CAC South Asia – Evaluation Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM)
Title of Project:Community Movement Against Corruption
Project Location:20 Panchayats in SD Kote Taluk, Mysore District
Project Objectives
- Empower at least 80 youth groups and 20 dedicated youth leaders in the project area within the project period to proactively utilize provision of RTI Act to ensure reduction in corruption rate in the Public Distribution System.
- Conduct capacity building and information dissemination program about RTI Act and the Public Distribution system to at least 240 CBOs and 80 youth groups including Vigilance Committees of the PDS shops and the Social Justice Committees of the Gram Panchayats.
- To conduct capacity building program for 60 representatives from NGOs and CBOs and 60 Information Officers from different Government departments on RTI Act
- To establish Vigilance Committees in the project area within the project period and ensure monitoring of at least 40% of the Fair Price Shops in the project area
- To increase the number of RTI applications by 15% at the end of first year and by 50% at the end of project period in comparison to the beginning of the project period w.r.t the issues of PDS, Rural Infrastructure and NREGA schemes.
CAC South Asia – Evaluation Paraspara Trust (Bangaluru)
Title of Project:Addressing Corruption in Public Distribution System (PDS) by Citizen Groups- A pilot project in Bangaluru
Project Location:Urban slums in Bangaluru
Project Objectives
- To identify and build the capacities of 30 community based groups to monitor effective provision of services of 30 PDS outlets in Bangaluru
- To increase awareness among consumer and public on the issue of corruption in the PDS
- To set a model in citizen participation in PDS distribution, which reduces opportunities for corruption
CAC South Asia – Evaluation Nav Jeevan Mahila Okkoota (Prerna)
Key Project Data
Title of Project:Citizens’ Against Corruption Programme
Project Location:Raichur (Karnataka)
Project Objectives
- To increase awareness in community about rights and corruption through a Citizens Corruption Report Card with regard to NREGS, PDS, PHCS, ICDS and Gram Panchayat budgets
- To increase understanding of the use of RTI as an effective tool to combat corruption
- To expose and reduce corruption in NREG through Social Audits
- To work with Government in implementing an effective ‘Grievance Redressal System’
CAC South Asia Evaluation Center for Advocacy and Research, Bangaluru, Karnataka
Title of Project:Monitoring Government Food Schemes and Schemes for Vulnerable Women through Community Participation and Action to Create Transparent Governance
Project Location: Six slum settlements in Bangaluru
Corruption problem in PDS: Black-marketing, malpractices in distribution, malpractices in the issue of BPL cards and issue of ration cards, improper functioning of ration shop and non functioning of vigilance committees.
In ICDS: Improper quality and quantity of food served, children not being fed within the premises as stipulated by the Government, non-existence of Anganwadi Centres, development committees, lack of basic amenities at the Centre.
Social Welfare Scheme: Lack of awareness, manipulation by middlemen, political biases and influences complicated application procedures.
Project Objectives
- To consolidate the on-going efforts being made to strengthen transparency and pro-poor urban governance by Women’s Forums and Community Advocates.
- To go beyond the four settlements we are currently working in, we need to systematically network with other civil society organizations including NGO, CBO to ensure that strategies are up-scaled to make the urban bodies sensitive and accountable to the entitlements of the community.
- To strengthen mechanisms that legitimizes community participation and involvement.
CAC South Asia – Evaluation Jananeethi, Thrissur, Kerala
Title of Project:A Project to Combat Corruption in Clinical Drug Trials in Kerala
Project Location: The Central Region of the State of Kerala in India
Project Objectives
- To identify 5 human subjects who have undergone clinical drug trials from 2004 to 2008 in five medical colleges of Kerala State and to investigate about the process and its impact on them
- To explore and document the level of corruption involved during clinical drug trials of the 5 subjects through investigation, evidence-building and fact-finding for use in the courtroom; for public dissemination in the media; and as first-hand material to lobby for systemic reforms which will reduce the opportunity for corruption to occur.
- Using the evidence collected, lobby to make the Ethics Committee of the colleges truly independent (as mandated) and suggest other systemic reforms which will increase the accountability and transparency of its functionings – ensuring meetings are minuted and properly documented etc. – so that the opportunities for corruption in drug trials are reduced
- Liaising, capacity building and mobilizing other civil society groups, victims of corruption, media, academic institutions, human rights activists to join the advocacy process and form a coalition to push for changes in the drug trial process to combat systemic corruption
- To provide psycho-legal therapeutic services to the 5 victims of corrupt clinical drug trials (to be funded from Jananeethi contribution).
