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Organisation
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Grameen
Development Services, Lucknow |
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Project
name
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Scaling up of community based microfinance
and livelihoods initiatives in Ajmer |
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Grant
operationalised
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January 2010 |
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Duration
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3 years |
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Grant
amount sanctioned
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Rs 8.41 million |
Activities within
the grant:
The three-year project is towards
increasing outreach from existing 1,400
to 3,500 households, by:
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Promoting
177 new self-help groups to increase
outreach to a total of 300 groups and
organising them in three federations;
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Promotion of an integrated goat-rearing
programme with 1,500 households, organised
in 40-50 goat-rearer groups |
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Undertaking
agriculture productivity improvement
in staple Kharif crops of bajra (Pearl
millet) and guar (legume fodder) to
enhance food and fodder security of
1,000 members of groups |
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Exploring
the feasibility of promoting additional
livelihood options for members through
aloe-vera cultivation and processing
on a pilot scale. |
Key interventions include:
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Formation
of 177 new SHGs and promotion of three
federations |
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Promotion of integrated goat-rearing
based livelihood programme |
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Intervention
in Kharif food crops |
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Pilot
on feasibility of aloe-vera cultivation
and processing as additional income
source. |
The project is expected to lead to:
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Household level: |
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Increased
access to credit for 3,500 poor families,
resulting in Rs10,000 per household
for 123 existing groups and Rs5,500
– 6,000 per annum per household
for 177 new groups |
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Through goat-rearing, an increase in
income of 1,500 households by Rs9,000
per annum |
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Insurance
coverage for at least 3,000 families |
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Enhanced
food security for 1,000 households by
2-3 months |
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Promotion
of three federations providing a range
of services to members — credit
linkages, agri-inputs, member and animal
insurance and animal health care services |
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Testing
of a pilot on aloe-vera cultivation
and small-scale processing unit to explore
additional source of income for households.
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| (2)
Environmental impact: |
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While
open grazing has the negative impact
of environmental degradation, the proposed
project seeks to bring a gradual shift
from existing open grazing to stall-fed
grazing practices. Promotion of legume
fodder is one of the key strategies
envisaged for achieving this, along
with capacity building on balanced feed.
Stall-fed grazing is also important
from the point of view of increasing
value realized from market, wherein
weight is the deciding criteria. |
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