RELIEF AND REHABILITATION AFFECTED BY COVID 19

PROGRESS REPORT OF KARMI IN COVID-19 PROGRAMME IN KALAHANDI

Considering the spread of COVID 19, our organization KARMI has been submitted the Project Relief and Re habitation Affected by COVID 19 to GlobalGiving and undertaken a programme in Kalahandi district of Odisha. KARMI undertakes the programme like welfare packages in locally relevant sectors, schemes and programs. This needs facilitated to access ongoing social protection schemes and programmes including the welfare package announced by the central and state government to cope with ongoing COVID crisis. It also supported creating  the  community cadre at the block level, to  awareness of the various social protection schemes, Building capacities and supporting the frontline workers and PRI functionaries, Technical support to local administration especially the Gram Panchayat and the Block in accelerating the opening of MGNREGA works with proper preventive measures and, increase uptake of work and Create awareness  on  social  distancing  and  other  preventive measures  for COVID 19 among the various target groups. KARMI focusing on MGNREGA works in 3 blocks of Kalahandi and Nuapada districts with the support of Govt. of Odisha through DRDA Kalahandi and Nuapada.

By undertaken the project KARMI focus on the Activities as :

                  I.   Strengthening community access to Social Protection benefits: Creating a community cadre at the block level, to engage with the influx of migrant workers and other vulnerable households in the identified blocks. The developed rural cadres  and they are the main service  provider on   health, education, public distribution system etc. during the COVID period.  They generates strong awareness among communities regarding access to social protection schemes and programmes including the COVID welfare package as well as health safety measures and covered about 1500 families and 75000 people during the 1^st phase of the programme.

                II.   Capacity Building of frontline workers: During the COVID period  thefrontline  workers are mostly ICDS workers, ASHAs, Panchayat (PRI) Secretaries, Ward members, Sarpanchs who are critical in response to COVID -19 have been trained and play  stakeholders role with  best knowledge on attitudes and behaviors of their communities and are most vested in containing and preventing COVID cases. They are critical stakeholders in the process of addressing challenges associated with COVID -19. It is therefore very important to engage with them and increase their knowledge on the responds to COVID cases.

               III.   Support to the Panchayati Raj Institutions and local administration: Following the above approach the PI will conduct the capacities of the PRI institutions in the identified geographies to analyze the trend of pandemic spread in a specific area and develop readiness plans (at incremental levels) for infection prevention and quarantine facilities preparedness at Gram Panchayat level. The focus will be on number of cases , tracing COVID cases and identifying probable cases, addressing the village level and panchayat level initiatives that need to be carry out and how to link to state responses.

              IV.   Strengthening decentralized governance structures to link communities with social protection benefits: The PI will Coordinate and support local administration especially the Gram Panchayat and the Block in accelerating the opening and uptake of MGNREGA works with proper preventive measures. The PI will give specific focus for uptake of works by the most vulnerable groups like migrants household, women headed households, SC/STs, etc. This will be based on the data base that will be evolved through this engagement. The PI will provide technical support to district/block administration in providing authentic information about the decisions of the central, state government and local administration on implementation of MGNREA. Further, coordinate with the government institutions to identify and reach out to the left over beneficiaries of other social protections to accelerate delivery of the benefits. .

Monitoring and Evaluation

KARMI during the reporting period focus on linkage with Govt. entitlements, provide apocopate employment opportunity through MGNREGS, and ensure safe migration and livelihood securities of the migrant workers in the operational area. We provide 80500 Mondays works to the migrants workers during the reporting period.