Strategy of Implementation

·         Understanding the context: To understand the context and the community, project partners do the, geo-hydrological study, survey of the area, stay with the community and participate in their different day to day activities to comprehend social, ecological economical and cultural aspect.

·         Institutional arrangement (habitation to micro-level): Formation of Community Based Organizations (CBO’s) by project partners at different stages viz. from habitation-Village-micro-level, and link with panchayats, which results in better community participation (including all social groups-for sustainability of institution as well as panchayats sustainability with community), formal enrolment (as members), habitation based decision making process (which converges with village level institution) and is for the reflective in micro level, where the committee members are the integral components of micro-level.

·         Planning: Planning are initiated at habitation level (based on the perspective), and are discussed and converge in village, watershed and at panchayats level. This helps in developing, rolling as well as annual plans of the concerned institutions and the region.

  

·         Specific projects are incorporated with Long-term plan for the area: Project partners envisages a long-term vision for any area, given the context of landscape and community. Strategizing the intervention strategy given the ecological and social context, proposals are prepared for different agencies. This helps in developing the proper prospective plan for the concerned area.

·         Holistic development approach (convergence of project activities with others scheme & programs): Project partners have perspective plans at habitation level, where project partners on its part accentuate on ecological and land scape based planning and intervention. In lieu of the same process it also strengthens the community capacity to attract other schemes and also negotiate with other agencies for a holistic village development approach.  

·         Phase-out strategy (from the day of initiation): To maintain the sustainability and to participation of the community, from the day of initiation partner organizations have strategy of phasing out, which reflects in handing over the responsibilities more on the community, so that the community prepares itself to manage the resources on their own-with or without the project.

·         Promotion of village volunteers:  Project partners have strategy to strengthen the knowledge (in relation with holistic development) of youth groups/women groups/opinion leaders/village elders etc. in the form of village volunteers for providing the services for village development.

• Decentralised approach: Project Partners firmly believes in discussions and decisions are taken in gram sabha’s. Committee’s are formed for execution of gram sabha decisions and the selection of committee members are sole responsibility of the gram sabha’s. This lead to more transparent and participative approach.

• Networking and advocacy:  with Agriculture & Irrigation Dept., PRI and other relevant agencies. Advocacy measures will be initiated by the people’s organization for the proper implementation of NREGA. This also will ensure that the works done under NREGA contributes to enhance the agricultural productivity of the villages.