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Quality of Citizenship
Quality of Infrastructure
Volunteer Opportunities
Indian Urban Transformation Index (UTI)
India Urban Transformation Index (IUTI) is an index that measures laws, policies, institutions and processes of urban local governments across 10 cities in India and 2 international peers (New York City & London). It is a measure of the systemic readiness to provide good urban governance.
IUTI has around 100 questions and is based on Janaagraha’s theory of change. These 100 questions are spread across 4 categories – Improved Urban Planning Design, Urban Capacities and Resources, Empowered and Legitimate Representatives and Transparency Accountability and Participation.
Current Phase of the Index
We have been working on the index for over a year and the research and scoring of the index has been completed. We are right now in the midst of preparing for the IUTI Awards ceremony to be held in the last week of March. We intend to release a report based on the findings of the research and also include a list of recommendations for improving urban governance in India.
Volunteering opportunities in Indian Urban Transformation Index (UTI)
Responsibilities
- Researching for unique practices and processes followed by cities across the world with respect to the 4 sections of the IUTI
- Analysing data from the index and drawing trends/ conclusions from it
- Generating recommendations for City governance based on the analyses
- Assisting team members in writing the IUTI report
- Supporting team members in arranging for the IUTI event
Requirement
- 4th or final year Law school student or MBA student from a reputed college.
- Self-motivated
- Ready to work on all of the aspects mentioned under responsibility.
Role – 2
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Preparing guest list for IUTA event with communication details
- Prepare list of key stakeholders with communication details for PROOF Seminar
- Help the PROOF Team on different aspects of event logistics.
Start date: Immediate
Period of internship: 2 Months full/part time; Preferably a person who has a flair for event management.
Role – 3
Internship – Participatory Budgeting
PROOF - Public Records of Operations and Finance
PROOF is the public disclosure and accountability initiative of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy. PROOF seeks a proactive intern who will help build a community relationship protocol for its participatory budgeting exercise.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Collation of data on RWAs and other relevant civic associations in Bangalore city
- Collection of data on the number of residences covered in each RWA/ association
- Organization of above data in a meaningful manner as per requirements
- Sourcing details on key contact persons for different communities
- Coordinate with GIS team in preparing a holistic ward map of Bangalore city
Start date: Immediate
Preferred period of internship: Two months (minimum) + ; Preferably a final year undergrad student or a postgrad student.
Ward Quality Score
Ward Quality Score is the follow-up project to Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy’s 2010 Ward Infrastructure and Services Assessment (WISA). Ward Quality Score aims to deliver an objective measure of the quality of life experienced by citizens in each of Bangalore’s 198 wards. To this end surveys are being done across five major categories – these categories having been defined as key determinants of urban quality of life. These categories are:
Mobility – including pedestrian traffic, public transport and private vehicles
Sanitation – involving solid waste management, sewerage, storm water drainage
Water – coverage, continuity, quantity and quality
Public amenities – parks and playgrounds
Environment – air, water, noise, and green cover
The data collected in these surveys will be scored against benchmarks from a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being completely unacceptable and 10 hitting the established benchmarks. This scoring makes it easy to see at a glance the quality of any given ward’s infrastructure and delivery of services. The aim of this exercise is to empower citizens to drive the demand for better infrastructure and services in their city. By making the data readily available, it gives citizens the invaluable tool of irrefutable proof to drive the push for change. Janaagraha is seeking to make Ward Quality Score a feature of our umbrella project IChangeMyCity.
Roles and Responsibility include:
- Assisting as per the team’s requirement.
iChangeMyCity is a website for people who wish to improve the quality of life in their neighbourhoods, and are willing to participate in the process of change.
While cities are developed on different models, every city has a few integral parameters that need to be considered while defining the quality of life experienced by its citizens. Planning, Governance, Economy, Mobility, Safety, Water, Sanitation, Health, Education, Environment, Heritage, Art and Culture -- each of these play an important part in determining the quality of life in a city.
