Vimukti Charitable trust
Pothnal organised training programs from 4th of June 2022 to August 7th
2022 to community leaders at Gram Panchayat and Village level in 20
pockets of our targeted villages of Manvi Taluka. The main aim of this
training program is to train the community leaders to contribute to
ensuring the social protection, promoting of people participation in
governance, enhancing access to social security schemes to vulnerable
people and communities like migrant workers, transgender and other
marginalised communities through evidence-based knowledge building, at
pothnal surrounding villages. The major focus of the training is
realizing rights and entitlements with and through the community by
building an effective interface with government departments and
institutions using Community Convergence Facilitation Forums (CCFFs) led
by a collective of trained CLs. The CCFFs a groundbreaking community
driven platform, which is innovative in the sense that the measures
adopted not only encourage people’s participation, but also lead to
enhancing informed decision-making in local governance. Nearly 165
community members have joined and pariticipated in the training program
to become active CCFFs leaders to work for their community to tap the
entitlements for their communities.