This is a long-term programme supported by Johnson & Johnson Ltd. and implemented by SCS in seven states of India namely, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat and West Bengal. The program is specifically aimed at promoting the importance of personal health and sanitation, especially menstruation hygiene amongst the school going adolescent girls. Purpose of this program is to orient adolescent girls on the issues like gender, menstruation, anaemia, right age of marriage, nutrition, teenage pregnancy etc. Local level female volunteers are identified and trained by the SCS’s resource persons, who then discuss these issues with the girls, under a healthy and friendly environment.
SCS has reached out to more than 1.5 Million school going adolescent girls since 2005.
SCS has been instrumental in documentation of a status report on ‘Human Trafficking’ in Uttar Pradesh, this report is based on desk review of secondary data. UNICEF Lucknow had commissioned this assignment to SCS for assessing the current situation of Human Trafficking especially child trafficking, scope of work included identification of major trafficking routes with regards to UP, analyze and illustrate state plans of action/policy development initiatives, initiatives undertaken by various stakeholders, etc.
SCS has been instrumental in collating all the relevant information duly made available by UPSACS and its Technical Support Unit (TSU) in the form of an Annual Report. This task of developing Annual report for UPSACS was duly supported by USAID funded Family Health International's Project Samarth.
Prior to moving towards an ambitious phase of ICDS IV, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India commissioned a study to assess the impact of ICDS III, so as to identify the gaps and built upon the lessons learnt during implementation of current phase.
It was an assignment to assess the reach, recall and quality of the UNICEF's radio program broadcasted through All India Radio's all 12transmission channels across UP and MP (Bundelkhand).
Conducted a survey of Education for All program through a participatory approach, whereas structured interviews and FGDs were conducted with teachers and community members residing under catchment area of 21 primary schools and upper primary schools. It was done with an objective to assess quality of the education program focusing on Teaching Learning including a detailed mention of whether there is multi-grade/multilevel teaching, classroom organisation, teaching methods used, teaching learning materials used, tools used for assessment, nature of assignments- class work & home work given, recapitulation methods used, if technology has been used, any innovative teaching learning method/ material used , practices for punishment & reward etc.
SCS in partnership with AED-ARTS, LLC, a subsidiary of the Academy for Educational Development in partnership with a consortium of organizations is implementing DAZT project to reduce and rationally manage childhood diarrhea. DAZT aims to reduce morbidity and mortality related to diarrheal disease amongst children less than 5 years of age. The project aims to increase child survival in India, and contribute to improved child health outcomes and provide actionable information for diarrhea treatment and dehydration management efforts around the world. SCS is implementing this project in collaboration with Impact partners in Social Development. The project area is all 12 Tahsils of Bareilly and Budaun Districts of Uttar Pradesh.
SCS has been associated with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), UNICEF, WaterAid and other renowned social sector organization for execution of several assignments. Some of the major assignments are “Stories of change from watershed development programme” of Rajasthan, Documentation of several workshops & conferences, multilingual translation of training manual, reports, documents etc. These documents have also been published and widely distributed for cross learning.
SCS is the coordinating agency for Leadership Development Programs of Institute of International Education (IIE) for organising programs across the country (India) in selected regions especially Bihar & Jharkhand.
SCS is the host agency in UP for the internship programme of Knowledge community for children in India (KCCI). SCS has hosted and facilitated a team of National and International interns for documenting impact of two different programmes of UNICEF in UP, which are Village Planning of Lalitpur District & Adolescent girls’ education Program of Barabanki District. SCS also facilitated these interns for preparing two case-studies and a 10 minutes Documentary film, titled ‘Weapons of the Weak’: Empowering people through self-help.
SCS is the host agency in UP for the internship program of Knowledge Community for Children in India (KCCI), a UNICEF initiative. SCS has hosted and facilitated a team of National and International interns for documenting impact of two different programs of UNICEF in UP, which are Village Planning of Lalitpur District & Adolescent girls’ education Program of Barabanki District. SCS also facilitated these interns for preparing two case-studies and a 10 minutes Documentary film, titled ‘Weapons of the Weak’: Empowering people through self – help. The resource persons from SCS provide supportive supervision to interns in process documentation. The Knowledge Community on Children in India is a partnership between UNICEF and the Government of India which aims to fill knowledge gaps and promote information-sharing on policies and programmes related to children in India. The KCCI Internship Programme aims at developing a cadre of young research and development professionals with interest, commitment and skills relating to child rights. In 2007 SCS hosted a team of four interns and supported them (two associate consultants of the organization provided mentoring support) in undertaking a study in Barabanki district on the issue of girl child education. This case study examined the progress made in girls’ education in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district under Girls’ Education Project (GEP).
SCS had instrumental role in managing the Central Intervention Unit (CIU), a helpline for NGOs and community in UP during Panchayat level elections in 2005. The CIU acted as the bridge between the state election commission and NGOs. CIU counselled and guided candidates and NGOs in cases where irregularities and election related crimes were reported. This assignment was jointly funded by Action Aid, CRS, DFID and CASA.
Mapping and analysis of Child trafficking in U.P.
Don Bosco Ashalayam in collaboration with renowned civil society organizations of Lucknow and with support from UNICEF Office of Uttar Pradesh organized a one day event on 2nd October 2005 titled “Bal Sammelan” to celebrate the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Bal Sammelan served as a forum to disseminate information about dangers of HIV/AIDS, methods of prevention and protection and its impact. SCS provided documentation support to capture the key events organized during the day long activities with a special focus on capturing the joy, learning and experiences of both the organizers and participants.
The purpose of this documentation exercise was to take into account the experience and lessons learnt while implementing and facilitating the INHP III ,(A flagship program of CARE India focussing women and children in joint collaboration with ICDS) at various levels over the project life.
Rapid Assessment of Women SHGs in U.P.
SCS has conducted a rapid assessment of SHGs in UP including their financial status, bank linkages, status of enterprise and impact on social issues. SHGs covered, were promoted by NGOs, government agencies and departments and NABARD. This study was supported by the Department of Planning, Government of U.P. and UNICEF, Lucknow.
SCS had been commissioned to shortlist the NGOs based on a minimum eligibility criteria fixed by WSSO and the grade the duly qualified NGOs on a mutually agreed grading criteria format.
These assignments were undertaken to assess the environmental and social aspect of the impacts of these projects on the community, environment, and livestock in advance so as to minimize the negative impacts.
The organization has conducted a study in Uttar Pradesh to understand the phenomena of social exclusion in the context of ‘Water and Sanitation’. The objective of the study included contextualizing exclusion, discrimination & inclusion, understanding extent, factors & dynamics, mapping of the most vulnerable/ excluded groups and identifying alternatives for reducing disparities. This study was carried out for WaterAid in all four regions of Uttar Pradesh namely, Eastern, Western, Central and Bundelkhand.
A joint intervention was initiated by the Department of Labour, Government of UP and Unicef to improve the situation of working children in Jalesar. The project focused on promotion of community based institutions (SHGs), augmenting their capacities so that they could opt for other sources of livelihood and sensitizing sectoral departments on the need for a convergent approach targeting at risk families and their children. SCS did a trend analysis of this project, which was focussed on: results achieved, challenges faced, and lessons learnt in course of the implementation process. The focus was also given to come up with recommendation for future course of action in terms of structure and synergy to achieve optimal results.
SCS is the coordinating agency for Institute of International Education (IIE) for organising workshops across the country (India) in selected regions.
SCS is the key facilitator for organizing workshops for Department of Planning and UNICEF.