Madhya Pradesh Is Speaking at the State Level Workshop on Rural Governance Held in Bhopal in February, 2019
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2019 ANNUAL REPORT On the Cover: Top Left: Gudiya Khatoon on her daily round of households to check upon her patients (goats and poultry) in her uniform armed with her trusty animal care kit. She is a pashu sakhi of Titra Bishanpur village of Muraul block in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Gudiya has been providing veterinary care services to the denizens of the village since January 2017 and has been responsible for decreased mortality among goats and increased goat herd size for rearers. Top Right: These women are the proud owners and managers of a Solar based Mini Water Supply system in Narsinghpur village of Mushari block in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar. Saraswati Suddh Peyjal Samiti is an all-women committee responsible for management of piped drinking water supply in the village. They collect water tariffs and undertake maintenance & repair of the system. Bottom Left: Janadi Bai, the president of Village Level Association of Kusumya Village in Niwali block of Barwani disrict, Madhya Pradesh is speaking at the State Level Workshop on Rural Governance held in Bhopal in February, 2019. She shared the story of transformation of her village brought on by increased women participation in Gram Sabha. The women members raised and successfully resolved various village-level issues such as Anganwadi functioning, road construction, access to drinking water supply system, access to electricity, access to social security schemes/entitlements, etc. Bottom right: Anushruti, an ambitious and hardworking girl from Pusa block in Samastipur district of Bihar upskilled herself through the Yuva Junction employability skills program of the organisation and upon completion of the training was placed at Quest Alliance as a Facilitator with the initial package of INR 3,00,000 per annum, one of the highest packages offered during the year. 3 4 GEOGRAPHY AND REACH 5 08 Leadership 09 Partners in Development INSIDE 10 The Year that was 12 2019 in Numbers 14 Climate Smart Agro-systems 32 Agriculture and Livestock Valuechains 40 Youth Development 48 Health and Hygiene 6 08 Leadership 60 Education 09 Partners in Development 66 Peoples’ Institutions 10 The Year that was 84 Vadvai 12 2019 in Numbers 86 State Reports 14 Climate Smart Agro-systems 92 Research and Monitoring 32 Agriculture and 94 Human Resources Livestock Valuechains 96 Finance 40 Youth Development 97 Media Coverage 48 Health and Hygiene 98 Reach Us 7 LEADERSHIP BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1 Nasser Munjee Chairperson 2 Aloysius Fernandez Director 3 Bakul Virani Director 4 Ishaat Hussain Director 5 Isher J Ahluwalia Director 6 Kasim Ali F Merchant Director 7 Madhu Sarin Director 8 Munir Merchant Director 9 N. Venkatram Director 10 Pradip Khandwalla Director 11 S. B. Ravi Pandit Director 12 Tinni Sawhney Director 13 Wajahat Habibullah Director 14 Apoorva Oza Secretary AUDITORS Statutory Auditors M/s Haribhakti & Co Mumbai Internal Auditors Manubhai & Shah LLP Todi Tulsiyan (for Bihar) BANKERS State Bank of India, Navrangpura Branch, Ahmedabad State Bank of India, Vadaj Branch, Ahmedabad Axis Bank, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad 8 PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FUNDING PARTNERS Aditya Birla Capital Shell India Aga Khan Foundation Shri Pradip Khandwalla American India Foundation Shri Aleem Adatia Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives Sardar Sarovar Nigam Ltd Asian Paints Small Farmers Agriculture Consortium(SFAC) Australian Consulate General in Mumbai Tata Trusts Axis Bank Foundation The Hans Foundation Better Cotton Initiative UNICEF Bhaidas Cursondas & Co UPL Ltd. Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation UN Women Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Vestas Laudes Foundation Water Aid Carrefour Foundation WGWLO Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell (CSPC) Collectives for Integrated Livelihood (CInI) Cotton Connect KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS D-SAG, Government of Gujarat National Skills Development Corporation Ltd European Union (NSDC) Godrej Agrovet Ltd SBI Foundation Godrej Consumer Products Ltd TRI Foundation Gruh Finance Ltd RRA Network Gujarat CSR Authority Sajjata Sangh Gujarat Livelihoods Promotion Company Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) (GLPC) Grassroutes Journeys Pvt. Ltd HDFC Bank Ltd Swati Ahmedabad Heifer International Jagori Hindustan Unilever Foundation Vikas Anvesh Foundation (VAF) IWMI-TATA Water Policy Program DSC Foundation John Deere India Development Management Institute (DMI) Mahindra Finance Patna Microsoft National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Nokia India PRADAN Quest Alliance Rabo Bank Reckitt Benkiser Rizwan Adatia Foundation We are thankful to continued support from Government of India, Government of Gujarat, Government of Bihar and Government of Madhya Pradesh for our various development initiatives. 