Final Proposal Submitted to AID on 18 Sept 2011
'Feed your children with pesticide free food' - 'Make your kitchens pesticide
Free'- 'Grow your own pesticide free and safe food' Empowering women
farmers with sustainable agriculture practices
Project Title: Women Action against Pesticides and to build participatory
movement for Ecology and Safe food in Faridkot district of Punjab
1. Background: Punjab is known for its rich natural resources, affluent
agriculture, fertile land and hale and hearty people. Punjab has a great
heritage of cultural knowledge systems and traditional wisdom of artisans.
But from last three decades all these bounties and strengths of Punjab are
vanishing fast. Highly chemicalized and mechanized intensive agriculture
caused severe ecological and environmental health destruction.
Biodiversity is almost wiped out. Large numbers of species are virtually
getting eliminated in Punjab.
1.1 According to several reports, agricultural produces and food chain in
particular in Punjab is highly contaminated with residues of pesticides. The ecosystem is being contaminated and loaded with pesticides and environmental
toxins. These toxins have made its way into the food chain and blood of Punjabis
thus, causing several serious and chronic health effects on the large population
of Punjab.
Punjab owns only 2.5% area of agricultural land of India but it consumes around
18% pesticides used in whole of India. Moreover Punjab has highest cropping
intensity in India - 196% with largest of area under agriculture- 83%. This whole
equation makes Punjab most vulnerable region for environmental toxicity caused
health crisis. Thus, Punjab is facing one of the most serious environmental health
and ecological crisis created by multiple environmental toxicity of pesticides and
other agro-chemicals, heavy metals and environmental pollution caused by
ecologically unsustainable agricultural practices.
1.2 According to ICAR’s All India Coordinated Research project on pesticide
residue, the entire agriculture produce from Punjab is containing pesticide
residues. CSE study in Malwa belt of Punjab also shows that at least 6 to 13
different pesticides are running in the veins of people of Punjab. Pesticides are
known carcinogenic, Endocrine gland disrupters, Folic acid assimilation
antagonists and causing several other deceases.
1.3 In 2004 Greenpeace study also indicates slow growth and development of
different physical and mental abilities among children, where pesticide
consumption is higher. Recently another Greenpeace study shows presence of
Nitrates in drinking water derived from underground aquifers and Nitrates are
also carcinogenic. Apart from this, two studies done by country’s premier medical
research institution PGIMER, Chandigarh establishes direct links between higher
pesticide usage and heavy metal toxicity with higher Cancer rate and DNA
damage. With 196% cropping intensity and 83% area under agriculture Punjab
has become region where not only whole population is threatened by this toxicity,
but entire web of life is threatened, every life form is susceptible. The adverse
impact of toxicity is quite visible as abnormally high rate of cancer and
reproductive health crisis -the two major environmental health threats in Punjab.
1.4 What these studies indicating is not a new fact .There are several studies done in
past
The use of pesticides (technical grade material) in Punjab was only 624 tonnes in 196061 which increased to 7600 tonnes in 1995-96, thus the per hectare use increased from
132 to 986 g during this period .However, most of the pesticides whose use is restricted
or banned in developed countries are dumped into the developing countries like India.
The problem is further compounded due to their unregulated use. Therefore, the
scenario of pesticidal contamination of our environment is quite grim. Being lipophilic,
the insecticides are persistent in nature and their residues are likely to be present in
various components of the environment such as soil, food animal feed, etc.
1.5 Milk and milk products: Mother's milk is the primary food for an infant. All the 130
samples of mother' milk collected from Punjab during 1979-80 were contaminated with
the residues of DDT and HCH at levels for more than reported from most other countries
including Canada, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and USA (Karla and Chawla, 1985). The
levels of DDT and HCH residues in human milk samples collected from Ludhiana during
1983-84 did not differ significantly from those collected during 1979-80 (Singh and
Dhaliwal, 1996).
