THREAD, SIDDHARTHVILLAGE, BADATOTA, P.B. No- 09 JATA NI, ,

Special Features

Section 1- Ethics of Organization and its approach towards development and focus

Section2- Empowerment Action

Section 3- Employment Action

Section 4- Entitlement Action

Section 5- Economic Action

Section 6- Ecology Action

Sections 7- Essence of Impacts and Best practices/Success Stories

Section 8- Energetic Photo Features / News paper clippings/ IEC materials/Media coverage

Section 9- Education on Eco village Design and Mediation

Section 10- Effective Financial Management System

Section 11- Extreme support for ongoing projects and our staff profile

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Desk of Executive Director ...

HREAD has made concerted efforts during the reporting year to promote life and livelihood of the people. It strongly believes that - ‘Denial of right to basic rights denies people’s ability to achieve Tother rights i.e. rights to life, livelihood and employment’. It believes that people have rights which need to be protected and promoted. Access to Government entitlements by the poor and excluded people to sustainable livelihood is to be guided by community control and management of resources and its sustainability. This is possible only through participation of the Socially Excluded Groups/Families and promotion of community ownership. THREAD engaged itself with vulnerable and excluded poor people for the assertion of their rights and entitlements, to enable the formation of an empowered community that challenges the unequal and unjust power relations through a process of socio economic and Livelihood development and information sharing. During the reporting year, THREAD with the active Support of Network partners achieved in the sphere of Community mobilisation for asserting the rights and entitlements, More Engagement with Government departments for effectiveness of the programme Implementation, Beyond NREGA and FRA activities and Involvement in the Planning process. The details are mentioned below. In the sphere of Ecological development concern, THREAD having with 53 Block level network partners srriving for development of eco villages in tribal villages of Odisha. Apart from this the youths belongs to SEGs have been capacitated through exposure and demonstration which paves better result and also better impact.

The strong coordination and support of Government line departments and strong network among Women federation will be expecting in coming days and we, the leading CSOs of the state greets the service providers and stakeholders for their extreme support towards betterment of the tribal and socially excluded groups

SJ. G. JOHN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THREAD, SIDDHARTH VILLAGE

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Ellipsis used in the Reports:

THREAD Team for Human Resource Education and Action for Development PDS Public Distribution system ONS Odisha Nari Samaj GENOA Global Eco Village Network Ocean and Asia IBS Individual Benefit Scheme LB Labour Budget BPT Block Planning Team BRT Block Resource Team IPPE Intensive Participatory Planning Exercise SOP Shelf of Projects NTFP Non Timber Forest Produces SAP Surplus Agriculture Produces PVTG Particularly Vulnerable Tribal G roups CBOs Community Based Organisations CAGs Community Action Groups NHM National Horticulture Mission NREGA National Rural Employment Guarantee Act INRM Integrated Natural Resource Management IEC Information and Education Materials SEGs Socially Excluded Groups CFR Community Forest Right IFR Individual Forest Right OTFD Other Traditional Forest Dwellers FRC Forest Right Committee FRA Forest Right Act RTI Right to Information PA ITDA Project Administrator, Integrate Tribal Development Agency PD DRDA Project Director District Rural Development Agency MLA Member of Legislative Assembly BDO Block Development Officer DSWO District Social Welfare Officer OLM Odisha Livelihood Mission PIC Project Implementation Committee SDLC Sub Divisional Level Committee FC Field Coordinator

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FF Field Facilitator Our domain “Empowerment/Employment/Economics/Entitlements/ Ecological Development of socially Excluded Communities and their villages”

ustaining the tribal economy and their livelihood development through dovetailing the government resources and services meant for the socially excluded groups and their communities, THERAD, the Pioneer organisation in collaboration with the state S government and their line department fetching better results/ impacts during the reporting period. In this context service provider at the door steps and different stake holders of the project contributing the major and outstanding contribution to accelerate the process of rights and entitlements and the community based organisations with a spirit of community effort and addressing exclusion are the key factors of change. For this happenings and changes, we are very grateful to the government departments and especially the service providers, PRIs, Stakeholders and Media for the change happening in small scale of intervention and investment.

The community feelings towards community binding creates and helps us to cater the need and address the exclusion issues by which the excluded tribal and Dalit communities are now in better live and livelihood without degrading the environment and resources in their surroundings. We hope and anticipating the efforts of Community based organisations in the sphere of development and livelihood of the socially excluded will continue with collective collobaration of government and other stake holders in the sphere of project intervention for bringing a delightful change.

TEAM OF GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS AND PROJECT STAFFS THREAD

Our THRUST and ENDEVOURS

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SECTION – 1

Our Thoughts and Perceptions towards Empowerment and Economics of Excluded Groups

mpowerment is an active and multidimensional process, which enables the Socially Excluded tribal and Dalit communities to realize their identity and power in all aspects of life. The need for empowerment of tribal and Dalit hardly needs justification. Their primitive way of life, economic and social backwardness, low level of literacy, out dated Esystem of production, absence of value systems, sparse physical infrastructure in backward tribal areas and demographic quality of tribal areas make the development of tribal areas essential. Government of India launched a lot of programme for development of tribal area, viz. Tribal Sub-Plan strategy, Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, State/UT Minor Forest Produce Act, 2005 including MGNREGA ( Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), FRA (Forest Right Act) other Development and Employment Programme etc for bridging the gap between excluded group/ communities and Government, but due to some external factors and internal blocks, the effectiveness of the services and programmes are not at par on the basis of their priority and problems. Government of India and State Government both are designed various programmes and schemes to alleviate poverty and empower women of the country but the constraints and blockage in programme implementation not merely benefiting the poor or addressing the exclusion.

‘Lack of knowledge about new technology and information’. Further, overall constraints of tribal women which are being addressed through our endeavours and continuous efforts towards Empowerment, Ecology and Economic development initiatives.

Our Focus:

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o mitigate the Natural Disasters Risks and Climate Change effects on Live and livelihood along with addressing social exclusion and Economic Empowerment of the Socially T Excluded groups and their communities, THREAD endeavours and thrusting on similar activities of Ecological development initiatives and development of Eco villages and facilitate the Tribal and Dalit Communities and their organisations to assert their rights and entitlements and address the issues of Social Exclusion and Discrimination. Moreover we are succeeding to develop the eco villages in tribal dominant pockets where women federations (NARI SAMAJs) have been formed through the handholding support of THREAD. Connecting the society and capacitating the organisation for addressing the exclusion are the key strategies and approach of the organisation for the all-round and sustainable development. Adhering, Aspirating, Accelerating, Ameliorating and Advocating for favourable policy, the weapons of community collective actions and efforts are the key and vital role in the process of development as a result of which during the reporting year, the Community Based Organisations and their apex institutions and facilitating NARI SAMAJ have been self sufficient and get recognition and appreciations from Government Departments.

OUR MISSION OUR BELIEF To bring about social transformation by The collective awareness of each facilitating a value-based people’s movement individual, living ‘here and now’, by generating genuine love, concern and care ultimately radiates outwards making within the individual, and extending these to difference to the world the community and to nature, by protecting human rights and the environment, through careful use of nature’s wealth.

OUR VISION

THREAD envisages a society based on values of equity, happiness, justice, peace, self- reliance and sustainability, where:  The individual discovers the self and evolves  The community cares and shares its all with all  The nature is nurtured  And, all three live in a harmonious and symbiotic relationship

OUR KEY THEMATIC AREAS OF COOPERATION / MEMBERSHIP INTERVENTION  THREAD is a part of International Network “Global Eco-Village Network  Socio-Economic Empowerment of the – International (GEN – IS)” Marginalized and Socially Excluded  THREAD initiated GEN-India Families, especially women  THREAD is also active in the network  Livelihood & Food Security “GENDA”

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 Holistic Development of Health Status  The founder of THREAD is a Governing  Protection of Human Rights Body Member of GEN-IS, Vice-  Positive Social Transformation through President of GENDA & President of Value Based People’s Movement GEN-India.  He is also the initiator of GEN-Odisha.

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Perspective towards development

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Our Target Populations GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE Name District coming No of No of of Region under the Region Blocks SAMAJ South 5 5 Region 1 1 Nawrangpur 5 5 5 5 Kalahandi 7 7 West Sundargarh 7 7 Region 3 3 1 1 Deogarh 1 1 1 1 Bolangir 4 4 North-East Mayurbhanj 14 14 Region TOTAL 12 54 54

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ORGANISATION MANDATE  Socially Excluded Groups are Prime target groups in our programme and perspective  Ensure Eco friendly Natural Resource Management by the local people and their Institutions.  Commitment to facilitate changes in the lives of the rural poor through social transformation.  Unbiased attitude towards all the members of the partner communities irrespective of caste, creed, sex, religion, ethnicity, disability and geographic location  Empathy in our approach and behaviour to the members of the partner community  Neutrality from any religious or political affiliation.  Honesty and accountability in retaining transparency at all levels.  Honor and mutual respect with recognition to the traditional knowledge system and practices.

ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES: The program strategy that we set out to carry forward has several perceptions for the smooth working of our organization. It demands continuing efforts to develop and strengthen systems and procedures that reflect our mandate of community participation, transparency and accountability with the process of community empowerment. It is a matter of fact that faulty management of natural resources is the root cause of most of our development problems. We do believe that the existing practices of managing our natural resources must change towards a wider spectrum of community participation. A set of three objectives guides the organization effectiveness:  Assist local people to assert their right over local natural resources.  Assist local people to utilize traditional knowledge and techniques to manage and develop all local natural resources  Assist local people to form their organization by enhancing their capabilities for protection, management and sustainable utilization of local natural resources

ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES  Creating awareness among masses of the people about their social, economic and political rights and associated responsibilities.  Documenting, collating and disseminating information and analysis on specific development issues, policies and programs.  Building and nurturing CBOs to undertake various issues of substantial community interest  Motivating, nurturing and educating traditional village/ community institutions for social, cultural and economic transformation of the society they live in.  Develop and wide spread eco village development concept to combat the natural and manmade disasters and climate change impact.  Social and economic empowerment of women to make them equal partners in development process and decision-making.  Educating, empowering and motivating the community organizations, traditional institutions and people at large to ensure qualitative human and honest governance at the grass root level.  Advocating, Campaigning, motivating and educating the PRI and women organizations networks to ensure improved participatory governance, pro poor favourable government policies at grass root level.  Build alliance of networks at state, national and international level on various issues and concerns like global warming and Climate Change.  Imparting training and organizing capacity building of PRIs on natural resource management Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 11

 Promotion of intellectual constituencies for alternate, pro-people and sustainable development models  Experiment and exhibition of alternate development models in NRM and its implications  Undertake study and research, policy analysis and associated advocacy in formation of People’s Capital.  Promotion of community infrastructures to improve livelihood conditions of poor and vulnerable section of the community.

