Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Alwar
1 Name of the Organization Society for Public Education Cultural Training & Rural
Action (SPECTRA)
2 Address Head office -----Block E, Plot no-11 , Patel Nagar,
Mannaka Road Alwar, Rajasthan (India)-301001
Branch office--- Gothra and Tijara
4 Pin Code 301001
6 E-mail spectraalw@gmail.com ,
spectra_alw22@hotmail.com
7 Name & designation of Chief Pradeep Pundhir
Functionary
9 Registration detail Act under which Register under Rajasthan Societies Registration Act. 1958,
registered Date of registration a corresponding state Act of Indian Societies Reg. Act 1890
, 101/96-97 Date: - 31 Oct. 1996
13 Fixed assets (land & building) as Rs-200000/- incurred in Audit Report last 3 yrs
per Audited balance sheet.
14 Number of full & Part time staff Full Time- 13 and Part time- 89
The main problems, to which this org. is concerned, are sustainability in water, illiteracy,
ignorance, unemployment, poverty, women & childcare , watershed development etc. Therefore,
it is visualized to minimize these problems through the essential tools of communication and
learning, which is pre-condition for person’s physical, mental and economic growth. This is to
ensure development of their potentials, sustainable working conditions and a harmonious living
with dignity & peace.
Around 70% of Indian population is dependent on agriculture in one way or other, most of
these people suffer on account of non availability of continuous employment and proper returns.
To solve this gigantic problem the immediate need of the time is to ‘diversify’ the MANPOWER
from agriculture to other sectors of working and employment and preparing the people by
education, motivation, information and skills to change over to new avenues.
The other important aspect to be taken immediate attention at priority basis is the growing
desertification receding water level, depleting forest, degradation of Environment.
Health
The goal of the SPECTRA As health programme is to achieve sustainable improvements in
health status among vulnerable groups, especially the geographically remote, women of
childbearing age and children under five.
Health is more then health care, while the SPECTRA work the strengthen health systems
and services, it also promotes initiatives that offer people the knowledge and skills to avoid
illness. These measures include educating women and girls and enabling families to adopt
appropriate hygiene practices. In addition, the SPECTRA supports testing and implementation of
income-generating strategies that allow households and communities to acquire better nutrition
and health status. Increased income enables communities to improve nutritional status,
particularly that of women and children, and to build and maintain water and sanitation
systems.
Education
A major goal of the SPECTRA is to improve the quality of basic education. Four objectives set
the wider agenda: ensuring better early caring and learning environments for young children;
increasing access to education; keeping children in school longer; and raising levels of
academic achievement. In common with other donor agencies, the SPECTRA intend those girls,
the very poor, and geographically remote populations should receive special attention. Of the
may factors, that influences the quality of basis education.
SPECTRA education portfolio is distinctive in one other respect. It interprets’ basis
education’ as the continuation of learning which stretches from birth to adolescence. In
developing countries, the young children and the family portfolio is experimenting in both rural
and urban settings with various community-based approaches that enhance early childcare and
education opportunities, A common concern across most of these projects is the quality of
experience received as a child moves from home to early childhood development settings to
primary school.
Rural Development
The SPECTRA is committed to reducing rural poverty, particularly in resource-poor,
degraded or remote environments. It concentrates on a small number of programms of
significant sale. The model of participatory rural development it has pioneered combines a set
of common development principles with the flexibility to respond to specific contexts and
needs.
Programmes typically link elements such as rural savings and credit, natural resource
management, productive infrastructure development, increased agricultural productivity and
human skill development with a central concern for community-level participation and decision-
making. The ultimate goal is to enable community members to make informed choices from a
range of appropriate options for sustainable and equitable development.
A central strategy has been to crate or strengthen an institutional structure at the village
level through which people can determine priority needs decide how best to manage common
resources in the interests of the community as a whole. Whether, broad-based or task-specific,
these village organizations’ also serve to represent the community to the government and two
other development partners, including NGOs and the private sector.
