Project Title: ANOKHA DHAAGA SHGs
Supported by: TATA Power Community Development Trust
Thematic Area: Entrepreneurship Development
Project timeline: 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2023
Area of Implementation: Villages – Patikhali, Ward No. 12, Hadlia Municipality (Urban) and Villages- Khanpur & Urdhabmal, GP – Guyaberia, Block – Sutahata Dist.-Purba Midnapore, West Bengal (Rural).
Specific Intervention: Promoting Vegetables Gardens and Rearing Backyard Poultry Birds for Women SHG Members for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Livelihood.
Objectives of the Project:
- To equip the farming households including young and energetic women farmers with the ability to be self reliant and food/nutrition secured in an ecologically sound way, and to produce surplus and add value for effective marketing
- To complement and be actively involved in appropriate networks for information exchange and advocacy at all levels
- To develop at least one community Resource Persons (CRP) on each vocation who will provide escort services to the beneficiaries.
Strategies adopted:
- The programme was implemented by involving the women members of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) & SHG based Area Level Federation & thus inculcated a sense of ownership among them
- The programme also involved various stakeholders, viz, Gram Panchayat, Banks, Haldia Municipality, Government Departments, input suppliers and local vendors
- Backward & forward linkage, i.e. a complete value chain was also established for procurement of better-quality inputs for income generating activities from renowned Amtala market, access to bank credit & information services from thematic experts of Krisi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)
- Community engagement meetings & partners’ meeting were regularly conducted to share the community views for better implementation of the programme.
Activities Carried Out:
| SL | Planned Activities & Deliverables | Unit/ No. | Progress |
| 1 | Baseline survey & Livelihood Mapping | 1 | Completed and report generated covering 111-husehold beneficiaries at Patikhali, Ward No. 12, Haldia |
| 2 | Identification of direct beneficiaries | 100 | Completed and approved by Area Level Federation under National Urban Livelihoods Mission |
| 3 | Identification of Jeebika Bondhu | 2 | Smt. Anjana Das (Livestock)
Smt. Rebati Maity (Convergence & FI) |
| 4 | Tie up with RAs for convergence | Need based | Convergence with:
· Block Livestock Development Office (BLD0), GoWB, for vaccination camp · Bank for SHG Bank Linkage · Deputy Labour Commissioner, GoWB for awareness and enrollment camp for Samajik Surakkha Jojona · Haldia Municipality for new SHGs formation · ATMA for Agricultural Training and input support · Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation (ADMI), GoWB for Agricultural Training · Block Fishery Extension Officer, GoWB for fish farming |
| 5 | Intensive Training on selected cash crops | 25 | 2-days training already completed covering 25 direct beneficiaries |
