Project Detail

Community approach for sustainable livelihood through Biodiversity conservation in tribal areas of southern Orissa

This project has been developed by keeping the following goals in mind:
?undertake research to understand and regenerate indigenous tribal systems and practices of conservation and cultivation.
?enable and ensure tribal women?s participation in the research and documentation, so as to develop and understand the relationship between tribal women and common property resources.
? scale up and replicate the successful activities to other neighbouring villages for livelihood generation of the tribals and protection of ecosystem and environment of the locality.
? improve the local traditional practices and to invoke innovative ideas for ensuring sustainable livelihood of the tribals.
?Encourage tribal communities, especially women to undertake constructive and systematic steps to rebuild their ecosystems for a sustainable livelihood, by combining indigenous knowledge systems and traditional practices with contemporary information and technology, with special emphasis on effective management and conservation of common land resources.
?Help tribal communities learn from each other through sharing and networking.
?Developing a knowledge base of current best practices, and traditional systems

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

AGRAGAMME

Country:

India

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)

Grant Amount:

US$ 23,410.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 107,122.30

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 14,516.06

Project Number:

IND/SGP/OP4/Y1/RAF/2008/03/OR 22

Start Date:

12/2007

End Date:

11/2009

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

(PIA). The beneficiaries have contributed in shape of lab our. Agragamee has contributed in shape of cash from the partner donors in preparation of irrigation projects, establishment of night schools in some villages, electrification through solar energy and micro hydel projects , setting up some income generation programmes , marketing linkages, organizing framers conversion etc.

Policy Impact

As the NGO seeks to reduce the dependency on the Forest for Livelihood purposes itself influences the policy impact.

Project sustainability

At the time of formation of the project, we have taken in to account their local cultivations practices and slightly made improvement on it with out charging the local habits and practices, their local seeds, organic framing practices , preparation of organic pesticides and liquid manures and vernlicompost has resulted in their sustainability!

Notable Community Participation

Ensuring livelihood from sustainable agriculture practices. The communities are actively involved in taking decisions and raising a development funds from their own resources to keep a continuity of the process after the project period is over. Establishment of biodiversity management committee with a fair representation of different groups of the community including women.

Policy Influence

It has established better coordination with Govt. policies. The NREGS programmes of Govt. have been regularly established. Health sanitation programmes of Govt. have been implemented. Percentage of school going children has increased due to regular functions of schools and distribution of mid-day meal programme.

Linkages gef projects

Media coverage has been made ? net working with other NGOs have been made : Regular Farmers conventions at different places of the project areas are being conducted at an interval of 3-4 months. For these conventions press people are being invited and extensive media coverage is being taken up. These activities are published in local news papers and telecast in TV channels. Not only press people are invited but also Govt official of the line Depts , functionaries of Gram Panchayats and Panchyat Samiti & local NGOs are regularly invited to enlighten on the project activities. Regular linkage is made with technical institutions also.

Capacity - Building Component

The project encourgaes the tribal communities to learn from each other through sharing and networking. Peoples participation through planning, implementation and monitoring the project activities is done through trainings, workshops and demonstrations. Subjects of workshops: 1. Introduction to Biodiversity conservation 2. Importance of B.D.C 3. B.D.C for sustainable livelihood 4. Agro Biodiversity 5. Identification and COllection of Biodiversity data on biological resources and traditional knowledge 6. Preparation of bio-diversity register 7. Organic farming 8. Integrated pest management

Gender Focus

The project focuses on enabling and ensuring tribal women?s participation in the research and documentation, so as to develop and understand the relationship between tribal women and common property resources which is also a key activity undertaken in the project. the project also encourages tribal communities, especially women to undertake constructive and systematic steps to rebuild their ecosystems for a sustainable livelihood, by combining indigenous knowledge systems and traditional practices with contemporary information and technology, with special emphasis on effective management and conservation of common land resources. The project largely focuses on encouraging tribal communities, especially women to undertake constructive and systematic steps to rebuild their ecosystems for a sustainable livelihood, by combining indigenous knowledge systems and traditional practices with contemporary information and technology, with special emphasis on effective management and conservation of common land resources.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project seeks to reduce the dependency on forest for livelihood purposes. improve the local traditional practices and invoke innovative ideas for ensuring sustainable livelihood of the tribals.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The project undertakes research to understand and regenerate indigenous tribal systems and practices of conservation and cultivation. Encourage tribal communities, especially women to undertake constructive and systematic steps to rebuild their ecosystems for a sustainable livelihood, by combining indigenous knowledge systems and traditional practices with contemporary information and technology, with special emphasis on effective management and conservation of common land resources. Scale up the successful activities to other neighbouring villages for livelihood generation of the tribals and protection of ecosystem and environment of the locality. The project also encourgaes tribal communities learn from each other through sharing and networking

Replication of project activities

This project needs replications. Instead of 24 villages it should cover more than 100 villages with a financial out lay of more than 40 lakhs. This should cover strengthening of SHGS, increase in forest area and include improvement of cattle, poultry apart from organic Agriculture.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

To strengthen the traditional practices for need based conservation of crop diversity. Since there shall be scaling up of the successful activities to other neighbouring villages for livelihood generation of the tribal and protection of ecosystem and environment of the locality the awareness is beimg generated on a wider scale. Developing a knowledge base of current best practices, and traditional systems is also a key activity undertaken.

Planning non gef grant

we received such a recoganization for our GEF SGP project that we are getting responses from many organizations that they are coming forward and showing interest.

Project Results

? Enhanced farmer?s knowledge about the availability of the natural resources especially agro biodiversity found in their area.
? Selected Farmers have developed small plots across the Contour and cultivated different crops.
? Learnt maximum utilisation of residual moisture for a second crop in winter along with seed production, raising seedlings, cropping pattern
? Preparation organic /liquid manure and organic/agronomic techniques of farming.
? Developed skills in preparing Biodiversity register, locally existing flora , fauna and medicinal plants etc
? Learnt about the Off season Vegetable cultivation, Utilization of existing irrigation sources bunding of lands across the slopes.
? Training is one of the most important components in our scheme. During the periods of training they are learning forest protection, maintenance of biodiversity register, preservation of local elite seed material, improved farm techniques, rising of nursery, organic farming etc which later on is adopted by them.

? Soil & moisture conservation adds to their income. Due to undulating terrain conditions of their land the entire precipitation is drained below along with the top soil. This result in moisture stress in the later periods. with the washing of top soil, the land productivity is declined. The beneficiaries are being taught about the techniques of bunding across the slope with earth and stone to preserve moisture and soil. This has been adopted in most of the villages, thereby the production is increased.

? Apart from training, regular field visits of agragamee staff is very important. During their field visits and village meeting, the doubts of farmers are clarified proper techniques are demonstrated in the field.

? Farmers to farmers contact are one of the most important events now observed at present. The farmers of the project area are educating other farmers of the neighboring villages of these techniques. This has been expanded in around 45 neighboring villages

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