Guide Lines for New Initiatives Survey
EFICOR: Poverty Alleviation UnitGuidelines for Feasibility Study
1. Identify poorer communities and areas, and short list them
2. Identify prospective NGO’s/ Agencies and short list them
3. Collect a detailed profile of agencies
4. Collect a brief profile of communities
5. Identify the needs of the people and prioritize them
6. Send a detailed report to EFICOR HQ for processing and finalizing the communities/ partners
7. Collect a detailed profile of the agency
8. Collect Socioeconomic indicators
9. Collect relevant govt. data
10. Collect census details
11. Collect their culture and customs
12. Collect details on any development work done in the area before and being proposed.
13. Collect data required for the particular need assessed
14. Prepare proposals for the duration of 1-2 years with the scope for next five years
15. Send it to EFICOR H.q. for sending them to donors
1. Criteria to Identify poorer communities and geographical areas
Criteria for selection:
· The areas and communities should be within the targeted geographical areas according to the EFICOR’s strategic plan.
· EFICOR’s primary constituency is the evangelical communities- Churches, organizations and individuals – who are committed to wholistic mission.
· The communities can be of any group (Tribal, rural or urban) in undivided BIMAROU states
· EFICOR wants to work with specific groups such as Women, Children, tribals, urban poor, disabled and those in need of care in the states other than undivided BIMAROU.
· The communities who are discriminated/alienated/segregated and are exploitative/monopolistic/poor need to be given priority
· The community should be under BPL.
· The areas where the infrastructure is very less.
2. Criteria to identify prospective NGO’s/ Agencies:
· The NGO/ Agency should be Evangelical in nature.
· Should be committed for wholistic transformation
· At least 5 years of existence
· Registered under Society Registration Act
· Good administrative structure
3. Check list for collecting brief profile of the agencies:
· Name and address of the agency
· Name of the contact person
· Details of registration under SRA
· Year in which the organization started
· Areas of operation
· Communities involved
· Funding sources
· FCRA details (if any)
· No. of full time staff, their qualification and capacity
· No. of part time staff, their qualification and capacity
· Copy of MOA (Memorandum of Association/ by laws) along with the board members list
· Annual and Financial reports of the last two years
· Mission, Vision and Goals (if not listed above)
· Organogram – Staff structure
4. Checklist for collecting community/ area profile
· Map of the area ( district, block and village wise)
· List of the communities in the area
· List of NGO’s working in the area
· Demographic details of the community
· Topography of the area
· History and culture of the targeted communities
· History of the area
· Socioeconomic conditions of the community
· Infrastructure facilities of the area
· Panchayati Raj institutions
· Agriculture details of the area
5. Identify the needs of the people and prioritize them
A deeper but more complex survey can be done using the six areas of life with which every group of people living together is always concerned.
a. Meeting basic physical needs: Subsistence and the provision of needs such as food, clothing, shelter, water and health care, are basic in the life of a community. There will always be many themes where people have difficulty meeting these needs.
b. Relationship among people: The social relationship of tension or harmony, between men and women, husbands and wives, parents and children, workers and employers, are important areas of life around which to listen for themes. Family rituals and community celebrations of birth, marriage, death, harvesting and other achievements are often linked to strong feelings.
c. Community decision-making processes and structures: How do people feel both about the decisions that are made which affect their lives, and the way the decisions are made? What are the structures for involving people? What are the rules of the group? Who makes them? Who enforce them? Does power depend on age, tribe, knowledge, money, and education?
d. Education and socialization: Both through schooling and traditional education, people are taught values, skills and acceptable ways of behaving as members of a community. What are they? Are there changes talking place? What tensions occur through these changes?
e. Recreation: What does the group do to relax and enjoy them? Play games, watch sports, dance, sing, drink, talk, sit and rest in silence, do creative art or craft work?
f. Beliefs and values: All groups have a basic set of beliefs, an ideology or religion through which they express their understanding of human life, death, the world, love of God, etc. This provides them with a frame of reference through which they determine what is important in life. Special rites and symbol provide solemnity and security for important moments of existence, e.g. birth, attaining adulthood, marriage, death, etc.
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