CEDPA INDIA AR 2013-14 final reference

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The Centre for Development and Population Activities, India

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OUR MISSIONSTATEMENTAt CEDPA India we work with a visionary zeal to enable women and girls to access opportunities and realize their rights. At the core of our work and approach is a belief that achieving gender equality is essential to development, democracy and global progress.

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FROM THEEXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR'S DESK

Building on the achievements of 2012-2013, the Centre for Development and Population Activities, (CEDPA India) is moving forward from a position of strength. Implementing quality at scale programs, across three core issues of Girls' Education and Youth Development, Maternal Health and Gender and Governance, we have in 2012-13 strengthened our programmatic reach, leveraged newer and innovative technology and build alliances and partnerships with government - local and national and like-minded organizations. In 2012-2013, we reached out to over 0.65 million people directly and over 1.2 million indirectly through our programs.

The past year witnessed several programmatic milestones. Our efforts to scale up our digital Life Skills curriculum for adolescents had great successes with leading schools adapting the interactive Life Skills learning modules for upper primary classes in Delhi. In Jharkhand our efforts to provide meaningful Life Skills learning to government school children, was rewarded with the state government, promulgating the Life Skills learning curriculum for both upper primary and secondary classes across the state.

Leveraging new technologies for programmatic gains and wider outreach have been the gains this last year. Five programs, across the portfolios of Maternal Health, Youth Development and Gender and Governance are now leveraging technology to help poor women seek good quality health care in government and private institutions in Jharkhand, to enable women Panchayat leaders in Bihar to report back on delivering of health services, to enable out of school adolescent girls in Jharkhand in accessing their entitlements under the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) scheme, and in monitoring the transaction of sessions of our school adolescent program in Bihar.


CEDPA India continues to be recognized as a credible technical assistance provider to various government departments in implementing programs successfully at the grassroots. The organization is part of several technical advisory groups, to the Government of India at the national level and the Government of Bihar and Jharkhand, as well as other civil society organizations.

Moving forward, CEDPA India will continue to work and advocate for the convergence of government schemes, promote awareness, build capacities and provide technical assistance to address the social and structural determinants of health and rights for all girls and women. As the National Secretariat to the largest alliance for saving mothers in the world, the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, CEDPA India will continue to uphold the banner for saving lives of mothers and neonates.

In 2014, we will adopt a new name, “Centre for Catalyzing Change”. We are excited, elevated, and thrilled with this imminent change. We thank our well-wishers and our generous donors for being with us, through this wonderful journey of change. We look forward to your support and guidance in our new journey in life.

Dr. Aparajita Gogoi

PROGRAMS

Gender equality and in particular the political, social and economic empowerment of girls and women are fundamental to the realization of their rights, improved health and development. Investing in girls and women extends to building their capacity and agency as able and productive citizens. It is also important to engage with men on this issue because building equitable societies begins with citizens who embrace principles of equality, equity and gender non-discriminative practices and behavior.

CEDPA India builds upon a strong history of technical leadership and assistance, including capacity building and research in gender and health programs. We work with adolescents, women, men and communities to reduce gender inequalities, promote good governance and increase civic participation.

Under the Gender and Governance program, the focus is on creating strong voices among women in demanding quality health services, monitoring available services and advocacy. The program has direct intervention in the arena of women's political empowerment, violence against women and gender and social inclusion issues.

