WIN PROJECT

Replication

Document the WIN Model

In order to give other organisations (NGOs, associations, etc.) access to the experience and knowledge gathered in the context of WIN, IFPD plans to develop a comprehensive documentation on the project. The results of this extensive reporting process will lead to the publication of a "User's Guide" available to any interested organisation, which will include:

• Conditions for the implementation and management of a WIN programme
• A comprehensive outline of its operational procedures
• The internal organisation and management methods
• The staff's profiles and job descriptions
• Details of investment and operational costs
• Vocational requirements and distinctive medical characteristics
• Staff training
• The contents of training programmes and modules
• Financing and fundraising methods
• Impact measurement schemes

IFPD thus aims to develop a highly valuable instrument, which is likely to promote the replication of WIN and facilitate its implementation and management by other organisations.

Launch WIN2 and WIN3

The WIN programme in Mumbai is now fully-grown and running well; it has been set up progressively, as success was gained and funds were made available. Yet, the implementation of a similar programme over a much shorter period of time will certainly bring to light other difficulties and specific problems. It will be necessary to identify and analyse them, and to develop corrective strategies, which will be added to the WIN documentation.

Therefore, IFPD plans to launch two new WIN programmes in parallel with the documentation process; the first will be set up in Mumbai and the second in a place to be determined. They will allow refining the project model and documenting presently unexplored implementation procedures. They will also lead to precisely identifying aspects of the WIN model which are permanent and barely influenced by indigenous culture and circumstances, and those which are tied to local specificities and have to be handled as such. In addition, several assessments focusing on the fundraising strategy will be conducted at the same time.

For both WIN2 and WIN3, the selection of local partner organisations will be operated on the basis of a number of pre-established criteria, focusing in particular on following issues:

• Experience in the field of health and social development
• Administrative and organisational infrastructure (management)
• Financial accountability
• Links with target community and beneficiaries
• Collaboration with local authorities

Organisations involved will have no links with any ideological, political or religious institution.

Within the context of the WIN replication programme, IFPD plans to diversify its partnerships in order to gain in-depth and extensive experience in collaborating with different stakeholders, and expand the geographical range of its activities.
CSSC (Centre for the Study of Social Change), IFPD's present partner in Mumbai, will collaborate with the Foundation on the WIN documentation and replication programme, and make its field experience available to the persons in charge of the said programme.

Beneficiaries

The implementation of a WIN programme includes the opening of 20 health centres as well as an access to ambulatory surgical services. Operating among a total population of 100,000 to 150,000 people, each programme will directly address 20,000 to 25,000 women and children on the level of medical treatment and preventive interventions. It will also benefit 5,000 to 6,000 families, who will be regularly visited by health workers and receive advice, support and training. Access to income generating activities for women will lead to increasing the resources of approximately 500 additional families per year. As two new WIN programmes will be set up, the total number of beneficiaries will be twice the above figures.

The documentation to be developed is intended for NGOs and other organisations interested in implementing programmes based on the WIN concept, anywhere in the world. They will thus benefit from the extensive experience gathered by all actors involved in the creation and management of WIN (Streehitakarini, CSSC, and IFPD). This represents a considerable amount of work and efforts, which will be recorded in the form of operational procedures allowing future project teams to save time and financial resources, and avoid potential mistakes.