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WIDA
PROGRAMMES
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Consolidated
Range of Activities
Environmental
Issues - Climate
Change
Social Forum
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Community
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After knowing the village, the staff analyze the existing
power equations and decision making in the villages along with the
people. I) Training, II) exposure, III) People’s organization
meetings. Community development education programmes could mean
basically education. The process of learning is initiated
through” 1. Individual contact, 2. Group discussions, 3.
community meetings, 4 village studies, 5 identification and
training of village cadres and. 6 formation and role of people’s
organization.
The
educational programme is based on the analysis of the root causes
of poverty of an individual and of the whole community. Key words
are selected from the issues of the people and the people’s day
you day struggle for life. A clear analysis on the selected words
are made along with the people. The process of the educational
programme and the interaction of the staff with the people. The
process of the educational programme and the interaction of the
staff with the people paved a way to identify the factors making
people poor and richer in their own villages at a micro level.
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Technical
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While we try to help village people to stay in the villages
producing on the land they own cultivating a more intensively and
retain them in the villages, preventing urban migration, it is
inevitable that there are some people who have to find employment
in urban centers. A part from training the youths in urban trades
emphasis is given to identify and strengthen indigenous skills and
rural artisans like pottery, blacksmith etc.
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Community
Health Programme
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The strategy on health is to evolve and
educational programme based on the study on attitudes towards
sickness, health practices, treatment and the local health
systems, personnel like traditional birth attendants, native
medical attendants and which-craft, attempts were made primarily
to bring health consciousness and healthy practices among the
people. The study on disease pattern reveal that most of the
diseases could be either prevented, or by an early treatment of
the common diseases could be overcome. Community health is the
key element in the development programme. There is a community
health team with a doctor and all the villages are covered by
the health programme. Basic thrust of the community health
programme is health education. Keeping in mind that most of the
diseases are water-borne, our first commitments is to educate
the people why clean drinking water is necessary. Where there
are springs available, it is protected from pollution and
contamination. Most of the villages are encouraged to have
drinking water wells. In all cases, people’s participation
with government health department at the block level.
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Women’s
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The educational programme is based on the study conducted by the
nutritionist in the village on food habits likes and dislikes,
taboos on food, local food, feeding habits, food customs, cooking
methods, common diseases of children, child mortality, sources of
food and livestock. The nutrition programme by the women’s
department of the project was undertaken as an entry point for
working amongst the women in order that a holistic approach to
women’s development is evolved. This strategy proved extremely
successful. First through nutrition education, the village
communities are motivated to grow their own vegetables through
kitchen gardens, however, our major success through nutrition
programme is the organization of community women’s programme.
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Communication
Programme
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Communication of course is quintessence of the success of
programmes of awareness building and the resultant social change.
The project has a communication team who are involved staging
skits, dramas and other entertainment programmes, in all of which
the context of social change which are extremely populate in the
villages. The staff of the project recruited basically from the
villages have been trained to write scripts, to compose songs and
record them in cassettes and stage dramas themselves with music
and all other requirements of this development project, so that
this would become a development education material, both within
the project area and also for other NGO’s.
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Economic
Development Programme
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Awareness building and organization are the bedrock of our
development programmes. The economic sustenance of the people
rooted to religion and forest is the bedrock long term development
of the people benefiting from the new enlightenment of awareness
programmes. Without economics programmes include two kinds. First
individual family benefits and the other community assets. All the
economic programmes include two kinds. First individual family
benefits and the other community assets. All the economic
programmes have been undertaken. Economics programmes include two
kinds. First individual family benefits and other community
assets. All the economic programmes have been initiated in
understanding the local economic systems and attempts to
practically understand the essentials of money lending, mortgage,
loan rate of interest, capital, investment, production, income,
savings, reinvestment and utilizing to the maximum with the
humanitarian and just values so that the economic programmes do
not bring inequalities among people but promote a social equality,
eco-economic justice- “a economic cultural therapy”.
Participation in economic development does not mean just people
share their labour, materials for a programme already decided. Our
belief is that the people themselves take a collective decision
through a genuine conscious process, with unified approach, come
to a common consensus to develop methods to facilitate the
decision making process for a genuine participation in
development, through action and change.
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Housing
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With regard to this programme, we believe and realize
housing is the only means shall hold together the development
gains as otherwise all our health, nutrition, social education
programme would be lost. Though it is an expensive affair, we
believe housing provides confidence, security and a sense of
pride. To many housing becomes a last priority and get into debate
of food and clothing to be the first and shelter to be the last.
In our experience we have come to an understanding that housing of
the poor is a must and it is important to look shelter to be the
central focus of a just and human development. At present due to
degradation of forest housing materials have become very scarce
and the vagaries of monsoon have put the poor into a continuous
peril of survival. To comply and incapacitate the poor housing
becomes a key instrument of motivation, responsibility and social
accountability of the community. Locally available raw materials,
local skills and people’s wisdom on construction of houses is
given priority. By doing so we avoid imposing new techniques and
housing models which may not be suitable and convenient to the
poor.
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Government
Co-operation
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We
have been enlisting government co-operation from the village level
and to the block level through various schemes meant for uplifting
the rural poor. Health, social forestry, housing, drinking water,
immunization, education, skills training area some of the
programme where we are able to cooperate with the poor. Apart from
availing the facilities the project is actively participating in
all the development related meetings organized by the government
at the district levels.
Government
of Oarsman's programmes have been implemented with the help of the
project especially the immunization scheme, loans, pension
schemes, environment programmes and technical training. The
department of science and technology, new Delhi, government of
India is an ardent supporter of IRDWSI and they entered into
partnership with us in the fields of low cost housing, sericulture
programme for women, aquaculture, rural and urban skills programme
for tribal youth and development of primitive tribals,
decentralized energy options (Mini Hydro Power Project and Solar
Energy) and sustainable agriculture.
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Environmental
Issues - Climate Change
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Env
The
Conference of Parties (COP) is an association of all countries
that have ratified or acceded to the UNFCCC and is responsible for
keeping international efforts to address climate change on track.
The COP 8 was held in Delhi from October 23 – November 1, 2002
which was continuation of series of meetings.
Here are some daily bulletins of People Combating Hot Air (Cha)
for connecting communities and UNFCCC–COP8 that were published
at the time of meeting.
People
Cha Bulletin 1 (pdf)
People
Cha Bulletin 2 (pdf)
People
Cha Bulletin 3 (pdf)
People
Cha Bulletin 4 (pdf)
People
Cha Bulletin 5 (pdf)
People
Cha Bulletin 6 (pdf)
People
Cha Bulletin 7 (pdf)
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ironmental
Issues - Climate Change
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Social Forum
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A
GLOBAL UPRISING AGAINST GLOBALISATION - A
Report on World Social Forum 2004
Jan
16. 'The city that never sleeps', as the locals call Mumbai, awoke
to sloganeering and banner marches like it had never seen or heard
before. Rights of every kind - land, water, women, children, sex,
language... - were proclaimed and the corresponding wrongs
strongly condemned.... more
POWER
TO PEOPLE
A
CASE STUDY ON POWERFUL PEOPLE
GLOBALISATION
– HAND OUT
CASE
STUDY ON ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION - ADVOCACY
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