Vidya poshak
Topic taught
• Birth of Vidya Poshak
• Aim
• Operation
• Projects involved
• Future plan
Description
Mr.Raghavendra N Tikot is the founder of Vidya Poshak. The idea started in the year 2001,it is the first NGO working for the college students. In the developing economy we can see that there is a growing demand for the higher education which leads to the increase in the number of institutions. Maintaining the quality of education is a great challenge for these institutions.
The statistics of the higher education in 1960s says, around 25,000 students joins the higher education. Out of these
• 12%----->Arts
• 6%------->Comers
• 3-4%------>Science
• 78%------->Other courses
In the year 2004 5% of these graduates got employment, 20% joined to their family business, 5% joined to PG courses & the other 70% is not in the account. These loopholes of the education system give birth to the Vidya Poshak. It takes students studied in vernacular language & economically poor background, gives training to face the interview to get jobs. After negotiating with the companies & colleges Vidya Poshak arranged a campus interview in the year 2004, in which 22%of trained students got job. In 2008 140industries visited north Karnataka. They also made an arrangement for the students to get training in industries during the last 6 months of their course. Vidya Poshak made a benchmark, when 25 universities adopted this system. This is how the projects are made sustainable by Vidya Poshak.
Key points
• Addressing the youth in India.
• New hope to the students.
• Remarkable change in the education system.
• New ray of hope to the students.
• Enhancing the role of teacher.
Learning
• Felt the need in this field
• This model can be replicated easily
• Sustainability of the project by absorbing by the system itself
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Topic taught:
• An overview of health in India
• Definition of health
• National rural health management(NRHM)
• Health indicators
• Present scenario of health status of India
• Global scenario of HIV
• Reproductive and child health in India
• Major components of NRHM
• New strategies of RCH in phase II
• Accountability of health sector I India
• Current status of urban health care
• Most common medical mistakes
• Possible approaches as an individual and as a community
Module description:
Overview of health module
26/03/09
Golden Frankly
In the introduction part we learnt about the definition of health, changing concept of primary health, National health policy, NRHM, role of NGOs in developing the health status of the country.
This module gives us an idea about how the health status of India improved from post independence to present days.
We learnt the various efforts and achievements of Indian government in health sector. After independence in the year 1948, India becomes the member of WHO. In the year 1983 India Has passed her first National health policy. The objectives of these policies are “Acceptable standard of good health among the general public/population”. National rural health management is a strategy which addresses the issues related to the health improvement of quality life. Apart from such efforts health indicators of India like, Infant mortality rate (IMR), maternal mortality rate (MMR), availability of portable water and anemia is still persisting in large numbers.
Global scenario of HIV
27/03/09
Dr. Bharathraj. P. Yalagi
Doctor explained us about the origin of HIV, who named it, main causes of increase in number of HIV patients in India and world. Other things like Clinical findings, antiviral drugs and importance of counseling in treatment.
This module describes about the journey of HIV virus in human life. And what is the global and India’s status at present.
In los Angeles doctors could observe that consumption of Pentamedine in gay community is increasing notably in 1978.Reaserch shows that it is a condition where person suffers from loss of immune system, later named as HIV/AIDS in 1986.Clinical findings shows that; weight loss, oral Candida, herpes, lymph node enlargement, TB, psoriasis are most commonly seen as symptoms. In the treatment part of HIV, one should give importance for the opportunistic diseases immediately.
Reproductive and child health in India (RCH)
28/03/09
Mrs. Sujatha
We learnt about the definition of reproductive health, RCH packages, a project comes under NRHM, new strategies of RCH phase II.
This module tells us about the different projects implemented for the welfare of the families, the struggle to overcome the number of IMR and MMR in India.
Reproductive health is an ability to reproduce, regulate fertility, safe pregnancy and delivery of baby and after delivery there should not be any fear between the couples in the sexual relationship. RCH package for mother contains; registration of pregnancy before two months, two tetanus injections, iron and folic acid tablets, three times check up by ANM. New strategies of RCH phase II,
• Empower the action group
• Training of Dais
• RCH camp
• Kangaroo mother care
• Integrated management
Accountability of health sector in India
28/03/09
Dr. Chetan Jayade
We learnt about the key progress of any nation, its hierarchy, Health policy adopted in India, present status of urban health care, common errors made by a medical practioner and role at the individual and community level.
