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Implementing Agency : Area
Networking and Development Initiatives
JFPR Component :
Modernizing Poor’s Technology
Tools Library
JFPR Subcomponent :
Others
Project Title
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Empowering rural poor women through
Establishing Tools Centers & Grain
Banks.
Project Objective
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To Pilot activities to be able to
replicate as sustainable livelihood
activities for tribal communities by
enabling poor women to prioritize
their concerns & develop
decentralized and transparent
mechanisms of functioning that are
pro-poor and pro-women.
Project Area :
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Devgadh
Baria taluka of Dahod District,
Ghoghamba and Shahera talukas of
Panchmahal District.
Total Project Cost
:
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Rs.
44,13,400; JFPR Grant – Rs 26,67,200
Project Duration
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Targeted Beneficiaries
(No of BPL families, other households, tribals
etc)
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2000 Poor Tribal Households (10000
Beneficiaries) in 20 villages.
Project Outputs And
Monitorable Indicators :
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Food
Grain availability to the targeted
households across the lean months.
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Access & Control o food grains with
in the Community.
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Reduction in migration.
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Reduction in dependence of
moneylenders.
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Greater use of quality equipments by
the small and marginal farmers.
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Timely availability of equipments.
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Increasing land productivity.
Key Implementation Activities
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Establishment of Grain Banks.
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Establishment of Tools Centres.
Implementation Arrangements
And Partnerships
:
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All
the above activities would be
carried out by ANANDI in tandem with
people’s organisation i.e. Devgadh
Mahila Sangathan and Panam Mahila
Sangathan. Each
village would have committee
represented by Mahila mandals of
that village with some men of the
community. The
tools and equipments would be leased
as per the rates finalised by the
community and these would largely be
used for operations like ploughing,
cultivation and threshing. The
required staff to manage the center
would be recruited from the revenue
generated from the leasing.
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