Date :31-08-2016

To,
The Joint Director,
Deportment of Agriculture,
West Godavari District,
Andhra Pradesh.

Respected Madam,

Sub : CYS – Bhimadole, West Godavari District - Submission of EOI for

ZBNF-RKVY- Request -Reg

Ref: Press realized on west Godavari district edition all telugu news
papers on 22-08-2016
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I invite kind attention to the reference cited we are submitting the EOI for
ZBNF under RKVY. We have an experience working with CBO’s and various
Government Departments.

We are submitting EOI with all relevant documents for yours kind perusal
madam.

Yours sincerely
 Expression of Interest to Partner with Dept of Agriculture on Facilitation Support
to ZBNF Farmers in 131 Organic Farming Clusters under RKVY Project
(Furnish the details in not exceeding 4 pages in English).
Details of the Organisation:
1. Name of the Organisation & : CHAITANYA YUVAJANA SANGHAM, (CYS)
Acronym:
2. Contact Details : : D.No:3-127, ARJAVARIGUDEM,
BHIMADOLU - MANDAL-53425,
WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT,
ANDHRA PRADESH.
Field Office : VINJARAM, POLAVARAM MANDAL.
SANDRAGUNTA, D.THIRUMULA MANDAL.
Head Office : D.No:3-127, ARJAVARIGUDEM,
BHIMADOLU - MANDAL-53425,
WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT,
ANDHRA PRADESH.
3. Email : : cys.ydc@gmail.com
4. Year of Establishment: : 1995
5. Contact Person :
a. Name : P.MANSINGH
b. Designation : PRESIDENT
c. Email id : dbcwgdt@gmail.com
d. Mobile id : 9995235363
6. Legal Status of the Organisation: : Indian society Reg Act 1860-XXI
Trust / Society / company / no REG .NO.724/1995
legal registration.
7. Organisation has 3 years of formal : -YES-
Annual Audit Statements: Yes / No.
8. Was the organisation black listed by :
any Government Organization/ -NO-
NABARD/ Donors any time? If yes,
provide the details.
Experience of the Organisation:
9. Key Focus areas of work of the Sustainable Agriculture-NPM,OF
organisation: (main 4 areas relevant Environment
for this program) Bio-Diversity
Community Resilience
10. Three previous experiences in working with Government Departments:
 With Agriculture Department: : Fodder Demonstration Plots
Formation of RTM’s
Agriculture Allied activities trainings to
Young Agriculture Entrepreneurs
With Rural Development Department: : Formation and working with CBO’s
MNREGS
Rain water harvesting
With NABARD: : Micro Entrepreneur Ship trainings
Fodder Block making trainings
Rain water harvesting
With Any other Departments/ UNEP-GEF
Government Institutions Govt of India Ministry of Science and
Technology
Govt of India Ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports
Govt of India Ministry of forest,
Environment and Climate change
Govt of India Ministry of Culture
Govt of India Ministry of Labour –
workers board education
Govt of India Ministry of MSME
Govt of India Ministry of Women and
Child Welfare-CSWB
Govt of AP Ministry of Youth
Govt of AP Ministry of Veterinary
NABARD
NIN
NIRD
Dr. Y.S.R. horticulture University
KVK
CEE
NCSCM
ONGC
AP.STATE BIO-DIVERSITY BOARD
WORLD VISION INDIA
11. Experience in working with Community Based Organizations (CBO):
Has the organization promoted any : -YES-
 CBO in the past; Yes / No
If yes, provide brief details : 1. Formation of new youth clubs &
mahila mandals through out
district.
2. Formation of shremaskthi sanghas.
3. Formation of Disability groups
4. Formation of Rithu Mithras Groups
12. Expression of Interest of the Organization
12.1 Briefly describe working experience in the present Clusters:
A. Existing 131 Clusters
Name(s) of the Cluster(s) Working -NA-
i. Before RKVY Our Organization working with KVK’s, Dr.
Y.S.R. horticulture University, in this
related subject for past 3 years through
out the district
ii. After RKVY – In coordination with the -NA-
Department
iii. In these clusters, what kind of -NA-
Community Based Organizations are
being nurtured by the NGO.
iv. Existing ZBNF trained human
resources of the NGO to implement -NA-
the program. (Provide necessary
documentary evidence)
12.2 For those clusters not having any NGO Collaboration with Department of Agriculture in
the current RKVY Program.
A. Existing ZBNF trained human We have been trained technical persons
resources of the NGO to implement and Rtd Agriculture officers in puts has
the program. been utilized for this program
B. No. of Farmers/Area covered (ha) 4000/ 2 Clusters
C. Human Resources Availability (No. 10 CRPS
of CRPs & Lead farmers developed) 10 Lead farmers
D. Since how long involved in the ZBNF 1 YEAR
Program
E. Working with Government or We have well working experience with
NABARD or Donor collaboration Govt Deportments and NABARD as said
above all deportments
F. Details of CBOs promoted RMG’s
BMC’s
 SHG’s
CBO’s
YOUTH
G. ZBNF experience (Provide necessary Enclosed
documentary evidence)
13. District, Mandal(s), Cluster(s) proposed for the program
Priority District Mandals Cluster
1 West Godavari Polavaram, Buttigudem. Polavaram, Buttigudem.
14. Give 3 reasons on why your :  Commitment
organisation is qualified to be the  Capability
Facilitating Agency for the program?  Co –ordination C3
Signature of the NGO

