EU Activities on Caste Discrimination / Discrimination on the Basis of Work and Descent by Country
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EU Activities on caste discrimination / discrimination on the basis of work and descent by country: 1. India: INDIA PROJECTS MAINSTREAMING DALITS Project No./Title Beneficiary Local Partners Geographical EC Duration Description Organisation Coverage Contribution € ONGOING PROJECTS: Catalysing Human DanchurchAid Socio-Legal 18 states of 300,000.00 Nov 2010 Overall Objective: Rights Institutions Information India: t0 India’s National towards effective Centre Oct 2013 and State Human Justice Delivery (Jammu & Rights (EIDHR/2010/232116) Kashmir, Commissions Uttar (N/SHRC) become Pradesh, more securely established as Rajasthan, powerful and Orissa, respected Chhattisgarh, enforcement Gujarat, bodies that successfully Bihar, intervene to uphold Madhya and safeguard Pradesh, fundamental rights Andhra and freedoms of all citizens particularly Pradesh, the most Maharashtra, vulnerable, Karnataka, including dalits. Tamil Nadu, Main Activities Kerala, include organising Punjab, People’s Tribunals, Himachal Publish IPT Social Pradesh, audit reports, Sensitisation of Assam, N/SHRCs, Manipur, Monitoring HR West Bengal) Complaints and follow up 4000 individual cases, Conduct Public Interest Litigation (PILs), Consultations with law makers, Advocacy in collaboration with National and International Groups and Seek Redress of Individual HRC Cases. Block Grant 2005 - Cooperazione E 6 Sub- Tamilnadu 544,790.50 Jul 2008 to The 6 different India (ong-pvd Sviluppo Projects: Dec 2010 proposals/activities /2006/119849) Onlus (CESVI) (Districts of under the Block 5 Partners: Tuticorin, Grant focus on Anawim, The Tirunelveli, elimination of child Thiruchy Don Thiruvallur and labour and Bosco Society, Nagapattinam) ensuring Dalit Jeeva Jyothi, children’s right to Nava Jeevan education. Trust - To empower the coastal Dalit communities by providing educational support for children in Tuticorin district. - Support the empowerment of rural communities in exercising their rights and increasing their access to natural resources, to enable them to have greater control over their lives, livelihoods and environment. - To empower the children and the youth of the selected Dalit communities to achieve education and employment which would increase their socio economic status. - To eradicate child labour through education and awareness in the brick-kiln areas of Thiruvallur district. - To strengthen and enhance the perspectives of all stake holders involved in the process of eradication of child labour to bring out maximum results. - Eradication of Child labour in Tirunelveli district by realizing Child Rights to education CLOSED PROJECTS: 2 Civil Society approach Christian Aid 9 Partners @ 10 states in 762,033.00 Jan 2007 Overall objective: towards achieving State Level: India (Tamil to Dec To promote and equality and the Navasarjan Nadu, Kerala, 2008 defend the rights of realisation of the Trust and Andhra Pradesh, schedule castes/ Rights of Scheduled Centre for Rajasthan, dalit communities Castes in India Social Justice Orissa, Uttar by using national (DDH/2006/118411) (GU); Sakshi Pradesh, Bihar, and international Human Rights Gujarat, human rights and Watch– Maharashtra and anti-discriminatory Prajwala Punjab) covering legislations and Sangham (AP); 60 districts instruments. NCDHR (BI); To improve the VICLAP and protection and Development promotion of the Initiatives (OR); rights of dalits and Society of other discriminated Depressed groups by making People for the state more Social Justice accountable as well (RA); SASY as equipping dalits (TN); Dynamic to better access to Action Group justice and to their (UP). economic and 3 Partners @ social rights. National level: Specific objectives: Human Rights 1. To capacitate Law Network – and strengthen the A Project of dalit communities in Socio Legal 10 states of india to Information access the criminal Centre; justice National administration Campaign on system in order to Dalit Human reduce the practice Rights – A of untouchability Project of and to protect SASY; National themselves from Safai Karmchari violation of human Andolan rights; 2. To evolve a civil society mechanism that sensitises, mirrors and informs the implementation, enforcement and monitoring bodies at state, national and UN levels; 3. To engage with the intervention mechanisms of the monitoring committees of relevant international conventions of UN, CEDAW, CRC, ICCPR.. Re-enforcement of Association Pour 2 Partners 3 States: 377,118.10 Feb 2007 Overall Grassroots Dalit Le Catholic Tamil Nadu, – Jul 2009 objective(s): organisations in South Developpement Committee Karnataka and The Promotion of India for the protection Economique against Hunger Andhra Pradesh Dalit self-respect in of fundamental