SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR PROMOTING RURAL
LIVELIHOOD AND MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE Dr.
Narayan G. Hegde, Trustee BAIF Development
Research Foundation Warje, Pune 411
058 Presented at 6th International Conference
in India   Working Together (NRIs, PIOs, NPOs,
NGOs, and Others) to Mitigate Climate Change and
Eradicate Poverty   Organized by  India
Development Coalition of America At IRRAD,
Gurgaon, January 12, 2010
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BAIF IN RURAL INDIA

• Status
• Public Charitable Trust, Research Institution
• Contributions exempt from Income Tax U/s 35.1.ii
• Coverage
• 3.0 million BPL families, 55,000 villages in 12
  states
• Salient Features
• Secular, Non-political, 3500 Professionals
• Annual Budget (2009-10)
• Rs. 1500 million
• BAIFs Mission
• To create opportunities of gainful
  self-employment for the rural families,
  especially disadvantaged sections, ensuring
  sustainable livelihood, enriched environment,
  improved quality of life and good human values.
  This is being achieved through development,
  research, effective use of local resources,
  extension of appropriate technologies and
  upgradation of skills and capabilities with
  community participation.

Dr. Manibhai Desai, Founder, BAIF
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PROBLEMS OF THE POOR

• Degraded Resources
• Outdated Technologies
• Lack of Finance and Management
• Poor Infrastructure and Support Services
• Illiteracy and Poor Health status
• Lack of Confidence among the Poor

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LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMMES

• On-farm Activities
• Livestock husbandry Dairy cattle, Buffaloes
• and Goat
• Watershed Development and Crop Improvement
• Agri-Horti-Forestry and Sericulture
• Off-farm Activities
• Cottage Industries, Consumer stores
• Processing of Food and Forest Products
• Production of building materials

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LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT

• Activities
• Breeding at doorsteps in 55,000 villages
• Support Activities Nutrition, Forage
• production, Health Care, Milk marketing
• Training and Advisory Services

• Outcome
• Large unproductive herd to
• small herd of high yielding cattle
• Food and Nutritional Security
• 3 million families availing services,
• of which 60-70 are out of poverty

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COMMUNITY PASTURE MANAGEMENT

• Problems
• Lack of ownership of the community
• Poor control by the Local Government
• Lack of Peoples Participation
• Opportunities
• Viable Investment
• Fodder Security
• Soil and Water Conservation
• Improved Eco-system

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MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

• Activities
• Watershed Development
• Soil and Water Conservation
• Efficient use of Water Resources
• Sustainable agriculture
• Outcome
• 30 increase in crop yields
• Year-round supply of safe drinking water
• Improved Eco-system, Safe Environment

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SERICULTURE

• Activities
• Development of degraded lands
• Efficient soil and water conservation
• Capacity building
• Development of value chain
• Outcome
• Sustainable livelihood
• Year-round employment
• Extensive green cover
• Development of new enterprises

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• AGRI-HORTI-FORESTRY FOR
• TRIBAL REHABILITATION
• Activities
• Soil and Water Conservation
• Development of Agri Horti Forestry
• Processing and Marketing of Produce
• Development of Peoples Organisations
• Promotion of Micro-finance

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• OUTCOME
• Poor families earning sustainable livelihood
  from
• degraded lands (0.4 ha orchard/ family)
• Production of food, fodder, timber and fuelwood
• Generation of non-farm enterprises
• Conservation of nature with self-employment,
• benefitting 0.2 million Tribal Families

Before development
ORCHARDS FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE WITH
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
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• WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• Drudgery Reduction
• Maternal and Child Health Family Welfare
• Safe Drinking Water Sources
• Energy Sources Improved wood stoves, Biogas
• Aanganwadis and School facilities
• Gender Equity
• Sensitisation of Men
• Equal share in Family Assets
• Ability to negotiate and take effective
  decisions
• Capacity Building
• Exposure visits micro-credit Rural
  Development
• Self Help Groups mobilise savings and credit
• Develop Corpus and Community assets
• Involvement in Planning and Development

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COMMUNITY HEALTH

• Activities
• Safe drinking water
• Sanitation, Hygiene awareness
• Primary medical care
• Revival of traditional system of medicine
• Reproductive and child health, family welfare
• Nutrition mix for children and women
• Outcome
• Safe drinking water all round the year
• Trained local volunteers working as health guides
• 50 Ayurveda centres by Traditional healers
• Reduction in child mortality
• Reduction in family size

Trained mid wife
Traditional healer
Health Guide
Special focus on Malnourished
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CAPACITY BUILDING AND LITERACY

• Activities
• Training at CRS, Urulikanchan and Regional
  campuses
• Field demonstrations, Group discussions, Study
  tours
• Workshops and technical manuals for field
• Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Chaswad, Gujarat
• Production of documentary films, posters and
  articles
• Promotion of Anganwadis, Enrollment of girls in
  schools,
• Orientation of students in Tribal boarding
  schools
• Outcome
• Increase in rate of literacy
• Empowerment to initiate community development
• Sustainable development and Global warming
• Gender equity, women empowerment
• High moral value and better quality of life

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• ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
• Production and distribution of handouts,
• books and audio-visuals
• Awareness campaigns in schools
• Plant nurseries and afforestation
• Field demonstrations
• Seminars and Training

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Impact OF BAIF PROGRAMMES

• 75 of 3 million participant families have come
  out of poverty
• Improved quality of life Literacy, Community
  health and Gender equity
• Programme sustainability through linkages with
  PRIs, FIs and Markets
• Significant Contribution to UN Millennium
  Development Goals
• Environmental Protection and Reduction in Global
  Warming
• - Small but productive livestock herds
  promote stall feeding, organic farming,
• biogas plants, biodiversity
  protection and reduce Greenhouse Gases
• - Watershed and degraded land-based
  development activities promote soil
• and water conservation and improve
  the micro-climate
• - Awareness on hygiene and sanitation
  lead to clean environment