Due to special significance of bovine milk ion human diet, analysis of milk samples
collected from various sources were analysed for pesticides residues. It was observed
that during 1976-80, more than 90 per cent of the sample contained levels of DDT and
HCH higher than the maximum residue limit (Dhaliwal and Kalra, 1977; Kalra and
Chawla, 1983). Even 15 per cent of the samples collected from the PAU dairy contained
DDT and beta HCH residues above the tolerance limit (ICMR, 1993). The levels of DDT
contamination came down from 0.20 per in 1976-80 to 0.11 ppm 1986-87 and that of
HCH from 0.13 to 0.07 ppm during the same period, which shows that there is
considerable decline in contamination level of DDT and HCH in milk. However, the
residues still continue to be excessive. Quite a number of studies also brought out the
presence of high quantity of residues of DDT and HCH in butter desi ghee and infant
formula.
1.6 Impact of pesticide toxicity on Women: The available data on the health
status of Punjab clearly indicates that women are the worst victims of pesticide
toxicity caused diseases, particularly cancer and reproductive health related
diseases. ICMR’s National cancer registry programme data shows that out of 100
cancer patients for one lakhs population, with 60 to 80% of all cases being
women. Moreover, the reproductive health the scenario is much worse.
According to the information gathered from various sources including informal
data from gynecologists, medical professionals and women in villages, women
are more prone to infectious as well as non-infectious diseases including various
cancers. The number of childless couples has tremendously increased; onset of
puberty in female children has advanced by two-three years; puberty in male
children has been delayed by two-three years; the prevalence of menstrual
disorders have tremendously increased in all age groups; cysts and tumors of
ovaries and uterus are more common now; the prevalence of spontaneous
abortions, premature births, still births, congenital malformations and early
childhood deaths have increased. There is an epidemic of congenital
malformations—hypospadias, undescended testes, congenital hernias, neural
tube defects including anencephaly, cleft lip, cleft palate etc. Mental Retardation
in children has increased from 1 in 40000 to 1 in 40 in 40 years.
1.7 Loss of Food Heritage: Another factor that caused a lot of harm to human
health is the loss of food heritage, wisdom and the aggression of alien food
culture and soft drinks in our society. The invasion of food culture created a
nutritional vacuum which led to another set of health related disorders like
diabetes, heart diseases and obesity. The lost of traditional wisdom has not only
caused diseases but also created a market dependent society whose needs are
always on the rise; for the pseudo social status and to be in line with the
modernism of the day.
This has been a vicious cycle. Where on one hand the lure for money and the
mono culture cropping stressed by the order of the day certainly for a perfect
handshake and a win-win situation for the multinationals and the government
functionary, the farmers stopped cultivating the traditional food crops and slowly
lost memories of the traditional wisdom, on the other hand the invasion of fast
food and soft drinks in the cities decreased the demand for the traditional foods
which further caused the farmers to permanently forget the cultivation of these
crops.
2. Need for a Women’s action group for revival of Ecology
Women in Punjab have been in the forefront in many fields but as far as working
for environment or other social issues are concerned it is yet to be explored and
is still considered a taboo. Some of us are already aware of the kind of health
related problems the women in Punjab face due to ecological devastation and
the traditional erosion that has taken place courtesy the green revolution and the
market forces that have worked in parallel to disconnect the youth and women
from their cultural heritage, love, care and concern for nature, society and
traditions. The input used to increase yield in the chemical farming has played
havoc with the human health and are causing slow poisoning of the human
beings.
1. Women activism and ecological crisis in Punjab
Women have always been the driving force behind India’s strong
and well cultured family and social system. After the advent of
green revolution, and its known consequences, much has been
written and voiced about the growing ecological crisis in various
states of India especially Punjab. Once the unfortunate incidents of
farmer suicides hit and the numbers kept on increasing, I thought
about the reasons or these mounting miserable deaths and the
aggravating problems of poor productivity, increasing use of
pesticides, depleting resources, extinction of living beings etc. in a
state that was once the most productive and rich.
Amidst this, the contributions of various social organisations that
are fighting for the cause of saving and restructuring the ecological
imbalance in the state can’t be ignored, but the role of women can
be the most effective way to bring these instabilities well in order. A
national crisis or a disaster can be saved if each individual
contributes and feels the seriousness of the situation.
