Education India Project #25788

Digital Empowerment of Marginalised Children

by Child Rights and You

Project Report | Oct 5, 2017
Digital Empowerment of Marginalised Children

By Nandini Nair | Project co-ordinator

Thank you for your support to Digital empowerment of Marginalised children.

Our IT division is working on many measures to ensure that our grassroots partners get familiar to technology, processes and databases they'll need to handle for implementation of the project. So that there is right paced introduction of technology to all stakeholders involved. A brief update on the status is given below

Software Development update

Currently Software is in development stage, 3 phases of development is already been delivered, feedback and change management is ongoing. Software will go on live by November , 2017

Hardware update:

Equipping CRY partners with the necessary technological requirements to be able to implement RBMS.

Under this 50 computers delivered at project offices, basic training at project offices at the time of installation was been conducted. Data entry has been started.

Training & Data Review:

CRY Monitoring & Evaluation team conducted the refresher trainings for the 42 CRY Development Supportteam member (Internal programme implementation team of CRY) on MIS tools, revisions made, and data quality control. Later, Manager-M&E and DS team together facilitated the refresher training to the 190 project staffs (Project Holders, Project Coordinators, and Data entry operators) and 568 field workers/community mobilizers (enumerators/data collection personnel) from the CRY’s entire partner NGOs for MIS tools, incorporated revisions, and process of data collections.

The collected data has been reviewed at ground by CRY team with the Partners for quality.

We are thankful for your donation, as it has helped us that much to go forward with the project and instilled a hope in us that your continued support will help us succeed.

Best Regards,

Nandini Nair

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May 8, 2017
Digital empowerment of partners

By Prithvi | Project leader

Thank you for your support to Digital empowerment of Marginalised children. We bring great news with this report.

Even though children (formerly child labour or drop outs) are going back to school, in the critical regions that CRY works in, there still lies a huge gap between them and their privileged counterparts in terms of learning opportunities. Most children in these regions have no access to technology, they are far behind and there is dire need for inducting them into digital age by exposing them to technology for the purpose of bettering their future prospects.

Digital Empowerment of Marginalised Children as a project was initiated last year and we started to reach out to donors like you. As this is a multi phased project and with support from generous donors like you we have been able to kickstart the project.

Currently, our IT division is taking up many measures to ensure that our grassroots partners get familiar to technology, processes and databases they'll need to handle for implementation of the project. So that there is right paced introduction of technology to all stakeholders involved. Oracle has partnered with CRY and awarded a grant as well for developing and implementation of Result Based Monitoring Systems. In the last year, this also helped us in purchase of 50 computers. This implementation will help measure change and demonstrate the impact of programs from the baseline levels by being accountable to children and communities on one hand and thereby informing the government/donor group about everlasting changes made by the projects.

We are thankful for your donation, as it has helped us that much to go forward with the project and instilled a hope in us that your continued support will help us succeed.

Faithfully Yours,

Prithvi

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Feb 10, 2017
Status of digital empowerment project

By Prithvi | Project Leader

Digital Empowerment of Marginalised Children as a project was initiated just a few months ago and we started to reach out donors like you. With support from you we have been able so far put in a project plan, study the number of children and dynamics of availability of children for this project.

We have reached out to professionals within CRY- Child Rights and You, met with experts in India who have already implemented similar projects and we are devising a realistic and sustainable model to have an effective program in place.

The project aims at introducing and helping children to overcome inhibitions towards technology. The project is designed such that children will access learn and get comfortable with tabs, laptops, apps and effectively engaging in games, educative programs, life skills and understanding their rights in digital environment. As the deployment will be in children's collective ( around 25 of of 6-18 year olds), children learn hands-on in interactive sessions, sharing and teaching each other.

Currently, our IT division is taking up many measures to ensure that our grassroot partners get familiar to technology, prcessess and databases they'll need to handle for implementation of the project. So that there is right paced introduction of technology to all stakeholders involved.

Coming up: On one hand we will be identifying the community workers(organisers) from the projects who will have to be trained to take the program forward effectively; these community organisers will undergo intensive training to engage and teach children. They will be the center of the project as they will also take the program to community in the future.

And on the other hand we are approaching donors such as you to help us keep the momentum as the project involves immense costs from planning to execution levels.

We are thankful for your donation, as it has helped us that much to go forward with the project and instilled a hope in us that your continued support will help us succeed.

Faithfully Yours,

Prithvi

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