Asha Trust - Right to Information and One Nation Equal Education Campaign

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Project Brief: The "Right to Information Campaign Uttar Pradesh" strives to achieve delivery of government services and resources by enablng the citizens to intervene in the implementation of schemes through awareness seeks information through RTI applications
Project Type: Community Based Interventions (description)
Primary Focus: creating resources (description)

Secondary Focus: girls

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: General Funds
Project Contacts
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Vallabh Pandey
Project Partner(s): Ankur Pariyani
Other Contacts: Padmanava Sen
Project Address: , Asha Trust,Bhandahan Kalan,Varanasi,
UTTAR PRADESH  221116
Tel: 011 91 542 261 8201
Stewarding Chapter: General Funds
Funding History
Sep 2023General FundsUSD 19523
Aug 2022General FundsUSD 19735
Jul 2021General FundsUSD 19425
Sep 2020General FundsUSD 12684
Sep 2019General FundsUSD 12442
Sep 2017General FundsUSD 9846
Apr 2013VaranasiUSD 5132
Jan 2009PhiladelphiaUSD 3969
May 2008PhiladelphiaUSD 4763
Oct 2007VaranasiINR 320204
Mar 2007VaranasiINR 254794

Total = $120053.9564

Project Description
The "Right to Information Campaign Uttar Pradesh and Bihar" strives to achieve delivery of government services and resources. The citizens intervene in the implementation of schemes through public pressure on the local government, awareness campaigns and camps for right to information applications.

Current emphasis of RTI campaign includes improvements in many government schemes and programs such as NREGA, Mid-day Meal and teacher attendance at government schools, ICDS (Baalwadis), PDS (Ration shops), and general disbursement of government funds. These goals are achieved primarily through creating and supporting public demand for implementation of these programs.

Many of these activities have grown from rural community efforts in UP and Bihar supported by multiple Asha for Education chapters.

Association for India's Development supports 20 RTI Fellows at minimal level since 2007

Mid-day Meal and ICDS Audits proposal is supported by Asha Philadelphia with Lalith Akella, Sathyanarayan Anand and Prashanth Kovvuru as project stewards.
Main goal of the effort is to mobilize numerous small community based and owned efforts around education and rights. The campaign is producing tangible results in 15 districts of eastern UP and Bihar and communities are now able to free up government resources allocated for them and improve the public services such as government schools, NREGA and PDS. Corruption levels have reduced significantly in the blocks where people participation in Right to Information campaign is strong.

Additional documentation available at these websites:

1) Vallabh Pandey Fellowship http://ashanet.org/projects/?pid=611

2) Mahesh Fellowship
http://ashanet.org/projects/?pid=619

3) RTI Campaign UP Blog
http://rtiup.blogspot.com

Project Documents
Sep 2023 Project Metrics 2023 - 2024
Aug 2023 Proposal 2023-2024
Aug 2023 Report 2022-2023
Feb 2023 Site Visit Report
Aug 2022 Proposal 2022-2023
Aug 2022 Proposal 2022-2023
Jul 2022 Annual Report 2021- 2022
Jul 2021 Proposal 2021-2022
Jun 2021 Annual Report 2020-2021
Mar 2021 Site Visit Report
Aug 2020 Annual Report 2019-2020
Aug 2020 Budget 2020-2021
Sep 2019 Detailed Yearly Budget
Sep 2019 Varanasi Chapter Details
Sep 2019 Proposal
Sep 2019 Revised proposal
Aug 2019 Site Visit Report
Nov 2017 Site Visit
Jul 2017 Proposal RTE Asha Varanasi 2017
Sep 2016 Site Visit September 2016
Dec 2010 Major Public Awareness Campaign in Dec 2010
Sep 2010 Report of May 2010 Workshop
May 2010 RTIUP Campaign Note 2010
Mar 2008 RTI Campaign UP and Bihar Questionnaire for Reports
Feb 2008 RTI Campaign UP and Bihar Progress Report 2007 - Hindi
Feb 2008 RTI Campaign UP and Bihar Report 2007 - English
Feb 2008 Budget for 2008