain and exploring solutions. many people whose hard work and and other countries, who impart contribution makes everything possible. skills and share their knowledge An important focus in 2016-2017 with the youngsters. has been the strengthening and Anne Ferrer continuation of Large Scale Interactive November 2017 As was Vicente’s dream, RDT is always Processes in all the regions of RDT. trying to reach more villages, more 01 Vicente Ferrer “Poverty and suffering are not here to be understood, but to be resolved.” 02 02 Context The people RDT’s goal is not just to make RDT approach The story of RDT is the story of poor communities economically Sustainable, long-term B. Nagalakshmi, who dropped out of school in Class 9, but has ensured self sufficient. RDT’s goal is to enable development as a goal the poor to be self-reliant through that her daughter completes her education and learning so that Community as main actor in its BSc in Nursing. they can be the prime movers in development their growth and development. The Knowledge, awareness, learning, It is the story of Lok Sai, a child with poor occupy the fringes of society: skills and community organization disability, who brought home a gold economically, socially, politically. This as empowering means to take medal in the Special Olympics is the community that RDT works with. decisions, assert autonomy and of 2015. move towards greater security It is the story of one of the most The land drought-prone regions of the country becoming the fruit basket Anantapur suffers from a natural Snapshot 2016-17 of Rayalseema. disaster every year. Drought— The poor are not so poor, not so the absence of rain, or untimely, backward, not disenfranchised. It is the story of increasing autonomy, unpredictable, scanty rainfall—is a Not just wards of the state, not self-reliance, self-confidence, self- natural disaster. The land is turning ‘beneficiaries’, but contributing respect and dignity of a community into a desert. Rocky, uneven terrain, members of the society in which whose main impediments to these the non-absorbing thin top layer of were a lack of financial resources soil, the lack of vegetation—does not they live. and a social hierarchy that limited help. The land yields grudgingly, in an The story of RDT is the story of their opportunities. area where 36% are farmers, entirely Suryanarayana, who was destitute dependent on unreliable rainfall. once upon a time, and who now helps The last good rain was in 2010. others by contributing `3000 every This year, Anantapur received year to the India for India fund. 98 mm of rain. 03 04 Context Broad areas of focus RDT has spent 48 years in the Community organization Primary and secondary care field. Each step forward has been Balancing community and individual in community health a stepping-stone to the next step. interests, self-help, self-governance, Basic health; water, sanitation Each step has been arrived at with democratic participation of diverse and hygiene; rural clinics; hospitals a view to long-term resolution of groups, collective decision making deep-rooted issues. 3. Nurturing the land 2. Empowering the individual Solutions have been the result Ecology of understanding what is valuable Skills for income and livelihoods Water harvesting, conservation to an individual and the community Resilience through better coping and management; decision making and distilling these down to the mechanisms, improved skill sets, that is suited to the land that is most responsive strategies in alternative opportunities, especially getting increasingly desertified; alleviating poverty: for more vulnerable members of non-conventional energy sources the society 1. Empowering the community Creating community assets Education for empowerment Awareness and solidarity Creating corpus in the form of Investment in the child to build Awareness and understanding community assets and secure community potential to come out of rights and resources, community housing, village development funds, of poverty feeling and solidarity microfinance through SHGs 05 Anantapur Bhoopalpally