Navya Disha Trust 2016-17

Activity note

Since 2009, Grameen Koota’s and Navya Disha Trust’s symbiotic association has impacted tremendous

social change. Grameen Koota has been instrumental in realising Navya Disha’saim to empower people

belonging to poor households to help people secure respectable livelihoods while ensuring environmental

sustainability and gender equality. With Grameen Koota’s funding support over the years, we have been

able to deliver our programmes with great effectiveness, scale our operations and impact innumerable lives.

This report details how Navya Disha has utilised the funding provided by Grameen Koota in the financial

year of 2016-17.

With the funding support from Grameen Koota, Navya Disha conducted the following programmes in

200 branches of Grameen Koota;

1. Water & Sanitation - Creating awareness and promotion of access to safe drinking water, safe

sanitation practices & hygiene

2. Sushikshana - Educating school kids on non-curriculum topics like Water, Sanitation, Hygiene,

Financial Literacy and Career Guidance

3. Sugrama – Integrated and holistic development of villagesthrough activities that are aimed at:

100% open defecation free villages, access to clean drinking water, adoption of rain water

harvesting techniques and improved solid & liquid waste management.

4. Branch Level Development Activities (BLDA) – Identifying and implementing activities of

public interest in Grameen Koota branches

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Impact achieved in the year 2016-17: During FY 2015-16, we worked with 80 branches, most of which were

in the state of Karnataka. In FY 2016-17, we expanded our activities to reach 200 branches. This incredible

increase in activities, 60% in volume, was enabled by the increase in the funds received. As of today, the

programmes cover 46 Districts (Karnataka – 25, Maharashtra - 21) with 200 Branches (Karnataka – 121,

MH – 79) in FY 16-17.

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Number of Branches

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PROJECT WISE ACTIVITY TRACKING

Water and Sanitation (WASH):

Objective of the programme:To provide improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene practices

that lead to improved health and hygiene in target communities

Navya Disha conducted 18,567 awareness programmes across 200 branches in 30 districts of Karnataka,

and 23 districts of Maharashtra, covering close to 5000 villages and delivering its message on water and

sanitation to 5,99,573persons.

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Awareness Activity

No. of

Activities

Planned for FY

2016-17

Achievement No. of

Beneficiaries

1 GK Branch Staff Training 298 257 2817

2 Kendra Member Training 10,000 10830 179,765

3 Gram Panchayat Elected Members

Orientation 1000 1014 9952

4 Gram Panchayat Level Workshop 1000 1009 72518

5 Street Plays 4000 4168 273957

6 Wall Painting 1000 1090 1090

7 Taluka Level Social Awareness Campaign 200 199 60564

8 Branch Level Community Development

Activities* 250 NIL NIL

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No. of Grameen Koota members & families who got water connection and constructed toilets using WASH loans

33011 132044

10 No. of Grameen Koota members & families who got toilets constructed using WASH loans

103269 516345

All the above programmes helped in providing access to safe drinking water and household toilet facilities

to 3,12,847 Grameen Koota members and their families in 2016-17.

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Sushikshana:

Objective of the programme:Improved attendance at schools through increased awareness and access to

sanitation and hand washing facilities at schools. Life skills enhancement for high school children.

The Navya Disha team trained 2,46,245 students across 1439government, private, aided and unaided

schools in Karnataka and Maharashtra in 2016-17.

Topics No. of sessions planned No. of sessions Conducted

No. of Students attended

WASH training session for 8th Std. Students

1400 1439 76352

Financial Literacy session for 9th Std. Students

1400 1436 85988

Career Guidance for 10th Std. students

1400 1434 83905

Total 4200 4309 236245

Feedback received and outcome of these activities:

The District Institute of Education Training (DIET), run by Department of Education-Karnataka to train new

teaches as well as capacity building of all government teachers on regular basis, recognised Navya Disha as

a resource agency to deliver content on Career Guidance to teachers and invited us to adopt all the schools

in Tumkur district of Karnataka. School authorities appreciated the programmes and have expressed their

interest in organizing our programme every year in their schools.

Sugrama

Objective of the programme: Improve quality of life of the communities through Open Defection Free (ODF)

approach. Create model villages by achieving 100% sanitation coverage in target areas

No. of villages engaged:26

Villages under Hosa Vantmur GP - Hosa Vantmuri, Bomanatti, Bhuthramnahatti, Halabavi,Malaholi,

Maranhol, Parshanatti, Ramdurga, Sutagatti, Ukkad.

Villages under Uredigere GP - Bellibattalahalli, Bevinahalli Palya, Devarayana durga, Kodege halli, Kuruvelu,

Nagayyana playa, Nagoji playa, Narasayyana playa, Ramavenkatayyana playa, Ramayyanapalya,

Shathagatta, Shettarapalya, Siddalingayyana playa, Urdigere, Urdigere tent, Yakoji playa.