This module tells us about how policy in India leading to the corruption in the medical practioner in turn lead to the unhealthy compition in health professionals.
Key to progress of any country requires,
• Quality of life
• Development in education
• Accessibility for healthcare system
• Research and development in technology
In the present status urban health has become worse, because of unhealthy relationship between pharmacist and scan centers, specialists and junior doctors, least counseling, absence of implementation of updated technology and infrastructure and collection of unnecessary charges from patients. Some of the most common medical mistakes are,
• Leftover during surgery
• Wrong surgery
• Unnecessary tests
• Cosmic goof ups
• Not enough anesthesia
• Delayed treatment
• Unnecessary drugs
• Secondary infections
• Drug dependency
• Bad handwriting of the doctor
Thus accountability is a serious concern in all levels of health care, from education of doctors to the policy adopted. There is an urgent need of health care revolution.
Key points
It is very important to take action in checking the spread of HIV, which is life threatening and lead to the increase in the unhealthy society. Government policies should be implemented effectively.
For country like India the cultural barriers which affects in the implementation of government projects, the health workers should learn to manage effectively.
Learning
I. I came to know about many government projects in India and why it is failed.
II. I wish to have an information center where people can know about the health facilities provided by the government.
III. It will help the poor to reach the facilities and also help the government to reach the people.
• An overview of health in India
• Definition of health
• National rural health management(NRHM)
• Health indicators
• Present scenario of health status of India
• Global scenario of HIV
• Reproductive and child health in India
• Major components of NRHM
• New strategies of RCH in phase II
• Accountability of health sector I India
• Current status of urban health care
• Most common medical mistakes
• Possible approaches as an individual and as a community
Module description:
Overview of health module
26/03/09
Golden Frankly
In the introduction part we learnt about the definition of health, changing concept of primary health, National health policy, NRHM, role of NGOs in developing the health status of the country.
This module gives us an idea about how the health status of India improved from post independence to present days.
We learnt the various efforts and achievements of Indian government in health sector. After independence in the year 1948, India becomes the member of WHO. In the year 1983 India Has passed her first National health policy. The objectives of these policies are “Acceptable standard of good health among the general public/population”. National rural health management is a strategy which addresses the issues related to the health improvement of quality life. Apart from such efforts health indicators of India like, Infant mortality rate (IMR), maternal mortality rate (MMR), availability of portable water and anemia is still persisting in large numbers.
Global scenario of HIV
27/03/09
Dr. Bharathraj. P. Yalagi
Doctor explained us about the origin of HIV, who named it, main causes of increase in number of HIV patients in India and world. Other things like Clinical findings, antiviral drugs and importance of counseling in treatment.
This module describes about the journey of HIV virus in human life. And what is the global and India’s status at present.
In los Angeles doctors could observe that consumption of Pentamedine in gay community is increasing notably in 1978.Reaserch shows that it is a condition where person suffers from loss of immune system, later named as HIV/AIDS in 1986.Clinical findings shows that; weight loss, oral Candida, herpes, lymph node enlargement, TB, psoriasis are most commonly seen as symptoms. In the treatment part of HIV, one should give importance for the opportunistic diseases immediately.
Reproductive and child health in India (RCH)
28/03/09
Mrs. Sujatha
We learnt about the definition of reproductive health, RCH packages, a project comes under NRHM, new strategies of RCH phase II.
This module tells us about the different projects implemented for the welfare of the families, the struggle to overcome the number of IMR and MMR in India.
Reproductive health is an ability to reproduce, regulate fertility, safe pregnancy and delivery of baby and after delivery there should not be any fear between the couples in the sexual relationship. RCH package for mother contains; registration of pregnancy before two months, two tetanus injections, iron and folic acid tablets, three times check up by ANM. New strategies of RCH phase II,
• Empower the action group
• Training of Dais
• RCH camp
• Kangaroo mother care
• Integrated management
Accountability of health sector in India
28/03/09
Dr. Chetan Jayade
We learnt about the key progress of any nation, its hierarchy, Health policy adopted in India, present status of urban health care, common errors made by a medical practioner and role at the individual and community level.