Our Role in Development paradigm

ORGANIZATION APPROACH:  Pro Poor Approach towards development perspective and sustainable approach of strengthening grass root democracy.  Holistic approach towards all round and sustainable development with prime focus on eco friendly natural resource management without degradation of local environment.  Participatory approach in planning, monitoring, executing and evaluating the programme.  Need based approach to evolve the project and programme with prime motto of people centric development.  Approach towards social transformation by which the community and community based organization

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Development Projects and target area coverage District

P R O J E C T S Coverage Target area/population District Empowerment of Socially Excluded Groups Mayurbhanj 34126 Household belongs to 34 for Rights to Livelihood, Land , Health and Gram Panchayats of 4 Blocks ( Nutrition in 4 Blocks of Mayurbhanj District Bisoi, Bangriposhi, Sarasakana of Odisha & Bangriposhi Block) of Mayurbhanj District Sustainable Development of women Mayurbhanj 35613 Households belongs to 6 organisation through Empowerment, Sundargarh blocks of four Districts Economic & Ecological Development Sambalpur initiatives Koraput Emergence of Model Eco villages and Malkangiri Kudumulguma and Korkonda Peoples Institutions for Implementation Block of Malkangiri District sustainable communities Combat climate change environmental Koraput Laxmipur Block of Koraput impacts and reduce the vulnerability and District risks through pro people friendly technologies which will help to reduce volume of food security issues

SECTION - 2 Empowerment of Socially Excluded Groups for Rights to Livelihood, Land , Health and Nutrition in 4 Blocks of Mayurbhanj District of Odisha

THREAD has made concerted efforts during the reporting year to promote life and livelihood of the people. It strongly believes that - ‘Denial of right to basic rights denies people’s ability to achieve other rights i.e. rights to life, livelihood and employment’. It believes that people have rights which needs to be protected and promoted. Access to Government entitlements by the poor and excluded people to sustainable livelihood is to be guided by community control and management of resources and its sustainability. This is possible only through participation of the Socially Excluded Groups/Families and promotion of community ownership. THREAD engaged itself with vulnerable and excluded poor people for the assertion of their rights and entitlements, to enable the formation of an empowered community that challenges the unequal and unjust power relations through a process of socio economic and Livelihood development and information sharing.

During the reporting year, THREAD with the active Support of Network partners achieved in the sphere of Community mobilisation for asserting the rights and entitlements, More Engagement with Government departments for effectiveness of the programme Implementation, Beyond NREGA and FRA

Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 13 activities and Involvement in the Planning process. The details are mentioned below. MGNREGA FOREST RIGHT ACT  18719 Families got an average 32 days employment in the  3203 Individual Forest Right Claims submitted financial year at SDLC  3719 families got 100 days employment under NREGA  142 CFR claims submitted at SDLC  122 Individual Assets created like Land Development,  56 FRC reconstituted through proper Plantation, Farm Pond, Goat shelter etc. procedure of Gram Sabha.  22 Goat Shelters developed at the Socially Excluded  594 FRC trained and involved in the process Families claim submission  792 Individual Assets approved under NREGA Support  20 SHGs/FRCs/VSS selected as PPA for  362 Acres belongs to 589 Socially Excluded Families collective trade of NTFPs under the developed under the Support of NREGA. Mixed Cropping scheme “MSP to MFP” and Intercropping also promoted in the same patch of  122 rights holder under FRA have been land tagged with other development  THREAD and Network CSOs selected as Nodal Agency for IPPE in 4 Blocks programmes like Land development, IAY  30 Project Staffs (Field Facilitators/Field Coordinators) houses etc trained on IPPE at State/District and Block level.  THREAD and One of our Network partner  32 Cadres also selected as BPT for IPPE selected as Nodal agency for Facilitating the FRA activities in four oper

Community Institutions and actions for empowerment Level Organisations Nos Actions Village level Nari Sangha, SHGs, 2000 EDE, Guidelines of Govt, Policies, Amendments, Labour Union, VDCs leadership, community building Panchayat level Community Action 300 Climate change and disaster preparedness, Grow Groups, Circle Samajs, you own food, organic cultivation, organic pest Panchayat level management, conflict resolutions, leveraging federation of Labour govt resources, Union Block level Nari Samaj (BLF), 53 do Labour Union federation, District level Nari Samaj (DLF) 12 do Labour Union Federation (DLF)

2.1. CBOs involvement in Asserting rights and Entitlement of Socially Excluded Groups THREAD with the strong determination of Network partners and Odisha Nari Samaj ( A state level Federal Body of Women organisation) continuing and striving for asserting the rights and entitlements of socially excluded Groups. The PACS programme helps us to go beyond the THREAD initial works and gives better result towards recognition, acceptance, engagement at Government. In this year, THREAD along with Nari Samaj works have been recognised at different level and our communities and staffs are being invited as key resource persons for facilitating different development programmes and planning at Government line departments. The PACS programme supports and monitors the activities of the Government Machineries in carrying forward the village development

Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 14 initiatives and provides opportunity and platform for the SEGs and their institutions to fight for their rights, The samaj Representatives and Labour Unions are being pro actively involved in campaigning for asserting the rights to entitlements, monitoring of various services in the villages and conducting awareness programmes. This year The labour Unions and Community Action Groups directly put their grievances and raised their voices for the Socially Excluded Groups. Three of our Labour Unions filed petition against Government Officials and GRS at District Labour Court. The All the CBOs were regular in conducting their monthly meetings, and taking up issues relating to development under the purview of NREGA, FRA, Health and Nutrition as well as other Social, Food and Livelihood Security problems. During this year 216 issues identified by the Labour Unions and CAGs and resolved and different level. The leadership among the CAG and Labour Union as well as Nari Samaj is quite enhanced through the PACS programme, The CBOs are also engaged in problem identification, conflict resolution and steps for asserting the rights of the Particularly vulnerable Tribal groups. They are also involved in monitoring school education, health support services and information dissemination in project areas. Engagement of Labour Union, Community Action Groups, Network partners along with THREAD with Government

THREAD and Network Partners like Nari Jayasri Samaj of Gopabandhu Nagar directly involved by Government for facilitating the CFR and IFR under Forest Right Act 2006. Last year we could not fulfil the desired results in the sphere of community forest rights recognition process, but this

Dist Administration and THREAD in IPPE year with the strong collaboration of Government revenue department we succeeded a lot under the FRA. Till today, 142 Community Forest Right Claims submitted to SDLC. In the process of engagement of Nari Jayasri Samaj of Gopabandhu Nagar Block, the tribal women organisation have been recognised at Block and District level for their outstanding contribution and involvement. Socially Excluded Tribal Communities are also appreciating the Samaj work and engagement with Government departments. Most of the Block officials are inviting our Community workers for resolving the issues relating to CFR and diversion of land towards development etc. This way the Grass root organisations are quite proud for their inovlement and engagement with Government. 2.2. THREAD, Network partners along with CBOs involvement in Planning process THREAD is only Organisation in the District selected as Nodal Agency for the IPPE process at Village level. The Field Facilitators under PACS programme of THREAD have been selected as Block Resource Team for facilitating and expediting the IPPE process. They were also provided four days training at Block and District level and two days training at State level. Out of four Operational blocks, in three blocks the representatives of CAG, Labour Union and Nari Samaj are nominated as Block Planning Team Members for the total IPPE process at village level.

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2.3. THREAD initiatives beyond THEMATIC area of Intervention During the Reporting Year we with our community organisation took more initiatives beyond NREGA, FRA, Health and Nutrition Thematic areas. Government resources and supports have been mobilised and implemented in the Plantation sites developed under NREGA. Besides that we also gave inputs and handholding support to the farmers for growing short duration crops, pulses and vegetables as intercropping in plantation sites. Through our involvement and engagement with government, 362 Hectares of undulated and fellow lands have been converted and developed into productive purposes. Intercropping like Mango + Arhar, Mango+ Brinjals, Mango+ bitter-guard, Mango+ Maize and sweet potatoes are being promoted with our hand holding support. In the same patch of land we also demonstrated the Organic way of vermin wash, Pit compost, Liquid manure etc. In our small initiatives, 589 families belong from Socially Excluded Groups got privileges under NREGA and our work has been recognised at Block and District level. It may be noted that this year activities under NREGA are comparatively more community centric and livelihood concentrated.

Beyond FRA THREAD and Network partners are being merged with state level network for addressing the issues of Distress sale of NTFPs. The State and central Scheme “ MSP to NTFP” is being materialised through our collective efforts. 20 Nos of FRC/SHGs/Nari Samajs are applying for PPA (Primary procurement Agency) for collection and Trade of NTFPs. This would be going to approved by Gram Sabha and in the current financial year, they will involve in the process of collection and trade of NTFPs.

2.4. Key Strategies Adopted during the period  More Engagement of Community organisations/Network Partners and THREAD with Government departments  Pro active involvement in IPPE Planning process  Lobbying and advocating the Social. food and livelihood relating problems and highlighting the issues in bigger forum  Development of Skills among Labour Unions and CAG in the sphere of Negotiation, Rights asserting, Recognition of Rights  Creating volunteerism among the youth and impart training to them on various schemes and programmes of government and how to avail it. Fill up the application form, Job card registration, Social Audit, Right to Information etc  Convergence of different government programmes for livelihood development  Sensitize the Labour Union and CAGs institution on FRA/NRHM/NREGA inside the project area and interacting with them on development issues and development vision.  Negotiating with different lin e department of government and playing a catalyst role in development process as well as ensuring effective mobilization and implementation of government resources.