Women activism in states like Punjab that are facing the adverse
effects of ecological crisis can actually help and put things in their
right place. A woman in the family is the most strong element who
actually keeps the members into a self discipline and is emotionally
much powerful than her counterpart in combating difficulties and
moments of testing times.
If each women in the rural Punjab is made conscious about her
duties towards saving the imbalances of finances, too much use of
pesticides, as she is the one who has actually borne the
consequences of each loss the most. Only she can pursue a man
about right way of living. As they say, charity begins at home, so
does righteousness and consciousness.
Incase the right information and education about the depleting state
of Punjab is passed on to the women in this state, things can be
amended in a better spirit. Just to cite an example, overdoses of
pesticides have made the wombs poisonous; the biggest sufferers
of this have been the women folk.
Women activism is the only hope to check the ecological
imbalances and this can be done only if women are revolutionized
with the idea of saving the homeland and save the downfall of once
the wealthiest state of the country and hammer this in the minds of
their families.
2. Women Action for Ecology is a forum for women’s participation in
agro-ecological revival movement in Punjab. Women in other parts
of the country have worked a lot towards social and environmental
causes but Punjab is yet to emerge on this front. Since women are
the first and worst victims of the agro-ecological crisis here and
elsewhere, women need to work towards the mitigation process, for
their own sake and for the sake of the community. Nav-Trinjan is an
effort to mobilize women to appreciate their own traditional wisdom
and role in the preservation and conservation of the environment in
Punjab. Platforms for sharing of knowledge and spreading of
practice are the main tool for empowerment of women in NavTrinjan.
Women used to enjoy collective forums/spaces in all villages of Punjab
decades before the NGO world came up with the concept of Self Help
Groups (SHGs). This space where a group of women would gather, to
spin yarn on charkhas, chat, learn skills from each other, get advisories
and counseling support from other women, embroider on clothes and
sometimes even cook and eat together, was called Trinjan.
Trinjans provided the platforms for women to share their knowledge and
skills with each other - this included spinning, stitching, embroidery as well
as healing, farming and food related knowledge. Further, they allowed
women to share their problems and difficulties with each other and draw
support.
Green Revolution left its impact on these spaces too, the women say.
Several things changed which made Trinjans disappear – some women
opine that the change in the type of cotton grown in the villages also
meant that they could not spin yarn on the charkhas any more. In addition
to Trinjans, some important roles of women started disappearing. With the
change in crops, some traditional foods like millet-based cooking stopped.
Younger women’s knowledge about food systems started eroding. Women
do not recall when they had stopped saving their own seed.
Some experts of Punjabi culture feel that with the concept of “private
spaces” ended the concept of Trinjan too – enclosures and the closing of
doors on individual houses meant that women no longer walked into each
other’s houses with the same degree of comfort as in the past.
While these collective spaces for women disappeared and the roles for
women to use their knowledge and skills for the benefit of their families
and community diminished some decades ago, the severe environmental
health crisis unfolding now all over Punjab connected to agri-technologies
like pesticides has reminded civil society groups about the need for such
forums again. With the help of different groups , Women Action for
Ecology is already in action to revive Trinjans, to revive agri-diversity and
traditional food systems in Punjab even as these could be used to fight the
menace of GMOs and chemicals in farming. To give contemporary touch
Trinjans are re-characterized as Nav-Trinjans and Food Festival section is
given the name of Bebe-Di-Rasoi.
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA) Secunderabad is working in
Punjab with Kheti Virasat Mission – KVM. As of now CENTRE FOR
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (CSA)-WAE has organized large number
of Nav-Trinjans in several villages of Punjab in last two years and Two
state level Bebe-Di-Rasoi festivals in Amritsar and Chandigarh.
2.3 Uniqueness of Project idea: The basic concept of the project is unique in
another way- It is purely a need-based project with special focus on women’s
participation and building a space for women for social action in a state which is
known for its hostility towards women in several issues. In rural areas, the Green
revolution development paradigm and collective social mindset has eroded all
spaces earlier meant for women. Punjab is infamous for the lowest female-male
sex ratio with large scale female feticide. Women are thrown out of all decisionmaking processes, particularly in agriculture. That is why the modern agriculture
systems in Punjab are more violent, abusive to nature and exploitative of
ecological resources. It shall be the first ever project designed to involve women
in mitigation of the pesticide toxicity crisis. So, establishing any venture in Punjab
with women’s participation is not only innovative and unique, but also daring too.
