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2014-15

Annual

Report

Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research & Education (INHERE) Masi Bazar, Masi- 263658, Almora, Uttrakhand, India

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.inhereindia.org

INHERE Annual Report 2014-15 Page 1

Content

1. Overview 05

2. Environment, Natural Resource Conservation and Climate Change 06

3. Food and Livelihood Security 11

4. Basic Social Infrastructure 19

5. Human Resource Development 27

6. Trainings and Workshops and Meetings 35

5. Visitors 43

6. Participation in Different Committees 48

7. INHERE Infrastructure & Demonstration Units 50

8. INHERE Documentation & Publications 51

9. Consolidated Statement of Account for the Year 2014-15 52


Head Office: Delhi Office:

INHERE INHERE

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About Us

The Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education (INHERE) is a non political, secular, non-

governmental development organisation working for development of the mountain people of the

Uttarakhand Himalayas. INHERE engages as a research organisation, a support organisation and a

grassroots facilitating and implementing organisation. INHERE strives to be an open and a learning

organisation which believies in transparency within the organisation as well as with the communities. It

encourages initiatives and experimentation to achieve effectiveness and excellence in its work. INHERE

believes in an integrated approach to development encompassing social, economic, human and policy

development.

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CONSTITUENCY:

The socio economically deprived and marginalized people of the Himalayas, especially the women on

whom falls the greater burden.

THRUST

The Main areas of work of the organisation are:

ENVIRONMENT:

� Protect and conserve environment and natural resources.

� Restore and conserve natural bio-diversity.

Vision Vision Vision Vision The Vision of INHERE is people-centered sustainable development based on

security, equity and harmony in society with equal opportunity to and

participation of women and men.

Mission Mission Mission Mission INHERE has a mission to work towards exploring, supporting and providing

opportunity of development for a better quality of life to socially deprived

and economically marginalized mountain people, especially women of the

Uttarakhand Himalayas.


� Promote people centered and controlled natural resource management systems and practices.

FOOD AND LIVELIHOOD SECURITY:

� Promote diversified and sustainable organic agriculture system for food security.

� Encourage self employment and income generation activities through capacity building and skill

development.

� Provide access and opportunities for managing natural resources for sustainable livelihoods.

BASIC SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE:

� Build models and demonstrate techniques for assured, protected and safe drinking water for

domestic use and minor irrigation.

� Promote low cost sanitation and hygiene facilities.

� Promote preventive, curative health care system focusing on traditional system of medicines.

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

� Encourage and strengthen community based organisations.

� Improve skill, awareness and knowledge base of the people for self employment and income

generation.

� Support institutions of civil society for more responsible participation.

ADVOCACY

Impact on policy making bodies, implementing organisations, policy making and administrative institutions

through interaction and constructive demonstration.


Overview 2014-15

This was a memorable year for INHERE. Our founder member and Advisor, Sonali Bisht spoke at the United

Nations Climate Change Summit on September 23, 2014 on behalf of the global civil society community.

She was also on the panel as civil society representative at the inauguration of the Global Alliance on

Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) in New York in September 2014 and the first meeting of GACSA in Rome

in December 2015. At regional level we continued our engagement with the Climate Action Network of

South Asia (CANSA) and participated in national workshops while continuing our work at community level

on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Two multi country projects in which INHERE was involved concluded this year. The project “Local

Innovation and Experimentation for Climate Change Adaptation” received an extension directly to INHERE.

The project was jointly undertaken for three years by CEDAC, Cambodia, Li-BIRD Netherlands, INHERE India

and ETC Netherlands as part of a Regional Prolinnova project for Asia. The INHERE project staff visited the

project field sites of CEDAC in Cambodia and came back enriched with new learning. The concluding

workshop of MILK IT project took place in Tanzania. We learnt and practiced the new concept of Innovation

Platforms in this project in partnership with the international Livestock Research Institute.

INHERE collaborated with Bioversity International in developing a proposal for the Global Environment

Facility and looks forward to its sanction and beginning of implementation. INHERE participated in the

tenth anniversary International Partners Workshop of Prolinnova on behalf of the India Country Platform in

Phnom Penh, Cambodia. INHERE also participated in the meeting of the Agriculture Biodiversity Community

at Boxtel, Netherlands with active participation in the Open Source Seeds initiative. INHERE also

participated in the end of project review meeting of Milk IT held at Lushoto and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

A major highlight this year was review of the thrust areas of INHERE with a sharper focus on Agriculture,

Water and Sanitation, Human Resource Development, Global Advocacy Support. Environment and women

empowerment will continue to be crosscutting elements across programmes. Involvement of youth in

agriculture was seen as a major concern. INHERE began a new programme for engaging and facilitating

youth in agriculture. A pre feasibility survey on water and sanitation was carried out in disaster affected

villages of Garhwal for work proposal.

Three members from INHERE participated in a Regional Training Workshop to Implement a Grassroots

Foresight Initiative organized by the Asian Farmers Association and Global Forum on Agriculture Research.

The implementation of Foresight Trainings will take place through 2015.

