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NAA TERM PAPERLG-3

• WADA NA TODO ABHIYAN.

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INTRODUCTION

• Wada Na Todo Abhiyan is a national campaign to
  hold the government accountable to its promise to
  end Poverty, Social Exclusion Discrimination.
• Wada Na Todo Abhiyan emerged from the consensus
  among human rights activists and social action
  groups who were part of the World Social Forum
  2004(Mumbai).
• The movement aim to do this by monitoring the
  promises made by the government to meet the
  objectives set in the UN Millennium Declaration
  (2000), the National Development Goals and the
  National Common Minimum Program (2004-09) with a
  special focus on the Right to Livelihood, Health
  Education.

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CONTD

• The movement ensures that the concerns and
  aspirations of Dalits, Adivasis, Nomadic Tribes,
  Women, Children, Youth and the Differently Abled
  are mainstreamed across programs, policies and
  development goals of the central and state
  governments.
• A National Convention on MDGs was held in New
  Delhi during 4-5 November 2004.The campaign in
  India has been named as Wada Na Todo Abhiyan
  (Keep the Promises)

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MDG

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on
  less than one U.S. dollar a day.
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who
  suffer from hunger.
• Achieve universal primary education
• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full
  course of primary schooling.
• Increased enrollment must
  be accompanied by efforts to ensure that all
  children remain in school and receive a
  high-quality education

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• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
  secondary education preferably by 2005, and at
  all levels by 2015.
• Reduce child mortality
• Reduce the mortality rate among children
  under five by two thirds.
• Improve maternal health
• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality
  ratio.
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
  
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of
  malaria and other major diseases.

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• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principles of sustainable
  development into country policies and programmes
  reverse loss of environmental resources.
• Reduce by half the proportion of people without
  sustainable access to safe drinking water (for
  more information see the entry on water supply).
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at
  least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
• Develop a global partnership for development

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KEY INITIATIVES

• Since its inception in 2004, the Abhiyan has
  mobilized more than 500,000 people to take action
  on our goal of Governance Accountability.
• key initiatives include
• Public awareness and action on the National Rural
  Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), National Rural
  Health Mission (NRHM) and the Right to Education
  Bill.
• Nine Is Mine" campaign for the allocation of 9
  of the GDP to Health and Education, as promised
  in the National Common Minimum Program.

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• Civil Society Reviews of the National Common
  Minimum Program, May 2007.
• Release of the Citizen's Reports on the
  Millennium Development Goals, Dec 2006.
• Advocacy with Legislators on key issues of
  Livelihood, Health Education.
• People's Summit Against Poverty (PSAP)

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State initiatives.

• Wada Na Todo Abhiyan has been able to bring
  together more than 3000 rights action groups
  across 23 states of India through its activities
  and initiatives
• The formation of state networks has also enabled
  co-ordinated action across states, thereby
  increasing the visibility, outreach and impact of
  the Abhiyan at both states and national levels.

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• Currently the state campaigns of the Abhiyan are
  operational in the following 14 states
• Orissa W.bengal
  Rajastah H.P
  Uttar Pradesh Bihar
  Jharkhand M.P Chattisgarh
  Gujurat Maharastra A.P
  T.N karnataka

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Some major activities

• Rojgar Adhikar Yatra in UP.
• The yatra was conceived by the National
  Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), a
  confederation of more than 300 grassroots dalit
  organisations, and supported by the PACS
  Programme, Oxfam India Trust,wada na todo World
  Dignity Forum .
• PSAP.
• (Peoples summit against poverty) to express
  solidarity and to hold the governments
  accountable for promises made to the people in
  various national and international conventions.

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• 9-is-Mine.
• is a childrens initiative to ensure that the
  government commits 9 of the GDP to public
  expenditure on Health Education, as promised in
  the National Common Minimum Program

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• REFERENCES
• http//www.wadanatodo.net/default.asp
• http//www.samarthan.org/Social20Watch.htm
• www.socialwatchindia.com
• www.whiteband.org  
• www.empoerpoor.org
• www.milleniumcampaign.org

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Thank you

• LEARNING GROUP-3