Youth Action for Rural Development (YARD) under Bharat Nirmaan Volunteers Programme Mr. S. A. Ashraful Hasan Director, Abdul Nazeer Sab State Institute of Rural Development, Mysore , Karnataka

Goal “Enable youth to acquire Vision, Commitment and Capacity to transform villages with Sustainable Development”.

Objectives To create a band of young and enterprising facilitators. To empower and enhance capacity of 1000 youth in governance issues. To equip the rural youth to oversee the effective implementation of flagships programmes. To develop competency in skills of Management and Leadership amongst rural youth. To develop rural youth as ‘Angles of Change’.

Batch - 01 Selection Process:From 14 th February 2011 Duration:Six Days (Phase - 01) Date:14 th March to 19 th March 2011 Venue:Shri Taralabalu Krishi Vignana Kendra, Davanagere Participants:Total of 34 Members (20 Males and 14 Females) No. of Gram Panchayaths (GPs) :25

The Volunteers Expected Nos.:50 (25 Males and 25 Females) No. Participated:40 (23 Males and 17 Females) No. of Dropouts:06 (03 Males and 03 Females) No. Completed Training:34 (20 Males and 14 Females)

The Highlights 100s of youth gathered to understand and participate in the programme. First phase of Batch-01 was completed successfully. 34 youth including 14 females participated in the training. Training was conducted locally. PRA was conducted in the field with good community support.

Expressions “We learned about personality development, activities to be performed as volunteers. Training was imparted in a good manner. It would be very good if a handbook on the training is provided” - Mr. Nagaraj P “Kindly motivate the youth to join hands with the government to work for the betterment of the society” - Ms. Manjula “We feel difficult to learn more subjects in less duration” “We could have learned more if this training was increased for four more days. More information on HIV AIDS could have been shared”

Expressions (Contd…) “I request to impart additional training with many more subjects and varieties of methodology” - Ms. R. A. Mamatha “Secured very good information. More could have been imparted” “We, who did not have any information about the Panchayath Raj System and addressing our problems, have gathered knowledge in this one week training. Thanks to Abdul Nazeer Sab State Institute of Rural Development (ANSSIRD)” - Mr. S. Nagaraja “We have learned many issues in this excellent training programme. It would have been good if the duration is increased to 10 more days. We visited two villages and visit to two more villages would have increased our awareness” - Ms. Sumalatha

Expressions (Contd…) “We learned how to work as a volunteer with service mindedness. We also learned discipline to be incorporated in our services” - Mr. Umesh M “I have acquired new and fresh experiences from training and have learned everything happily” - Ms. Latha R. T “I suggest to increase the duration of field visit and also the programme” - Ms. Nethravathi “It would have been good if more consultants were invited. It was told that a team from Central Government will visit, but it did not come. Efforts should be made to invite the team atleast for the next batch. Good knowledge was provided in this training programme” - Mr. P. G. Dinesh Kumar

Expressions (Contd…) “We, who did not have any information, are provided with complete knowledge to be imparted in our villages and work as volunteers by Fathima madam and Wilfred sir. They have guided us excellently. My sincere request to you is to provide additional knowledge to us” - Mr. Siddesh “Our S. N. Fathima madam and Wilfred D’ Souza sir has given us complete knowledge. I request that they should be selected for the next volunteers training also. These two are enough to provide information to any sort of people. For example, they have changed us” - Mr. Lokesh Kumar “We are provided information with good intention. All teachers have given us good training. It is not possible to learn everything in one week. Hence, training should be increased for eight more days. We could learn more. This is my opinion” - Mr. Sanna Yogendrachar

Responses

Responses (Contd…)

Achievements There were and are enquiries about the programme. Youth are waiting to get trained under the programme. The programme was conducted locally. Very good participation by the youth, especially the female candidates. Students learned the skills to mobilize the community and also to perform street play.

Challenges Duration of the course - participants desired to learn many things, but we had to rush through. Venue caused disturbances - disturbances from the families, asking for frequent permissions and leaves, etc. Identification of the expert resource persons.

Few Moments During the Selection Process

Yoga, Inaugural and Ice-Breaking Few Moments (Contd…)

Have Fun and Also Learn

Few Moments (Contd…) Glimpses From the Hall

Few Moments (Contd…) Rural View through Village Transect Home away from Home

Few Moments (Contd…) Collage on Development

Few Moments (Contd…) Conducting PRA and Learning Street Play

Few Moments (Contd…) Valedictory and Certificate Distribution