This module tells us about how policy in India leading to the corruption in the medical practioner in turn lead to the unhealthy compition in health professionals.
Key to progress of any country requires,
• Quality of life
• Development in education
• Accessibility for healthcare system
• Research and development in technology
In the present status urban health has become worse, because of unhealthy relationship between pharmacist and scan centers, specialists and junior doctors, least counseling, absence of implementation of updated technology and infrastructure and collection of unnecessary charges from patients. Some of the most common medical mistakes are,
• Leftover during surgery
• Wrong surgery
• Unnecessary tests
• Cosmic goof ups
• Not enough anesthesia
• Delayed treatment
• Unnecessary drugs
• Secondary infections
• Drug dependency
• Bad handwriting of the doctor
Thus accountability is a serious concern in all levels of health care, from education of doctors to the policy adopted. There is an urgent need of health care revolution.
Key points
It is very important to take action in checking the spread of HIV, which is life threatening and lead to the increase in the unhealthy society. Government policies should be implemented effectively.
For country like India the cultural barriers which affects in the implementation of government projects, the health workers should learn to manage effectively.
Learning
I. I came to know about many government projects in India and why it is failed.
II. I wish to have an information center where people can know about the health facilities provided by the government.
III. It will help the poor to reach the facilities and also help the government to reach the people.
Gender module
Topic taught
• Definition
• Role of gender in society
• Impact of gender
• Where do we learn gender?
• Normative of gender
• Effect of gender on female
• How to avoid gender bias
• Status of women in different countries
Module description
Miss. Shahina
Here we discussed about the differentiation between words like, gender, sex, equity, equality etc,. A small questionnaire helped us for clarification. We learnt how gender enters in routine life of everybody. Practice of the usage of gender has become so normal that a conscious and sincere effort is required to avoid it.
Module gives us an idea that how gender had became a burning issue, though it was made by human, only for the identification of role of different sex in the society.
*Gender refers to the array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviors, values, relative power and influence that society ascribes to the sexes on a differential biases. Whereas sex refers to the biological characteristics which define human as male or female.
Gender impact on,
• Our actions
• Behavior
• Thoughts
• Dreams/Ambitions
Many times gender determines our oppression level, choices, access, control and resources. Many normative like chairman, mankind, and”men at work” show how these words are used from years in the favor of one sex. The subconscious feed of this can be overcome by seeing everything by waring the gender lens like,
• To see what is otherwise not visible
• To not to fix the gender binary
• To determine the discrimination
• To acknowledge oppression
• To be able to take action against it.
Key points
Here we can see how the power given to one gender leading to the oppression of the other. Examples like, rape of dalit women, female infanticide, deaths due to dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment in working area, honor killing etc,. We can see such issues more in Muslim countries. Domestic violence is seen in the developed countries like US and Sweden.
Learning
I. After understanding the global scenario of female in society, made me to think more about how I can contribute to solve this problem.
II. I wish to encourage female employees to my organization.
III. Wish to give some special facilities for female employees.
IV. Wish to raise my voice whenever I see the oppression.
• Definition
• Role of gender in society
• Impact of gender
• Where do we learn gender?
• Normative of gender
• Effect of gender on female
• How to avoid gender bias
• Status of women in different countries
Module description
Miss. Shahina
Here we discussed about the differentiation between words like, gender, sex, equity, equality etc,. A small questionnaire helped us for clarification. We learnt how gender enters in routine life of everybody. Practice of the usage of gender has become so normal that a conscious and sincere effort is required to avoid it.
Module gives us an idea that how gender had became a burning issue, though it was made by human, only for the identification of role of different sex in the society.
*Gender refers to the array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviors, values, relative power and influence that society ascribes to the sexes on a differential biases. Whereas sex refers to the biological characteristics which define human as male or female.
Gender impact on,
• Our actions
• Behavior
• Thoughts
• Dreams/Ambitions
Many times gender determines our oppression level, choices, access, control and resources. Many normative like chairman, mankind, and”men at work” show how these words are used from years in the favor of one sex. The subconscious feed of this can be overcome by seeing everything by waring the gender lens like,
• To see what is otherwise not visible
• To not to fix the gender binary
• To determine the discrimination
• To acknowledge oppression
• To be able to take action against it.
