The Programme would comprise the following
components:
Capacity Building for Empowerment: The Programme would
support NGOs to mobilize communities, empower them
through awareness creation on tribal rights, gender and
equity issues, natural resource management and programme
planning; assist them, through micro-planning exercises,
in the prioritization of their development needs and in
the formulation and implementation of development
proposals and build/strengthen appropriate community
institutions. It would also strengthen the capacity of
the support agencies that will assist them as
facilitators. |
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Livelihood Enhancement: The Programme would
support (i) Land and water management; (ii)
Participatory forest management to regenerate degraded
forest land and to develop NTFP processing and marketing
enterprises; (iii) Improvements in agricultural
productivity; (iv) Improvements in animal husbandry; (v)
Improved access to rural financial services through the
promotion of self-help savings and credit groups and
linking them with formal financing institutions to
augment their capital base; and (vi) Development of
community infrastructure to fill critical gaps in the
provision of key rural infrastructure (e.g. Drinking
water, village link road upgrading) and to provide for
necessary economic (e.g. work sheds, stores, mills,
expellers) and social infrastructure (e.g. community
halls) |
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Support for Policy Initiatives: The Programme
would support the operationalization of the Government’s
existing policy initiatives in relation to tribal’s
access to land and forest products through: (i)
Providing a legal defense fund to assist tribal in
pursuit of land alienation/restoration cases; (ii)
Supporting operational costs for improved detection and
disposal of land alienation cases and monitoring
enforcement of land restoration orders; and (iii)
Funding the survey and settlement process for the hill
slopes between 10o and 30o. The programme would also
fund studies to deepen understanding on other key policy
issues and engage the government in dialogue on
unresolved policy areas through a structured framework
involving the establishment of milestones and a
timetable for action. |
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Development Initiative Funds: Through this fund,
the programme would provide the flexibility to provide
additional funding for well performing activities in
demand from the communities and for new activities which
become feasible and attractive in the course of
Programme implementation |
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Programme Management: The programme would provide
for the costs of programme management at the State and
ITDA level. |
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Food Handling: The programme would cover the cost
of transport, storage and distribution of WFP food
assistance. |
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