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Rural Governance

Rural Governance Programmes: Under the Rural Governance programme, Samarthan works on strengthening the Panchayati Raj Institutions of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. The interventions under the programme include capacity building of elected representatives, gram sabha mobilisation, conducting social audits, participatory research on contemporary issues like National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Right to Information Act, Education, Health etc. , and policy advocacy on different aspects of strengthening the rural governance institutions.

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Health Awareness Among Adolescents

Samarthan is implementing a project titled “Adolescents and Youth empowered with knowledge and life skills for improved reproductive and sexual health in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh” since 2008. This is being implemented with support from the UNFPA.  The project is being implemented in 205 villages from three blocks of Sehore district. The project focuses...→Read More

Advisory Group Meeting on Forest Rights Act

A meeting of the Advisory Group was organized by Samarthan – Centre for Development Centre for sharing the findings of the study titled “Realisation of Community Rights under FRA in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh – Challenges and Ways forward” on 4th September 2010. The meeting was attended by Shri T. N. Srivastava (Former Chief Information...→Read More

Capacity Building on Decentralized Planning..

The 11th five year plan emphasizes of bottom-up planning process to be institutionalized for allocation of development resources.  In this direction, M.P. Government issued guidelines and evolved formats for carrying out village/ Panchayat as well as town level planning. The...→Read More

Developing resource material and organizing trainings for handling HIV/ AIDS

State Resource and Training Centre Under the Targeted Intervention programme of NACO,  Samarthan set up the State Resource and Training Centre was set up in Chhatisgarh. The objective of the programme was to provide services to targeted population to reduce incidences of HIV/ AIDS. Under the third phase of this programme,
  • Various resource material was collected...→Read More

Improving nutrition levels through keener PRIs

Smarthan in partnership with the Chhatisgarh Government started a programme to improve engagement of PRIs in nutrition and health. 10 Gps from 5 blocks each of Rajnandgaon and Bastaar were identified on the basis poor outreach of health and nutrition programmes. A block level resource team comprising Sarpanch, women and child development department functionaries, interested...→Read More