Key points
Here we can see how the power given to one gender leading to the oppression of the other. Examples like, rape of dalit women, female infanticide, deaths due to dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment in working area, honor killing etc,. We can see such issues more in Muslim countries. Domestic violence is seen in the developed countries like US and Sweden.
Learning
I. After understanding the global scenario of female in society, made me to think more about how I can contribute to solve this problem.
II. I wish to encourage female employees to my organization.
III. Wish to give some special facilities for female employees.
IV. Wish to raise my voice whenever I see the oppression.
Agriculture module
Resource persons: Mr. Srikanth, Mr. Pattanashetti, Mr. S.L. Desai and Miss Sangeetha
Date: 12/03/09
The AME foundation has been working to promote ecological agriculture for the past 27years. Mr. Srikanth has been working in the AME foundation for the past two years. He briefed us about the agriculture scenario of India. His briefing included the history of agriculture, ranking of different food grains of India. He explained about the agricultural scenario of Karnataka. Technological developments like mechanization, major and minor irrigations, use of chemicals (like pesticides, fertilizers), hybrid seeds and greenhouse cultivation are leading farming towards enterprise.
The video shown gave us an idea of the impact of the practice of conventional agriculture on the environment, natural resources, health, economy and various components of life. The use of conventional agriculture is a lose-lose situation. Due to the Green Revolution, production of food increased, but in the long run we lost many things, like internal support systems that were associated with traditional agriculture. A research study says that vegetables grown in India contain 20 times more pesticide residue than the standard limits. Even mothers’ milk contains these hazardous chemicals. Many farmers commit suicide because of the heavy debt taken by the money lenders that the farmers were not able to repay. This is pushing a number of families into a very bad position. Kasargud town in Kerala reveals another tragic story of these slow poisons; many children are born with disabilities and some become disabled in the later stages of life. This extreme pain made people in this village think and move toward organic farming.
Mr. Pattanashetti gave a presentation on how to reach the unreached families. We learnt that out of the total agricultural land not more than 30 percentage can be irrigated. A proportion of the agricultural land will remain rain-fed. This brings us to an important juncture of addressing the issue of non-irrigated land.
There are five categories of the farmers.
1. Innovators-5percentage(elite farmers)
2. Early adopters-15percentage(non elite formers)
3. Early majority-50 percentage(non elite formers)
4. Late majority-25 percentage(non elite formers)
5. Non adopters-5 percentage(non elite formers)
Support is necessary for these non elite farmers to recognize available subsidies, government policies, importance of indigenous technologies and the complexity of handling externalities such as forward linkages and backward linkages. Indian government need to develop some simple approaches for the above-mentioned challenges.
Mr. S.L. Desai presented about the evolution of agriculture. Mainly we learnt about
• Agriculture before the Green Revolution
• Conventional agriculture
• Surplus farming
• Market formation
• Commercial farming
• Fall-outs
Climate change is another important subject covered by Mr. Srikanth. The origin of this is mainly due to human activities. This will have more effect on the Asian population as this continent has more population. No single solution can solve this problem, so a series of integrated work is to be done
• Use of clean, effective resources
• Crop diversification
• Use of renewable energy
“We have not inherited the earth from our fore fathers
We have barrowed it from our children!”(AME Power point presentation on 12/04/09)
Date: 13/03/09
The session started with a video that contains information about the farmers in Bellary and Chitradurga. These farmers grow groundnut as their main crop. Earlier they used to grow using conventional technology, which leads to heavy debts by money lenders and low yield. After the intervention of AME they slowly changed the way of farming, and now it is a farmer-friendly process. Farmers are getting not only a good yield, but they now understand the need of organic farming. Miss Sangeetha explained about Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA), which is a step toward organic farming using modern and indigenous technology, which generates a basket of options to the farmer by a participatory approach. LEISA targets both small and marginal farmers, especially in the dry-land agriculture. It is an intermediate approach that is a blend of both intensive and organic farming with natural resource management and utilization. It aims to improve and stabilize productivity by decreasing the production cost and its impact on the environment, soil, water and biodiversity. The major problems faced here are:
• Moisture stress during the crop growth stage
• Shallow soil depth and poor fertility
• Monocropping
LEISA focuses on farming five major aspects of farming:
1. Water conservation
2. Improvement of soil fertility
3. Biomass
4. Cropping system
5. IGAs
LEISA empowers the farmer by providing the technology, building the capacity, using the participatory approach of Farmers Field School (FFS), sharing experiences and conducting outreach activities.
