CHILASA VISIT TO AHM NGO

During FGD at Avaloor village 

During welcome ceremony 

Discussion with Mr.James 

 

During Welcome ceremony

Ready to cook Mrs.Hemalatha shop

Sayathali Fathima pappad unit

FIELD VISIT AFTER FGD IN KANCHEEPURAM

VERMI COMPOST UNIT AT AVALOOR

SAYATHALI FATHIMA PAPPAD UNIT

READY TO COOK UNIT HEMAMALINI

ORGANIC MANURE FOR CULTIVATION

VEGETABLE FROM THE FARM LAND

FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION - FGD

FGD BANNER 

DISTRICT SALES AND MARKETING MANAGER (DSMS) , WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

CHILASA INDIA  INTRODUCTION 

FGD SESSION 1

MR.JAMES CHILASA INDIA SESSION 

DIRECTOR WITH FGD PARTICIPANTS 

PROJECT OFFICER WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION  IN THE FGD SESSION

DSMS AND PO IN THE STALL

Resource Mobilization for ‘Young NGOs’

Are you willing to ‘fight for a cause’ and bring a change in the society? Do you wish to open a new NGO, start it from the scratch, but don’t know where to begin with the planning and how to mobilize resources? Then here are some suggestions that might help you to start and sustain an NGO.

Before starting an NGO, you should formulate realistic goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, and time-bound. Strong words ‘Ending Violence Against Women’ may sound good on your NGO mugs and t-shirts, but they are pointless unless you have a realistic plan of action to solve the problem. Therefore, conceptualization is really important. It involves prioritizing the issues that your NGO wants to address, and identify the mission and objective.

For a new NGO, mobilization of local resources, and contribution from within the local community to assist the implementation of a project or program can be very helpful. The organization can take both financial and non-financial contributions from community members, local institutions, business firms, government, etc. Use of local resources is a key to the sustainability of the organization.

Raising funds in a strategic manner is another important aspect that can help in sustaining the NGO. But before learning the techniques of fundraising, one must understand the changes in the fund raising scenario.

At present, most NGOs in the country are dependent on foreign funding and government funding. According to a report by British paper, The Guardian, figures compiled by the Indian government show that the US is the top donor nation to Indian NGOs, followed by Britain and Germany. The paper said, ‘in the year ending in March 2011, the most recent period for which data is available, about 22,000 NGOs received a total of more than 2 billion dollars from abroad, of which 650 million dollars came from the US.’ However, it should be noted that foreign fund flows to India have reduced as the country witnessed significant growth in economy. Now, NGOs in India are not solely dependent on International donor agencies as the Government has started taking initiatives to provide significant support to NGOs, to further the country's development goals.

Enthusiastic ‘newbies’ must understand that running an NGO is not so easy and it needs much more than just good intentions to keep it running. Before starting your own NGO it is advisable to work with a similar organization to gain some experience. It would be eaiser for you to set up an NGO if you get exposure to the different sectors of a non-profit sector, including fieldwork, fundraising, administration, balancing budgets, writing proposals etc. ‘Testing the waters’ can also play a crucial role in mobilizing resources more effectively.

NGOs can be very effective if they are accountable to beneficiaries- the people your NGO aims to help. An NGO can lose or gain the trust of its beneficiaries in many ways, and one of the best ways to win their trust could be involving beneficiaries in the decision making process. The organization should try to establish systems which can guarantee that financial resources are managed properly and used efficiently.

It can be useful for an NGO to build a good relationship with the stakeholders. All your dealings with donors and programmes for beneficiaries should build up their confidence in your organization. You can do so by describing them your plan to use funds, outcomes of your projects, and most important – providing an accurate and honest result of the work done by your NGO.

In a bid to sustain your NGO and mobilize resources, you must give your best efforts in building networks. Build ties with people and firms that do similar kind of work and learn from their experiences. Stay connected with donors, stakeholders, institutes with help of social networking sites like LinkedIN, Facebook etc. Most importantly, build your own website that can help you stay connected, attract potential donors and volunteers, and help you spread the goal of your organization.

Careful mobilization of available resources could be a key to successful establishment of your NGO. No matter what challenges you face, you can accomplish more when you have more resources and people supporting your goal and objectives.

By: Isha Sharma

Reference:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/11/india-crackdown-foreign-funded-ngos

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FINAL AGREEMENT WITH CHILASA AND AHM NGO

Post discussion before agreement

Final agreement with CHILASA and AHM NGO Team

Dear friends and well wishers of AHM NGO!

Greetings! We are delighted to share with all of you that we make an agreement with Switzerland venture philanthropic company called CHILASA !. Now we are going to develop a tool and base line survey for Below poverty line (BPL )familie's and their Socio -Economic development  in Kacheepuram district. 

We are happy to announce that  this is the first time in India  of this kind of initiative. Once we finished this tool then we move forward to identification of potential social entrepreneur then Training and launching of impact investment business model.

This pilot project will identifies lot social entrepreneur and as well as Angel Investors like CHILASA. We thank all of you and your support!

Thanks and regards 

AHM NGO public relation team

The IFMR - Centre for Microfinance -University of California SAN DIEGO- AHM NGO Research Study on youth skill

Dear friends and well wishers of AHM NGO

The research team has visited AHM NGO SGSY(Govt.Scheme) youth and women skill training. Participatory evaluation and implementation process has been assessed. Lets wait for the new updates.

