Intervention (Hidden)
The treatment villages will receive SUCCESS interventions comprising Social Mobilization, Community Investment Fund (CIF), Income Generating Grants (IGG), Micro Health Insurance (MHI), Technical and Vocational Skills Training (TVST), and Community Physical Infrastructure (CPI).
Social Mobilization: The social mobilization strategy of the SUCCESS is based on the development of partnership between the rural poor and the Rural Support Programmes (RSPs). The RSPs’ objective is to help communities form the Community Organisations (COs) of 15-25 poor households, subsequently federating into a Village-level Organisation (VOs), and finally the creation of an apex body of Village Organisations at the Union Council level called Local Support Organisation (LSOs). The LSOs form higher level (Tehsil or District) LSO networks for collaboration and cooperation with government departments, donors, NGOs and other stakeholders.
The SUCCESS programme provides resources to the RSPs to: train a cadre of community leaders i.e. Presidents and Managers of community institutions (COs/VOs/LSOs) to lead and run the community institutions; and train a cadre of Community Resource Persons (CRPs) with sector-specific knowledge to impart know-how on a range of topics such as education, family planning, nutrition, health and civic rights to communities.
Once the community institutions are formed, every CO member prepares a Micro Investment Plan (MIP), decides how she will increase income. Based on MIP the eligible members are provided one or multiple support from the following components of the programme:
Community Investment Fund (CIF): CIF is a capital grant from SUCCESS programme to the community institutions, especially LSOs. The main purpose of the CIF is to support the financial and institutional sustainability of the community institutions, and to provide financial access to members. The LSOs manage the CIF as a revolving fund while offering micro loans to women. CIF targets the poor households identified through the Poverty Score Card (PSC) to ensure that only the households with a PSC 0-23 at the baseline access capital, and start income generating activities.
Income Generating Grants (IGGs): The IGGs provide assistance to the poorest community members through a one-time cash grant to start economic/income generating activities. The poverty scorecard is used to identify the eligible households to ensure that only the poorest households with a poverty score of (0-12) at the baseline access the IGG. Additionally, the COs have to approve the eligibility of the household.
Micro Health Insurance (MHI): MHI is a social protection measure for the most destitute and vulnerable households. The objective of the MHI is to protect these households from health shocks that may push them deeper into poverty due to large expenses commonly incurred on health. The SUCCESSS programme provides MHI with a premium of Rs. 1,000 (€ 5.88) per household and a hospitalization coverage of Rs. 25,000 (€ 147) per year per household member to a twenty-five percent of the poorest (PSC 0-12, starting from the lowest score).
Technical and Vocational Skills Training (TVST): The purpose of the TVST is to design and implement demand driven training programmes that enable people to generate incomes through skills imparted i.e. either by providing access to local labour markets or through self-employment. The SUCCESS programme TVSTs to men and women from the households with PSC 0-23.
Community Physical Infrastructure (CPIs): The purpose of the CPI projects is to improve basic community level infrastructure and productive assets. These projects are identified, implemented and maintained by the VOs, thus building their institutional capacity and ownership and meeting their needs.