January 3, 2016
G Xavier January 3, 2016
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Reaching out to the poor, landless and marginalized betel vine cultivators and supporting them to better their cultivation practices and to bypass sale of their produce to middlemen is steadily improving the lives of these farmers and holding up hope for them of a way out of abject poverty
January 2, 2016
Sibin Varghese January 2, 2016
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Moving from the policies of a welfare state to the participatory processes of MGNREGA and other poverty alleviation programmes has inspired greater ownership and a more vibrant involvement of the poor and the marginalized in the development of their own villages
December 26, 2015
Debanjan Ghatak December 26, 2015
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Bringing alive the spirit of MGNREGA as being a legislative guarantee that the citizens have from the government, a collective effort is being made in Gumla to change it from a programme doled out by the government to one that is owned and run predominantly and successfully by the women in villages
December 23, 2015
Ashutosh Nanda December 23, 2015
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Challenging the lobbies of contractors, influential people and others, to break the nexus around MGNREGA, the women’s collectives of Barethinbahara persevere, amid great opposition and political muscle, to eventually get the village to work together for its common good and welfare
December 10, 2015
Sudip Ghosh December 10, 2015
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Providing a platform for women’s collectives to collaborate with PRIs and the state administration, and to actively design appropriate plans for the social and economic needs of their communities, the CFT project is slowly transforming the face of not only MGNREGA but also of other ailing social schemes as well
December 2, 2015
Jyotirekha Roy Pradhan December 2, 2015
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Realizing the need to have women participate in the governance of their villages so that they can contribute more effectively to their own well-being and the society they live in, Sampurnna and PRADAN take on the responsibility of unleashing the immense power of people at the grass roots for development action
November 20, 2015
Dilip Kumar Mishra November 20, 2015
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Campaigning for the Intensive Participatory Planning Exercise and initiating village level meetings, the Sarguja Gramin Vikas Sansthan, through MGNREGS and a series of effective interventions, has been successful in transforming barren, eroded lands to flourishing fields yielding different crops and fruit all year round
October 18, 2015
Vishal Jamkar October 18, 2015
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Stepping out of the position of being a passive receiver of state largesse, a tiny village in Maharashtra has found its power, over the last two decades, in a collective decisionmaking process that takes cognisance of the needs and capabilities of each of its people, paving the way for enhanced confidence to interact with the government, agencies and the outside world, and creating living conditions and environment worth emulating
October 17, 2015
Soumen Biswas October 17, 2015
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Starting in a modest way by engaging in neighbourhood groups, the Kudumbashree model spread like wildfire through the state of Kerala, which was already practising devolution of power and decentralized planning; it became “a process, a project and a delivery mechanism for the poor.”
September 4, 2015
Madhavi Rajadhyaksha September 4, 2015
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That gram panchayats through organization development, including appropriate organization design, incentive structures, and behaviour norms, strengthen and improve local governance and ensure service delivery to citizens at the last mile effectively is being proved in Karnataka and Maharashtra