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Climate Change Community
Climate Change Community
Indias Eleventh Five Years Plan (EFYP) is the first plan that takes note of climate change in an independent vein. Environmental sustainability is addressed in the Eleventh Plan under different sections but not in a comprehensive, focused manner and is not analyzed from the climate lens. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and the Indian Institute of Science have been undertaking research in areas of climate change. The first guiding principle of the NAPCC is to protect the poor and vulnerable sections of society through an inclusive and sustainable development strategy, sensitive to climate change. Climate change is set to impact Indias economy, polity and society in deep and different ways. Indias economy is impacted because India is still an agriculture-based economy and primarily dependent on fossil fuel consumption. The impact of climate change on health will lower productivity and potential productivity of those who are under-or mal-nourished, primarily the excluded group like poor dalits, adivasis minorities and women. Climate change impacts Indias polity, as Centre-State relations determine the failure or success of Indias mitigation and adaptation endeavors. Climate change impacts society as the poorest and the socially marginalized people are the most vulnerable to the impacts and have the least wherewithal to cope with the changes. CCBOS make a community for Climate change. This community will promote energy saving devises , clean air initiatives on polluting vehicles and industries. Ours community aim to supply electricity to all areas including villages and hamlets. The community start Crop improvement programme including development of arid-land crops, pest management and capacity building of extension workers and CVOs on vulnerability reduction practices. The community work for Drought proofing to improve the socio-economic conditions of the resource poor and disadvantaged sections of society. CCBOS work Water harvesting programmes and watershed development. CCBOS construct of coastal protection infrastructure such as mangroves and building cyclone shelters. CCBOS community guide to Risk financing including crop insurance scheme which supports farmers against climate risks as well as guide to Credit Support Mechanism for crop failure due to climate variability. The community provide emergency medical relief and training of medical staff. Our community work for disasters and relief and response to those affected by disasters. CCBOS make an independent and representative body to guide and monitor government policies. It will develop regulations and standards, upgrade the facilities and enforce the compliance. The community will act as environmental watchdogs and to monitor the environmental situation in the area.
community based disaster preparedness work. Ensures gender is mainstreamed in all aspects of disaster preparedness and response. Builds capacities of civil society organization and the govt. for disaster preparedness and response. Influences policies and practices on disaster preparedness and disaster response. Advocates international standards of quality for humanitarian aid. Our environmentalist will closely watch for implementation of that programme at district level by approaching the local NGOs and SHGs for effective monitoring and evaluation process.
HIV/AIDS Community
CCBOS, AHF Foundation (US) and Freedom Foundation, Indian Peoples Alliance for Combating HIV /AIDS start a programme for HIV/ AIDS. CCBOS in
collaborate with IPACHA renowned for its delivery of high quality treatment and support services and successfully campaign for affordable ARVs, availability of government-funded second line treatment. CCBOS with IPACH expanded its reach to all over India to strengthen Positive Networks and provide comprehensive HIV services for sex workers. We are also exploring the new rearch and development activities in naturalopathy and Ayurveda (Natural Herbal Medicine)
The objective of CCBOS is to build and strengthen a national Alliance which will serve as a platform for various stakeholders working on the issue of HIV and AIDS, TB, Malaria to come together to advocate for the right of PLHIV and ensure effective C.C. Response to HIV.
HIV / AIDS has been spreading its tentacles in the country thereby threatening to dislocate lives of the common people, some of them becoming victims unknowingly. IPACHA and CCBOS feels that HIV & AIDS poses political, economic, human rights and governance challenge in the region. The main aim of this alliance was to facilitate and support - democratic-social and political mobilizations locally, nationally and internationally, thereby address issues related to the causes and consequences of HIV & AIDS.
On 23 Feb. 2008 CCBOS and CATA delegates meets Honble Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh to urged him to help improve access to medical care and treatment for HIV & AIDS, including increasing access to both first and secondline lifesaving antiretroviral treatment in India. The CCBOS and CATA delegates also presented 10,000 plus letters of CCBOs members and well-wishers from all over the country for improved treatment access in India.
