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social welfare. NGOs working with these social groups, representatives from academia,activists and community leaders besides government departments – at state, district, blockand village levels were part of the consultations.Two districts and one state level workshop were organized on 13-15 September 2010 todisclose the findings of the social assessment study, the action plans on tribal inclusion andgender, and invite feedback and suggestions. The feedback of all these consultations havehelped in drafting the TDF, GAP and the overall social assessment report. Disclosure of thesocial assessment report and the tribal development framework through the website of theDepartment of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and district collector’s offices, as wellat community level is planned.Key social issues of relevance: The key findings highlighted by the study are: low levels ofhealth and education indicators, high incidence of poverty and vulnerability, fragmentedsocial capital and weak social cohesion, caste hierarchies and social discrimination, tribalmarginalization and exclusion, limited women’s rights and freedom, gender discriminationin public and private spheres, and marginalization of the poor from local self governanceprocesses.Caste and gender based discrimination; exclusion and subjugation are the most importantsocial constraints for inclusion and empowerment of the poorest. The extent of povertyamong the scheduled population groups continues to be higher than among the nonscheduled groups. The major vulnerable groups are the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes,certain OBCs. Women from these groups face multiple deprivations. Caste hierarchies anddiscrimination determine access to livelihoods and social services and infrastructure.Scheduled castes (SCs) are lowest in caste hierarchy, and the most suppressed anddiscriminated against, and Rajputs and Brahmins top the caste hierarchy in most villages. Itis not only occupations which are influenced, but also access to schools, health, drinkingwater sources and other institutions within the villages. Participation and access to otherpublic resources and institutions is very poor for SC. The SCs and STs are often unable topay monthly contributions to the SHGs. Low educational level leads to difficulty in handlingpaper work of the group. About 30% of the poorest households are not included in the BPLselection. This is because very often the APL families manage to acquire the BPL card andthey tend to join the SHGsPRI is an important institution, but poor and the poorest have limited role and say in suchbodies. The quality of participation and awareness, and the acceptability of SC and STrepresentatives is much lower compared to upper castes. Jati and tribal institutionsrepresent the elite within the groups. Community based institutions like SHGS, CIGs,women’s groups, jati panchayats and informal tribal groups are present in the projectdistricts. However, individually, these groups lack voice and the ability to accessgovernment services and agriculture and livelihood markets.Women traditionally have been excluded from financial services because they do not haverights to land or other property rights. Commonly women from weaker sections in the ruralareas are not able to pay monthly contributions to the groups, which further exclude themfrom financial inclusion. Land rights do not exist for women and so they have no access tocredit from banks and other institutions. Women do not get kisan credit cards due to bias ofbankers even in the case of women headed households. Lower caste and tribal women oftenget harassed by upper castes.pdfMachineIs a pdf writer that produces quality PDF files with ease!5Produce quality PDF files in seconds and preserve the integrity of your original documents. Compatible acrossnearly all Windows platforms, if you can print from a windows application you can use pdfMachine.Get yours now!

