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>View discussions about this entry Country: India
Organization: Bhartiya Kisan Sangh
Sector Focus - Other
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2002
Project URL: http://www.atsecjharkhand.org
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - From a rights based perspective BKS provides a ‘holistic action Network’ against trafficking from prevention to advocacy, rescue operations, rehabilitation and community repatriation in Jharkand.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - BKS managed to combine every stages in the struggle against trafficking into a ‘holistic action Network’ approach;
• prevention, • advocacy, • rescue operations, • rehabilitation and • community repatriation. Every step is managed by BKS together with network partners and communities. Ensuring that the best skills and experiences are applied in every unique action stage. By our presence in every action stage against trafficking and child labour we are able to accelerate our effort into the next stage and beyond. See action model below. Furthermore, BKS innovated the rehabilitation stage with the introduction of a intensive rehabilitation programme for survivors of trafficking. This innovation ensure that the children are able to make their own choices in life after their traumatic experiences. This includes that many ex-rehabs or employed by BKS to strengthen their professional skills and to rehabilitate others; (barefoot system). Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - We deliver by programming and coordination of our network partners:
• Prevention: For establishing education institutes for migrating children we work with local field NGO’s who are familiar with the communities and specialized in education; • Advocacy: For advocacy we work together with the ATSEC; • Rescuing: For Rescuing exploited children we work with AtSEC; • Rehabilitation and repatriation: For rehabilitation (education, healthcare, protection, counseling) we work with rehabilitated teachers/wardens and our own counselors and local partner NGO. How do you plan to grow your innovation? - BKS applies a three tier growth plan: Firstly, BKS will frequently collect scientific information on the issues of trafficking and child labour. Second, BKS will continuing to advocate the needs of migrating children and woman. Thirdly, BKS stay focused on the quality of the network partners and facilitations.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - Existing partnerships:
• ATSEC (Action against Trafficking and sexual exploitation of Children) • UNICEF • UNIFEM • CRS (Catholic Relief Service) • BBA (Bachapan Bachao Andolan) • UNODC (United Nations Office Drugs and Crimes) • Jharkhand Child Welfare Counsil (Life member) • Global Education Campaign • National Coalition on Education • Specialized Field NGO’s • Government of Jharkhand Child rights is the main argument for BKS to create partnership. We work along with a large variety of NGO’s that have one thing in common and that is the right based approach. Children have the right of education, home, freedom end play! Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - A chanceful future, away form trafficking and child labour, and a smile on the faces of children.
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - BKS served over 2000 children.
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation? - BKS activities are published approx 175 times in 9 Indian newspapers in 2007.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - Beneficiaries are the migrating children is Jharkhand. Especially, children from:
• Scheduled tribes • Scheduled casts • Other Backward Communities. How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - Financial means or derived from:
• Public Private Partnership • Individual donations • Community made merchandise (e.g. greeting cards, candles and clothing) • Own resources (e.g. home grown vegetables) If known, provide information on your finances and organization - Annual budget;
Annual revenue generated; Number of staff: Additional Financial information • Annual budget: $ 162.000 • Annual revenue generated: $ 23.000 • Number of staff (3 boxes: full-time, part-time, volunteers) Staff What is the potential demand for your innovation? - The potential demand for our approach is huge. It is common knowledge that trafficking and child labour is related to migration. From our Child labour study we have learned that in 7 districts of Jharkhand only, about 23,000 children under 14 years are working in households. The children face physical, chemical, biological and Psychological hazards. A combined approach is necessary to fight against this deep routed crimes.