Decentralization Community
In 1993, the Government of India passed a series of constitutional reforms, which were intended to empower and democratize Indias rural representative bodies the Panchayats. The 73rd Amendment to the Constitution formally recognized a third tier of government at the sub-State level, thereby creating the legal conditions for local selfrule or Panchayati Raj. Since this time, the process of decentralization has been highly variable, ranging from ambitious attempts at Gram Swaraj (or village self-rule) in Madhya Pradesh to political re-centralization in Karnataka. Early experiences have
also revealed considerable uncertainty and confusion about the precise political, administrative and fiscal powers Panchayats have in relation to the States, line ministries, and local user groups. This, in part, reflects the fact that the 73rd Amendment gave the State governments considerable autonomy to interpret and implement the constitutional reforms. Political decentralization transfers policy and legislative powers from central government to autonomous, lower-level assemblies and local councils that have been democratically elected by their constituencies. Administrative decentralization places planning and implementation responsibility in the hands of locally situated civil servants and these local civil servants are under the jurisdiction of elected local governments. Fiscal decentralization accords substantial revenue and expenditure authority to intermediate and governments. On 23rd and 24th April is an historical day for Indian women. On this day she get decentralization power in politics From an early stage in this process, the reduction of poverty and the empowerment politically marginal groups in India have been strongly associated with at least some decentralization. Perhaps the most enduring decentralization in India is Gandhis vision of village Swaraj, in which universal economic self-sufficiency and village democracy would take the place of caste, untouchability other forms of rural exploitation. Although this vision has been hotly debated since time of independence (see, especially, Ambedkars debates with Gandhi, cited in 2000a: 5), Gandhis vision has had an enduring effect on the ways in which decentralization been argued and defended in Indian politics. Beyond the symbolic imagery of the village republic, an important element of this relates to the idea that formal, constitutional in Indias administrative system can have a lasting impact on informal and unequal structures caste, class and gender. The 73rd and 74th Amendments . . . are designed to promote self-governance through statutory recognition of local bodies. The latter are expected to move away from their traditional role of simply executing the programs handed down to them by higher levels of government and to formulate and implement their own programs of economic development and social justice. An underlying hypothesis here is that strong mechanisms of accountability will improve the distribution of benefits to groups that are traditionally marginalized in local political processes. CCBOS make a community who realize the govt. for participation, political transformation and the role that political parties can play in improving the effectiveness and accountability of local government bodies. 1. active participation among broad elements of society, involving activities such as voting, campaigning, attending meetings, running for office, lobbying representatives, etc.; 2. fiscal and political support from higher level authorities within government; 3. the existence of competitive political parties whose legitimacy depends at least in part on the support of the poor; and
4. deeper economic transformations, which embolden traditionally subordinate groups to challenge local authority structures. Our community approach to understanding the relationship between decentralization and accountability is comparative and empirical. decentralization can affect accountability and participation at the local level. Our principal unit of analysis is the Gram Panchayat and within it the Gram Sabha.
Education Community
CCBOS will make a Education Community for needs of education to all special children and girls child. The community ensure the quality of education, regular and trained teachers should be recruited in place of untrained and Para teachers. The community also ensure that adequate funds of education budgets are spent on adult literacy. CCBOS will trying to reversed the all forms of privatization of educational including the Public - Private Partnership. CCBOS desire to ensure that the Government commits 6% of the GDP to Public expenditure on Education. This community will work for girls education. It start a programme to support grassroots initiatives that can serve as best practice models. Encourages adult education with a focus on women. Advocate for a conductive policy environment for universal primary education.
free food grains additional (in line with the MDM scheme) to the monetary allocation made and decentralizing the system of procurement and distribution to the lowest level so that there can be increased community monitoring. This community introduced a maternity benefit scheme. It will start an anganwadi-cum-creche scheme.
