In his presentation at Maidan Summit 2011, Mr Dinesh Baliga voiced his views and work on the inclusion of Adivasis who are often discriminated socially. He spoke about Skillshare’s work in the area of sustainable development in partnership with communities in Africa and Asia by sharing and building skills, and facilitating organisational effectiveness and growth. He made a special mention to the ‘Hope’ programme, which uses football as a medium to bring awareness on HIV and AIDS and build bridges between people with HIV and those without. He also talked about increasing participation of girls in the programme by using sport-based activities in the community.

1. Skillshare International
December 2, 2011

2. Top three priorities under IPAP
Under the theme of empowerment of Adivasis with a special
focus on access to rights and entitlements - the following are
the top three priorities under IPAP:
- Improving HDI in the context of health and livelihood
- Create and strengthen peoples institutions
- Building social capital viz. Para legal workers, Village Health Volunteers,

3. Project Coverage
• Project Partners – 13
• States – 7 (Uttarakhand, Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Andhra
Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
• Districts – 19
• Blocks – 27
• Gram Panchayats – 53
• Villages – 242
• Total Population – 107100 (Male: 53429; Female: 53671)
• Dalit – 17995 (Male: 9119; Female: 8876)
• Adivasis – 61088 (Male: 30124; Female: 30874)
• Muslims – 2217 (Male: 1140; Female: 1077)

4. Policy Advocacy Initiatives
District & Local Level
Key issues:
• Lack of access to forest rights
• Lack of Access to NREGA
• Lack of access to basic health care services
• Lack of access to safe drinking water, resulting in child morbidity
Major Activities:
• Train community volunteers (Para legal workers) on FRA
• Facilitate formation of Forest Rights Committees
• Building capacity of Gram Sabhas
• Application for job cards under NREGA and necessary follow-up
• Advocating for proper receipt of wages

5. District & Local Level
Major Activities
• Providing training to Village Health Volunteers in primary
health care, with particular focus on maternal & new born
care
• Registration of pregnant women under JSY
• Registration of Socially excluded communities under RSBY
• Immunization
• Linking Village Health Volunteers to health departments in
respective project areas

6. District & Local Level
Process:
Strengthening civil society organizations to conduct policy
advocacy involving local community by means of building
social capital
Significant Achievements:
• 5123 households have received land-rights so far out of 8961
submitted
• 22755 households have received job cards so far and 701 families got
job of more than 90 days last year
• 1877 women so far have received the benefits of JSY
• Improvement in the status of children’s health in 5700 HHs

7. State and zonal level
Key issues:
• High level of maternal and child mortality
• Lack of State level data to track implementation of FRA/NREGA
• Lack of awareness among government officials regarding existing
schemes and programmes
Major activities:
• State level Adivasi Manch to advocate for tribal rights (particularly in
Odisha)
• Tracking implementation of FRA & NREGA (in Odisha particularly)
• Safe Motherhood Campaign (White Ribbon Alliance)
• Advocacy for Disability pension
• Advocacy for suitable access to safe drinking water

8. State & Zonal Level
Significant achievements:
• Regularity of ASHA workers at local level
• Increased number of institutional delivery
• Ensuring access to emergency medical services in remote
villages(e.g. 108 ambulance to rural areas, palanquins for
hilly/difficult to reach locations),
Challenges:
• Lack of information at State level about the problems of the
remote villagers .
• Lack of government-community interface
Lessons learned: State level advocacy should be followed by
central level lobbying for faster results.

9. National & sub-national level
Key issues:
• Non implementation of FRA, NREGA, NRHM
• Ensuring safe motherhood and child-birth
• Ensuring access to national schemes and programmes at local level.
Major activities:
• Advocacy meeting with NAC member on FRA

10. Capacity Building
• Strengthened 244 socially excluded groups (including SHGs,
Cooperatives, Child Clubs etc.) to raise voice against social exclusion
and to advocate for their own rights.
• Series of training to CBOs on PESA, FRA, NREGA, Cooperative
management etc.
• All 13 partner organizations have representations from socially
excluded communities in their Governing Body. Among them NEWS,
Trichy is established, led and managed by the representatives of
socially excluded community calle Narikuravas.
• 5 development workers placed (3 doctors, 1 nurse and 1 NTFP expert)
with CSO partners , have provided regular support towards building
capacity . Additionally we have short-term DWs to support partners in
Cooperative management , Strengthening CBOs, resource
mobilization etc.

11. MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS
Monitoring Mechanism
• Regular field visits
• Regular interactions with the community volunteers and local
leaders.
• Meeting with CBOs
• Monthly expenditure statements
• Quarterly expenditure statements and narrative reporting
• Half yearly & annual planning and review meetings with CSO – IPAP
Project Coordinators and Accountants.
• Monthly reporting by Volunteers (DWs)
• Virtual interaction with CSOs – with the CEOs, Project Coordinators
and Accountants
• Annual Stakeholder workshop where one of the main areas of focus
is Stories of Change.