3. The intervention
This situation demands immediate multidimensional intervention by civil society
at grass root level and particularly with the involvement of women. Since women
are a part and parcel of the society and CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE (CSA) aims at building a social movement, it requires that
women should lead the movement.
Food is a crucial issue for which people are highly sensitive and particularly if the
question of food contamination arises then this sensitivity can cultivated into a
social action further. Naturally food and women are very much attached. To
provide safe food it is necessary to grow safe food. Though we want to
implement this thought in whole agriculture land of Punjab, but the given socioeconomic conditioning of the minds and prevailing economic and developmental
paradigm allows us to start humbly. So, as an entry point we propose to start
from kitchens and kitchen gardening.
Every woman is ready to make her kitchen chemical free because she wants to
serve pesticide free and safe food to her family and particularly the children. This
prompts these women to start organic kitchen gardening. Initially, this kitchen
gardening has become the source of home-grown vegetables but subsequently it
further expands to main grains and fruits without chemicals for family in one or
two acre of land dedicated to organic farming. According to our experience this
opening has brought few women in touch with agriculture operations of their
family thus ending a long prevailed their disconnect with agriculture and farms.
Even few of them start visiting their farms, which can be termed as
‘Rehabilitation’ of women in food growing process.
We believe that as this movement grows further it will change scenario of
technology application in farms of Punjab in the fields by making more space for
concern for health, ecology and sustainability.
Nav-Trinjans at villages and Bebe-Di-Rasoi festivals shall be major tools to
promote traditional foods and to reclaim social space for women.
It can be termed as a humble beginning of paradigm shift by snubbing mere
economic calculations of profitability and yield and considering other factors of
availability of healthy food, care for nature and self-dependency of technology
more important.
4. Project Details
4.1 Area of Project: We proposed to work in selected two villages in Faridkot
district. This district is known for their high use of pesticides, incidence of cancer
and high rate of reproductive health disorders.
4.2 Goals and Objectives:
1. Strengthening the role of women in providing nutritious, healthy, diverse
and safe food to their family through organic kitchen gardening.
2. To build a strong women movement against toxicity with a slogan of 'Feed
your children with pesticide free food' - 'Make your kitchens pesticide
Free'- 'Grow your own pesticide free and safe food'
3. To develop the habit of seed saving.
4. Tackle the foremost challenge of Pesticide toxicity by a rigorous mitigation
process with proper community participation and particular with
involvement of farmer’s families.
5. To make the farms of Punjab pesticide free, we need to break mental
blockages which are proving as a deterrent to farmers in adoption of
natural/organic farming. This needs more of a civilizational intervention
rather then a technological bottle-neck. Adoption of organic farming and
building awareness regarding ecological agriculture practices.
6. To reduce the use of pesticides.
7. To ensure the involvement of women in sustainable agriculture through
supportive activities.
8. To initiate the process to make these villages Eco-sustainable and
Pesticides free through participation of women
9. To create awareness about the harmful effects of pesticides on health and
environment
10. To disseminate the information on the issue
11. To disseminate information on the safer alternatives to pesticides
12. To organize Nav-Trinjans at villages and Bebe-Di-Rasoi festivals
13. To collect information through focus group discussion and questionnaire
based interviews
14. Building avenues for women, micro-enterprises in rural areas related with
sustainable agriculture to make them economically strong.
4.3 Project implementation: The first prerequisite of implementing this concept
at the grassroots in a concrete manner is to build a team in each village selected
for intervention. The following steps will be implemented:
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Introductory meeting to identify women partners in the villages
Building women’s teams in villages.
Participatory survey to gather baseline data. Indicative questionnaire
Participatory Resource Appraisal Exercises for evolving plan in
consultation with women and making phase vise plan.
Training workshop for women – Basics of organically managed Kitchen
gardening, introduction of different skills, understanding science of organic
agriculture, seed saving, importance of farm biodiversity and knowing
more about pesticides and agro-chemicals and ecological alternatives.
