Vimukti Charitable
trust Pothnal organised training programs from 7th of August 2022 to
October 4th 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 65 community
members have joined and participated in the training program to
become active CCFFs leaders to work for their community to tap the
entitlements for their communities.
