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SATHI-UP has successfully introduced the concept of District Forum (SDF) in 1997-98. The forums are autonomous unit and with their own agenda for discussion. The induction and termination of membership of any organization are completely depending on District Forums.The district forums have 10-12 members’ organizations in an average per district forum. CSOs meet on regular interval basis in the SDFs and discuss various aspects of institutional development and programmatic issues.SATHI Regional Hubs are another autonomous structure that is established by SATHI District Forums. It has been established in geographically and social context and created 5 regional hubs. ESTABLISHED SATHI REGIONAL HUBS IN THE REPRESENTATION OF SATHI DISTRICT FORUMS Region-1:Tarai Region near Indo-Nepal Border Region-2: Purvanchal region Region-3: Vindhya Region Region-4: Central UP Region-5: Bundelkhand Balrampur Mau Mirzapur Faizabad Mahoba Shrawasti Azamgarh Sonebhadra Sultanpur Jhansi Baharaich Ballia Chandauli Pratapgarh Banda Siddharth Nagar Gazipur Allahabad Amethi Hameerpur Mahrajganj Gorakhpur Fatehpur Lucknow Jalaun Santkabir Nagar Deoria Kausambi Barabanki Lalitpur Basti Jaunpur Bhadohi Raibarelie Chitrakoot Gonda Ambedkarnagar Varanasi Unnao

SATHI-UP has developed and established itself as a Resource Organization. It is working to provide the consultancy support to grassroots level CSOs on organizational development-OD process, Capacity building, Research/Study, Project planning and Evaluation/ assessment. A Resource group is established at organization level to facilitate the consultancy and capacity building need of CSOs. Members of Resource Group are the senior social activist and development professional having great skill and experience. Resource Group focus work and expertise are : 1. Project Designing & Project planning2. Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation3. Reporting and Documentation4. Govt. flagship schemes and central act5. Capacity building6. Research/Study

Strengthening People’s Action for Humane Equitable and Sustainable Society (SAHES Fellowship) is a running program of SATHI. It aims to build and strengthen the values of Fraternity, Secularism, Justice, and Equality enshrined in the constitution of India. SAHES program inbuilt credibility among the people at the grass-root level and enriched the constitutional values in people by SAHES fellows. SAHES fellows work to address different developmental issues related to the rights and constitutional values of society. The SAHES Fellowship program is to build a relationship with the people of Eastern UP and Bundelkhand. The motive of the program is to enhance awareness among the people of the community on constitutional values and rights by eradicating the inequalities, untouchability, and discrimination based on caste, class, gender, and religion, and also strengthening the secular fabric in society, facilitating communal and social harmony. The SAHES fellowship came into form after the positive feedback on piloting mode. The SAHES fellowship program was started in pilot mode in April 2019 for one year with 25 fellows in 15 districts. Based on the assessment of individual fellows, fellow’s achievements, and reflection on the program enriched the program. Fellow’s achievements and sparks in fellows extended the project for 3 years with 45 Fellows in 22 Districts.Underprivileged and Underdeveloped regions of Uttar Pradesh need helping hands to promote equality, and justice and mitigate the social /political differences and issues that prevail in the society. To spread awareness among the people, SATHI-UP with the fellowship program has taken the initiative to put its steps close to the Eastern UP and Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. Bundelkhand and Eastern UP are the lagging regions of the country. These regions’ people are facing toxic environments because of political, social, and communal interference. Interfering for development is a boon, contrary to interference that finishes the development, peace, and harmony of the society is a downfall ladder. Many more reasons for the downfall of the brotherhood in the community include discrimination among people based on their caste, religion, class, and gender.For the people of the society, it is a harsh and intolerable situation where people are unable to raise their voices against intolerance because of the fear of being trodden by the communal parties, for uplifting the condition of the people of the society, the constitution was written, and the preamble of the Indian Constitution focused on Equality, Fraternity, Sovereignty, Justice, and Secularism. The SAHES fellowship program is an initiative to make people aware of their rights and likely to be aware of the untouched gender of the country.

SATHI-UP is a platform of grassroots level organization promoting its core ideologies “Friendship, Dialogue and Cooperation”. SATHI-UP emerged for the needs to support the grass roots level organization through mutual sharing and cooperation in order to catalyze the development process. The founder of SATHI-UP Late Paras Bhai was a renowned Gandhian Social Worker. He had worked with many grass roots CSOs to achieve Gram Swaraj, his beliefs that the complete Gram Swaraj/Suraj (local self governance) can’t be achieved without an unite forum. SATHI-UP believes that these CSOs must be organizationally, conceptually and technically competent, in order to bring effective and long-lasting social change. In doing so, SATHI UP builds a critical mass of activists and organizations that have strong administrative processes, good governance practices, and impactful result oriented programs.Organization Development-OD is one of the major interventions of SATHI-UP. Core concept of OD is institutional strengthening of civil society organization for making wider changes in rural communities to create regional hub in Uttar Pradesh. SATHI-UP brings small CSOs together and capacitates them on emerging development issues and Organizational Development-OD. We have set-up a better structure for mainstreaming the role of civil society organization in development process and facilitating organizational development process through training, workshop, hand hold support and cross learning sharing.To achieve the core concept of program we have initiated to provide the training input to member CSOs on Organizational governance, Human Resource Policies, Organization visioning & perspective planning, Finance Management & policies, Management Information Systems, process of Resources mobilization & fund raising and reporting & documentation. We also provide the input of hand holding support to our CSOs members for establishing the effective, transparent and accountable group of CSOs.