The Stronger Community based organisations with whelm to address the issues of Socially excluded Groups and Community are major contributing factors towards the achievement of PACS programme. Samaj Representatives are pro actively in one hand involved from Planning to Implementation of the programme and other hand engaging with Government mechanism for effectiveness of the Government livelihood programmes. The engagement of Labour Union, Samaj, Community Action Group representatives in FRA, IPPE, NREGA creates ample of opportunity for them towards leveraging government resources and also raising voice for the

Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 16 socially excluded Groups and communities. Apart from CBOs engagement with Government mechanism and departments, the village level cadres are also developed and facilitated the Planning process as well as claim process of Community and Individual Forest Rights recognition process. Out of 67 total cadres, 32 cadres are well capacitated and independently involved in the claiming process of community and individual forest rights entitlement. The candidates are being selected as BPT in IPPE process. Collective effort of community organisations and pro active involvement of samaj leading to the achievements.

2.5. THREAD has been implementing the programme on the following objectives 1. To develop capacities and skills of local communities with a special emphasis on local women and Socially Excluded Groups for sustainable management of natural resources through effective Implementation of NREGA with an aim to enhance the live and Livelihood, and address issues of accountability governance and delivery. 2. To develop a network of voluntary organisations concerned individuals/communities and their institutions and funder groups to address problems of basic rights in the tribal regions. 3. To mainstream issues of rights, entitlements and sustainable livelihood of tribal and other marginalised communities through appropriate advocacy strategies

The Field coordinators and Field facilitators are also well versed on government schemes and programmes meant for the socially excluded Groups and communities. The Field Facilitators are being selected as Block level resource Team for facilitating the total IPPE process in the Block. Besides that the they are being invited by the Block Administration for participating and facilitating the Block level programmes in four Operational Blocks of PACS area. For enhancing the Knowledge and create competitiveness among Field staffs and Field Facilitators, regular basis of Performance Test, performance Appraisal on their Objective setting has been done at project office level. This way they are quite capable to implement the programme and manage their field in the absence of Line manager. Though all of our Field level coordinators are belongs from Socially Excluded Groups, they realised the importance of the programme and involved directly in the process of asserting the rights and entitlements for the socially excluded Groups. THREAD has been maintained strong documentation, data base and filing system with all documentary proof which helps to analyse and also help us and our community to address the issues. 2.B. Empowerment initiatives under Sustainable Development of women organisation through Empowerment, Economic & Ecological Development initiatives

2.B.1. Overall Goal/Objective of the project To enhance the skills and capacities of village communities with a special emphasis on women to address issues in accountable governance, entitlements of the citizens and delivery of services in social security, Food and Livelihood security along with welfare measures of government. To emphasize networking of Women organisation at state and District for collectiveness to address problems of basic rights in the tribal regions along with development of Strong marketing channels on behalf of the primary collectors of Agriculture and Forest Produces To strengthen the Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat in the process of development and operationalisation of village development planning, Shelf of P roject Development along with effectiveness of NREGA and FRA. 2.B.2. Specific Objectives Out of 303 villages, at least 100 Villages availed community titles over Community Forest Resources and its sustainable management plan developed

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At least 60% of the socially excluded families got employment of average 50 days in a years under the support NREGA Village development and land-scape livelihood plan developed in 100 villages of six Blocks and the Samaj’s respective villages ensured the operationalisation of village development plan through Gram sabha Approval and implementation NREGA 3 Community based Enterprises developed with a tune of coverage of 20000 tribal families and generated employment of 100 days in a year 60% of the total villages adopted eco village concept of development with a view to address the issues of climate changes and reduce the risk of natural disasters 80% of the forest dwellers linked with favourable market and the distress sale of forest produces and agriculture products reduced

2.B.3. Project Objectives and Achievement Criteria’s Project Objectives Criteria of Achievement Out of 303 villages, at least 100 Villages selection where the community have already protect and Villages availed community titles manage the forest with prior to evidences of protection and over Community Forest Resources management will be covered and the Gram Sabha will get the and its sustainable management community forest title over the forest plan developed At least 60% of the socially excluded The socially excluded Families will be identified in the families got employment of average operational area and they will be tagged with support of 50 days in a years under the support MGNREG NREGA Village development and land-scape Under the purview of IPPE ( Intensive Participatory Planning livelihood plan developed in 100 process), the village development plans will be developed by villages of six Blocks and the Samaj’s using the PRA and other resource management and respective villages ensured the development tools and project will ensure its approval by gram operationalisation of village sabha. Apart from this the Community based organisations will development plan through Gram ensure the operationalisation of village development plan sabha Approval and implementation effectively with focus on Integrated Natural Resource NREGA Development 3 Community based and community Neem Plantation and Powder Unit, Turmeric Processing Unit managed Enterprises developed along with establishing solar dryer for food processing and with a tune of coverage of 20000 preservation are to be set up on the basis of availability, tribal families and generated affordability, adoptability, Quality and Quantum of raw employment of 100 days in a year materials. The respective Samaj will take overall care and management along with day to day maintenance of unit 60% of the total villages adopted The four dimension of Eco village concept of development like eco village concept of development social, Economic, Ecology etc are to be adopted by the villagers with a view to address the issues of through intensive training and exposure of progressive farmers climate changes and reduce the risk to best practices adopted by the villagers of natural disasters Millet cultivation will be promoted in at least six demonstration sites with a view to address the malnutrion issues and the production from the farmer’s field will be redistributed to other farmers for practicing the millets and its propagation 80% of the forest dwellers linked Strong need based and market centred business plans will be with favourable market and the developed at Samaj level for developing the market chain and distress sale of forest produces and linkaging the primary collector to end user. The Samaj will act agriculture products reduced as producer company and play vital role in collective trade of NTFP and Agriculture produces along with value addition. The Three dimensions like Procurment, Processing, Promotion are to be made by the Samaj in consultation with THREAD

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2.B.4. Achievements so far Empowerment: - Village level labour unions and their federations have been formed and strengthened by which they are quite capable to fetch the government schemes and accountable to the socially excluded tribal families and their institutions - The IPPE process of Planning have been materialised at 20% villages and it is proposed to cover all the villages in coming days - The socially excluded tribal women and their institutions have been trained and capacitated on different anti poverty schemes and programmes of government - Community forest and individual forest rights claims submission processing is going on to adhere their entitlements and rights over the forest resources

2.B.5. EFFECETIVENESS OF THE STRATEGY Strategy-1: Form and strengthen the people’s institutions for proper functioning of government schemes like NREGA, FRA, NRHM and ICDS in the focus block in west Orissa, south Orissa and east Orissa and mainstream the same in other blocks of all districts. Strategy-2: Capacity building for the focus blocks tribal women’s orgnisations and also GB members of other blocks. Strategy-3: Advocacy, lobbying and networking Strategy -4 : Formation of co-operatives on pilot basis for marketing agriculture products and NTFP

While the strategy planned is highly effective and it indicated success in our endeavor to achieve the project goal, the strategy of forming co-operatives (refer strategy -4) could not be put into action as the law has undergone change. However, we learnt that producer’s co- operative will be helpful without too much interference of external forces and thus we intend to follow the same in the future. Training & Workshop for the office bearers of the Samaj

No. of Workshops No. of Trainings, No. of Meetings Total -24 Total- 7 Total- 59 Total Participants-728 Total participants- 242 Total participants-1489

Activity carried out during the reporting project period As the project nearing to the third year, a special intensive session with regard to tapping of resources, success story sharing of NREGA planning by people and future plan of action for the samajas of present intervention and spreading to other samajas. Orientation on sustainability and self reliance was the theme of the training. 22 members benefited from the training during the period

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2.B.6.National Rural Health Mission NRHM committees conducted 280 meetings in total in the target villages. 382 pregnant women got registered under NRHM 289 got benefits from MAMATA schemes total amounting Rs.12,60,500/- . 279 children got immunized. Registered Pregnant lady Delivery Children attended in to Anganwadi centre Details

280 240 1245

2.B.7.Tapping Resources of Govt. schemes Through various peoples institution armed with information and knowledge, the people intensively able to tap substantial govt. resources amounting to Rs. 3,34,31,513/- within three blocks of fifteen villages approximately Rs.22,00,000 per village during the project period and 7,42,000/- per year. This is the biggest achievement of the project implementation. It is estimated that other villages of three organisations where data could not be collected for want of staff support, approx. one fourth of this amount would have been tapped. Thanks to the peoples institutions which is now sustainable which can tap through various people’s offices of NREGA? NRHM alone for Indira awas yojana housing for 77 families, green fencing, community housing, road construction, pond digging, check dam, SRI cultivation. Tapping of govt resources during the three years.

Sl. No. of Name of the Amount No. of people No. of Samaj name Work No. village work getting family days M F Ms getting 1 Indira Awas 28,080,000 42 164 8 77 Shreemayee, 4742 ST quarter Swadhin, Kirti 8 Road work and Sangini Plantation Samaj Pond ST quarter 75000 X4=3,00,000 Sangini and Shreemayee 2 2 Green fencing in 1. 6,000.00 15 22 school 2. 13,000.00 Samaj 3. 19,000.00 Community Sangini samaj 5,00,000.00 House 3 3 Latrine 16 32 4 43 Swadhin 92 5,20,500 samaj 4 1 Road 2,50,000 22 2 22 -do- 18 5 3 Earth Road 112 22 15 169 Sreemaye & 150 8,50,000 swadhin 6 1 Concrete road 7,00,000 32 7 8 34 Sangini 98 7 1 Pond 7000 5 8 15 Sreemaye 7 8 1 Pond cleaning 4,00,000 18 34 15 -do- 18 9 2 Check dam 10,00000 100 24 20 154 -do- 164 10 1 School Boundry 27,000 32 7 8 34 Sangini 98 11 1 Village dam 1,50,000 10 30 18 Swadhin 24 12 1 SRI 5,00,000 32 12 8 52 Srimayee 60 13 5 Seeds treatment 25,000 -do- training 14 1 Corn Cultivation 2,800 12 4 12 -do- 18 15 1 Plantation 5,00,000 68 12 12 102 104 Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 20

34650300/-

2.B.8. Forest Right Act committees: 46 meetings in total organized by the Forest committees in the target areas and 380 applications were filed for individual patta for forest land, 90 individual got patta during the project period. 95 meetings in total conducted to assess community forest right act implementation. The committees took up the recent land amendment ordinance promulgation issue and sent out letters to authority their concern. Orissa Nari Samaj had their own special meeting and sent out letters to concerned dept against land amendment ordinance.

2.B.9. Right to Information Through Right to information Act, the committee got informed about 1506 Single woman got land titles for themselves and they also received information regarding money spent on SRI budget in order to apply for the same.