GENDER AND GOVERNANCE

Self Help Group members from Bihar, discuss healthy saving practices to prepare women for birth planning and complication readiness


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1. Building agency, voice, leadership skills of Elected Women Representatives in the Panchayati Raj System

2. Supporting women leaders for ensuring accountability for quality reproductive health services

3. Strengthening women’s collectives to support women and girls facing or are at risk of Violence

4. Engaging Gram Panchayat Members to take preventive action on Domestic Violence

5. Supporting rural boys and young men to adapt gender egalitarian practices

6. Engaging frontline health workers to identify women and girls at risk of Domestic Violence

FOCUS AREA

· 1200 elected women representatives across 3 levels of the Panchayati Raj system in 3 districts of Bihar

· Self Help Groups (SHGs): 28 villages in 4 blocks of Nawada district

· Direct: 1600 women members from 140 SHGs, 741 men who are husbands of SHG members

· Indirect: More than 23,500 married women and 20,000 married men indirectly in 28 villages

· Panchayats: Two Gram Panchayats in Patna district

· Direct: 52 Gram Panchayat representatives

· Indirect: 9000 men and women

· Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan:

· 566 boys in 15 NYKS clubs across 7 blocks in one district

OUTREACH

PARTNERS SUPPORTERS

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INTERVENTION AREA: BIHAR

Engaging with young boys from the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan club to impact notions of masculinity and build model communities that works towards prevention of violence among women and girls


APPROACH

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EMPOWER- Strengthen women’s collectives to support women

and girls facing violence

- Mentor women leaders to effectively participate in Gram Sabha meetings

- Support rural boys and young men to adopt gender egalitarian practices

- Engage frontline health workers to identify women facing Domestic Violence or at risk

- Build the capacity of rural Gram Panchayats to address the issue of Domestic Violence

STRENGTHEN- Leadership skills of women and communities leaders

- Understanding of Life Skills and Gender issues for rural boys and young men

- Women Self Help groups with financial literacy; raising their awareness on violence against women

and enabling their access to support services

-Voice and advocacy skills among elected women leaders to access entitlements and take action on issues like Domestic Violence and Early Marriage

LEVERAGE- Convergence with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan

groups to reach out to young boys

- Engage Gram Panchayat members to take preventive action on Domestic Violence

- Working with Self-Help groups and their husbands

- Leveraging Technology to address gender stereotypes and attitudes

- Strengthening Leadership by working with women members of legislative assembly ( MLA's), women

journalists and women headed NGO network

Mrs. Gayatri Devi is the Deputy Chairperson (up mukhiya) of Rainvishnu Gram Panchayat of Runisaidpur block of Sitamarhi district. In her words, “Main hamesha se hi logon ke liye kaam karna chaheti thi, tareeka nahi janti thi… Pahel ne mere to apne bhoomika aur zimeydari se agha kiya (I always wanted to serve people but Pahel taught me my real roles and responsibilities as a leader of people)”.Through the Pahel sessions she learnt about the roles and responsibilities of a deputy chairperson and also put her learnings to action. She used the Panchayat funds to install eleven hand pumps, in the wake of a water crisis in the villages. For the homeless families in her village, she accessed funds from the scheme, Indira Aawas Yojana. For the elderly, she collaborated with authorities to release the old age pension and managed to ensure that more than fifty of them receive regular pension. As a president of the local school committee, Gayatri monitored activities such as attendance and retention of children in school, quality of mid-day meal and teacher's attendance. Today Gayatri commands attention and is known to be a progressive and strong leader.

PROMOTING WOMEN LEADERS

NYKS – VOICES OF CHANGE

Meradost agar kisi ladka- ladki (jo sath me kahin ja rahen ho) ko dekhkar kahta hai ki dekhona ladki ghuma raha hai tab mai kahta hunki jab tum ko pata nahi hai ki dono me kya sambandh hai to tum kaise kah sakte ho ki ek ladka kisi ladki ke prati galat drishtikon rakhta hai

(When my friend spots a boy and girl together, he assumes they are in a relationship – I respond saying how can you make such assumptions, it is a wrong attitude to have)

SAHIL KUMAR, PATNA, BIHAR ( name changed)

VOICES FROM THE FIELD

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Pahle mai ladki ko dekh kar siti (whistle) bajata tha aur usko chhedta tha par hum ab ladki ko nahi chhedte hain

(Earlier I used to whistle and tease girls, now I don't )

GAURAV KUMAR, PATNA, BIHAR ( name changed)

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Gayatri Devi

Forty six Elected Women Representatives met with Guddi Devi, Member of Legislative Assembly from Runnisaidpur, Sitamarhi district in December of 2013 to share with her topline findings from monitoring school status in the area, particularly focusing on promoting girls education. The findings included gaps in the distribution of mid- day meals and, non-functioning village education and health committees.