Group Formation of women
Building and training community / team/group leaders for further follow-up
and making the whole effort self-sustaining.
Exposure visits will be organized phase vise for sharing experiences from
those women who are already in the same work. The tentative names of
states to be visited are: - Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra
Pradesh. Apart from this, intra-state and intra-project villages interactive
visits will also be organized.
4.4 Activities:
1. Rapport formation with village women.
2. To have a participatory problem analysis involving community on the loss
of women participation in agriculture and loss of biodiversity.
3. To document traditional wisdom.
4. Weekly and monthly meetings at group and individual level.
5. To initiate women groups at village level in selected villages, initiate a process of
learning & teaching amongst themselves, exchanges of seeds and propagation
materials.
6. To organise millets and biodiversity based Food Heritage Festival one each at
village level every year.
7. Monthly talks on environmental issues in village level schools.
8. organize training workshops for women – Basics of organically managed
Kitchen gardening, introduction of different skills, understanding science of
organic agriculture, seed saving, importance of farm biodiversity and
knowing more about pesticides and agro-chemicals and ecological
alternatives.
9. Participatory Evaluation of project progress.
10. Organizing Bebe-Di-Rasoi and Nav-Trinjans in villages.
11. Organize trainings for village coordinators and volunteers.
12. Involve physicians into environmental health awareness activities.
4.5 Project Team
For the implementation of this project, a team will be recruited which is as
follows:-
Project Coordinator
One
Field Coordinator
One
Village Scout
Two
Part- Time Training officer
One
4.6 Expected results
a. Increase in the no. of women who will practice pesticide free kitchen
gardening.
b. Increase in the no. of varieties of vegetables grown in their kitchen
gardens.
c. Reduction in use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
d. increase in area of house hold kitchen gardens.
e. Increase in the no. of women seed savers.
f. empowering more number of women with organic farming skills and skillup gradation.
g. strengthening of in-house ability of women for preparation of biopesticides and bio-fertilizers.
h. building bridges for women to join their husbands in organic farming and
creating or craving-out space for women in ecological interventions.
i. We shall be able to reach out to a large number of farmers and involve
them in a strong environmental and organic farming movement.
j. This would in turn help convert a sizeable population to work towards
organic agriculture.
4.7 Evaluating project success: To measure results baseline data collected
through PRA will be made as a starting point for further up scaling. We wish to
increase the number of women involved in organic kitchen gardening, increase
the area of household kitchen gardens, increase the number of vegetables grown
in kitchen gardens, empower more women with organic farming skills and skill
upgrading, strengthen in-house ability of women for preparation of bio-pesticides
and bio-fertilizers, build bridges for women to join their husbands in organic
farming and create or carve-out space for women in ecological interventions. It
will be better if after the completion of the project to let women evaluate my work
in other participatory resource appraisal exercises.
4.8 Indicators to assess impact
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6.
Numbers of women who will practice pesticide free kitchen gardening.
Numbers of varieties of vegetables grown in their kitchen gardens.
Reduction in use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Increase in area of house hold kitchen gardens,
Number of women with organic farming skills and skill-up gradation
Volunteery involvement of women in Nav-Trinjans and Bebe-Di-Rasoi
festivals, number of participants , events and women as organisors and
event managers.
4.9 Adoptability and Scaling-up probability: There is a high probability of a
scaling-up of this initiative. As of now this project is only focusing on a few
selected villages in two districts and it can be scaled up vertically and
horizontally. Entire village households can be brought under pesticide-free
kitchens and organic kitchen-gardens initiative. Furthermore, this endeavor can
be extended to adjoining villages also with participation of women from these
villages. This project is not location-specific. Although it is conceived for the
region with the highest agriculture and chemical usage intensity, it can be
replicated anywhere. It is all about building a community intervention for
ecological agriculture and to grow pesticide-free safe food. So, when the whole of
India is facing a serious environmental health crisis due to pesticide toxicity,
there is wide scope of replication of the same.
5. Required material:
1) Training manuals, awareness, education and communication materialposters, handbills and booklets.