This session was followed by the video session, which concentrated on the seed conservation activities by the Green Foundation.
By 3:00 in the afternoon we left for the field visit to Inam Veerapura and Kurdikeri. In Inam Veerapura we saw models of some of the important aspects in farming:
• Effect of growing plants across the slopes
• Moisture-holding capacity of good soil
• Integrated farming
• Nadep* composting
• Enrichment of farm yard manure(FYM)
• Preparation of urea locally
• Strategies to differentiate good vermicompost
• Testing viability of seeds
• Seed treatment
• Preparation of herbal insecticides
• Azolla growing
After this we went to the field in Kurdikeri. Here we learnt more about Agro Ecosystem Analysis (AESA). The practical knowledge that we gained by doing it with the farmer was really interesting and enriching. The group dynamic games we played made us friendlier with everybody in the group.
Date: 13/03/09
The day started with the rules for the debate we were going to do with Mr. Srikanth. We assembled in the mini seminar hall. When debate started, participants were subdued but, later everybody participated actively. For the final sharing we again assembled in the training hall. Here all the resource persons gave their comments on our debate. The resource persons stated that both the teams had a good source of information and good preparedness. It was announced that Industrial economy team got higher marks than the rural economy group.
Mr. Srinkanth enriched us by sharing his knowledge about integrated farming systems and livestock. The session ended with feedback on the module by all the fellows.
My learnings from this module
• Difficulties in dry land agriculture
• Alternatives for the conventional agriculture system
• Threatening hazards of pesticides
• Vision of AME Foundation
• Importance of Farmers Field School
Date: 12/03/09
The AME foundation has been working to promote ecological agriculture for the past 27years. Mr. Srikanth has been working in the AME foundation for the past two years. He briefed us about the agriculture scenario of India. His briefing included the history of agriculture, ranking of different food grains of India. He explained about the agricultural scenario of Karnataka. Technological developments like mechanization, major and minor irrigations, use of chemicals (like pesticides, fertilizers), hybrid seeds and greenhouse cultivation are leading farming towards enterprise.
The video shown gave us an idea of the impact of the practice of conventional agriculture on the environment, natural resources, health, economy and various components of life. The use of conventional agriculture is a lose-lose situation. Due to the Green Revolution, production of food increased, but in the long run we lost many things, like internal support systems that were associated with traditional agriculture. A research study says that vegetables grown in India contain 20 times more pesticide residue than the standard limits. Even mothers’ milk contains these hazardous chemicals. Many farmers commit suicide because of the heavy debt taken by the money lenders that the farmers were not able to repay. This is pushing a number of families into a very bad position. Kasargud town in Kerala reveals another tragic story of these slow poisons; many children are born with disabilities and some become disabled in the later stages of life. This extreme pain made people in this village think and move toward organic farming.
Mr. Pattanashetti gave a presentation on how to reach the unreached families. We learnt that out of the total agricultural land not more than 30 percentage can be irrigated. A proportion of the agricultural land will remain rain-fed. This brings us to an important juncture of addressing the issue of non-irrigated land.
There are five categories of the farmers.
1. Innovators-5percentage(elite farmers)
2. Early adopters-15percentage(non elite formers)
3. Early majority-50 percentage(non elite formers)
4. Late majority-25 percentage(non elite formers)
5. Non adopters-5 percentage(non elite formers)
Support is necessary for these non elite farmers to recognize available subsidies, government policies, importance of indigenous technologies and the complexity of handling externalities such as forward linkages and backward linkages. Indian government need to develop some simple approaches for the above-mentioned challenges.
