The project will use new technologies to make a campaign, visualization and awareness against gender violence. Tribal and Dalit Women will understand that the role of women in making the district and state to be powerful only through equal gender participation and by avoiding violence against women; in order to uproot a cultural pattern of legitimization of violence against women within and outside the communities achieving recognition of the existence and enforcement of human rights to which indigenous women and dalits against violence and higher particpation of women in local governance
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
koraput
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
SHED will be working with the Kondh tribal and dalit women of Koraput district in Odisha where SHED is involved. These tribal and dalit women are being controlled by their men. The project will visualize the bad habits , but also show many community practices to prevent and eliminate violence against women, the transmission of knowledge such as Government measures to promote women's role and quota for their posts in important local Governance positions, identity and culture. Women in the area, though elected for important posts like Sarpanch, Naik sarpanch etc, are not allowed by their men to exercise their authorities in that governance instead they are beaten to allow men to function in their wife's role to exercise all authority. They are not familiar in computer and internet facility.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Dr Mark Gnanasigamony as a trainer along with Alpheus Danson as videographer will be involved in this. Women will be organized and trained by Kalavati, Anita Dhal, Saudamini Majhi, Para Muska, Nado Hikoka who could successfully function in local Governance.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Panchayati Raj is the third tier of Governance in India and women's quota in different power positions in it is well defined. Many women in this State particularly tribal and Dalit women do not understand the importance of their direct involvement in this Governance system. Instead they surrender to their husband and father when violence was exercised on them to remain just as a signatory alone while the men folk actually run the show for their own gains. These women who are elected to rule became slaves to their husbands and suffer physical and mental agony. These tribal and dalit women are mostly having only the basic education and do not have outside exposures. The success stories happening around as well as legal education and training makes them to come out of this shell.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
INDIENHILFE EV, HERRSCHING, Germany had been partnered with SHED in making the women folk to come out of their shell. Women activists of the area are also involved in promoting women's empowerment in Panchayati Raj system by having coalition with SHED. Other Non Governmental Organizations, Integrated Child development Scheme officials, Social Welfare department of Government are also interested to get involved in this project.
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
Twenty One women tribal and dalit leaders will be trained on the rights of women, digital video, photography and participate in all stages of the project training, development of script, participation in the development of video and presentation. The video documentary will be in native language and to be translated for uploading in the web for sharing with the global audience. The content will also be recorded on DVD. This will be projected through bigger screens to women in the rural areas of the district where there is no internet and also serve as a training material.
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
Through training workshops SHED expects the tribal and dalit women will learn about the digital photography, basics of editing digital audio and video, and share these capabilities through the Internet through social networking sites like you tube and Face book. Women social organizations working in the area need the expertise women to bring out the regular local violence situations and lack of awareness among the grass root level lesser educated and innocent women. For this this sort of documentary is needed due to local dialect and language among tribal women of the area is only kui while State language is Odia which is not understood by many women. Women will be trained in the basics of visual language, digital photography, making script and active participation in documentary video.
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
The workshops will be conducted in SHED's training hall at Toyaput where we have three computers with 100Mbps speed, dial up connection. All the computers are equipped for training and for transmission of loaded data in the required wesites
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
SHED is well versed with the community and its problems as it has been there for the last seven years. It has its infrastructures and local village youth who are trained by SHED for their involvement in education and community problems. They will also get involved in this project.We know the political, social and cultural situation of the sector and its potential challenges to achieve their rights
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
Resistance of local leaders area against the organization to strengthen women's capabilities and in women's rights in the audiovisual language basics, digital photography, making script and active participation in the documentary video. Men of the area want to make women always surrendering to their power and so they will not allow the women to participate in this program. We will overcome this by motivating the village level animators who were trained by SHED for other development programs in the villages.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
Technical Reports, Periodic report about the progress in project implementation will measure the indicators of achievement. Participatory evaluations will be carried out with the presence of local authorities, indigenous authorities and other the NGOs
Final Evaluation. At project completion further assessment will be made to identify effects and impacts based on the proposed objectives and results.
Systematization. Complementary systematization of experience recovering conduct lessons learned and good practices
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
Project activities and schedule will be as follows:
1. Procurement of equipment: Camcorder, May 2014
2. Presentation of the project to local authorities in May 2014
3. Planning activities with leaders for different training events in June 2014
4. Training workshops. July 2014
5. Training workshops. July 2014
6. Script development workshops and schedule departure for taking pictures. August and September 2014
7. Editing video documentary. September and October 2014
8. Presentation and dissemination of the documentary video November and December. 2014
9. Project evaluation. December 2014
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
Purchase video and photo camera Canon $ 1,100
Planning and coordination meetings $ 100
Training workshops $ 700 (Material, food of participants)
Trainer costs $ 400
Food, tickets, transportation 10 days- $ 300
Editing jobs $ 200
TOTAL $ 2800
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
We will seek local and Government funds
Contact name
mrs ALICE G MONY
Organization
SHED- Society for Health, Education and Development