While three samajas of three blocks were given focus, simultaneously, all the other samajas also kept in link to spread the success story to replicate within the given resources. Over three years, 24 workshops benefiting 728 and 59 official committee meetings participated by 1489 members were held to train the committee members of MGNREGA.RTI,NRHM ICDS on establishing peoples institutions of different kind in their own village to have sustainable institutions to continue the work benefiting 728 participants. Thus 60 committees with in 15 focus villages and over 200 committees in other samajas thus the people’s institutions have gained momentum. The advantage of the committee functioning as official body to tap resources and claim entitlements will be mentioned else where with the data.

The project replication effect was done through different workshops for all Orissa ONS office bearers seven times during the project period and kept them informed and shared learning from the project with the aim to spread the effect to other samajas. The effect of replication is not as ambitiously expected due to lack of staff for handholding role in other samajas. However, the idea and the impact of people’s institution and its need have spread to all over Orissa. The following table mention about the data of office bearers for workshop and training of Orissa Nari Samaj, the federation of 54 tribal women’s organisations.

2.C. EMPOWERMENT INITATIVES under EMERGENCE OF MODEL ECO VILLAGES AND PEOPLES INSTITUTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE For Excluded communities in Malkangiri Promoting the process of women’s empowerment and integrating this process into the development process and eco village emergence as sustainable communities Women in Orissa are deprived socially, economically, politically as well as culturally. To protect the rights of women in the community/ intervention area, attempt will be taken to ensure their participation and representation in the community level organizations and community life and access to community resources, and at the same time to take steps to make them economically independent while taking up political leadership in their hand at the village and panchayat level. This will be done through various orientation and discussions on gender and human rights and development initiatives. THREAD will also align with other like-minded organizations as well as engage with government bodies working on the above issues to further strengthen our advocacy. Participation of women in the project activity constitutes an important component of the project. So the project will ensure 50% women participation in the Gramsabhas/Pallisabhas and people organizations. it will ensure representation of Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) women in various block level committees like NREGA watch club, Forest committees, ICDS Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 21 committees etc.

Strategy-2 Capacity building Capacity building of the excluded groups, particularly of the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) will be a major part of the activities to be facilitated by THREAD. In congruence with the capacity building needs of the four women headed organisations, there will be programs to build the organizational perspective towards people politics and organization building, to increase knowledge of structures, laws and systems in society, and to gain skills for organizational development, problem solving, lobbying and advocacy, and alliance building.

The programme team will draw the indicators of the effectiveness of the program and will document the total process properly. Along with capacity building program, THREAD is also planning to have review meeting at district level especially with government officials. It will also facilitate interactions between communities and government officials.

The partner organization in the target area Malkanagiri has no sufficient committed human resource support .As the area is Naxalites dominated no educated people are ready to give services to these illiterate poor tribals and dalits. THREAD which is closely linked with global Eco village Network and recognized training institute, it will organise The Back to Basics Design Education course recognized by Gaia Education for the local tribal and dalit youth of the locality . As the course is mainly on hands on experience and it instills certain conducive values, the local youth will be motivated to adopt certain number of villages in three organsiations. The main partner Nari Mukti Samaj will be the leading partner for other organizations and thread will give all training for them. It will ensure transition takes place and the villages are recognized as eco villages which addresses climate change issue. ( refer guide line for eco village) Organize Back to Basics Design Education course experience for the 20 local youth and equip them with knowledge, skill and explore the attitudes and induct change within sothat the next generation is convinced and committed and adopt villages in the state to introduce ecovillages with the support of prepared guide lines. The exposure to this experience will enable them to convince themselves and commit to work to address the climate change issue and solution through initiation of Eco villages with different peoples institutions in each village to commit each villages for maintaining low footprints without being tempted to industrialized development and also make the govt. accountable. The Back to Basics Design Education course thus will prepare change leaders and provide human resources for the tribal women’s organizations to get the support for mitigation of climate change.. The youth will be asked to adopt 8 villages each of the tribal women’s organisations and work intensively for three years with the help of guide lines and promote ecovillage concept in the villages encouraging and promoting the culture of organic ecological farming and kitchen gardening, Recycling water, sanitation. They will also support the tribal women’s organizations to initiate people’s institution in each village in the target areas which will naturally mainstreamed.. Later they can keep these tribal women’s organizations ( community based organizations) and all the peoples institutions in all villages as a base to continue the work with or without external support. It should be noted that 20 youth for the locality will be provided with the BBED course which is certified by Gaia education, Scotland and they will receive the certificate. 6 out of 20 will be selected for intensively involving with the 3 tribal women’s organizations. This activity itself will maintain the existing low foot prints in the villages and also will convince the villages not to be tempted with other inputs that will increase the footprints. This will be done by new projects including eco villages initiated by the Field co-ordinators in the villages as an impact of BBED course and the support for initiating activities in the villages will be received by the local govt for the villages. The people’s institutions will be trained to empower themselves t.o make the govt

Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 22 accountable for all the programmes for SC and ST Strategy.3.Advocacy, lobbying and networking This is another area where the network partners will give more focus. Our partner organizations have relation with the government at the micro-level but that is not sufficient to pressurize the government at the state level. The organizations will play more proactive role to build up partnership with government in terms of various committees and departments related to the development policies of the state. This will be done simultaneously along with building the People’s Movement. For advocating issues related to NREGA and FRA, ICDS committees at Panchayat, block and district level will be formed blocks.

2.C.1. Attribution towards the project and its effeciveness Keeping in view to accelerate and expedite the IPPE process in Planning and mobilisation of Government resources towards effectiveness of the resources management and overall development, THREA along wth collective effort of Nari Mukti and Nari Truputi Samaj, we have fetched the better result and also developed the capacity of the Community based organisation to address the issues of Exclusion and also build the capcity to combat the climate change issues and its impact also.

Keeping in view to strengthen the field based MIS , the village level records generated at Labour Union and Community based organisation which shows their contribution and also leads the witness of THREAD intervention.

With a strong determination and community approach towards development in remote and inaccessible pockets creates an example for others and requires replications in other blocks of the district. IMPACT 1. Community based organizations strengthened and accountable at Socially Excluded Tribal Groups in the sphere of asserting rights and entitlements of Government schemes and entitlements 2. CBOs/ Nari Samaj at Block level strengthened as pressure and peer group and pressurize the government towards pro poor policy and effectiveness in government programmes implementation 3. CBOs and Nari Samaj are pro actively involved in mobilizing government schemes and programmes for the overall development of the villages 4. Nari Samaj and its members adopting and promoting Organic farm of cultivation and Backyard Kitchen garden 2.C.2. Empowerment Efforts made by the CBOs and THREAD with the active cooperation of SAMAJ Sl.No Village No. of Participants Total Job card C.I form fill ( Enrolme Name Meeting Female Male issued during the Facilitated the nt in year Job demand AWC under NREGA) 01 RSC-6 14 125 103 24 70 25 02 RSC-5 12 115 116 15 80 31 03 Kamarguda 15 118 118 20 50 22 04 Bandamam 16 122 116 30 70 28 udi 05 Khadiakjodi 11 128 115 29 60 0 06 Annabhata 12 127 115 30 70 0 07 Sariapali 11 129 116 31 60 35 08 Datunguda 09 130 64 30 50 34 09 Gadagurai 11 125 78 25 80 28

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Total 111 1119 941 234 590 230

2.C.4. Community based organizations and Samaj involvement in IFR ( Rights under Forest Right Act) Sl.No Village Name No. of Meeting Participants Total IFR Application Female Male facilitated 01 RSC-4 14 115 64 55 02 RSC-6 12 125 73 52 03 RSC-5 11 115 86 68 04 RSC-18 12 117 66 48 05 Maliguda 13 112 54 65 06 Rasiaguda 11 118 63 37 07 Kamarguda 10 118 58 48 08 Bandamamudi 11 122 56 50 09 Annabhata 11 127 65 68 10 Sariapali 11 129 45 59 Total 116 1198 630 550

2.C.5. Empowerment Actions under the project

Two-day orientation programme on programme implementation and training on themes like NREGA,FRA,RTI,NRHM, ICDS, ST/ST atrocities Act, prevention of domestic violence against women, climate change and eco village etc. for the implementing staff of partners and lead organization.

20 project staff, the CBOs and community leaders developed by rigorous orientation on government programmes like NREGA, FRA, NRHM and ICDS. In addition to that they will be provided orientation on, ST/ST atrocities Act, prevention of domestic violence against women, climate change etc. The Inter district and intra District Exposure programme have also been organised for the project staffs and community members. They were sent to Mayurbhanj District to expose and acquire on additional knowledge on natural resource management activities under the support of NREGA, NREGA Planning process and evolvement through Gram Sabha, integrated development approach through leveraging government resources towards sustainability of the assets generated under the purview of NREGA support. The exposure programme for the staffs members including the handholding support and orientation to them help them towards effectiveness in implementation of NREGA and FRA activities in project area.

Capacity building training for 21staffs and women’s organizations for 4 days, training includes RTI, ST/ST atrocities Act, prevention of domestic violence against women, climate change etc.

Four days Training programme for the project staffs have been conducted for building the capacities of the staff to enable them to implement the project in an effective way. The purpose of the training is to build up managerial and technical skill of the programme staff. This training focus on motivation towards organisation development and sustainability of the people’s institutions and also gave them a feeling of belongingness to the project and organization by boosting their morale. Sj. G. Jhon, Executive Director and Ms. Karmi Beshra, Project Coordinator along with senior programme staffs were invited to facilitated the training programme. In the training, the topics like conflict resolution, communication in rural development and issues related to implementation process of government schemes i.e. NREGA, FRA, NRHM, and ICDS and eco village guide lines have been covered. Besides that the training also focused on

Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 24 traditional techniques to combat climate change and Natural disasters along with eco village models in development of the village in sustainable way. Training of 48 village leaders of different committees. 213 Village level Trainings have been conducted for all the leaders of different committees including NREGA labour union for three days. Each village have five committees- NREGA watch club, NRHM and ICDS committee, Forest right act and Public Distribution system committee, RTI committee and Eco village committee.. Each village will have five leaders leading these committees and initial training is given for them to be efficient and effective in implementation of the concept. The training programmes basically focused on planning process and IPPE. Apart from this the programme also focused on Ecological development initiatives to combat the climate change impact and effect

Village level workshop facilitated by Field Coordinators on RTI application and activation of CAG (RTI) The village development perspective and sphere, THREAD Field Facilitators and Field Coordinator regularly organize village level workshops and discussions on RTI application and consistently work for the activation of community level action groups. The community level action groups, Job seekers, SHEGs and SEGs have been regularly fostering on new amendment, guidelines and enactments of government Schemes and programme like Pradhan Mantri Jandhan Yozana, Pradhan Mantri Jeebanjyoti Yozana, RKVY, etc. During the reporting period we have organised 217 Tvillage level meetings and 67 RTI filed with the support of community Action Groups

Organizing monthly review meeting with staff Review meeting is one hand gave handful of inputs and updates the skills and competency in the development sphere and also fills up the gaps in the process of community mobilization, community capacity building initiatives, community cohesion and advocacy issues handling. Most of the review meetings were facilitated by the team leader of the project along with handholding support from Executive Director in the context of Climate change and disaster litigation and resilience. During the review meeting the staffs are being inculcated on various tolls and techniques in management of conflicts and how to tackle the issues through advocacy and lobby. The Review meeting no doubt help full to the staffs in the sphere of development of skill and competence and also bridge the gaps and bottlenecks.

