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(3) The organization shall carry out nurturing and handholding for a period of one year to ensure that the empowered women folk are able to act as a pressure group to take up their grievances/problems with the village/block/district/State authorities relating to availability of basic infrastructure and services identified during formulation of the project as requiring improvement or provisioning in the village/locality.
(4) The organization would need to ensure that facilitators engaged for nurturing/ handholding service visit the village/urban locality as stipulated, carry out their assignments diligently, report the monthly progress and are assisted by the organization whenever the need arises.
(5) The training programmes shall be conducted in the manner given below: (a) Non-residential Training in the Village/Urban Locality: The training shall be conducted in the village/locality by using existing facilities or rented permanent structure. The duration of the training shall be for six. days and each day will be of six hours. Each batch of 25 trainees will be trained separately. Care should be taken to ensure that the dates for training are fixed in order to avoid religious/festive occasions and demands of seasons. Printed training material in local language would be prepared by the organization within the framework of training modules. To incentivize the training course, allowance/stipend to partially compensate/offset the loss of income/wage would be given to the selected women trainees along with a meal and crèche arrangement for their children while the training is ongoing during the day. The implementing agency would open the account in the banks for those women trainees who do not have their own accounts and transfer the stipend amount to their bank accounts electronically. At least twothird of the trainers engaged by the Organization shall be women and they should be able to deliver their inputs in the local language of the area on the topics given in the training module.
(b) Residential Leadership Development Training: Selected eligible women would be imparted leadership training in residential training institutes. For approving residential trainings in training institutes of organizations, the institute concerned must have boarding/lodging arrangements for at least 25 women in a secured location. Printed training material in local language would be prepared by the organization within the framework of training modules. Each batch of 25 trainees will be trained separately. Care should be taken to ensure that the dates for training are fixed to avoid religious/ festive occasions and demands of seasons. The entire training fees, training materials, boarding, food, refreshment and travel expenses would be covered under the scheme. The trainees would be also given allowance/
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