Building Resilience within communities
Lack of assess to mental health care services
Awareness, demystifying and normalizing mental health by conducting awareness sessions with community members as well as set up a rural counselling centre – Manosarthi
Reached out to more than two thousand community members to create awareness on the importance of good mental health and promoted health seeking behaviour
Water Security
Lack of availability and access to clean drinking water for the community & livestock
Maintenance and repair of primary and secondary sources of drinking water along with installation of 8 community water filters with water ATMs
Sustainable Livelihoods
Water availability for agriculture is a major problem in the area which leads to sub-par yields. Additionally, lack of water also does not make a second crop possible
Construction of 17 Farm Ponds
Renewable Energy
Community’s dependence on firewood as an energy source
Installation of 60 biodigester. A biodigester digests organic material and converts the waste into manure & biogas
Watershed Ecology
Lack of access to water
Repair, restoration, and desilting of rivers, percolation tanks & river pools
Biodiversity Conservation
Lack of knowledge and awareness
Awareness sessions for school children, Gram Panchayat & VDC
(Village Development Committee) members
Awareness and Capacity Building
Biodiversity Conservation
Loss of wildlife habitat, extinction of plants and animals, destruction of nutrient rich topsoil, reduction in forest cover, increased global warming due to forest fires.
Awareness building sessions with forest department & community
30% reduction in forest fires
Biodiversity Conservation
Loss of traditional wisdom and knowledge on endemic species
Community-inclusive data collection, awareness on endemic species
and species conservation
With more than 137 species recorded so far, there is increased awareness in community on biodiversity
Rice cultivation
Lack of structured approach to rice cultivation
Improved practices of paddy cultivation through System of Rice Intensification
Building Resilience within communities
Lack of gender equality
Awareness on Gender parity and focused approach to empowerment
297 awareness sessions for women with 2,257 community members
Building Resilience within communities
Lack of assess and knowledge of economically and environment friendly menstrual hygiene management products
Conduced training and awareness sessions with 120 women, distribution of menstrual cups
50% adoption rate
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