What We Will Do
CAPACITY BUILDING
This will be a major focus on capacity-building programme for women, men and youths related to income generation programmes as well as livelihood activities. The objectives of the capacity building are as follows:-
To identify the community-centric, pro-active strategies for promotion of sustainable livelihood.
- To understand different approaches of livelihood promotion.
- To understand the concepts of sustainable livelihood.
- Understand livelihoods beyond income.
- Identify a few activities and critical interventions that they would like to engage in.
- Aspire to improve their livelihoods.
- Realize their own position in the livelihoods scenario of their families
- Evaluate their current livelihood streams.
- Rights and entitlements, mainstream linkages.
ECO-TOURISM & AMUSEMENT PARK
Utsarga Grameen Foundation is planning to develop amusement park along with a concept of eco-tourism involving sustainable transport to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people. Amusement Park will be developed in such a manner that people of all ages can have the opportunity to prevail the facilities. One purpose will be to educate the traveler, to provide funds for ecological conservation and bio-diversity and the other is economical development of the local people
FLORICULTURE
It is evidenced that there is a fast growth of floriculture in and around region. Grameen Utsarga Foundation plan to provide both technical and financial resources to the farmers for doing the same. Training will be in nursery raising and floriculture programme in association with other rural banks including NABARD. The trained people will be linked with banks and other establishing nurseries as group activities and supplying seedlings to the gardens developed by industries as well as educational institution. There is a lot of scope in promoting this trade and is commercially viable.
Farmers will be mobilized for cultivation and sale of ornamental and flowering plants for gardens. They will be trained on marketing in containers, Houseplants, pot plants, cut flowers, floral gardens, and other floriculture crops.
AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
High Yield Paddy Cultivation
Assist Farmers in high yield paddy cultivation by helping the farmers to select good grain quality, high market price, optimum yield potential and stability over seasons, Maximum tillering capacity for weed competition, Resistance or tolerance to major diseases, insects, and other environment stresses, right growth duration , avoid varieties that need to be planted or harvested earlier or later than surrounding rice fields to minimize pest damage and growth problems during times of harmful environmental conditions .
- Promote and support Systematic Rice Intensification Technology in winter crop cultivation and in low rainy area.
- To upgrade the quality of farmer-saved seed, which is about 80-85% of the total seed used for crop production programme, linkage with SEEDNET INDIA to provide financial assistance for distribution of foundation/certified seed at 50% cost of the seed of crops for production of certified/quality seeds only and for training on seed production and technology to the farmers.
High yield cash crops
Developing demonstration plot for high yield vegetable cultivation in different areas so that the farmers can have hand on experience.
- Sensitize the farmers that it is not just enough to plant seeds and hope for the best, but also to understand the growth potential by having a detailed knowledge on kind of vegetables to be planted and kinds of seeds to be used, ensure proper water management system, fertilizers to be used and soil testing.
- Facilitate and demonstrate varieties of high yield cash crop like cucumber, beans, broccoli, Zucchini, sweet potatoes, plum etc.
Livestock rearing and Fish Farming
Animal rearing is considered an associate business with agricultural activities in rural India. Animal husbandry is an integral component of Indian agriculture, supporting livelihood of almost 55% of the rural population.
- Developing demonstration plot for high yield vegetable cultivation in different areas so that the farmers can have hand on experience
- Emphasis on Cattle farming, Goat farming, Piggery and both backyard poultry as well as Broiler farming including other economical poultry breeds.
- Emphasis on fresh water and salty water fish farming even with small pond.
- Develop a chain through which the farming cycle will be integrated within.
- Develop fish feed farm for provision to the farmers at affordable cost.
Horticulture-Fruits, Medicinal, aromatic & ornamental plants
For enabling agriculture to become a sustainable livelihood option for small and marginal farmers, Grameen Utsarga will promote Integrated Farming System in the rural area. This approach is all about integrating agriculture and its allied activities for facilitating optimum use of available resources to generate a sustainable livelihood. Horticulture is one such activity that currently we are encouraging farmers for vegetable cultivation and fruit plantation. This will not only provide a dependable source of income to small and marginal farmers but also fulfilling their nutritional requirements. Advanced and area-specific inputs coupled with healthy and sustainable techniques of cultivation will be introduced in the target areas to ensure quantity as well as quality of produce. Some silent features of this intervention will be :
- By introducing advanced and area-specific input for vegetable cultivation, a dependable source of income is being generated for small and marginal farmers in this tribal area.
- Promotion of healthy techniques for cultivation to ensure quality of produce.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
There is no denying of the fact that development of entrepreneurship has emerged as a national movement due to its strengths to solve the problems of unemployment and poverty. In fact, the need for development of ‘spirit of enterprise’ among the target population intensified more to percolate the development benefits to the masses at grass-root level. It is against this backdrop, several self-employment and anti-poverty programmes like PMRY, TRYSEM etc., involving some entrepreneurial qualities were introduced by the government as a tool of bottom-up mode of development. However, these programmes executed by the Government agencies proved ineffective due to their weaknesses of one type or other. Grameen Utsarga Foundation
- Building a founding team
- Approaches to finding product-market fit
- Pitching and selling to customers and investors
- Managing entrepreneurial finances
- Scaling and growing a company and learning to pivot using data
RUNNING OLD AGE CARE UNIT
- To foster the welfare and well-being of senior citizens who are unable to stay in their own homes due to several reasons.
- To create an awareness of biological phenomenon of ageing in the younger citizens and to instill the sense of belongingness and ensure their full initiatives in helping and supporting our senior citizens.
- Creating a cordial relationship between the youth and the senior citizens by initiating interactive educative programmes and cultural activities.
- To ensure that the senior citizens are given better Health/Medical treatments and their security are ensured by the caretakers.
- To strengthen vital power of elderly persons through various techniques like – Lifestyle management, De-stress Therapy-Yoga, Meditation, and Laughter Therapy, diet management and counselling along with medical helps.
- Facilitates for active participation in community development.
- Promotion of workplace equality with respect to gender, race or ethnicity, and other diversity factors by monitoring and enforcement mechanisms regarding employment standards, equal opportunity policies, bridging programs, and training programs; and increased participation of the working age population, especially women.
- Ensuring and enabling supportive environments for older adults requires attention to five factors- safety, accessible and affordable housing, support and relief of family and other informal caregivers, prevention and reduction of elder mistreatment and elimination of ageism.
- Social action to prevent and reduce all forms of elder neglect, maltreatment and abuse, along with the creation of support services to address these problems, is another major objective of the project.