Previous Projects

Goal/Objective: Improve forest condition and enhance the income of the forest-dependent communities in Odisha.

Geography:  4000 households from 250 villages of 25 GPS covering five blocks- Boipariguda, Kundura, Laxmipur, Narayanpatna, and Bandhugaon Koraput district.

Client / Donor: USAID

Period:  11.07.2014 to 30.07.2017

Goal/Objective:  Enhance livelihood capabilities and functioning of the women farmers through participatory action; training and capacity building, and evidence based research and advocacy initiatives.

Client / Donor:  OXFAM India

 Geography:  1307 households in Boipariguda and Kundra blocks of Koraput district.

Period:  01.07.2012 to 30.6.2015

Objective: Double the farmers’ income and develop livelihood assets for round the year

Geography & Impact Group: 9000 Households in 166 Villages 2 Blocks (Boipariguda & Kundura) of  Koraput & 1 Block (Thakurmunda) of  Mayurbhanj district

Client/ Donors: Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF)

Period: November 2018 to September 2021

Objective: Improve production and consumption of millet, develop millet enterprises and establish market linkages to rural/urban

Geography & Impact Group:3510 HHs in 150 Villages of Boipariguda Block in Koraput district

Client/ Donors: Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA)

Period: June 2017 to March 2021

Goal/ Objective: Facilitate access to entitlements of the vulnerable people during Covid pandemic through awareness generation, entitlement monitoring, mapping returnee migrants in collaboration with the community, civil society and the administration  to facilitate linkage of social protection schemes for the vulnerable HHs

Geography: 19342 HHs in 150 villages of 15 GPs from 6 blocks of Koraput, Malkangiri, & Rayagada district

Client/ Donors: UNDP

Period: May  2020 to December 2020

Goal/ Objective: Response to Covid – 19 through awareness generation, realisation of entitlements, and psycho-social support

Geography: 6414 HHs in 9 GPs of Saharpada block of Keonjhar district

Client/ Donors: RCRC Network through PRADAN

Period: July 2020 to February 2021

Goal/ Objective: Policy research on Rain-fed Agriculture in  Odisha

Geography: Odisha

Client/ Donors: Revitalizing Rain-fed Agriculture Network

Period: April 2018 to December 2020

Goal/ Objective: Greater number of people from marginalised communities of the backward regions of the state will have increased access to public health care services.

Geography: Odisha

Client/ Donors: Oxfam India

Period: April 2018 to March 2021

Goal / Objective:

• Empower and develop the disadvantaged groups including women and children through people’s institutions and intermediary organizations.
• Promote Child Rights and participation in most marginalized communities to end child poverty and injustice.

Geography: 95 villages in 17 Gram Panchayats across Mayurbhanj (Thakurmunda block) and Keonjhar (Saharapada block) districts.

Client / Donor: Plan International (India)

Period: 1/7/2018 – 30/06/2020

Goal / Objective:  Early Childhood Development, Maternal and Child health and Nutrition, School Quality improvement, back to school for dropout children, skill development, Life skill, Institution building for the community

Geography:  130 villages in 9 GPs of Mathili, Khairput & Korukonda Blocks of Malkangiri district and 33 villages in 9 GPs of Rayagada and Kolnara block of Rayagada districts of Odisha

Client / Donor:  Child Fund India

Period: 1 July 2017 – 30 June 2020

Goal / Objective: Strengthen the delivery of access to social protection scheme and other welfare package announced in wake of Covid-19 outbreak for the returnee migrants and other vulnerable households.

Client/Donor: UNDP

Geography: Malkanagiri, Rayagada and Koraput districts of Odisha.

Period:  26 May 2020 – 25 Oct 2020

Goal/ Objective:

• Policy Asks of the Campaign Stepping up overall public spending on Health,
• Ensuring adequate access to free generic medicines in all government health care,
• Addressing shortage of medical staff in the health care sector at the State level through research and knowledge building, meeting, seminars and campaigns.