From being forced to abandon the Do Kadam sessions to facing regular violence from her alcoholic husband, to not been able to participate in the SHG group work, Seema Devi's life typified the life of many battered women in India. Yet life for her changed! In her own words, “When I could not go to the session, the SHG group decided to organize the Do Kadam session in my house. What could my husband do in the presence of all the women and the village elders? He watched the sessions and slowly started participating too! Today after three sessions of Do Kadam, he is a changed man. He talks to me nicely, and even the beating has stopped. He sometimes cooks for us, when I out of the house to do my work.”

SEEMA DEVI, KHANPURVILLAGE, NAWADA DISTRICT, BIHAR ( name changed)

PROMOTING GIRLS EDUCATION

EWRs monitor mid-day meals, infrastructure at primary school in Bihar, India

Elected Women Representatives working with Auxiliary Nurse Midwives, health system functionaries to organize immunization drives, counseling for adolescent girls and pregnant and lactation mothers at the Village Health and Nutrition Days.

Bihar Legislative Assembly MLAs release the Pahel toolkit and pledge to work with EWRs in amplifying their.

Khanpur Village : Collective action to solve a case of domestic violence

PROGRAMS

Youth is a time of transition: from school to work, from dependence to autonomy, and into sexual maturity. Investment in youth generates the greatest returns when started in early childhood and continued through these transitions. Young people and more specifically adolescents have distinct needs and interests shaped by their gender, context, ability and age and as a group are therefore diverse. One of the first organizations working with young people, CEDPA India launched its first comprehensive program, Better Life Options (BLO) for adolescents in 1987. The program based on an empowerment model, combined elements of education, family life education, Life Skills, vocational training, health information and services and personality development. Over the years the program was expanded and adapted and widely by other organizations across states in India.

CEDPA India strongly believes that creating a better future for women begins with educating young people, both in and out of school. CEDPA India’s programs focuses on building the leadership skills of adolescents with information and awareness on health issues as well as enhancing awareness on gender equality, nutrition, hygiene, sexual and reproductive health, HIV and civic responsibility and vocational training by reaching out to both in-school as well as out-of-school adolescents.

CEDPA India’s Youth programs has a two-fold focus on empowering adolescents from out of school through civil society and government led community based programs and working at scale to implement school adolescent education programs in partnership with state governments in an effort to influence adolescent health and education policy and guidelines in India.

From health to human rights and from self-confidence to civic participation, CEDPA India’s approach to adolescence education stresses on enhancing practical Life Skills that help expand knowledge specific to their health, well-being and development and offer young adolescents a world of opportunities.

GIRLS EDUCATION AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Increased self-esteem by learning Life Skills positions young girls as productive citizen in communities

1. Comprehensive age appropriate Life Skills curriculum for adolescents, integrated in the Adolescent Education Program of the Education Department, Government of Jharkhand and Bihar

2. Curricular activity based learning approach that enables young people to respond to real life situations more effectively

3. Building agency, leadership skills, Life Skills and awareness on nutrition and ARSH for out of school adolescents in Jharkhand, Bihar and Delhi

4. Cost effective e-learning platform with age appropriate Life Skill education for schools in Delhi and Jharkhand

5. Livelihood generation models for adolescent girls in Bihar

6. An integrated program on parent-child dialogue for Life Skills learning and communication

FOCUS AREA

· 600,000 adolescent boys and girls in Jharkhand & Bihar

· More than 100,000 adolescent out of school girls in Jharkhand Bihar and Delhi

· Over 1600 in school adolescents in Delhi using a digital curriculum

OUTREACH

PARTNERS

JHARKHAND STATE AIDS CONTROL SOCIETY

DEPT. OF EDUCATION, JHARKHAND

DEPT. OF EDUCATION, BIHAR

DEPT. OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE, JHARKHAND

WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

DORD, GMUS

Workshop on Showcasing digital programs for Young People

INTERVENTION AREA

BIHAR, JHARKHAND, DELHI

SUPPORTERS

JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T.


