2. Overview of the organization
Year of Establishment: 26th January 1992
OUR VISION:
To build a self-reliant society, free from hunger and exploitation, where everyone irrespective of caste,
creed, sex or language have right to dignified means of livelihood and through collective action ensure
socio-economic justice and ecological balance.
OUR MISSION:
To facilitate and strengthen vibrant people’s organizations at different levels of society that will protect,
utilize, control and manage local resources and through collective action, ensure dynamic socio-economic
change for sustainable development by advocating for pro-poor governance and bring women, children,
tribals and downtrodden, to the mainstream of the society.
VALUES WE CHERISH
– Transparency in all aspects.
– Commitment to render selfless service to the poor.
– Accountability to the Society.
– Work with team spirit.
– Punctuality.
– Participatory approach in all aspects.
– Sensitive towards women.
– Adhere to secular spirit
3. Our Action Areas
Geographical area : Koraput District in ODISHA
• Directly operational in 232 villages of 31
Gram Panchayats in 5
blocks (Koraput, Nandapur, Kotpad,
Borigumma, Bandhugaon).
• Scale up of System of Rice Intensification
(SRI) in association with 16 local NGOs in
Koraput District covering 5200 small and
marginal farmers.
• Facilitating Forest dependent people’s
network for ensuring management and
Rights of Livelihood resources in Koraput
District.
4. Concerns & Issues
•Undulating Landscape.
•Small and marginal land holdings .
•Land alienation & landlessness
•Food insecurity and distress migration
•Irregular monsoons and lack of assured irrigation
•Vulnerability to Natural Disasters (drought,
landslide, flashflood
•Low participation in governance.
•Lack of proper access to government safety
nets.
5. Our Programme Themes
Formation and strengthening of People’s
Organizations
Ensure food and livelihood security through
Natural Resource Management
Sustainable Agriculture through organic practices,
Crops like Rice, Ragi, Millets, Sugarcane, Spices
and Vegetables using System of Intensification
Facilitation Self help cooperatives and Producer
Cooperatives
Value addition and Market linkages
6. Our Experience
• People’s organisations with 50% women representation access their rights and entitlements.
• Forest dependent people ensure land rights for 230009 families and community claims submitted in 951
villages.
• Community able to manage soil and water resources and enhanced period of food security on an average of
6 months
• 1500 families enhance income for better livelihoods through value addition and marketing of local produces
and off farm activities.
7. Partnership with Digital green
• Reaching out to 189 villages in 2 blocks of Koraput District.
• Formation of 435 groups covering 7015 small and marginal
farmers (Women- 3147 and Men-3868 )
• Experienced thematic experts, Documentation & Video
production team and trained CSPs
• 149 Videos produced on agriculture, organic practices, Govt. plan
& programmes
8. Impact
An average of 150- 200 Groups watch videos on regular basis and demand generated
Systematic adoption of Agriculture practices - changed Mindset of farmers,- 17,332 Adoptions so far.
Linkages established with MGNREGS – Land Development and water conservation
Community adopting sanitation and hygienic practices.
Documentation of local practices/technology strengthen the knowledge base.
CSP working as community resource persons for demonstration and linkages
Role of women recognized in agriculture extension services- 66 women already featured in videos.
9. Learnings and Opportunities
Learning:
• Good Community acceptancy - has Opportunities for scale up .
• Linkage with Govt. schemes -Possibility of leveraging resources.
• With development of infrastructures and financial support services to small holders and
adoptions of practices food and income security will improve for the small holders.
Opportunities:
• District level Network with NGOs and People’s Organizations - potential for scale up and
expand the knowledge base.
• Networking with state, national and International institutes, Agency and Organisations.
