Strengthening last mile delivery of welfare schemes and entitlements to tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh: Using government data from websites, and supplemented by rapid surveys and village audits in Paderu in Visakhapatnam, the studies identify bottlenecks in the delivery of MNREGS, Rythu Bharosa and Amma Vodi schemes. These reports are used to monitor the implementation at ground level, and for advocacy with district and state level officials to bring about necessary changes in the implementation processes.

The Fellowship to Improve National Schemes (FINS) is an effort designed to support activists and organisations working to improve NREGA and other public services. We have developed this programme in partnership with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) and are collaborating with them in 26 blocks across Rajasthan, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. We are also collaborating with PRADAN in a few blocks of Jharkhand. Fellows will be nominated by the partners and supported by LibTech. To know more, please click here http://libtech.in/fellowship-to-improve-national-schemes/

For this study, CORD is collaborating with Dr Amit Basole and Dr Rajendran Narayanan of Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. The duration of this study is March – December 2021.