Women’s empowerment is a term used to give power to women politically, culturally, socially, and mentally. Empowerment is a vast term that gives importance to an individual in decision-making and empowering others. So a single-term concise life of women. SATHI ERW project focused on organizing and grassroots leadership –Nurturing community leadership to address local issues of entitlement rights, contributing towards overall well-being.SATHI-UP is driven by the conviction that all women, regardless of which community they fall in, have the right to decide whether and when to take a decision The concept behind working with women are1) Promoting women’s leadership in their families, and society level and addressing food security issues.2) Engaging women in the realization of entitlements provisioned in different government schemes, and3) Promoting women’s participation in the decision-making process at their family and local governance level.

SATHI-UP is its belief of empowered women (SABALA) promoting livelihood of small and marginal farmers families by women farmers concept. This women-centric development model collectivizes women from such families who come under category of small and marginal farmers. Women are facilitated to form Gram Panchayat level CBO in name of Nari Sangh. The overall and objective of women-centric livelihood intervention is to; create enabling environment in communities for women empowerment and identity, enhance household income of small & marginal farmers through agro-based income generation activities. Women Farmer Resource Center-WFRC established at Village level; to address the issues of quality and variety of seeds, tools and technology , information accessibility and knowledge building. Concept behind of WFRC establishment was to work in collective approach and inclusion of other small and marginal farmers with agriculture technology. There is basic agriculture equipment are available for NARI Sangh members. Knowledge building sessions, onsite orientation, demonstration tools and linkages establishment work being coordinated by the organizations through the linkages with agriculture expert and scientist. Women centric development approach has been adopted to drive the programme goal. Organization provides support & inputs to Nari Sangh on regular basis (Women CBOs) and WFRC- Women Farmer Resource Center. This Programme thought is to address the development concern of underdeveloped regions with women centric perspectives. FOCUS INTERVENTION STRATEGIES OF PROGRAMME 1. Collectivizing women from small and marginalized families at Village/Gram Panchayat level.2. Facilitating women collectives to address the basic needs of families through realization of entitlements3. Promoting women participation in decision making process at families, society and local PRI level4. Establishing Women farmer Resource Center-WFRC for promoting agro-based livelihoods.5. Conducting knowledge building sessions on different govt. schemes & program and agriculture technologies.6. Providing information and tools for income generation activities.

A sound mind resides in good health. Good health means being spiritually, mentally, and physically fit, and fitness boosts having a healthy life. SATHI-UP drives efforts to make people of the communities happier through Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health-RMNCH+A.SATHI-UP fosters the community by giving nutrition services to the people. Focus on family planning through improved planning methods and practices that joined together and lined up with the good health of both child and mother. Strengthening the quality of life and creating awareness among people on government policies, mobilizing the people, and creating a platform to share ground-level issues. SATHI-UP sensitizes and mobilizes the stakeholders and duty bearers to perform their duty in the best possible way so that the services of nutrition and health reached the focused group. SATHI-UP holds up the hand with the Community-Based Organization-CBOs, a spiritual mentor, a local community advisor, and elected leaders to promote and strengthen community health and nutrition services among people. SATHI-UP tries to unlock the potential of an individual through improved health. SATHI-UP collaborates with Health and Nutrition departments and committees to enhance the quality of the delivery service system. Family Planning SATHI in the association with its member CSOs implemented the Family Planning initiatives in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh. These 20 districts come in high TFR (Total Fertility Rate) category and under MPV districts (Mission Pariwar Vikas). This intervention is supported by the Global Health Strategies-GHS. SATHI as lead organization engaged with grassroots level civil society organizations and capacitated to them on government schemes and programs, latest evidence in family planning to address myths and misconceptions in the community and advocacy tips to raise the issues related to reach and quality of family planning services in block and district level health forums. This Initiative implemented in 2 planned phase. First phase engaged to 60 grassroots civil society organizations and second phase engaged to 30 active CSOs as Network partner and 11 CSOs pas partner for implementing Family planning intensive intervention. SATHI as lead partner worked to provide technical and handhold support to them for quality implementation of project activities, reporting, documentation and MIS. MAJOR ACTIVITIES/INTERVENTION UNDER THIS INITIATIVE AS • Engaging with existing community leaders working to promote quality family planning services; and promoting to them as Community Champions to continue work on.• Engaging to Community Champions and CSOs for conducting awareness generation activities at village level to address myths and misconceptions around FP methods specially spacing methods and by promoting delay in age at marriage, delay in first pregnancy, adequate spacing between two pregnancies and adoption of family planning by younger couples.• Conducting advocacy activities at community block and districts level by Community Champions to improve access of FP services.• Engaging with media to disseminate the success stories and community champions’ initiative.• Strengthening linkages and advocacy for family planning with government officials to address implementation challenges