APPROACH

ENGAGE

INNOVATE

- By strengthening leadership skills, agency and awareness on SRHR, Gender and Life skills amongst

adolescent boys and girls

- Using new and innovative digital mediums to promote learning and adaption of Life Skills

- With State Government Departments to leverage programs for adolescents

- By facilitating sessions with parents and children on Adolescent needs using standardized curriculums

and participatory learning sessions

- Standardized age appropriate Life Skills education pedagogy

- Successful partnership model between Government Departments of Bihar and Jharkhand

- Integration of curriculum in school calendar and teacher facilitated Life Skills sessions

- Comprehensive bilingual digital learning package on Life Skills and Reproductive Health and Rights

- Leveraging government schemes to reach out to out of school adolescent girl by developing standardized curriculum, IEC material and

standardized training tools and aids

- Inter-generational dialogues between parents children on issues and concerns of young people.

CATALYZE

- Life Skills education as part of the Adolescent Education Program with the State Government

- National and State level recognition for program design and impact

- Uptake of Life Skills curriculum in Government schools

- Inclusion of Life Skills education in teacher training institutions in Jharkhand

- Existing Government schemes to reach out to out of school adolescent girls, collectivize and enhance

Life Skills and SRH awareness

- More girls to have access to livelihood and employment opportunities

- Increased willingness by parents to communicate with adolescents on sexual health and well-being

KALAWATI - Striving Hard for Education

For Kalawati, (name changed), the adolescent peer learning program facilitated by CEDPA India was a life changer. A resident of the Dumerdih village in the Gumla Block, Jharkhand, Kalawati was forced by her parents, to drop out of school. Drawn to the SABLA peer group that empowers adolescent girls on Life Skills, Kalawati build her own confidence and realized her self -worth and also became aware about her rights as an individual. In her words, “Atma samman and garima ke satra ne mujhe prerit kiya, apne adhikaron ke liye mang karne ko (the sessions on self-esteem, dignity motivated me to step up and demand for my rights)”. She had a discussion with her parents on her right to study and through numerous struggles and help from the CEDPA India staff got herself re-admitted to school. Today she studies at the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV), in grade 9 and dreams of becoming a teacher and help other girls escape the cycle of illiteracy and poverty

SARITA KUMARI (name changed , student of grade IX in the Kasturba Gandhi BalikaVidhyalaya (KGBV)), Jharkhand, was able to stand up to her parents to prevent her early marriage.

VOICES FROM THE FIELD

There is a lot of pressure in our society for young girls to get married. Everyday someone or the other amongst the relatives raises the issue of “timely” marriage and girls getting matured. It is very upsetting. Had it not been for the Udaan sessions in school, I would have never learnt about the problems of child marriage and legal rights of adolescent girls.

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Out of school girls learn vocational skills in special centres supported by CEDPA India in Bihar


15 YEARS, CLASS V, UNMARRIED

ADOLESCENT, GRADE 8, DELHI

I tell my father that I don’t want to get married early. Am I a burden to you? I am earning and contributing so why are you in a hurry to get me married. These days girls work and get married late. Girls work in office…… There is a change in my parents’ attitude – earlier they would always ask” where are you going, why are you going?”. Now they accept my going out and do not have any problems.

The Life Skills class gives us the opportunity to ask questions and know about topics that are not discussed at home. I am now able to go back and talk to my parents and share things about my life.

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Youthspeak: Sharing learning from the digital YouthLife program in Delhi schools.

