INTEGRATED TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (WADI)

WADI concept is a holistic developmental approach that takes into account all aspects of tribal life. Viewed through a wide angle, it covers the development of a designated area of land and its inhabitants in the form of a WADI cluster. The core objective of promoting WADI programme is to develop tribal and mostly primitive tribal families by providing WADI (small orchard), soil conservation measures, water resources development, health care & income generation programmes for women groups and also try to enhance the food and nutrition security of the tribal. This project is being implemented with the support of NABARD, in Tilebani Block of Deogarh District since 2019. The PIA, Social Action for Rural Community (SARC) has been working in 17 villages in a cluster of 5 GPs of Tileibani Block covering 583 landed tribal families inhabited mostly by Kisan and Gond tribes.

INTEGRATED TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (IFS)

Integrated Farming System is a resources management strategy to achieve economic and sustained agricultural production to meet diverse requirement of the farm households while preserving the resource base and maintaining high environmental quality. Integrated farming is a farming system with simultaneous activities involving crop and animal. The main purpose of the integrated farming is that the farming components support one another; hence, reducing external inputs. For instance, the crop can provide as animal feed/fodder for the livestock, and the wastes by livestock as fertilizer (manure) for the crop. Some of the livestocks can also act as weed control by foraging on the weeds. This mixed farming system recycles all wastes so that little is thrown away: one’s waste is indeed another’s food. This project is being implemented with the support of NABARD at Kuchinda Block of Sambalpur district under TDF. The PIA (SARC), aims to cover 19 villages in a cluster of 6 GPs of the same block under this programme.

PROMOTION AND STRENGTHENING OF WSHG

Promotion and strengthening of WSHG is pioneer and important activity of SARC for the empowerment of women. It is a process for empowerment and better participation of women in social, economic, political and cultural development. NABARD has initiated a new scheme in 2012 for backward areas towards promotion and bank linkage of SHGs for providing financial services to the poor in a sustainable manner. SARC, as an anchor NGO is entrusted with the responsibility of promoting, nurturing, capacity building, credit linkage, facilitating loan recovery & to provide sustainable livelihood for 800 SHGs in 4 Blocks i.e. Rengali, Bamra, Kuchinda and Jamankira of Sambalpur district.

PROMOTION OF PRODUCER COMPANY

Farmer empowerment is one of the key focus areas of SARC with the support of NABARD, Sambalpur. We have promoted 6 Nos of Producer Companies in Sambalpur & Deogarh Districts. The basic aim is to enhance the competitiveness and avail the advantages by the farmers in the emerging market opportunities. The major operations of the FPO includes the supply of seeds, fertilizers, machinery, support in market linkages, providing training and networking also with financial and technical advice to the farmers. The main objective behind the formation of Producer Company is aimed at collectivization and improvement of their bargaining strength in the market, better price for their produces which in turn provides enhanced income opportunity. The Producer Company also provides support for market linkage, to meet the credit needs, ensures buy back, and provides technical guidance to the members.

TECHNOLOGY ADAPTION FOR LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT OF MAHAR COMMUNITY

The voluntary organization SARC with the support of Ministry of Science & Technology Government of India New Delhi is implementing a project Technology Intervention for Sustainable Livelihood Enhancement of Mahar SC Community of Laumal Village in Sambalpur District of Odisha. The main objective of the programme to bring socio economic development of the target community through adoption of Science & Technology & educate the community on water management and improve sanitation practices provide need based vocational and skill development training to the youth & women for creating employment.

STRENGTHENING OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN URBAN HEALTH

With the support of National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) Sambalpur implementing the project on promoting community based group for enhanced community participation and empowerment for holistic health promotion of the urban community of Sambalpur. Under this project SARC has promoted 80 numbers of Mahila Arogya Samiti (MAS) in 80 numbers of Slums formed 20 numbers of Ward Kalyan Samiti (WKS) and strengthen 3 numbers of Rogi Kalyan Samiti. The basic objective of the project is to ensure 100% immunization, reduce infant and pregnant mother mortality rate & to promote WASH. We have conducted micro planning, resource making and health plan for each slum with the involvement of MAS, facilitate community participation in immunization and UHND session, conducted slum level awareness camp on malaria, dengue, diarrhea and various health related issues.

