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India
>> Regional Overview >> India Overview ACTIVITY DATA SHEET
PROGRAM: India
TITLE AND NUMBER: Expanded Advocacy and Service Delivery Networks for Women and Girls, 386-009
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2001 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $158,000 DA; $700,000 CSD
PROPOSED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $1,068,000 DA; $1,440,000 CSD;$1,500,000 ESF
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1996 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2005Summary: This objective responds to the U.S. national interests of strengthening democracy and fostering respect for human rights under USAID's Strategic Plan. Gender equality is now universally accepted as being a prerequisite for sustainable human development. Although progress in women's development has been made in India, women continue to lag behind men. The adverse sex ratio, poor educational and nutritional status, inequality in wages and the prevalence of violence against women, including coerced trafficking, point out the glaring inequalities in social, political, and economic decision-making by women in India. According to the UNDP Human Development Report (1999), literacy rates for females were 39.4% as opposed to 66.7% for males. Perhaps most telling is the figure for "missing women" as reflected in excess female mortality and the declining gender ratio. According to the 1996 Sample Registration System Projection of the Government of India (GOI), there were only 926 females for every 1,000 males. Children, too, are subject to abuse and exploitation. Estimates vary, but there are probably 100 million children who are "out of school," with over 44 million of these children employed in hazardous and non-hazardous industries. The majority of these are employed in agriculture and many are victims of an entrenched system of bonded labor. Finally, trafficking of women and children is a major social concern.
This objective promotes the role and participation of women in decision-making by expanding advocacy and service delivery networks for women and children. Also, it promotes girls' primary education in UP; expands research on, and informed advocacy against, violence against women (VAW) by Indian organizations; and aims at urging the return of out-of-school children through community mobilization.
Key Results: This objective has two recorded results: (1) increased number of local institutions collecting data or assisting in informed advocacy on violence against women; and (2) increased enrollment and retention of girls in primary schools in one district in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
The violence against women activity is funded with DA, whereas the girls' education and elimination of child labor through education activities are funded with CSD.
Performance and Prospects: This objective has two principal components: (1) prevention or mitigation of violence against women; and (2) girls' education and elimination of child labor through education. The activities discussed below are illustrative.
USAID plans a FY 2001 obligation of $158,000 in DA funds for the violence against women (VAW) component. USAID's VAW activity fills a critical information gap by establishing a national database on patterns and trends of domestic violence that can be an advocacy tool for effective judicial and medical responses to VAW. During FY 2000, ten new institutions were added to the number of organizations engaged in collecting data on violence against women. The VAW activity in FY 2000 brought to closure the first set of research studies on "Patterns, Trends, and Effective Responses to Domestic Violence" and initiated a new set of activities designed to extend the impact of the first phase. Dissemination conferences were held in Bangalore and Lucknow. They received wide publicity and newspaper coverage. The National Advisory Council members extensively utilized the findings of the studies in their own work. A fact sheet, developed by International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) using the research data, was used to lobby the press to advocate for new legislation on domestic violence. Parliament is scheduled to soon table the bill.
FY funding of $700,000 CSD is planned for activities in girls' education and prevention of child labor through education. In September 1999, with USAID support, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) assumed the mandate of strengthening the organizational capacity of state education institutions to improve girls' education, such as the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) in Uttar Pradesh (UP). In FY 2000, AED successfully launched a girls' education coordination center-Bringing Education through Innovation (BETI). The launch of the BETI generated a great deal of media interest and resulted in 33 articles in the Indian press putting the issue of girls' education at center stage. In line with its advocacy role, the AED/BETI Foundation worked closely with the media (radio, television and print), provided them data on the status of education in UP, brought out bulletins, organized press conferences, solicited support from business leaders for girls' education. AED initiated relationships with both local and international NGOs working on education and women's issues in UP. A particularly close working partnership was formed with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to work with a vast network of private education providers. Notably, links were established with the State Office of UP Education for All which is responsible for the implementation of the World Bank-assisted District Primary Education Project.
USAID is supporting the Center for Rural Education and Development Action (CREDA) activities on child labor elimination. In the last year, CREDA completed a baseline survey in 100 villages, and conducted rallies and meetings with panchayat members, including role play/street plays, as part of their social mobilization and environment building efforts to stop child labor in the carpet industry in UP. Child labor vigilance committees were formed to persuade parents to withdraw children from work. Twenty-five community schools have been set up through contributions from the community and 1,250 children, including adolescent girls have been enrolled. Twenty-five volunteer teachers have been identified, recruited, and trained on the content and methodology for interacting with the enrolled children.
In FY 2000, USAID provided assistance to UNDP and CRS for child labor elimination. This program expanded NGOs' efforts to remove children from the work place, put them back into school, and reintegrated them into their communities. The UNDP activity will enable 3,700 out-of-school children in Calcutta city, 6,500 tribal, migrant children working in brick kilns in Thane district, Maharashtra, and 750 child laborers in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, to join regular schools and receive quality education. Through its partners, CRS will reach out to 52,000 out-of-school/working children in Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh, 3,320 working children in Kanpur city and rural UP, and 930 out-of-school children of prostitutes in Ajmer district, Rajasthan.
In FY 2001, USAID plans to initiate new activities in the area of microfinance for poor women. The plan is to work with federations of poor women's self-help groups to strengthen their capacity in accessing and managing loans; link them with commercial banking systems; and help make these federations financially viable.
Possible Adjustments to Plans: During FY 2001, USAID will review this activity and prepare a new strategy in FY 2002.
Other Donor Programs: The primary education sector in India is dominated by the World Bank, British Department for International Development, European Commission, and United Nations agencies through their support to the GOI's District Primary Education Program to improve coverage and quality of primary education in several Indian states. On child labor, but for the National Child Labor Project of the GOI and the Department of Labor-funded International Labor Organization-International Program, there are only small NGO and donor initiatives.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: 1) Girls' Education: AED; 2) Violence Against Women: ICRW; 3) Child Labor Elimination: UNDP and CRS.
FY 2002 Performance Table
India: 386-009
Performance Measures:
Indicator FY97 (Actual) FY98 (Actual) FY99 (Actual) FY00 (Actual) FY00 (Plan) FY01 (Plan) FY02 (Plan) Indicator 1: Number of local institutions collecting data or assisting in informed advocacy on violence against women 4 20 32 42 39 NA NA Indicator 2: Number of organizations in UP undertaking new girls' education enhancing efforts asisted by BETI NA NA NA 5 NA 20 NA Indicator Information:
Indicator Level (S) or (IR) Unit of Measure Source Indicator Description Indicator 1: IR Number of institutions (cumulative) ICRW project records, progress reports, ICRW NA Indicator 2: IR Number of organizations (cumulative) Partner progress reports/results report NA U.S. Financing
(In thousands of dollars)
Obligations Expenditures Unliquidated Through September 30, 1999 3,497 DA 3,497 DA 0 DA 400 CSD 400 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA 0 DFA Fiscal Year 2000 0 DA 0 DA 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA Through September 30, 2000 3,497 DA 3,497 DA 0 DA 400 CSD 400 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA 0 DFA Prior Year Unobligated Funds 1,800 DA 1,250 CSD 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 DFA Planned Fiscal Year 2001 NOA 158 DA 700 CSD 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 DFA Total Planned Fiscal Year 2001 1,958 DA 1,950 CSD 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 DFA Future Obligations Est. Total Cost Proposed Fiscal Year 2002 NOA 1,068 DA 1,237 DA 7,760 DA 1,440 CSD 5,050 CSD 8,840 CSD 1,500 ESF 8,500 ESF 10,000 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA 0 DFA
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