If we dig deep, every one of us has an issue that touches a raw nerve – be it tree cutting, solid waste management, traffic, water, urban poverty… so wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to come together to actually talk, share information, think and DO ourselves what needs to be done to solve the issues that plague our neighbourhoods, and the city at large? Wouldn’t each of us want to be just a little bit instrumental in building that change we want to see?
The iChangeMyCity website enables you to initiate this process of change by
- Providing information to citizens about their wards, corporators, civic bodies, public services and elected representatives.
- Providing news -- local news related to governance and development, public services as well as issues/aggregated issues around the neighbourhood, and city.
- Create an interactive platform for concerned citizens to connect with one another, organisations, civic bodies and other stakeholders with vested interests in these urban issues.
- Provide opportunities for online activity to translate into offline action.
Volunteering opportunities in IChangeMyCity
iChangeMyCity wants enthusiastic and committed volunteers who believe that the Internet can help to bring about social change. iJanaagraha is a website for people who wish to improve the quality of life in their neighbourhoods, and are willing to participate in the process of change.
About You:
- You are a highly energetic and self-motivated individual.
- You have good written & communication skills, and possess the ability to interact and work with people from diverse backgrounds, experiences & age groups.
- You are Internet savvy, and believe that this medium can be a conduit to mobilize people to initiate, and bring social change.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Network with the online community, bloggers, offline groups working on urban, resident welfare associations, iJ online contributors, writers, citizen reporters, photographers.
- Interact with users on the site, encourage participation, and convert them into active members on the site.
- Seed/ moderate all user generated content.
- Respond to user queries / comments/ suggestions / recommendations.
- Conduct research on relevant content for the iJanaagraha community
- Produce and source content for iJanaagraha (including feature articles/news reports, database content, audio/video content, discussion threads inviting participation from the iJanaagraha community and so on)
- Add data onto iJanaagraha admin
- Manage the Content Management System
Skills Required:
- Excellent written and communication skills in English (knowledge of Kannada a plus).
- Familiarity with the web & social networking tools.
- Content sourcing, alliances and management.
- Networking skills both in the online & offline space.
- Proficiency in online community management preferable.
Logistics: This role may require a certain amount of travel within the city.
How to begin networking on iChangeMyCity?
iChangeMyCity encourages citizens to sign up on the site, and participate in the activity of posting issues that plague their streets/wards/neighbourhoods by entering their location details. This way, citizens of the same street/ward can connect with one another, get together, and with the help of the civic know-how provided on the site, collectively solve the issues in their areas.
Roles and Responsibilities
Sign up users (with their profile details), street/ward/location details, and get them to post complaints in the following categories, on iJanaagraha staging url.
- Sign up at least 75 to 100 users (geographically distributed across the city) on the site with their location details and get them to post entries of issues under the iJanaagraha sub-categories.
- Each sub-category should have 5 entries under it.
Logistics:
This role will require a certain amount of travel within the city in order to reach out to people.
Bala Janaagraha’s curriculum – the “Me and My City” module – is civics in practice. Through interactive classroom sessions and project work, Bala Janaagraha aims to:
- To develop knowledge and citizenship values
- To sensitize children to important civic issues
- To celebrate children’s learning and to provide platform to present their work and views and to recognise their efforts
Volunteering Opportunities in Bala Janaagraha
Bala Janaagraha Facilitator
Janaagraha wants enthusiastic and committed volunteers who enjoy working with children. Bala Janaagraha is a uniquely designed citizenship education programme that is aimed at empowering children with the knowledge, skills and values necessary to develop a deep sense of ownership and responsibility towards their society.
About You:
- You are a highly energetic and self – motivated individual who is patient, approachable and enjoys teaching.
- You are passionate about working with children; understand the way they think and create, and are able to connect with them.
- You are able to make teaching fun. Think activities, case studies and field projects. That’s great, we want you!