In this year INHERE also enabled farmers of three project villages to produce certified seed which was

purchased by a public sector seed company. This was a breakthrough and a new livelihood opportunity for

mountain farmers. Our vegetable farming initiative also broke even and stabilized with new market

opportunities opening up.

All in all 2014-15 has been a momentous year


Environment, Natural Resource Conservation and Climate Change

Environment conservation, protection and promotion remains at the core of the work of INHERE and a

cross cutting issue in all the work we do. In the reporting year our work was local as well as supportive of

global initiatives and efforts. We enumerated the biodiversity on our campus and in our surrounding and

how to augment it. At the global level INHERE continued work with the global agro biodiversity community

(ABC@D) and linked up with the global alliance on climate smart agriculture. In this section we proceed

from very local to global.

Diversity conservation in Chinoni campus

Chinoni Campus of INHERE was established in 1994 and plants grown and protected by INHERE in last 15

years were identified and counted this year. There are 81 varieties of plants, bushes, shrubs, herbs,

creepers and grasses which have been identified so far. The trees number 245 comprising fruits and forest

plants like mango, lemon big and small, guava, pear, peach, plum, pomegranate, walnut, jamun, amla,

tejpat, ritha, bhimal, bedu, tun, pine, mehal, bakain, timil, jakranda, shisham, manipuri and local oak etc. In

other vegetation, majority is of medicinal herbs and plants like shatavari, akarkara, giloy, tulsi, lemon grass,

rosemary, aloe vera.

Nursery developed at Chinoni was maintained.

Nursery at Chinoni

Sl.No. Name of Plants No. of Saplings/plants

1 Tejpat 1500

2 Walnut 300

3 Aloevera 60

4 Satavari 1200

5 Rosemary 100

6 Lemongrass 5000

Total 8160

Diversity conservation in Ratkhet and Bhatoli campus

For enhancing and conserving biodiversity, plantation was done in Bhatoli and Ratkhet campuses of

INHERE. Although plantation area was small, diversity in indigenous plant varieties comprising medicinal

plants/herbs, broad leaf forest plants, bushes, creepers and fruit plants was taken into consideration, The

varieties planted last year and this year are Harad, Baheda, Amla, Padam, Timur, Malu, Giloy, Ritha, Falyat

(variety of oak) Quairal, Bhimal, Jamun, Timla, Bedu, Manipuri Oak, Bamboo, Anjir, Darim, Shahtoot etc.

Approximately 250 plants, average 10 plants of each variety were planted. Emphasis has been given to

protect these plants from fire and dry spell. Apart from this, fruit plantation was also done in both the

demo sites. Total 60 nut fruit plants of almond, peach, walnut and citrus plants - lemon big and small were

planted.


In the plantation area in Ratkhet three old polythene lined tanks with a total capacity of approximately

40000 liter water for irrigation purposes were repaired. A minor lift drinking water and irrigation scheme

was also repaired which had been damaged at many places. One old roof rainwater harvesting tank was

also repaired.

Enhancing Agriculture Crop Diversity:

People have survived in the hill villages due to the great diversity in cultivated crop varieties of cereals,

millets, pulses, oilseed, spices and vegetables. This diversity has been declining in recent years due to many

factors. INHERE has now started collecting seeds of traditional crop varieties from farmers who still have

them and giving them to farmers who need them. The diversity in varieties of different seeds collected is

shown in the following table. These varieties have been collected from 47 farmers of 40 villages. INHERE

plans to continue this task with more intensity and to establish seed bank of above said crop varieties. It is

also engaging farmers in multiplying the seed.

Sl. Crop Name Local Name Variety

1. Paddy Dhan 1. Dangsal 2. Rajma Dhan 3. Saket 4. Lal Dhan 5.

Sal ke Dhan 6. Lathmar Dhan

2. Wheat Gehun 1. Sat Gehun 2. Rat Gehun 3. Kalyani Gehun

3. Barley Gau 1. Gau 2. Ujo 3. Gau local 4. Gau Local

4. Ragi Mandua 1. Mandua Unnat 2. Mandua local 3. Mandua

Rad 4. Mandua Black

5. Foxtail Jhungora Jhungora Local 2 Varieties (Unnamed)

6. Barnyard Koni 1. Black Koni 2. White Koni

7 Arhar Tor 1. Local Brown 2. VL-13

8 Kulthi Gahat 1. Gahat Brown 2. Gahar Black

9. Lobia Rains 1. Local Rains

10. Black Soyabean Bhatt 1. Round Bhatt 2. Flat Bhatt

11. Soyabean Bhatt 1. White Soyabean

12. Rajma Rajma 1. Brown Rajma

13. Lentil Masoor 1. Local Black

14. Mustered Sarson 1. Yellow

15. Rai Rai 1. Local Rai

16. Lahi Lahi 1. Local Lahi

17. Linseed Alsi 1. Local Alsi

18. Sesamum Til 1. Black Til 2. Brown Til 3. White Til

19. Bhangira Bhangira 1. Local Bhangira

20. Fenugreek Methi 1. Local Mathi

21. Ajwayan Ajwayan 1. Local Ajwayan

22. Jakhiya Jakhiya 1. Local Jakhiya

23. Coriander Dhaniya 1. Local Dhania


Peoples Biodiversity Register:

INHERE has in the past prepared Peoples Biodiversity Register. This year we participated in a capacity

building workshop on Peoples Biodiversity register organized by the Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board and

were selected to prepare Biodiversity Registers for two villages. The initiative now has to be taken by the

village Biodiversity Management Committee.