ONE STOP CENTRE (SAKHI)

The Voluntary organisation Social Action for Rural Community, Sambalpur as an implementing agency running One Stop Centres (OSCs) in the District Head Quarter Hospital, Sambalpur since 2018 . The OSC are intended to support women affected by violence, in private and public spaces, within the family, community and at the workplace. Women facing physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and economic abuse, irrespective of age, class, caste, educational status, marital status, race and culture will be facilitated with support and redressed. Aggrieved women facing any kind of violence due to attempted sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, trafficking, honour related crimes, acid attacks or witch-hunting who have reached out or been referred to the OSC will be provided with specialized services. With an objective to provide 24x7 integrated specialised services to the women who are affected by violence both in public and private spheres, To manage the centre a dedicated team of 16 professional including Centre Administrator, Para Legal Personnel, Counsellor ,Case Worker, IT ,Para Medics ,Multi Propose Worker and Security Personnel working round the clock.

DIGITISATION OF SHGs UNDER E-SHAKTI PROJECT

With the support of NABARD, EShakti Project has been implemented by SARC, Sambalpur from 1st December 2017. The anchor NGO SARC Sambalpur, covered 4 blocks i.e Rengali, Jamankira, Kuchinda and Bamra with the help of 125 Animators with 3750 digitised SHGs across 4 blocks. The project aims at digitisation of all the the accounts to bring SHG members under the fold of Financial Inclusion thereby helping them to access wider range of financial services together with increasing the bankers' comfort in credit appraisal and linkage by way of Integrating SHG members with the national Financial Inclusion agenda, Improving the quality of interface between SHG members and Banks for efficient and hassle free delivery of banking services by using the available technology, Facilitate convergence of delivery system with SHGs using Aadhaar linked identity.

ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS, EDUCATION

Creating road safety awareness, education and minimize road accidents, traffic consciousness among road users, students, HMV & LMV drivers and general public is one of the focus area of SARC. Sambalpur is one of the accident pone areas in the state of the Odisha. Where 3 Nos of NH and 2 Nos of major High ways are there linking with major cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Raipur. Where the rate of accident related deaths are maximum above the national average. SARC as a leading agency on road safety regularly conducts meetings, rallies, street plays, workshops, and seminars, on traffic education over speeding, over Loading, drunken driving, wearing helmet & seatbelt, obeying traffic rules and regulation, good Samaritan policy, solatium fund and other issues of road safety, so that we can minimize the road accidents.

SKILL DEVELOPMENT AMONG WOMEN & YOUTH

Economic empowerment and skills development among women is one of the most urgent and effective means to drive progress on gender equality, poverty eradication, and inclusive economic growth. Despite growing evidence of the positive outcomes of young women’s economic empowerment, young women continue to experience unequal access to education and skills development and face barriers in securing decent employment and opportunities to thrive as entrepreneurs. Young women’s access to resources, including land and loans, may be restricted by discriminatory laws, continue to shoulder an unequal share of unpaid care work due to the persistence of traditional gender roles. To increase access to decent employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, SARC has beencontinually focusing on skill development, vocational training to youths, women and SHGs member through Micro Enterprise Development Programmes (MEDP), Livelihood Enterprise Development Programmes (LEDP) by providing short term and long term training to more then 3000 youth and women in Sambalpur and Deogarh district.

CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE, LITERACY AND NRM

Climate change impacts on agriculture are being witnessed all over the world, but countries like India are more vulnerable in view of the huge population, dependent on agriculture, excessive pressure on natural resources and poor coping mechanisms. The warming trend in India over the past 100 years has indicated an increase of 0.60°C. The projected impacts are likely to further aggravate yield fluctuations of many crops thus, impacting food security. There are evidences already of negative impacts on yield of wheat and paddy in parts of India due to increased temperature, increased water stress and reduction in number of rainy days. Enhancing agricultural productivity, therefore, is critical for ensuring food and nutritional security for all, particularly the resource poor small and marginal farmers who would be affected the most. In the absence of mitigation and adaptation strategies, the consequences of long-term climate change could be even more severe on the livelihood security of the poor. To address the challenges, SARC with the support of NABARD has already initiated “Climate Literacy” Campaign through plantation activity by conducting Climate Literacy Campaign, work shop, meeting, interaction & mass plantation drive in and around Sambalpur & Deogarh Districts. During the last 5 years we have planted 35000 Cashew, 12000 Mango and 100000 forest Spices like, Neem, Karanj, Teak, Sishu, Gambhari etc under the WADI project along with 7500 fruit bearing plant under SBI, PAN INDIA CSR ACTIVITY in Sambalpur, Bargarh, Bolangir, Jharsuguda, Angul & Sundergarh District. Besides this, we have taken up crop diversification programmes under Megalift Irrigation in 2700 Acres of Kuchinda block by taking climate resilient crops and vegetables for economic empowerment of the farmers.