http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/JanashriYojana.pdf

http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/guidelinesformuster.pdf

http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/NREGS checklist for new districts.pdf

http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/Guideline on how to conduct Social Audit, Govt of AP.doc

http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/work application form english.doc

http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/worksite-checklist-jhalawar.doc

• Madhya Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
• MP government executive instructions
• NREGA operational guidelines (English)- 2006
• NREGA operational guidelines (Hindi)- 2006
• Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme guidelines (Hindi) -2005
• Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme key points (Hindi) -2007
• Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme monitoring checklist (Hindi) Part I
• Bihar Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme monitoring checklist (Hindi) Part II
• Uttar Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme guidelines (Hindi)

Presentations made by NREGA functionaries can be used as training or reference material. Presentations cover a range of topics including why NREGA is essential, social audit, IEC initiatives and awareness creating, planning for NREGS works, district presentations, creation of a Knowledge Network to share and learn about NREGA, etc

http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/NREGA/Presentations.html

Short film clips of the Ministry of Rural Development explain in easy to understand terms various issues such as how to apply for enrolment and registration, how payments can be made via the post office, the function of the muster roll, what the work site must provide, the rights of women, etc.

http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/NREGA/Films.html

Circulars issued by the Ministry of Rural Development on various NREGA issues are available on the government NREGA website. Circulars cover issues like:

• transparency and public accountability rules
• special drive for opening of accounts of NREGA workers in banks and post offices
• directives regarding what a job card must contain and how it should be authorised schedule of rates of works
• clarification on the joint account system at district and block levels
• how audit reports should be submitted, etc.

http://nrega.nic.in/circular.htm

Produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN, this free online course provides an introduction to the right to adequate food. The principles and concept of this right are presented using concrete examples and scenarios. The course also provides an overview of the historical development of this right. The course consists of four lessons, each of approximately 30 to 45 minutes duration. Each lesson has a set of learning objectives, interactive step-by-step instructions and exercises.
http://www.fao.org/righttofood/kc/dl_en.htm

Produced by Engender Health and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, this manual is designed to provide information and structure for a four-day training and a two-day planning workshop that will enable programme managers and health workers to offer comprehensive, non-judgemental quality care and support to HIV positive women and adolescent girls in the local context.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/icw_manual_trainers.htm

Produced by the Rehabilitation Council of India, this manual provides technical information to create barrier-free features in all buildings so that people with disabilities can be independent in their daily life.
rehabcouncil.nic.in

Many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have a `double bottom line’: They work toward both a social mission and financial sustainability. This publication, produced with inputs from `Improving the Impact of Microfinance on Poverty’, a three-year action-research programme working with 30 rural finance institutions in 20 countries, and Cécile Lapenu of the Comité d’Echanges, de Réflexion et d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne-crédit (CERISE), details several tools that evaluate how an MFI translates their social mission into practice, encouraging a transition from one-off impact assessments to the continuous monitoring of social performance.
http://www.ifad.org/ruralfinance/pub/performance.pdf

Published by www.networklearning.org, this manual aims to help non-government organisations (NGOs) and community based organisations (CBOs) to put gender into all aspects of the organisation and thus ensure gender mainstreaming within the organisation and in its activities. It explains the concepts and definitions of gender, followed by ‘what to do and how to do it’, both within and outside any organisation. It describes the several steps in the process of ‘engendering’ an organisation, from analysis of the organisation, development of an action plan, implementation and then monitoring and evaluation. Related resources and websites and links to tools are given.
http://www.empowerpoor.org.org/downloads/incorproating gender in ngo.pdf

Viewing the RTI Act as a mean of allowing citizens to participate in governance, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has brought out simple user’s guides in English and Hindi to explain how laypersons can use the act. The guides explain:

• authorities covered by RTI
• information accessible under the act
• how information can be accessed
• what you can do if you are not given the information you want
• how you can ensure the act is implemented effectively

A publication of an International Labour Organisation project to combat trafficking in children and women provides guidelines to monitor the progress of the project toward its objectives, and to capture the dynamics of trafficking in the targeted sites. The guidelines consist of three parts:

• a theoretical framework for participatory monitoring
• a kit with eight different tools to be used to collect data
• annexes with tips on how to run training workshops and analyse baseline data.

This manual, developed by Sahayog, over a series of workshops involving four other organisations, is a resource for facilitators who work with different groups of men on issues of gender, sexuality and health. The manual covers six modules that can be used as a series of workshops. The six modules cover: equity and equality, gender, sexuality, health, violence, facilitation skills. Each module has several session outlines with the learning objectives spelt out as well as notes for facilitators, handouts and references for further reading for participants, exercises and case studies. http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/gender training manual.pdf

Write Solutions, the PACS Programme’s communication agency for MP and Chhattisgarh has produced an audio CD containing an informative discussion in Hindi on the scope and benefits of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The tracks can be downloaded and heard with the help of Real Player. To download Real Player click here.

Click below to download and listen to:
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Write Solutions, the PACS Programme’s communication agency for MP and Chhattisgarh has produced an audio CD containing informative songs on the Right to Information (RTI) Act scope and benefits of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The tracks can be downloaded and heard with the help of Real Player. To download Real Player click here.