International Bio Diversity Day Celebration:

International bio-diversity day was celebrated on May 22, 2014 at Malsakhet. The main causes affecting

bio-diversity were highlighted and discussed. These emerged as forest fires, open grazing, peoples mind set

for monoculture plantation and production, forest mafia, illegal plant cutting, mass road and other

construction. The importance of biodiversity in domesticated and wild animals, land and water resources

and human culture and how to preserve this heritage was discussed by the participants.

Catchment Area Protection:

Water source catchment area protection was undertaken as part of the Water and Sanitation Project

(WATSAN) till Oct 2014. The objectives were to sustain discharge of water so that community can take long

term measures to reduce top soil erosion, increase soil moisture regime, increase water table, develop

awareness among the villagers about optimizing use of resources. For structures made in the past

community carried out desilting of trenches, check dams and check bunds. Plants in catchment area were

protected by making thamla, mulching and fire line. During the year meetings with village community and

village management committees were organized in which importance of water source catchment area

protection, activities to be undertaken and role of community was discussed.

In addition all the gabion check dam in Chintoli and Chauna village damaged by the natural disaster in June

2013 were repaired and reconstructed. Additional measures were taken for protection of the water source.

Sr Name of

village

Tree/Bushes

Plantation (Nos.) GCD (RM)

Percolation Pits

(Nos.)

ANR (Ha.)/Gully

Plug (Rm.)

Contour Terrace

(RM) Fencing (m)

Propo

sed Completed

Prop

osed

Comple

ted

Prop

osed

Complete

d

Prop

osed

Comple

ted

Prop

osed Completed

Propo

sed

Complete

d

1 Chintoli - 34.5 34.5 1 1 3 3 400 400 -

2 Chauna - 29 - 20 20 - 400 400 -

RM: running metre


Climate Change: Regional and National efforts

INHERE as member of the Climate Action Network for South Asia continued to engage with and give

support to the network through electronic media.

Our Founder and Advisor participated as resource person in the workshop “Unlocking potential of youth in

context of climate change in Indian Himalayan Region” organised at Nainital (Uttarakhand) organised by

the Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA). The workshop was aimed at developing a

comprehensive understanding of 56 young participants representing various universities, scientific

institutes and non-profit organisations of Uttarakhand on climate change adaptation and mitigation. We

also participated the high level public event organised by Climate Development and Knowledge Network

(CDKN), CHEA with support from Forest Department, Uttarakhand and Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

to share the findings of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

(IPCC AR 5). This was first time when IPCC AR 5 reached out to sub-national level at Indian Himalayan

Region of the country.

We participated in the National Workshop on Scaling Up of Climate Smart Agriculture: Potential and

Challenges organized by Development Alternatives and Practical Action Consulting on February 12, 2015 in

Delhi. The objective of the workshop was to enhance understanding of the importance of climate smart

agriculture in mitigating climate risks and ensuring food security. At the workshop INHERE shared its

experience and work in Climate smart Agriculture.

INHERE published its experience and learnings in Climate Smart Agriculture: Local innovation and

experimentation by small holder resource poor farmers. The material came from the project Local

Innovation and Experimentation in Climate Change Adaptation implemented by INHERE in Almora and

Chamoli districts of Uttarakhand in the period 2012-14.

Agro Biodiversity Community:

INHERE joined the global agro biodiversity community in 2013 and joined the third meeting of the

community held in Madurai, India. This year from 1-5 October 2014, 41 change makers from the growing

agricultural biodiversity community including from INHERE came together in Boxtel, the Netherlands for

the fourth abc meeting. Participants included farmers, pastoralists, practitioners and scientists and came

from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America. INHERE joined the Open Source Seed Systems

Group for joint learning and strategy development to take further the availability of open seeds which

could be used unhindered by farmers.

Across the world, breeders, farmers, and others concerned with seed systems, have felt the need to

develop an alternative system, based not on intellectual property rights claims but on the ideal that genetic

resources should be in the public domain. This may both refer back to farmers’ traditions of the commons,

or be inspired by the open source software movement. As part of the abc community and working group

we jointly developed a learning product on Open Source Seeds and committed to follow it up with actions.

United Nations Climate Summit:

The United Nations Climate Summit called by the United Nations Secretary General Mr Ban Ki Moon was

held at the United Nations, New York on Sept 23, 2014. Mrs Sonal Bisht, our Founder and Advisor was


invited by the Secretary General to the Summit and she made a statement at the summit on behalf of the

civil society organizations in the session on agriculture.

Global Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture

We participated in the process of formation of Global Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) in

2014. INHERE was present at the Consultation co-organised by Governments of Viet Nam, South-Africa and

The Netherlands with support from the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), FAO, CGIAR/CCAFS

and the Government of Italy, for an Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture. This consultation took place

from 18-20 June, 2014, in Hanoi, Viet Nam.It was part of the formal preparatory work for launching the

Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) at the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Summit in

September 2014.