President
CHAITANYA YUVAJANA SANGHAM
BHIMADOLU, W.G.Dist
Chaitanya Yuvajana Sangham
Transforming Rural Lives

“ Providing support to growth-oriented entrepreneurs

and working closely with small and medium
enterprises to generate jobs helps promote a stable
and inclusive business environment, and increases the
competitiveness of the economies in which they
operate.

www.cysydc.org
Who we are
The Chaitanya Yuvajana Sangam is working under the
Ministry of Youth affairs and Sports, Government of
India set up in 1995 with the objective of mobilizing,
organizing and concertizing the children, youth and
W e are engaging, celebrating and
mentoring the next generation of
talented entrepreneurs in agriculture
women. and tech- nology via dynamic
partnerships like DST-GoI, NABARD
CYS activities implemented through youth clubs and and Technology support institutions.
Mahila Mandals ranges from education, Skill Other partners include ANGRAU,
development and up gradation, leadership training, Dr.YSRHU.
awareness generation, self- employment, addressing
the health issues of youth and adolescents, environment
etc, these activities ae being taken up in the rural,
urban areas with emphasis on value, vision and
voluntary action. The basic idea is to bring forth the
rural youth in the mainstream of national development
as active partici- pants responsible and productive
I n an endeavor championed by the DST-
GoI, CYS is identifying how best to grow
innovative MSMEs in agriculture, a field
citizen of modern India. that has a vast impact on job creation,
competitiveness and productivity in
To prevent the youth in participating the antisocial Andhra Pradesh.
activities. provide academic as well as career guidance
to the youth. Fixing the target to the youth for their
future life. Counsel and motivate them to achieve
their targets.

Identifying the poor women and providing income

generating activities to them through developing
S ustained food and nutrition security of
marginalized through environmentally
sound interventions, while focusing on
confidence in them. equity, justice and human rights

To provide healthy personality development acquiring

vocational skills and professional development for their
sustainability.

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About Us

Create economic opportunity for all, especially the needy, through

planned development.

Chaitanya Yuvajana Sangham is an impartial, neutral Our Objectives are To promote the welfare of
and independent organization who’s exclusively focused children and youth in home, school, community. To
on the economic viability of poor and marginalized raise the standards of home life. To secure adequate
rural communities in West Godavari District. We do so laws for the care and protection of children and
through leadership development programs, public policy youth.
programs to inform people on issues affecting the
economics of the community, Providing affordable,
education, empowering with technology interventions
to improve livelihood and capacity building of all ages
through sound business and management practices.

Organization working toward prosperity through

economic and social justice. Our purpose is to
strengthen families with education, technology, grow a
sustain- able regional economy, cultivate leadership and
philanthropy, and foster respect for all.

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Our Mission

CYS (Chaitanay Yuvajana Sangham) is committed to

the future of rural communities in the region. Our
mission is to help alleviate poverty, promote health
and a clean environment and improve socio-economic
conditions of the rural poor people through rural
development, increase rural residents' economic
opportunities and improve their quality of life.

We forges partnerships with rural communities,

funding projects that bring housing, community
facilities, utilities and other services. We also provide
technical assistance in technology transfer in
agriculture, horticulture & technology based SME's and
backing for rural businesses and cooperatives to create
quality jobs in our region.

Our mission to promotes engaging the entrepreneurial

spirit in the region of renewable energy and energy
efficiency improvements by educating rural youth. We
seek to address challenges in rural education through
direct involvement and collaboration.

We works with low-income individuals. As well as com-

mitted to helping street living and street working
children and those at risk of becoming so.

All our projects shall be carefully structured and

implemented to be true to this mission. In every
instance, we shall commit ourselves to constantly
improving on what we have done before. We offer no
philosophy of our own, and our conduct shall be
dictated by universal
truths and values.

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Our Vision

We are dedicated to promoting empowerment of people, protection

of the environment, and respect for cultural diversity.