Name of the Gram Panchayat:Hosa Vantmuri Gram Panchayat Belgaum District& Urdigere Panchayat

Tumkur District

No. of households that got toilets -2615

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Gram Panchayat No. of

Villages

No. of

Households

Sanitation Status as on

Jan 1, 2014

Toilet constructions in 2016-17

Sanitation status as on 31-March-

17

%

Improvement

Hosa Vantamuri Gram Panchayat, Belgaum District

9 2,188 47 754 1135 62%

Urdigere Gram

Panchayat, Tumkur

District

16 1,555 717 390 1480 95%

Awareness programmes and other initiatives that were undertaken:

Urdigere Panchayat Tumkur District:

Three primary schools were assisted with water filters to Siddhalingaiahnapalya, BB halli and

Shettarapalya

31 street plays were staged in all 16 villages of Urdigere GP

21 triggering sessions were held in 15 villages

120 Families were supported with two pairs of toilet pit rings to construct individual toilets

Sushikshana training was organized in Urdigere High school. We have been engaged with the

school for the last three years to organize Sushikshana training

The higher primary school of Kodigehalli was supported with two individual toilets for boys

and girls

21 Wall paintings were drawn in 16 villages on sanitation aspects

A mason training was organized which was participated by 23 masons

7 toilet usage trainings were organized with a collective attendance of 110 clients

A Shramadhan camp to clean the drainages in Urdigere in collaboration with MSW students

was held

Two ‘Children Jatha’ or processions were organized two observe International Toilet Dayat

schools

Hosa Vantamuri Gram Panchayat, Belgaum District

On October 7, 2016, we introduced "Tippy Tap", a new concept of a simple device for hand washing

with running water, at Hosavantamuri Primary School

On August 15, 2016,a Computer Training Centre was inaugurated at Hosavantamuri. The programme

was attended by 100 people. 30 High School students have undergone basic computer training till date.

On February 1, 2017, "Arivina Sinchana", an awareness campaign about Government schemes for

Senior Citizens and Physically Challenged people was organized. The campaign was organized in

coordination with the Department of Senior Citizens and Physically Challenged Welfare and Gram

Panchayat Hosavantamuri. The programme was attended by 45 people.

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On February 6, 2017, Navyadisha Trust and Ranichennamma University Belgaum jointly organised an

NSS Camp in Bhutaramanahatti village. We organized a rally, health Camp, cleaning campaign and an

awareness programme on water and sanitation. A total of 129 people participated in this programme.

On February 22,2017,"Patra Abhiyan", a letter campaign with toilet construction request was sent to

the parents of school children. A total of 200 children participated.

On March 5, 2017, "Neighbourhood and Youth Parliament” was organized in coordination with Nehru

Yuva Kendra and SUGRAMA Samiti. 80 youth participated in the programme.

On March 20, 2017, we celebrated "International Women's Day” at Mallahole village in coordination

with Janajagaran Sangatan, Grameen Kooli Karmikar Sangatana and SUGRAMA Samiti. Over 300 people

participated in the programme.

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SUCCESS STORIES

Sivamma of Nakkalanahalli village didn’t quite

realise the difficulties of defecating in the open until

her daughter-in-law got pregnant. The difficulties

faced by the daughter-in-law made Sivamma

uncomfortable. Coincidentally, she happened to

attend the Gram Panchayat Level Awareness

Programme (GPLAP) by Navya Disha organized in her

village under the aegis of Grameen Koota. The

awareness programme reiterated the thoughts of

Sivamma and convinced her to build a toilet in her

house. The Development Officer of Navya Disha,

Manjunath, supported Sivamma in getting her work

order and she received Grameen Koota’s loan for

building the toilet. Soon the toilet was built in her

house. One year later, when Manjunath visited her

house to review the impact of toilet construction,

Sivamma received him with generous gratitude for

bringing about change in her household. The

awareness programme had not just initiated the

toilet construction, but also ensured that the toilet

was being used by the family.

Naimat arrived at Baichapura village after getting

married. When she realised that in this village

everyone defecated in the open and she will also

have to join the bandwagon shocked her. She tried

to convince her husband about building a toilet but

he dismissed her requests saying that all villagers

defecate in the open and she must not fuss over it.

Moreover, they did not have the financial means to

construct a toilet. Fortunately, enough, Naimat

came to know about the awareness programme

(GPLAP) against open defecation being organized in

her village. She persuaded her husband to come

along with her and both of them participated in the

programme. Attending the training was a turning

point in Naimat’s life. Her husband realised the

importance of having a toilet in the house and he

decided not to delay it anymore. They received a

loan from Grameen Koota and constructed the

toilet. The government grant also followed. Naimat

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expressed her immense gratitude to Navya Disha for convincing her husband and to Grameen Koota for

providing the much-needed financial support.

Savitramma of Devanganahalli village has a

daughter who is twelve years of age. Until

Savitramma attended the awareness programme,

she had not realised how difficult it would be for her

young one to continue defecating in the open.

Though she herself was defecating in the open, when

it came to her daughter, Savitramma could feel the

pinch. This thought pushed her to take a decision

that she will build a toilet in her house as soon as

possible. Navya Disha’s Development Officer

supported Savitramma in applying for a loan from

Grameen Koota to construct a toilet and also

supported her in getting the government grant. She

was so inspired by the awareness programme that

she started motivating other women in her village to

construct toilets. Interestingly, all 21 Grameen Koota

members of this village have now built toilets.