Gram Vikas- An Overview

Location of Work

• 28 Districts 72571 Families 17 project offices(25-Odisha, 1-Madhya Pradesh, 1-Jharkhand, 1-Andhra

Pradesh)• 1196 Habitations 3,89,333 People 295 staff

The Beginning

• A group from the Young Students Movement for

Development, Chennai came to Orissa at the time of the cyclone in 1971

• Invited to Ganjam district by the administration and the milk union in 1976 to work with adivasi communities

Initial Years (1979-81)

Organized a tribal people’s movement across 60 villages in Kerandimals, Ganjam, against moneylenders and liquor merchants.

It included interventions in health, education, small savings and income generation.

Biogas promotion in collaboration with the National programme for Biogas Development

54,000+ biogas plants constructed between ’83-’93, over 6000 masons trained

Alternative Fuels

MANTRA

An integrated approach towards total habitat development and dignity

Core values

Inclusion

Cost sharing

Social equity

Gender equity

Sustainability

100% of families take part

Community contribution of labour and materials• Mobilize social costs from government and non-government agencies

Women and men have equal say

Built in mechanisms for financial and institutional sustainability

Poorer pay less, better off pay more

Focal areas

People’s Institution

Enabling infrastructure

Education

Livelihood and food security

Access to basic educationHigh schools for tribal childrenProper functioning of govt. schools

Promotive and preventive healthcareProject dispensariesFacilitate govt. health care

system

Land and water mgmt.Skill enhancement

HousingCommunity hallsWater and sanitationAlternate energy

Registered institutionsRepresentation of all sectionsRights and responsibilities

Health

80% morbidity in rural India

Context

55% coverage of rural households in Sanitation85% people practice open defecation as per Census 2011 (Odisha)25% villages have piped water facility

Due to lack of protected and safe drinking water and sanitation.

Unprotected water bodies are the breeding grounds for various waterborne ailments.

The daily drudgery doesn't spare anyone Not even children…

Exclusion is a bane in society

Water and Sanitation

A vehicle for social inclusion

100% Coverage of all households

• Water and sanitation anchored within local institutional arrangements

• Equal representation of men and women

• Each household contributes an average of Rs. 1000 ($22) towards corpus fund

People can and will pay for quality but there are social costs

Not just toilet but a bathing room also

The Third Tap

• People contribute their labour and local materials and Gram Vikas pays the cost of external materials

Ensuring Sustainability

• Institutional mechanisms to enforce and maintain hygienic practices- group monitoring by children, women ..

• Ensuring all time 100% coverage

• Identification of maintenance mechanisms, e.g. contribution from harvests; community pisciculture; monthly payments

Physical Capital

• Toilets and bathing rooms

• Development of . community assets

• Piped water supply with three taps

Overcoming Roadblocks

Lack of Electricity

• Solar Powered Pumps-23 villages

• Use of Gravitational Flow principles - 449 villages

• Biodiesel- 3 villages

GRAVITY FLOW WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

Rural Energy Production

• Biogas Production

• Micro Hydro Plant

• Solar Photovoltaic LED

• Smokeless Chullas

Our toilets are better than houses!!

Disaster Resistant Houses

Community Capital

• Inclusive village institutions adopt democratic ways of functioning

• Women gain public space and voice in village decision making process;

• Capacities to negotiate and bargain with state and other agencies improved- role of contractor eliminated

• Improvement in health status of women and children

• Improved functioning of schools and increase in enrollment of children.

Creating Livelihoods

• Agriculture and horticulture support to 5000 families

• Skill training in masonry, plumbing to 4000 rural youth

• Vertical shaft brick kilns as

enterprise development

Building Dignity , not just toilets!

Tell Tale Figures

85% reduction in incidence of water-borne diseases

Corpus fund of over Rs. 7.5 crores

Toilet and bathing rooms constructed for 60739 households in 1043 villages

Toilets to new households: 420 units Piped water supply completed in 940 villages

Government development funds of about Rs. 56 million

accessed annually directly by villages

Over 950 SHGs with over 12,000 members

Over 90% immunisation of children

Over 90% enrolment of children in school; attendance over 80% for girl children

100,000 families by 2017

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An equitable and sustainable society where people live in peace with

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