Mr.S.R.HIREMATH

"INDIA DEVELOPMENT SERVICE"

Mr.S.R. Hiremath is a founder of IDS (India Development Service). He has completed his bachelor degree in Hindi called Visharada from Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Dharwad. He got second rank in Visharada and went to United States for higher studies and continued his job career and stayed up to 10 years. He got inspired from books articles, such as freedom at midnight, lord mount batten, sarvagna’s triplates and Schumaker’s.
He started an organization called “India Development Service”. It is a non-profit organization working for social and economic development of India. These sectors organization covers – preventive health and health education, environmental awareness, joint forest planning, management wasteland development and sustainable agriculture etc.

Advocacy:

In Indian system Government has not provided any kind of proper approach for problems. For finding solution if social entrepreneurs are working in society they should have their own organized mechanisms for it. While working calculated risk should be managed by leaders.

“Be a change don’t think change outside”

The tool for change is advocacy, the method is ‘identifying problem which is related to particular community’ and make it as centric issue, aware that community. With the support of that community advocacy procedures should move further. While working with community Media involvement is necessary to reach the decided advocacy goal.
Gandhian and Einstein theories have introduced in advocacy. The Satyagraha tool is helpful to reach advocacy goal and it solves people problem.
Advocacy is a tool for social entrepreneurs for approaching social problem and peace fully using this tool is more effective and remarkable.

ABHAY KUMAR

Mr. Abhay belonged from Hyderabad, he perused his engineering degree in Electronics and after that he joined MNC in Banglore and worked for 5 years. He inspired by himself to work in social sector in Raichur, he started working on Devadasi system.

He created awareness about Devdasi system in Raichur district, 100 villages now they left this system. He formed an organization called “Navjeevan Mahila okkut”, this is a non registered organization.

Advocacy :

His organization is working on social problems which comes from people. He used Advocacy tool for fighting against social problems. While doing advocacy these twelve things we have to remember -
Ø Advocacy should be done by people who affected by the issue
Ø Understanding the issue theoretical and practical aspects both in local contents and in other parts of country and the world.
Ø Believe in the issue as belief in the strategy is important.
Ø Grass root level work on the issue, both activism and constructive involvement.
Ø To work along with the media and not use the media.
Ø Data collection and presentation should be human, not just statistics.
Ø To always have the goals broke down in to short term, medium term and long term demands.
Ø Understanding of the government administrative machinery and way of working is very important.
Ø Should have well wishes in all fields.
Ø Proper use of all forums available sensitive days of year and reacting to important events is very essential.
Ø Regular follow-ups is a very important.

Ø Attack the issue simultaneously from many fronts, also one is some required to take two steps back and then move ahead.

Ø Always fight for issue not people responsible. (Reference: Abhay)

MANIVANNAN

"LIFE IS SHORT TO ACHIEVE SO PLAN AND ACHIEVE"

          On 6^th of March we had Manivannan as a guest speaker who was former commissioner of Hubli-Dharwad. He spoke about life that death makes life more interesting. Short life span motivates us to do the things more enthusiastically and gives pleasure. If we had longer life then we will be lazy and postpone or neglect the work as we have still more time to do and think let’s take rest, will do afterwards etc. This made us idle and leads to low performance ultimately it affects on personality.

“God is jealous of man because he has no death as him”. Immortality doesn’t allow the god to do things in time. So as a human being we are enjoying like anything and leading family life. We have to think as if today only we live there is on life tomorrow. Then the things will happen and we will be capable to face any circumstances. It makes us fit to adjust with difficulties. He told now you decide how many years do you want to live? If we really passionate to do something then long term isn’t necessary we replied. Thus he encouraged us to have eagerness to wards work.

Mr. Ramji Raghavan

        Ramji is a founder of Agastya foundation. It is a science museum. Ramji believes learning happens by these methods by lecture(5%), Reading(10%), Observing and listening (50%),  discussion (70%), Experience(80%), Teaching(95%). Agastya follows these rules “train children to teach children”. Agastya has started its work with one mobile lab and today it has 32 mobile labs. It has got ten branches in north karnataka.

            To reach expected goal in business world, we should have three elements such as what to do? Whom to do? How to do? it means by using science, ecology, maths and art as tools for private schools, drop-outs, teachers and for rural children through mobile laboratories and science exhibition in schools. 

ADVOCACY

ADVOCACY

Miss. Usha from KHPT has conducted ADVOCACY session.

      “To reach the goal what are the ways we choose it calls ADVOCACY”

§  ADVOCACY is the process of people participating in decision making process which affect

 the lives.

STRATEGIES

§  Lobbing.

§  Social marketing

 information.

§  Education and community organizing.

§  Many other Tactics.

Steps in ADVOCACY

“Power of advocacy is found in the number of people supporting it” Below given

 steps are very helpful to conduct Advocacy activity in community -

ü Select advocacy objective.

ü Identifying advocacy audience.

ü Developing and delivering about massages.

ü Making persuasive presentation.

ü Fund rising.

ü Evaluating advocacy efforts.

First step in advocacy is selecting need based group. And with which group we want to work it should be interested in that matter. While delivering massages careful because the massage tie-up the audience.

There are two types of advocacy-

1.      Short term advocacy. (Fund is not needed)

2.      Long term advocacy. (Fund is needed)

ADVOCACY PRACTICE WITH GROUP

We were divided in three groups and discussed these topics-

Ø  Violence against women.

Ø  Sex- education in school.

            “Stigma and discrimination that is living with HIV/AIDS”

v OBJECTIVE-

ü Preventing by stigma discrimination.

ü To provide good condition in society. 

v  IDENTIFYING ADVOCACY AUDIENCE –

·         Family members, Nabors, community/Society people.

v  Developing and delivering advocacy massage-

·         Through positive networks.

·         Media.

·         Demonstration.

v  Making persuasive presentation’s –

·         Live examples.

·         Heart touching slogans.

·         Mela of positive people produced products.

v  Fund Rising –

·         National and International organization’s.

·         Health department.

·         Volunteers.

·         Sponsorships.

v  Evaluation procures –

·         Regular Follow-ups.

·         Feedback relating improvements.

·         Preparing successful case studies.

In our group we discussed about above topic in depth and came to this conclusion.

 Ms. VANI

                      She is working in SPAD at HUBLI. It works with HIV/AIDS people. And she explained her experience in ADVOCACY, how it exist in grass root and upper level.

Mr.GOPAL DABADE

                        He has explained about ADVOCACY through case studies, those were international level ADVOCACY CASES.

Water Literacy Foundation

Ayyappa masagi is an innovative thinker; basically he is from engineering background. His innovative ideas and his area of interest made him to left job in L and T Company and got involved in entrepreneurial world. He is a founder of “Water Literacy Foundation”, it is a reputed national and international level organization, which is working for conservation of water sources and promoting underground water levels. 

He has got Ashoka Fellowship also for his valuable contribution.
He is always exhibits simple living and high thinking. Water conservation is a basic requirement in now days, because if we won’t do it by 2020 getting water will be a big problem. To solve this problem masagi has invented few things like recharging underground water and there are some innovative ideas in low cost. Water conservation method should implement in all parts of our nation.