The Government of the Netherlands, with the support of the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture

Organisation (FAO), organized a Meeting of Partners of the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture

(ACSA), which took place at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague from 9-11 July 2014. The

meeting involved over 120 representatives from governments, international and regional Institutions, as

well as national and regional research organizations, private sector, farmers organizations and Civil Society

Organizations. We took an active part at this event on behalf of NGOs.

The Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture was formally launched In New York on Sept 24, 2014. INHERE

was present at the launch as member of GACSA and our Advisor Ms Sonali Bisht participated in the panel

discussion organized at the launch. We also participated in the first meeting of GACSA held at FAO, Rome in

December 2014 and have been active in the alliance as member of the working group on Enabling

Environment.

Climate Change Adaptation:

The joint regional project on ‘Local innovation and experimentation an entry point to climate change

adaptation for sustainable livelihoods in Asia’ effectively commenced implementation in India from April

2012. The project is being jointly implemented by CEDAC Cambodia, LI-BIRD Nepal, ETC Netherlands and

INHERE, India. This project was completed in Dec 2014.The goal of the three year project 2012-2014 was to

improve the livelihoods of climate change vulnerable rural communities, especially women, dependent on

agriculture and natural resources, through participatory innovation development (PID) to respond to

climate change. The project has three specific objectives:

1. To improve the capacity of rural communities, especially women, dependent on agriculture and

natural resources to innovate in order to adapt to climate change and become more food-secure i.e.

to become ‘Innovative adaptive communities’.

2. To build the capacity of local organizations, CSOs and local government to allow them to effectively

support ‘innovative adaptive communities’.

3. To influence national and international policies towards the recognition of local capacities and

initiatives in addressing the consequences of climate change.

More information on this project is provided under the section Food and Livelihood Security.


FOOD AND LIVELIHOOD SECURITY

Food, nutrition security as well as livelihood security continue to remain the focus area of INHERE. As

INHERE works with rural communities both these issues are closely aligned. At the community level,

INHERE continued to work with farmers to increase risk resilience and to secure livelihoods from farming

under the project Climate Change Adaptation.

Work continued with dairy livestock keepers on improved feed, cross visits to see improved dairying

practices and linkage with market and on the project Maximizing Mountain Agriculture with focus on seed

production and certification. Along with this in this reporting year one new project: Mobilizing and

Supporting Youth in Sustainable Agriculture was initiated. INHERE continued to provide field support to its

sister organisation, INHERE Aajivika Uththan Samiti for organic farming.

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

The project on climate change adaptation through local innovation and experimentation which commenced

in January 2012 went through its third and final year which completed on 31st

Dec. 2014. The major

activities taken up were:

.

Replication of identified innovation by farmers:

For ensuring food security in changed climatic conditions five innovations identified initially continued to be

tested by farmers through joint experimentation for participatory innovation development. Other

innovations were also identified.

1. Small implements for agriculture and post harvest work

In the last two years farmers were involved in trials of agriculture implements to assess comfort, utility,

durability and reduction in work load, especially of women. The implements tried out are VL Syahi Hal,

darati, kudal, khurpi, rake, line maker, paddy and millet thresher. Some farmers found them useful and

procured them from Farmer fairs and other sources. During the reporting period total 454 farmers of 22

villages tried out these implements.

2. Akarkara for white grub control.

This year 54 farmers tried out the innovation and found the results were good. Overall 78 farmers of 12

villages have tried this method and most reported positive results.

3. In situ water conservation in terraced field:

In situ water conservation was tried out by digging shallow trenches on both sides of the field. Land

leveling, bunding, sectional division of fields and mulching measures were also taken to conserve and hold

water longer. Total 78 farmers of 9 villages tried out in situ water conservation measures. Most farmers

reported increase in soil humus and fertility with increase in production. So far 118 farmers have tried

various in situ water conservation measures. In situ water conservation techniques are also spreading to

nearby villages.

4. Liquid Manures and Botanicals:


Attack of different new diseases and insects on crops is being seen. Chemical pesticides available are

harmful for land, human life and environment. So farmers are being motivated for using liquid manures and

botanicals as pest and disease controllers. Farmers were encouraged to prepare and try out panchgavya

and some botanicals prepared by fermenting locally available plants in cow urine. In this period 81 farmers

of 9 villages tried out these liquid manure and botanicals with satisfactory results.

5. Drought resistant crops:

Under joint experimentation in kharif season of 2014 VPKAS promoted varieties VL Madua- 324, Paddy 62,

65, 85 and 87, Bhatt VL- 65, Soya VL-63, Gahat VL-15, Arhar VL-1, Ground nut VL-1 along with Pusa basmati

1503 were made available to farmers for trials.. These varieties were tried out in 207 Nalis by 81 farmers of

5 villages. Average production increased in all the above crops by 1.5 times. All these crops were seen to be

more resilient to drought.