- You believe that our children are not citizens of the future but are citizens today.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Starting June 2012 teach and interact with school children, teachers, volunteers
- Manage the relationship with the schools, principals, board members and any other stakeholders
- Facilitate various events for the students for the end-of-term Civic project
- Build ways to create and leverage the alumni of the programme
- Encourage children to submit articles/blogs
Skills Required:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Knowledge of the local language would be an advantage.
- Must enjoy teaching and working with children.
- Must be able to engage children with activity based learning
- Must encourage critical thinking skills in children and provide space for innovative ideas
- Familiarity with computer aided learning tools and blogging is an added advantage
Logistics: This role requires a fair amount of travel to the schools in the city
Advocacy
Janaagraha’s model of change leverages Advocacy as a medium to bring about long-term sustainable change. Janaagraha firmly believes that it is imperative to change policies and legislations in order to bring about lasting changes in urban governance. The Advocacy program involves extensive background research, preparing case studies, facilitating policy discussions and seminars, and advocating the REED reform framework at local, state and national levels.
The team operates four projects parallel –an Urban Governance Index, the Community Participation Laws project as well as our core legal functions.
a) Urban Governance IndexJanaagraha’s Urban Governance Index has been developed as a measurement of the governance systems tasked with responding to this ‘urban crisis’. Focusing on the governance system, or framework, “will not only assist in a detailed ‘Urban Governance Diagnostic’ of what ails a city and the region, but also provides coherence to the set of solutions that emerges.” The urban governance challenge Indian cities face, ‘is to design institutions that can deal with all of complex issues yet be close enough to the citizen to provide local public goods
b) Community Participation LawCommunity Participation Law is an effort towards institutionalising citizens’ participation in urban areas in India. It envisages two structures below the Urban Local Bodies – the ward committee and the area sabha, the area sabha being the closest to the citizens.
The essence of the Community Participation Law is to institutionalise citizen participation in urban governance, to provide a formal platform for the citizens to participate, plan, prioritise and decide for themselves on what they need from the urban local body, which operates on their money – in other words, to decide how their money should be spent by their local government, keep a watch on the development works and prevent corruption. In the ‘area’ or the ward or the city, people shall have their say in the planning directly. While this will help deepen democracy, it will also help in improving urban governance and service delivery. The quality of decisions made will be much better as these decisions would be rooted on knowledge of local realities and requirements. Citizens will be able to influence how information is shared, policies are formulated and implemented.
c) Janaagraha’s core legal functions
- Develop legal knowledge and decode the law to make it accessible across the citizen spectrum
- Provide policy frameworks for sustainable governance
- Ensure high quality legal context and inputs on Janaagraha’s programs
- Compare similar efforts and activities internationally and domestically in order to maintain accuracy of data as well as provide a global perspective on issues.
PROOF - Public Records of Operations and Finance
PROOF is the public disclosure and accountability initiative of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy.
Volunteering opportunities in Advocacy / PROOF
Janaagraha’s model of change leverages Advocacy as a medium to bring about long-term sustainable change. Janaagraha firmly believes that it is imperative to change policies and legislations in order to bring about lasting changes in urban governance. The Advocacy program involves extensive background research, preparing case studies, facilitating policy discussions and seminars, and advocating the systems reform framework at local, state and national levels. The Ward Quality Score is a co-owned project by the PROOF, Applied Research and Urban Capacity Building teams in the Advocacy cluster.
Ward Quality Score (WQS)
WQS is a quantitative measure of quality of infrastructure and services in a ward, where a ward is a unit of a city for which a representative is elected to the city council. It comprises 33 indicators spread across 5 categories.
Below are the components of WISA
ROLE-1
Responsibilities Include:
- Assisting the core team across Advocacy functions that could range from write-ups on urban issues
- Drafting report on themes underpinning the Ward Quality Score and key findings
- Collating all relevant literature for the WQS and preparing the first draft of process documentation which will include indicator briefs, rationale behind sampling and survey methodology, score generation, strategic relevance, citizen outreach briefs etc.
