1. 05/27/07 India Focus Group (IFG) Problem Asha India proposals in general queue leading to increased frustrations at the grass root level SV’s proposed solution –Focus group to interact with Asha India and improve turnaround –2002 October proposed to Asha India Asha wide activities –Ratified by Asha India 2003 –Asha wide co-ord team 2006 –Projects Coordination Call:4 th Saturday each month

2. 05/27/07 Structure of IFG

3. 05/27/07 NEWS Regional Co-ordinators

4. 05/27/07 Issues Facing IFG India chapters and AFE unaware of IFG mechanism Turnaround times greater than 6 months Not all regional coordinator positions filled Training, defining roles, and Transition of IFG co-ords No formal conflict resolution mechanism Few web project support India volunteers (Asha India) Under 2k auto-funding –lack of documentation –conflict of interest concerns not addressed –projects not critically evaluated

5. 05/27/07 Our Vision for IFG Need participation to achieve desired outcome

6. 05/27/07 Contacts projects@ashanet.org coords@ashanet.org Yahoogroup- asha-ifg@yahoogroups.comasha-ifg@yahoogroups.com