In an environment of lack of employment opportunities, poor health, illiteracy andexploitation by rich in the villages, women bear the brunt. Literacy rates are very low amongscheduled tribe and caste women. Women are largely anaemic and produce malnourishedchildren. Because child marriage is prevalent, the girl child is not able to get benefits ofmany schemes meant for the girl child. Bearing of children at a young age further adds tomalnourishment.The female work participation rates though increasing are still low. With an increase inpoverty, the burden of women increases. Wage discrimination also exists for women. If thefamily migrates, the burden of managing the household rests with women. Rajasthan nowhas 50 percent reservation for women in panchayats. The experience of women in PRI pointsto the poor status of women representatives in PRIs. Invariably the husband represents thewomen Sarpanch. Women have less exposure to the outside world and are les aware aboutvarious government schemes. Women are also often threatened in Rajasthan, and often faceviolence in public and private realms.Key Social Constraints and Risks: The most important risk is the risk of ‘exclusion’ of thepoorest from the participatory processes envisaged by the project. It is important to ensurethat the beneficiary identification process covers all the poor and excluded in the villages,regardless of their BPL status. There is also the risk of beneficiary identification processbeing influenced by the village elite and the dominant castes. The existing social hierarchiesare dominating and there is a risk of social elite taking over. Social discrimination may notreduce in most villages as empowerment through PRIs has not worked very well. Socialexclusion needs to be addressed, not just through SHG mobilization and financial access, butthrough land ownership and access to public resources.The key social risks relate to capturing of project processes and benefits by dominant uppercastes. There is also the risk of local indifference and possible resistance to i) interventionswhich are proactively and explicitly pro-poor and positively discriminating for the SC andST; ii) exclusively targeting, educating, mobilizing and empowering women; iii)institutionalization of the poor to advocate and demand rights and entitlements andassertiveness in local governance processes. The social inclusion mechanism, tribaldevelopment framework and gender action plan involve specific interventions respondingto these risks.Lessons from DPIP and Social Assessment incorporated in Project Design: Based on thelessons from DPIP, the social assessment study and feedback from stakeholderconsultations, a social inclusion and community mobilization component, a tribaldevelopment framework (TDF) and a gender action plan (GAP) have been prepared. Thespecific mechanisms that reflect the feedback and learning from DPIP are summarizedbelow. Poverty focused area identification based on concentration of the poor, SC and SThouseholds in the project districts.Sensitization of project staff to anticipated social risks and project mechanisms tomitigate them;Documentation of locally prioritized exclusion, gender and tribal developmentpriorities in the Area Inception Reports, Livelihood Identification Process andfinalization of implementation action plans.pdfMachineIs a pdf writer that produces quality PDF files with ease!6Produce quality PDF files in seconds and preserve the integrity of your original documents. Compatible acrossnearly all Windows platforms, if you can print from a windows application you can use pdfMachine.Get yours now!

Pre-implementation consultations, sensitization and rapport building with PRI andcommunity leaders from all social groups, specially upper caste and non poor;participatory beneficiary selection process is endorsed by the Gram Sabha forlegitimacy; consultations with government and NGOs to understand thesocioeconomic and political environment of the area;Participatory Beneficiary Selection based on social mapping and wellbeing groupingto identify the poorest households, regardless of BPL status.Promotion of social cohesion and social capital formation through PRA exercises andthe community resource persons;Saturation Coverage and Mobilization to include all identified householdsMobilization of the vulnerable social groups and social inclusion visualized as a longterm, process oriented strategy and made the core objective of the component onInstitution building and Social Empowerment.Focus on mobilizing and empowering women from SC, ST and other vulnerablegroups in community institutions, and federating them at village and area levels;Comprehensive and continuous capacity building programmes will build capacity ofthe community institutions, the PRIs and other project partners on institutional,livelihood, microcredit and a range of social development, social justice, socialaccountability and empowerment themes.Focus on promoting Bank linkages for 70% of the groupsClustering of livelihoods, marketing and value chain development will not only bethrough demand driven processes but also informed by district livelihood planningprocesses and the natural resources and markets. Nonfarm livelihoods especiallymicroenterprises linked to trading, handicraft etc will be supported.Building institutions around livelihoods. Producer Organisations are communityinstitutions that will be built around common livelihoods.The PFT and DPMU specialists on agriculture, livestock, and microenterprises willdevise household level interventions targeting the small farmers, landless, wagelabor including tribals to ensure appropriate options are presented to householdsunder the project.Overall, RRLP will identify, institutionalize and empower women from poor households,not only to participate in project components and access project benefits, but also toarticulate, negotiate and advocate their key development concerns and priorities with localgovernance structures, government agencies and the market. It represents a structuralresponse to persistent poverty and vulnerability among the SC and ST, despite severalpoverty schemes and programmes.Tribal Development Framework: The project triggers OP 4.10 on Indigenous Peoples, sincenearly all the project districts have some tribal population, and the southern Rajasthandistricts of Banswara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh, and Dungarpur are predominantly orsignificantly tribal. The TDF includes provisions for prioritized targeting of designated tribalareas; engagement of dedicated staff for TDF implementation; community disclosure ofTDF; pre-mobilization consultations with tribal communities and leaders; tribal focusedinformation campaign; tribal representation and participation in all community institutionsand their executive positions and committees; intensive technical assistance andhandholding in preparation and financing of microcredit and livelihood plans; accessibleinformation dissemination and grievance mechanisms; enga

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