Badhte Kadam aims at community awareness, sensitisation, social integration and mainstreaming of Persons with Disabilities. It has below mentioned objectives:
- Raise awareness in the public, regarding Person with Disability (PwD) covered under the NationalTrust Act and encourage their inclusion in the society, social integration and participation of persons with disabilities in all aspects of life.
- Disseminate information on preventive strategies for the disabilities under the National Trust Act,1999
- Sensitize community stakeholders
- Publicize and maximize benefits of the National Trust schemes for Registered Organization(RO),PwDs and for families of PwDs.
- Increase representation in remote areas and in areas where the National Trust is under represented
- Spread awareness about myths and misconceptions about disability, disability etiquette etc.
Scheme Description
This scheme shall support Registered Organisations (RO) of the National Trust to carry out activities that focus on increasing the awareness of the the National Trust disabilities.
I. Target Audience
The target audience of the scheme are:
- Public and Society
- Ecosystem
- Government officials (including Public representative like Panchayat member, Sarpanch, MLA, MP)
- Medical fraternity
- Legal professionals
- Banks / Financial Institutions
- Educational Institutes,Students, Teachers etc.
- Families/ guardians of PwDs
- NGOs and people of areas where The National Trust is not represented
II. Awareness and other activities
The National Trust shall fund the awareness and other activities that shall be taken up by RO with respect to four disabilities covered under the National Trust Act.
Detailed list of the activities that can be carried out by ROs are mentioned below. ROs are encouraged to take up awareness activities as mentioned in following tables for achieving the objectives of Badhte Kadam. These are just indicative list of campaigns that could be run by RO and RO could decide and come up with innovative ways to spread awareness.
S. No. | Category | Activity |
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1. | In collaboration with Government |
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2. | In collaboration with private bodies |
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3. | Media Related |
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4. | ICT enabled initiatives |
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5. | Localized intervention |
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**Most of these activities shall be undertaken by RO on their own initiative and could be sponsored by private bodies or corporates. However, some of these activities shall require RO to incur expenses. The activities that shall be funded by National Trust are mentioned in the funding pattern section.
Only those events shall be funded by the National Trust under Badhte Kadam that is not funded by the National Trust under any other scheme. RO cannot claim the funds for the expenditure sponsored by others. Participation of SNAC/LLC/National Trust/Government (Social welfare officer) /DC/DM should be encouraged.
III. Validity of Scheme Enrolment
Scheme enrolment shall be valid only for the current financial year. Once, current financial year is over, RO should enrol again in Badhte Kadam scheme to avail benefits of the scheme.
For example, if the RO registers for Badhte Kadam in September 2016, the enrolment will be valid till 31st March 2017 and if it registers for Badhte Kadam in April 2016, the enrolment will be valid till 31 st March 2017.
IV. Number of events supported
The National Trust shall sponsor a maximum of 4 events for each RO per year. Each RO should conduct at least 1 event (either for community, educational institutes or medical institutes) in a year.
All the SNACs of the National Trust are expected to participate in Badhte Kadam scheme.
V. Feedback from events
RO shall also gather feedback through properly developed formats from the people attending the events to check the effectiveness of event and improvise on the events for future events. Feedback from events shall also be shared with the National Trust. RO can also conduct KAP (Knowledge Attitude and Practice) study during the campaign to know their knowledge about four categories of disabilities, schemes of the National Trust, Rights of PwDs, Myths about Disability etc.
Source: The National Trust Website