multipronged approach through community based organisations (cbos) enriches comprehensive...
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Multipronged approach through Community Based organizations (CBOs) enriches comprehensive development including livelihood
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Narender Paul, Chief Operating Officer CORDOffice of National Director and CORD Training Centre Sidhbari, Kangra, H.P, India, Email: [email protected]
• 70% Rural India
• Agrarian Economy
• Marginalized groups
• Multifaceted problems • Panchayati Raj Institutions
• Welfare, Development, Rights & Climate change • Globe as a village
•Inequality and Injustice
Participation, Integration, Networking and Sustainability
Context
FROM FROM MATERNALMATERNAL AND CHILD AND CHILD HEALTH…HEALTH…
CORD started in 1985 as a health program
CORD’s work began in 1985 as an isolated health program with focus on maternal and child health care It also provided training of community health nurses and traditional birth attendants
Health was not a standalone issue…
……TO TO HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONHOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION
CORD’s holistic transformation is based on a set of Integrated Participatory Programs
• Primary health
• Disability treatment
• Social justice
• Legal cell
• Trainings
• Economic
• Governance
• Education
• Environment
• Preventive health
• Rehabilitation for disabled
Gram Sabha of a Panchayat
Up-Gram Sabha
Ward 1
Up-Gram Sabha
Ward 5
Up-Gram Sabha
Ward 2
Up-Gram Sabha
Ward 3
Up-Gram Sabha
Ward 4
CBO
Women & Men
CBO
Women & Men
CBO
Women & Men
CBO
Women & Men
CBO
Women & Men
CORD’s Process Model is to MainstreamSo that empowered rural India awakens to its gigantic
potential!Government Schemes & Programs
Empowering Elected Leaders & Community Based Organizations (CBO’s)
visible empowerment of poorest of the poor, marginal, AND small women farmers in rural
India
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STARK REALITY• Land distribution inequality (80:20) – fragment and scattered
• Rain-fed agriculture: 80% & Irrigated:20%
• Women constitute more than 50% of Indian farmers and 60% of the workforce in the farming sector. • Only 9% of rural Indian women have land in their name
• In Indian Himalayas, - a pair of bulls works 1,064 hours,- a man 1,212 hours and - a woman 3485 hours in a year on a one hectare farm
Source: FAO, NSSO (India) and The Women Farmer's Bill 2011
MISSIONTo institutionalize the poorest of the poor, marginal, and small women farmers in collectives to become a visible force to be reckoned with in agriculture and allied sectors in rural India
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
CYCLE
Objectives• Visibly empower women in agriculture• Develop women’s community
institutions • Create sustainable livelihood
opportunities in agriculture and livestock• Ensure household food and nutrition
security• Increase women’s confidence and
productivity • Reduce drudgery • Build decision-making capacity of
women farmers• Increase efficient use of local resources• Establish best practices for the poor in
farm and allied sector in mountainous region of South Asia
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Targeted Beneficiaries• 3500 poorest of poor, marginal, and small women farmers
Himachal Pradesh
Institutional Model for livelihood promotion
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Panchayat level Women Farmer Group
(PLWFG)
Women’s Farmer Group (WFG)
Women’s Farmer Group (WFG)
Women’s Farmer Group (WFG)
Women’s Farmer Group (WFG)
Women’s Farmer Group (WFG)
Women Group (WG) and Self-Help Groups
(SHG)Ward 1
Cluster / Block level
WFG
Women Group (WG) and Self-Help Groups
(SHG)Ward 2
Women Group (WG) and Self-Help Groups
(SHG)Ward 5
Women Group (WG) and Self-Help Groups
(SHG)Ward 4
Women Group (WG) and Self-Help Groups
(SHG)Ward 3
*Institutional model is in convergence (not parallel) with Up-Gram Sabhas and Gram Sabhas model of Panchayati Raj Insitution (PRI) for local self-governance in rural India!
Livelihood Design
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LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT
Livelihood Design Focus• Individual household food and nutrition security
• SCI (System of Crop Intensification) - rice and wheat, pulses, millets, vegetables
• Sustainable agricultural practices• soil and water conservation• low-cost practices• seed management and control• mitigation of risk exposure• climate change – resilient practices• organic practices
• Earning from inputs and surplus• marketing outlet model to harness power of the collectives• incremental increase in income from savings from self-sufficiency:
grain, dairy, poultry, goats
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CRP – Community Resource Person 16
Marketing Outlet
CRP
Government and other agencies
Facilitated by CORD
FUNCTIONS•Relationship with Wholesale Marketers•Community Mobilization•Managing Collection Centers•Trainings & Capacity Building
Farmers will exchange inputs and produce with marketing outlets
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Design
MARKETING OUTLET
PLWFG PLWFG PLWFG
WFG
WFG
WFG
WFG
WFG
INPUTS OUTPUTS
EXC
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CRP Saleswomen
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• Fertilizer (vermi compost)
• Azolla• Cattle feed• Tools• Seeds
• Vegetables• Dairy• Fruits• Grains
EXCH
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DU
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Marketing outlet committee
Key output/outcomes
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