Submitted To: Prof.

Gincy Mathew

Flow of presentation
` Research Objective and Methodology ` Profile of organization ` Vision and Mission ` objective of the organization ` Social Activities ` Conclusion ` References

Research object and Methodology

Research objective:
To know about the NGO - How, when, where and why it started? What kind of social work they do and how they work in India. To relate and study Mahiti Rural development Centre (NGO) functioning with HRM and operations theories. To study the managerial aspects of Mahiti Rural development Centre. To understand how they are managing their funds.

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y Data Collection:
Primary Data: It would collected through Observation during visits, asking open and close ended questions, Interviews with working employees and Informal interaction with members at Mahiti Rural Development Centre. Secondary Data: It would collected from outside of the organization like Internet Books, Magazines and Annual Reports of Mahiti Rural Development. Publications, Articles and Research Papers. Scope of Study: The scope of the study is limited to the studying the operations of Mahiti Rural Development Centre and its activities. The scope is also limited to studying Bhal area of Dhandhuka. Limitation of study: Two or three days visit of NGO was not possible to collect all relevant information. Time limit is also determine to conduct visit

Profile of Mahiti rural development Centre

Name of the Organization : Mahiti - Rural Development Centre Address : Regd / Head Office: At & Post: Dholera, Opp. Bhim Talav, Rahtalav Road, Tal: Dhandhuka, Dist: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Pin: 382 455, Liaison Office: G-2/1, Om Shantinagar, Nr. Shrinandnagar II, Tagore Road, Vejalpur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Pin 380 051 Contact Numbers : Dholera: 02713-234 132 / 293 071 Mobile: 095588 03901, Ahmedabad: 079-268 11003 Mobile: 095588 03902 Email : Contact Person : Establishing : Mahiti@sancharnet.in ; Mahiti.india@gmail.com Ms. Devuben K Pandya, Executive Director 9th August 1994

Vision & Mission

y Vision
Envisaging a just society without oppression, discrimination, injustice by abolishing discriminations created by unjust social structures and to improve the livings standards of exploited / marginalized sections whiles making them self reliant in Gujarat state, India

y Mission
Mahitis mission is to empower the poor discriminated and marginalized communities with focus on women to bring about concrete and sustainable changes in their lives and also to address issues of injustice through strong organizations of people and their leadership.

Governing Body (Board of Trustees)

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Devuben Pandya (Social Activist) Founding Member Managing Trustee / Executive Director, Mahiti, Dholera Nafisa Barot (Social Activist) Founding Member Executive Director, Utthan, Ahmedabad Jahnvi Andhariya (Development Professional) Sr. Program Officer, Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust, Mumbai Binoy Acharya (Development Professional) Executive Director, Unnati, Ahmedabad Laxmiben Sudarshanbhai Iyengar (Doctor of Aayurveda) Freelance Trainer (Reproductive & Child Health), Ahmedabad Vijay Parmar (Expert in Human & Institutional Development) Chief Executive Officer, Jan Vikas, Ahmedabad Rajiv Khandelwal (Master in Rural Management) Executive Director, Aajivika Bureau, Udaipur, Rajsthan

Mahiti Rural Development centre is an independent, nongovernmental, social development organization. Mahiti is working in Bhal region since 1994 Groups are organized in villages and their issues are taken on common platform. Groups from neighboring villages support social cause where as activities are supported by Two Apex Womens Cooperatives (Federation). This is visible in interventions like watershed, drinking water, social injustice, micro finance, sanitation, health etc.

Objectives of the Organization

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To empower women and youth by strengthening leadership for effective political participation and to fight against social injustice

y To develop, manage natural resources and to promote better access and

control over natural resources for the marginalized communities.

y To develop local resources to strengthen livelihood options for the

marginalized communities.
y To improve and provide civic amenities. y To improve and provide health facilities. y To mobilize women to address the issues of marginalized communities.

Condition of the Region

y Mahiti is working in Bhal region since 1994 as a grassroots NGO. The inception

and existence of Mahiti is derived out of complexities of Bhal. Mahiti is working in Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar districts of this region and have plans to expand to other districts covering more than 20,000 families in near future. The geographical, social, economic and political condition of this region is as under.


Geo-climatic condition Social condition Economic condition Political Condition

  

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Womens Savings and Credit Cooperatives Federations of Self Help Groups

To encourage women to become more financially independent, Mahiti has promoted the two womens cooperatives - Bhal Womens Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Limited in Ahmedabad district and Bhal Womens Jagruti Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Limited in Bhavnagar district - a federation of exclusively womens self help groups for easy access of communities to avail credit and avoid cumbersome banking procedures, Mahiti worked out an alternative banking system,

Activities of the Federation (Cooperative)

y Group formation and group consolidation y y y y

Review functioning of group Provide credit to groups / cooperative members on flexible repayment schedule Provide support services like insurance and audit to the members Arrange need based trainings for example legal training or training in income generating activities.

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Access large amounts of credit from external sources Act as a pressure group Provide speedy services and loans for emergency purposes Promote collective need based activities

Other Services offered by the Federation (Cooperative)

y Insurance Services y Legal Aid and Family Counseling y Conducting Training Programs

Natural Resource Management

y At Mahiti, natural resource management is an integrated concept. One that

involves work on agriculture, soil & water conservation, drinking water resources management, animal husbandry, grazing land development, social forestry etc all of which is undertaken with the communities.

