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APREGS |
Piloting the Project |
Government of
Andhra Pradesh is planning to launch the Andhra Pradesh
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (APREGS) by February
2006. Before launching the
scheme, it is proposed to conduct a pilot of the scheme.
The role of anchoring
the pilot is assigned to WASSAN through the Cluster Level Livelihoods
Resource Centre, Parigi in association with District Water
Management Agency, Ranga Reddy District.
The area selected for
the field test by piloting is Parigi mandal of Ranga Reddy district. The process of testing is
being done in the entire mandal that consists of 22 grama
panchayats covering 54 villages and hamlets in all.
The pilot project mainly comprises of awareness building,
orientation and testing of processes and formats in the
field to find out the usability and lapses of the process
and guidelines of the scheme. This includes several stages
like awareness building in the stake holders of the
programme to organizing gramsabhas to involving in the
planning of the shelf of works to making the payments under
the scheme. Along with this, various formats developed to
perform different stages of the scheme are also being
tested.
Purpose/
objective
Field Area -Time Frame
Strategy for Piloting
Outputs
Role of
WASSAN
Purpose/ objective
‘To pilot operationalisation of the scheme in one Mandal of
villages (around 22 Gram Panchayats) to test the operational
processes of the APREG Scheme as envisaged in the draft at
the village level’.
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Field Area - Time Frame
The piloting would be for a period of 3 months. The time frame
is from 15th Dec 2005 to 15th Mar 2006.
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Strategy for Piloting
While some of the inputs
are common to all villages, WASSAN would like to categorize
its inputs to three levels.
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High Level of Inputs and
Facilitation
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Average Level of Inputs
and Facilitation
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Low Level of Inputs and
Facilitation
The responses of the
communities in each scenario would be assessed and
accordingly the lessons would be crystallized. This strategy
helps to concentrate on the innovations as well as general
stream of activities within piloting.
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Outputs
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Report on lessons on the
field level processes at / below village level that feed
into the revision of the scheme under Rural Employment
Guarantee Act.
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Field tested formats and
a case example of a mandal on registration, planning
shelf-of works and works implementation plans
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Communication material
tested
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3 Modules Prepared and
field tested on fallowing themes Awareness, Planning Process
and Measurements
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Kalajathara script
prepared and field tested
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Audio cassette prepared
and field tested
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Role of WASSAN
WASSAN is primarily responsible for piloting the project
with active support and guidance from DWMA, District
Collectorate and Commissionerate of Rural Development.
WASSAN would deploy a
team for taking up necessary activities for launching the
pilot. The Anchoring Team from WASSAN consists of the 3
members. Apart from this, WASSAN would also constitute
a Project Team consisting of the following levels:
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Documentation officer
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Pilot In-charge
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Pilot Assistant
The above team has
specific role in the piloting of the scheme. This team works
with existing team (new members/ deployed by DWMA) and
facilitates the implementation of the pilot. Once this pilot
phase is completed, this role of this team ceases. So it is
very important that the DWMA team is in place as soon as
possible.
WASSAN is also contributing about 24.4% of the total budget
for piloting of the project/ scheme. This contribution is
mainly in the form of human resource deployment, meeting the
cost of training programs and other expenses (partially).
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