♦ Our vision is where there are no street children,
where families are restored, those who are
disadvantaged have choices and hope and all
children have a voice. Our mission is to bring
lasting and positive change to the lives of street
children, street working children and those at
risk of becoming so, through front line work,
prevention and advocacy, being a facilitator and
enabler, galvanizing people and resources in the
region.
♦ Creation of self employment for the poor and
ultra-poor in the region to achieve self-reliance.
♦ Improvement of the standard of living of the poor
people in the region.
♦ Development of small entrepreneurs to create
employment in the region.
♦ Creation of skilled human resources through
training.
♦ Identification of problems and solutions through
research and action research on rural development
and expansion of research results in collaboration
with S&T institutions..
♦ Advocating to ensure availability of behavioral
health care for rural citizens and the parity of
behavioral care with physical health services.
♦ encourage arts and crafts, and offer opportunities
for creative work,

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Improving Rural Livelihoods

CYS is working to bridge this information gap,

as well as supporting and encouraging new
horticulture producers’ participation in the
formulation and implementation of rural
development policy at regional levels with the
sup- port of S&T institutions.

The general climatic conditions in the region is

quite favorable for the growth of sericulture.
CYS is playing an essential and dynamic role in
the development of women entrepreneurs in
sericulture industry with the support of
NABARD and S&T institutions.

Handicrafts creates gainful employment for

women and aged persons at homes at minimum
risk. CYS is playing pivot role to improve the
living conditions and increase the livelihood of
the women in the region through promoting
handicrafts and providing support to establish
handicraft SME’s. Specifically, this intends to
increase the income and employment
opportunities for women by increasing
productivity, diversification, and products
quality.

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Transition factors

As a matter of fact, mechanization of agriculture has marginalized women. But despite the
fact that women contribute more labor in agricultural production, they constitute a small mi-
nority of formal employees in this sector.

One of the fastest growing industries is the and allied activities. No wonder women are playing a
very important role in the sericulture industry. Their
horticulture industry, although it is still relatively small
compared to rice. Most of the marginalized community qualities like maternal instincts and loving care of
those under their charge prove to be very helpful in
farmers are converted to agriculture labor in the region
due to lack of access to tools that enable them to getthe successful breeding of silk worms. The sericulture
answers on questions concerning projects and industry has opened up phenomenal employment
programmes, technological developments, production avenues and helped women to become important
trends, other producers’ experiences, etc. for high value
players in the decision-making process, whether in the
cash crops of horticulture industry. household or in the community at large. The active
involvement of women is very essential for the success
In any discourse on sociology and anthropology, one of the any community development initiative. This has
fact that clearly emerges is that women can generally been proved on many occasions all over the world-
be trusted to perform their duties with utmost care more so in the developing countries.
and attention. This is more so in the case of
agriculture

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Health
Malnutrition remains a major public health
problem in the region. CYS mission is to
improve living standard of families,
empowerment of mothers with the aim of
augmenting family income and parental
education on appropriate feeding practices to
help in reducing the incidence of under-five
malnutrition in communities of the region.

Apart agricultural programmes, human resource

development programmes, community
development and industrial and trade
programmes, CYS is well concentrated in
effective implementation of government
programmes towards sustainable rural
development through the third party activities
in health education, health and waste, moral up
bringing, youth empowerment.

We are effectively contributing our services

towards water and sanitation targeted villages
most in need of better access to water and
sanitation in the region. CYS supporting these
villages to get access safe drinking water, large
scale access to and hygienic use of toilets and
awareness campaigns towards hands are
washed with soap or ash at all critical times
(after using toilet, before eating etc.).

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Situation for Interventions
Our priority is to improving and strengthening extension services, especially through farmer educa-
tion and training, to meet the challenges of ensuring sustainable agricultural and rural development
in HIV/AIDS-affected rural areas.
The impact of HIV/AIDS on agricultural production
systems and the decline of agricultural knowledge and
management skills, as well as the disproportionate
impact of the disease on rural women, which
cumulatively lead to the loss of rural household food
security, the deterioration of traditional coping
mechanisms and dwindling of family and community
resources, does have a direct impact on the
performance of extension services.
It is observed that livestock ownership is decreasing in
the region gradually. Performance of the livestock
sector is affected by low productivity of feed and
fodder: as decrease in feed and fodder, the number of
ruminant
livestock has been decreasing. Per capita animal
protein intake are low, contributing to poor
nutrition among children.
Our extension systems objective is to include regional
youth, child development, nutrition and household
management programmes. Broad-based extension
systems that include agriculture, population education,
clean water, sanitation, environment, home
economics, rural youth, gender and community
development components are essentially designed to
improve the welfare of regional households and
communities rather than achieve more limited
agricultural production and technology transfer
objectives.
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Education
CYS is explicitly working towards the one and
only alternative to the drudgery and
discrimination of girls is through education
had to be made explicit. It extends the age of
their marriage. They no longer would be child
brides.

