Building communities capacity on micro-planning@JEEVIKA Umariya

One day training program conducted at different villages. Selected key community members have been encouraged to take part in these training programs. The most important and interesting thing is that the people introduced about the microplanning first time at the area. The people surprised after listening about the microplanning and its concept. They said "Aisa bhi hota hai kya?" The concept of microplan was totally new to them. They eagerly attended the training programs and willing to learn the process of microplanning. Some of the community members took so much interest in learning the basics of microplanning and willing to contribute in developing the microplan of their respective villages. The trainings were conducted by the Jeevika staff in different villages. The people were provided knowledge on how to develop a microplan for the village.

What is a plan? What is a microplan?

The important aspects of microplan are name of the activity, unit, quality, time, place and estimated budget. Importance of microplanning.

How to conduct the process of microplanning?

The process of microplannin was introduced to the CBMOs and other community members.

•Transect Walk. •Social Mapping •Timeline •Problem Analysis •Causal Analysis •Pairwise ranking •Seasonality Steps in microplanning-

•Collection of necessary information (data). •Situation Analysis. •Socio-economic status. •Analysis of the status of natural resources. •Problem analysis and it's prioritizing. •Analysis of obstacles and opportunities. •Deciding the activities and its proper planning. •Yearwise listing of activities. •Capacity Building. •Approval in Gram Sabha meetings. •Approved activities must be indicated on the map.

The detailed discussion took place on the above points and people are enriched in these training program. The community members came forward to initiate developing microplan for their respective village and it will be started right from the next month. The objective of these training programs was to aware the people about the planning and to encourage them to take part in the planning of development activities which takes place at the villages.