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ANNUAL REPORT 2023-24 TRANSFORM RURAL INDIA

• Formal Arrangements with State Governments: step-by-step process of uploading GPDP on TRI Climate Action Engagement
Established Strategy and Programme the e-Gram Swaraj portal and Meri
Management Units (SPMU) with State Panchayati Panchayat app. Created suggestive booklets
Raj Departments (DoPR) in Chhattisgarh, Bihar, and leaflets on SDG themes endorsed by
Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand whereas MoPR.
partnership arrangement with Uttar Pradesh
Panchayati Raj department. SPMU support with • Decentralized Planning and
Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) Assam. Demonstrations: Active experimentation
Teams have been placed in Jharkhand and with grassroot level decentralised planning
Chhattisgarh Health Departments, working with helped us contextualising the framework led
WCD and SRLM for integrating PRI and by Locality Compacts (PRI-CBO-LA) and get
health-related activities. Formal notifications it institutionalised at various levels including
have been issued for the engagement of SHGs in national and state government levels. This
the GPDP Process and the integration of health in process re-engineering resulted in high
GPDP in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. ownership of community and established it
as a tool for deliberation and joint
• Engagement with State Institutes for Rural assessment towards benefits and budget
Development: Conducted the Advanced realisations. Further, this year, we facilitated
Program on Locality Development (APLD) in thematic GPDP plans with a special focus on
Assam for SIRD faculty members to share health across demonstration blocks. Trained
learning from project activities and develop over 10,000 people, developed Master
cadre of Master Trainers. On the same pattern, Trainers, and created a cadre of
training programs have been conducted for knowledgeable individuals across Madhya
faculty members of Bihar, Chhattisgarh on Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Bihar.
various thematic aspects. Reviewed and Trained 2500 ASHA workers in Jharkhand on
supported the redesign of training modules for integrating Village Health Plans (VHP) and
PRI members. GPDP. Expanded the analysis of GPDP plan
quality to 153 GPs across 66 blocks in 61
• Digital Training Platform Development: districts spanning 24 states in 2023-24.
Developed self-paced certified courses for PRIs, In 2023, TRI started a flagship initiative in of 80 billion litres of water. To support the
hosted on the Ministry of Panchayati Raj’s digital • Expert consultations around strengthening Chhattisgarh on demonstrating sustainable water initiative, the TRI teams in the district and blocks
training portal. Created the Learning Panchayati Raj: TRI orchestrated high level security models through NREGA and NRLM have done intensive Natural Resource
Management System (LMS) tool in collaboration consultations with experts and senior Convergence: covering 5 districts and 5 blocks of Management planning in selected villages
with MoPR. Published video-based materials on officials to strengthen Panchayati Raj the state. This initiative aims at creating a scalable integrating GIS based systems. These systems to
GPDP preparation and LSDGs themes. Developed provisions by identifying key provision that model for addressing livelihoods for the poor by be further scaled up in the coming year for
and uploaded a digital module on the requires review and further deliberations. ensuring water security. The proposed project integrated planning and building state capacities
Three such consultations were done in aims at facilitating government investments to to utilise these sources for improved efficiency
Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and significantly improve ground water and and delivery of the program.
Chhattisgarh respectively and discussion community wellbeing + goals. In the water
paper prepared to have larger consultations conservation solution sector, the plan for FY In the clean energy sector, FY24, the initiative
around this. 2023-24 successfully targeted 200 villages for successfully maintained its geographical
water harvesting and conservation, achieving a coverage across one district while expanding its
water potential of 12.42 billion litres. This effort is reach to three blocks and encompassing 37
• TRI local governance cases presented at set to expand in FY 2024-25 with a goal to hamlets. The electrification efforts were
National Level: Learning from TRI encompass 300 villages and increase the water substantial, with 1,601 households benefiting from
intervention areas around ‘Good potential to 25 billion litres. The scale-up initiative power access, positively impacting 6,721 lives.
Governance’ and ‘Healthy Panchayat’ has ambitiously taken on 1500 villages for Natural This was facilitated through a notable increase in
initiative been presented in National Resource Management (NRM) planning focusing solar infrastructure, with a total solar capacity of
Workshops organized by Ministry of on water security, with a projected conservation 378.23 kWp installed during the year.
Panchayati Raj (MoPR)

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