Working towards livelihood generation; sewing machines for young girls at a centre in Bihar


PROGRAMS

Health risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth are major threats to a woman’s life in developing countries. Healthcare for childbirth is the right of every woman, yet lack of quality of care, dearth of qualified medical functionaries, and non-access to basic medicines and medical facilities all contribute to maternal deaths.

CEDPA India is committed to ensuring greater access to health information and services that save lives and build healthier families. Since its inception, CEDPA India is the Secretariat of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, the largest alliance in the world, working to save mothers from dying. Efforts have included a series of community based advocacy events. The first catalyzing event undertaken by the alliance was the “March to the Taj Mahal” in 2001, organized to bring attention to the need to take action to prevent needless maternal deaths. Other key achievements have included the promotion and sharing of evidence-based best practices for safe motherhood, declaration of National Safe Motherhood Day, collaboration with the government at national and local level, mobilization of elected representatives, engaging celebrities as champions, launching the global campaign “Deliver Now for women and children”, outreach to youth and the building of alliances and partnerships. At the national level, CEDPA India has been part of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare led initiatives like organising the National Safe Motherhood Day, instituting National Award for Health Workers, guidelines for Skilled Attendance at Birth for ANMs and MOs, and Quality Assurance for health care facilities

At CEDPA India, our commitment of promoting maternal health helps us push boundaries and take up innovations that range from creating safe motherhood model villages to engaging with policy makers at the state and national level through wider networks and platforms.

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & RIGHTS

Using mobile phones to reach the unreached for quality service uptake

1. Working with communities and policy makers on Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness for safer maternal health outcomes

2. Engaging with health systems for ensuring maternal health entitlements and improvement in quality of care

3. Leveraging technology as a driver for improved maternal health

4. Advocacy at State and National Level on Safe Motherhood issues

5. Engaging eligible couples for fertility awareness

6. Promoting accountability through community participation and citizen engagement

7. Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition

FOCUS AREA

- Women reached in 20 villages during the feasibility test of the IVR platform on quality of maternal health care in Jharkhand

- Over 65,000 ZCARDs created to provide information on maternal, infant and young child nutrition

- Close to 3000 men and women entitled with Maternal health information in 3 states of India

- 8000 community members directly engaged to build 10 model safe motherhood villages in Jharkhand

OUTREACH

PARTNERS

GRAM VANI, NAV BHARAT JAGRITI KENDRA, SRIJAN FOUNDATION, CHETNA, CINI

INTERVENTION AREA

NATIONAL LEVEL, RAJASTHAN, WEST BENGAL, JHARKHAND

SUPPORTERS

Working with communities for safe maternal health outcomes


ENGAGE

ADVOCATE

INNOVATE

- Mobilizing communities support for Safe Motherhood

- Building advocates for lifesaving reproductive care- Engaging families for fertility awareness generation

- Partnership model of working with local leaders

- National Secretariat of the White Ribbon Alliance - Advocacy with National and State Ministries and Departments for Safe Motherhood Services and

Entitlements - National Health Workers Awards for Health

workers

- ZCards on maternal, infant and young child nutrition

- Using technology to effect quality of maternal care in women’s lives

- Social Accountability Tools for the Communities to demand maternal health entitlements and services

APPROACH


In 2013-14, an assessment of private health providers perceptive on Quality of Care in provisions of Maternal Health Service in Delhi and Jharkhand was taken up as a part of larger and innovative social accountability program implemented by CEDPA India as the Secretariat of WRAI. Key stakeholders' were interviewed, to understand underlying quality and business constraints that affect the service delivery environment and recommend potential solutions. Stakeholders' included doctors, hospital management, administration, marketing personnel, business development personnel.

Working with women, men and community gatekeepers is the surest way to ensure demand and uptake of quality health services. While the National Health Mission (NHM) pushes for supply side improvement, with quality of care as its fundamental axiom, the amplification of voices amongst community members as well informed cadres of duty bearers are crucial to ensure that women don't lose their lives during childbirth. The safe motherhood model village program in Jharkhand looks at the preservation and upkeep of the women and child eco system as the central focus to create services, access, and accountability for maternal and neonatal health care.

