SAHAYI-Centre for Collective Learning and Action

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To conduct capacity building program for 60 representatives from NGOs and CBOs and 60 Information Officers from different Government departments on RTI Act
4. 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
5. 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.