AHM NGO publication team

 

Loyola college vettavalam – Minutes of the meeting

Date : 19.07.2013 and 20.07.2013

Place: Loyola College, Vettavalam , Tiruvannamalai

Participants: 1. Dr.Eujene Muthu , Head of the Department(HOD), BBA division

2. Mr.Arockia Raj, Programme Director, AHM NGO

3. Miss.Vedanayagi, Director, Thendral Movement

4. Prof.Surendar, senior grade

5.Prof.Ananda Raj

6.Prof.Stanley

7.Prof.Vijayaraj

Session  - 1

Moderator : Mr.Arockia raj, Program Director , AHM NGO

                                                                                                        

Orientation about the project: The present problem and opportunities in the village has been discussed in the meetings. Some of the main points are village economy, Women Self Help group (SHGs), Below poverty line (BPL), Social enterprise, rural youth employment, Village panchayath, village panchayath poverty reduction programmes , MNREGA and Agriculture.  

The professors gave excellent points in the discussion, some of them are

   The village youths migrated to urban and semi urban areas

2.    The village food and agricultural security turn down like ever before.

3.    Self Help Group concept has their limitations.

4.     MNREGA work reduces the agricultural labors and other social welfare activities.

5.    Rural youth employment and their livelihood opportunities are decreasing.

6.     The village panchyayath and the NGOs has to take care about social enterprise.

7.    The village people have to create more local jobs.

8.     The BPL list in the village has to review through field visit.

Conclusion:

The team identifies the problem and opportunities in the village. The moderator explains, what is the importance of selection of social enterprise and entrepreneur?. The team understood objective of the  AHM NGO – CHILASA business plan.

Session  - 2

Moderators: Dr.Eujene Muthu, HOD, Department of BBA,Loyola College , Vettavalam in Tiruvannamalai, Miss.Vedanayagi, M.S.W., Director, Thendral Movement, Vellore

 

  

Selection of social enterprise and entrepreneur:

Dr.Eujene Muthu and Miss Veda explain, what is the necessary of criteria to select social enterprise and entrepreneur?.The moderators explain the success of social enterprise is based on selection and monitoring mechanism. The discussion is based on the first session, the problem and solutions in the village. So the team gave the following activities are more important to select social entrepreneur. From those activities the team has to frame the selection criteria tool and Monitoring and evaluation tool.

Selection of social entrepreneur

1.    We can make use of group identification organization like village president, SHGs, NGOs and  youth clubs

2.    Age of the entrepreneur

3.    The business model is socially and environmental friendly model (Education , Health, food, agri and livelihoods)

4.    Business plan should be  social innovation and inclusion

5.    Weather the enterprise is registered body and Insured

6.    Individual or cooperative model

7.    Ability ,vision and mission of the social entrepreneur

8.     Credibility and sustainability

9.    Date of establishment of the enterprise

10.  No of employees in the enterprise

11.  The enterprise must have bank account and bank transaction

12.  The enterprise must have maintain records like sales , order and Daily account

13.  Size of the family , Widow, Destitute and physically challenged

The team members explain before get in to the selection tool and monitoring tool the above points to be considered.  We should move towards the rural community to evaluate what is happening in the viable social enterprise. So field visit is essential before selection.

Monitoring tool for social enterprise

1. Monthly report

2. Bank transaction

3. Audit report

4. Local job creation

5. Profit and loss account

6. Asset creation

7. Reinvestment from the net profit

8. Visible changes in the family

9. More branches in different villages

10. Loan repayment schedule

The following major  points are  came from the team members.

Conclusion :

With this selection criteria and monitoring tool inputs, the core team will sit together and frame the selection criteria and monitoring tool.

Session  - 3

The core team for selection and monitoring tool

S.No	Name of the person	Educational qualification	Contact number	Remarks
1.	Miss.Indumathy, President AHM NGO, In-charge web admin, Tiruvannamalai.	M.C.A.,B.Ed.	9445206581
2.	Miss.Vedanayagi, Director , Thendral Movement, Vellore.	M.S.W	9443037394
3.	Mr.Charles, Treasurer AHM NGO, Kancheepuram.	M.S.W.,M.A.,B.Ed.	9159044507
4.	Dr.Eugine Muthu, Finance Director, HOD, Loyola college, Tiruvannamalai.	Doctorate in women SHG in Madurai Area,	9443501027
5.	Mr.Arockia raj, Programme Director , AHM NGO,Kancheepuram	M.A.,D.O.A	9443596715
6.	Mr.Rupesh Menan, Vice Chairman, Govt. of Rajasthan Skill Development corporation, Jaipoor.	M.B.A	09461443307

Conclusion:

We include more people from different categories because we want to create an effective selection and monitoring tool so that we can implement the project as per the CHILASA’s vision and mission. When we include academic institution, we can give and get more accurate case studies, datas and results.The selection and monitoring tool will ready in the stipulated time. Based on this tools we can frame the curriculum for the EDP training. The tool will be designed on objective type and the entire question will carry marks. So one entrepreneur score more marks, he will be selected as a successful social entrepreneur.  We thank all the team members for their wonderful help and support to design this task as success as possible. Thank you very much!