Gramin Vikas Trust Published a variety of Books, Pamphlets, Reports etc. More over Papers and Power point presentations at various forums
The Papers presentation in various conferences, symposium etc are:
Sagar Club proved to be a successful Self Help Group, reflecting a stable and appreciable livelihood promotion. Sagar Club was initiated on 23-12-2003 with the assistance of Gramin Vikas Trust in Badbilla Village of Banisal Gram Panchayat of Mayurbhanja district of Orissa and there were 38 male members in total.
There was a high a high degree of homogeneity in the class and caste structure. All the 38 members were Adivasi (ST).Among all the members 36 were Below Poverty Line. Regarding the marital Status, all were married. Also the literacy position was high as out of 38 members, 30 members were literate.
The credit – Saving position of the group was quirt remarkable. The bank linkage was done as early as possible i.e., on March 2004.The group was operating with two bank linkages. i.e., bank of India and State Bank of India. According to the president Mr. Raisen Murmu, they never kept fund in their hand rather regularly deposited all cash in banks and withdrawn when necessary. By 31 December 2004, the total deposits in the bank were Rs. 15,000.00. The bank managers of State Bank of India and Bank of India were quite happy with the banking operations of Sagar Club.
Sagar Club had better operational efficiency. Though the group was getting support from Gramin Vikas Trust, it had started managing itself with in few months of formation. The paper work, record keeping was done on regular Basis by the secretary Mr. Baidyanath Singh and Asst. secretary Mr. Dilip.The whole group was able to perceive the benefits from the SHG concept. Regular saving and credit was so to say inevitable. The group meetings ere held once in a month with the participation of all the members. The decisions in the group were taken by the common consent of all the members and implementation of the decision was made by President and Secretary. The group members were regularly saving the monthly fees Rs. 10 and that was possible due to high peer pressure. The president and secretary proved their leadership by providing high motivation and encouragement to the members.
Common properties are resources, which are accessible to the whole community or village to which no individual has exclusive ownership or properties right. The common properties resources very much subjected to individual use but no individual can own position over this rather it is used by a number of stake holders who has independent right to use.
The significant of common properties resources lies in their capacity to meet the basic needs of the villagers. If utilized properly, the common properties resources could generate substantial income for the villagers. But the main hurdle in this is the absence of ownership feeling among the villager. Every one’s property becomes no one’s property and to break this feeling the ownership of the common property should be handed over to a people’s institution which have social acceptance and legal reorganization. The success of common property management through people’s institution is reflected through Haldikundi village committee.
Abstract
Households in arid and semi-arid areas realise that increased availability and accessibility of water is critical to improving their livelihoods because insufficient soil moisture is a major constraint on crop productivity, and accessing water for domestic and other uses is physically demanding and time consuming. Interventions to improve the management of water resources need to recognise that poor households have few resources beyond their labour, and the design of interventions requires additional efforts to include poor households and ensure equitable distribution of benefits. The design of interventions need to address several key issues constraining poor households’ ability to access and use water including the ownership of water and other natural resources, and the capacity of communities to contribute towards the cost of interventions.
In this paper, we discuss how poorer households can be included in the planning and design process to ensure that they benefit from water resources interventions by addressing issues related to ownership of water and land, and the distribution of benefits from interventions. The key ownership question is 'who owns what water and land resources and where?' This question is answered by communities mapping land and water resource ownership by socio-economic grouping, and then using the map as a basis for discussions about the distribution of benefits resulting from water resources interventions. Households not benefiting from the improvements are identified and alternative interventions are targeted to improve their livelihoods.
Impact of New Upland Rice Varieties in Eastern India from Client-Oriented Breeding:
Evidence from Whole Village Surveys
A. Mottram
Centre for Arid Zone Studies (CAZS), University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
Summary
A collaborative client-oriented breeding programme between the Gramin Vikas Trust (GVT), Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) and Centre for Arid Zone Studies (CAZS) resulted in the production of two new upland rice varieties, Ashoka 228 and Ashoka 200F. Since 2001, these varieties have been distributed to a number of farmers in Western and Eastern India.
Whole village surveys of a sample of the villages in Eastern India, that had been supplied with seed by GVT, showed adoption levels of up to 63% of the current upland rice production areas within three years, with a potential to increase further into other fallow areas of the upland. Farmers are adopting the Ashoka varieties because they are high yielding, mature early, are drought resistant and have a good taste and short cooking time. Farmers, as well as increasing the area under these varieties on their own farms, sold or exchanged seed to other farmers
Cultivation of Ashoka has had a large impact on farmers’ livelihoods particularly in terms of food security where often this has been increased by 1-2 months, in some cases making grain-deficit households self-sufficient.
