GanaChetana aka GC Project Proposal

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GanaChetana (aka GC)Project Proposal

• Anitha Sampath
• Shinjinee Chattopadhyay  
• Rajendra Marulkar

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Agenda

• Introduction to GanaChetana
• Background of GC
• Activities of GC
• GC relations with AID
• Introduction to the Community
• General overview of the area and the community.
• The challenges community is facing.
• The strengths of the community.
• Project Proposal
• The objective of the project.
• The income generation plans of the project.
• The budget.

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Introduction to GanaChetana

• The background of GanaChetana
• Working in the 20 villages of Harichandanpur and
  Bansapal blocks in Keonjhar district of Orissa.
• Working in this remote area of Orissa for the
  last 10 years.
• Good working relations with banks and government
  organizations.
• GC have recently been selected as facilitators
  for northern Orissa, of a nation-wide program on
  Natural Forest Resource Management
• Organization led by Mr. Mohan Mahanta.

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Introduction to GanaChetana

• Activities of GC
• Formation and support for SHGs.
• Formation and support for IGPs.
• Formation and support for Farmers and forest
  committees.
• Health awareness camps.
• Forest awareness and protection.

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Introduction to GanaChetana

• GC relations with AID
• AID-columbus has worked with GC.
• AID-columbus has approved 2000 for part of
  phase-I.
• Peter Bokas from AID-Australia is actively
  involved with GC.
• Significant confidence shown by experienced
  volunteers from AID Orissa, AID Pune and AID
  Columbus.

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Introduction to the Community

• General Overview of area and the community.
• Constitutes mostly the tribal groups and the rest
  backward class.
• Located in extremely remote places and come under
  the hilly area and forest coverage.
• No electricity, phone very bad road access.
• 100 population is under the poverty line.

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Introduction to the Community

• The challenges community is facing
• Struggle for getting constant source of income.
• Major health problems especially with children
  like malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea etc.
• Lack of education and skill to do modern jobs.
• Lack of ownership of resources like land
• Lack of overall awareness about law, human
  rights.
• Strengths of the community
• Knowledge of the forest and the forest products.

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Project Proposal

• The Objectives of the project
• Demonstration farm of different schemes.
• Agriculture,
• Horticulture,
• Pisciculture
• Animal husbandry
• Construction of the Ashram building for
  sustainability of organization and income for her
  staff.
• Staff Exposure and Development.
• To provide necessary technical guidance for
  IGPs.
• Empowerment of women in social and economic
  activities.
• Environmental awareness and forest protection
  through community.
• Encourage people's participation in the planning
  and implementation of various welfare and benefit
  program.
• Increase bargaining power of people through group
  action.

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Project Proposal

• The income Generation Plans
• Pisciculture in ashram pond
• Dairy Goats and cows
• Organic traditional vegetables
• Forest fruit tree nursery
• Composting, Vermicomposting
• Production of Organic fertilizers pesticides
• Mulching techniques
• Cultivate medicinal herbs
• Note The effect of income generation is
  expected to be visible by the end of phase-II.

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Project Proposal

• Budget
• Phase-I Phase-II Phase-III
  Total
• Support for Fruit bearing Nursery (Ashram)
  5000.0 - -
  5000.0
• Salary PC _at_ Rs.4000/- x 12 months
  48000.0 48000.0 36000.0 132000.0
• Two community organizer including one women _at_
  Rs.1500 x 2 x 12
• 36000.0 36000.0 29000.0
  101000.0
• One Office Secretary _at_Rs.1500x12
  18000.0 18000.0 13500.0 49500.0
• Office equipments One trolly, One Almirah, Two
  tables, Six chairs, Two racks
• 10000.0 10000.0 -
  20000.0
• Construction of Ashram House /demostration farm
• 50000.0 60000.0 50000.0
  160000.0

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Project Proposal

• Budget (Cont.)
• Phase-I Phase-II Phase-III
  Total
• Traveling Bike Maintenance 18000.0
  12000.0 10000.0 40000.0
• Postage E-mail Documentation
  6000.0 6000.0 5000.0 17000.0
• Audit 3000.0
  3000.0 3000.0 9000.0
• Contingency _at_ 6 of the total budget 14000.0
  14000.0 11000.0 39000.0
• Staff Exposure/Consultancy
  12000.0 12000.0 12000.0 36000.0
• Grand Total
  2,20,000.0 2,190,00.0 1,69,000.0 6,08,000.0

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Project Proposal

• Budget (Cont.)
• The part of Phase-I is already funded by
  AID-Columbus. (2000).
• AID-Austin needs to fund 2700 for phase-I.
• Phase-II and Phase-III approvals will be decided
  depending on the status of Phase-I.

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Summary

• GC is working for the poorest of poor.
• GC has good working relations with community and
  government bodies.
• GC has good track record.
• A chance for AID-Austin to work with NGO who is
  working for people who needs help most !