Click below to download and listen to:
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
Track 7
Track 8

• Definition and meaning of advocacy
• Need for advocacy
• Useful tips for effective advocacy
• Aims of advocacy
• Type of issues that can be addressed by advocacy

This manual prepared by Sampark, the PACS Programme’s communication agency for Maharashtra, explains why documentation is important in the social sector and provides tips on writing reports and case studies.
http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/documentation manual.pdf

• When to use the media
• How to communicate with the media
• List of things to do before contacting the media
• Organising information and issues before contacting the media
• Do’s and don’ts to be followed when involving the media in development efforts
• Tips on how to write press releases
• Understanding the work system in a newspaper office
• How to send a write-up for publication
• Need for developing public relations with the media and useful tips on how to go about it.

This booklet in Hindi produced by PACS Programme partner Akhil Bharatiya Samaj Seva Sansthan , U.P. gives salient features of various central and UP state government schemes for the poor. The booklet gives information about schemes covered under the following heads:

• Food and civil supplies (fair price shops; BPL; Annapurna; Mid day meal; Antyodaya, etc.)
• Social welfare (aged people and farmer pension schemes; family benefit scheme; scholarships to children of SCs/ STs/ NTs; financial support to SCs for marriage and medical treatment; financial support to deserted women and widows for marriage of their daughters, etc.)
• Women’s welfare (motherhood welfare scheme; support to single /deserted women and widows)
• Child development and nutrition support (Integrated Child Development Programme)
• Welfare of physically handicapped people (grants /pensions; support for purchase of artificial body parts; scholarships; free travel in buses of U.P. State Transport Corporation; incentives for marrying a physically handicapped person; loans to set shops)
• Welfare of backward class communities (scholarships; schemes of Backward Class Welfare Corporation)
• Rural development (Indira Awas; Prime Minister Gramodaya Awas; Sampoorna Gramin Rojgar Yojana; Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak; Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar; Dr. Ambedkar Gram Vikas; MLA/MP development funds; bio gas; fuel efficient chullas; drinking water; loan cum grant for houses; Samagra Gramya Vikas)
• Health and family welfare (National Family Welfare Programme; Reproductive And Child Health Programme; immunization; prevention and control of communicable and sexually transmitted diseases; clean water)
• Panchayat Raj (schemes handled by gram panchayats; committees; Sampoorna Gram Swachata Abhiyan)
• Education (Development Contribution Fund; Village Education Fund; Shiksha Mitra; Shiksha Guarantee)
• Youth welfare (Yuvak Evam Mahila Mangal Dal; village level sports competitions; rural gymnasium; rural stadium; youth development activities)
• Agriculture (Kisan Mitra; agriculture insurance; Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee; promotion of agriculture mechanization; soil and water testing; use of biofertilisers, etc.)
• Irrigation (minor irrigation; support for installation of pump sets; soil and water conservation; water resource development; watershed development
• Kisan Credit Card
• Department of Cooperation loans for agriculture and non agriculture purposes
• Forests (social forestry; environment awareness; afforestation, etc.)
• Alternative energy (solar electricity, solar cooker, etc.)
• Swarna Jayanti Rojgar Yojana in urban areas (training in self employment; girl child development; credit and thrift; social security)
• Schemes of District Village Industries Board (bank consortium; support for self employment)
• UP government schemes for SCs
• Animal husbandry (artificial insemination, vaccination, etc.) and fisheries

To obtain copies of the booklet contact:
Akhil Bharatiya Samaj Seva Sansthan,
Bharat Janani Parisar, Ranipur Bhatt
Post Sitapur, Chitrakut
210204, U.P.
Ph: 05198-224332
Email: abssschitrakoot@rediffmail.com /absss@sancharnet.in

Published by PACS Programme partner Akhil Bharatiya Samaj Seva Sansthan , U.P, this booklet on the RTI Act in Hindi covers:

• the meaning of information
• right to information with the help of real life situations
• need and importance of right to information
• background of RTI Act
• features of RTI Act
• text of the RTI Act
• a discussion on the meaning, importance and potential of the RTI Act

Among the important features of the RTI Act which are discussed are:

• meaning and scope of right to information
• geographical coverage
• types of information which can be sought by public
• fee structure for seeking information
• time limit to get information
• procedures to be followed to put up a request for information
• identified public authorities of the act
• central and state information commissions and their powers and functions.
• procedure for filing appeals with information commissions
• kind of information that is not available for disclosure
• powers given to government to deal with difficulties faced while implementing the act

At the end the booklet there is a discussion on the meaning, importance and potential of the RTI Act by noted development journalist Bharat Dogra.

To obtain copies of the booklet contact:
Akhil Bharatiya Samaj Seva Sansthan,
Bharat Janani Parisar, Ranipur Bhatt
Post Sitapur, Chitrakut
210204, U.P.
Ph.: 05198-224332
Email: abssschitrakoot@rediffmail.com /absss@sancharnet.in

This document in Hindi, produced by a PACS Programme partner, the Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra, Lucknow, provides an overview of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and explains its key provisions. The guide is particularly useful for understanding the role that has to be played by gram panchayats and civil society organisations in the implementation of the NREGA.
http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/NREGA Hindi booklet.pdf

The report of the proceedings of a workshop conducted by the PACS Programme in collaboration with OneWorld South Asia, this document covers the importance of radio in development communication; various stages of radio production; need-based and knowledge-based radio programmes; community partcipation; and the `how to’ of scriptwriting and conducting interviews for radio.
http://www.empowerpoor.org/downloads/Using%20community%20radio.pdf