Field visit and monitoring work

Field visit and monitoring work

Place –Ampara district

            Batticoloa District

Date -16,17/01/13

Women headed families meeting

-Date-16/01/2013

-Participation details 

No	Village name	Participation and comments	WHF  village meetings
01	Kannagipuram 01	06	They have started village group but not active continuously
02	Kannagipuram 02	09	They have started village group but not active continuously
03	Thiraikeni	07	They have started small group in the village .Five small group formed 03 month back and start saving among the groups.
04	Winayagapuram [Palakauda ]	06	Not group formed yet

Actions for the future

*To strengthen the groups in each village

*Collect the information in each village and build the system to up date the information

*Prepare the livelihood projects for the each village.

*To keep the all the minuets in each meetings.

*To start the common WHF forum meeting once a month.

Focus group discussion

Date -16/01/2013

Ampara District 

No	Village name	Participation	Village activities
01	Kannagipuram 01	02	They started village meeting but not continuously conduct the meetings.
02	Kannagipuram 02	08	They started village meeting but not continuously conduct the meetings.
03	Thiraikeni	05	They conduct the monthly meetings and they involved the village activities and fight for their rights.
04	Winayagapuram [Palakauda ]	03	They started village meeting but not continuously conduct the meetings.

Main issues that village FGD team involved.

-Land issue

- To get the livelihood from the Authorities.

-To get the drinking water and housing project

Out come of the meeting

-They build the regional committee

New leaders

President – S.Magendran- Thiraikeni

Vice president –S.Vanitha-Kannagipuram 01

Secretary -I.Janitha- Winayagapuram[Palakuda ]

Vice secretary-P.Puwaneshwari- Kannagipuram 02

Treasure-K.Kogulan- Kannagipuram 02

-They discussed actions plan for   each village

*To strengthen the village level FGD and keep the minutes properly.

*To prepare the 03 month action plan for each village and regional committee.

Comments -

*Although they have formed the Regional committee that was not continuously activated.

*They did not have any minuets in their groups meetings.

*Field officers not facilitates properly.

Focus group discussion

Date - 17/01/2013

Batticolloa District

No	Village name	Participation	Group  saving	Village  group situation
01	Kapawelli[ M-  04 F- 22 FG members in village level]	M- 05 F-11	Rs .6400 .00	They started village meeting but not continuously conduct the meetings. They participate the Gandi citizen forum.
02	Urugamam [ M-  04 F-36 FG members in village level]	M-  01 F-03	Rs .1660.00	They started village meeting but not continuously conduct the meetings. They involved village common activities and Discuss with the GS and other officers of their problems.
03	Kithtuil[ M-  04 F-36 FG members in village level]	M- 01 F-05	Rs .1200.00	They conduct the monthly meetings and they involved the village activities and fight fro the right.
04	Thunpalachchole[ M-  02 F-23 FG members in village level]	M- 01 F-04	Rs .3000.00	They started village meeting. They have discussed with authorities for their disappearance husbands. Conduct the media briefing.
05	Valikakandi [ M-  05 F-25FG members in village level]	M- 04  F-01	No	They have reformed their earlier rural development society which was registers in DS office of Chancalladi. They have discussed with DS on the flood damages but authorities escape with people issues .So they plan to send the petitions to the president.

Decisions that they have taken after the discussion

No	Action	Responsibility	Time frame
01	To open the Account for the GANDI Citizen committee.	Syelwer kumar, President, Treasure and Secretary	First week of February  2013
02	To strengthen the village level FGD and keep the minutes properly.	Village level leaders and Field officer	End of the February  2013
03	To give the permanent membership	Office  bearers of GANDI  Citizen committee and Field officer Syelwer kumara	End of the February  2013
04	To build the main comities, drafting of the constitution   and prepare action plan for the year *Economic development comity. *Education comity.[Children and youth ] * Advocacy and campaign   comity including environmental protection.   *Women development comity.	Syelwer Kumara ,Subremaniam,Saraswathi,Sebastian, Wadiwal,Pumagi  and Wallipulai	End of the February  2013
04	To build the WHF forum	Syelwer Kumara and group leaders in each village	March 2013
05	Exposure visit	Syelwer kumara	March 2013

Case study

My name is Sebastian lived in Kapaveli. I am 69 years. I am driver. Last month I transported five village people to the NAFSO training center for year evaluation. I participated as diver .In that meeting I also joint   now and then for the common sessions. I got feeling that people should organized and awareness themselves. In the same time I also change my attitude that I also should get the membership from the Kopaweli group. Although I am diver I also faced all the problems that Kopaweli people faced .So when I went to the village I discussed with leaders and I joint the Village group. Now I am member of the group and I give my fully support for the team.  I thank NAFSO team and GANDI forum.

Monitoring team

*priyankara costa

*A.Jesudasan

*Lavina Hasanthi