THREAD, SIDDHARTHVILLAGE, BADATOTA, P.B. No- 09 JATANI
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THREAD, SIDDHARTHVILLAGE, BADATOTA, P.B. No- 09 JATA NI, ODISHA, INDIA 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 Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 2 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 Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 3 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 Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 4 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 Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 5 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: Annual Report 14-15/THREAD// Page 6 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