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Securing and Enhancing Land and Livelihood Opportunities among ?Saharia tribes of Chambal region in Sheopur District.

The project aims at ?Securing and Enhancing Land and Livelihood Opportunities among Saharia tribes of Chambal region in Sheopur District?. The NGO aims at exploring the NTFPs and SWC measures to provide better standard of living and health to the local tribal groups with support from SGP and different state level and National level funding agencies in 5 core villages covering 1630 HHs in an area of 3200 Hac, and 10 dissemination villages covering 1545 HHs in an area of 3420 Hacs of land of Chambal region of Vijaypur block in Sheopur District of Madhya Pradesh. These special protected tribal groups (PTGs) are having the lowest HDI ranking in the country.
The strategy of the NGO will promote cooperatives and village level entrepreneurship. 19 CBOs will be created mainly women?s group, with the help of village cadres consists of elders, women, youth and children and they will independently implement all the project activities. Survey will be conducted to find out different Govt welfare

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Dharti Gramotthan Ewam Shabhagi Gramin Vikas Samiti

Country:

India

Area Of Work:

Multifocal Area

Operational Phase:

OP5 – Y4 (Jul 14 – Jun 15)

Grant Amount:

US$ 31,298.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 220,226.00

Project Number:

IND/SGP/OP5/Y4/BD/STAR/ 2015/73/MP10

Start Date:

6/2015

End Date:

10/2017

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

Cadre groups will be formed consisting of 1 elder, 1 youth, 1 woman and 1 child from each village.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

District and block level workshops will be conducted with the line department for sharing project objectives, baseline & PRA findings. Village level micro plan will be developed in participation with community, approved through Gram Sabha and implemented through them. 6 quarterly meetings and 17 monthly meetings will be conducted. Regular meetings will also be conducted with the line department for problem sharing and remedial means.

Policy Impact

Government programs and schemes will be used to strengthen and facilitate the CBOs and cadres related to agriculture and natural resources. Community or participatory monitoring process will be ensured through community cadres trained on government schemes and services. Campaigning will be done for MGNREGA, right to food Act, Social Security schemes, and Forests rights Act, RTI Act, MDM in core and dissemination villages. Convergence with various government schemes will be done to promote cooperatives and promote village level entrepreneurship. Links will be established with NRLM, RGWM, MHNREGA, Agriculture Department, Aadim Jati Kalyan Vibhag and Sahariya Vikas Pradhikaran, BRGF (Backward region grant fund) will facilitate financing options for alternative livelihood activities.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Materials like Poster, Pamphlets, and Flex banners will be printed. Various case studies, IEC, Videos, surveys will be done for up- scaling of projects. Both print and electronic media will be used for printing and distribution of newsletters.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project aims at improving the livelihood status and social status of the Saharia community in the Chambal region by improving land and increasing catchment area of water for irrigation. Agricultural land will be improved through construction of various land improvement structure e.g. Gabion, Gully Plugs and Land Labelling Activities. Environmental conditions will be improved through the use of smoke less cook stoves by reducing the CO2 emission. Employment will be ensured through MNREGA, minimum 80 days out of 100 days to 500 families through various activities under MNREGA. The project will ensure registration and availability of ration cards for left out families for food security. Approximately 200 Ha land will be enhanced in cultivated area, agriculture productivity and increase of cultivation. Additional employment will be generated.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The project will aim at securing and enhancing land and livelihood opportunities among Saharia tribe of Chambal.

Gender Focus

The project will focus on strengthening women groups through women self help groups to promote economic self-reliance and financial independence of women. 5 CBOs, 100 community cadre and SHGs will be strengthened leading to development of leadership abilities of community and govt. program knowledge which will further help them to secure their right. Links will be established with the markets of honey to increase the purchase power by reduced spending, increased income and/ or other means.

Capacity - Building Component

Training and capacity building will be done to enhance the traditional MFP collection techniques of Sharia Community. Staff will be trained on project principles and objective, roles and responsibilities, linkage of flagship program, leveraging resources & co-financing with other sector, milestones to achieve project activities. Mason?s will be trained on smokeless stove construction. Capacity building training will be done for honey collection and processing as well as storing methods. Refresher trainings of CBOs will ensure effective implementation of flagship programs since micro plan will be implemented by them.

Project Results

* Traditional skills of 1500 Saharia Community members enhanced resulting in improving their lifestyle.
* 18 Majdoor sanghs(270 individuals in total), 12 Farmer clubs(180 individuals), 3 grain banks (30 individuals), 14 SHGs (164 individuals) and 15 Minor forest produce collector groups(75 individuals) have been formed.
* 251 individuals got 80 days of employment through MNREGA.
* 202 families received the Ration card also 1059 individuals linked to ADHAR card so that they can avail the benefits of government schemes.
* Farm bunding done on 40 Ha of land and this will affect 100 Ha of land in total. 4 Ha of area covered under land levelling and gully plug constructed.
* Agricultural diversification and demonstration have been completed on 20 ha of land by 50 farmers have started sustainable(NPM) agriculture on 20 Ha of land.
* 292 Smokeless stoves have been installed. These stoves will save ~2.5 MT of wood per year and hence 2929 stoves will save 292 x 2.5 x 6= 4380 Mt of wood in their lifespan of 6 years. This will also reduce CO2 emission by 8322 MT at 1.9 MT of CO2 emitted per 1 MT of wood burned.
* The NGO introduced the NPM/organic farming in 20 Ha of area with 50 farmers. These farmers gained around INR. 7,62,702/- through farming on this area.

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