1. SERP
SOCIETY FOR ELIMINATION OF RURAL POVERTY DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT GOVT. OF ANDHRAPRADESH
Srinivas Baba
Director
SERP

2. Poverty Eradication Core Beliefs
Poor have a strong desire and innate ability to come out of poverty; a strong sense of self-help and volunteerism
Social mobilization to unleash their innate energies
Poor can come out of poverty only through their own institutions
Sensitive support institutions for poor to induce and nurture social mobilization and their capabilities.

3. Building Institutions of Poor Key Interventions
Social mobilization of poor and building institutions of poor
>1.4 crore poor women organized into 10 LAKH Self Help Groups (SHGs)
40,000 Village Organizations
1100 Mandal Samakhyas (sub- block federations), and, 22 District Federations
Community managed financial systems
SHGs and their federations manage a own corpus of Rs.4650 crores
The Three-tiered financial intermediation involving MS-VO-SHG
Initial seed capital support from project
Product innovations to finance ultra-poor, food security, agri-marketing, health, education
Microfinance - SHG-Bank Linkages
Cumulative bank finance of Rs 45,000 Crores raised by S.H.Gs – 2004/05 – 12 /13.

4. Andhra Pradesh: Self-help Groups Federation Model
District Federation
22 zilla samakhyas
Mandal Samakhya
1100 MSs
Village Organization
40 thousand VOs
SHG
SHG
SHG
1 million SHGs and 1.4 crore members

5. Features Self Help Groups First tier and Building Block
Organised by Poor
Comprising individuals
Self Help and mutual aid
Unregistered/ Association of Persons
Monthly twice meetings on pre-fixed dates
Decisions on consensus
Transactions in meetings
Savings and credit core activity
Micro Credit Plan, Livelihoods promotion and Social Priorities
SB account in name of Group
Two Elected Leaders – Rotation
Minutes Book and Mobile accounts
GBK / VBK/CA
Borrowings from VO and Bank
Transactions in Cash
Audit by Vos
Data base of Individuals and Groups computerised
Features
Self
Help Groups

6. Programmes Village Organisations Community Investment Fund POP Fund
Health Risk Fund
Group Savings and Shares
Bulk Finance
Internal lending
SHG Mobile Bookkeeping
SHG Grading
Organising leftover poor into SHGs
Identifying eligible groups and individuals for schemes
Identifying Community resource persons
Facilitating Bank linkage
Facilitating Insurance
Facilitating Marketing of produce.
Facilitating grant programmes
Facilitating SHG meetings
Monitoring SHG activities
Nutrition and Day care centres
Gender fund management
Programmes
Village Organisations

7. Programmes Mandal Samakhyas Capacity Building of Social Capital
Formation and development of VOs
Systems and best practices development
Legal compliance by VOs
AWFP facilitation
Corpus funds and capital grants channelisation
Programme grants channelisation
Supervision of VOs
CRPs strategy
VO Savings and Shares
Internal lending
Mandal level social priorities
Vos grading
Approving eligible groups and individuals for schemes
Facilitating Bank linkage
Facilitating Insurance
Trading and Marketing
Facilitating grant programmes
Facilitating VO meetings
Monitoring VO activities
Programmes
Mandal Samakhyas

8. Programmes Zilla Samakhyas Capacity Building of Social Capital
Development of MS and VOs
Systems and best practices development
Legal compliance by MSs
AWFP facilitation
Corpus funds and capital grants channelisation
Programme grants channelisation
Loan insurance, general insurance, and pensions
Supervision of MSs
CRPs strategy
MS grading
Approving eligible groups and individuals for schemes
Facilitating Bank linkage
Facilitating Insurance
Trading and Marketing
Facilitating grant programmes
Facilitating MS meetings
Monitoring MS activities
Programmes
Zilla Samakhyas

9. Interventions Health and nutrition initiative
healthy mothers and babies – ‘zero’ low birth weight babies
Education
Pre-school centres managed by V.Os
Gender initiative – intra family equity, ‘no to domestic violence’, family counselling centres
Insurance and contributory pension: Life,health,assets&loans
Livelihoods: supporting new and existing micro enterptises inboth forward and backward linkages and producer organisations through KRuSHE Project. BMCUs , procurement with MSP etc.

