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OUR OPERATIONAL AREA AT A GLANCE Operational area : Four districts in Orissa: N Koraput (blocks Jeypore and Kundra), N Kalahandi (block Golamunda), N Ganjam (block Surada), N Rayagada (block Bissamcuttack) Number of villages covered : 154 Number of households covered : 3904 Major programme areas : N Self Help Group promotion N Community based Natural Resource Management N Farm and non-farm based livelihoods N Health Professional staff : 26 Offices : Head office : Bhubaneswar Project offices : Koraput Kalahandi Ganjam Rayagada CONTENTS MISSION Building capabilities of the poor to address poverty in a sustained Overview 1 manner. Jeypore (Koraput) 4-8 Golamunda (Kalahandi) 9-11 Bissamcuttack (Rayagada) 12-14 Surada (Ganjam) 15-17 Governance 18 Our Partners 18 Auditor's Report 19 Balance Sheet 20 Income & Expenditure 21 Receipt & Payment 22 Summary of Finances 23 OVERVIEW Strategy support the livelihood activities on a revenue based system P Build the capabilities of rural poor to strengthen their existing livelihoods and P Develop community based models for natural initiate new activities to diversify and increase resource management to protect and their income, in the tribal areas of south and judiciously use the natural resources for south-western Orissa sustainable development P Organize women into Self Help Groups (SHGs) P Work in partnership with the government and to improve their access to financial services the industry, in addition to the non- and livelihood options as well as to provide government domestic and international them a platform to contribute in the development organizations mainstream development process P Integrate health and education with livelihood P Develop community owned and managed interventions for holistic development of the institutions to sustain the livelihood activities community promoted in the area P Undertake research geared towards supporting P Develop a pool of highly capable and trained the development interventions of the local service providers in the project area to organization Programme Highlights extending the service. SHG members as well as the leaders are periodically exposed and trained in SHG management, Self Help Group Promotion livelihood activities, awareness about health, PRIs and Harsha identifies SHG as a platform for initiating and other issues related to village development. SHGs are sustaining interventions with the community. The progress being organized at the cluster level to enable exchange of SHGs as on March 2008 is provided in the table below: of ideas and concerns and provide a forum for combined action. An automated MIS is being installed for effective Particulars Addition Total monitoring of the performance of SHGs. during as on Natural Resource Management 2007-08 Mar 2008 In situ soil and moisture conservation was carried out Number of SHGs 86 261 through field bunding, construction of farm ponds and Number of members 1127 3395 ring wells. The water user groups formed around the Number of villages 23 124 previously installed Lift Irrigation schemes are being Savings (Rs lakhs) 12.01 35.53 groomed in effective resource management and benefit Bank linkages (No. of SHGs) 61 168 sharing mechanisms. Loan from bank (Rs lakhs) 35.34 84 Intervention Units Addition Total No. of SGSY & ITDA linkage 24.64 58.37 area during (Mar 08) House 2007-08 Holds Insurance coverage (No. of SHGs) 12 38 Field bunding Acres 17 77 48 SHGs are being linked with SBI Life – Grameen Shakti Ring wells Nos. 63 100 120 scheme for insurance cover. Under the scheme, a life Farm ponds Nos. 8 43 85 insurance cover of Rs 25,000 is provided at a premium of Rs 301 per year per member for a period of 5 years. Forest protection Acres 17 50 95 Lift Irrigation Nos. 0 17 275 To ensure sustainability, the group accountants are identified and paid by the groups themselves for Flow Irrigation Nos. 3 7 235 1 Farm Based Livelihood Promotion Community and Reproductive Health The natural resource management efforts feed directly During the course of their work in the project area the into the farm based livelihood activities. In agriculture, team observed that expenditure on health in the rural promotion of hybrid maize cultivation and System of Rice households accounted for 40% of their total expenses. Intensification (SRI) was continued in all locations. A A strategic decision was taken to work on community Farmer producer cooperative has been registered in health in the same villages (in which work on SHGs and Jeypore and all farm based activities are now being livelihoods was underway). However, this programme has coordinated through the cooperative. Availability of been restricted to Jeypore project area. The interventions irrigation through water harvesting structures enabled