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“Gender Budget should be a legal responsibility of the Government”
Bhubaneswar, 23rd August, 2011
“Gender Budget should be a legal responsibility of the Government”, as per the panelists in the Gender Budget Workshop in held at CYSD, on the 23rd of August, 2011. The Workshop on Gender Budget in Orissa, discussed the issues and challenges around the relevance, the Gray Areas and the proposed action on making the State Budget Gender Responsive in Orissa, in which representatives from the Government, development practitioners, eminent women personalities like Prof. Asha Hans, Dr. Amrita Patel, Mrs. Namrata Chadha and UN Women representative Ms. Navanita Sinha were present.
Presenting its detailed analysis of the Gender Budget in Orissa, Orissa Budget and Accountability Center (OBAC), CYSD projected the state of affairs of the budget formulation process, budgetary policies and budget provisions and allocations for women, and policy implementation, projecting the significant gender disparities in access and control over resources and services, and the gaps between policy pronouncements, resource allocation and outcomes on gender equality.
Inaugurating the Workshop Prof. Anup Dash, Member Secretary, CYSD, flagged off the workshop as a small speck of effort to make a difference to the lives of the women.
Prof. Asha Hans stressed on carrying out Gender Budget Experiments at the State and National levels reaching out to the grassroots, sensitizing the policy makers and administrators on one hand and people at the grassroots on the other, addressing the gaps between promised and incorporated policy outcomes. Dr. Amrita Patel spoke on reviving Gender Budget Initiatives, moving much beyond simple Gender Specific Allocations towards deeper engagements addressing the deficit between allocation and actual expenditure, through methods like beneficiary benefit impact assessment with linkages from the Outlay to Outcome.
While Mrs. Namrata Chadha layed emphasis on the need of efforts towards ensuring wide-scale acceptance of popular schemes at the grassroots; Ms. Navanita Sinha, UN Women, New Delhi urged upon the establishment of linkages at the lower level of Governance, and to build capacities and technical expertise on composite and women specific schemes, and on activating the Gender Budgeting Cells producing gender-budgeting statements, for a good gender-responsive budgeting.
Multi-institutional approach required in Financial Sector
Bhubaneswar, 20th August 2011
“There is a need for multi-institutional responsibility in handling the financial sector”, said Shri. H.R.Khan , Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, in a meeting organized jointly by Center for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) and Swayamshree Microcredit Services (SMCS), in his honour. The various issues that came up during the meeting were conceptual economic issues, issues related to Policy and operational issues at the State and National level. Addressing the mammoth task ahead, Shri. H.R.Khan stressed upon the revisited market-efficiency issue, and the need of micro-level interventions to strike a necessary “Balance”, through a multi-institutional approach for India as a performing economy. On July, 2011, the Government of India appointed Shri. Harun Rashid Khan, as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Center for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) and Swayamshree Microcredit Services (SMCS) jointly organizing a felicitation in his honour for holding seven important offices of the Country and for being the first Odia to hold this high office.
Welcoming Shri. H.R. Khan, Prof. Anup Dash expressed the need to look deeper and make the economy work for the common people, and for rethinking towards creating growth and wealth through successful paradigms. Prof. Dash appealed the Deputy Governor, RBI, to work as a messenger of the Civil Society members in conveying the message of bring about a “Social” face and soul to the Economy. The meeting was presided by Sri. Jagadananda, State Information Commissioner, who creating a platform for flagging off issues of concern and stated that it was one such rare occasion with leaders and representatives of the wider Civil Society, Citizenry Groups and Media. In this meeting there were representatives from NABARD, SIDBI, members of leading financial institutions. Apart from this, there were also representatives from Micro-Financial Academic institutions, Senior Administrators, Bureaucrats, and representatives of the Wider Civil Society, Citizenry Groups and Media with Shri Khan on Saturday, the 20th August, 2011 at 11 A.M,
at CYSD. The State looked forward to Shri. H.R.Khan, the Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, as an eminent actor to promote the escalation of the Country’s Financial Economy.
Education and health should get more edge in the budget
June 11,2010
Bhubaneswar: The government should improve public spending in education and health and should focus to bridge the gap in allocation and actual utilization of the funds meant for these sectors. Initiatives to pursue participatory budgeting through the involvement of the civil society organizations for pro-poor budget should be the priority of the government while making the budget feels the participants in a one day pre budget consultation held at CYSD auditorium jointly organized by HDF, CYSD, NCDHR and Action aid India.............................................................
Basic knowledge of RTI should reach at grassroots: State Information Commissioner
December 24, 2009
Bhubaneswar: To realize accountability and transparency in the governance system the basic use of Right to Information Act (RTI Act) should reach to the grass root level, said Sri Jagadananda, state Information Commissioner at a State Level Convention on RTI organized by CYSD here today. In his address he said emphasis should always be given on how to use information that one get by filing RTI application. Proper management of records should be maintained the way it had been at the time of British rule in our country and to spread the right to information act RTI clinics will be useful.
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Citizen's feedback key to basic services
December 26, 2008
Bhubaneswar: That there is a need for citizen’s involvement in the monitoring of access and quality of basic services meant for the common man, was a sentiment which those present at the sharing workshop organized by CYSD on 26th Dec, 2008 expressed. The objective of the workshop was to share the findings from the Citizen Report Card (CRC) carried in Koraput district on the basic services provided by the Gram Panchayats from the prospective of user on quality of service delivery and performances. The study was undertaken by CYSD in collaboration with Public Affairs Center (PAC), Bangalore in the remotest blocks of Koraput to gather the responses on different services provided by Panchayats such as drinking water, health, sanitation, road, street lights and other women and child development programmes etc. Different aspects such as accessibility, quality, incidence of problem and its resolution were discussed under the study.
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Volunteer Fair held in Bhubaneswar
December 6, 2008
Bhubaneswar: Almost 1000 potential Volunteers crowded in the Volunteer Fair held at CYSD, Bhubaneswar on Saturday. They were there to meet with more than 25 state and national level NGOs who are looking for Volunteer help.
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First Volunteer Fair in Bhubaneswar
December 3, 2008
Bhubaneswar: Individuals who want to contribute to their community will have the opportunity to connect with NGOs needing volunteers to work on different social issues, on Saturday December 6, 2008 from 10am to 6pm at CYSD premises, opposite Fortune Towers in Bhubaneswar. This Fair will be the first of its kind in Orissa.
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Fiscal corrections should not be at the cost of Development: Citizen Forum on Budget
November 29, 2008
Bhubaneswar: Keeping in view the forthcoming State Budget, CYSD in collaboration with Utkal University on 29th of November has organized a daylong National level Citizen’s Summit on ‘Budget priorities and Human Development in Orissa’
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CYSD celebrated SHG and Farmers mela
November 20,2008
Bhubaneswar: Self help groups of rural women in India and specifically in Orissa is not something French to anybody’s ears now. SHGs are becoming feasible mean for the financial independence of rural women now. SHGs formed by the rural women of the state in their villages have helped them fight poverty in a dignified manner. “We don’t have to go to other’s place to the dishes or run after money lenders anymore’, said Kuntala Mohanta of Purunapani village of Saharapada Block in Kendujhar. Kuntala was one of the thousand odd rural and tribal women came to participate in the Convention of SHG and Farmers Organization at Rajabati, Choudwar. The three day long convention which held from 17th to 19th November was organized by Center for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) and Swayamshri Micro Credit Society (SMCS) jointly. The theme of this year’s convention was ‘’Financial literacy and access to livelihood’’. The convention saw around 2500 shg members and farmers of 200 SHGs from different.