Sr Name of Seed Variety Area Covered Farmers Involved

1 Paddy VL Dhan- 62, 65, 85,

87

207 Nali

81 Farmers

(37 Women, 44

Men)

2 Pusa Basmati 1509

3 Ragi VL- Ragi- 324

4 Bhatt VL- Bhatt- 65

5 Soyabean VL- Soya- 63

6 Gahat VL- Gahat- 15

7 Arhar VL- Arhar- 1

8 Groundnut VL- Mungfali- 1

Promotion of SRI/SCI Method in Paddy & other crops:

Seeing the good results of Sustainable Rice Intensification (SRI) method in previous years and with shared

experience more farmers felt motivated to adopt this method. This year 44 farmers of 19 villages tried the

SRI technique. Sustainable Crop Intensification method was applied in madua and pulses crop and

experimented by 75 farmers of 26 villages. The average production increased by 1.5 to 2 times more in

each crop using this method.

Results of Rabi crop under joint experimentation in 2013-14:

In the Rabi season of 2013 two varieties of wheat VL- 829 and 616 were experimented. These varieties are

of dual purpose providing green fodder and grain. The farmers of Naugaon and Bina who tried this cut the

crop after 60-70 days for fodder. The fodder obtained was 74 kg per nali. After that in each plant tillering

was at least 6-7 tillers. In some plants 10-15 tillers were also noticed. Production was 1.5 to 2 times more

than the traditional seed.


Trainings to community organizations:

Total 6 trainings/ workshops were organized during the reporting period on different issues in which total

118 farmers participated.

Sr Date Subject No. of

Participants

No. of

Villages

1. 24.04.2014 Develop understanding on climate change

adaptation and innovation

27 10

2. 30.05.2014 Training on SRI/SCI and seed trials 14 07

3. 30.06.2014 Practical training of SRI/SCI on field 15 INHERE

Staff

4. 12.09.2014 Understanding on innovations and dissemination

of successful innovations

42 13

5. 18.09.2014 Training on bee keeping 50 11

6. 31.10.2014 Sharing of experiences 40 12

Documentation on Agriculture:

Innovations of farmers identified were documented so that other farmers could benefit from this

information. The farmer innovation documented are:

- Use of poly bags for growing vegetable saplings.

- Developing onion nursery under shed made of dry biomass and bamboo to protect from hailstorm.

- Case study on SRI and SCI joint experimentation.

- Control whitegrub with Akarkara plants.

- Use of new agriculture implements.

- Promotion of drought resistant crops.

- In situ water conservation methods.

- Preparation of organic liquid manures and pesticides.

- Cultivation of cardamom.

- Protection of potato crop.

- Peoples perception on climate change (in Hindi & English)

International Farmers Innovation Day Celebration- On 29th

November 2014 International Farmers

Innovation Day was celebrated at INHERE Chinoni Campus. In this event total 282 farmers and government

officials consisting 135 women and 147 men participated.

Sharing of experiences

Experiences of CCA project are being shared with the farmers of adjoining non project villages namely

Chinoni,Patalgaon,Basnalgaon,Goragaon,Kanikhola,Basedi,Dangarkhola,Nirkot,Patas,Chauna,Chintoli,

Farika,Bagdi,Baralgaon,Bakhli,Pechuni, Chitad,Chasila,Sartoli and Rekhari. Farmers of these villages are

becoming aware of various adaptation techniques innovated by fellow farmers and validated by other

farmers.


Open Source Seed Inititiative

The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) was established in May, 2012, by a group of public plant breeders,

small seed company plant breeders, farmer-breeders, and advocates for seed sovereignty. OSSI was formed

in the United States of America in order to enhance innovation in plant breeding by the creation of a

licensing framework for germplasm exchange that would preserve the right to unencumbered use of

shared seeds and their progeny in subsequent use. The objective was to develop a legally defensible license

for germplasm in the way that the free and open source software movement developed its licenses.

INHERE also believes in an open seed policy that puts seeds in the public realm as a common resource. At

the abc community meeting in Boxtel in October 2014 INHERE participated in the sub group on open source

seeds. INHERE has been developing and advocating open pollinated seeds to enable the farmers to retain

their seed.

Maximizing Mountain Agriculture

Maximising mountain agriculture project commenced in Sep 2013 and will last till Aug 2016 for three years.

The objective of the project is meet the need for quality seeds of main food grain crops. For producing

quality seeds one cluster consisting of 6 villages along western Ramganga river valley of Chaukhutia block,

district Almora has been selected under the project. Seed production of wheat, paddy and some pulses is

prioritised in this phase of the project.

Seven producer groups and one cooperative have been formed for seed production and marketing. In these

producer groups there are total 161 members and the cooperative has 159 members. Producer groups are

generating their own corpus for sustainability. In kharif season paddy crop was taken for cultivation

demonstration and seed production in 7.6 ha area with 174 farmers.

In Rabi crop 7.38 ha area comprising fields of 159 farmers was taken for wheat cultivation. The varities of

wheat are VL-907,829 and HD-2962. Besides support from INHERE, community has been contributing in

different activities like land preparation, manuaring, harvesting, storage and maintenance.

