RRA CP Review workshop (7-8 May, 2013, New Delhi) Vikas Sahyog Kendra (VSK)

1. RRA CP Review workshop (7-8 May, 2013, New Delhi) Vikas Sahyog Kendra (VSK) CP block: Chhattarpur, Palamau, Jharkhand

2. Background, Context and Design

3. Project Overview • CP Partner- Vikas Sahyog Kendra (VSK) • Location- Chhattarpur block, Palamau District, Jharkhand State • No. of Panchayats- 5 • No. of Villages- 30 • Inception of the project- July, 2012 • HR Deployment: • For each of the 5 GPs- One Panchayat coordinator and two village cadres. • One full time program manager and two part time project coordinators • One full time documentation support. • Budget- 20 lakh INR till June 2013

4. Key issues and key gaps- Node wise

5. SEED

6. Soil

7. Water (Protective Irrigation)

8. Millets

9. SRI

10. Fisheries

11. Livestock

12. Project Strategies and Approach for the First Year • In the beginning we were in learning phase so we were promoting different agronomical practices so that there is an outreach to build upon for intervention at scale. • Main focus was given on the activities about which the organisation already has experience like SRI, kitchen garden etc. • Building relationship with different government departments. • Sensitizing target groups, staffs , government staffs about agenda and objectives of RRA. • Preparing ground for developing a convergence programme with the government.

13. Progress and Achievements

14. Baseline Survey • 2100 families have been covered out of 3000. • Data analysis is in progress • Individual household level data on land holding acreage under each crop pattern, fertilizer use, seed rates, yields for each crop and cropping pattern, govt benefits access, etc.

15. Summary of achievements for Kharif 2012: • 5 Panchayat level Seed Banks functional: IR 36, IR 64, Sahbhagi, Naveen and Sarju 52 varieties of paddy and A 404 variety of Madua stored; 10 quintals of seed stored at every seed bank • Paddy seed production (IR 36, IR 64 and Sahbhagi) taken up on 20 acres • System of Rice Intensification: 160 acres of SRI paddy cover in the pilot area • Composting: Over 200 families using biomass based compost • Millets: Linkage with ATMA under the INSIMP programme, 60 acres land covered under Madua • Fishery: 25 water bodies covered this year under fishery, 70000 fingerlings produced locally; a Block Level Fishery Federation is being formed • Livestock: 2000 livestock immunized in 2012. 5 trained cadres in area for immunization • Vegetable Cultivation: 3 vegetable nurseries established serving 100 families • Horticulture: 1200 fruit plants planted by 300 families

16. Building Community Institutions

18. Soil productivity enhancement

20. Establishing Community Managed Seed systems

22. SRI

24. Promotion of Millets

26. Establishing a framework for protective irrigation

28. Fishery in numerous water bodies

30. Livestock

31. Boosting Vegetable Cultivation and Promoting Dry land Horticulture

32. Current progress • Formation of Fisheries cooperative • Setting up of solar water pumping system and exploring protective irrigation options. • Setting up of weather station • Setting up of portable hatchery for fingerling production, preparation of nursery ponds • Indenting seed requirement, arranging seed, capacity building of Seed bank functionaries, applying for Seed village programme • Trainings on preparation of Jeevamrit &Neemastra for CRPs • Capacity building of Staff, Cadres and Community Resource Persons • Exposure visits

33. Key Risks and Assumptions • Palamau is a drought prone area which is the greatest risk • It was assumed last year that there will be normal rains, a risk based planning process wasn’t done. • This year, the assumption will include the strong possibility of a drought and the planning will be done accordingly.

34. Analysis, Reflection

35. What is new in the last one year ? • Thrust on leveraging government budgets instead of relying on program budgets. • Convergence with different government departments. • The resolve to establish women’s identity as farmers- Strengthening of women’s farmer’s groups in every village. • Looking at fisheries as major support for livelihood- Fishery in every water body, localizing fingerling production and collectivising fish farmers. • Key focus on soil health enhancement and seed conservation. • Communicating the importance of millet crops, creating incentive for production. • Exploring alternative energy sources for irrigation.

36. Layer, Scale, Convergence • Layering of interventions has been done at scale. However, an MIS to track such layering is yet to be developed- we are expecting help from the network. • Approximately 600 farmers have been reached out through the program for multiple initiatives. • A relationship has been built with DoF, ATMA, DoH, DoA. However, Convergence among these departments is yet to be established.

37. Programmatic FW • Our Panchayat coordinators are key persons for implementing the programme on ground. They have understood the concept of RRA well and are making attempts to build relationship with block level functionaries of various departments. • We have appointed Panchayat coordinators as nodal persons for one node as well.

38. Institutional FW

39. Institutional FW

40. Institutional FW

41. Resources mobilised

42. Way Forward

43. Status of proposal • Working on the MKSP proposal (submitted already) has provided us a framework for the convergence plan, waiting for the Collector to get transferred to introduce the proposal! • Strengthening community organisations