This survey was done to triangulate the results of two previous surveys. It confirmed the results that farmers like the new varieties, adopt them on a high proportion of their upland, and distribute the seed to others. The proportion of upland rice areas devoted to the new varieties was uniformly high whatever the method of assessment employed.
Indicators of Progress, Consensus-building Process and Policy Recommendations
The Workshop
The Policy Review Workshop was held at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Noida, Delhi, from
24-25 April 2003. Participants (Appendix 1) included representatives of the Government of
India; state governments of Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal; Gramin Vikas Trust (GVT)
and recipients (fishers, farmers and jankars) from the three states; DFID-NRSP; Rockefeller
Foundation and NACA-STREAM. Fifteen members of a theatre troupe also participated.
The Policy Review Workshop was the final activity in the DFID-NRSP Research Project
R8100 entitled “Investigating Improved Policy on Aquaculture Service Provision to Poor
People”. The workshop followed:
A Review of Lessons Learnt in Enabling People’s Participation in Policy-making
Processes, published in April 2003
A Consensus-building Process which ran from February to March 2003
Six Case Studies carried out from mid-2002 to January 2003 in Jharkhand, Orissa
and West Bengal
A Stakeholders Workshop in January 2003 in Ranchi, Jharkhand
Three State-level Workshops in Purulia, West Bengal; Ranchi, Jharkhand and
Bhubaneswar, Orissa in October 2002
An August 2002 Planning Visit
A Rural Aquaculture Service Recipients and Implementers Workshop held in
May 2002 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, and
An Inception Visit in March 2002.
The aim of the Policy Review Workshop, as with all project activities, was “contributing to
‘giving people a voice’ in policy-making processes that have an impact on their livelihoods”.
The workshop objectives were:
Through six case studies, stakeholder statements and a street-play, understand the
experiences of rural aquaculture services provision from the perspectives of
representative recipient and provider groups
Review the process for transacting policy change and lessons learnt
Review progress towards policy change and lessons learnt, through “indicators of
progress”
Make recommendations for policy change based on the outcomes of the project
Seek commitment from policy-makers on taking up the recommendations, and
Consider how the Government of India, NACA-STREAM and GVT may follow
up the project.
The Western India Rainfed Farming Project (WIRFP)
The Western India Rainfed Farming Project (WIRPF) is a DFID funded participatory rural development project which aims to improve in a sustainable manner the livelihoods of 800,000 poor tribal people and to evolve approaches that can be replicated in the region. It is being implemented in three states: Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
The Gramin Vikas Trust (GVT)
Since 2003 the management and implementation of the project has been done by the Gramin Vikas Trust (GVT) which is an independent legal entity established by Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited - Department of Fertilizers, Government of India. GVT is also managing the DFID funded Eastern India Rainfed Farming Project.
The Migrant Labour Support Programme (MLSP)
The Migrant Labour Support Programme (MLSP) was established as a component of the Western India Rainfed Farming Programme (WIRFP), in the districts of Ratlam, Jhabua, Dhar (MP); Banswara and Dungarpur (Rajasthan); and Dahod and Panchmahals (Gujarat).
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ODI is Britain’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Its mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. This is done by locking together high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. ODI works with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries.
ODI’s Rural Policy and Governance Group (RPGG) has prioritised the disaggregated analysis of pro-poor growth and livelihood security, the better engagement of the productive sectors in policy processes, including Poverty Reduction Strategies, and the local, national and international governance and implementation structures to make a reality of environmentally and socially sound policies.
Annual Reports and Other Publications are :
Annual Report 2005-06
Better Choices for Rainfed Farming
GVT At A Glance
GVT PACS
India Migration News Letter July 2006
NLRI
National Livelihoods Resource Centre
Vikas Ki Kahani, Jankar Ki Jubani (Hindi)
Some of the booklets of WIRFP II series are:
Resource-poor farmers seldom have access to technologies such as new crop varieties that may improve their livelihoods. Many farmers grow old varieties or landraces, and hence fail to benefit from the most modern products of plant breeding. Adoption of new varieties is
lowest amongst the poor.
One of the main reasons for low cultivar replacement rates is that farmers have inadequate exposure to new cultivars.
Farmers also often think new varieties are not better than those they already grow, so they are unwilling
to try them.
