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Women Empowerment

The absence of a democratic context has contributed to slow progress in empowering women, particularly in India.

Our Organization plays a major role to formulate new strategies in approaches which is more focused on opportunities and services rather than on political power.

Our Organization believes that Empowerment of Women will involve consciousness rising among women towards the social construction of gender which has lasting impacts that would bring changes in the family, class, religion, or society who subordinates women.

RAKSHANA follows the basic approaches like integrated development, economic empowerment, and consciousness rising to Empower Women in our operational area

Integrated development approaches have encouraged women's collectives that have engaged in development and social problem resolution and formed specialized activity groups as means of mobilization of women.

The economic empowerment approach has relied on improving women's control over economic resources and strengthening women's economic security like organizing women around savings and credit, income generation, and skill training activities.

Consciousness rising has been implemented in awareness groups and education that have led to a new consciousness, self worth, societal and gender analysis, and access to skills and information.

Informal Banking Groups
Income Generation Programs
Skill Development Programs
Sanitation
Health Care

Child Rights [top]

Our Organization strives to endorse for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.

RAKSHANA is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

It spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere have is

the right to survival
to develop to the fullest
to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation and
to participate fully in family, cultural and social life

The four core principles of the Convention are non-discrimination; devotion to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; and respect for the views of the child. Every right spelled out in the Convention is inherent to the human dignity and harmonious development of every child. The Convention protects children's rights by setting standards in health care; education; and legal, civil and social services.

The Government of India is implementing 120 schemes and programs for the welfare and development of children through more than 13 ministries and departments. However, all the above provisions, policy measures and programs mean nothing much to a vast majority of Indian children, as they are unable to enjoy their rights for a plethora of reasons.

Child Labour
Street Children
O V C
Child abuse
Child trafficking

Education [top]

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound. The imparting of knowledge, positive judgmentand well developed wisdom.

Education means ‘to draw out' by facilitating realization of self potential and latent talents of an individual.

Primary education is still far from being universalized. Inaccessibility, poor quality of primary education and its non- relevance to the learning needs of children are the major keep-out and push-out factors that deprive children of basic education. Only 61per cent of children enrolled in primary school reach grade five. The incidence of child labor is very high. Estimates vary between 14 million (UNICEF) to 40 million (NGOs) as working children. Children continue to work in the large unorganized sector -agricultural operations, animal husbandry, numerous small and cottage industries and establishments within the family or in household based units and as domestic labor.

Early Childhood Care
Mainstreaming
Supplementary Education Centers
School Improvement Program

Disaster Risk Management [top]

Coastal states of Andhra Pradesh are vulnerable to a range of hydro-meteorological hazards such as floods, cyclones and drought and geophysical hazards like earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis.

In the Coastal villages the risk of hydro-meteorological hazards ranges from moderate to high and that of geophysical hazards from low to moderate.

In India a large section of population is rely on primary climate-dependent sectors like agriculture and fishing.

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program is to facilitate multi-hazard Disaster Management and Mitigation plans at community, local self-government and administrative levels (State, District, Mandal, Village and Towns) and strengthening institutions capacities responsible for sustainability and replication of these efforts.

Our Organization aims at institutionalizing disaster risk management into all development activities and as well as enhance development cooperation in support of Government-led initiatives on disaster risk reduction.

Early Warning System
Disaster Preparedness
Restoration and Rehabilitation
Livelihoods
Capacity Building
Collaboration

Non – Pesticidal Management (NPM) [top]

NPM is an alternative model of Agriculture largely depends on replacing external inputs with locally available resources. It utilizes farmer's knowledge and skills apart from traditional pest management practices. It is nothing but understanding the biology of insects and preventing it reaching the damaging stage. Instead of controlling insects when it is damaging, understanding the weak stages in the lifecycle to control them.

Our Organization facilitates the farmers to decrease the cost of cultivation, increase the income, increasing wage employment opportunities at village and decrease in risk to the farmer and to the environment.

Local resource based Agriculture Models
Soil Management
Seed Banks
Promotion of Vermi compost and traditional pest management
Promotion of Organic farming practices
Provision of micro credit and market linkages to the farmer groups
Establishing producer groups
Capacity building

HIV/AIDS [top]

The fight against HIV/AIDS in South Asian countries is uniquely challenging. As the Human Development Reports suggest, an increasing incidence rate of HIV / AIDS has the potential to reverse the gains of development in these countries. Thereby, the fight against the disease is also weakened. In a situation where communities are not only normally marginalized and vulnerable, but are suddenly displaced socially, psychologically and economically, HIV/AIDS prevalence assumes a different magnitude. The challenge is even bigger in states where incidence of trafficking is already high

India has the highest number of persons living with HIV/AIDS in the world today, although the overall global prevalence remains low. Some states experience a generalized epidemic with the virus transmitted from high-risk groups into the general population. A major challenge is to strengthen and decentralize the program to the state and district levels to enhance commitment, coverage and effectiveness.

Care and Support
Support to Children
SRH

TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM [top]

The program plans to promote organic spices, medicinal and aromatic plants among small marginal farmers (tribals) in the Agency regions of Visakhapatnam District to ensure a higher realization from agriculture for the tribals living in the higher altitudes. In order to ensure good quality crops, it is imperative that such communities are given proper help and assistance in the appropriate package of practices and extension services

Crop Development
Introduction of new crops
Promotion of Livelihoods

Wealth out of Waste [top]

Managing Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has become a challenging task to many of the Metropolitan Cities and Graded Towns . Our organization formulated some strategies that would be replicated in others towns and the very objective of taking up this project is to increase livelihood activities. Every sub activity of the project is linked with micro level livelihoods that would serve the most vulnerable population. Inter linkages of projects is also practiced to serve most number of people in various developmental activities.

Advocacy [top]

Advocacy is a planned and organized set of actions to effectively influence public policies and to get them implemented in a way that would empower the marginalized.

Public advocacy uses a number of tools, usually in tandem, to mobilize public support and influence policy makers, the areas of advocacy include the mass media, the judiciary, lobbying, networking, and struggling to gain access to information, coalitions with like-minded groups, door-to-door awareness campaigns and mass mobilization for demonstrations and civil disobedience

Central Academy for Research and Training (CART) [top]

Increasing global competition, complex implementation processes, technical advancements and demanding donor needs have always made the organizations & program managers seek practical methodologies, tools & techniques to help them improve quality of their implementation processes, increase efficiency & productivity, improve the bottom line, solve complex problems, develop new strategies in time & accomplish the tasks.

So, we believe in a learning organization, where learning is a continuous process. There is room for those driven by the zeal for an effective approaches and implementation of the program.

We mix and match intensive training with equal thrust on skill development and as well behavioral development to any kind of targeted people.

We are specialized and impart training on the following_

Micro Finance
Livelihoods
Entrepreneurship Development
Disaster Risk Management
Child Rights
Non Pesticidal Management
Tribal Development Program
Wealth out of Waste ( WOW)

In House Publications [top]

Manuals
Disaster Risk Management – Telugu Version
Children Clubs – Telugu Version
Village Development Committees – Telugu Version
Life skills to Adolescent Girls – Telugu Version

Newsletter [top]

Developed Quarterly Newsletter called “CHIRUNAVVU (Little Smile) “in Telugu Language. We collect the success stories, best practices and issues solved at village level.

We share the little smiles with millions of people