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Centre for Economic And Development - CEAD
CEAD is works in Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts in Andhra Pradesh (India) and was established for the benefit of the most disadvantaged sectors to develop an integrated development approach. CEAD is a specialized NGO in tackling the situations of rescue, relief and rehabilitation activities with wider areas specific to training and orientation and a resource agency in training the other like minded NGOs across state and the neighboring states like Orissa. CEAD came into existence from 1998.
CEAD develops the poorest sectors through providing life skills and occupational skills, development training and distribute income generating activities among them. Develop groups as community based organizations to address large scale issues pertaining to their area and village development, organize village development federations and forums to lobby issues through convergence programs especially the PLHIVs and CLHIVs to be highly benefited through these efforts. Establishment of district level forums of PLHIVs for greater reorganization and meet timely health needs through existing government services towards strengthening process for long living, organize training and workshop for community leaders and professionals on human rights, justice and good governance. Empowerment is the primary and main focus of the CEAD total activities. CEAD is actively and highly involved in disaster preparedness and mitigation programs in the cyclone prone areas of Andhra Pradesh.
CEAD activities are diverse and provide, for example, education and vocational skills (both trade and non-trade), economic independence, disaster resistance housing, community health, prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and family support. In common they share the aim to empower and enable poor and marginalized individuals, forums and communities to increase the control they have over their lives. The past nine years a growing group of people from non-profit, non-government and social enterprise community organizations in our area of operation in Andhra Pradesh in India and have been meeting to work out ways to share what they have learned, to ask each other questions, and to offer each other support.
CEAD & People centered activities:
CEAD in its area of operation concentrates on the mobilization of local collective actions in order to replace dependence as a means to prevent and redress human rights violations. A “people-centered” approach to human rights is arising from the grassroots, making people in struggle the determinative players in human rights standard setting, monitoring, and enforcement. This approach not only challenges the current human rights regime’s tendency to view rights as bestowed and guaranteed for a preoccupation with individuals as bearers of a limited set of civil and political rights, excessive legalism, establishment of bases for human rights; a disregard for notions of duty and collective rights and the relegation of economic, social, and cultural rights to a secondary status.
CEAD mobilize collective actions of marginalized communities that are fueled by mounting frustration over government policies and decisions with regard to implementing and protecting human rights. It feels through such grassroots movements, human rights will become an existential reality for increasing numbers of people throughout operational zones where the issues are concerned. CEAD conducts mass-based human rights movements are emerging as migrant workers, forest dwellers, subsistence fisher folk, landless rural laborers, urban squatters, slum dwellers, indigenous peoples, women, children, and other groups organize to realize their rights, sometimes with the assistance of sympathetic NGOs and like minded.
This people-centered approach of CEAD operations finds some of its strongest examples in the coastal corridor issues and displacement of fisher folk and indigenous communities whose villages were affected by a massive irrigation canal and dam construction. At this stage, CEAD feel that the involvement of NGOs can only speculate as to the factors that might be contributing to the emergence of people-centered movements in the places of emerging issues.
CEAD strongly feels that for effective functioning judiciary systems alternative law groups are required, often made up of so-called barefoot lawyers that provide paralegal assistance to make existing laws better understood and more broadly utilized. Mass-based movements to restore democracy in the needy areas to prepare the ground for new rights movements by working across lines of class, caste, religion, ethnicity, and gender. Intense economic deprivation and environmental degradation have spurred popular responses in India.
CEAD feels that the human rights strengthening is the only alternative approach in many different ways, most importantly by playing an intermediary role between communities, government agencies, and professional groups. It observes that with the assistance of NGOs, people-initiated law reform efforts can be possible and thereby providing them with the basis for forming their own organizations.
