Programme

RASTA, Godda is implementing HIV/AIDS program to reduce the spread of infection of STI/HIV/AIDS through Hot Spot specific intervention in the name of Targeted Intervention among FSWs in Godda district. The main objectives of intervention are -

• To provide innovative and effective B.C.C. to FSWs and stakeholders of the Community


• To increase STI/HIV/AIDS awareness knowledge score from existing 70% to 90% within three years.


• To promote consistent and correct use of condom among the communities through demonstration, distribution and social marketing.


• To create enabling environment with various stakeholders’ sex Workers, brokers, influential persons, Police department etc


• To ensure sustainability of the program through referral and linkages.


• To support and facilitate changes in the community so that they are empowered to articulate their issues and develop their own solutions or advocate for the needed solutions.

Strategy of RASTA is to form & strengthen community based organization (CBO’s) focusing on women & adolescent. Women’s organization & adolescent group are empowered to effectively undertaken the responsibility of implementation & monitoring of development initiatives in the operational area. Such organization intervenes in social, cultural & political areas for social transformation.

• A total of 88 women group formed in Godda District


• A total of 22 adolescent (girls) groups formed in Godda District.


• A total of 10 Migrant Forums formed in Godda District.

RASTA takes initiatives for enhancement in Adolescent Girls’ Leadership and empowered them for preventing and responding to child marriage and early unions in 10 villages of Boarijore block of Godda district of Jharkhand with the partnership of GFF. Key strategy are -

Enhancement of Girls’ Leadership : Empowerment of girls to gain the skills, leadership building and confidence to become agents of change by helping them to envisage and forge their own pathways in life and thus realize their full potentials and to make their own life choices. So there is need to work directly with girls by investing in girls, and their participation in their society over their own lives. Enhancement of Girls’ Leadership will challenge harmful norms on their own by fighting against domestic violence, child marriage, and speaking up for their rights. There will be an emphasis on football as a sport for girls as a way to increase girls’ leadership and confidence and as a way to raise awareness on gender discrimination and child marriage.

Mobilize families and communities for Social and Behavior Change Communication: Sustained abolition or reduction in violence against women and girls in the form of child marriage will only occur through processes of significant social change, including in power relations between women and men, and in the values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and practices (social norms) related to violence against women and girls, at all levels – from individuals to communities to institutions. Thus the work is needed with families and communities to create awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage, and of alternative roles for girls and women, so that families and communities prefer not to marry their daughters as children and so that they themselves engage in efforts to end the practice.

Target Group : The direct beneficiaries of the program will be girls (aged under 18) and young women (aged 18-24) of tribal community in general and PTGs in particular, OBCs and minorities. The target groups of girls will encompass of both the school goers & drop outs and the married & unmarried.

Target villages : Kushbilla, Rajabhitta, Aamjhor, Narayanpur, Kendua and Rajapokhar of Boarijire block of Godda district.

Outcome :

• A total of 17 adolescent girls group formed to cover 340 adolescent girls in all 10 targeted villages.
• A total of 17 girls clubs for solidarity and encouraging them to play football has been formed and strengthen them through providing footballs and Football Dress. They also play football on regular basis.
• A total of 5 adolescent girls of 10th classes have been selected for fellowship award program to ensure admission in Intermediate class and providing books, uniforms.
• In all 10 villages community convergence meeting has been organized among PRI Members, AWW, Sahiya, ANM, SHG members, local leaders etc for creating a holistic environment to change societal attitudes, behaviors and norms related to child marriage and ensure their support to stop child marriage if observed in community.

To strengthening the farmer for entrepreneurial development, promoting SRI initiatives and agro development initiatives, RASTA initiated Farmer Club Program in Giridih district with support of NABARD Giridih. A total of 26 Farmer Club had been prepared & nurtured in Giridh District. A total of 100 farmers of Giridih District have taken training and orientation on SRI (System of Rice Intensification) promotion. Paddy cultivation through SRI method in 150.13 hectare with the support of ATMA-Dist.Agriculture department, Giridih and a total of 900 family of Giridih and Gandey blocks are benefited from this program.

• Promotion of biological and organic farming - Organic farming promotes the use of crop rotations and cover crops, and encourages balanced host/predator relationships. Organic residues and nutrients produced on the farm are recycled back to the soil. Cover crops and composted manure are used to maintain soil organic matter and fertility. Preventative insect and disease control methods are practiced, including crop rotation, improved genetics and resistant varieties. Integrated pest and weed management, and soil conservation systems are valuable tools on an organic farm. In this context RASTA is promoting biological and organic framing in target areas. A total of 500 farmers of 10 villages of Pathargama block of Godda district are being covered through sensitization and demand generation to use of organic supplies.


