OUR PROGRAMMES - Thematic Areas
1. National Forum on Action and Convergence
"Advocacy, Knowledge Sharing and Capacity enhancement for Good Governance Practices"
NANAK has set up a platform for promoting convergence action as an approach towards good governance. This is fostered through a programme called National Forum for Action on Convergence (NFAC).The programme has been initiated with a vision to make governance of social development programs and welfare schemes more effective and result oriented by institutionalizing convergence and enhancing participatory processes/ norms, and building capability and leadership at multiple levels. This is a resource platform that has emerged out of previous and ongoing initiatives aiming to strengthen convergence for social inclusion and gender justice. This initiative has brought together different stakeholders (experts, serving and retired civil servants, civil society organizations) to share experiences based on research, ground level actions to inform policy and bring useful insights for effective implementation and reach of government programs and services. It is also a platform for generating better understanding and fostering collective action on critical issues and emerging priorities such as sustainable livelihoods, violence against women, sanitation, financial inclusion and governance of social development programs and welfare schemes.
2. Education
"Promoting Value Based Quality Education"
NANAK supports value based quality education primarily in rural area of Bihar for children of low income families. Dr. Radhika Raman Public School is a Flagship Initiative in Rural Education with a hub and spoke approach covering a cluster of villages in Sasaram in Bihar. This school supported by NANAK is committed to providing quality education and infrastructure to all children in the region and has adopted an innovative approach to education by combining computer education, audio-visual learning with the use of projectors and the teaching of values and morals in addition to the standard course curriculum to prepare a more skilled, responsible, and compassionate future generation for the nation.The organization also identifies girls from low income families who need financial support to continue their higher education and gives them mentoring support for higher education. One such recent successes has been getting 11 girls from very low income family enrolled in Engineering college in Bihar with fee waiver and part sponsorship from NANAK.
3. Women’s Empowerment
NANAK has set up a number of women empowerment centres in Bihar and UP to provide vocational training, awareness on health, hygiene and nutrition, legal literacy, counseling, collectivize women in Self Help Groups and build their capacities for income earning opportunities. The trainers help women from the disadvantaged community to collectively manufacture products and facilitate their marketing through participation in fairs and exhibitions.One of the pioneering initiatives at Rohtas district, Bihar has been the training and facilitation of women led SHGs into making hygienically produced, local nutritious food item of 'Sattu' packed in a professional manner. Through such enterprise women are trained to use their local skills and knowledge into income augmentation activities through which they can be economically empowered. This has also ushered in social empowerment of women in the region since the women SHGs are also taking up various social issues in a collective manner, such as anti-alcoholism, promoting the education of girl child, raising voice against domestic violence etc. Women from low income groups are trained in account keeping, branding, communication, pricing, customer interface etc by giving them exposure to exhibitions and fairs. Women from rural areas are provided rare opportunity to get first-hand experience in entrepreneurial development by exposure visit held from time to time.Self-defense training for women and girls has also been promoted for women and girls for enhancing safety and self-protection for the target area.
NANAK has partnered with PHD Chamber of Commerce Family Welfare Foundation to support its pioneering programme called ‘ChaloGaon Ki Ore’ which a holistic model of empowerment through women as key drivers of the change
NANAK has set up a number of women empowerment centres in Bihar and UP to provide vocational training, awareness on health, hygiene and nutrition, legal literacy, counseling, collectivize women in Self Help Groups and build their capacities for income earning opportunities. The trainers help women from the disadvantaged community to collectively manufacture products and facilitate their marketing through participation in fairs and exhibitions.One of the pioneering initiatives at Rohtas district, Bihar has been the training and facilitation of women led SHGs into making hygienically produced, local nutritious food item of 'Sattu' packed in a professional manner. Through such enterprise women are trained to use their local skills and knowledge into income augmentation activities through which they can be economically empowered. This has also ushered in social empowerment of women in the region since the women SHGs are also taking up various social issues in a collective manner, such as anti-alcoholism, promoting the education of girl child, raising voice against domestic violence etc. Women from low income groups are trained in account keeping, branding, communication, pricing, customer interface etc by giving them exposure to exhibitions and fairs. Women from rural areas are provided rare opportunity to get first-hand experience in entrepreneurial development by exposure visit held from time to time.Self-defense training for women and girls has also been promoted for women and girls for enhancing safety and self-protection for the target area.
NANAK has partnered with PHD Chamber of Commerce Family Welfare Foundation to support its pioneering programme called ‘ChaloGaon Ki Ore’ which a holistic model of empowerment through women as key drivers of the change
4. Other Development Initiatives
NANAK also supports Environmental Promotion Initiatives throughTree plantation drives, Awareness Generation programs, and involving community in a community based sanitation approach. Major breakthrough in sanitation has been convincing community members in Bihar to participate in the government programme of building toilets under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan.Health care interventions also form a part of the focus area of intervention for the community in need. Awareness generation programmes for women and children have been taken up on a regular basis. In order to instill a sense of social responsiveness, children are encouraged to collectively take up social issues such as campaigns against child marriage, alcoholism and gender discrimination. Women are also given platforms for taking up social issues such as sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, etc. Special days such as teachers day, children's day, Gandhi jayantietc are commemorated with special events in the rural areas where NANAK has adopted a hub and spoke model.
5. Gaon Ki Selfie
"Communication & Advocacy Projects"
NANAK has initiated a unique periodical by the name of Gaon Ki Selfie to give regular space to voices of women , children and other development sector partners from different states. It also focuses on different themes which are contemporary in nature with a view to draw the attention of different stakeholders including policy makers to the issues which need to be articulated and addresses.