CEDPA India as the National Secretariat of the White Ribbon Alliance India in collaboration with MoHFW instituted annual National Health Workers Award to commemorate health workers working in the remotest parts of India.

Khalifa Begum, Jammu and Kashmir receives the best ASHA award from Member, Planning

Commission, Dr. Syeda Hameed

Dissemination meeting with doctors and administrators from leading hospitals in New Delhi

CEDPA India has also developed a series of communication material on birth preparedness and complication readiness translated in vernacular language for use of health activists and others. Social Accountability tools developed by CEDPA India are been widely used by communities to monitor and track maternal deaths, access to safe motherhood services.

Nutrition as a prime component of health and the relation between inadequate nutrition leading to ill-health cannot be overemphasized. CEDPA India in collaboration with The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has conceptualized, designed and developed training products in English and Hindi around Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) in the form of Z-Cards for frontline health workers and communities.

Women at a local PHC in Jharkhand after her delivery

Setting quality benchmarks in neonatal care


Healthy mothers for healthy society

Demanding Accountability for maternal and neonatal health and development

Making critical reproductive health information available, CEDPA India's newest program, works with young married couple, providing them with critical fertility awareness in 12 districts of Jharkhand.

PUBLICATIONS

RESOURCES & NETWORK

MEDIA CLIPPINGS

AUDITOR’S REPORT

FINANCE

To the members of The Centre for Development and Population Activities,

We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of The Centre for Development and Population Activities, New Delhi, as at March 31, 2014 and also the Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended on that date annexed thereto. These financial statements are the responsibility of the management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion and we report that:

(i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit;

(ii)In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept and maintained by the society so far as appears from our examination of the books;

(iii) The Balance Sheet and the Income and Expenditure Account dealt with by this report are in agreement with the books of accounts; and

(iv) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the Accounts give true and fair view:

a) in the case of Balance Sheet of the state of affairs of the society as at March 31, 2014 and

b) in the case of Income and Expenditure Account, of the surplus of the society for the year ended on that date.

Place: New Delhi Date: This 04th day of August 2014

For T.R. Chadha & Co.,Chartered Accountants (Firm Registeration No. 006711N) ------------sd------------(Nirupma Dwivedi) Partner M.No 89429


ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET AS AT MARCH 31, 2014

ABRIDGED INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2014

PARTICULARS

SOURCES OF FUNDS

General Reserve Fund

Designated Fund

Restricted Fund - Grants & Contributions

Current Liabilities and Provisions

TOTAL

PARTICULARS

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

Fixed Assets

Current Assets

Cash and Bank Balances

Advances Recoverable in Cash or Kind

TOTAL

EXPENDITURE

Establishment and Communication

Workshop, Information & Dissemination

Salaries and Benefits

Consultancy

Travel & Transportation

Sub-grants

Transferred to General Reserve Fund

TOTAL

28,039.00

233.00

36,843.00

7,179.00

72,294.00

66,061.00

5,673.00

71,734.00

20,795.00

186.00

36,481.00

7,191.00

64,653.00

65,272.00

4,853.00

70,125.00

1,679.00

7,795.00

61,017.00

1,803.00

72,294.00

7,224.00

7,488.00

27,668.00

9,351.00

5,837.00

6,920.00 64,488.00

7,246.00

71,734.00

6,389.00

70,125.00

1,680.00

5,659.00

56,388.00

926.00

64,653.00

7,087.00

8,162.00

23,810.00

11,732.00

6,495.00

6,450.00

63,736.00

March 31, 2014

(Rs.)

Year Ended

March 31, 2014

Amount(Rs.)

March 31, 2013

(Rs.)

( in'000)

Year Ended

March 31, 2013

Amount(Rs.)

