SAMBANDHLATEST

The project started with the mission towards ensuring sustainable livelihood for the forest dwelling community through increasing their productive capacity and their participation in the process of development. The project seeks to understand how the creative initiative of the marginalised people of the operational area could be released and mobilized for the all round development of their lives. The process of mobilising people is the primary mechanism for this effort. People’s participation, use of local resources and local knowledge have been the underlying principles of this project. Project “Abhipsa” focuses on formation of human capabilities such as improved economy, health, knowledge and skills and the use to which these are put in order to improve the quality of life. The project has started in the year 1999 with the process of establishing rapport, awareness generation, identifying & prioritizing issues, formation of village level institutions & capacitating them.

Goal

People capacitated to have access, control and proper management of local & natural resources vis-à-vis decision making process that affect their lives

Objectives

Empowerment for increased access and control over local resources vis-à-vis socio-political institutions through capacitation process with gender sensitization for strengthening CBOs on common issues. · Sustainable management of natural resources for optimum land productivity to combat migration. · Strengthening of self-help groups as a means to women empowerment. · Alternatives for employment & income generation through non-farm activities. · Health awareness based on indigenous practices and ethno-medicine. · Facilitating non formal education to the dropouts

Focused Groups	Tribals and dalits with less and no assets · Small and marginal farmers · Forest dependant communities · Women and children · Indigenous health practitioners
Approach	Strategizing choices with needs-based priorities of supporting rural livelihoods, building local capacity, focusing on entitlement failures and their needs, learning lessons and establishing mechanisms to feed back into planning processes; · Strengthening local level institutions(CBOs, SHGs etc.) and work through self-help groups of women; · Complimenting government efforts and programs for the development of this area.
Strategies	Promoting livelihood improvements at least at primary stakeholders · Capacity building for primary and secondary stakeholders · Encouraging an enabling environment for strengthening the local institutions

                Gram Panchayat                  Salchua
                               Block                 Thakurmunda
                            District                  Mayaurbhanj 
   No. of Operational Villages                  10
                  No. of Hamlets                  27 
                Total Household                  971
                Total Population                  5123

Institutions :

                                  SHGs : 31 Youth Clubs      13

    No. of groups established linkages with banks      18

Awareness generation & competence building of CBOs – Leadership development Training, PRI training.
Water Resource Development
Promotion of Agriculture & horticulture
Micro-finance to Women SHGs
Alternative Health care

Wadi:
The project envisages generating livelihood of 1000 tribal farmers living below the poverty line by developing Orchard around their houses and on their lands. The prime objective of the programme is to provide sustainable source of livelihood to 1000 marginal tribal families through an innovative intervention of development of orchard (Wadi) with integrated soil and moisture conservation measures, retention and management of soil health, water resource development, health care facilities for the project stakeholders and drudgery reduction of tribal women.

Sustainable source of livelihood to 200 marginal tribal families in Thakurmunda Block, Mayurbhanj district has been provided through an innovative intervention of development of orchard (wadi) with integrated soil and water conservation measures, retention and management of soil health, water resource development, various inter-cropping of vegetables and plantation of fodder and fuel wood species on the fence, health care facilities for the project stakeholders and drudgery reduction of tribal women. Income generation in terms of wage employment has been increase to about 15000 person days by developing wadi by way of on-farm operations, harvesting, loading, transporting, unloading, packing, distribution and marketing. Greening the unproductive land would help them not to depend on the local forest for their livelihood, fodder and fuel wood. This would save the forest and thereby the carbon sequestration.