Voice of People (VOP)
जिसकी लड़ाई उसकी अगुवाई
Voice of People (VOP) was started
in Uttar Pradesh as a campaign to propose a constitutional amendment to the
government for free and compulsory education to all children in 2002. The
National Alliance for the Fundamental Right to Education (NAFRE) was doing the
same campaign at the national level. There was a clear difference between the
NAFRE and VOP. The NAFRE was a national level alliance for ensuring every child
get access to education as a fundamental right but VOP was a UP state level
network working on child rights like education, health, nutrition and
participation. The alliance working
under NAFRE disappeared after 2010 but the VOP is still working in Uttar
Pradesh.
VOP envisions a healthy, empowered, environmentally protected
society, promoting social issues for behavioural change in Uttar Pradesh.
Enhancing and influencing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) in the
intervention areas has been one of the core issues of the VOP. Education,
health and nutrition has been the core area of the intervention of the network
members.
Mission
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Advocacy and networking with government to
ensure access to education, health services and nutritious food.
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Advocacy for opening of new schools, new ICDS
centres and coverage of more communities under ASHA workers and ANMs.
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Enabling/Training villagers on kitchen garden
concept to ensure that their children and pregnant women get nutritious food.
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Enable community mechanisms to manage common
resources and needs to ensure happy and healthy childhood in their UP.
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Enable community people especially women and
children to access health care facilities
•
Inclusion of excluded and their entitlement in
all Development activities/programmes.
•
These are some of the important
VOP champions innovative methods
and technology that enable its member organization to play a critical role in
the policy making process for the most marginalised section of Uttar Pradesh.
VOP regularly conducts primary research to understand views of the people
directly affecting its interventions.
VOP seeks to give the people from its intervention areas a greater voice
in government by promoting the use of new methods and technologies like public
hearing, consultation of civil society and government stakeholders and also
sharing the ground reports with the concern state level departments and
ministries.
Under the leadership of the VOP different groups were formed
at the village level between 1999 and 2008. These CBOs played critical role in
the child rights movement in UP. Important
among them were Mahila Haqdari Morcha, Kisan Sangathan, and Bal Manch. These
groups were empowered to the extent that they could influence village-level
politics. They ensured that all the village heads (Gram Pradhan) passed a
resolution to open government schools in their respective villages.
VOP is network of civil societies. It is not a registered
body. Most of the members of the VOP are working for the development of the
most deprived section of our society.
The Criteria to be
member of VOP:
·
Understanding of Child Rights Issues in Uttar
Pradesh
o
Right to Survival
o
Right to Development
o
Right to Protection
o
Right to Participation
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Members should be from UP
·
Should have been working in UP for more than 3
years on child rights issues
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