We are building confidence in parents that they

were taking the right decision in sending their
daughters to schools. training in health,
awareness about reproductive health care,
critique of patriarchal values and gender
discrimination

In remote villages of our region have classes

under a tree or in dilapidated rural primary
school with little school equipment and
teaching resources. They don’t have clean
water for washing and toilets either.
Poor children in remote and tribal areas need
proper classrooms, school furniture, sports
equipment, water, etc. in order to study and
obtain good academic results. And further,
enable them to go to high school.

CYS is involved effectively to provide a

conducive learning environment for children in
re- mote villages of the region regardless of their
parents poor socio-economic status.
We are supporting to: help poor rural schools
build classrooms. buy school furniture. buy sports
equipment dig boreholes and build toilets for the
children.

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Opportunities

Changing cultural attitudes and norms will take longer, particularly with the adult population. Devel-
opment initiatives will be able only to make a start. But a start is also valuable.

Rural girls are less likely to achieve the same level of
basic education as boys. If one of the children in a
household has to drop out of school because of family
(usually the mother's) workload, the cost of schooling
or for other reasons, it is usually the girl child. If
poverty precludes sending more than one child to
attend school in town, then it is the boy who is
normally selected to attend.
Girls do enormous work at home and at the fields.
They carry water fetch by fetch, collect fuel wood,
cook, clean, wash, take care of siblings and act like
little mothers. They also work relentlessly, in all
seasons, as agricultural labourers. It enables them
cope with the problem of gender discrimination.
Proper educational environment will help children as
giving educational opportunities to children from poor
communities is the best way to help their families swim
out of poverty.
Partnering with corporates under CSR initiative
can give their support by:
1. Sponsoring an identified school that needs help.
2. Selecting areas in which they want to contribute.
3. Sourcing funds.
4. Sponsoring scholarship programs for needy children,
especially girls at elementary and high school.

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Juvenile Justice
CYS is working for the welfare of rag pickers
are those that are concerned about street chil-
dren (who usually live by waste retrieval) For
the most part, we are preoccupied with helping
particular individuals and families to gain the
education and skills necessary to move out of
waste picking into safer and better work. Some
of them are abandoned or runaway children.

CYS is educating young people every year

about the dangers of running away or trying to
resolve difficult, threatening situations on their
own. This easily replicated community initiative
involves the whole community to provide safe
havens and resources for youth in crisis.

Serving runaway and homeless youth, providing

experts and advocates on supportive housing,
childhood trauma, juvenile justice, employ-
ment, mental health, education, and health care
and reuniting runaway chil- dren with their
families.

CYS working actively toward inhalant abuse

intervention programs on substance abuse of
petrol, spray paint for children in substance
abuse & community care providers; education
and support for retailers; community-based
diversion programs; and user rehabilitation and
education.

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Children are at a Risk
Child labour is not a new phenomenon, but what is new is its perception as a social problem.
Various ancient Indian studies have described how children in Indian families shared the work load of their
parents and of the gurus during their Brahmacharya period.
Children are the source of hope and inspiration for the
society. That is why they have the right to be brought
up in a positive environment. Children who are working
and living on the streets are found throughout the
nation. There are major difficulties in trying to estimate
the number of street children and the magnitude of
hardship they experience. In their marginalized state
they constitute a truly “hidden” population who were
not covered by nor find place in the national census,
educational or health data, largely because they have
no fixed address.
Drug usage among minors has created a global
generation of addicted and often abandoned children
bereft of family support, education and social skills.
Ragpicking is a form of child labour. Ragpicking is one
of the most inferior economic activities , largely under
taken by children belonging to weaker sections of the
society, for the survival and for supplementing their
family income. Ragpicking is the profession mostly
dominated by children aging 6 to 15 years who do not
have any other skill and thus by way of refuse
collection contribute to household income or own
survival.
These children face a greater threat of occupational
hazards and injuries due to their lack of judgment,
experience, which may expose them to infections.
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Our Strategy

Agricultural extension is one of the central institutions dealing with human resource development
and technology transfer to farmers and rural households in most countries in the world.

As agricultural development in a country moves

forward, the knowledge and technology needs of
farmers and farm households continue to increase. In
countries where farm households have low levels of
literacy and more traditional farming systems,
extension programmes will generally be more
educationally focused, aiming primarily at human
resource development in rural areas.

These extension systems, often functioning as

integrated agricultural and rural development
programmes, help farmers form organizations/
associations, such as commodity groups and
cooperatives, and promote the use of government
services and improved technology.

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