Kharif season 2014 -15

Sr Name of

village

N0. of

farmer

Crop Name Variety Area in Nali Average yield in

Quintal

1 Bakhali 22 Paddy VL-85 69 58.94

2 Baralgaon 37 Paddy VL-85 70 57.53

3 Akheti 15 Paddy VL-85 49 39.195

4 Pechuni 22 Paddy VL-85 49 43.32

5 Chhitar 24 Paddy VL-85 56.5 46.46

6 Bagari 40 Paddy VL-85 91.5 76.03

7 Bakhali,Pechuni

and Chhitar

10 Paddy Pusa

Basmati-

1509

10 8.11

8 Baralgaon 4 Paddy VL-62 9.25 9.04

Total 174 458 338.625

Rabi season 2014-15


Sr Name of

village

N0. of

farmer

Crop

Name

Variety Area in

Nali

Area

Extension in

ha

Average yield in

Quintal

1 Bakhali 26 Wheat VL-907 64.2 3

Crop is about to

be harvested in

the month of

April/May

2 Baralgaon 13 Wheat VL-907 27 4

3 Amsari 8 Wheat VL-907 29 0.3

4 Pechuni 6 Wheat VL-907 30 3.5

5 Chhitar 10 Wheat VL-907 21 3

6 Bagari 9 Wheat VL-907 0 2

7 Bakhali 1 Wheat VL-829 2

15 ha area

extension

nearby

villages

8 Baralgaon 33 Wheat VL-829 100

9 Amsari 1 Wheat VL-829 2.5

10 Pechuni 16 Wheat VL-829 45

11 Chhitar 5 Wheat VL-829 12.5

12 Bagari 23 Wheat VL-829 49

13 Baralgaon 2 Wheat HD-2967 4.5

14 Bagari 1 Wheat HD-2967 2.5

15 Bakhali 1 Wheat HD-2967 2

16 Chhitar 1 Wheat HD-2967 2

17 Pechuni 3 Wheat HD-2967 3

Total 159 369.2 15.03

In the project villages 174 farmers have developed knowledge and skills in seed production.11 producer

groups are formed and functioning well. Their total deposit in the Bank is Rs 44775. One cluster level

cooperative has been formed. Crop productivity has increased by 20-25% and market linkage developed

with the Terai Seed Development Corporation.

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change- Phase -2

The second phase of climate change adaptation commenced in January 2015.The initial work was staff

selection and orientation to the second phase of the project. For this phase 27 new villages consisting of 11

villages of Jaurasi Zone and 16 villages of Deghat zone of district Almora Uttarakhand were provisionally

identified for work. The criteria used was of new village to project, good potential for agriculture, rainfed

mountain villages where agriculture is still mainstay of livelihood, mix of valley and ridge villages with

altitudinal variation (900 mtr. to 1500 mtr), availability of experienced and senior citizen farmers,

accessibility for coordination of the villages. I t was however decided that there would no boundaries for

looking for and identifying innovations.

In the reporting period 19 village level meetings were held along with two workshops.

Mobilizing and supporting youth in sustainable agriculture

The project mobilizing and supporting youth in sustainable agriculture in the Kumaon and Garhwal

Himalayas of Uttrakhand commenced implementation in January 2015. The goal of the three year project

2015-2017 is that young men and women develop their own future perspective in agriculture and are


involved in agro ecology and agro biodiversity to make agriculture a sustainable source of livelihood for the

young generation in rural villages in Kumaon and Garhwal Himalayas.

The initiation of the project involved selection of staff for the project and their orientation to the project,

its components and requirements. The staff was selected and appointed in January 2015. Two staff

meetings were organised for orientation to the project, its components and specific requirements and

understanding.

Following the selection of project personnel, project villages as well as youth men and women in farming

were identified in the selected villages. Total 20 villages consisting of 5 villages of Jaurasi Zone, 1 village of

Deghat zone, 6 villages of Dunagiri Zone, 2 villages of Taragtal Zone of district Almora and 6 villages of

Gairsain zone of distrint Chamoli Garhwal were initially identified for the purpose. Between January and

March total 110 youth farmers comprising of 89 women and 21 men farmers from 13 villages were

identified. Village level orientation meetings and rientation workshop for youth was held .

Improving Productivity and Incomes from Milk

The Milk IT project continued in its third and last year. The project for enhancing dairy based livelihoods in

India and Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approach, called Milk IT Project

was implemented in selected villages of Uttarakhand (India) and Morogoro region (Tanzania). The partner

NGOs in India were INHERE and CHIRAG while in Tanzania, Sokoine Agriculture University and HIMWA

(NGO) implemented this project.

In this last year 32 village level meeting were organized for dairy formation, grass seed sowing and

community motivation for more milk production through cow rearing. Door to door contact meetings were

held for sowing of kharif crop with fodder potential (100kg maize and 10kg finger millet). In villages Baseri,

Musoli, Sainkuda and Baserbagad 26 RCC cattle troughs were constructed. Two dairy innovation platform

and four feed innovation platform meetings were held in which local and regional stakeholders from Block

administration, Aanchal dairy, KVK , Ajeevika Project, INHERE and ILRI participated.

