Report

January 19, 2013

Strengthening Panchayats for Livelihoods

Giving PRIs a constitutional status two decades ago was intended to result in greater economic efficiency, larger resource mobilization, better service delivery and inclusive development leading to higher satisfaction. How far this has been achieved was the subject of deliberations in a workshop. This article is an abstract of the workshop report.
January 2, 2013

Investing in Boys and Girls: Schooling Decisions and Credit Constraints for Microfinance Participants in India

Investigating the impact of microfinance participation in India on educational outcomes, this study focuses on the changes that participation in SHGs brings about in the education of boys and girls of member households in Jharkhand.
November 17, 2012

Promotion of SRI-Millet with Small and Marginal Farmers in Chhattisgarh: A Practitioner’s Manual

Increasing the production of millet by using the SRI-millet method may prove to be one of the significant ways to address the poverty and food insufficiency problem in several tribal areas of Chhattisgarh
November 10, 2012

Why Do Farmers Adopt or Dis-adopt? SRI – A Short Report from the Field

The System of Rice Intensification has made its presence felt in the Indian agriculture scenario, by its fast speed and the promise to “ grow more with less”. Yet there has also been a lot and reports of disadoption. This preliminary report of a research lays out a number of reasons, predominantly rainfall failure related for farmer drop-outs.
November 1, 2012

Adult Functional Literacy: A Catalyst for Effective Governance

PRADAN ’ seeks is to build vibrant institutions for women, led by women which will, in the long run, evolve into an effective demand system. Women will lead institutions that sustain livelihoods, strengthen programmes, influence local government to leverage finances, make local authorities more responsive to the community and, in time, become pressure groups for demanding rights, entitlements and state accountability on many fronts.
October 11, 2012

Poverty, Access to Credit and Absorption of Income Shocks: Evidence from SHGs in India

Studying the role of SHGs in helping the poor cope with climatic shocks, this article analyses the strength of informal microfinance groups in absorbing adverse shocks
October 4, 2012

The SHG Sector in India: Toward Self-reliance and Sustainability

Building the capacity of selected SHG members to manage and govern village organizations as well as higher-level federations is feasible as demonstrated by the Sector Own Control pilot in Andhra Pradesh
September 2, 2012

Convergence of Livelihoods Creation: An Innovative and Proactive Initiative

Transforming the lives of villagers by combining the resources of the community, the government and the local leadership, PRADAN uses collaboration and convergence as the basic approach in creating a significant impact on the livelihoods of the community
August 2, 2012

Sipringa: A Decade of Growth and Prosperity

Encouraging farmers to use the SRI method of cultivation, focussing on land and water development, the members of the SHGs bring about socio-economic changes that enable a once-poverty stricken people to become self-sufficient and secure
July 2, 2012

Nalanda District, Bihar: World-Record Sri Yields

Experimenting with SRI cultivation, five farmers of Darveshpura village in Bihar attract considerable attention with their bumper yield; the results indicate a viable alternative to the conventional methods of growing rice and other crops