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Organisation
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Professional
Assistance For Development Action (PRADAN),
New Delhi |
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Project
name
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Enhancing
livelihoods of tribal people in Orissa
through women’s self-help groups
(SHGs) |
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Grant
operationalised
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April
2011 |
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Duration
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3
years |
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Grant
amount sanctioned
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Rs49.04
million |
Activities within the
grant and expected impact:
The Trusts have been working with PRADAN
in Jharkhand under the Central India Initiative
since April 2004, through two discrete phases
of support, focusing on promoting and strengthening
the women SHGs, whilst also providing diversified
options towards livelihood promotion, food
security and income enhancement. Over the
past six years, PRADAN has been able to work
with nearly 97,000 poor tribal families, half
of whom have made distinct gains in their
livelihoods. Various livelihood development
interventions have been directly promoted
with over 50,000 families, wherein the average
increase in income of each family has been
to the tune of Rs20,000 / annum from the base
figure of Rs5,000 – 10,000 / annum.
Some of the key outcomes of the earlier phases
are:
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70
per cent of the 36,000 families covered
under livelihood programmes have been
able to double their food grain production
and increase the period of food sufficiency
by 4-6 months. |
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About
74 per cent of the families are able
to enhance their net yearly income by
over Rs10,000, with about 16 per cent
families, earning more than Rs20,000
annually. The increased income being
generated by the farmers is being utilised
for various purposes, such as: |
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Investment in
land development and agriculture - 50
per cent |
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Health –
30 per cent |
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Purchase of livestock
– 10 per cent |
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Education of children
– 10 per cent |
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Other daily needs. |
The present project is to expand the livelihood
prototypes in the tribal areas of Orissa,
based on the outcomes of earlier support
to PRADAN in Jharkhand. The expansion is
based on the learnings from Jharkhand, both
in terms of the livelihood interventions
and the institutional promotion of the SHGs,
cooperatives and federations. The proposed
three years support to PRADAN is towards
initiating and strengthening livelihood
interventions in about 1,150 villages across
the five tribal districts of Orissa. Overall,
the project would cover about 80,000 households;
of which, 27,600 households would be assisted
through various livelihood interventions.
In addition to strengthening existing 1,995
SHGs already formed in the districts, about
1,665 new groups would be formed towards
taking up the social and economic developmental
interventions. These SHGs would be further
federated in about 12 SHG federations, which
would have the prime responsibility of empowerment
of its members, livelihood generation, financial
intermediation (savings, credit, bank linkages,
etc) and mutual support. Various livelihood
prototypes such as agriculture, lac and
animal husbandry would be undertaken by
the 3,660 SHGs. Each household within the
project villages would be supported with
a minimum of two livelihood interventions,
as part of the basket of livelihood options.
These would ensure year-round food sufficiency
for the households, along with an increase
in income base from Rs10,000 / annum to
Rs20,000 / annum (based on the field learnings
in Jharkhand, wherein each household is
involved in atleast two livelihood activities).
The key project activities include:
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Establishing
and strengthening of community based
organisations. |
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Improved agriculture
and Wadi. |
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Land and water
infrastructure improvement. |
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Livestock,
poultry and enterprise promotion. |
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Livelihood
experimentation. |
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