BUILDING RURAL INDIA ASSIST Annual Report2009-10 S. Comm- Total Families Target Population Area Villages No. unities SC ST BC OC MIN Total Male Female Total SC ST BC OC MIN KRISHNA 1 Avanigadda 15 15 - 65 4,616 22 - 4,703 8,746 8,191 16,937 - 252 16,575 110 - Total: 15 15 - 65 4,616 22 - 4,703 8,746 8,191 16,937 - 252 16,575 110 - PRAKASAM 2 Ballikurava 25 30 2,348 57 841 298 5 4,149 7,842 7,530 15,373 8,816 2,383 3,056 1,092 25 3 Markapur 43 43 3,135 73 2,199 2,039 - 7,446 17,510 16,304 13,805 13,990 310 10,549 8,956 - 4 Kondepi 25 34 1,921 40 234 16 - 2,211 5,558 5,241 10,799 9,426 190 1,085 98 - 5 Ongole 38 41 3,049 283 3,422 2,254 - 9,008 17,394 17,228 34,622 10,781 894 11,523 11,424 - 6 Uppugunduru 21 23 283 360 2,296 744 - 3,683 6,825 6,436 13,261 1,091 1,153 8,429 2,768 - 7 Vetapalem 29 29 282 749 2,212 100 28 3,371 5,903 5,906 11,809 986 2,674 7,725 332 92 Total: 181 200 11,018 2,162 11,204 5,451 33 29,868 61,023 58,645 119,668 45,090 7,604 42,187 24,670 117 GUNTUR 8 Bollapalli 33 49 1,948 2,012 1,195 77 - 5,232 12,929 12,536 25,645 9,290 10,363 5,348 464 - 9 Chilakaluripet 15 15 909 538 499 382 311 2,639 5,449 5,233 10,682 3,789 2,162 1,912 1,584 1,235 10 Edlapadu 20 26 1,674 426 172 18 69 2,359 4,776 4,588 9,364 6,664 1,695 670 268 67 11 Gutlapalli 25 30 639 1,921 1,102 108 41 3,811 8,708 8,183 16,891 2,920 8,297 4,932 551 191 12 Piduguralla 17 28 2,072 628 1,579 344 317 4,940 10,629 10,225 20,854 8,782 2,473 6,944 1,335 1,320 Total: 110 148 7,242 5,525 4,547 929 738 18,981 42,491 40,765 83,256 31,445 24,990 19,806 4,202 2,813 RANGAREDDY 13 Pudur 44 44 2,856 382 3,902 819 1,037 8,996 22,125 21,941 44,066 13,677 2,329 18,512 4,025 5,523 Total: 44 44 2,856 382 3,902 819 1,037 8,996 22,125 21,941 44,066 13,677 2,329 18,512 4,025 5,523 Grand Total: 350 407 21,116 8,134 24,269 7,221 1,808 62,548 134,385 129,542 263,927 90,212 35,175 97,080 33,007 8,453 Percentage: 33.76 13.00 38.80 11.54 2.89 50.92 49.08 34.18 13.33 36.78 12.51 3.20 SC - Scheduled Caste; ST - Scheduled Tribe; BC - Backward Caste; OC - Other Castes; MIN - Minorities Contents z FROM THE DIRECTORS 2 z SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENt 4 Sensitisation 5 People’s Organisations 8 Women Empowerment 11 Child Development 14 Community Health 19 z INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 22 Social Housing 23 Water Provision 25 z ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENt 27 z CAPACITY BUILDING 31 z PARTNERS IN PROGRESS 34 z AUDITOR’S REPORT 36 z YEAR AHEAD 42 z EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS 44 z TARGET VILLAGES 46 01 From the Directors governmental organisations - and to individual migrants themselves. The 2009 Human Development Report fixes human development firmly on the agenda of policy makers who seek the best outcomes from increasingly complex patterns of human movement worldwide (Source: UN Human Development Report 2009). Migration has become the main obstacle in following a systematic development process in the target communities of ASSIST as well in the recent years: it is not only limited to the urban areas and agglomerations but also to the most rural areas, too. This began having an influence on the comprehensive development initiatives in their respective communities, and giving youth especially a dream of becoming rich and more popular in a shorter span of time. On the other J. RANGA RAO Operational Director hand, it started disturbing the cultural values which used to be much stronger at the family and community level, and many of the elder people have felt the sting of neglect and lack of Our world is very unequal. For many people around the care as a result. Added to this, the farming community started world moving away from their home town or village can be suffering with fewer human resources and higher investment the best - sometimes the only - option open to improve their and losses in cultivation. Some of the highly cultivable lands life chances. Migration can be hugely effective in improving have been kept vacant of late as the farmers do not want to the income, education and participation of individuals and incur losses every year. families, and enhancing their children’s future prospects. But its value is more than that: being able to decide where to live While this is the general situation with regard to human is a key element of human freedom. Human mobility and resources and development, the operational areas of ASSIST