Qualifications/Skills:
- Fluent in English
- Bachelors in Statistics, Economics, political science and other relevant social sciences with prior experience of social science research.
- Prior experience and training of creative writing / report writing / content development / instructional design / journalistic writing
- Interest in working on urban issues, governance, citizenship, service provision (particularly in the context of India preferred)
- Highly self-motivated and able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks/projects efficiently in a fast paced environment.
- Works collaboratively with partners to achieve desired results despite conflicting demands or priorities
- Prioritizes teamwork and communication with colleagues and superiors.
Start Date – as soon as possible
Duration- at least a month
What’s in it for you:
- Utilize your skills, abilities and performance and be a part of change that is working towards India’s greatest opportunity and its biggest challenge: Urbanisation
- An opportunity to work for one of a kind organization undertaking innovative solutions on urban governance
- Work with a diverse, competent and professional workforce creating individual impact.
- Immense scope for personal and professional transformation
- An opportunity to take risks , innovate and work with a wide network of urban experts and thinkers
ROLE-2
Responsibilities Include:
- Assisting the core team across Advocacy functions that could range from write-ups on urban issues, scoring the quality of infrastructure services in the city, assisting with field survey and indicator formulae generation.
- Drafting report on themes underpinning the Ward Quality Score and key findings
- Collation of responses and statistical fine-tuning of index
Qualifications/Skills:
- Fluent in English (additional fluency in one or more of: Kannada, Hindi, English, and Urdu preferred)
- Completing or completed at least a Bachelors in Statistics, Economics, political science, preferable with prior experience of social science research.
- Interest in working on urban issues, governance, citizenship, service provision (particularly in the context of India preferred)
- Knowledge in quantitative/qualitative social science methods preferred
- Field experience preferred
- Highly self-motivated and able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks/projects efficiently in a fast paced environment.
- Works collaboratively with partners to achieve desired results despite conflicting demands or priorities
- Prioritizes teamwork and communication with colleagues and superiors.
Start Date – 10th-15th February, 2012
Duration- at least a month
What’s in it for you:
- Utilize your skills, abilities and performance and be a part of change that is working towards India’s greatest opportunity and its biggest challenge: Urbanisation
- An opportunity to work for one of a kind organization undertaking innovative solutions on urban governance
- Work with a diverse, competent and professional workforce creating individual impact.
- Immense scope for personal and professional transformation
- An opportunity to take risks , innovate and work with a wide network of urban experts and thinkers
PROOF seeks to build a comprehensive website focussed on municipal finance, making it the first such website in India.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Collation of content, basic design and sequencing of content in the website
- Coordination with the design team
- Ideating and operationalizing visualisation of content/numerical data
- Design and implementation of framework for analytical reviews, unit measurement analysis etc. for the website
PROOF Accountability and Disclosure Index
A pioneering metric to measure the nature and extent of accountability and disclosure practices in city governments.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Design/structure an Accountability and Disclosure Index for city governments (i.e. municipal corporations and municipalities) focussed on Audit, Accounts, Budgets and related disclosures and accountability mechanisms
- Do a pilot run of the Index on top 8-12 cities of India including data collation and scoring
- Draw up plan for roll out of Index and Event for roll out comprising event format, target audience, marketing, collaterals etc.