Mr. S.L. Desai presented about the evolution of agriculture. Mainly we learnt about
• Agriculture before the Green Revolution
• Conventional agriculture
• Surplus farming
• Market formation
• Commercial farming
• Fall-outs
Climate change is another important subject covered by Mr. Srikanth. The origin of this is mainly due to human activities. This will have more effect on the Asian population as this continent has more population. No single solution can solve this problem, so a series of integrated work is to be done
• Use of clean, effective resources
• Crop diversification
• Use of renewable energy
“We have not inherited the earth from our fore fathers
We have barrowed it from our children!”(AME Power point presentation on 12/04/09)
Date: 13/03/09
The session started with a video that contains information about the farmers in Bellary and Chitradurga. These farmers grow groundnut as their main crop. Earlier they used to grow using conventional technology, which leads to heavy debts by money lenders and low yield. After the intervention of AME they slowly changed the way of farming, and now it is a farmer-friendly process. Farmers are getting not only a good yield, but they now understand the need of organic farming. Miss Sangeetha explained about Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA), which is a step toward organic farming using modern and indigenous technology, which generates a basket of options to the farmer by a participatory approach. LEISA targets both small and marginal farmers, especially in the dry-land agriculture. It is an intermediate approach that is a blend of both intensive and organic farming with natural resource management and utilization. It aims to improve and stabilize productivity by decreasing the production cost and its impact on the environment, soil, water and biodiversity. The major problems faced here are:
• Moisture stress during the crop growth stage
• Shallow soil depth and poor fertility
• Monocropping
LEISA focuses on farming five major aspects of farming:
1. Water conservation
2. Improvement of soil fertility
3. Biomass
4. Cropping system
5. IGAs
LEISA empowers the farmer by providing the technology, building the capacity, using the participatory approach of Farmers Field School (FFS), sharing experiences and conducting outreach activities.
This session was followed by the video session, which concentrated on the seed conservation activities by the Green Foundation.
By 3:00 in the afternoon we left for the field visit to Inam Veerapura and Kurdikeri. In Inam Veerapura we saw models of some of the important aspects in farming:
• Effect of growing plants across the slopes
• Moisture-holding capacity of good soil
• Integrated farming
• Nadep* composting
• Enrichment of farm yard manure(FYM)
• Preparation of urea locally
• Strategies to differentiate good vermicompost
• Testing viability of seeds
• Seed treatment
• Preparation of herbal insecticides
• Azolla growing
After this we went to the field in Kurdikeri. Here we learnt more about Agro Ecosystem Analysis (AESA). The practical knowledge that we gained by doing it with the farmer was really interesting and enriching. The group dynamic games we played made us friendlier with everybody in the group.
Date: 13/03/09
The day started with the rules for the debate we were going to do with Mr. Srikanth. We assembled in the mini seminar hall. When debate started, participants were subdued but, later everybody participated actively. For the final sharing we again assembled in the training hall. Here all the resource persons gave their comments on our debate. The resource persons stated that both the teams had a good source of information and good preparedness. It was announced that Industrial economy team got higher marks than the rural economy group.
Mr. Srinkanth enriched us by sharing his knowledge about integrated farming systems and livestock. The session ended with feedback on the module by all the fellows.
My learnings from this module
• Difficulties in dry land agriculture
• Alternatives for the conventional agriculture system
• Threatening hazards of pesticides
• Vision of AME Foundation
• Importance of Farmers Field School
Logical frame analysis(LFA)
23-25 March 09
Topic taught
In LFA module the following topics were taught.
• Definition
• Requirement
• LFA writing
• Stages in LFA
1. Vertical logic
2. Horizontal logic
3. Bottom up logic
Module description
This module explains the use of LFA during the preparation of project proposal and also tells how LFA is useful in checking the progress of the project.LFA is an important tool to help while designing the project and allows to think logically about the purpose, outputs, activities and goal. It is usually in a single page and in the form of tabular column. LFA is the requirement of the donor /funding agencies not the project designer. LFA represents the whole project in the form of a production unit, by explaining the inputs (activities), outputs (expected results) and probable risks (assumptions).It also contains indicates at various levels of the projects which acts as quality assurance process.
Resource person: Mr. Prakash Bhatt
LFA is required to
• Analyse the existing situation
• Establish a logical hierarchy
• Identify the potential risks
• Monitor and review activities
There are three stages in LFA:
• Stage one-Vertical logic
• Stage two¬-Horizontal logic
• Stage three-Bottom up logic
Vertical logic
Goal: It is an ultimate result for which the project is contributing.
