SECTORS OF INTERVENTION: Elements of MANTRA

MANTRA is driven through a combination of interventions in the following areas:

Enabling infrastructure

Enable creation of appropriate living conditions including protected drinking water, sanitation and disaster proof housing

Enable creation of adequate common infrastructure including community halls, grain stores, communication systems and energy systems.

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Livelihoods and Food security

Promote appropriate & ecologically conducive mechanisms for increasing food production and promote food security.

Facilitate generation of surplus from farm, off-farm, and non-farm activities through sustainable use of resources and develop capacities to deal with markets.

Facilitate processes for enhancing capacity of natural and human resources to enable livelihood security.

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Education and Health

Enable & promote people's access to basic education and primary health services

Provide opportunities for education up to high school level for tribal children from remote and isolated habitations/ hamlets

Promote access to safe drinking water and sanitation

Promote community based mechanisms for maternal and child health care

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Self Governing People's institutions

Promote and strengthen people's and local self-governance institutions, at the village and Gram Panchayat level to achieve self-reliance.

Institutionalize and promote mechanisms for equitable representation of the community at all levels, across caste, class and gender differences.

Enable community mechanisms to manage common resources and needs.

Enable women to have equal access and control over resources & processes

Promote clear knowledge of responsibilities and rights and ways to achieve them.

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Gram Vikas' responses are context specific, based on the needs and priorities of the communities we engage with. Given the diverse social and economic situation of the people, who form part of this process, the relative importance of the sectors varies from one community to another.

TARGET GROUPS AND COVERAGE

Gram Vikas' work is concentrated in predominantly tribal and poor districts of Orissa. Gram Vikas aspires to work with 1% of Orissa's population (~80-100,000 families) over the next decade, through its direct outreach and in collaboration with other non-government organizations. At least 20% of the population is normally covered in the Gram Panchayats we work in. This strengthens the process towards forming 'critical masses'. Similar aggregation of critical masses is effected at the block, district and eventually at the state level. This process of clustered expansion is around current areas of operation of Gram Vikas.

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