Client/ Donor:  National Foundation for India

Geography: Odisha State

Period: 1 October 2017 – 30 Sept 2018

Goal/Objective: Pre Budget consultation with a clear Charter of Demand and Post-Budget Consultation, enhancing greater budget transparency at the state and sub-state level, improving budgetary allocation and spending for critical social sectors and vulnerable groups, people participating in budgetary processes.

Geography: Odisha State

Client/ Donor:  National Foundation for India

Period: 1 October 2017 – 30 Sept 2018

Goal/ Objective: Engagement with elected representatives in Odisha towards improving the quality and affordability of Maternal and Child Health Care in Odisha.

Geography: Kalahandi and Bolangiri districts of Odisha

Client/ Donor:  National Foundation for India

Period: 1 April 2017- 31 March 2018

Goal/Objective: 

• Improve awareness on and demand for improved quality, affordable maternal health services and package of entitlements
• Improvement in maternal and child health through social determinant approach
• Community empowerment & capacity building;
• Building accountability of State/District machinery in maternal health programs

Client / Donor:  OXFAM India

Geography:  Kandhamal and Sundargarh districts

Period:  01.04.2012 to 31.3.2015

Goal/Objective: 

• Contribute towards improving the quality governance process and service delivery practices of the public distribution system in Odisha through community action and policy advocacy.
• Institutionalizing the community-owned monitoring system for PDS.

 Client/Donor: Trocaire

Geography: Koraput and Kandhamal districts of Odisha.

Period:  01.05.2012 to 31.12.2015

Goal / Objective: 

• Improve the quality of secondary education by forming and strengthening School Management and Development Committees (SMDCs) in 25 secondary schools.
• Train 425 SMDC members and schoolteachers through training based on RMSA guidelines.
• Track changes in enrolment, retention, infrastructure, Parent-Teacher Association meetings, students’ performances and implementation of school development plans.
• Provide counseling and training support to 150 School Cabinet members.
• Ensure 25 secondary schools have the necessary infrastructure through advocacy.

Client/Donor: Kusuma Trust

Geography:  Maneswar, Dhankauda & Naktideula Blocks of Sambalpur district, Odisha

Period:  01.07. 2012 to 31.11. 2013

Goal / Objective: 

• Examine the state’s priorities in policy and budget formulation to ensure the rights of the children in relation to ICDS;
• Enable the legislators, media, and civil society organizations to debate on the issues of children during budget formulation, enactment as well as implementation by the state; and
• Build the capacity of civil society and rights-based organizations to use the budget as a tracking tool to monitor the rights of the children and initiate evidence-based dialogue with the state.

Client/Donor:  Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF)

Geography:  State of Odisha

Period:  01.07. 2012 to 30.06.2015

Goal / Objective: 

• To enhance the disaster resilience of ‘’at-risk communities” in the coastal district of Orissa.
• To strengthen and enhance the disaster resilience of high-risk communities of Orissa by developing capacities of critical stakeholders to prepare against and effectively respond to natural disasters.

Client / Donor:  Concern Worldwide

Geography: Satyabadi Block of Puri district

Period: 15 March 2011 – 14 Sept 2012

Goal / Objective: 

• Initiate and stabilize a citizen-led process of monitoring of the system of ECCD services with a view to identifying key aspects of quality and strengthening good practices;
• Develop pedagogic resources and capacity for extending technical support to ECCD programmes run by different agencies for children of vulnerable communities in rural/tribal areas of Odisha.
• Build institutional capacity of trainer-facilitators from civil society and other organizations for improvement in quality of ECCD services.

Client/Donor: Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF)

Geography: Sundargarh and Koraput districts

Period:  01.04. 2009 to 30.06.2013

Goal/ Objective: 

• Link the state-level initiatives on NREGS, FRA, and Right to Food at the micro-level.
• Undertake Micro-studies in collaboration with the resource teams to collate and compile for strengthening state-level advocacy.