Community level motivational meetings were organized in villages Baseri, Musoli, Sutoli, Barkinda,

Besarbagad, Bunga, Chirangaheet & Gahna Timli for enhancing milk production and sale through Aanchal

cooperative. One paravet from village Nail was trained by the Uttarakhand Livestock Development Board,

(ULDB) Rishikesh. One new dairy at village Kunidhar was started by village community with support from

Aanchal Dairy cooperative. Two new dairies at villages Saknada & Bunga were formed and milk collection

will soon be started. One training on dairy management at GB Pant University of Agriculture and

Technology (GBPUAT) was organized. House hold survey of 9 new settlements (Nailwal pali and Gahna) was

done. Process documentation and data entry of all the activities was done as regular activity. Contact

meetings were held for dairy formation in Kunheel, Khalyu, Jhimar and Dungra.15 Gujarat model chaff

cutter were made available to village Baser bagad,Chiranga heet,Kulhul bakhaki,Baseri and Musoli in Salt

Block.

Sale of Milk by Small Group Dairies

Sr Name of Dairy No. of

farmers

selling

milk

Quantity of

Milk Sold in

liters/day

Villages and Village Toks

covered

Average earning in Rs

farmer/month


1. Baseri 25 35 Baseri, Sutoli, Musoli 1050

2. Gahna Timli 12 12 Gahna timli, Gahna heet, 750

3. Saknada 24 14 Saknada 437

4. Besarbagad 33 45 Besar bagad, Chirangaheet 1023

5. Bunga 21 Yet to be sold Bunga -------------

Details of Grasses introduced farmers and land wise

Sr Name of crop No. of farmers Quantity of

seed

Cultivated area

(Nali)

Remarks

1. Maize 123 100 kg 60 Nali More fodder and

seed. Cows,

buffaloes likes.

2. Ragi 123 10 kg 30 Nali More fodder and

seed.

Cows/buffaloes

dislike.

3. Rai 108 20 kg 100 Nali Poor result/

Cow/buffalo likes.

4. Dolni 108 20 kg 100 Nali Poor result. Cows,

buffaloes dislike.

5. Broom 108 20 kg 100 Nali Poor result/

Cow/buffalo likes.

6. Sita grass root

turf

48 100 kg 240 running meters More fodder.

Cows, buffaloes

likes.

7. Napier root

turf

152 6100 kg 7000 running meters More fodder.

Cows, buffaloes

likes.

9. Wheat 39 200 kg 100 Nali More fodder and

seed. Cows,

buffaloes dislike.

10. Oat 7 10 kg 6 Nali More fodder and

seed. Cows,

buffaloes dislike.

11. Barley 10 20 kg 12 Nali More fodder and

seed. Cows,

buffaloes dislike.

Improved variety cows tested

Sl.

No.

Name of beneficiary No. of cows Village name Remarks

1. Kundan Singh Ghugtyal 1 Jersey Baseri Did not give expected


production

2. Bahadur Singh 1 Sindhi Sutoli Did not give expected

production

Note: The grass seeds of rai, dolni and broom did not grow well but other seeds had better results.

Support to Organic Villages:

There are at present 68 certified organic villages consisting of 1,952 farmers with whom INHERE is

facilitating organic agriculture. These villages are divided into 4 Internal Control Systems (ICS) in each of

which are an average of 17 villages. Organic agriculture requires regular interaction and support to the

farmers for solutions to problems and to meet the paperwork and documentation requirements. This year

a team constituted by INHERE reviewed the organic villages and mobilized farmers into organic farmer

groups. Reorientation meetings were held with farmers. Refresher trainings on organic farming, it’s

importance in present scenario and market opportunity of organic products was imparted to the farmers.

The strategy for selling organic produce from villages was also chalked out. Identity cards of farmers are

being made. Each group has a joint identity with a Pan Card registration enabling organized financial

transactions. Volunteer from each village has been identified for involving them in organic work assistance.

Trainings were held on preparing organic manures, growth promoters, pests and disease controllers. Soil

and water conservation measure were planned with the farmers. During the reporting period in all the 69

villages meetings/trainings were organized involving approximately 1800 farmers of these villages.


BASIC SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Basic infrastructure is a right and requirement of communities living in remote rural areas and contributes

to their quality life. The water and sanitation programme implemented by INHERE under Himmotthan

project continued in 6 villages. In the multi stakeholder community based program, the village community

as the biggest and most important stakeholder participated actively in the planning, implementation,

operation and maintenance of their own water system for assured and safe water for drinking and

domestic use.

As a means to enhance participation of the community, events and processes for building awareness,

motivation and capacity development were undertaken. These included interactions, trainings, meetings,

and information writings. The themes were project activities, implementation and maintenance of the

assets generated, timely deposit of tariffs and contributions, gender balance, women development, viable

income generation activities, quality and transparency of work, importance of individual and domestic

hygiene, objective and importance of generating corpus fund, environment protection and water

conservation, over coming social evils, timely renewal of insurance policy and organizing community for

maintenance.

During the period total 106 meetings and follow-up meetings were conducted in which 1856 people

participated. Wall writings on structures constructed in village Malsakhet, Chintoli, Qwerali, Farika, Chauna

and Farika highlighted important information and messages. Cleanliness campaigns were organized at

regular interval and efforts made to for this activity to become a part of community practice and behavior.