The team have also ensure proper and effective feedback for the better implementation of the project. Progress report, field visit observation report and case studies have also been taken as tools to assess the progress.

In the team meeting, input on organic farming and kitchen gardening has been given to our staff. The project team have close supervision and relationship with the project, network CSOs/ CBOs, staffs and communities at large who review and keep track of the activities and events as per the overall objectives of the programme. Key indicators both outcomes and process in line with various sources of verification are checked meticulously.

Women and socially excluded population are better represented and have more voice in CSOs, government decision making bodies and committees at Village/ block/ district / state levels. (Communities, CBOs and CSOs)

Ensuring participation of women from excluded groups in project activities and Gramsabhas/Pallisabha

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The IPPE process in Planning under NREGA have been carried out through community based organisations effort and initiatives. The IPPE process is one of the model which was helped the community to develop the plan of the village with a view to overall development of the community based natural resource management and sustainable livelihood of the socially excluded groups and their institutions. The staff members of THREAD and Nari samaj were also nominated by the government to facilitate the process in operational areas of the project. We did the planning process in 25 villages of Korkonda and Kudulumguma blocks of Maklkangiri District with the support of village and panchayat level service providers and stake holders. The staff members were used the tools ( Participatory tools) like Social Mapping , Resource mapping, Door to door survey, , employment seasonality along with transit mapping and well being ranking of the families of the villages. On the basis of the problems and issues , the major issues and problems were highlighted and planned to address the problem under purview of NREGA.

Quarterly review by Community Action Groups (CAGs)

Quarterly review meeting by CAGs have been organized to discuss and integrate the gender in to NREGE, Forest Right Act (FRA) and other government schemes. CAGs are nw capale to track the progress of the work and to ensure transparency and accountability in these programmes. The issues and concerns of villages which are not addressed through the village level forums and CBOs, the CAGs at panchayat level are now take the issues at their level and address it by themselves with the cooperation and support of the village level organisations. During the reporting period 12 CAG meetings at Panchayat level in each GPs have been organised.

SECTION – 3 3.1.BACKGROUND THREAD with the support of SAMAJs (women Federation Members) involved in the process of employment generation under NREGA. We the team of professional background and field level staffs accelerating the process of demanding job and ensuring employment on the basis of job demand. The Samaj, Labour clubs, CAGs are playing pro active role In the process of generating employment at grass root level with special focus on employment for the socially excluded groups. Focus area: District Blocks Panchayats No of CBOs engaged in the process Mayurbhanj Bisoi, Bangriposhi, Sarasakana, Gopabandhu 34 552 Nagar Raruan, Jamda, Sukruli Malkangiri Kudumulguma, Korkonda 12 122 Koraput Kundra, Laxmipur, 24 242 Sambalpur 10 102 3.2. Creates Employment opportunities for the Socially Excluded Groups In Mayurbhanj Districts, This year we facilitated the job seekers belongs from Socially Excluded Groups for demanding job under NREGA. With a tune out of 34126 families18719 Families got employment till today. Our FC and FF were facilitated the process of job demand and ensure the employment provided by concern department within 15 days of job demand. Apart from these initiatives, we facilitated the community

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Block: Kundra, Sukruli and Laikera, Samaj: Swadhin, Sremayee and Kirti, Dist: Koraput, Mayurbanj and Jharsuguda,

Participants Employment offered

No.of Village No.of Meeting No.of Family members No.Total of cardJob No.of Job New card No.of Family benefited Male Female Male Female Masons 15 831 1701 2960 2449 1931 499 672 1037 100 1263

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was the main focus of the intervention. During the period, the MNREGA committee in each of the target samajas Organized 66 meetings in total and raised 1931 job cards and 91 job cards has been able to raise job during the project period. Through this job of NREGA 48 community assets and 200 individual assets are created engaging in total 672 male and 1037 female during the period. 52 Masons have got job. It is noted 1263 families benefited directly from NREGA

3.4.Employment Generated in Sambalpur District and Parts of Mayurbhanj District The project basically targeted at Kuchinda Block of Sambalpur district along with Raruan, Sukruli block of Mayurbhanj District where we facilitated the employment through Labour Union and Community Action Groups - Out of 35616 families, it is found that 65% of the families are belongs to Job seekers and we facilitated in formation of Community based organisation and facilitated the job seekers to demand job under NREGA - 9436 families got 25 days of employment under NREGA in implementation of Individual and community development projects - 313 community assets developed in six blocks with our facilitation and community pressure. - 421 families got 100 days of employment in the reporting period under the project facilitation. - Apart from employment, livelihood development initiatives have been taken up and implement in the project area with our collective effort and facilitation

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EMPLOYMENT GENERATED UNDER NREGA EMPLOYMENT GENERATED UNDER NREGA THROUGH THE INITIATIVES OF NARI SAMAJ WITH THE SUPPORT AND FACILIATION OF AND THREAD IN KUDUMULGUMA BLOCK NARI TRUPTI SAMAJ REPRESENATIVES AND (CUMULATIVE Progress) THREAD (KORKUNDA BLOCK) P A R T I C U L A R S TOTAL P A R T I C U L A R S total in 3 years Persondays Generated so far 1,44,568 Person days Generated so far 1,17,444 SC persondays % as of total SC persondays % as of total person days 9.19 person days 11.17 ST persondays % as of total person ST persondays % as of total days 74.75 persondays 81.02 Women Persondays out of Total Persondays generated among (%) [ 22.74 women out of the total % 31.52 Average days of employment provided per Household 33.79 Average days of employment 26.38 (i)Average PersonDays for SC (i)Average PersonDays for SC HouseHolds 28.61 HouseHolds 22.69 (ii)Average PersonDays for ST (ii)Average PersonDays for ST HouseHolds 33.84 HouseHolds 26.91 Total No of HHs completed 100 Total No of HHs completed 100 Days of Wage Employment 67 Days of Wage Employment 80

3.5.Employment Generated in Remote Tribal areas of Malkangiri District of Odisha ( Three Years cumulative figure given below)

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SECTION - 4

4.1. Background Under Entitlement Action, THREAD and Network partners ( Nari Samaj) plays very catalyst role in the process of rights asserting and played watchdog role in selection of rights holders and entitlement under NSAP, NFSM etc. The active participation and community involvement along with organsing community based organisation, we have the reach of 2 lakhs tribal families through our 53 Nari Samajs in western, Southern and Northern Regions of Odisha. During the period we focused on NRHM, NSAP, NFSM. The achievements, impacts and results are reflecting below 4.2. Results Health Nutrition 7950 Institutional delivery recorded 8197 children enrolled at Pre School of AWC and during the reporting year covered under Supplementary Nutrition 7950 target women covered under JSY Programme and Mamata 709 AWC run properly in 758 Villages 4404 pregnant and 3451 lactating 6856 Pregnant and Lactating Mother supported mothers regularly checked up and with Nutrition feeding maternal health programme effectively 172 Kitchen gardens developed at the backyards of implemented Socially Excluded Families. The incidence of Infant and Maternal Out of 172 Kitchen Gardens, 72 gardens have been Mortality Rate with in SEGs families is developed with special focus on Organic Pest less then 3% of live birth management and application of Organic Manure

4.3. Information collected by CBOs by using the RTIs 412 RTIs filed by the CBO leaders and got the relevant informations which had been disseminated in meetings and also used in strategies to address the issues and challenges. It may be noted that our CBOs are well equipped with RTI tool and its uses and steps of filing. 4.4. Women and Excluded families tagged with NSAP, NFSM and other social and food security entitlements During the reporting period, 1312 cases found by the project staffs in the field visit and regular interaction with the community members. To address the exclusion issues, we also organised training programmes and capacitated the CBO leaders on Rights and entitlements. The rights holders have been directly facilitated by Project staffs in asserting their rights and entitlements.

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SECTION - 5

5.1. BACKGROUND/ECONOMIC ACTIONS After long decades of experience in community empowerment and evolvement in the development process, THREAD realises that the economic development is also the prime requirement for sustainability of the institutions formed and established at block level. To adhere the situation THREAD becomes step up towards development with focus on economic development of tribal and dalit women who are belongs to Samaj representatives. The experiment has been made to explore to introduce economic programmes for the sangha and samajas and it has been successful but learning are more than the success and accordingly the new project is planned. With one machine and with one volunteer tribal woman,the leaf plate making is gaining momentum and we are now introducing to govt. to replicate the same and asked samajas to tap govt. resources to initiate leaf The plate entrepreneurship which is ecological… The local market is tapped to sell the leaf plate by the samajas however when expanded one should introduce even macro and global marketing in the context of climate change issue. Accordingly the new project planned to give importance to the marketing effort both locally and globally.

Nari Sangini Samaj of Raruan Block of Mayurbhanj District has been provided with Leaf plate making manual machine along with pressing of leaf plates. The overall objective of the economic programme is to enhance the economic level of the women in the society by which they will have greater space in the decision making process and also contributing towards sustainability of the SAMAJ and its activities.