Among all interventions there is a increasing pressure on rehabilitation/ Shelter homes. After the last child labour rescue operations (april 2008) 184 child labourers were rescued. The state government sent these children back to their villages without adopting a long term rehabilitation plan. In absence of proper care the children are again vulnerable to trafficking and child labour. What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - Our major barriers to financial sustainability
• Last minute withdrawal of funding agencies • No funding agencies for rehabilitation (E.g. shelter home, counseling ect.) • Small grants (e.g. Rs. 500 per child in shelter p.m homes) What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - BKS was formed to address the concerns of the farmer community in India. The primary objective was to educate, and empower the underprivileged farmer community of Eastern India to achieve self-sufficiency in farming. While working towards this, the organisation had studied the migration pattern due to disguised employment pattern in farming sector and the related vulnerabilities that women and children face in their operational villages. The shift took place in 1998, when the organisation initiated a holistic programme to address the vulnerabilities of women and children. From then onwards, BKS has spread out their work into several programmes. In 2002 BKS became the state Chapter of ATSEC in Jharkhand and started to mainstream all programmes in a ‘Holistic action Network’. The last stage of the network is completed in 2003 with the innovation of Shelter Homes (Kishori Niketan) to rehabilitate survivors of trafficking.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material - My motivation to do something for the deprived people in my home state goes back to the day I was helping my father, principal of a tribal school, with reading for the children. I observed the difficulties of the communities where these children belong to. From that day I decided to become activist and fight against inequality in Jharkhand.
Since that day I worked for many years with tribal communities to improve their quality of live. The most shocking experience of my work was the every day struggle of children in a extremely hazardous environment. As director of BKS I have the opportunity to design an approach to help these children; protect them from trafficking and child labour and prepare them to a chanceful future. I am determent to bring happiness to children in deprived situation. Contact Information:
Sanjay Kumar Mishra
Executive Director Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (NGO) wgrimminck@yahoo.com bksranchi@gmail.com India Tel: +916512511000 Website: www.atsecjharkhand.org Discussions about this entry |
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Hello Sanjay,
It looks like you are having a big impact with your work. I'm interested in learning more about how your initiative is financed. You mention some diverse methods of financing - partnerships, donations, merchandise, vegetables, etc. Could you be more specific about the amount and/or the percentage of funds that these methods provide for your work? It would be great to see some data. For example, how much money do you make from growing vegetables? How much do you make from community made merchandise?
Lastly, what makes your organization stand out from others that are working in the field. How are you addressing trafficking differently? What is innovative about your work?
Thank you
Best,
Dana Frasz
Ashoka's Changemakers
Reply to question 1: How is it financed?
The first part of our model ‘prevention’ is funded by Jharkhand Educational Project Counsel (JEPC). JEPC funds Net Schools for Hard to reach children or children from migrating parents. These children are most at risk to trafficking.
The second part of de model Advocacy and Rescue operations or funded by ATSEC India.
The last part of the model Rehabilitation is funded by small ad hoc donations and grants and secondly by financial means derived from own resources (e.g. home grown vegetables and merchandise)
The total amount of money available for 2006/7 was 6 lakhs. The contribution of own resources from BKS fund was approx. 2,5 lakh! The BKS fund is generated by
A) Commercial Courses provided by ex-rehab warden and teachers to other wardens and teachers in Jharkand. (Rs. 35.000)
B) Vegetable growth in the gardens for own food supply, maintained by children of Kishori Nikatan (Rs. 40.000)
C) Membership fees from local communities (Rs 1.5 lakh)
D) Children of Kishori Niketan are making greeting cards, candles and cloth as a fun activity and for development of skills. These items are sold during trade fairs by BKS staff. (R.s 25.000)
These earnings are for education, clothing and food and other necessaries for the survivors at Kishori Niketan.
Reply to question 2: How does BKS outstand other organizations
BKS was the first NGO to identify ‘Trafficking’ in Jharkhand as a major problem (1998). Following BKS took initiative to sensitize and train governmental officials in combating trafficking. From that point BKS took management responsibility of all actions against trafficking under their umbrella, including prevention trough education, advocacy trough workshops, rescue operations, rehabilitation trough shelter homes and community repatriation trough counseling. Implementation the actions BKS includes all stakeholders in society; Government, national NGO’s, field NGO’s, community/religious leaders, teachers and even rehabilitated survivors. So, in a state of Jharkhand where the trafficking rates are among the highest of India BKS managed introduce a comprehensive model to combat trafficking that includes horizontal and vertical partner system that boost synergy to higher levels.
Within this holistic approach BKS introduced a new concept of shelter homes. Its concept is innovative because,
• It is run by survivors who understand the problem better then anybody else;
• It has an open system that enables survivors to get in contact with the communities to develop life skills;
• Children are involved indecision making at their shelter homes
• The shelter homes are one of a few in Jharkhand
• BKS established the shelter home to convince the government the need for rehabilitation.