'Oriya migrants' project in Gujarat /TAHA details requested

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Dear Forum,

The details of the Targetted Interventins (TI)s in Gujarat and the proposed

activities in the 'Oriya migrants'project of the GSACS

and the OSACS have been developed with clear delineation of roles and

responsibilities but in the spirit of the 'fact' that " HIV/AIDS is everyone's

responsibility.

An esimated population of oriya migrants is 7 lakhs in Surat only.The existing

7(out of 25)TI partners of Surat cover 2.3 lakh oriya migrants through targeted

interventions.We wish to cover the entire population through an effective reach

by TI/IRAAP/focussed IEC

interventions.

Through the involvement of the Chief Secretarys of both the states , an MOU is

to be operationalized to minimize the vulnerabilities of the Oriya migrants .

There are activities at Source(Ganjam),transit and destination(Surat ,Alang)to

be carried out by the OSACS,their NGOs,peer educators and GSACS and its partners

respectively. The BCCand IEC materials in Oriya have been developed jointly and

field tested. UNDP has already established 9 ICT kiosks in Orissa and 13 more

are to be set up both at the source and the destination.

A team from Gujarat comprising representatives of the GSACS ( APD), PSU (PM, PO

& TC) and NGOs (implementing TIs in Surat & Alang) made a visit to Orissa on 3rd

and 4th February, 06 to facilitate the process of development of a plan of

action before the GSACS and the OSACS may sign a memorandum of understanding.

Detailed interactions and deliberations were carried out during the field visits

with the migrants/families of migrants, NGOs, District Health Officer, PSU,

OSACS and UNDP Orissa.

The PD, OSACS (Mr. Mayadhar PanigrahiIAS) and his team, UNDP representatives

(Mr. Pradeep Jena IAS, TeamLeader, Dr. Anita Ansuya, Mr. Himanshu Sekhar

Pradhan,Mr. Aniruddha Brahmachari) and the PSU, OSACS interacted with the GSACS

team at length and greatly appreciated the inputs from the NGOs of Gujarat in

fine-tuning and stream lining the myriad activities proposed to ameliorate the

vulnerability of the Oriya migrants in Gujarat (Surat and Alang in

particular).

A working group was formed which would interact very regularly as an e-group

through emails.

Please provide us some more details/actionable issues/best practices/earlier

deliberations held on TAHA project of UNDP so that we may take it up more

vigorously in Gujarat?

Best regards,

Dr.Rajesh Gopal

APD,GSACS

E-mail: <dr_rajeshg@...>