The following table shows the activities of Nari Samaj in economic development Present Name of Amount of No. of Plate Making Benefit Report

the Samaj Money Spent People M F on Raw involved Production sale Name No. of

Village Material Meeting 4 59 21 Sangini Rs.41,000/- 287 people 60986 60986 Rs.2875 Labour 92 working bundles payment days Rs.26,000/ Godapolsa

The economic programme is a pilot was planned to test the ability of the tribals to manage agri and forest product industries . It was noted that the tribals are able to manage provided with the hand holding role by external human and other resources

No. of people Quantity of Working Quantity of Sale Collective Benefit benefited Leaf Purchase hours Production

1885 95,00,000 3154 102288 Rs. 1,60,029 Rs.21,000 leaf plates & leaf bowls 71250

THREAD with the support of Nari Samaj have planned to establish the following social enterprises to be run by the Nari Samaj for enhancing their income level of the institutions and its sustainability. THREAD has decades of experience in promotion of individual level income generating programmes but leg behind the purview of group based enterprise development which will be taken care in coming days of project intervention. The upcoming project

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Empowerment, Economics and Ecological Development of the socially excluded communities has to be implemented in next financial year with more focus on economical development of the target groups. These are the following economic activities to be carried out by the Samaj which are enlisted below. 1. Establishing Neem processing and Powder making unit in Northern region of Odisha catering 10000 families 2. Establishing Tamarind deseeding and pressing unit along with Turmeric processing and packing unit at Laxmipur block of Koraput district which will cater 10000 families 3. Noodle making unit, Pulveriser on Turmeric processor, Triphala powder making are to be promoted and developed at kakiriguma and Siddharth village, Kakiriguma. 4.

SECTION - 6 GROW YOUR OWN FOOD Nursery and kitchen garden is not the focus of the project but as we have initiated GROW YOUR OWN FOOD MOVEMENT we introduced to the target and other samajas but data collected only in target samajas as no staff are employed in the samajs during the project period of reporting. The given below is the data of nursery and kitchen garden during the reporting period.

Nursery sites were developed at Sukruli Block of Mayurbhanj District and Kundra Block of Koraput district of odisha in Rabi Session. Nari Sreemayee Samaj and Nari Swadhin Samaj were took the overall management and maintenance of the Nursery.

SL. Village present Type of No. of Total Area under No. name seedlings persons amount plantation

selected engaged of

seedling etings s sold No.of me Total beneficiaries selected Totalof No. beds M F M F individual 1 Potua 2 22 23 45 vegetables 45 18 15 No 45 c 2 Tingirea 1 18 15 31 vegetables 10 18 15 No 10c 3 Chatranjali 1 15 13 28 vegetables 10 15 10 Rs.2500/ 6c - 4 Majhiguda 1 12 15 17 vegetables 5 12 8 No 12 AC 5 Khutuguda 1 15 13 28 vegetables 6 15 13 No 6c 6 Toliaguda 1 11 15 26 vegetables 7 11 15 Rs.1500/- 5c TOTAL 7 93 94 175 83 89 76 Rs.4000/ 84 c -

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ECOVILLAGE

To combat climate change and natural disasters along with uphold the traditional wisdom, traditional knowledge, traditional culture and decision making process, THREAD is one of the vital organisations working in the state to promote and develop ECO VILLAGES in tribal areas of Odisha. To expedite the process of ECO VILLAGE development, youths belongs from Tribal and Dalit communities have been provided with one month duration training programme on ECO VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION. During the reporting period 120 youths have been provided the training. Simultenously village level meetings were also organised which is mentioned below.

SL. No No. of Villages No. of meetings Present F M 1 15 34 460 161

Ecovillage models have been created in many villages with certain indicators to recognize as eco villages. Though it is not part of the project plan, the idea has been spread to number of villages. Around 243 villages are declared as ecovillages and earth day celebration is held in those villages to educate other villages. The data on grain banks, seed banks, organic manures preparation units, compost and green fencing including nurseries are given below.

Few initiatives taken Seed Bank Grain bank Organic manure compost Green fencing

123 169 3178 140 25 323

Ecovillage is a new concept which covers four dimensions i.e. World view, social, ecology and economy. However, we have collected data only for ecology and below given is the data. The indicators fixed for ecology is seen bank, grain bank, organic manure green fencing etc.

Some Eco village development activities undertaken by NARI SREEEMAYEE SAMAJ & NARI SWADHIN SAMAJ at Mayurbhanj and Koraput District

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Village name Present Item of work Report F M compost

nk No. of meetings No. of family benefitted Seed Ba Seed Grain bank Organic manure Green fencing Majhiguda 3 40 13 1 2 189 ltrs. Round 2 20 Round compost-1 compost-12 Vermin compost – 17

Khutuguda 4 46 9 1 2 269 lts Round 26 compost-2 Vermin -9 Toliaguda 4 59 12 1 1 462 ltrs. Vermin-3 2 46 Round-4 Saralguda 1 13 3 1 1 7 2 9 Potua 3 45 11 - 160 ltrs. Vermin-5 8 Kenduguda 1 13 1 5 5 Tingirea 3 74 12 - 506 lts Round-2 23 Chantranjali 2 45 15 - 420 ltrs. Round-3 21 Total 21 335 76 4 6 2018 158 liters

Promotion and development of organic KITCHEN GARDEN It is high time to intervene in the sphere of enhancing production and productivity of soil with special thrust on organic cultivation which are the key areas to combat the climate change impacts . under this purview, THREAD promoted Kitchen garden at SAMAJ level in Kundra block of Koraput District and Sukruli block of Mayurbhanj District No. of No. of No. of Sl. Kitchen Amount of Production Total production Villages persons No Garden

Greens- 6 bags Greens – 33 ½ bags Brinjal – 562 kgs 1 Patua 27 27 Cauliflower – 130 kgs Brinjal – 3675 kgs Tomato – 295 kgs Papaya – 67 kgs Cauliflower – 1644 Greens – 8.5 bags kgs. Brinjal – 911 kgs 2 Tingirea 35 35 Cauliflower – 264 kgs. Tomato – 2421 kgs Tomato – 298 kgs Papaya – 160 kgs. Papaya – 357 kgs Brinjal – 454 kgs Cauliflower – 550 kgs. Cabbage – 250 kgs 3 Chatranjali 22 22 Tomato – 350 kgs Beans – 928 Kgs Papaya – 130 kgs Bitter gourd – 250 Greens- 8 bags Kgs Brinjal –335 kgs 4 Tolanga 32 32 Cabbage-250 kgs Cauliflower – 250 kgs Tomato – 100 kgs

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Greens- 6 ½ bags Jhadoghasa Brinjal –505 kgs 5 15 15 da Tomato – 490 kgs

Bittergourd -120 kgs Brinjal –190 kgs 6 Majhiguda 10 10 Cauliflower – 450 kgs Tomato- 103kgs

Greens - 3 bags Beans –255 kgs Tomato – 185 kgs 7 Khutuguda 8 8 Kunduri- 175 kgs Brinjal – 50 kgs Bitter gourd – 22 kgs. Beans – 155 kgs Brinjal –86 kgs 8 Saralguda 6 6 Kunduri- 38 kgs Tomato – 85 kgs

Bittergaurd- 130 kgs 9 Kenduguda 20 20 Brinjal – 210 kgs Tomato – 165 kgs Beans – 168 kgs 10 Toliaguda 5 5 Tomato – 155 kgs Brinjal – 265 kgs Beans – 350 kgs 11 Aainthandi 6 6 Tomato – 165 kgs Brinjal – 66 kgs Tomato – 30 kgs Sanotoliag 12 2 1 Brinjal – 41 kgs uda Greens - 1.5 bags Total 188 187

Organic Vegetable Nursery Development

No.ofs Village No.of meetings Present Totalbeneficiaries selected Type of seedlings selected TotalNo. of beds No. of persons engaged Totalamountof seedlingssold Areaunder plantation M F M F individual community 6 7 93 94 175 vegetables 83 89 76 Rs.4000/- 84 c

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Campaign to prevent and protect ENERGY Transition Town workshop was conducted in which participants from project areas participated and campaign on “no petrol and no diesel after 2020” is being planned and preparation has been done during the period. The campaign is going to focus on the need for alternative life style in which nature is respected and the abundance from nature is utilized. The campaign on Bt. Brinjal introduction, though stopped by the state govt. in the assembly, Monsanto tries to enter through back door to the state. So ONS took step to campaign against GM seeds in particular GM food and bt brinjal which they successfully banned in odisha

The land alienation amendment act recently promulgated has serious repercussions for the tribals and dalits as it goes against individual right to land, forest right act and community forest right act indirectly. ONS took a stand to oppose this bill and number of meetings and rallies were held though not with the fund of agency … ONS did this on their own with the education they received on these themes through out the project period.

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

The day of celebration is just informing the global community about the seriousness of global warming. Numbers of ecovillages are modeled in different regions and it is encouraged to organize earth day celebration by inviting govt. officials to educate them on the global phenomena. Two earth day celebrations were held in different parts of Orissa and there was media coverage.

INITATIVES TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE Permafund enabled siddharthvillage community school of ecology to move towards self reliance and ripple ecovillages in indigenous community through the demonstration.

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The fund was used to construct the pump house which accommodates a tribal family farmer to take care of the farm. The solar pump which is installed has been donated by Entraide et fraternity from Belgium which completed the project. Systematic Rice Intensification demo is now possible as we get water from the rivulet for cultivation of rice which will subsidies the cost for ecovillage design education courses for indigenous youth group. Though we could not have successful harvest this year due to delay in completion of the project for various unavoidable reasons, the paddy field is being prepared for next year cultivation for demonstration for the villagers and the visitors who pour in to satisfy their curiosity about ecovillage concept. SRI has been demonstrated for people in the process of training, explaining the steps to take for cultivation….As biomass is needed for mulching, new initiative has been taken in north east Orissa district to plant neem trees near the paddy field of indigenous people land which can provide biomass for mulching and collection of leaves for sale with added value of making neem powder supported by another agency from Germany and which can be marketed by indigenous people for their livelihood. Eco village design education EDE course for indigenous youth now has been easier to provide the education for more people without any cost. Thanks to permafund and others who made it possible. We are not good in documentation but the photos will tell the story of how this small fund made a big impact.

Under the support of Scotish Government Award Project for addressing the issues and challenges of climate change and natural disasters with community empowerment and adoption of technology, the following are some achievements outlined below. 42 community leaders, university students Ngo activists were selected and they took part in the EDE course in three phases and Transition Town workshop . The #EDE students also attended the Transition Town workshop. During the second phase for permaculture design, 77 villagers participated at Jinjira village where the third phase permaculture course was conducted and the sessions were practical oriented and created impact in the village.

