“The workshop was handy to understand the ample opportunity we have to impact quality education. Our role as an NGO is clarified.”
“Had
the participants (i.e., speakers including the Education Secretary)
given
more concrete and specific suggestions on improving convergence and strategic
alliances with various stakeholders it would have been more productive.”
(A sampling of participant feedback following the Jharkhand workshops.)
We received grant applications from 26 NGOs - 28 proposals were for Direct Service Delivery grants and 12 were for Capacity Building Support grants. The Grant Selection Committee recommended six of these proposals for funding - four for Direct Service Delivery grants and two for Capacity Building Support grants. After further review, three NGOs were funded for Direct Service grants, and one for Capacity Building.
Profiles of REACH India's Jharkand NGO Grantees:| 1. |
Banvasi Vikas Ashram (BVA) [Direct Service grantee] |
| Summary: The
project envisages scaling up its residential bridge school in Bagodar block in
the underserved Giridih district for out-of-school adolescent girls. The program
aims to mainstream these girls into formal schools at the end of the year-long
bridge program. Additionally, Banvasi will also seek to increase enrolment of
out-of-school children into formal schools through community mobilization efforts. | |
| 2. |
Badlao Foundation [Direct Service grantee] |
| Summary: The project aims
at enrolling and retaining at-risk children, especially girls, through bridge
programs and age-specific and tribe-specific interventions in the districts of
Godda, Pakur, Sahebganj and Dhumka. The program also includes a supplementary
teaching component in the formal schools as well as after-school coaching programs
to support retention of mainstreamed children. The agency works through Mahila
Sabhas which are entrusted with the task of developing the communities. More | |
| 3. |
Center for Women's Development (CWD) [Direct Service grantee] |
| Summary: The
project will focus on providing a good educational foundation to pre-elementary
school children aged between three and six years of age through balwadis in 55
villages of Ranchi district. These children will then be mainstreamed into the
formal elementary schools. The program envisages strengthening the formal schools
system by adding a teacher to ten single-teacher schools in the district as well
as providing after-school coaching programs to enhance retention in the formal
schools. More | |
| 4. | Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra
(NBJK) [Capacity Building grantee] |
| Summary: The program will
mentor and build the capacities of 10 smaller NGOs across Jharkhand including
underserved districts such as Palamu, Garhwa and Latehar. The NGO will focus on
enabling sub-grantee NGOs to improve both their administrative and organizational
capabilities as well as their educational delivery. More |
