INITIATIVES

NRM PLAN FOR EVERY VILLAGE

  • Preparation and implementation of NRM plans for every village
  • Funding of implementation in 400 villages
  • Support for preparation of PBRs

Outputs

  • Comprehensive NRM plans for 400 villages and simple plans for the remaining
  • More than 7,000 activities have been implemented
  • 6,017 water conservation structures with a combined storage capacity of 66,02,141 cubic meters have been constructed.
  • PBRs prepared for 310 villages

Outcomes

  • More than 50,467 Hectare of land rejuvenated by communities through soil and water conservation interventions
  • Significant improvement of water availability for 59,000+ HH across the project
  • For first time, comprehensive mapping of biological resources through PBR

BUILDING A CADRE OF COMMUNITY PROFESSIONALS

  • Leveraging on the strong social capital to create community professionals to champion Climate Change Actions and NRM
  • 2 to 3 youth (Village Community Facilitators) in every village identified by the community and given comprehensive training. At least 1 female

Outputs

  • 2 days awareness program in all 6,000+ villages
  • 13,000+ VCFs trained
  • 3 days comprehensive residential training

Outcomes

  • VCFs are now engaged to facilitate the implementation of several govt. programs including CLLMP, FMP, PES, MegLIFE, Digital Agriculture, FOCUS etc
  • Scale up by the state – Creation of Village Data Volunteers in every village – 1,000+ already onboarded

APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM

Launched Apprenticeship Program to help circumvent human resource crunch and produce able and work ready individuals in the state

Thanks to the success of batch 1 (10 apprentices) now 114 apprentices are trained with MBMA

Areas:

Finance, procurement, GIS & UAV, Knowledge Management, IT, IT-GIS, Monitoring and Evaluation etc.