Project: Gana Chetna

Gana Chetna

Project: Gana Chetna

State: Keonjhar Dt, Orissa

Developmental Focus: Technical guidance, awareness building in different areas related to agriculture, forest protection, income generation plans etc. within Tribal community.

NGO: GanaChetana

Summary of GanaChetana Project:
a) To lead a life of Ashram with demonstration firm of different scheme related to Agriculture, Horticulture, Pisciculture and Animal husbandry that would have a practical impact over people's and organisatonal sustainability.
b) To provide necessary technical guidance for Income Generation activities to avail the income opportunities to people.
c) To facilitate for empowerment of women in social and economic activities. d) To develop community involvement in the development of the village through Government facility and scope.
e) To spread environmental awareness and protect forest through community. f) To encourage people's participation in the planning and implementation of various welfare and benefit programe.
g) To increase bargaining power of people through group action.
h) To develop the capacity building of organisational team through exposer.

Requested Budget: $2800

Status: Approved

Follow up action:
1. Get information about past history.
2. Details about how are they taking this plan forward?

Co-ords: Anitha Sampath (anitha@mail.utexas.edu), Shinjinee Chattopadhyay (Shinjinee_c@yahoo.com), Ranjendra Maulkar (rajendra_marulkar@yahoo.com).

Project Proposal: proposal

Presentation slides:First Presentation, Presentation on Dec 20, 2003, Third Presentation

Site Visit Report: Sept 2004, Prasad's visit

Gana Chetna reports: February 2004; 12, May 2004; June, 27 2004; 25, September 2004

Correspondence notes:July 03,2003; July 26,2003; Aug 14,2003; Aug 29,2003; Sep 04,2003; Oct 08,2003; Oct 31,2003 (with Nigamanth); Nov 14,2003(with Peter); Nov 30,2003 (with Peter); Dec 13,2003(with Peter)

Relevant Mins: Oct 18, 2003; Dec 20, 2003

Other reference documents:
gc0208.pdf, gc0215.pdf, Check request

*NGO: Non-governmental Organization

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