National Performance Reporting Framework for Urban Service Providers
An endeavour to standardise financial and performance reporting formats of city governments across India.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- a detailed evaluation of current legal framework/policies and practices around reporting and disclosures by city governments
- collation of status of implementation of Public Disclosure Law across States
- status of disclosures of budgets and annual audited financial statements by city governments/suo motu disclosures under the Right To Information Acts
- concept and drafting of a roadmap for standardising reporting formats
A citizen centric Awards program which seeks to evaluate, rank and award websites of urban local bodies in India and benchmark them against global peers.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- scoring of Indian city government websites
- establishing equivalence between Indian and International city government websites and consequent scoring of international city government websites
- report on urban eGovernance in India including research, data collation, conception and drafting of report
- Logistical coordination and support for events and activities relating to the Awards program
Citizen outreach sessions on city budgets
Citizen outreach sessions with both lay citizens and domain professionals to catalyse interest among citizens on city budgets, create awareness of its impact on their lives and eventually evolve a workable participatory budgeting model.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Design and implementation of event on BBMP’s Budget 2011-12 (BBMP is Bangalore’s city corporation) comprising both content and presentation targeted to benefit citizens of Bangalore
- Coordination and support on logistics required for the above such as drawing up guest list, drafting and despatch of invitations, liaising with designers and printers etc.
Urban Governance Index is Janaagraha’s endeavour to construct a benchmark index on Urban Governance in India that would evaluate cities across parameters that define urban governance.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Scoring of Indian and international cities across parameters through research and analysis
- Equivalence of parameters for scoring of international cities
- Drafting report on themes underpinning the UGI and key findings
- Collation of responses and statistical fine-tuning of index
Improving quality-of-life in urban areas is the vision that drives Janaagraha. Good urban governance; effective urban management; and active citizenship are the key outcomes that Janaagraha seeks to promote.
Janaagraha’s Urban Capacity Building Programme (UCBP), therefore, works toward designing; developing; illustrating; facilitating; and, thereby, establishing apt learning events for champions and change-agents from all walks of life – who can positively influence broad-based and sustainable urban development.
Current volunteering opportunities in UCB
UCB, Support Executive
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- creating a comprehensive body of knowledge for understanding the real issues, challenges & problems of urbanisation;
- ideating for & advocating rational, equitable, scientific & technological measures / solutions to effectively deal with these problems & challenges;
- sensitising, enabling, empowering key stakeholders (individual / institutional) through customised inputs for developing their pertinent capacities; and
- Creating / facilitating opportunities for individual / community action on-the-ground.
Skills Required:
Those who have and can convey / demonstrate to us the:
- passion for contributing to social causes along with an open mind & a strong urge to learn;
- ability to assimilate & analyse concepts & to abstract them to apply to real-life situations;
- skills for essential computing & communication (with the help of widely used technologies);
- sensitivity to working in a multi-cultural environment & a knack to work independently & / or with a team; and
- Earnestness & discipline to be able to meet deadlines.
Planning and Development (P&D) is a strategic initiative programme that supports the core programmes of Janaagraha. The P&D team has two mandates – strategic planning and development. The programme is mandated with providing ongoing support in the sustainability and scalability of all programme initiatives – pilot projects, advocacy and policy by adopting a specific fund-raising strategy. In addition, the programme also implements and undertakes those activities responsible for the branding of Janaagraha. These include a wide gamut ranging from the publication of performance reports to the implementation of processes necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the organization.
Volunteering opportunities in Planning and Development
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- As a Planning and Development volunteer your tasks will include:
- Coordinating with Programme Heads to collate data on Programme overviews, updates and other related information, as advised by the Planning & Development coordinator and/or manager.
- Providing assistance and back-up to the planning and development team for strategic planning activities.
- Reaching out to foundations to seek funding for programmes, especially via on-line research.
- Writing content for Janaagraha’s periodic public reports.
- Liaising with the finance team to provide reports back to donors on Programme Wise Funds Utilizations as required.
Skills Required:
- You are a highly energetic and self – motivated individual who is passionate about communications and fund raising.
- You have great inter-personal skills.
- You are proficient in using MS Office, specifically MS Word and MS Excel.
- You are creative and enjoy thinking out of the box.
- You want to bring about change by helping the organization pilot its initiatives.
What’s in it for you
- An opportunity to be a part of a unique organization working towards urban transformation.
- Grow intellectually by working with a wide range of domain experts within the organization.
- An opportunity to take risks and innovate to help the organization meet its objectives.