2) Seeds
3) Exhibition for Information, Communication and Education mainly used
in Nav-Trinjans and Bebe-Di-Rasoi Festivals
6. Sustainability
This project can be called sustainable in the terms of adoptability of its basic
thought by the society. Because making Punjab pesticide-free is just not confined
to a project to any individual, it is far beyond that. Punjab is facing severe
adverse impacts of chemical intensive and resource guzzling agriculture
technologies, so bringing Punjab out of brutal sequence of pesticide is a mission
with fast growing mass support. KVM may work as motivator in this project, but
rapidly expending perception is that ‘We have to bring Punjab out of vicious cycle
at any cost’. So people in general and predominantly worst victims of pesticide
toxicity –the farmers and the women in particularly are fast taking-up this issue
as their own agenda. So, make pesticide-free kitchen gardens and kitchens are
going to become public cause supported by public itself.
7. The tasks for Project Coordinator
1. Project Coordinator will be there to bring more women in the project. She
will be responsible for the promotion of chemical free kitchen gardening
and millets.
2. She will organize village level discussions on biodiversity, GMOs and
need to revive indigenous seeds. For this it might be important to bring
people from out of Punjab and interact with the farmers.
3. She will give special focus on sitting with women and recording their
perceptions on farming in Punjab. Talk to older women and see what they
thought of farming then and do they have memories of it being lost after
green revolution. These findings can help bring in a different level of
discussion within the farming community. Initiate discussion on seed
saving and role of women.
4. She will involve various gynecologists on the environmental health
assessments of using different kinds of agro-chemicals and pesticides in
agriculture and their role in causing various kinds of reproductive health
problems in women.
5. She will target girl’s colleges and schools for imparting knowledge about
the environmental degradation and its effects on the women health. She
will approach various youth services departments like NSS which may
involve more women for creating awareness.
6. Initiate policy advocacy for remedial and corrective measures to various
health challenges posed by agro-chemicals in agriculture.
7. She will work as a coordinator among various groups working on the
environmental health issues in Punjab and will be instrumental in creating
a forum for various discussions on the topic.
8. She will also be responsible for promotion of traditional wisdom, millet
based recipes, creating awareness among women related to importance
of nutritional value of millets including their health benefits for mother and
child.
9. She will maintain all records.
10. She will organize training workshops for women – Basics of organically
managed Kitchen gardening, introduction of different skills, understanding
science of organic agriculture, seed saving, importance of farm
biodiversity and knowing more about pesticides and agro-chemicals and
ecological alternatives.
11. To plan, organize, supervise and coordinate Bebe-Di-Rasoi festivals in
cities and Nav-Trinjans in villages.
12. She will take monthly meeting of village coordinators for monthly
evaluation and planning.
7. Tasks for Field coordinator
1. She will document traditional knowledge.
2. Field coordinator will conduct meetings weekly and monthly at group and
individual level.
3. She will keep records of all meetings and activities.
4. She will visit household kitchen gardens and if there is any problem, will
try to solve that.
5. She will work to promote the thought of chemical free kitchen gardening.
6. She will maintain the records of women practicing chemical free kitchen
gardening and their kitchen garden.
7. She will make all arrangements for training workshops.
8. She will assist as associate and coordinator in Bebe-Di-Rasoi festivals in
cities and Nav-Trinjans in villages as assigned by Project Coordinator.
7. Tools for communication adopted would be as follow
1. Fact sheets on harmful impacts of pesticides on the environment and
health
2. Handbills and pamphlets for awareness
3. Documentaries on relevant issues to be screened
4. Village level meetings of women
5. Presentations and Lecturers in school and colleges (especially girls’
schools and colleges)
6. Exhibition on Environmental Health, Food Heritage, Women action and
Organic Kitchen gardening.
7. Project Strategy
The entire project planned in participatory mode. A project implementation team
was formed consisting of full-time workers and volunteers. The project holders
will hold series of group meetings, community consultations, institutional
interface, and individual meetings also to make the civil society at large the
integral part of project.
7. Role of communities
Participatory mode shall be adopted to implement the project. Communities has
very important role to take the massage up to proper place.