Ministry of Panchayati Raj has announced an ambitious plan to computerized an ambitious plan to computerize 250,000 Panchayati Raj Institutions over the next three years. Nearly 40,000 odd Gram Panchayats have already opted for ICT. Applications vary from grassroots planning, financial accounting, implementing and monitoring of centrally sponsored schemes, offering birth and death certificates, handling revenue streams like house tax and automation of the functioning of the Gram Panchyats etc. Similarly, Ministry of Rural Development are considering consolidating all ICT applications as one mission mode project, establishment of decentralized data centre, a comprehensive automation of all land and land resources through a widespread usage of GIS. Ministry of Agriculture are in the process of activating the Mission Mode Project for enablement of all agriculture related interventions under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). Integrated Rural Health Mission (IRHM), Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and other important social, Bharat Nirman projects- all call for an integrated information system to better target the spending onone hand and visibility into and monitoring the outcomes on the other. All these imperatives together are creating a rural thrust for ICT from a governance perspective. 1. Rural Connectivity : Rural connectivity is an important issue if not dealt seriously will lead to the increase in digital divide between urban and rural. The ICT growth cannot be taken as complete unless rural areas also get the benefit of ICT and contribute to its growth. To achieve the targets of e-Governance in rural area, one of the important steps are to proliferate connectivity in rural areas. Some of the limitations felt in the implementation of e-Governance are as follow : Backhaul cost is vary high Absences of good business model, as operators are not sure about minimum number of subscribers and financial returns per month. Low PC penetration Low English literacy. 2. North Eastern States : The vision of the National e-Governance Plan (NEGP) is to make all the Government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man. There are various initiatives, which have taken place in North East states for the NeGP. In this connection CCBOS make a community. There is a dearth of specialized manpower to handle e-governance programmes in the Rural and NE States. An elaborate Scheme for capacity building to provide technical support for e-governance in the State is under the consideration of the Central Government. Many of the NE States do not provide IT enabled citizen centric services at present. CCBOS community upgrade existing technical support in National Informatics Centre of the NE States for eGovernance. This community updated regularly; states should provide content as well as update it regularly. CCBOS undertake capacity building programmes for employees at all levels. CCBOS organize awareness campaigns in remote and interior areas for
optimum utilization of CICs (CSCs afterwards). Our community improve the quality of services in the Region. It improved the billing disputes which comes due to non-availability of online payment facility and processing centre being outside the Region. Our community improve the infrastructure. Electric supply and its quality is another issue in most of the States. Poor quality of roads hampers transportation of telecom equipment and machinery. Cables are frequently damaged due to natural causes like landslides and others like due to road widening and by miscreants. Frequent bandhs and blockades in the states lead to time overrun and cost escalation. CCBOS community will solve all this problems.
promise to show an end to the tunnel. Any appraisal of the performance of the plans in India must recognize that Indian planning is basically indicative planning in an open door market economy with a large, informal and black economy and a social framework that respects many primordial linkages and mutual/reciprocal relationships. Thus, the plans make medium term economy-wide projections and supplement them with other projections, called targets. GDP growth has been relied upon as the main instrument to generate additional employment. NREGA : This programme is a afforded choice to poor, many more than 15 crore people would have availed of it and that too for close to 100 days they are currently entitled to rather than the current national average of about 15 days. If one were to take note of the regional variations in accessing it, the situation in many areas would hardly be any different from what it used to be under various discretionary partial coverage scheme. CCBOS make a community for work and employment. Our community will put pressure on Govt. to start this programme in City also. 100 days is not enough so our community urge govt. to increase to 150 days. It should be combined with the civil societies . But there is a big problems for making NAREGA come fully alive first it deliver to every adult of every rural household at her or his doorstep a job card that is the passport or any entry ticket to any actual works programme CCBOS community will co-ordinate with the forthcoming census operations. Make wage payment a function of the days and time spent on work during the specified working ours. Our community trying that NREGA administration has to hire and/or organize on voluntary basis groups with varied expertise in identifying and preparing development projects and to give concrete project shape to development of ideas of the local people and panchayats on the basis of studies of the local regional situation/development and employment potential and prepare a shelf of such project with as much details as possible. These projects have to be explained to the local community and they are to be encouraged to make suggestions based on their own felt needs. However, the choice of works should be taken up ultimately with the local community. The Plan is not exclusively in terms of growth acceleration. The emphasis of restoring growth may lead to a situation in which higher production may be obtained by economizing on labour. The usual impact is that the unemployment rate continues to rise even as output recovers. The more sticky and serious is the problem of those who never had any access to any regular wage employment and their survival or coping strategies are treated as informal employment. It is also serious that planners take credit for success of these coping strategies; they see it as a part of the plans achievements. The core condition for good employment that is a level of reward for work that is consistent with a minimum of human needs, remains sidelined and the beneficiaries of so-called anti-poverty programmes . Even more serious is the inability to equip crores of children for any gainful and productive work by education and training, either formal or informal. CCBOS Community will aware the people for this scheme and trying that this scheme can start in city also so the poor slum areas people also can took benefits of it and tell the govt. of its minus point to make this programme successful in all over country.
Social Monitoring
Every Social Monitoring Report undertakes the monitoring of the institutions of governance and democracy through the lenses of fundamental economic and social value such as rights, development, freedom, and security. CCBOS works towards putting an end to poverty and justice. CCBOS has been actively partnering communities and like-minded organizations to bring in a national movement of change. CCBOS works on national issue related to people living in poverty and helping them take control of their rights. CCBOS aims to be a larger force and a stronger voice in bringing positive changes to people lives. It strives to build bridges between Government and people.
To organize International Youth Exchange Programme with the assistance of Ministry of Culture, Foreign Affairs and concerning embassies to increase the youth leadership development, art & cultural relationship, peace and communal harmony, war against terrorism.