The communications team at Janaagraha handles internal and external communication. All programmes at Janaagraha are represented by this program and it is critical for us to have people with an eye for design and who pay attention to detail.
Volunteering opportunities in Communications
Janaagraha wants enthusiastic and committed volunteers who enjoy using graphics for communication and are committed to brilliance in design. The Communication team at Janaagraha is all about presenting the brand in an interesting and unique manner. So be it event collateral or a website, design plays an integral role in bringing a better understanding of what Janaagraha stands for.
About You:
- You are a highly energetic and self –motivated individual who is passionate about design.
- You are creative and enjoy thinking out of the box.
- You want to bring about change using the power of communication.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Become a part of the Communications team with regard to graphic design, website design and event based design.
- Assist in developing concepts and designing materials including newsletters, invitations, advertisements, flyers, vouchers, direct mail, postcards and coupons
- Assisting the communication team with marketing, brainstorming and advertising strategies
- Contributing design artwork and ideas to the overall brief
- Proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work
Skills Required:
- In depth knowledge of graphic software such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
- Attention to detail
- Familiarity with HTML, GIF animation, FLASH will be an added advantage
Human Resource & Volunteer Management - HRVM
Volunteering is one of Janaagraha’s core values and our work is supported by a constant stream of volunteers and interns. We continually look to improve our internal systems to ensure a mutually productive volunteer experience.
Volunteering opportunities in HRVM
Developer
To support in the development of internal systems on volunteer management
About You:
- You know python/php and mysql
- You enjoy constant learning and growth
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- To add Reporting features to volunteer management application.
- To contribute a total of 30 hours.
IUSF is a sister-organisation of Janaagraha, India’s leading NGO working on issues related to urban governance, citizen participation and democracy. Urban problems are far more complex than what they seem, and therefore need ‘systemic’ responses and not just ‘band-aid’ solutions. India Urban Space seeks to bring in a spatial focus not just into planning, but also into issues related to environment, infrastructure creation, service provision, poverty alleviation and urban governance. India Urban Space has grown from a platform that just advocates this view, to one that actively practices this view through pilot projects, and facilitates larger interfaces and partnerships amongst wider set of stakeholders that includes market players.
Volunteering opportunities in IUSP
IUSF wants enthusiastic and committed volunteers who believe that the Dynamic (Spatial) Plans shape vibrant cities. IUSF is an organization for enthusiastic planners who wish to improve the quality of life of their cities and neighbourhoods, and are willing to participate in the process of change.
About you:
- You are a highly energetic and self-motivated individual
- You have good drafting and designing skills
- You have good written and communication skills, and possess the ability to interact and work with the people from diverse backgrounds, experiences and age groups
- You have good knowledge of Open source 3D software skills
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Trend Analysis on Urban growth and demographics of Indian Cities
- Analyse Socio-economic conditions and compare with other Indian Cities
- Assist the GIS team with Mapping
- Assisting GIS team in creating Land Use/Land Cover Maps for GIS team
- Conduct research on IUSF related studies and create dynamic charts / graphs
- Assisting IUSF Planning team in Field studies, designing urban corridors
- Assisting IUSF field team in Traffic Studies, Heritage building mapping, etc
- Independently able to carry out case studies related to urban planning
India Urban Space foundation is looking for a volunteer to join its team. India Urban Space foundation is Janaagraha’s partner program which aims to improve the quality of spatial planning and land management practices in urban India. We're a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Bangalore that focuses on improving the ‘Quality of Life’ in Indian cities.
About You:
- You are a highly energetic and self –motivated individual who is patient, approachable and enjoys about the area of study.
