CONCEPT NOTE ON LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT OF POOR IN SOUTH ODISHA: BY HARSHA TRUST

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CONCEPT NOTE ON LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT OF POOR IN SOUTH ODISHA:BY HARSHA TRUST.

BackgroundThe tribal and remote belt of Odisha comprising districts in south and western Orissa areinhabited by people who are conventionally backward and vulnerable due to inconsistentlivelihoods. Poverty is pervasive mostly due to lack of proper access to and use of naturalresources and low level of education and awareness. These areas are part of the contiguouspoorest region of the country consisting of parts of Orissa and Chhattisgarh (CG): all theeight KBK districts, Southern Orissa, and three districts of Bastar region of CG. This region isone of the poorest regions of South Asia (Indian Subcontinent) with over two-thirds ofpeople living below the poverty line. Moreover it has a high proportion (over two-thirds) ofTribal and Dalit communities. The area suffers from abject poverty and lack of locallivelihood opportunities resulting in a high rate of distress migration. Compounding thedifficulties in some pockets is the crippling effects of the Naxalite activities.

Over two-thirds of the population consists of tribes and dalits (10-15%). The tribes are of

various ethnic groups and are socio-economically more deprived than others. Within theirranks, there exists wide socio-economic divergence. Making them even more vulnerable arelow literacy and serious health problems, caused by various factors such as early marriage,improper sanitation and hygiene, and inadequacy of nutritious food. Their aspirations andself-image are low. Outside influences are marginal and societal changes are slow.

Even within one district, some pockets and blocks are more disadvantaged than others:these areas have poorer connectivity and no agricultural development, land distribution is

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skewed there is low degree of undulation and vegetation forest cover has diminished and

Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihood Programme), NREGA (National RuralEmployment Guarantee Act) and BRGF (Backward Region Grant Fund) are targeted

towards livelihood enhancement, employment generation and infrastructure creation; and ifimplemented in right spirit can make difference to the lives of many. As the area is also richin Bauxite, many aluminum factories are being set up and can play critical role in providingemployment. Many of the civil society organizations have partnered with the governmentand industry to alleviate poverty and there exists opportunity to further strengthen suchcollaborations to enhance the effectiveness of the programme and reach out to more numberof families.

So the thrust would be to have synergetic collaborations and work on a multi-prongapproach in order to:

Build strong community based organizations as the channels of development thatcan continuously access resources and services from different agencies for bettermentof its members.

Judiciously invest in land and water resources to sustainably increase the cropproduction to provide round the year food sufficiency to the families and generate

marketable surplus. Promote micro enterprises for mostly the landless and also to supplement farm

income.

Device strategies through which the development prototypes fit into a revenuemodel and are replicable over large area.

In a scenario where independent efforts by civil society organizations, government or theindustry have had limited success in alleviating poverty, there is need and opportunity toj i h d t d t t d li t d l f d l t th t t f th li


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market led interventions like promotion of farm forestry in degraded lands. With buybackassurance from the industry and around 7 crore loan from NABARD, more than 2300

farmers have formed cooperative and developed farm forestry in their degraded land. Thefarm forestry intervention has received international recognition and has been awarded withFSC certification. The plantation is soon going to be covered under CDM.

In all the livelihood interventions the target has been to provide each of the families at leastan additional income of Rs 10,000/- per annum. To reach out to more number of families,there have been efforts to move from grant based programmes to loan based programmeand support other NGOs in their development initiatives. Improved agriculture throughring wells that was initially demonstrated with grant from SDTT is now being replicatedwith loan from NABARD. Although the organization has completed just 9 years, it hasbagged the best NGO award in medium category in eastern zone.

The Project seeks part-support for expanding, intensifying and piloting the variouslivelihood enhancement programs in the endemically poor districts of Orissa. The Projectseeks to co-finance development support costs of Harsha Trust teams, support development

of community based organizations, fostering collaboration with other NGOs and livelihoodprototype development in the new and existing project locations.

Location: Activities will be implemented in four existing districts (Koraput, Kalahandi,Rayagada and Nawarangpur) in south and western part of Orissa. All are among mostbackward districts in India.

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Objectives:For the five years the project objectives include:

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To form additional 1200 SHGs of around 20,000 members and have agricultural andpoultry cooperatives, as member based organizations, steering the livelihoodenhancement of total 35000 members.

2. Strengthening CBOs, intensifying existing interventions and replicating them in withmore number of families, to enhance the income of 7000 existing families thoserequire further support and of 22500 new families by Rs 10,000/- per year/family.

3. Piloting bankable models of integrated agricultural development to enhance thelivelihood of 500 new families.

4.

Building the capabilities of its teams and its members and improve upon theirperformance through proper orientation, training, exposure and periodic review,reflection and evaluation.

Activities: The activities are based on the experience and learning in its different projects.The key activities are:

Strengthening community based institutions like women Self Help Groups andcooperatives

Visioning with the community for improving the quality of life and facilitatinglivelihood planning in the context of local resources, people's skills and sectoralrealities, followed by implementation of plans.

