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Organisation
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People’s
Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun |
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Project
name
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Sustaining mountain livelihoods –
implementation phase under Himmothan
Pariyojana |
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Grant
operationalised
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December
2010 |
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Duration
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2
years |
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Grant
amount sanctioned
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Rs19.2
million |
Activities within the grant:
The current project, focuses on primary
means of production i.e., agriculture, forests,
pastures, livestock, microfinance, etc,
to enhance livelihood opportunities. Efforts
will be made to use mainly the capital available
with local thrift (savings and credit) groups
and local banks, to provide credit for productive
purposes. At the same time, additional activity
funds will be leveraged from government
sources, including for the promotion of
micro-enterprises.
In this implementation phase, PSI and its
partner organisations (POs) will, over a two-year
period, implement 21 village-level livelihood
development and promotion (LDPs) in villages
of the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand and Himachal
Pradesh. The primary focus will be on raising
household incomes through a combination of
irrigation, fodder development, animal husbandry,
agronomic and horticultural measures; and
secondary income generation activities like
poultry, goat rearing, off-season vegetable
cultivation and developing new products for
value addition and marketing.
The proposed plan entails the following key
activities:
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Each village cluster
will have a trained two-man livelihood
development and promotion team (LDPT)
supported by PSI, to help local communities
implement planned activities |
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Community mobilisation and capacity
building of village-level institutions
(VLI) and programme staff to take place |
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Ensuring market linkages.
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The activities would cover 802 families
(63% BPL) across 21 villages and the income
of these families is expected to increase
by approximately Rs14,000 per annum.
It is expected that the impact of this phase
will be wider as compared to the earlier phase,
since it builds upon and takes forward programmatic
strategy, moving into focussed livelihood
development and market linkages.
Projections by PSI based on the two-year design
of the overall project are:
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Additional cash incomes
to the tune of Rs10,000 to Rs14,000
annually, could possibly be attained
through the sale of vegetables, milk,
poultry, goats, etc |
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The four village clusters will be
independently capable of managing the
livelihoods development initiatives
in the long run |
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Credit availability would
increase from Rs1,500 to Rs2,000 per
woman annually |
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Around 1,085 hectares
would be treated, ensuring an assured
supply of natural resources to the 802
associated families |
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Overall, project interventions
would lead to an increase in current
annual income of 802 families from Rs34,000
to Rs48,000. |
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