Promote Conservation practices in forest areas through Bamboo Workers Cooperative Development
The projects aims at creating a replicable model for reducing deforestation in North ?East region of India through promotion of sustainable bamboo based livelihoods amongst marginalized communities.
Promoting sustained industrial use of bamboo will reduce timber usage and would help communities all over the region and also other parts of the world where this project could be replicated. This will lead to a decrease in global warming also.
Project also aims at increasing the income levels of the artisans by providing regular and sustainable employment and thereby improving the standard of living.
Since bamboo is available all over the North Eastern region of India the project has good scope of replication in all communities having basic bamboo skills in this region.
Promoting sustained industrial use of bamboo will reduce timber usage and would help communities all over the region and also other parts of the world where this project could be replicated. This will lead to a decrease in global warming also.
Project also aims at increasing the income levels of the artisans by providing regular and sustainable employment and thereby improving the standard of living.
Since bamboo is available all over the North Eastern region of India the project has good scope of replication in all communities having basic bamboo skills in this region.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
DHRIITI
Country:
India
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 46,707.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 14,450.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 14,574.00
Project Number:
IND 50/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/17/ASM 10
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Replication of project activities
. There are mainly four objectives for this project:
? Economic upliftment of bamboo artisans of barpeta district of Assam
? Providing alternative sources of livelihood to communities residing near Manas Tiger reserve .
? Generating sustainable livelihood for at least 1000 backward families in two clusters.
? Replacing timber based products with more eco -friendly Bamboo based products in the market.
Notable Community Participation
450 Families are ready to implement this project.
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Mr Manish Kumar Pandey
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