DA NEWS UPDATE

Institutions Systems Branch (ISB)
Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme

PACS:

A state orientation workshop on Capacity Building of CSOs and Animators on Right to Food was held from  Feb 8 - 10 in UP The  objective was to: Build capacities of PACS Programme CSOs and Animators on people centred research, analysis and advocacy on Right to Food.

State Based Communication Agencies Meet held on  Feb 19 at Delhi: The Resource organisations met to plan out the Communication Consolidation Strategy and Workplan for  2007-2008.

TSG:

The training for PACS partners was conducted for Gender and Development - ToT, Skill building on NTFP-Honey harvesting, Watershed Development and Management

  UNDP TAHA:

·   Rural Livelihood Enhancement Programme (RLEP) at community level  was conducted in each of  the 7 districts of Bihar and 8 districts of Maharashtra.

·   A State level training cum exposure visit on Goatery for community members of each of the 6 districts of  Madhya Pradesh was organised to IPTADA in Alwar, Rajasthan

·    A Capacity Building Programme for PLHIV group of Kishangunj district of Bihar was conducted on Jute craft

·   A training on Design development on Bamboo craft  was organised in 2 districts of Madhya Pradesh and 1 district of Bihar.

·   A  training on Wild Honey harvesting at community level was organised in Shivpuri and Morena districts of Madhya Pradesh

A Participatory Livelihood Assessment (PLA) exercise was conducted in 2 districts of Madhya Pradesh under the  Methane to Market (gaushala)Project, USAID with Technology Systems Branch.
 
Environment Systems Branch (ESB)

The fifth and the final multistakeholder meeting for developing Better Environmental Sustainability Targets ( BEST) an international voluntary standard for Lead Battery Manufacturers was held on Feb 7, 2007. The multistakeholder panel consulted and after deliberations has arrived at a fair consensus on the proposed draft standard. The draft standard will be finalized after the two public comments period and is planned to be ready by September, 2007.
Four regional workshops are proposed under the ongoing scheme of ‘Preparation of State of Environment Reports’ (SoER), of 10th Five Year plan. The objective of these workshops is to identify key challenges to SoE reporting process, drivers that can trigger and sustain the process and analyse usefulness of the process and products. The 2nd SoE Regional Workshop for Southern and Western States was held in Hyderabad on February 22, 2007 at EPTRI campus

Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (TARA)

At BALCO, under Project SAMRIDDHI the idea of making fly ash bricks was discussed with the village development committee and the village youth. Although the raw material for making the bricks was available in the vicinity of the village, the villagers lacked the know-how and did not have the equipment to manufacture the bricks. The market tie up for the fly ash bricks was done so that the bricks may find their market in the nearby villages through NIRMAL GRAM and INDIRA AWAS yojna. At this juncture TARA provided capacity building training to 30 youth from villages living close to our ash ponds. Also, BALCO has formed 20 youth groups, who will be imparted training and provided with a TARA BALRAM to earn their livelihood in their own villages with raw materials available at their doorstep. The TARA BALRAM Fly Ash Bricks making machines have been distributed to the groups by Home Minister of Chattisgarh, Mr. Ram Vichar Netam on Jan 27, 2007

TARA Eco Kiln at Raipur has been successfully fired with bricks manufactured by TARA Brick Mech, a semi mechanized machine for moulding.  The breakage of the plant has been reduced to less than 1% compared to 10% previously.  Use of added fly ash has been possible with TARA Brick Mech.  It has been a major breakthrough in the field of mixing fly ash with clay, which is not otherwise feasible.

 

Technology Systems Branch (TSB)

 A Zilla Panchayat Mason Training programme was carried out Jan 29 - Feb 1 wherein an Indira Awas Yojana beneficiary’s house was constructed.

 18 houses under HFHI have been completed at Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh and Datia,  37 more in progress. 

 New community infrastructure related initiatives at Richhari- Datia and Mador to begin with ESB.
   

TARAhaat

The total number of franchised TARAkendras has now reached 215.

•  The Vsat under the ISRO-VRC project became operational from February 13, 2007.

Five training programmes on Internet, Personality Development and Entrepreneurship Development have been transmitted. Six ISRO-VRC centers in Bundelkhand participated in the training programme.   

 

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