Participatory Action for Community Empowerment (PACE)
Districts: Kaushambi, Pratapgarh
Theme :
Non-discriminatory access to livelihood rights through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).Non-discriminatory access to right to basic services through education, health and nutrition. |
The PACE project aims to empower socially excluded communities - especially women, Muslims and scheduled castes (SCs) - to gain access to livelihood opportunities and ensure access to basic services.
The project's purpose is to enable socially excluded communities to lead a dignified life through access to government schemes on employment, health, education and nutrition.
The PACE project is working in 440 villages in the Pratapgarh and Kaushambi districts of Uttar Pradesh.
PACE aims:
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Capacity building and strengthening of community based organisations (CBOs) existing at the Panchayat (local self-governance mechanism) level in villages under various government schemes.
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Motivating and facilitating women's self-help group (SHG) members and citizen leaders to initiate strong leadership at the village, Panchayat (local self-governance mechanism) and block level committees under employment and education.
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Develop better working links with government agencies at the district level in order to influence officials for effective implementation of the programmes.
About PACE
Participatory Action for Community Empowerment (PACE) was founded in 2000 by a group of alumni from one of India's premier social science universities - Xavier's Institute of Social Sciences, Ranchi. The organisation's vision is social change and people centred development - empowering scheduled castes (SCs), women and children from marginalised communities.
PACE believes in participatory approaches, practices and methodologies for empowering the community and envisages a society free from exploitation and injustice, where no one is hungry, unemployed, illiterate or exploited.
Network partners
PACS encourages projects to collaborate with like-minded organisations to deliver the best results in the designated project area. These collaborations are called network projects. PACE is implementing the project with the three network partners as listed below:
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Janpriya Sewa Sansthan
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PRASAR
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AHEAD
Find out more:
Lucknow - 226016,
Uttar Pradesh, India
