Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan
To realize the dream of a developed and self-dependent rural community that is empowered to achieve Gram Swaraj
Who We Are
Genesis
Since his student life our founder secretary Rajdev Chaturvedi was very sensitive about the issues of women and the marginalized community. In 1990 he met with Prem Bhai, a reputed social worker from Banwasi Sewa Ashram. During an hour-long discussion with him, Rajdev was inspired by the ideology of sarvodaya (upliftment of all) and the Gandhian philosophy of development. He then decided the work for the upliftment of poor and marginalized community with special focus on women.
To shape his vision of development he then formed Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan in Azamgarh with some likeminded people. In 1992 the organization was registered under the Societies Registration Act. The organization began working with Dalits and marginalised communities in the Atrauliya block of Azamgarh district focusing on the issue of women’s health. Currently GPS is focusing on the issue of women empowerment by strengthening their understanding on their rights and entitlements and promoting their voice in local self-governance and government machinery. GPS is also focusing on the issues of reproductive and child health, right to information, and gender equality in association with various state level networks and forums. Our key areas of competency are CBO facilitation with rights perspective, women, and child health promotion, right to education, adolescent development, and digital literacy, liaisoning and CBO-led advocacy with the stakeholders.
Our Approach
Objectives
- Empowerment of rural community for self-dependence (Gram Swaraj)
- To make people aware about their rights by ensuring multifaceted development.
- To make endeavours for self-dependency on rural and urban bodies towards governance.
- To make aware the marginalized people belonging to urban and rural bodies about the government schemes of health, hygiene, nutrition, and education through capacity building.
- To address the issues like agriculture, disaster management, primary education, gender-based violence and violence against women, early childcare and development and other rights-based issues.
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— Our Mission
Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan believes in the dignity of the people and their capacity to overcome the pressures that exploit them. Therefore, our mission is to develop autonomous groups to achieve the objective of development and self-reliance through capacity building.
02.
— Our Vision
To realize the dream of a developed and self-dependent rural community that is empowered to achieve Gram Swaraj (rural self-governance) in its true sense.
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Core Values
Our core values include respecting each other at every level of the society, feeling of equality, availability and accessibility of equal opportunities, transparency in development works, dedication towards target, self-discipline, and responsibility.
Our Belief
Our belief is that for a happy nation the entire society needs to be developed and this is possible only when every member of the society is happy.
Theory of Change
We believe that change can take place when we comply with democratic processes and respect each other without any discrimination on the basis of religion and caste and have equal opportunities for all at every level without any gender bias.
Core Issues
GPS working on some core issues like
- Women Empowerment
- Gender equality and violence against women
- Maternal, neonatal, child health, adolescent and environment health
- Family planning
- Promotion of agro based livelihood through women famers
- Adolescent development/young people reproductive and sexual health rights and HIV/AIDS
- Youth skill development for employment through job placements
- Education (RTE)
- Early childcare and development (ECCD)
- Disaster relief work
Capability Statement
Our current development portfolio includes women leadership development, food security and income enhancement, quality education for child, protection of child rights, maternal child and adolescent health, and human rights. The organization has experience to implement various projects on above issues. GPS has core competency in collectivization of communities and their leadership building through CBOs promotion and management, system side linkage and networking, legal facilitation, development of resource person on various issues. It also has strong competency for capacity building of community and grass root level CSOs through structured and participatory manner training. We have skilled personnel on various issues who could facilitate and implement the projects.
Our organization is also giving training and CBM consultancy to various organizations in different districts and states. Rajdev Chaturvedi, chief functionary of GPS is a national level trainer on human rights and gender framework and has worked with the various agencies on trainings especially on rights-based approach and human rights base development and gender framework, CBM on reproductive health, and micro level planning.
Board Members
Poonam Yadav
ChairpersonMs. Poonam Yadav is working with SAHAYOG Society as a senior programme associate. She has been working with adolescents and youths of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand at the grassroot level in the domain of SRHR, gender justice, education, Constitution, livelihood and mental health inclusivity for almost a decade. She is passionate about issues related to youths and believes in building a sustainable youth leadership. She stands for increase in representation of women in politics and other sectors to create a better and safe space for women and girls. She vehemently opposes caste and gender-based discrimination.
Rajdev Chaturvedi
SecretaryMr Rajdev Chaturvedi is the founder chief functionary of Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan. He is a prominent and professional Gandhian Social Worker; he is working for the socio-economic betterment of vulnerable people and the society. He is working as a team leader of GPS in various programmes for 30 years. He has vast experience in community health, nutrition, agro-based livelihood, education, and women empowerment etc. He is the founder of networks like MASVAW, Health Watch Forum, and SATHI-UP.
Pushpa Pal
TreasurerMrs Pushpa Pal has been associated with social work since 2010 with Jan Shikshan Kendra. Upon completing B.Ed in 2013, she got involved in the work of the organization after the demise of her father. At present she is working as the secretary of Jan Shikshan Kendra. Presently the organization is working on the issues of women empowerment, health, adolescent empowerment, child rights, livelihood, and climate change.
Indramani Pandey
Vice Chairperson
Amar Nath Sharma
Member
Uma Shankar Sharma
Member
Virendra Upadhyay
MemberStaff Members
Rajdev Chaturvedi
CEO/PDTenure with the organisation: 30 years
Balroop Soni
AccountantTenure with the organisation: 2 years
Ambuj
MIS CoordinatorTenure with the organisation: 2 years
Jyoti Gupta
Project CoordinatorTenure with the organisation: 6 years
Dinesh Kumar
Community MobiliserTenure with the organisation: 8 years
Moh. Moosa Azami
Project ManagerTenure with the organisation: 3 years
Janhvidutt
Program CoordinatorTenure with the organisation: 3 years
Rajesh Rai
MIS CoordinatorTenure with the organisation: 6 years
Kundan Goswami
Project ManagerTenure with the organisation: 3 years