7. Project Impacts
13.1 Impact Indicators
We can count multi indicators to evaluate the impact of project – awareness
among the women about the impacts of pesticides on their health, no. of women
practicing chemical free kitchen gardening and area and no. of varieties of
vegetables in their kitchen garden.
13.2 Networking
The project will build up a strong network of women farmers, village based
traditional healers, dietician, nutritionists and gynecologists and various
environment and ecological-agriculture experts for a common goal-phasing out of
chemical inputs and making these villages more eco-sustainable.
13.3 Impacts in terms of Policy/advocacy/sustainability and Replicability in
long term
We will try to build a rapport with government and main stream agriculture. To
establish this project as a modal for self-reliant household food security through
ecological agriculture, we will try to bring a change in government attitude
towards role of women, importance of pesticide free kitchen gardening and its
results as healthy ecology and health. We will try to initiate a process in which
women shall be supported by government to achieve household food security
through safe, natural and self grown food.
7. Reporting
1. Monthly Reporting
Monthly activity report will be submitted every month. Village coordinators
will submit their monthly reports to Project Coordinator and a
consolidated report send to funding agency. It includes details and
photographs of activities done in that village.
2. Half-Yearly Reporting
It includes report of evaluation process, news clippings, and financial
statements.
7. Budget
As of now we are submitting only budget heads, expenditures and other
requirements attached as a separate sheet paper. Budget will be prepared
after consultation with AID.
7. Time line and activity chart
Activities to be undertaken between May 2011 and April 2012
Sr.
No.
Activities
timeline
1.
Establishing contacts with communities
May
2.
First phase of awareness meetings
May
3.
Participatory resource appraisal –PRA
May
4.
Identification of participants
May
5.
Collection of baseline data having a participatory problem
analysis involving community on the loss of diversity as core
problems and establish the cause & effect relationship and
action points.
June
6.
Orientation meeting –cum- natural farming workshop and
Formation of Groups
June
7.
Exposure visit of Women Group to Maharashtra and Andhra
Pradesh
June / July
8.
Participatory Evaluation of progress
July
9.
Phase -1 of Experience sharing meetings
July- August
10. First phase of Workshops on specialized tasks – Bio-pesticide
and Bio-fertilizer preparation
August
11. Initiating women groups, a process of learning & teaching
amongst themselves, exchanges of seeds and seed saving
September
12. Training on Seed conservation
October
13. Workshop on micro-processing
November
14. Planning for next Rabi crop
December
15. Workshop for Rabi Crops
December
16. PRA – Phase – II for Participatory evaluation
January
17. Second phase of Workshops on specialized tasks – pest,
disease , soil and water management
February
18. Phase-II of Experience sharing meetings
March
19. Diversity based Cultural Programmes in small groups
April
20. .Women Festival Nav-Trinjan in project villages – Pesticidefree Kitchen and Kitchen gardening
April
21. Bebe-Di-Rasoi and Nav-Trinjan festivals as out reach in
villages and towns other then project villages will be
organized around the year as per convenience of host
villages and towns.
Around the
year
7. Budget
Sr.
No.
Budget Head
Salary of
Expenditure Heads
8,500/-x 12 = 1,02000 /-
1
Project Coordinator
2
Field Coordinator
3
Village Scout
1000x2x12=24,000/-
4
Part-time Training
Coordinator
2,500/-x12=30,000/-
5
PRA Exercise in two
villages
2,000x2=4,000 /-
6
Seasonal Farmers
workshops Planning and
awareness
1500x4 =6,000/-
7
MONTHLY Meetings @
Rs 500/- x 12x2
12,000/-
Traveling of
coordinators Rs 3000/X 12
36,000/-
8
9
Publication of education
material in Punjabi on
impact of pesticides,
6500 x12=78,000/-
20,000/-
techniques of natural
farming , pest control ,
Millets, nutritional value,
recipes etc.
10
Nav Trinjan and Bebe
Di-Rasoi
15,000/-
Food festival one per
year for all 2 villages
11
Administrative, Office
and Miscellaneous
expanses
Total
Three lakh seventy five thousand
4,000x12= 48,000/-
3,75,000/-