Our Activities
WADI: Sustainable Livelihood Programme
Start Year
2011
Donor
NABARD
Completion Year
2013
Objectives
- To promote sustainable livelihood of 200 poor farmers through integrated WADI development.
- To take up promotional efforts such as capacity building, exposure visits, training, developing literature, etc. on WADI programme for the benefit of all stakeholders.
- To support promotional activities for entrepreneurship skill development and Income Generation Activities for landless SC/ST communities and other weaker sections of the community in conjunction with the WADI development programme.
- To promote supplemented and complemented intra-household equity by suitable interventions in credit and enterprise promotion among women.
- To promote appropriate interventions efficient for water management and organic farming for food security of poor families round the year.
- To promote village level local institutions and enabling conditions for strong and effective community-based livelihoods promotion.
- To develop a strategy to use small-scale water-control interventions as the centre-pin of tribal agriculture development.
Target area and people
- Mandradarha, Dabbipani, Jamgaon, Ghotiyawahi and Samtara villages of Narharpur Block of Kanker District in Chhattisgarh
Outcome
- Plantation of 60 fruit plants each by 200 families
- construction of new open/ring wells, ponds or renovation of dug wells or ponds in private agriculture land.
- 200 farmers supported with seeds, and they cultivated vegetables to meet their nutritional requirements at the household level.
- Use of vermicompost and bio-fertilizer utilised for farming