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Capacity Building Initiativies
The two-way process of community empowering and of empowering PRI leaders has been more of a people centered approach and made community leaders accountable to the community.
Capacity building programmes are run for the community leaders to address issues like the ineffective functioning of the PRIs; absenteeism among teachers and non-functioning of primary schools; the improper implementation of mainstream development programmes; and insignificant participation of community members in the Palli Sabha and Gram Sabha. Village leaders meet regularly to review their progress and identify the future course of action.
Through its Capacity Building programme, CYSD increases the participation levels at the lowest forums of self-governance that is Palli and Gram Sabha. This is done through large scale mobilization, capacity building and awareness generation. CYSD capacitates PRI leaders for effective delivery of their roles and responsibilities, by capacitating people’s committees for community led monitoring on service delivery of institutional mechanisms. CYSD’s extensive interventions involves the singular objective of boosting up the process of local governance and system in the State in partnership with varieties of participants at the grass root level as well as other intermediary organizations actively involved in the process. It addresses the indigenous management practice of capacity enhancement of intermediary organizations, PRI representatives at each tier and of government officials. For this purpose three District Resource Centres have been set up in the nodal townships of Koraput, Sundergarh and Keonjhar to act as nodal points of unanimity and cohesion among different actors.
In order to ensure active citizen’s involvement, it becomes necessary to enhance the capacity of people, to formalise an appropriate information system that affects the daily life and livelihoods of poor, and to provide momentum to the entire process of building capacities of the community level organizations (CBOs, SHGs). Special thrust is exerted on skills like leadership, communication, book-keeping, planning and resource mobilisation, writing of resolutions, conducting meetings, overcoming proxy role, conflict resolution skills, liaison with officials and other stakeholders, to increase the visibility of women, tribals and dalit community members.
To ensure increased participation of the community members in the decision making process, practical training is provided to build capacities of a wide range of audience in four different kinds of centre at the Panchayat, District and State level.
