Achievements

Livelihood strengthening

NIWCYD reach out in about 4000 villages in rural and tribal areas. In 200 villages the food security of the people has increased from 4-5 months to 8-10 months.

Village level cope up mechanisms like grain and seed banks and village funds have been developed and strengthened in 200 villages. The strategies adopted by NIWCYD in livelihood strengthening are:

• Model resource development
• Developing linkages with the government programmes and schemes
• Influencing government policies
• Alliances with like minded organizations and stakeholders.

Women Empowerment

• Around 150,000 women mobilized under different awareness programmes.
• Formed 1500 women Self Help Groups in the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhatisgarh.
• Promoting 2600 women SHGs for livelihood and IGP in 11 districts of East Maharashtra.
• Around 1000 women have been trained in different skills and entrepreneurs.
• Around 500 SHGs started Income Generation Programmes. Most of the IGPs are related to agro allied and forest based.
• 248 SHGs linked with banks.
• Increased women participation in the village assembly meetings from 0-5% to 40%-50% in 600 villages. The strategies adopted by NIWCYD in women empowerment are:

• Mobilizing and organizing women groups
• Capacity building of women in participation at decentralized governance, addressing household level and community level social issues
• Capacity building in skills and education and working towards creating opportunities for their better working and work culture
• Sensitizing male (counterparts) towards gender equity, socio-cultural issues and creation of environment

Education and Child Labor

• Over 3000 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe children have been brought up to primary level through the Creche cum Nutrition Programme.
• Over 15000 drop out children in the school going age has been streamlined into formal education system through Bridge support.
• Educationally backward children from the 111 schools of Zila Parishad in the Vidarbha have been encouraged to be at par with the normal children in those schools.
• 30% (120 out of 400) girl child labors workings in the stone crusher units and migrating for the work in the Jabalpur area have been withdrawn from the hazardous working situation.
• 400 child labor and rack pickers linked with primary education programme.
• 1000 children rehabilitated in to their homes.

Community Institution Building

• Capacity building of grass root CBOs on right based issues & management.
• Campaign for right to livelihood of the people displaced due to dams and National parks.
• Formed and strengthened around 200 Village Development Committees (VDC) for livelihood.
• Networking with different NGOs on livelihood issues.
• Formation of around 1000 gramdoots in remote tribal and rural areas.
• 13 block level gramdoot associations formed for linkage of different government schemes. The strategies adopted for this are:

• Forming/Fostering institutions as vehicles of change
• Forming/fostering new forms of community institutions for action
• Building Overarching Advocacy systems
• Information-Knowledge Transfer and Sharing (IKTS)
• (Creation of) new Social Action Groups (SAG)
• (Creation of) new non-party political leadership

Microfinance

• Developing bank linkages.
• Linking with the schemes of the government and different financial institutions.
• Developing guidelines for financial management of self help groups.
• Supportive supervision of the groups.