development explores how better policies towards mobility went through a severe drought with the continuous summer can enhance human development. It first traces the contours spell during the year 2009-10. The area experienced a total of human movement - who moves where, when and why failure of monsoon rains yet severe flooding occurred in the - before analysing the wide-ranging impacts of movement Krishna River in the first week of October, not on account of on migrants and their families and on places of origin and heavy rains in the region but only with the abundant rains in designation. It lays out the case for Governments to reduce the catchment areas of Krishna River in the State of Maharashtra restrictions on movement within and across their borders, so as and Karnataka. The Krishna River, with tributaries Tungabhadra to expand human choices and freedoms. It argues for practical and Handri-Niva, is one of the two major perennial sources measures that can improve prospects on arrival, which in turn serving more than 60% of the irrigation necessities of Andhra will have large benefits both for destination communities and Pradesh State. This River had suddenly rose to its highest level for places of origin. The reforms speak not only to destination in 103 years, due to the cyclonic depression and continuous Governments but also to Governments of origin, to other downpour in the catchment areas, resulting in terrible floods key actors - in particular the private sector, unions and non- devastating hundreds of villages in five Districts of Andhra 02 2 From the Directors Pradesh - Kurnool, Mahaboobnagar, Krishna, Guntur and organisations in Europe. This was a unique experience for the Nalgonda. ASSIST coordinators to share their methodology with similar partners in the rest of the World, and at the same time to gain ASSIST responded to the floods with relief and rehabilitation understanding and exposure to the global perspective. measures in Guntur and Krishna Districts, not only to the operational areas but also to the adjoining villages as well. Finally, ASSIST has entered its 25th year of existence and On the invitation of the District Administration, ASSIST has the time has come to consolidate its action in the field of ventured into the execution of flood housing in Krishna development with concrete examples to have a complete District with the provision of matching assistance to the reflection for the next phase of action. With the number of Government programme in order to enable the affected years adding one by one, ASSIST has to adapt its understanding families to make use of the programme and to have secured of the emerging needs of the society over a period of time, shelter. Visits and discussions have started taking place from as well as the higher expectations both from the public and the Mahindra Satyam Foundation to take up flood housing in the Government in playing a significant role in the field of Mahaboobnagar District. ASSIST has received good recognition development. Simultaneously, continuous efforts are needed both from the public and the Government for the flood relief to identify potential human resources with the professional and rehabilitation efforts, particularly in the island villages capability needed at this hour to constantly mobilise of Nagayalanka Mandal in Krishna District, which is the most partnerships both locally and internationally, and who have neglected and needy area subject to frequent disasters. the similar development approach thinking for the End of Poverty as ASSIST has learnt in practice over this period of time. Simultaneously, ASSIST was able to respond to the drought situation with the provision of water treatment plants based on real examples of public-private partnership. The villagers were mobilised to obtain the resources of room, water source, power supply and pipeline for safe disposal of the waste water either on their own or through the local Government. In return, ASSIST has started providing the water treatment plant with the reverse osmosis technique of required capacity based on the size of population with the provision of raw water and product water tanks. Either village panchayats (local self- governments) or Village Development Societies are sufficiently capacitated to manage these plants by collecting nominal charges to cover the maintenance cost including the cost of consumables and replaceable filters eventually.