Western India Rainfed Farming Project, Published a series of 15 bulletins on the different topic These are :
This Paper presents the Participatory planning processes developed and used by Western India Rainfed Farming Project. It Includes:
Gramin Vikas Trust is implementing development activities with tribal communities in remote rural areas to improve there livelihoods. GVT's approach in initially to motivate villagers thorough Participatory rural Applications (PRAs) to analyse their needs and prepare a village plan to address the constrains on improving their livelihoods. GVT then facilitates villagers with small scale simple activities (For example, formation of self-help groups, on-farm testing of new crop varieties, well deepening, health camps, establishing nurseries, etc.) Particular emphasis to given to involving poor and women in the development process and to take account of the views of these and other disadvantaged groups. More complex activities that require greater community cooperation and greater use of resources (for example, planning and construction of infrastructure such as soil and water conservation works, water storage dams, implementation of joint forestry management etc,) are taken up only where the community shows keen interest to work for their own development.
This Paper presents the result of the programme and Collaborative research using a participatory plant breeding strategy development with Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Universities.
About 525 varieties have been released in India.Of These only the top 10 varieties account for 60% and the bottom 57 varieties for 1% of production
The Centralized plant breeding techniques of the "Green Revolution" have yield good results in the more favorable agricultural environments. Most low-resource farmers in marginal areas, however have not benefited from these varieties. As an alter native for these areas, farmer participatory approaches are being adopted in selecting and breeding better varieties
A Jankar is a paraprofessional, a female of male member of the community, identified by the community, who serves as an internal catalyst, information bank, service provider, trainer, knowledge disseminator and innovator. The Jankar provides help to village group in monitoring and act as a link between Government or any extension agency and community.
Trained Male and Female Jankar have been instrumental in facilitating both planning , implementing and monitoring activities with the communities.
The Jankar System is an essential tool for effective and sustainable development because:
* Motivation of community become easier.
* Technology can easily be transferred to the community for adoption, filling up the technology gap between project and community.
* Community gets immediate help in the implementation of project activities.
* Fast tracking of activity in the village.
* Development human assets at grassroots level.
* Establishes effective feedback mechanism.
A Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation System (PME)System developed and implemented by Western India Rainfed Farming Project (WIRFP). Gramin Vikas Trust (GVT) has elicited ideas and views from the community that have been incorporated into the system
Role of People's Institutions:
In agricultural development, peoples Institutions have the potential to play a number of roles these include provision of services such as credit or input supply;formation of capital at group level through savings; Provision of making support; the promotion of collective effort for common properties for non-performance or non-adherence to rules established by members.
In addition, in the project, Kinship-based groups have been encouraged to increase accountability and equality among members, and provide "space" for the poor and women. Some Group Members have also gained opportunities to access political power (eg. through the local electoral system).The project has used local institution building as strategy for participatory development. The People's Institutions are known as Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the project.
It describe regarding Basis of Goat Development Programmes; Why Goat Rearing preferred, Benefits of Goat Rearing etc.
The role of farmers in Goat Disease Control and treatment.
diseases of Goats, varieties of diseases in goats
symptoms, control, Treatment, Precautions
It describe regarding Basis of Goat Development Programmes; Why Goat Rearing preferred, Benefits of Goat Rearing etc.
Gramin Vikas trust is implementing Development activities with stake holders, including village community to improve the livelihood of the tribal rural poor in remote areas. soil and water conservations programme is one among other development initiatives of GVTin the project areas. It control the degradation of natural resources at one hand and increases the over all productivity with time.
he role of farmers in Goat Disease Control and treatment.
diseases of Goats, varieties of diseases in goats
symptoms, control, Treatment, Precautions
To Implement a participatory Technology development (PDT) programme to develop new technologies, or to modify existing technologies, that other potential to sustainably enhance the livelihoods of poor rural families in the project area and more widely in the region. This will be undertaken in collaboration with research institutes
In about 250 villages , the rural livelihood programmes developed by the project and partners will be initated through Collaborating Partner Organisations (CPOs). The CPOs will be supported with advice, training, exposure and provision of limited start-up funds by GVT. The CPOs will comprise different types of organisation, for which different approaches will be adopted: CBOs, small NGOs, PRIs and GOs
The model has been developed and improvised by the WIRFP project through regular sharing of ideas; experiences between primary and secondary stake holders. This has been built over the project's lessons learnt implementing the project. Surely, it is envisaged that others may be benefited while discussing the same. The project has learnt over time within the project and is continuously sharing and learning from partner institutions and individuals; the lessons are still incomplete.