SAHABHAGI

VIKASH
ABHIYAN
CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPEMENT

Bibek Ghosh P41011

Binaya Kumar Behera P41075
Ranjit Sethy P41234
 HISTORY
In the year 1993-94, Sahabhagi Vikash
Abhiyan (SVA), which literally means
Campaign for Participatory Development,
began as a group of individuals and
Community Based Organizations (CBO) to
undertake various development activities
for the upliftment of the downtrodden
and the overall development of local
communities.
VISION AND
MISSION
To create a society free of poverty and
injustice, in which people participate as
subjects in the economic, social, cultural,
and political development processes, and
in which people have constant access to
the decision-making process and the
power that impacts their lives.
 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
● To support groups that are attempting to exercise their fundamental human rights.
● To raise awareness about prejudice based on gender, caste, race, and religion in society.
● To take the effort to form community groups in areas where such organisations do not exist.
● Working with community groups to improve their capability by providing suitable inputs
and help.
● To encourage action that will conserve the environment and ecosystem in order to ensure a
sustainable way of life.
● To foster self-help development, which will increase local people's confidence while
without taking away their initiative.
● To aid in the building of transparent, community-accountable structures that will benefit
people in their fight against poverty and injustice.
SOME MAJOR MILESTONES
SUCCESSFULLY
SAHABHAGI
COMPLETED
VIKASH
ABHIYAN WAS 2011 REGISTRATION OF 40
FOUNDED FPO’s IN 19 DISTRICTS
OF ODISHA AS POPI OF
NABARD
1993 - 94 REGISTRATION OF 2015
ODISHA PRODUCER
COMPANY LTD. (OPCL)
– A FARMER
PRODUCER COMPANY.
 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
GENERAL BODY

EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE

TECHNICAL PRESIDENT CUM ADVISORY

CONSULTANTS DIRECTOR COMMITTEE

DISTRICT TEAM DISTRICT TEAM

ADMINISTRATIVE CO-ORDINATOR POPI CO-ORDINATOR
LEADER - LEADER – NUAPADA
TEAM [PROGRAMME PROJECT EMERGENCY
KALAHANDI AND BARGARH
CO-ORDINATOR, [PROGRAMME WELFARE
[PROGRAMME [PROGRAMME
FINANCE OFFICER] MANAGER] PROGRAMME
MANAGER] MANAGER]
OPERATIONAL AREAS
DISTRICTS
HAVING FARMER DISTRICTS HAVING
PRODUCER INTEGRATED
ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT
PROMOTED BY PROJECTS OF SVA
SVA
Angul | Balasore
Nuapada
Bargarh | Bhadrak
Kalahandi
Cuttack | Deogarh
Bargarh
Dhenkanal | Ganjam
Balangir
Jharsuguda | Kalahandi
Kandhamal | Koraput FPO FIELD
Nayagarh | Nuapada CENTRE
Rayagada | Sundragarh Bhubaneswar
Subarnapur
 PROGRAMMES
● Promotion Of Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs)
● Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihood Promotion (SALP)
● Promotion Of Millets Cultivation
● WADI(TDF) Project
● Good Gift Programme
● Gram Swaraj Abhiyan
● Environment and Ecology
● Promotion of Agro Industries
● Training and capacity building
● Promotion of Financial Inclusions
● Relief & Rehabilitation Programmes
 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND LIVELIHOOD
PROMOTION (SALP)

● A FPO's principal goal is to help its members earn more money by promoting their products
and offering crucial agricultural services. In a country like India, where the majority of
farmers are small and marginal, FPO has become increasingly vital in enabling them to
access the national and global markets, as well as a variety of critical services.

● ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

● Promotion of Organic Framing

● Formation of Farmers Clubs and CIG’s
● Promotion of Millet Cultivation
 ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
● The environment and ecology play a vital role in the well living of humans in any part of
the world. Our entire life support system is reliant on the health of all environmental
components.

● ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
● Promotion of Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture
● Development of Micro Watersheds for Natural Resource Managements
● Forestry and Agro Horticulture Promotion
● Revival of Traditional Land and Water Management Systems of Western Odisha
● Jungle Bachao Abhiyan (Save the Forests Initiative)
● Fluorosis Mitigation (An issue of groundwater contamination and Public Health)
 PROMOTION OF FARMERS PRODUCERS ORGANIZATIONS
(FPOS)
● Sustainable agriculture is a farming system that focuses on growing crops and livestock with
minimal environmental and ecological impacts, as well as producing food and fibre in a
sustainable manner to meet present demand as well as future generations' desires.

● SVA has provided numerous trainings and hand-holding support to these FPOs in order for
them to become self-sufficient in a few years.

● Following the initial success of those FPOs, SVA, with the help of NABARD, has promoted
an additional 13 FPOs in the districts of Kalahandi, Nuapada, Sambalpur, and Deogarh.

● All FPOs are now registered with the e-Nam (electronic National Market) and participating
in the national market to take benefit of the e-Nam. SVA has been aiding FPOs in
establishing market links with processing industries and financial institutions as a POPI.
 WADI (TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT FUND) PROJECT
● The WADI model has proven to be one of the most successful of the several models for
sustainable livelihood explored in India's tribal regions. In this strategy, tribal farmers who
live near forests and have degraded fields are encouraged to build a one-acre orchard in
which they plant a few fruit-bearing trees and a few Agro-forestry species as border crops.

● ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

● Processing & marketing of Agro and Horticultural produces

● Development of orchards (fruit, plantation, herbal crops, and forest plants).
● Development of women through On-Farm and Non-Farm Income Generating Activities
and Formation of SHGs.
● Soil and moisture conservation measures and Water Resources Management
 SOME OTHER INITIATIVES INCLUDE

● Promotion of Agro Industries which include Pulses & Cereals Processing Industry, Fruit &
Vegetable Processing Industry, Village Oil Industry etc.

● Initiatives for Financial Inclusion where banks are providing basic "no frills" accounts with
no or extremely low minimum balances, as well as a General Purpose Credit Card (GCC)
facility without the requirement of collateral, to enable rural residents to obtain credit
without difficulty.
 SOME OTHER INITIATIVES INCLUDE

● Gram Swaraj Abhiyan under which SVA is promoting Various low-cost and relevant

technologies in the fields of cottage industry, agriculture, horticulture, and allied activities

● Programmes for Relief and Rehabilitation where volunteers are being trained in

Community Disaster Preparedness initiatives and during droughts and other natural

catastrophes, assistance is provided to local organisations and communities to carry out

relief and rehabilitation efforts for the locals to ensure rapid response times.
 TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING

● Farmers and development workers have been able to improve their understanding of rural
development thanks to the Technology Training and Resource Centres (TTRC) established
by Sahabhagi Vikash Abhiyan.

● Farmers and Social Workers from various Voluntary

Organizations and Government Institutions from within
and beyond the state are visiting all of the TTRCs of the
Sahabhagi Vikash Abhiyan (SVA).
 GOOD GIFT PROGRAMME
● Support to households has been provided under the good gift programme. Sahabhagi Vikash
Abhiyan has undertaken the following activities with financial support from the G.B.
Charity Advisory Trust's Good Gift programme.

● This programme has directly assisted 485 economically disadvantaged families in

supplementing their income.
 SVA AND COVID-19
● Awareness generation programme on novel COVID 19. Demonstration on washing hands
using soap, emphasis on maintaining hygienic behavioural practices, social distancing and
use of mask to prevent COVID 19.
● Amidst the ongoing pandemic of Covid 19 followed by lockdown in the country, Farmer
Producer Companies promoted by SVA-Sahabhagi Vikash Abhiyan have been trying their
best to do market linkages and facilitate sales so that the farmers are not affected and they
get a fair price from their produces.
IN THE NEWS RECENTLY
 THEME PAPER
WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
-
GENDER INCLUSION IN
FARMER PRODUCER
ORGANISATIONS
 Methods Followed
Interviewing the Office bearers.

Telephonic interviews of members of FPOs.