Collaborating with government, industry and other agencies and catalyzing linkagesbetween the CBOs and the above agencies for different products and services.

Collaborating with other NGOs for mutual learning and support to reach out to more

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enterprise and many more could be the basis for exploration and probing. The role ofmarkets and the clout of market intermediaries will form a strong basis to identify suitable

options as also the manner in which various poverty alleviation schemes are taken up andwhether opportunity exists to strengthen their delivery.

The next step is institutional building and establishing linkages of CBOs with mainstream,industry and other institutions for suitable resources and services to initiate livelihoodinterventions. At this stage an enabling approach is adopted where the intuitions aregroomed to foster different linkages, over see technology transfer, manage production andmarket risk through suitable forward and backward linkages and products. Potential of theinstitutions are also built to look into the over all well being aspect of their members.

Harsha Trust would also take initiative to collaborate with other NGOs and learn andcontribute to a larger sphere of development apart from its direct action. The Trust alsofocuses on building the capabilities of its staff though a process of reflection and action andsuitable HR development processes.

Expected Impact:It is expected that

Sustainable livelihood options are adopted by families to move out of poverty andtheir institution becomes the channels of further growth and development.

Bankable models of development are available for wide scale replication Synergetic collaboration between civil society organizations, industry and

government for poverty eradication are demonstrated. Harsha Trust evolves into a strong organization managing its growth and

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Monitoring/Learning Indicators

Objective Output expected Base lineTo form additional 1200 SHGs ofaround 20000 members and haveagricultural and poultrycooperatives, as member basedorganizations, steering the livelihoodenhancement of total 35000 members.

1. 1200 new SHGs and four newdistrict level cooperatives areformed. Poultry cooperative andagricultural cooperative at Jeyporefunction without any supportfrom Harsha Trust. SHGs andother cooperatives groomed as perthe growth path designed forthem.

2. At least 200 local cadresgroomed across different projectlocations of Harsha Trust and 50%

of them get paid by the respectivecommunity based organizations.

1.Presently working infour districts(Koraput,rayagada,Kalahandi andNarangpur)

2. 359 SHGs and 3poultry cooperatives andone agriculturalcooperative have beenpromoted to act aschannels of developmentfor its members.

3.100 local cadres areoperating in the projectlocations.

Strengthening CBOs, intensifyingexisting interventions and replicatingthem in with more number offamilies, to enhance the income of7000 existing families those require

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1.Income of additional 29,500families is increased throughdifferent livelihood options by atleast Rs.10,000/family/year

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1. Sanctions of Rs 18crore is available forprogramme expenses.

2. Presently covering

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3. Each of the teams takes up

livelihood intervention with atleast 500 new families/year, in theproject area.

4. Each of the families becomescapable of enhancing their annualincome by at least Rs 10,000/-through the interventions.

Rs 1 crore onprogrammes in a period

of 3 years.

3. Addition of newfamilies varies acrossteams and is between 300to 1000 families/year.

4. Target families areable to generate anadditional income of Rs6000-8000/year.

Budget:The total budget for the project envisaged to be around Rs. 51.40 crore. Of the total budgetRs 38.68 crore will be mobilized from other sources and Rs 12.72 crore is being sought as

grant from Axis Bank Foundation. Additional 30,000 families will be benefited from thisintervention. The investment is going to be Rs 17,135/family, of which Rs 4241/- per familyis sought as grant from Axis Bank Foundation.(Details of Budget are given in Annex II.)


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ANNEX I

Loan Based Integrated Agricultural Livelihood Promotion

1.0 Project concept:The project envisages loan based agricultural development through investment inland development, irrigation infrastructure and improved cropping practices. Thefocus would be on ensuring food sufficiency and a cropping pattern that can ensuresufficient return to repay the loan. Key to this intervention is building tree basedcollateral for financing agricultural investments.This also entails working with afamily continuously for 6 years to create a significant impact. Following year wiseactivities are planned under the intervention

a. First year:-i) More time in building an activity group; in this case agricultural

development group at the village levelii) Intervene in improving the productivity of millets, paddy and other

cereals like maize mostly through seed change and improvedpractices.

iii)

Raise live hedge around an acre of upland( where improvedagriculture is planned in future)

b. Second year:

iv) On the boundary of one acre upland (where live hedge has been

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d. Fourth Year:x) At the beginning of the fourth year; a part of or total loan for ring

well and land development can be repaid from the sale proceeds ofturmeric and maize.

xi) Depending upon the choice of the farmers further loans can beprovided to intensify cropping in upland like one might want totake up horticultural plantation like cashew plantation.

xii)

Few of the farmers might want to take loan to dig a well in uplandwhich they can share to irrigate their horticultural plants.

xiii) The total loan amount to a particular farmer would however notexceeds the return expected from the sale of eucalyptus plants atthe end of 5th year. One farmer might choose to plant morenumber of eucalyptuses to avail more amount of loan.

e. Fifth and Sixth year:xiv)

Work with the families for crop intensification like improvingproductivity of paddy, millets, maize, pigeon pea, turmeric andNiger etc.

xv) Recover as much as loan from the sale of cash crops like turmericand maize

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Annex II. Budget for Development interventionsby Harsha Trust

In Rs lakhItem Nos Unit Un

itrat

e(Rs.lakhs)

TotalAmount in

RsLakhs

YR1(April 12-March 13)

YR2(April13-March 14)

YR3 (April14-March 15)

YR4(April15- March 16)

Yr5(April 16-March17)

(April 12-March17) In Rs Lakhs.