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Questions raised in CSH 10/18

• The focus of the project looks on the development
  of a few people (Volunteers NGO.)
• Labor and builders will all be local, (currently
  6 laborers and a local builder involved in the
  construction of the Ashram foundation) 
• Community GC to work together in the day to day
  running and experimenting with viable and
  alternative organic agricultural, pisciculture.
• Short workshops will be held to disseminate the
  techniques to the broader community on regular
  basis.
• The GC field staff will visit the villages to
  asses and advise the villagers on implementation
  of disseminated techniques.
• Villagers will be able to avail organic seeds,
  planting material and loan tools etc.
• How much do the villages earn on an average?
• Less than US 10.00 per month

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Questions raised in CSH 10/18

• Status of current work next plans for Phase-I.
• Foundation digging is under way. Brick making
  initial analysis done.
• Green fence constructed around Ashram site.
  Planning for plantation of vegetables, spices,
  nursery done. Late funding -gt Lost monsoon
• When do they need next round of phase-I funding ?
  
• End period for AID-Columbus installment is Feb.
  2004
• Skill set of the volunteers.
• GC staffs have undergone a number of training
  programs conducted by Gov. And NGOs
• Areas of training Local resource management ,
  food processing (jams, squash, powders, pickles,
  sweets, and drying), organic agriculture
  (composting, mulching, vermi-composting,
  pisiculture,)
• Details about 6 contingency in budget.
• The norm is between 6 to 10.

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Vote .

• Recommendation is to approve the second part of
  Phase-I. (3000)

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GC Update

• Ashram Construction

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Fruit Bearing Nursery

• Refer to table

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Multi Purpose Pond

• Currently the pond each own by Gana Chetana. The
  Pond need to be renovated that needs an expenses
  of about Rs. 70,000.00 for perfect pisciculture
  purpose. The pond will harvest about 10 quintals
  of foil if renovation take place, the minimum
  income will be Rs. 40,000.00 in a year.
• This year in the month of June 2004, 12,000 span
  (fish seed) has been placed in the pond. There is
  a chance of procuring 2 quintals of fish.
• Have a plan to go for a small pond for the
  enlargement fish span which has a good demand in
  the area and that will earn more income. (About
  Rs. 10,000/- to Rs. 30,000/-)

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Organic Farming

• Refer Table

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NGO Sustainability

• 1. Staff Development Mohan Mahanta and Sunita
  Padhi visited SRI (Society for Rural
  Industrialisation) Ranchi to see the development
  of pisciculture, Vermi compost, poultry, Duckery,
  Organic Farming, Fruit tree Orchard, Cane craft,
  Fruit Preservation, indegeneous roof making
  through self made asbestos and tile, spinning
  etc. Resource person or S. Sarkar. Duration July
  2003.
• Sunita Padhi attended drought management
  programme, Organised by AFFRO, Bhubaneswar, Place
  - Jashipur, Mayurbhanja, Resource person Dr.
  Subas Sahoo, Manata Das, Dr. Srinibasan.
• Harekrishna Naik visited HOPE, Bhubaneswar,
  master trainer on Organic farming, duration
  24.12.2003 to 26.12.2003, Resource person Dr.
  Basanta Bambetkar, Prof. Dr. Radha Mohan.
• Sunita Padhi visited HOPE, Bhubaneswar towards
  training on Fruit PRocessing Preservation from
  12.08.2003 to 14.08.2003. Resource person Mr.
  Chabirani Sahoo.

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Income Generation Programmes

• (a)               For Gana Chetana - Maximum
  emphasis will be given for the renovation of the
  pond for the purpose of pisciculture and that
  will stand as the main source of income in the
  long run. Fish seed creation in this small pond
  will be an additional I.G.P. Variety of seed
  collection from the vegetable cultivation in the
  demonstration farm of Gana Chetana would be the
  second major IGP. The seeds will be sold in the
  weekly market of nearby places in the banner of
  GC.
• (b)               For Community - At Community
  level the SHGs will make insence stick which has
  a good market at Ghatageon and Keonjhar. SHG has
  been producing spice powder and stitched leaf
  plate, which has been purchased by the business
  man from the doorstep of the village.

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Community Benefit and Community Involvement

• Informal sharing on demonstration farm with the
  people of different villages is a regular
  phenomenon of Gana Chetana.
• People are interested to know the technique and
  uses of organic farming, with sharing of our
  experience.
• The brick making of Gana Chetana in the
  demonstration farm has impact on the people. Few
  of the people are interested to construct their
  house with this bricks in the future.
• About 64 SHGs are functioning in active where 720
  members are participating in regular basis.
• In 15 villages 15 nos. of forest protection
  committee has been actively functioning since
  1993. About 1,000 hectors of forestland has been
  protected.
• In 15 villages 15 nos. of agriculture committees
  are functioning systematically.

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Plan for next year

• Refer Table