community support

Through this intervention, MYRADA provides support to the various community institutions in the project area. This enables the community to become independent and acquire the skills required to take over the development processes in their community.

The main focus areas are :

• Support for the different village institutions
• Provision of health facilities in the community
• Education and camps
• Institutional development
• Providing drinking water facilities in the villages

For the year 2002 to 2005, community support will be provided in Kodli, Kanchanal and Sugur (K) village, Sugur Tanda, Seri B Tanda, and Ramnagar Tanda. In these three villages and three tandas, there are four Village Development Societies (VDS), four VWMC, 75 Self Affinity Groups (SAGs), four Resource Centres, and six Farmers Field Schools (FFS). The Animators and 12 local resource persons linked with the institutions will also be supported.

The expected results are:

• Village institutions, animators, local resource persons will be supported and mechanisms developed towards sustainability.
• Important information will be available at the Resource Centre. This will include information on Agriculture, Health, Animal Husbandry, and Marketing.
• Post Project management of watershed skills will be developed in each community.
• People within the community will be developed as resource persons. More than 50% of the community will be able to share their experiences with others.