JEEVIKA

JEEVIKA is a ‘result based’, community owned and community managed project to address the issues of distress migration, food security and sustainable livelihood options through sustaining agriculture, promoting livestock, developing skills of youth and ensuring and securing entitlements of the deprived community (mainly SC/ST/OBC) in 104 villages of seven (6 tribal districts) districts(Umariya, Shivpuri, Jhabuwa, Indore-Dhar, Khandwa, Shehore, & Ujjain) of Madhya Pradesh. The project aims to bring changes in the practices and thought process of the community and system changes in the form of proper functioning of government institutions/structures for development community and the context. The project would be directly facilitating around 8592 BPL (Below Poverty Line) families The project targets around 48% of SC & ST women would be able to bring a bigger out change in the status and the role of women ‘from and in’ governance to income generation. In the region where agriculture has highly influenced by the synthetic fertilisers (around 100% % of cultivation is synthetic fertiliser based cultivation) and input cost in the agriculture is about 75% of the total benefit from the agriculture, JEEVIKA would be the first project to address the issue of sustainable agriculture with small and marginalised farmers with an average land holding of 3-4 bigha and the input cost would be reduced and profit for the farmers would be visualised in both increase in production and decrease in input cost. In terms of securing and ensuring entitlements JEEVIKA would accentuate on MGNREGA, FRA (Forest Right Act) and other social security schemes provided by the government. The deliverance of the project would be through Community Based and Community Managed Organisations, (CBMOs) and other stake holders as Krishi Vigyan Kendera (KVK), NABARD and Panchayats,NABARD, KVK and PRI would be the official partner of JEEVIKA project. The project uniqueness is it has its own web page which would be updated on daily basis about happenings of project field and would strengthen the visbility of project, partner organisation and Caritas India and also would establish transparent system of project operation.