January 3, 2011
Suraj Shekhar Murmu January 3, 2011
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Transforming the doubt and suspicion of the villagers into trust, their inability to capability, and poverty to self sufficiency requires patience, perseverance and perspective…Matiyas’ is one such story.
January 2, 2011
Binju Abraham January 2, 2011
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Aiming for the prosperity of the family, the Kudumbasree project, led by women, seeks to address the basic needs of less privileged women, thereby providing them a dignified life and a better future.
January 1, 2011
Rajib L. Pathak January 1, 2011
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Intervening to build entrepreneurship among the women of Barmer engaged in textile crafts, Udyogini moves from direct implementation to a facilitating role.
December 27, 2010
December 27, 2010
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The South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme (SAPPLPP), Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) and the National Small-holder Poultry Development Trust (NSPDT) jointly convened a workshop on ‘Small- Holder Poultry Rearing: A Sustainable Livelihood Opportunity for the Rural Poor’ in New Delhi on 28 December 2010. A report on the workshop.
December 24, 2010
Pawan Ojha December 24, 2010
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Trying every means to keep home and hearth together, struggling in abject poverty, migrating to distant places, Fulmani, like the women in her village, finally finds strength and sustenance through SHGs and poultry farming.
November 9, 2010
Harshvardhan November 9, 2010
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An excerpt from an in-depth study of the success, the limitations and the challenges of KPS, an organization that promotes poultry rearing as an alternative livelihood, for the poorest of the poor, who have so far been migrating and working as labour for survival
October 22, 2010
Bharat Chandra Mohanty October 22, 2010
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An apprentice’s reminiscences about his early days in PRADAN leads to a frank examination of the processes of intervention, the pitfalls, the initial failure, the mourning about the lack of depth in engagement with individuals because of the pressure of achieving targets and numbers, and the learning from early setbacks.
October 15, 2010
Rakesh Tiwary October 15, 2010
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Examining the irrigation sharing practices among beneficiary groups, their conflicts and conflict resolution mechanisms, the study identifies the scope for formal ans sustainable institutional mechanisms for community managed irrigation systems. This study was carried out for PRADAN, Ranchi and Jharkhand.
October 8, 2010
Peter Cornish October 8, 2010
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Efficient use of water and land, including the storing of excess run-off and the cultivation of alternative crops to lowland rice such as vegetables and pulses, are some of the ways to ensure food security and decent livelihoods for the subsistence farmers in the East India Plateau.
September 22, 2010
Deep Joshi September 22, 2010
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Allocating financial resources to the rain-fed areas in the country will result in the country reaping huge dividends; organizing people to use the legitimate space that NREGA allows could be civil society’s way of meeting the challenge of transforming the de-humanizing poverty in rural areas