Since its inception, Mahiti has been working on rehabilitating and constructing natural resources with the help of watershed committees, water committees and user groups. In view of changing scenario of climatic changes, industrial development, demarcation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Special Investment Region (SIR), emergence of irrigation projects like Kalpasar,

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Mahiti has geared up to further enhance its capacity and reach in undertaking programs on soil conservation and improvement, animal husbandry, drinking water resource management and sanitation through empowering communities via Gram Sabhas, trainings, exposures, linkages with Stakeholders. Following paragraphs describes the geographical condition of the region.

 Soil & Water Conservation  Drinking Water Resource Management & Sanitation Promotion

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Community health care

y Training Women Health Workers & Midwife

Since 1999, the efforts are being made to develop a grass root level health system and link it up with the Government managed health service delivery system. In 49 villages, village level Women Health Workers (WHWs) and Traditional Birth Attendants Dais (TBAs) are trained who are responsible for dealing with primary health care issues and safe deliveries respectively. Till the year 2009, Mahiti has so far trained 64 WHWs and 79 TBAs in 49 villages. Mahiti is also being expanding this activity of training and capacity building of WHWs and TBAs in other villages where community health program did not reached.

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Training Village Health & Sanitation Committee
y Recently another project Training and Capacity Building of 116 Village
Health & Sanitation Committees has taken up to further strengthen the existing government efforts and to take advantage of opportunities that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) presented and expand the community healthcare program in all the villages where health program do not reached. Further, Mahiti has commenced supporting the ASHAs and Health committee members in these Village Panchayats in 4 blocks of Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar district by assisting the government health service delivery system. Over 70% of the members of these committees are women and the top two issues that the Village Panchayats seek to address include women s health, safe delivery, anemia and water borne diseases.

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y HIV / AIDS Interventions

Mahiti took another initiative in 2009 and that is intervention regarding awareness creation among single male industrial migrant workers. Gujarat State AIDS Control Society, Ahmedabad had given a targeted interventions program on HIV AIDS with single male migrants coming from other states in Changodar industrial area, Sarkhej Chokdi and Sanand Chokdi (Chokdi is a Gujarati colloquial word for cross roads) areas as an implementing support agency. With this view Mahiti got involved in this work. Some Photographs of HIV AIDS Program

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Youth Empowerment and Development

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So far 30 youth groups in 30 villages have been formed. Total number of members is 1239. These youth groups have a place in their village where they have books, indoor and outdoor games equipment for games like chess, carom board, volleyball etc so as to encourage the youth to pass their free time in good constructive activities and come closer so that an atmosphere of communication created. The village youth use these centers. Some times they organize short picnics with their contribution. Mahitis efforts to bring the marginalized people in this area to mainstream remains incomplete unless the youth in the villages are not made aware and capable.

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The youth in this area has little of education or awareness and as a result they do not have much courage to raise objection to any kind of exploitation and got into clutches of moneylenders easily. Looking to this situation, Mahiti has been working for formation of youth groups and their capacity building. Mahiti also conducts various trainings to build and strengthen the Life skills of the youth in the Bhal region. These trainings enable the youth to partake in interactive discussions, to conduct presentations, to participate in team activities, build confidence and strengthen their leadership skills.

Disaster Management
To create awareness among communities with preparedness plans to cope up with disasters and to minimize the damages; Mahiti undertakes Community Based Disaster Preparedness and Management in disaster prone villages. In all the coastal villages disaster preparedness and management committees are being formed consisting of local men, women and teachers to assist people in adverse circumstances.

 Relief and Rehabilitation

Finding and suggestion

y How an NGO works and the different functions work simultaneously

for the successful attainment of objective.

y How to deal with different religion of people of villages. y How to plan and implement the programmed meant for the needy and

closely monitor it to guarantee its success.

y How to link different NGO s to fulfill the common objectives. y We have learnt that we should not unnecessarily waste the resources

available to us but should donate it to the needy.

y For the development of society, our prime goal should not be to earn

money for ourselves but also do something for the underprivileged sections of society.

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y What are the different rules and regulations to be followed while

functioning a NGO.
y The study of the NGO with management perspective is important aspect to

learn something.
y We were finding out that mahiti organization is strong working for women

development and increase standard of living.

y In most of area problem of water supply solved by planting water tank. y They proving relief fund for building small pond in nearest to farm. y Mahiti providing micro finance for women development.

Conclusion
y Today, Mahiti is the largest development of women in the Bhal region of Dholera, Dhandhuka and Bhavnagar. Mahiti conducting the various facilitates of training programmers and opportunity of alternative work to do and inspiring the different community of village people for society development and benefits. Its also increase the standard of living people in Bhal region. y By way of natural resource management mahiti solved the problems of water crisis. Mahiti has constructed more than 900 Roof-top Rainwater Harvesting Structures (tanks) which have been able to provide safe potable drinking water to more than 7000 people in the villages.

References
y www.wikipedia.org y Gujarat government official website y Government of India official website y www.google.com y www.mahiti.org