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WESTERN ORISSA RURAL LIVLELIHOOD PROJECT

WESTERN ORISSA RURAL LIVLELIHOOD PROJECT. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE RURAL LIVELIHOOD APPROACH?. Sustainable livelihood is an occupation or employment enabling someone to provide for his/her basic needs and to be secure that this will continue to be the case in the future.

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WESTERN ORISSA RURAL LIVLELIHOOD PROJECT

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  1. WESTERN ORISSA RURAL LIVLELIHOOD PROJECT

  2. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE RURAL LIVELIHOOD APPROACH? Sustainable livelihood is an occupation or employment enabling someone to provide for his/her basic needs and to be secure that this will continue to be the case in the future.

  3. BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF PROJECT OPERATING DISTRICTS • Bolangir • Kalahandi • Nuapara • Bargarh

  4. ABOUT “WORLP” • Inaugurated in August 2000 • Implemented in October 2001 • It is a 10 year project but can be extended • It is a joint venture of the Government of Orissa and DFID- the UK Department for International Development. • Technical assistance to the project is provided by NR International of UK. • Total project budget is 23 million pound.

  5. GOAL & PURPOSE • More effective approaches to sustainable rural livelihoods adopted by government agencies and other stakeholders in the project districts and elsewhere. • Sustainable livelihoods promoted in project area, particularly for the poorest by 2010

  6. PARTNERS • Orissa Watershed Development Mission (OWDM) • The Department for International Development (DFID) • Natural Resources International Ltd. (NR International) • Natural Resource Institute, UK • Imperial College, London

  7. STAKE HOLDERS Primary stake holders: 1. Village communities 2. Watershed communities- such communities will be involved in planning or project activities and responsible for the management of most project funds. Secondary stake holders: 1. Ministry of rural development and department of land resource 2. The Orissa Department of Agriculture 3. Panchayat bodies in the project districts 4. Local NGOs

  8. PROJECT APPROACH The project has three basic components. Those are as follows 1. Promoting livelihood implement. 2. Capacity building for primary and secondary stake holders. 3. Encouraging and enabling environment.

  9. The project includes four elements which addresses the earlier weaknesses of watershed projects. 1. Allocating additional resources like drinking water, sanitation, irrigation with greater emphasis on micro-credit. 2. Capacity building for vulnerable groups. In each project village a livelihood support team has been formed which focuses on development of self-help groups and other livelihood supporting teams. 3. Strengthening the Government staffing structure and capacity building of the staffs. 4. Focus on enabling policies (access to non-timber forest products)

  10. STRUCTURE OF “WORLP” GOI watershed programmeCapacity building programme GOI-MRD DFID DOA watershed mission PSU (IMAGE, SIRD) DRDA(DWAC) CBT (RITE) PIA/WDT (NGO) LST WC/WA CBOs SHG/UG (village Para-professionals)

  11. OUTPUTS Component 1: Promoting livelihood improvements • Productivity of land and water developed in a sustainable and equitable manner, in 290 watersheds. • Livelihood initiatives for the poorest involving both natural resources and non land-based activities, identified and implemented in a participatory manner. Component 2: Capacity building for primary and secondary stakeholders • Enhanced capacity of inclusive watershed level organizations to plan, implement and manage resources and project/own initiatives. • Enhanced capacity of landless, marginal farmers and women, to identify needs, access project and other external resources, and negotiate improved local entitlements with better off interest groups.

  12. OUTPUTS CONTINUED…. • Enhanced institutional capacity of Government organizations, PRIs and NGOs to work together on poverty focused programmes and initiatives. Component 3: Encouraging an enabling environment • Issues which impact on the poorest and ways of improving government policy to address such issues, identified. • Approaches developed in project replicated more widely. • Project management and support arrangements operational.

  13. EXPECTED BENEFITS • Improved agriculture incomes for small farmers and more wage-labour opportunities for the land less. • More effective use of water including for drinking and reduce vulnerability to drought. • Reduced environmental degradation. • Greater food security for poor families. • Empowerment of communities to take decisions. • More access by communities to Government schemes. • More equitable access to livelihood opportunities for the landless marginal farmer and women. • Improved capacity of institutions to implement rural development projects.

  14. SOURCES • A. Working papers- 1. “Sustainable Livelihood and Political Capital”: Argument and evidence from decentralization and natural resource management in India by Pari Baumann, October, 2000 2. “Sustainable Livelihood and Project Design in India” by Cathry Tuseton 3. Sustainable Livelihood in Practice: Early application of concept in rural areas • B. Project Memorandum by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, • Department of Agriculture, Government of Orissa, DFID-India, Government of UK • C. 1. www.worlp.com 2. Official website of Bolangir, Nuapara, Baragarh and Kalahandi

  15. OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO • Prof: Bipin Das(coordinator- Cenderet)

  16. PRESENTED BY…… Sambit Kumar Mohanty (41) Santanu Thakur (45) THANK YOU…….. QUERIES???????

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