The course is now well known to three colleges and the participants have disseminated information to the college peer group. Four students took active role in visiting villages and carrying out some of the permaculture

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EDE curriculum is translated in oriya and disseminated to the participants.

May East director of Gaia education, Scotland and Executive Director of siddharthvillage , gaia education trainer, Pradyut , gaia education permaculture trainer conducted the course.

The Transition Town curriculum and permaculture documents with practical exercises to be implemented on the land was also translated and disseminated to the participants.

Demonstration on bio gaz, solar energy to use for electricity and solar pump for cultivation were demonstrated. Steps are being taken to approach the local govt. to grant these facilities to the villages. A student from Kundra block with the help of co- ordinator has already procured three street solar lights for two villages wile laxmipur block is still waiting for the govt. to implement the provision of solar lights to the villages 250 families as per the plan for the first year benefited from the “Grow your Own Food” programme. Permaculture and Sustainable Farming Curriculum has been developed .Seedlings of Banana, Papaya, Eggplant, Drum Stick, Multi Vitamin, Tomato, Cabbage & Cauliflower, puthina, spinaches have been distributed to 250 families

The impact of the “Grow your Own Food” is that the families produced 1248 kg of brinjals 1166 kg of cabbage, 1122 kg of tomato at the kitchen garden besides growth of banana tree, drumstick ( moringa) multivitamin plant, and papaya is seen in the garden which will give fruit later.

During TT and EDE , emphasis was given on traditional seeds conservation for sustainable agriculture. It is noted that 14065 kg of traditional paddy seeds, 7220 kg of maize, 4250 kg of ragi ,455 kg of sua millets and 1780 of niger oil seeds are harvested.

Two kitchen garden demonstration, and one terrace garden demonstration was carried out at siddharthvillage and many of the village target group visit siddharthvillage on market day and learn from the demo. Steps are being taken to spread in towns the terrace garden next year and popularize further the “Grow your Own Food” programme in towns also.

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THREAD, and the women Networks federations striving for strengthening the network of Socially Excluded Groups and Communities from Village level to State level to address the issues of Livelihood, Climate Change etc. Since its inception, THREAD with the active support of ONS organised various state level advocacy on un favourable polices of Government and succeeded which is also happening in PACS programme. During this year, we focused on capacitated the Labour Unions and Community Action Groups along with FRC members and Gram Sabha for asserting the rights and entitlements of socially Excluded Groups. Through Our small Intervention, Various issues taken up by the Community Based Organisations viz. Labour Union and CAGs. The networks have linked up with our groups to strengthen the advocacy efforts, and pressurise governments to deliver. On the employment guarantee Act, linkages have been established at Block and District level. The village level Youth Sanghs and PRIs are also associated in the process, The Network partners i.e Samajs have also been in dialogue with the District and Block Administration.

During this year, more than 200 Issues Issues addressed by Labour Unions/ No of Issues identified and addressed by the CAGs addressed Labour Unions, CAGs and Nari Delay in wages under NREGA 46 Samajs. The Labour Unions are quite Non Implementation of Individual 32 stronger and involved in the process of Beneficiary Scheme problem identification and addressed Lack of Proper implementation of 14 the problems at different level. The Food security entitlements Three tier System of Participatory Lack of Proper selection of IAY 18 planning and strategies developed beneficiary have been materialised through Poor Quality of works under NREGA 28 regular Meetings at Panchayat and Poor socio economic status of PVTGs 12 Block level Meetings. Apart from the Lack of Coordination among different 10 structured meetings, the Labour departments Union representatives are also Delay in Recognition of FRA (IFR and 45 participated in MIS meeting of Gram CFR) Panchayat. Defunct AWC 28 Through our individual interaction Lack of Basic Health and Education 34 and Block level skill development facilities for PVTGs training to Labour union along with PWD issues 12 Training to Labour Union leaders on New Operational Guideline 2013, the labour Union leaders and CAG members are quite capable to identified the issues and negotiated with Block administration on resolving the issues

The table shows the issues identified and addressed by the Labour Union and Community Action Group During the reporting period.

We did a participatory rating of Labour unions formed under the project in this year, which reflects that more than 60% Labour Unions are quite capable to play a watch dog role in the development process and also addressed the issues of Socially Excluded Families. It is easy to handle the conflicts and pressurize the Government because of strong and dynamic leadership of the samaj representatives.

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This year the Labour Unions also filed petition at Labour Court against the Government, put the online grievances on delay payment of wages, poor quality of Works and demanded more IBS for the Landless Socially Excluded Families, as a result of which, 22 Goat shelters have been constructed for the landless families and 122 FRA beneficiaries covered under Land development works under NREGA.

Through our rigorous training to Labour Union leaders on New Operational Guideline of MGNREGA 2013, the labour unions put pressured the government for implementation of IBS under NREGA. In a regular process the representatives of labour union leaders and landless families were oriented on the same theme by which government realised the need of the community and implemented IBS activities in our operational area. Activities like Goat shelter, Plantation, Land development, Vermi compost and Nadeep Compost pit and other livelihood assets generated for the landless and hard core poor families.

The outstanding contribution of Labour union to address the issues of Socially Excluded Families is mentioned below

Corruption and exploitation in MGNREGA is a common phenomenon during its execution at the grass root level. This is evident from the

case of Silaghati village of Kunta, Gopabandhu Nagar block, Maurbhanja district. For construction of village road, an amount of Rs 5lakh was sanctioned in the year 2011-12 where Ms Banabasi Bindhani was chosen as Gram Sanjojak by the villagers for its commencement and work order was issued in his name. But in real case, Mr Malaya Mahakhud of Kendua Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 39 village (neighbour village) persuade him to do the work on behalf of him. 19 job card holders of Silaghati village have worked till the completion of the road. Partial amount was pain by Mr Malaya to the labourers. 2 years has been passed but an amount of Rs 43,472/- was not paid by Mr. Malaya to the labourers. He has approved all the bills and voucher of the work and received the amount in the name of the job card holders. When this came to the notice of the labourers, they filed a petition before the Asst. Labour Officer, Kaptipada, Udala, against him with the support of the Village Labour Club. The concerned officer responded the matter on 12th Feb 2014 and call for a joint enquiry. Both the party attended before him and there Mr. Malaya agreed to make payment of the rest wages. But he did not pay any amount to the labours. Again the labours knock the door of the Asst. Labour Officer and on 25th Feb 2014, where another hearing was done and there also Mr Malaya agreed to pay the wage but still he did not pay a single amount. On 13th May 2014, when further it was brought to the notice of the concerned officer; Mr Malaya did not attend the hearing and fled away from his village. The Asst. Labour Officer suggested for filing a case against him. During the Social Audit on 6th June 2014, the Block Development Officer (BDO) told that this matter to be brought before him. As per his suggestion, all the labourers in written reached to BDO, Khunta on 12th of June 2014 and submitted their grievances. The BDO has asked for a detailed enquiry report on the matter from the concerned GRS and GPO to take further action on that and ensure for payment of the wages.

Issues addressed by the Labour Union and CAG of Khadiasola MGNREGA as an act was enacted to eliminate poverty from the rural areas by ensuring 100days of guarantee work to the job card holders. However during its implementation, a lot of official irregularities have been noticed and hardly and stringent actions have been taken by the district level authorities against the culprits. This is evident from the case of Khadiasol village of Ashna GP of Bisoi block of Mayurbhanja district. A sum of Rs 5, 00,000/- (Rupees Five Lakhs only) was approved by the dist administration for development of the mud road of the Khadiasol villages. For this Mr. Laduram Naik, a local tribal youth has been selected by the villagers as gram Sanjojak for commencement of the work. The local job card holders were engaged for the construction of the road. But however, they did not get the full wages as prescribed under the MGNREGA after the commencement of the work. Though the work was completed, almost all the labours were paid the half of the wages. Laduram Naik, Gram Sanjojak was taking the blank signatures of the labours (Job Card holders) in the name of Social Audit and few of the labours have signed in the blank register. Jogendra Marandi, an active member of the Labour Committee of the village when knew the matter, he enquired about it to the Gram Sanjojak and could not get the genuine answer. Then he snatched the register from him. Laduram told that he was doing all this as Mr Karunakar, Gram Rojgar Sevak (GRS) of the Asna GP had instructed him to bring the signature of the Job Card Holders. When the Labour Committee approached to the GRS for what reason without organizing the Social Audit process, signatures of the job card holders being taken, he threatened them. He further reiterated that no further developmental work/ social schemes and entitlements were provided to the villagers if they will agitate like this. During the enquiry process, the committee found that a sum of Rs20, 000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousands only) has been taken by the JEE for doing only estimation and there is a lion share between the GRS and Panchayat Extension Officer Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 40

(PEO) for the said work. The committee is planning to take this matter to the notice of the dist authority so that corrupted officials will be penalized.

The Representation of Socially Excluded Groups and their institutions in Planning process under Vigilance Committee 3498 IPPE resulting and impacting Panchayatiraj Institution 3879 more inclusion of excluded Forest Right Committee 2748 groups towards mainstream of Self Help Groups 10992 development. The members Gaon Kalyan Samiti 2290 of Nari Samaj ( network Village development committee 1374 Partners), Labour Union Village level Nari Sangha 2544 leaders and CAG involved as Block level Nari Sangha Governing 52 Block Planning Team members Body along with other stake holder Block level Coordination Committee 08 of NREGA implementation. The engagement with Watershed Committee 756 Government in IPPE process, Child Protection Committee 18 Network partner’s involvement in FRA activities and THREAD involvement as member of Child protection committee of Bisoi Block are the major achievements during the reporting period.

Apart from this The Network partners along with Labour Unions and CAGs are nominated and selected as Vigilance committee at Village and Panchayat and Block level for effectiveness of NREGA and other schemes and services of Government.

At District level we (THREAD, Nari Samaj) are in the process of building A C T I V I T I E S Target Achievement Alliances of CSOs. During this year, Ensuring participation of women 68 170 we have had a series of meeting with from excluded groups in project PALLI VIKASH, GRAM SWARAJ, activities and Gram Sabha/Palllisabhas (Non IGS, DULAL on the issues and budgeted) challenges of NREGA and FRA. Two of Encouraging and promoting the 140 172 our Network partners and THREAD culture of organic ecological personals were provided training at farming and kitchen gardening for DRDA on IPPE and subsequently we improving nutritional status are being selected as BPT and BRT members for facilitating the IPPE under NREGA.