- You believe in the increasing importance of GIS technology for Urban Planning in India as cities and regions grapple with the challenges associated with environmental sustainability, social equity and economic development and the critical need to re-think and re-model established approaches to planning.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Provides support to a team of urban planners and GIS Team
- Assists staff in collecting and preparing GIS data for master planning project
- Prepares maps and planning reports
- Produces sketches and renderings
- Research on best master planning practices
- Help geocoding addresses using ArcGIS application
- Ground survey for the verification of the addresses
Skills Required
- Basic understanding of urban planning principles
- GIS knowledge and Google maps
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Motivated self-starter able to work independently
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Flexibility and desire to work on varying urban planning projects
Logistics: This role requires some amount of travel in the city.
Solid Waste Management - Research
The project for generating a System Dynamics (SD) model in Solid Waste Management is a part of a larger study to quantify the various metrics governing the quality of life (QoL) in urban areas. Managing solid waste is one of the most pernicious problems faced by urban areas today, and its effect permeates into areas such as health, human rights, child labour, economy of the country etc. Once the model is made, it will facilitate the engagement of concerned citizens and local bodies with the municipal government to identify better ways of dealing with civic problems that affect the QoL of citizens. The model will serve as a platform for simulating conditions to optimize the QoL by tweaking various parameters of urban life. We are working on this project in association with IIT Kharagpur and Yale University. In trying to create a mathematical model to simulate the QoL indicators, the first priority is to get dependable data to map to the SD model. This is the second phase of the project and the phase where we need volunteer support. Volunteers can help us in the data collection in the following role:
Volunteering Opportunities in Solid Waste Management
Roles and responsibilities include:
- Conducting survey for various stakeholders through a questionnaire prepared.
- Primary data collection of wet and dry waste at survey locations. The data will be collected everyday for wet waste (except Sunday) and twice per week for dry waste.
- The wet waste data includes:
- Noting down the weight of the waste (both dry and wet) generated per day by stakeholders.
- Taking 3600 photographs of the dry waste after laying it down.
- Documenting the survey data and primary data collected on a daily basis.
- Compiling the data in an organized fashion and making reports out of it.
Skills required:
- Good oral and written skills in English.
- Knowledge of the local language would be an advantage.
- Flexible mode of transportation.
- Comfortable with using technology (digital camera, basic computer operations for making reports etc)
- A minimum of 3 weeks commitment.
Jaagte Raho! & Community Policing
Jaagte Raho!
Jaagte Raho! Campaign, has been involved in advocacy efforts with the Election Commission of India (ECI) to reform the electoral systems in our country. The Bengaluru Electoral Systems Transformation (BEST) project is a consequence of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Janaagraha
Community Policing
Janaagraha’s model of change leverages the usage of data-driven models as a medium to bring long-term sustainable change. The foundation for these models lies in developing frameworks for citizen participation in urban governance and platforms for improving the existing infrastructure. Based on this philosophy Community Policing program, encompasses active citizens’ participation in the safety of their neighborhood.
Jaagte Raho and Community policing
1) Survey – On field Roles and responsibilities include:
- Survey to find the health of the voter list
Skills required:
- Educational Qualification: Graduate or Diploma
Availability: From 01/12/12 to 31/12/12 and from 01/03/13 to 31/03/13
2) Registrations – On field Roles and responsibilities include:
- Gathering the requirements of various types of forms by visiting door to door at Shanthinagar AC.
Skills Required:
- Educational Qualification: Graduate or Diploma
3) Survey – On field Roles and responsibilities include:
- Working with the Field Associates to conduct the surveys to find out Security Perception index in 7 PS areas across Bangalore.
Skills Required:
- Educational Qualification: Min. Graduate or Diploma
Jaagte Raho! and Community Policing
4) Design and Communication
Roles and responsibilities include:
- Help in design of the content for Jaagte Raho Awareness campaign in the month of Feb-Mar and Community Policing awareness campaign in the month of Feb
Skills Required:
- Educational Qualification: Post Graduate
Availability: From 01/02/13 to 01/03/13
Community Policing & other Grass roots work
5) Data Entry Roles and responsibilities include:
- Data entry of survey forms of community policing and other data entry work that may be given.
Availability: From 15/11/12 to 15/12/12