Geography:  Keonjhar Sadar, Banspal and Saharapada Blocks of Keonjhar district, Odisha

Client/Donor:   Concern Worldwide

Objective: Bring together pro-active and dedicated community leaders to the community development and empowerment process; help them to understand their community and the society as a whole, their own organization and value-based leadership, and set the agenda to take the process forward

Geography & Impact Group: 200 potential community leaders have been identified and are being nurtured and provided with regular hand holding support to lead the process of development at the grassroots level in the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Koraput, Malkangiri & Rayagada.

Client/ Donors: Civil Society Academy, New Delhi

Period: August 2019 to December, 2021

Objective: Improving water, sanitation and hygiene conditions at the community level

Geography & Impact Group: 3 GPs   from Chhatrapur, Ganjam

Client/ Donors: IRC

Period: 01/07/2021 – 30/04/2022

Goal/ Objective Geography: Maximize penetration of knowledge on maternal and child health behavior with a focus on nutrition of women in the 1000 days for themselves and their children

Geography: 23231HHs in 174 villages from 25 GPs of 3 blocks in the districts of Keonjhar & Mayurbhanj

Client/ Donors: Digital Green

Period: July 2018 to July 2021

Goal/ Objective Geography: Decrease gender-based violence in Odisha through community involvement and setting up Help Desks

Geography: 90 Villages in 3 Districts (Koraput, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar) of Odisha

Client/ Donors: IC Net & JICA

Period: 12/03/2021 to 11/09/2021

Goal/ Objective Geography: Formation of Village Disaster Management Committee and Task Force, and preparation of Village Disaster Management Plan

Geography: 530 villages from 7 districts of Odisha

Client/ Donors: District Disaster Management Authority

Period: August 2019 to December 2020

Goal/ Objective: Empowering economically less privileged women in driving skills and thus helping them generate gainful employment through placement opportunities

Geography: 35 resource poor women in Bhubaneswar

Client/ Donors: Mahindra Azad Foundation

Period: March, 2018 to March 2021.

Goal/ Objective: HP World on Wheels – WOW – a 20 seated computer and IT enabled vehicle powered by green energy and backed by numerous software suites and cloud integration, a fully loaded digital literacy programme is an effective initiative to bring rural society on to digital platform.

Geography: 80 Schools in Mayurbhanj District

Client/ Donors: HP, EDII, Plan India

Period: 2018- 2020 (Not in operation since March)

Goal / Objective: Sensitize the rural community on digital literacy; help rural women to access internet; develop a band of women leaders

Client / Donor: Foundation for Rural Entrepreneurship Development (FREND) with support from Google & Tata Trusts

Geography:  Khurda, Puri, Cuttack, Jajpur, Keonjhar & Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha

Period: 15/04/2019 – 15/12/2019

Goal/ Objective: Inspiring and activating young minds to be change agents for social inclusion and SDG

Client /Donor: Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO)

Geography: 3 Panchayats in Boipariguda block of Koraput district and 3 Panchayats in Kolnara block of Rayagada district

Period:  1 July 2018 – 31 March 2019

Goal / Objective:

Encourage entrepreneurship among the skill-trained youth to come up with a special scheme as Nano Unicorn Project

Geography: Odisha State

Client/Donor: Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA)

Period: July 2017 – December 2018

Objective: Organise community-level awareness programs/ vaccination campaigns, training on vaxIT and ODK collect, co-ordination with district/block administration.

Geography & Impact Group: Boipariguda blocks of Koraput  district

Client/ Donors: APPI

Period: July 2021 – March 2022

Objective: Organise awareness programmes relating to Covid – 19 pandemic at the community level, facilitate vaccination drive  against Corona virus, and provide minimum health care and food & nutrition support to the vulnerable families

Geography & Impact Group: 50000 population from 200 villages in 4 blocks of Koraput, Malkangiri & Rayagada districts

Client/ Donors: CRYPTO

Goal/ Objective Geography: Provide agri-inputs to the Flood (2020) affected farmers to support their livelihoods

Geography: 1250 HHs in 73 villages, 14 GPs of Bari block of Jajpur district

Client/ Donors: Change Alliance

Period: November 2020 to April 2021