Social capital built at the local level provides a supportive environment for enlarging the
economic assets of a community and for harnessing individual self-interest to generate income
growth in a equitable and sustainable manner.
Assets are typically built through community management of neutral resources-water
storage, irrigation infrastructure, soil conservation or forestry – or the construction of basic
economic infrastructure, such as rural roads or agricultural storage facilities.
Income growth is promoted by increasing agricultural productivity through improved
farming methods, input supply, marketing, land development and management reform or by
increasing off-farm income and supporting enterprise development.
Local capital is mobilized by promoting savings and development financial services to
enable broad access to credit on a sustainable basis.
Training programme support the effectiveness and sustainability of the village-level
institutions by providing the management and technical skills needed to plan, implement and
maintain local development activities.
The SPECTRA is committed to building the knowledge base in rural development through
learning, analyzing and disseminating lessons learners from field experience.
Community Participation
The benefits of community participation in development programme have been richly
demonstrated. Local people can acquire the organized capacity to define and meet common
needs on a sustainable basis.
Each year the range of problems poor communities’ address through participatory efforts grows
– as does the SPECTRAs understanding of what is needed to champion local initiative.
Full participation comes most quickly when there are immediate, tangible benefits from
community action. Projects that bring economic rewards, for instance, move forward faster than
those aimed solely at preventing health problems. As community organizations created for
economic benefit mature, however, they gain the confidence and vision to address longer-term
social needs successfully. The potential of these groups is vast.
Support organizations need to listen carefully. Community groups want to be heard, to be
offered choices, to have central roles in project management and a genuine stake in the
outcome. As the Foundation monitors community initiatives in different cultural and
geographical settings, it is learning what combinations of these factors bring maximum social
and economic benefits over time.
It is also learning the limits to the effectiveness of community participation, Experience shows,
for example, that small enterprises are beat run by individuals or partners rather than
community organizations.
Gender and Development
The SPECTRAs is committed to highlighting the essential role of women in the development
process and to facilitating their participation. Research and experience have shown that
considering gender considerations in planning economic and social interventions greatly
increases the probability of their success. In most countries and communities, gender
determines both domestic and productive roles. Women generally have responsibilities for both,
but their ability to contribute to society is constrained by social, cultural and political traditions.
Compared to men, they tend to be less educated, more limited in their options and paid less.
Yet women manage households, raise children, pass knowledge to the next generation,
lend livestock, grew, and process crops and often run businesses to supplement family income.
Families and communities benefit exponentially when women reap greater rewards for their
own efforts and labor. Once sustenance needs are covered, women quickly address the health
and education needs of other generations. To raise the competence and confidence of women –
and, correspondingly, to open the thinking of men-is a long term commitment of the SPECTRAs.
In addition to supporting research and action aimed at making women’s participation a reality,
the SPECTRAs support women with village credit schemes, training in forestry, masonry , crop
and livestock management accounting and marketing. It encourages education and careers for
women.
It looks for ways to engage with men around the attitudinal and structural changes that
flow from programmesthat benefit women.
The Environment
In resource-poor areas, people and the environment are often trapped together in a
downward spiral. Penury of natural resources forces the less privileged to consume the few
resources available to them. The result is deeper poverty deplaned soils, deforested hills,
polluted water, disease, and despair. The Spectra’s rural development programms combine
local organization, appropriate technology, and investment in efforts to reverse this destructive
course. Health, education and capacity development programmes also help to raise awareness
of environmental issues and encourage people to manage to change in the best interests of the
community.
The environment includes natural, built and cultural factors that cut across virtually all
development programmes. Each profoundly, affects the human conditions, and all are
interrelated, Environmental problems are complex and often extremely difficult to slove. Even
the smallest steps in the right direction have positive implications for rich and poor alike.
Child Labourers
President
SPECTRA