Telephonic interviews of CEOs of FPOs.

Literatures from SVA, NABARD, GOI, Government of

Odisha and other institutions.
 CONTRIBUTION OF INDIAN WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
Share Of Indian women In Agriculture Share of women in agricultural operations

Activity 1981 1991 2001 2011

Involvement
Activity
(Percentage)
Cultivators 33.1 34.6 32.5 32.9
Land preparation 32
Agricultural Seed cleaning and sowing 80
46.3 44.2 39.4 38.9
Labour
Inter cultivation activities 86

Total 79.4 78.8 71.9 71.8 Harvesting-reaping, winnowing,

84
drying, cleaning and storage

Source : Ministry of Statistics

 CURRENT STATUS OF WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE

• As per a report of OXFAM one-third of the female labour in India are not paid as they work in
the farms owned by their husband, father or brother.

• During peak of the cropping season, women farmers in India work about 3,300 hours, which is
double of the 1,860 hours work done by their male counterparts.

• Women labors are paid 60% of what men are paid as they have lower bargaining power
 PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
1.Ignored During Decision Making 2. More Labour Input Than Men
  Male Female Male+Female
Duration Energy
Activities %
Purchase of (Hours:Mins) (Kcal)
90.2 2.9 6.8
Fertilizer
Purchase of
93.1 - 6.8 Domestic activities 7:55 912 40.53
Animals
Agriculture and
Purchase of 7:00 893 39.69
92.1 1.9 5.8 allied activities
equipment
Sleep 6:50 287 12.76
Changing of
96.0 - 3.9
Crops Rest and recreation 2:15 157 6.97
Selling of crops 83.9 10.7 5.3 Total 23:20 2249 100

Source : Ministry of Statistics

 Contd……..
PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE

3. Low Bargaining Power-Lower Wage

Average daily agricultural wage rates
  2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016- 2017-18 2018-19
17
Male 229 268 281 296 315 330
Female 180 201 218 228 244 262
Source : Ministry of Statistics
4. No Ownership of the land-No institutional support

Only 12.8% farm land is owned by women in India.

5. Schemes Focusing on Men Farmers

 CURRENT STATUS OF WOMEN IN FPO’s

• To give due share, legal recognition and the inclusion of women as decision making members
in the FPOs being promoted

• FPOs being promoted by NABARD with help of local NGOs and Non-Profit organizations are
focusing on community development through social inclusion by including landless women
farmers
 CURRENT STATUS OF WOMEN IN FPO’s

• As per the National Paper PLP(2020-2021) by NABARD, and Study by Azim Premji University,
less than 3% out of all FPOs in the country are WFPOs.

• Only 23% of FPOs have at least one women in the Board of the Directors.
 SVA’s GENDER POLICY
• To integrate gender and development / sustainable development approach in all its
programmes, projects and policies and ensure gender equitable outcomes.

• To create a conducive environment within SVA for women and men to work on equal terms.

• The FPOs promoted by SVA are backed by NABARD and SFAC. So, the mandate for the mixed
FPOs is to have at least one woman as member of the Board of the directors.

• Due to this mandate FPOs include women include women in the governing body which
strengthens the gender inclusion. Due to lack of any mandate regarding number of women
shareholders in the FPO there are very less women members as shareholders in SVA promoted
FPOs.
 Analysis
Women in Agriculture
• Women are not getting their due recognition for their contribution.
• Ignored during decision making and are being exploited.

Gender Inclusion in FPOs

• Women representation in FPOs is negligible.
• Women are not being encouraged much to join FPOs.
• The potential and experience of women who are part of SHGs are underutilized.
 Suggestions
• Both the Government entities and NGOs supporting and promoting FPOs
should mandate the inclusion of certain percent of women as members.
• More Women should be included in the Board of The Directors of the FPO and
allowed to mange different operations.
• SGHs can be used as a good entry point of FPOs. The convergence of SHGs
and FPOs would encourage more participation of women in FPO.
• As the government is eyeing to reach 10000 FPOs by 2024, it should focus on
promoting WFPs.
THANK YOU !