9 THE YEAR THAT WAS The year 2019 has been both exciting and Solar based irrigation systems have been challenging for our team. Large parts of a great success in terms of providing North Bihar, and some parts of Madhya affordable and reliable irrigation services to Pradesh and Gujarat experienced severe farmers in remote locations. Studies have flood conditions during the monsoon suggested that there is substantial jump season. It led to widespread damage in crop production in villages where solar to crops and livestock in many villages. irrigation systems have been set-up over the Children in our program districts in Bihar last five years. Open wells with underground experienced the worst kind of disease, pipeline system serving five to ten farmers Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). This have proved very effective in tribal regions led to tragic deaths of many young children where farmers cannot afford to invest in mostly from extremely vulnerable families. individual capacity. These incidences broke our hearts. Our team showed great resilience during Climate resilient agriculture practices are such instances and helped large numbers becoming a strong pillar of our work in of families in whatever way they could. At the agriculture sector. Large numbers of the time, when this report is being finalised, farmers benefited by adopting practices we are again going through a severe crisis such as Non-pesticide management, in the form of Covid-19 pandemic. Again, Conservation agriculture, Mixed cropping our teams are working actively on ground systems, Organic agriculture and System of to generate awareness at grassroot level, root intensification. Over 50,000 farmers however this work might be covered in next have been practicing one or more of annual report for the year 2020. these sustainable agriculture practices in programme villages. We continued to expand and deepen our rural livelihoods works, mostly building on Various studies have shown benefits of these the social capital which has been generated practices in terms of reduced input costs, over all these years. Over 150,000 reduced water requirement, improved soil households were supported through various health and increased resilience in adverse livelihoods activities during the year. climatic conditions. Crop diversification practices such as vegetable cultivation, fruit Expansion of irrigation infrastructure in trees plantations and mushroom cultivation some of the most remote villages has been helped farmers to increase their incomes. one of the major highlights of the year. Our work on irrigation includes solar based Integrated livestock development has group irrigation systems, construction of become a core livelihood program for the earthen dams and check dams, farm ponds, organisation in last few years. It has had bore-well recharge and revival of old water a positive impact particularly on women bodies. Our work on facilitating access to farmers as they are engaged in livestock drip irrigation for farmers in highly water rearing. Pashu Sakhis reach to over 70,000 stressed areas continues to expand like livestock rearers across all three states, previous years. and are playing a critical role in improving the productivity and incomes from goat We have already provided drip irrigation rearing and backyard poultry through facilities to over 10000 farmers and plan to their dedicated services around preventive reach many more in coming years through veterinary care. Clear gains are visible on our innovative work on facilitating access ground in terms of reduced mortality rates to finance for farmers in need of funds for in livestock leading to increased income investing in drip technology. realisation from these activities. 10 Dairy activities supported by us have the outcomes and sustainability of activities helped tribal farmers of Gujarat in getting we do but also truly empowers the most continuous cash flow round the year. marginalised in villages. Various CBOs promoted by us now reach to over 1.5 lakh Skills trainings and placement support to households. These CBOs are playing an rural youth through the Yuva Junction important role in improving livelihoods of program helped over 2000 youth during the rural people. year. Almost half of these trainees are girls which clearly shows that there is increasing It is our continuous endeavor to make acceptance among the community when it all our programs more gender focused comes to building career of young women. so that they are able to fulfill practical Our placement facilitation is very intensive. as well strategic needs of rural women. Upskilled youths have been receiving better We continue to support and strengthen quality jobs year on year. Average initial Panchayats so that they can become citizen salary of these youths has increased to centric in their approach. around INR