Purpose: The desired effect expected as the impact of the project.
Outputs: A list of particulars needed to achieve the purpose.
Activities: Lead to output. There may be many activities for one output.
Input: Done only when it is required; may include a summary of the project budget.
Horizontal logic provokes us to think about
• Measuring the impact of activities
• Indicators
• Information
• Obstacles in the project
• Impact of the obstacle on the project
Types of indicators
• Process indicators: Used during the project to see the growth.
• Impact indicators: Used after the completion of the project to see the impact.
• Direct indicators: Measures the result of the project directly.
• Indirect indicators: Measures some components of the result that indicates the success of the project.
Bottom-up logic tells about assumptions which are external factors, whose occurrence leads to the failure of the project, ex. natural calamities, political status of the project area, economic status of the project area, etc.
Key points
LFA is not a project proposal itself; it is a part of the project proposal. It is a tool for,
• Planning
• Managing
• Developing
LFA can be adopted and adapted while planning of the project.
In vertical logic, when each components are defined a clear picture of the project can be seen.
In horizontal logic, measurement of the activities in terms of quantity, quality and time will be specified. This also tells about the means of verification for checking all these measures.
In bottom up logic, assumptions are made on the project on which the success of the project is depending upon.
Leanings
• I wish to write LFA for my project.
• I wish to include some direct and indirect indicators which help me to understand the competitors.
• I came to know how important the assumptions are.
• I wish to work out on important assumption which will be of great help in the success of the project.
Topic taught
In LFA module the following topics were taught.
• Definition
• Requirement
• LFA writing
• Stages in LFA
1. Vertical logic
2. Horizontal logic
3. Bottom up logic
Module description
This module explains the use of LFA during the preparation of project proposal and also tells how LFA is useful in checking the progress of the project.LFA is an important tool to help while designing the project and allows to think logically about the purpose, outputs, activities and goal. It is usually in a single page and in the form of tabular column. LFA is the requirement of the donor /funding agencies not the project designer. LFA represents the whole project in the form of a production unit, by explaining the inputs (activities), outputs (expected results) and probable risks (assumptions).It also contains indicates at various levels of the projects which acts as quality assurance process.
Resource person: Mr. Prakash Bhatt
LFA is required to
• Analyse the existing situation
• Establish a logical hierarchy
• Identify the potential risks
• Monitor and review activities
There are three stages in LFA:
• Stage one-Vertical logic
• Stage two¬-Horizontal logic
• Stage three-Bottom up logic
Vertical logic
Goal: It is an ultimate result for which the project is contributing.
Purpose: The desired effect expected as the impact of the project.
Outputs: A list of particulars needed to achieve the purpose.
Activities: Lead to output. There may be many activities for one output.
Input: Done only when it is required; may include a summary of the project budget.
Horizontal logic provokes us to think about
• Measuring the impact of activities
• Indicators
• Information
• Obstacles in the project
• Impact of the obstacle on the project
Types of indicators
• Process indicators: Used during the project to see the growth.
• Impact indicators: Used after the completion of the project to see the impact.
• Direct indicators: Measures the result of the project directly.
• Indirect indicators: Measures some components of the result that indicates the success of the project.
Bottom-up logic tells about assumptions which are external factors, whose occurrence leads to the failure of the project, ex. natural calamities, political status of the project area, economic status of the project area, etc.
Key points
LFA is not a project proposal itself; it is a part of the project proposal. It is a tool for,
• Planning
• Managing
• Developing
LFA can be adopted and adapted while planning of the project.
In vertical logic, when each components are defined a clear picture of the project can be seen.
In horizontal logic, measurement of the activities in terms of quantity, quality and time will be specified. This also tells about the means of verification for checking all these measures.
In bottom up logic, assumptions are made on the project on which the success of the project is depending upon.
Leanings
• I wish to write LFA for my project.
• I wish to include some direct and indirect indicators which help me to understand the competitors.
• I came to know how important the assumptions are.
• I wish to work out on important assumption which will be of great help in the success of the project.
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