Dalit Regional (ADER) and for South India; The rights and for Development; effective awareness campaigns implementation of concerning an Human Rights Dalit friendly effective consideration Forum for Dalit government of the rights. Liberation- programmes at the (DDH/2006/118393) Tamil nadu grassroots level in Tamil Nadu; A greater understanding and consideration of the Dalit cause in South India Specific objective: Re- enforcement of grassroots 3 Dalit organisations in South India for the protection of fundamental Dalit rights and for awareness campaigns for the effective consideration of the rights. Elimination Of Child Stichting Hivos MV Foundation Andhra Pradesh 1,500,000 Jan 2007 Building of Labour Through to Dec processes towards Universalisation Of 2009 total elimination of Elementary Education child labor and (ong-pvd through the /2006/119481) provision of formal, full-time and quality education to all children up to 14 years of age in India. Specific objective All children in Ranga Reddy district and Nalgonda district freed from child labour and the elimination of child labour in other parts of India supported About 150,000 parents will be involved most of them belonging to the scheduled caste and backward class community living below poverty line or at the edge of poverty, migrant families, landless labour and so on. MVF proposes to achieve concrete results in ensuring that no child works and every child attend fulltime formal school in 20 mandals of Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts. The number of children covered (about 180,000) is large enough to show the impact of the entire programme not only on children’s rights but also on spin offs like favourable work conditions for adults and increase in wages; intra household division of work that respects women; 4 active participation by stakeholders in local bodies on all issues concerning the poor including children’s rights; reduction in child marriages of adolescent girls and related maternal mortality and infant care. Dalit Development Karl Kuebel Kerala 408,000.00 May 2004 Dalit Development Project (DDP) (ONG- Stiftung to May Project (DDP) is in PVD/2004/63615) 2009 line with the poverty reduction strategy through the related aims of improving women's productive capacity, fight against uneven community empowerment and social and gender discrimination. Dalit is the lowest cast and is therefore particularly hit by poverty and low level of education. DDP aims at improving the living conditions of the Dalit Community in a sustainable way in 4 Panchayat areas. This is to be achieved through improving i) their understanding of their problems and build capacity to solve them, ii) economic and social situation of women iii) economic situation of Dalits and iv) their living conditions. The activities include i) Formation of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and Women's Groups (WG) and imparting them training and information on legal issues related to women's and Dalits' rights ii) establishment of small credit systems, Income Generating Programs (IGP), and revolving funds to enable them to "have a bank at their doorstep" and avoid using moneylenders, iii) Construction and renovation of 165 5 new houses. Block Grant 2005 - Save the Mahita, Andhra Pradesh, 901,555 Jan 2007 The overall India (ONG- Children Fund, CAFORD, West Bengal and to objective of this PVD/2006/119917) UK Sadhana, Orissa December programme is to Pragathi, 2009 strengthen MASS, Sri government Dakshina systems of Bhava Samiti, elementary Society for education, so that Community they are inclusive Development, of all children, SOVA, CARD, specifically the PECUC, most marginalized, Research in order to reduce Academy for social and Rural economic Enrichment disparities in the (RARE), project areas. Narayantala Mass Specific results will Communication be: Society . Improved (NMCS), access to Rajadighi education Community especially for Health Service the most Society marginalized (RCHSS) groups in West Bengal, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, by strengthening the quality of education and making it more inclusive of these children’s needs . Improved participation of the community, parents and children in education planning, monitoring and management . Child protection mechanisms within schools and communities established and functioning in order to safeguard children’s rights In the Call for Proposals launched for India 2010 under the NSA-LA thematic programme, the overall objective was to promote integrated water management as a vital element for poverty reduction and sustainable economic development, with the priority population groups being those suffering the highest levels of poverty and socio-economic exclusion, and with a geographic focus of Backward Districts of the Backward Regions Grants Fund (BRGF) published on the website of the Ministry of