RequestedfromAxisBankfoundation

Contributionfromothersources









TotalContributionFromAxisbankFound

ationfor 5years

TotalcontributionfromOthersources

Development support cost forTeams

Cost of Salary 7 Teams 897.50 92.50 65.00 140.00 30 140.00 40 140.00 50 140.00 60 652.50 245.00

Travel Cost 7 Teams 15 105.00 5 16 15 6 15 6 15 6 15 6 65.00 40.00

Office Administration 7 Teams 12.5 87.50 5 12.5 10 7.5 10 7.5 10 7.5 10 7.5 45.00 42.50

Social Security( PF, Gratuity,

Medical reimbursement,Insurance, Maternityallowance)(25% of Basic)

45 staff

s

180.00 25.00 7.00 25.00 9 25.00 11 27 11 29 11 131.00 49.00

Sub Total-A

1270.00 127.50 100.50 190.00 52.50 190.00 64.50 192.00 74.50 194.00 84.50 893.50 376.50


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Programme cost

Cost of strengthening SHGsthrough trainings

1550 SHGs

0.0050 7.80 1.3 0.65 1.35 1 0.7 0.35 1.05 0.7 0.35 0.35 4.75 3.05

Cost of strengthening 8 nos ofagriculture and poultrycooperatives through trainings

8 cooperatives 2.50 20.00 4 4 4 4 4 20.00 0.00

Programme cost for integratedagricultural interventions with24500 families

24500 Families

2255.00 10 290 15 435 20 380 20 480 25 580 90.00 2165.00

Programme cost for loan basedIntegrated agriculturalinterventions with 500 families( fund will be given as grant tocooperatives, which in turnprovide as loan to its members)

500 Families

0.25 125.00 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 62.50 62.50

Programme cost for poultry andgoatary interventions with 5000

families(mostly landless)

5000 families

0.25 1250.00 250 250 250 250 250 0.00 1250.00Forward and backwardlinkages like retail outlets, feedmills and risk mitigation fundfor 4 poultry cooperatives 90.00 30 20 20 10 10 90.00 0.00Sub Total-B 3747.80 57.80 553.15 52.85 698.50 57.20 642.85 47 .55 743.20 51.85 842.85 267.25 3480.55Capacity building of Staffs 0.00 0.00SHG Orientation for staffs 25 staffs 4.00 1.8 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 2.60 1.40Training on group facilitation atthe team level (one training peryr per team)

25 staffs

4.60 2 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 3.20 1.40

Training on project planning

and monitoring at the teamlevel( one training per year perteam)

15 staffs

4.60 1.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 2.90 1.70

Training on cooperativemanagement

16 staffs

3.20 1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 2.20 1.00

Training on planning and 25 staffs 4.00 1.2 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 2.80 1.20


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monitoring

Training on leadership andteam management

10 Staffs

5.80 1.5 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 3.50 2.30

Sub Total-C 26.20 9.00 2.10 2.20 2.00 2.00 1.50 2.00 1.70 2.00 1.70 17.20 9.00Grooming local cadres 0.00 0.00

Cost of training communityresource persons

200 cadres 3.00 0.8 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 2.00 1.00

Cost of Community resourcepersons @Rs3000/month (costof 50service providers ).

50 serviceproviders 72.00 18 18 18 9 9 72.00 0.00

Sub Total-D 75 18.8 0.2 18.3 0.2 18.3 0.2 9.3 0.2 9.3 0.2 74 1Review and evaluation 0.00 0.00

Annual review of staffperformance( centralizedevent); cost of boarding andlodging

5 times

1 5.00 1 1 1 1 1 4.00 1.00

Evaluation by externalconsultant @ 10000/day for 10days

1 time

1.00 1 1.00 0.00

Travel, boarding and lodging ofconsultant 0.50 0.5 0.50 0.00Sub Total -E 6.5 0 1 1 0 2.5 0 1 0 1 0 5.5 1Fund for trying out innovativeideas to make projectsbankable 0.00 0.00

Fund for trying out innovativeideas for livelihoodenhancement of poor. Ls 15.00 3 3 3 3 3 15.00 0.00

sub Total-F 15 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 15 0Grand Total 5140.50 216.10 656.95 267.35 753.20 273.00 709.05 254.85 819.60 261.15 929.25 1272.45 3868.05

Amount Requested f rom AxisBank Foundation 1272.45 Lakhs

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