INCOME

Income from Programs

Other Income

TOTAL


CEDPA INDIA: GOVERNING BOARD

Dr. Kaval Gulhati is a senior population and development specialist with more than 30 years of experience in health and demography, institutional development, training, project management, program design and implementation in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Born and educated in India, her career has spanned work internationally in the field of development. She has developed training programs aimed at empowering women through skills, information and capacity building. She has expertise in organizational development, having successfully co-founded and served as President and CEO of the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) in Washington, D.C. She has co-authored two books on the voluntary sector in India. Other publications include articles on population, management and women in development. She also serves as a Board Member to several NGOs. Her current work focuses on managing the Unniti Foundation where is committed to promoting individual and secular philanthropy for development in India.

Nozer Sheriar is a consulting obstetrician, gynecologist and gynecological endoscopist. He is the secretary general of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI), and former chair of its Medical Termination of Pregnancy Committee. Dr. Sheriar is the past president of the Mumbai Obstetric and Gynecological Society. He is also on the Technical Advisory Panel for the Government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He is a member of CEDPA India’s board of directors. He serves on the Family Planning Association of India’s Medical Advisory Panel and is a former member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s governing council.

Ms. Sheila Seda is the Secretary General, the Trained Nurses Association of India, a position she has been holding for the last five years. She is a well known advocate who has worked to uphold the dignity and honor of the nursing profession, promoting high standards of health care and nursing practice and advancing professional, educational, socio-economic and general welfare of the nurses.

Ms. Ghazala Amin is an associate professor of history in Jesus and Mary College at the University of Delhi, and has worked as citizen warden with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. She has extensive experience anchoring and producing television programs. She anchored a women's magazine program for ETV, which was telecast in 26 countries, and anchored the Asian Magazine for BBC TV in London. In addition to teaching, she currently participates in radio programs and anchors a weekly TV program called Show Biz Asia.

Dr. Suneeta Mukherjee is a professional in the field of Reproductive Health, Gender and Advocacy with nearly four decades of experience at ascending Administrative levels in the Indian Administrative Service and the International Civil Service (UNFPA). She has worked in multi-cultural environments, and led culturally diverse teams in several countries in the Asian Region. She retired from UNFPA in 2010, as the Country Representative in Philippines.

BOARD MEMBERS


Mr. Salil Kumar is a qualified Chartered Accountant, who has worked with a large numbers of international and national NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies providing a range of services. His initial focus was on core accountancy practice in areas of audit and tax, management consultancy, system design and implementation. He has advised organizations on entry strategies for India, transition planning and implementation from international organizations to national entities, project management, grant portfolio management, strategies for financial sustainability, design and implementation of financial, management and administrative systems. Subsequently, he shifted from finance to organizational consulting wherein he is now associated with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), as their Grants Management Officer for South Asia.

Mr. Rajiv Anand is the President-Retail Banking, Axis Bank Limited. A Chartered Accountant with over 22 years of experience in Indian capital markets, Mr. Anand is equipped with considerable experience and knowledge of the fund industry. In the past, Mr. Anand was the head of Axis Asset Management Company Ltd., the asset management arm of Axis Bank. Mr. Anand has led an award winning investment management team at the erstwhile Standard Chartered AMC. Mr. Anand has also worked with the Treasuries of HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank where he was responsible for managing balance sheet portfolios like SLR, daily funding as well as foreign currency loan/deposit book. He was declared Business Standard's Debt Fund Manager of the year in 2004

Dr. Aparajita Gogoi holds a PhD (International Politics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a Post graduate diploma in Journalism and has 20 years of extensive experience in program management, with expertise in designing and implementing programs, advocacy campaigns, and defining approaches and strategies for policy issues in population. Graced by WIE Humanitarian Award, Dr. Gogoi was also named as one of the 100 of world's most inspiring women by the newspaper, Guardian, UK. Dr. Gogoi is the Executive Director, of CEDPA (the Center for Development and Population Activities) India.


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