12. Best practices
• Focusing on building social capitals for sustainable
development
• Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) who are mostly
women from socially excluded communities,
• Para-legal workers (PLWs), who are youth from
socially excluded communities and ensuring youth
led development
• Engaging local youth in peace building

13. Best Practices
• Facilitating interaction between partners/ SE community with
policy makers
• Giving visibility to CS partners
• Building skills of local youth to become media advocates
• Using sports to bring in social change through CFH, where
football is used to generate awareness on HIV & AIDS, leading
to behavioral and social change

14. Welcome to Koraput

15. Joint programming
Skillshare International is implementing a Joint Programme in
Koraput, Orissa with Save the children through common CSO
partner SOVA, by initiating an innovative program ‘Coaching
for Hope’ where football is used as a tool for Social Change.

16. Area 8807 sq km
Population 11,77,954
No of sub division 2
No of blocks
14
Gram Panchayats 226
Sex ratio 999
Infant Mortality Rate 72
SOVA Background: Koraput at a glance
Over 50% population is Scheduled Tribe
50.66% ST, 13.41% SC, 26% Other
84% families live below the poverty line
Literacy rate: 35.72
28th out of 30 in Orissa
81% of the population lives in rural areas
About 52% of the population districts are tribal's
72% of house holds are living below poverty line
According to a report of State AIDS control society
Orissa, “Koraput has, the largest number of HIV
infected people among the tribal districts of Orissa”.
1218 are HIV + as per ICTC reports

17. Migrant work, day labor
Growth of industries
Talking about sex is taboo
National highway hub for truck
drivers
Low literacy rate
Health seeking behaviour
Alcoholism
Low awareness level
High prevalence of TB
Lack of information
Inaccessible health services
Poverty
SOVA Background: Koraput vulnerabilities

18. • “Coaching for Hope” is an innovative initiative launched by
Skillshare International for the first time in India in SOVA ,
Koraput, Orissa in the DFID funded IPAP project under the
joint initiative with Save the Children.
“Coaching for Hope”

19. • To disseminate the
knowledge on HIV
and AIDS among
their peer groups
through foot ball.
• To develop best
football coaches
among the rural
youth.
OBJECTIVES

20. • Selection from 8
villages 15 youths
• The inauguration in
India and first time in
Koraput .
• Trained for 7 days by
international coaches
• International coach
Mr. Jacob and Mr. Dan
trained them on
football and how it
links with HIV.
•Supported with
materials and football
kit
Workshop 1: HIV/AIDS –
the facts
Workshop 2: HIV/AIDS –
transmission and
personal risk
Workshop 3: abstinence,
be faithful, condom use
what is your choice.
Workshop 4: using
condom correctly and risk
situations
Workshop 5: condom
negotiation
Workshop 6: sexually
transmitted infections
Workshop 7: HIV testing
Workshop 8: living
positively with HIV/AIDS
1
Selected
villages
level youth
Process

21. Lesson learnt
• Leadership of youth increases when they take more initiative in
implementing their own activities.
• Football being a very popular game especially among youth it is an
effective medium of spreading message on HIV and AIDS through
this game.
• Developing training materials and football kit for the participants at
village level will create interest in learning more about HIV and AIDS.
• Students who have dropped
out from school if are selected
as local coaches it would be
more effective, as they will
create more rapport in football.
• Participation of girls is not there

22. • 26 No of Workshops have been
completed in 4 villages with 4 trained
coach in which the y have
discriminated knowledge and skills on
HIV and football to 86 youths.
• 4 Youth clubs have been formed and
now they have developed their skill on
football and issues related to HIV ,
child rights and protection. And also
taking up issues related to village
development.
• Youth are mobilizing Condom from
govt. Agencies and promoted at
village level.
• The confidence level among the
trained coach have improved, now
they are participating in local event of
village and district level. Like PARAB,
debate etc.
Progress till date

23. Daitari Kuldeep
Daitari Kuldeep of Sindhipar (Amlabadi Colony) Damanjodi belongs to a
Schedule caste family and is studying +2 ARTS. He belongs to a very
poor family. Football is his passion and he love to play football.
Football is a very famous game among the youths in his area. He has
participated in a few tournaments in his local area, and has a dream
to play for India.

24. • Kuldeep is a very shy person by nature and was very shy of talking to people.
Although he had some information about HIV and AIDS, but he had never
spoken about it openly.
• After being selected for Coaching for Hope program by SOVA he was very
happy. He took the training form SOVA by international coaches about foot
techniques and how it is linked with HIV. Now his confidence has increased
and he is now capable to speak on any issues openly without any fear.
• He is now able to speak to his friends and college students about football
.Now they go to him to ask for any questions w it is easy to inform the
community about HIV and AIDS thon HIV and AIDS. His aim now is to change
the life style of the community. Norough football as football is a very
interesting game for all.
• He now wants to form a football club .
• He hopes to play for India.
• He is also developing his English speaking skills and also enhancing more skills
on control over football

25. • Presently Kuldeep is conducting the first workshop on the facts
on HIV. He has motivated a few friends and they are now
interested to know more about football techniques. He
conducted all the 8 workshops of coaching for hope program
and is also attending different events of the district like PARAB
• He is also developing a youth club in his village.

26. Karmaveer Chakra for Daitari Kudeep
• On 27th November 2011, Daitari Kuldeep was felicitated the
i-CONGO Karmaveer Chakra for his innovative ways of spreading
Awareness of HIV and AIDS in the Community through Football-
Coaching for Hope

27. Daitari Kuldeep with Karmaveer Chakra and Citation

28. Thank you.