• Promotional Extension & support to Tribal for Marketing of Agriculture produce - RASTA is implementing “the promotional extension & support to tribal for marketing of agriculture produce Scheme” under Prototype Phase-v of DWO, Godda Jharkhand. Under this program three unit of program is being implementing in Pathargama block. A total of three farmer groups have been promoted for marketing linkages with their agriculture produce. Program components are: Promotion and Nurturing of Farmers Group, Shade Formation for collecting agro-product and Technical Training of Farmers groups.

After a long year of freedom, gender disparity still exists in our Indian society. Being born as a woman in Indian society one has to face gender discrimination at all levels. At the household level - females are confined to the bounds of their household chores, raising children and looking after families, irrespective of their education degrees or her job profile. At her workplace women have limited access to job opportunities and are paid less for the same work. RASTA believes that gender-based discrimination can only be checked when girls are not denied their chance to learn and grow in life. Girls like boys should get a great start in life in terms of educational opportunities. This will help them attain economic independence and will also help them to be rightly equipped to make a contribution towards their upliftment as well as that of the society they are part of. In order to achieve this objective, RASTA belief to make networking with different stakeholders/partners for developmental issues so that it could be highlighted at larger forum to get positives response for the upliftment of the disadvantaged and the underprivileged and a positive response to build capacity of the community.

RASTA is executing the Anti-trafficking Communication Campaign in Godda district for Promoting safe mobility and counter trafficking in Jharkhand with the support of JATN Jharkhand Anti- trafficking Network. The main function of the network is to promote safe mobility and to solve problems related to its allied women by making them aware of their due rights, skill development at grass root level and also to raise the issue at state Level for effective Policy implementation and also to advocate to activate the different Govt. dormant machineries for its smooth functioning. Key activities are Women’s collective/SHG Meeting, Kishori group meeting, Formation of migrant forum, Training/workshop with migrant forum at Panchayat level/block/district level with workers like PRI members, AWW, health workers, Para teacher, sahiya, sahayika village leaders etc.

RASTA has keen interest to preserve and to advocate the issues and concerns of women, especially those from marginalized and deprived communities. For this RASTA has networking with AALI for enhancing the capacity on the legal issues of women right and their concern and to provide legal and other required assistance to women, especially abused women, as well as initiate legal action and intervene in legal issues pertaining to the right to choice and violence against women.

RASTA, Godda is a partner of Ibtida-CREA with a objective to Strengthening feminist leadership to realise women’s human rights at the community level in Jharkhand’.

A total of 17 adolescent girls group of age 11-13 and 14-18 has been prepared and nurtured through regular meetings. Thus 272 adolescent girls covered during the period. Following issues discussed during meeting- Marriage age of girls either 18 or 21 year , Regarding right of women and girls, Patriarchal norms and its implication, Early and forced marriage, Personal health and hygiene, MTP and its legal process Details of adolescent girls group- Village name Number of adolescent girl’s group Kendua- 3 Dhamani- 2 Uparbandha – 2 Narayanpur- 1 Aamjhor- 2 Rajabhitta- 2 Bhadariya- 2 Bada Dumarhil- 1 Rajapokhar- 1 Bada Dhanbindi- 1

Formation and strengthen the girls clubs for solidarity and encouraging them to play football. To enhance girls leadership by creating awareness and increasing self confidence among themselves among 200 girls of 10 villages of Boarijore block of Godda district.

A total of 17 adolescent girls club for solidarity and encouraging them to play football has been prepared. They also have provided football and sport dress to play football. All girls of club play football as a tool to create awareness and build up confidence among them.

Convergence meeting with community level stakeholders/ Leaders: To create a holistic environment to change societal attitudes, behaviors and norms related to child marriage and ensure their support to stop child marriage if observed in community. 18 Convergence meeting with community level stakeholders has been completed till now. Meetings has been participated by PRI members, AWW, SHG members, School teachers, local women leaders.

“FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR GIRLS”: To place a fellowship award program for 10 adolescent girls every year to pay school/college fees particularly of marginalized. 10 girls have been selected for fellowship program.

Indian and Govt. Agency :

• ATMA, Giridih


• SPARK, Ranchi


• LGSS/Tdh


• NABARD


• Srijan Foundation, Hazaribagh/ JATN


• JSACS (Jharkhand State AIDS Control Society), Ranchi, Government of Jharkhand.

• District welfare office, Godda


• District water and sanitation office, Bhagalpur, Bihar


• Child India Foundation, Mumbai


• Kailash Satyarthi Children Foundation (KSCF), Delhi


• Research India, Lucknow, India

International agency :

• The British Asian Trust, United Kingdom (UK)


• Girls First Fund, United States of America (USA)