10. Why health in poverty reduction program
56% of the SHG members spent their income on health related issues
Strong link between poor health and nutrition indicators
No special nutritional care for vulnerable groups
Lack of awareness about Govt schemes & low Utilisation
Mismatch between the design & implementation of Govt schemes
Community level interventions are needed to increase community participation and reduce gaps in service delivery

11. Community Managed Nutrition cum Day Care Center (NDCC)
Beneficiaries: Pregnant and Lactating women and Children up to the age of 2 from the poor and marginalized communities (POP/Poor)
Physical center i.e., building with Kitchen, Dining and Garden (for growing vegetables)
THREE MEALS a day prepared and served to pregnant and lactating mothers and children <2 years
Cook (Para nutritionist) is an SHG member trained in preparation of nutritious, traditional diet (with focus on use of millets & green leafy Vegetables)
Health activist (Community nutritionist) provides NHED while doing the CIG activities

12. End-to End Community Managed Model
Universal Health interventions as a starting point, such as Health Savings , Fixed NH Days, Trainings - to set a strong Health and Nutrition foundation
Intensive Interventions after 6 months through Community Resource Persons- CRPs (SHG women) who are the backbone for NDCC establishment and scale up.
One-time grant to cover all establishment expenses procured through the VO
Identification of active and interested VO members to function as Health Subcommittee members by CRPs
Health Subcommittee members are trained once a month on procurement of materials needed for preparation of a balanced diet, monitoring of NDCC activities and community mobilization
Cook (SHG member) is trained once a month on preparation of balanced diet and maintaining a hygienic environment
Monitoring and supervision by VO OB

13. Common Interest Group (CIG) activities Community kitchen Garden
Balanced diet (3 meals)
Key elements of NDCC
Daily use of millets
Daily use of sprouts
Growth monitoring
Fixed NH Days
NDCC
NHED
Complementary food
Common Interest Group (CIG) activities
Capacity building
Community kitchen Garden

14. NDCC Expansion Graph

15. Current status
S.No
Particulars
DPMUs
TPMUs
Total % 1
NDCCs established
3138
1089
4227 2
Total beneficiaries enrolled
72168
21855
94023 a
Pregnant
21574
6439
28013 b
Lactating
23392
8397
31789 c
Children < 2Yrs
27202
7019
34221 3
Total No of deliveries ( )
19449
6221
25670 4
No of Safe deliveries
19000
5955
24955 97 5
Total no of girl children
11400
2517
13917 54 6
No of Children with < 2.5 Kgs
825
600
1425 7
No of Children with >2.5 to 3.00 Kgs
11388
3976
15364 60 8
No of Children with >3.0 Kgs
7496
1071
8567 33 9
No of NDCCs with regular member contribution
2362
503
2865 68 10
No of NDCCs identified with land for vegetable gardens under NREGS
1189
493
1682 40 11
No of NDCCs with financial sustainability
1408
196
1604 38
Note: Approval under NREGS is given on 15th Aug’12 which will enables the NDCC to become self sufficient.

16. Reasons for success Community managed through CBOs
Prioritisation by community for finance.
End to end monitoring by community.
Responsibility and ownership.

17. Education- Interventions by CBO’s
Some Vos are arranging common tuitions for their children from their surplus (profit)
ECE center’s (play school)are being run by the CBOs
Vos are financing the education loans to their members.
Some CBOs are running Neighborhood centre’s for PHC children.

18. Proposed model-MDM End to end control and monitoring by CBOs.
The MDM to be financed through CBOs where they can monitor the Quality and Hygiene.
CBOs can prioritise and finance the related investments in both backward and forward linkages in MDM.
The Responsibility, Monitoring and ownership rests with the community for their own good.

19. Why not MDM through CBOs
PILOT IN 3 MANDALS IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS ?

20. THANK YOU