are mainly focused on women and children, since they expansion of area under vegetable cultivation as well as are the worst impacted due to problems such as early introduction of new vegetables. More farmers got involved marriage, polygamy, repeated pregnancies, poor in eucalyptus plantation with loan from farmers’ sanitation, traditional belief systems and poor health cooperative. Plantation of papaya, drumsticks, mango seeking behaviour. and cashew were promoted, with support from WORLP Training of Community Health Facilitators and health (Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project) and the supervisors appointed by the project in consultation with National Horticulture Mission (NHM). the SHGs, awareness workshops, sanitation camps and Intervention Units Addition Total No. of immunization camps were the key activities carried out area during (Mar 08) house- under this programme. 2007-08 holds Agriculture improvement Maize Acres 190 245 320 External Review of Harsha Trust: Paddy (SRI) Acres 22 32 38 Salient Findings and Recommendations Vegetable cultivation Acres 77 205 414 N Significant progress in enhancing livelihoods of poor Farm Forestry Acres 225 317 168 Horticulture Acres 300 324 280 N Strong SHGs and producer cooperatives Off-farm Livelihood Promotion N Transparent with community and other stakeholders The salient off farm livelihood activities promoted by Good linkages with government and corporate the organization include poultry farming, NTFP collection N companies to leverage support for the poor and value addition, livestock rearing and vermi- composting. Producer cooperatives have been formed for N Highly motivated professional staff and local Poultry in Jeypore area and NTFP (tamarind) in cadre Bissamcuttack project. The process of capacity N Demonstration in four locations has been enhancement and systems development in these member- successful; organization now needs to scale based institutions is ongoing, in order to develop them up into independent institutions. N Need better internal systems and processes Intervention area No. of Households Addition during Total N Reduce dependence on external funding; 2007-08 (Mar 08) develop revenue models for interventions Broiler poultry 10 95 N Develop and monitor goal and output oriented indicators NTFP collection and 102 102 value addition N Groom professional team to develop management capacities, inculcate orientation Goat rearing 12 37 to broader development perspective Dairy 2 20 2 Future Direction Having completed 6 years of its journey towards In order to increase the scale of operations, a complete achieving the mission of poverty alleviation, Harsha Trust transformation of the organizational structure will be realised the need for a strategic visioning and undertaken, making the districts as nodal locations and reorganization to embark upon the expansion phase and recruiting and training a large cadre of local service reach out to a large number of people. This process was providers at the block and cluster levels. initiated with an external review of the organization The activity based community organizations will be conducted in November 2007. promoted, strengthened and developed into financially The review was followed by an internal vision building viable enterprises. exercise within the organization; the process of Looking ahead, intervention in health would be developing the operational strategy to fulfill the vision developed into one of the core programmatic areas and is underway. implemented across all project locations. The In the next 10 years, the organization envisions reaching organization would develop a strategy for this and raise out to 4 lakh poor families across 10 districts of Orissa. resources towards the same. Visoning Execrcise and Strategic Planning in Progress 3 JEYPORE (KORAPUT) SNAPSHOT 2007-2008 T 39 new SHGs were formed with a total generated a surplus of Rs 5,000 per acre membership of 438 women. 22 SHGs were bank Eucalyptus plantation taken up with 143 linked taking the total number of bank linked T farmers covering an area of 227 acres with loan SHGs to 80 assistance from the Agriculture Cooperative Women Poultry Producers’ Cooperative T 560 children were immunized and 1075 referral registered under Orissa Self Help Cooperative T cases were registered Act. A Feed mill owned and managed by the Cooperative was operationalised T 52 local youth were provided vocational training leading to self employment Maize cultivation promoted in 102 acres T opportunities covering 75 farmers through which the farmers Harsha Trust continued to scale up the development Bank linkages 22 80 interventions in the periphery of SEWA paper mill in (number of SHGs) Jeypore block, with support from Ballarpur Industries Ltd. (BILT). This project, initiated