Community Based Organisations (CBO) involved in grassroots work such as SHGs, watershed committees, water user groups and the like may be actively involved in different processes related to MGNREGS. Some of the activities for which CBOs may be engaged are listed below:
- Creating awareness about the programme and mobilising needy workers to raise demand for work.
- Supporting PRIs in micro level planning and convergence with other schemes/programme.
- Helping to identify mates for organising works under the programme.
- Providing support services like lending implements and setting up the on-site facilities as envisaged in the Act.
- Providing suitable volunteers to be trained as barefoot engineers or barefoot auditors.
- Providing skilled labour or persons who could be trained as skilled workers.
- Facilitating Social Audit especially by providing volunteers.
- Community-based monitoring of the programme.
- Coordinating registering of grievances and follow-up their redressal as a people’s collective.
