ARTIs Village Development Plan in the context of Millennium Development Goals

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ARTIs Village Development Plan in the context
of Millennium Development Goals
A Proposal Concept for CSR Initiatives of
Corporate HousesbyDr. Priyadarshini
KarveAppropriate Rural Technology Institute
(ARTI)pkarve_at_arti-india.org
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Objective

• To take up development activities in a village
  focused on addressing the eight MDGs, and
  primarily using technologies developed by ARTI,
  in a time bound manner.
• Establish linkages with other agencies to address
  the MDGs not directly addressed by ARTIs
  solutions.
• Ensuring sustainability of the development
  process, through active involvement of local
  people and government and non-government
  agencies.
• The model if successful, can be replicated
  elsewhere.

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Millennium Development Goals

• MDGs are goals set by the United Nations in a
  roadmap for equitable and sustainable development
  in the developing world.
• Quantified targets for dramatically reducing
  extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015
  income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack
  of infrastructure and shelter while promoting
  gender equality, education, health, and
  environmental sustainability.
• ARTIs Technologies help in achieving all the
  eight MDGs.

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• The specific issues
• Identify BPL and low income families
• Provide with opportunities for income enhancement
• Ensure food, water, energy, shelter security
• ARTIs solutions
• Production and sale of seedlings of seasonal
  crops
• Production and sale of novel potted plants
• Vegetable production for self consumption and
  sale
• Production of bamboo structures (modular CKD
  kits)
• Use of treated bamboo/wood for improving quality
  of dwellings
• Rainwater harvesting using low cost water storage
  tanks
• Improved cookstoves to reduce biomass fuel
  consumption and indoor air pollution
• Marketing support is essential through external
  agencies

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 2 Achieve universal primary education
• Not directly linked with ARTIs technological
  solutions
• Hands on training in ARTIs technologies can
  impart useful life skills to school drop out
  teenagers
• Installation of ARTI biogas or community stove in
  the school can help in reducing the fuel sourcing
  problems associated with the mid-day meal scheme

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
• Specific Issues
• Increasing womens role in family level decision
  making
• Putting a value on household work
• Creating structures that allow women to earn
  incomes
• Focus on improving womens quality of life
• Awareness raising and social conditioning about
  gender equality
• ARTIs solutions
• Training programmes for SHGs in ARTI technologies
  - novel opportunities of income generation
• Improved cookstoves, biogas, water storage tank
  near the house specifically addressing quality
  of life and health issues of women
• SHG and microfinance are important drivers for
  this MDG

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 4 Reduce Child Mortality
• Not directly linked with ARTIs technological
  solutions
• Use of improved cooking devices in the house
  reduces indoor air pollution, which is one of the
  factors affecting childrens health
• ARTIs income generating technologies increase
  family income, leading to improved quality of
  life and access to better health care facilities

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 5 Improve Maternal Health
• Not directly linked with ARTIs technological
  solutions
• Use of improved cooking devices in the house
  reduces indoor air pollution, which is one of the
  factors that has been linked with increased
  probability of still births and premature births
• ARTIs income generating technologies increase
  family income, and contribute to womens
  empowerment leading to improved quality of life
  and access to better health care facilities for
  women

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
  diseases
• Not directly linked with ARTIs technological
  solutions
• Increased incomes help improve quality of life
  through better nutrition and access to better
  health care, indirectly helping in being better
  prepared to deal with diseases

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 7 Ensure Environmental Sustainability
• Key issues
• Sustainable and pollution free use of locally
  available resources
• ARTIs solutions
• All of ARTIs technologies are appropriate, i.e.,
  based on local resources and environment friendly
• ARTI agricultural technologies can be used in
  increasing the productivity of available
  agricultural land, both in terms of yield as well
  as income
• ARTIs energy technologies can be used for using
  available biomass resource to fulfill maximum
  possible energy needs in the village, with grid
  electricity and externally sourced fossil fuels
  as supplementary supplies
• Mobilisation and motivation of the community is
  important and needs sustained support

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MDGs and ARTIs Technologies

• MDG 8 Develop a Global Partnership for
  Development
• ARTI has a vast experience of working with a wide
  range of partners from grass root level
  organisations to globally operating charities
• The village development plan will involve a
  collaborative effort between a corporate house
  (funder and infrastructure supporter), ARTI
  (technology solution provider), village based
  NGOs and SHGs (local implementers and support
  service providers), village panchayat (local
  support and linkage with government schemes),
  Department of Science and Technology (funding for
  specific research addressing unique needs of the
  village).

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Contact Information
E-mail pkarve_at_arti-india.org contact_at_arti-india.o
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