At the State level we have already strong network named “ ODISHA NARI SAMAJ” with having network of 54 tribal women federations. Most of the Issues relating to FRA and NREGA have been addressing through our existing state level network. Beyond FRA activities, THREAD along with Network partners has been joined with a state level network for expediting the new scheme “MSP to NTFP/MFP”. We also had undergone training at state level organised jointly by VASUNDHARA and TDCC/ORMAS. Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 41

THREAD and ONS representatives are the CSOs and CBOs efforts in nutshell members of Global Eco Village Network at Asia (GENOA) organised ten days international  18719 Socially Excluded Families Got level workshop at Kakiriguma on NEXT Gen and Employment Climate Change.

 362 Hectares of undulated brought THREAD with having expertise on organic Under Cultivation farming and eco village development thrusting from its inception towards expedite the organic  122 individual assets like Farm cultivation and Eco Village Design throughout pond/Goatery/poultry promoted the state by the women networks at block, District and State Level. During the reporting  3023 IFR claims submitted to SDLC year, we promoted the organic farming in both operational area and other blocks of the  142 CFR claims submitted to SDLC District. 10 youths of PACS operational area were also provided one month duration training  5950 target women covered under JSY on Eco Village Design Education, Permaculture, and Mamata Grow Your Own Food etc. We also promoted the organic vegetable gardens in forest areas  7197 children enrolled at Pre School of where the titles already provided to individual AWC families under FRA. 172 such vegetable gardens developed during the reporting year.  409 AWC run properly in 458 Villages THREAD and Network partners are quite  20 FRC/SHG/Women Network engaged capable to generate employment for the in MSP to NTFP scheme Socially Excluded Groups and Communities. The Labour Union leaders at Panchayat and Block level are accountable for the socially Excluded Families. The employment generated among the job seekers were the focus are of intervention of the labour unions. During the reporting period we did a survey on job seekers and found that out of 34126 total targeted families, almost 20000 families are job seekers and 18000 families are belongs to mostly job seekers who were tagged with NREGA activities through the process of job demand. The labour Union and Community Action Group representatives are quite capable to address the issues of socially excluded group in one hand and in other hand actively involved in the process of mobilising resources and play watch dog role in the development process. The major change in the sphere of employment under NREGA to Livelihood was made successful through our intervention. Most of the livelihood centered programmes implemented during the reporting period. The analysis report of MGNREGA activities of 2011- 2014 shows that earlier Government focused on communication related activities but now days most of the livelihood development initiatives taken through the community and CBOs pressure. Apart from the Labour Union pressure, the Job seekers and Landless families were inculcated on IBS under NREGA. The effective implementation of IBS under NREGA made successfully through our intervention. The picture shows the trend of activities under NREGA.

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Through our facilitation and convergence of other departmental works for integration, we achieved a lot in the sphere of Plantation. More than 362 Acres of undulated land brought under Rubber, Mango, Lichu, Cashew, Banana and other fruit bearing tree plantation. The Plantation work has been carried on by Horticulture and MGNREGA and Soil conservation department. Besides that BKVY and RKVY schemes also tagged for sustainability and integration of the activities. The rights recognised under FRA beneficiaries have

LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT THROUGH NREGA ( Mango, Guava, Rubber, Lichu, Cashew, Banana Plantation) 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Area Area in Area in Block in HA Ben HA Ben HA Ben Bangiriposhi 49 57 192 208 141 109 Sarasakana 0 0 138.62 200 113.18 130 GB Nagar 0 0 52.3 111 63.59 59 Bisoi 13.2 35 88.2 98 44.1 68 Total 62.2 92 471.12 617 361.87 366 also been tagged under the support. The Figure shows that under NREGA support, the CSOs and CBOs are more concern on Livelihood development Assets instead of communication and other assets under NREGA. After the training programme, the Labour Union and CAGs are more accountable at the socially excluded families and their organisation and act as service provider. The Plantation programme undertaken in a massive scale shows the development trend and perception of Labour Union. During our four years intervention, we found very less importance was given in 2011 for plantation and other livelihood programme which has been changed. In three years of project intervention a tune of 894 Hectares of individual land belongs to Socially Excluded Groups developed for growing Mango, Lichu, Guava, Rubber and Cashew plants. Out of the total hectares covered under Plantation, we with our effort and CBOs involvement, can mobilised support from Horticulture department for developing 362 Hectares of land during the reporting period

Keeping in view to enhance the leadership, skill and capacity of the labour Union and Community Action Group along with network partners, we with the support of External Consultant developed the following IEC materials for the Community and as also help the other like minded CSO for alliance building and networking at district and state level. Our best practices have been shared with other Networks like Odisha Nari Samaj and its block level federations at 54 Blocks.

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High irregularities in MGNREGA work

Kudiakhunta is a mixed village having tribal (santal) and non tribal community. Non tribal are basically belongs to Potter community. The livelihood conditions of these both communities are very vulnerable and basically kumabhar used to prepare pot and other fancy items and Santal involves themselves in forest based activities to sustain their livelihood. Almost all the households have got the job card from the Gram Panchayat and have demand for work under the MGNREGA. In the year 2010-11 and 2011- 12, two MGNREGA work was sanctioned, one for digging of pond and another for the renovation of the pond. A sum of total 12 lakhs has been approved for the two works. All the job card holders of the village have worked. The local Gram Sanjojak has been given responsibilities for supervision of the work. The Gram Sanjojak collected Rs 10/- from each job card holders for opening of pass book in the Post Office. The Job card and the pass books were kept by him.

The work was completed and none of the job card holders got the wages as per the days they have worked. Years went after and not a single money was given to the laborer’s. Two months before, the Gram Sanjojak took signature of all the labors and paid Rs 200/- each. When the villagers asked about the job card and pass book, he returned back all to them. It was surprised to see that money have been deposited in the account of all the job card holders in different period of time and the same was being withdrawn from the account. The money was fakely withdrawn by some vested interests (supposed to be the local Gram Sanjojak as all the passbook and job cards were with him). When the villagers asked the matter to him, he did not listen to them and threatened. This issue was being taken up by THREAD volunteers and they apprised the same to the dist level officials. The villagers also petitioned the same to the Block Development Officer, (BDO) Khunta-Gopabandhunagar for further action. The BDO instructed the concerned Panchayat Extension Officer to look in to the matter and to furnish a detail observation report on the irregularities made. The PEO has submitted the joint verification report to the concerned BDOs on 7th June 2014 and requested to pay them their wages as early as possible.

The List of IEC materials developed 1. Module on New operational Guideline of MGNREGA 2013 2. Module on NHM and FRA 3. News letter with special focus on IPPE/INRM/Village development Planning Process 4. Quarterly Magazine “Antaswara” 5. Documentary Film on FRA and NREGA 6. Video Clipping on Voice for the rights 7. Eco village development and Climate change News letter

Apart from the above IEC materials, we developed 100 case studies and Best practices for sharing of our interventions and results.

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ANTASWAR : To replicate the best practices and strengthen the networks of women federations at block and district level along with alliance building of CSOs/network partners, THREAD with its own perspective collected the informations, best practices and successful

interventions and published through ANTASWAR, newsletter. The newsletter have been circulated among network partners and alliances with in the states.

Antaswar Report Issue No. Publishing 31, Sept 2014 Failure of Govt. Scheme to make it success, It’s our important role -Sangha mausis benefited from MNREGA work - Kitchen garden by PTG members - Govt. work coming for irrigation to cultivation - Advantages of Amla fruit & Juice - Medicinal function of Drumstick & leaves - Tribal Development Society Ltd. - save Biodiversity by planting grass - Organic Manure Cow urine - A tree a Life 32, Oct 2014 MGNREGA – Follow up to Margadarshika – 2013 Stop cheating in the Public Distribution System in village Developed MGNAEGA work among the villagers Eradication of malaria Lemon : Medicinal characters Pension sectioned from Matru Mangal Yojan through the Labour Club Farmers Learning from Vermin Completed the pucca road is possible due to tribal unity Pradhan Matri Jana Dhan Yojan implement information form To take benefit from Harischandra Yojan of beneficiary Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 45

33, Nov 2014 Protection to the Earth – a different type of education EDE Take more benefit your own Kitchen garden Take action and benefits by the ONS Know about New rules and guide of the NREGAS of Odisha Green tonic for good health Medicinal character of the Bhrungaraj Bonded Labour is social exploit for children Child Marriage is not over burden, it is in justify of the Children’s 34, Dec 2014 Cultivation under poison Villager benefited from local Forest committees Lobour club open the eyes Case Study : Kunu wait when avoid their struggle Reason & prevention of Blood deficiency & Warm Job holder Labourers developing by the MGNRGS Impact and action of the workshop of social workshop Global warming is disturb to poverty Health tips – pregnant women & Baby care

Construction of Pond The Pond comprises 60X100 feet has been constructed in Siddharth village premises which is one of the model demonstration for the farmers to impart practical knowledge on soil and water conservation measures and diversion of water with a view to harvesting towards treatments of land with water. The undualated land use pattern become productive through minimise the run off and maxmimse the use of land with focus on crop rotation and crop planning for sustainable land and sustainable agriculture practices . The pond is also being used as multi scale of development with a view to livelihood enhancement and enriching the soil.

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GOVERNING BODY

TEAM FOR HUMAN RESOURCE EDUCATION & ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT

NAME ADDRESS Dr. Shirdi Prasad Tekur Pediaetrician, MBBS,St. John’s medical college 804,Shreenivas,16, Main, 19th Cross, Banashankari Road, 2nd Street, -560070 President

Mr. George John THREAD, HRD Consultant Siddharth Village, Badatota, Jatni,

Khurda-752050 Secretary

Fr. Devdas Fathers of Holy Cross ,10, Albert street, Bangalore. Treasurer

Mrs. C. Susheela Siddharth Village, At: Madivallum, Po: Nallur, Hosur-653103

Member

Ms. Karmi Besra At- Bhagabeda Po- Pasana Via- Jamada Dist- Mayurbhanj

Orissa Member

Ms. Janaki Nayak At- Patua, Po- Pandeswari Via- Sukruli Dist- Mayurbhanj

Orissa Member

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