fair Climate and Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives in Odisha

This Project is intended to strengthen the implementation of the sustainable livelihood program in Odisha supported by ICCO by leveraging the global experience of ICCO sustainable development. Link to the broader view of poverty, highlights the crucial role of ‘context’ (especially vulnerability-context) – and how this influences the asset base, the selection of livelihood strategies, and the outcomes for households. Gives space to local perspectives, Build on what exists - a multidimensional, integrated perspective that unites the concepts of economic development, reduced vulnerability, environmental sustainability ,The “Community Based Risk Reduction and Livelihood Promotion” under micro- watershed perspective with an objective of backward and forward linkage is one of the successful activity that has linked to Farm & Non-farm based livelihood based on micro watershed perspective: -create a broad based canopy and canvas to accelerate to rejuvenate the resource base, the capability of vulnerable/ultra poor communities to enhance bargaining ability, skill up gradation with regard to Eco-entrepreneurships and minimizing health hazards and conservation of resources: thus it needs following areas: provisioning inputs & knowledge base, protecting resource base, promoting skills , entrepreneurships, technology & risk transfer - Land Resource Development - Micro-Water Resource Development - Crop Diversification -Crop Husbandry linking with horticulture, fishing and animal resource - Living soil and composting - Skill Development - Green Energy ,Gearing Greening and Local biodiversity conservation - ultrapoor livelihoods This project has primarily focused on the following to ensure food and nutrition security through Institutional Process for Learning, and Management of Common Resources • Community Mobilisation and Group Formation • Knowledge Building on Sustainable Livelihoods • Management of Individual and Community Assets • Scaling Up of Successful Interventions • Demonstration effect and Engagement with other Stakeholders • Influence Benign Policy towards Livelihoods Security Promotion of Climate Adaptive Sustainable Livelihoods System through • Sustainable Farm, Forestry, and Fishing intervention • Soil and Water Conservation • Micro and Village based Enterprise Promotion by Value Addition • Nutrition, Water and Sanitation Awareness • Non Farm Intervention – Individual and Groups • Demonstrative Sustainable Energy Interventions for Potential Scale Up UDYAMA aims towards strengthening and building capacities of local communities with a view to enhancing adaptation to vulnerability and changing the culture of self-reliance in harnessing resource base, blending with traditional and improved technology transformation with well articulated development communication towards micro-development perspective with following initiatives: • Community led Livelihoods Resilience & Model building on Sustainable Agriculture, local-biodiversity-conservation, preventing degradation, promoting Micro-Water conservation initiatives on IANRM ,Accelerating household Sanitation, Nutrition, Hygiene & bringing forest to farm • Life Skill Development , income diversification of ultra poor ,entrepreneurships ,Advocacy towards City Resilient program integrating Green Energy and Gearing Greening Promoting Eco-prenureship towards environmental sustainability Rise in women in Agriculture as a shifting trend in rural agricultural based livelihood, Net increase in the incomes of women from farm and non-farm based interventions , benefit maximisation through adoption of innovative farming and non farming practices, Increased soil health and fertility to sustain agriculture based livelihoods, Improved food and nutritional security of women and their families & enhanced income , Increase in area under cultivation, cropping intensity and food production by women ,Strengthening of community Institutions for better management and control of resources , Development of resource pool of facilitators ,, Drudgery reduction for women in agriculture through use tools / technologies , Community adaptation measures evolved to reduce vulnerability I) Promotion of climate change impacts resilient integrated ecosystem based livelihood models with Green Energy and, ii) setting up institutional processes for learning, management and sustainability of project interventions. i) Promotion of ecosystem based climate change resilient integrated livelihood models • Ecosystem based Preventing Degradation & Agro- Ecology Development • Life cycle based Micro-water resource development, Water Harvesting, Conservation, Restoration, Rejuvenation • Gearing Green Energy, Greening , Biodiversity conservation ii) Setting up institutional process for learning, management and sustainability • Community institution building, Green Technology transformation scaling models • Information, communication & knowledge management platform(Resource Hub) • Skill building for women , Eco-prenureship towards revenue models There are ample opportunities in this areas as it is very much degrading and worst affected by recurrent droughts.Erratic rainfall, undulated terrain, fragmented ecology followed by frequency of droughts and disasters has severely affected the state of economic affairs in Odisha since last few decades. Ill-conceived policies, inadequate positive political will has fueled to marginalisation manifold affected life and livelihood ,The time has come to have a concerted action undertake broad based partnership to work together by garnering collective and shared responsibility to minimize the adverse impact of distress migration, degradation and climate chaos , livelihoods issues. There has greater need Protecting land mass from degradation, utilizing ecologically sensitive indigenous and alternative methods for land & water utilization, rejuvenation followed by adoption green energy, biomass conservation can help to achieve important prerequisites for environmental sustainability & livelihoods empowerment on enterprising mode linking with food system.