History of NEAC

Groups Eligible to Participante in NEAC

Target Groups

Students, Youth, Teachers, Women, NGOs, Voluntary workers, Farmers, Rural Population, General public, Social workers, Armed forces personnel, Industrial Workers.

Activities under NEAC

• Seminar/Workshop/training course/camp
• Public meeting/rally/jathra/padayatra
• Lecture/film show/AV show
• Drama/street theatre/other folk media
• Competition/exhibition/demonstration
• Advertisement/poster/banner campaign
• Preparation and use/distribution of resource material (publication, educationa kits, posters, audio-visuals, etc)
• Other

Appointment as RRAs

The Ministry appoints the RRAs on yearly basis. It notifies the campaign in the local newspapers both in English and local languages each year, calling for applications from the eligible group to participate in the campaigns informing them that they can obtain proforma for submission of proposals free of cost from the RRA. It also sets a final date by which the filled up proposals are to be sent to the RRA specifying clearly that the proposals received after the last date will not be entertained.

DDS Acting as RRA

The Deccan Development Society acted as RRA both for Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh for the NEAC Campaigns since 1993-94 upto 1995-1996 and thereafter only for Andhra Pradesh.

Themes Selected since 1993-1994

The following are the yearly themes specified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests for conducting the campaigns.

Role of RRA

The RRAs will assist the Ministry in Planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the campaign in their respective areas. The RRA will, inter alia,

1. Print proforma for submission of applications as per the model furnished by the Ministry
2. Despatch the proforma free of cost to all the interested organisations in their region
3. Organise an open workshop for NGOs/interested organisations in their regions to provide them the guidelines and assistance for formulating their programmes and for filling up the proforma.
4. Scrutinize all the proposals received from various organisations in their region and prepare a brief summary of proposals for consideration by the committee.
5. Assist the Committee in considering the proposals received from their region. The RRAs would have to provide information about the competence and past experience of each organisation.
6. Disburse funds sanctioned by the Ministry to various organisations in their region for conducting NEAC activities.
7. Physically monitor the NEAC activities conducted by various organisations in their region.
8. Maintain audited statements of account of the money disbursed to each organisation.
9. Receive Utilisation Certificate, Report of the Activities and Statement of Accounts from the participating organisations for submitting a consolidated UC & audited statement of accounts in respect of their area of jurisdiction.
10. Prepare an Evaluation Report of the NEAC activities conducted by each organisation in their region.

The Process of Selection

The completed proposals received by the RRA will be processed as per the guidelines of the Ministry and will be put up to the Empowered Committee appointed by the Ministry. The Empowered Committee will select the participants based on the proposals and recommend the quantum of grants to be sanctioned to each of the selected organisations.

Release of Grantee Lists and the Grant

The Ministry taking into account the recommendations of the Empowered Committee sanctions the grant and release the amount to the RRA for disbursement to the grantees.

Pre Proposal Workshop

The RRA conducts workshops soon after the notification of the campaigns in the Newspapers to guide the participants about the importance of the themes and the manner of submitting the proposals including the planning for the campaigns.

Pre Campaign Workshop

Soon after the receipt of sanction and the grant amount the RRA conducts workshops to guide the participants about the manner of the conducting programmes and provides resource material for campaigning. It also releases 80% of the grant amount to enable the participants to conduct the programmes.

Monitoring of the Programmes

The RRA monitors the programmes either by itself or through appointed agencies. In the state of Andhra Pradesh the RRA has decentralized the monitoring and entrusted the duty to the selected reputed NGOs of the district to ensure better coordination and effective campaigning.

Report to the RRA by the participants

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The participating organisations after completing their programmes have to submit a narrative report, audited accounts statements, photographs, paper clippings in support of the programmes conducted. The narrative report should clearly indicate the nature of the programmes conducted, the venues and the people who attended as resource persons and the message they had conveyed on the occasion. After scrutinizing the documents sent to the RRA and satisfying itself the RRA releases the balance 20% grant.

Submission of the Evaluated Report to the Ministry by the RRA

The RRA after scrutinizing all the reports and other evidence sent with their reports in support of the conduct of the programmes, evaluates the performance and grades the performance. These evaluation reports will be sent to the Ministry.

Details of Grants since 1995-1996

Number of applications received / selected / rejected

Details of Resource Material Supplied by the RRA