During the period 49 cleanliness campaigns were organized in which 779 community members contributed

their labour. The community members were also trained to incorporate healthy practices into their

everyday life. The topics were:

• Hygienic Use of Drinking Water

• Nutrition and Balanced Diet

• Environmental Hygiene

• Importance of Potable Water

• Mother & Child Health

• Personal Hygiene

• Water Borne Diseases

• Importance of Cleanliness

• Importance of Latrine

• Use of waste water

• Diarrhea Management

Cleanliness Campaign

Sr Name of Village No. of

Campaigns

No. of Participants

M F T

1 Qwairali Walli 7 64 70 134

2 Farika 7 30 47 77

3 Malsakhet 7 63 67 130

4 Chauna 14 94 151 245

5 Chintoli 7 40 62 102


6 Biralgaon 7 35 56 91

Total 49 326 453 779

During the period health and hygiene related awareness activities, debate and quizzes on health,

environment and sanitation activity (HESA) were organized for community and school children in

Malsakhet, Chintoli, Biralgaon, Farika and Chauna villages. 72 villagers participated in the HESA activity and

115 Students participated in HESA Quiz and debate. Health equipment like nail cutter, tooth brush,

toothpaste, soap were distributed to students for motivation and encouragement. In all 06 project villages

health camps were also organized with qualified BAMS doctors in which 198 patients were treated and

advised.

To assess the impact of the mass health initiatives taken 12th

participatory healthy home survey was

conducted in the month of Oct. 2014. The results emerged found very encouraging. 100% households were

found to have adoption of identified good practices between 76-100 %.

Healthy Home survey

Detail of Self Help Groups Position

Sr Name of

Village

Name of SHG Date of

Formation

Name of Bank &

A/c No.

No. of

Members

Monthly

Saving

(Rs.)

Total

Saving

since

formation

(Rs.)

Inter-

loan

given

since

Formatio

n in No.

Total

loaning

since

formatio

n in Rs.

1 Qwairali Walli

(Jhunela

Gaon)

Jai Bhumiya

SHG

5.1.2012 Almora Zila

Sahkari Bank

Ltd. A/c No.

9947

11213 5000

2 Farika

(Dhar ki

Bakhali)

Shiv Shakti 16.11.11 Bank of Baroda,

Jaurasi A/c No.

2381010000206

1

36354 20000

Ekta SHG 5.1.2012 Oriental Bank of

Commerce,

Deghat A/c No.

37698 46500

Sr Name of Village Total HH Surveyed

HH

12th

HHS Result

Below 25 (%) 26-50 (%) 51-75 (%) 76-100 (%)

1 Qwairali Walli 20 20 0 0 0 20

2 Farika 16 16 0 0 0 16

3 Malsakhet 24 24 0 0 0 24

4 Chauna 44 44 0 0 0 44

5 Chintoli 18 18 0 0 0 18

6 Biralgaon 16 16 0 0 0 16

Total 138 138 0 0 0 138


3 Chauna 0311201100505

3

Women SHG 11.1.2011 Oriental Bank of

Commerce,

Deghat A/c No.

0311201100403

2

70920 55800

4 Chintoli

(Okhayar

Bakhali &

Doba)

Saraswati

SHG

25.1.12 SBI,

Mehalchauri A/c

No.

32241812568

15983 10000

5 Biralgaon

(Deshwal

Bakhali)

Jagrati SHG 16.11.11 S.B.I., Pesia A/c

No.3205081982

9

33903 24000

6 Malsakhet Jai Bhagwati

Utpadak

5.7.2011 Bank of Baroda,

Jaurasi A/c No.

2381010000191

0

12011 0

Total 7 218082 161300

Various community development activities were performed for successful implementation and

sustainability of the project as well as capacity development of the community. These included personal

contacts, group meetings, trainings and workshops with Self Help Groups (SHGs) and Village Management

Samities (VMS)

Village wise detail of the community meetings, Village Management Societies meetings and Self Help Group

meetings is given in following tables:

Details of Meetings

Sr Village Name Community Meeting VMS Meeting SHG Meeting

No. Person No. Person No. Person

1 Qwairali Walli 7 134 3 60 7 114

2 Farika 7 84 3 73 8 117

3 Malsakhet 8 150 3 52 0 0

4 Chauna 8 264 4 81 14 277

5 Chintoli 7 102 3 53 7 80

6 Biralgaon 7 39 3 64 7 112

Total 44 773 19 383 43 700


1. Training and Workshop

As per Project Implementation Plan following training and workshops were organized:

Details of Trainings/Workshops Conducted During the Period

Sr Name of Activity Participants Remarks

1 Women Seminar and Empowerment

workshop

60 SHG interaction and strengthening.

Experience sharing and get together. Case

study of success story. Importance of

regular saving and inter-loaning. Discussion

on micro finance.

2 Staff Follow-up Training 19 Follow-up refresher workshop of staff for

clear understanding and smooth running of

implementation activities.

3 2 Days HESA Training 54 Importance of HESA programme, Mother

and child health care awareness,

Comparative study of village hygiene,

Immunization, communicable diseases and

their prevention.

4 7 days Construction & Technology

Training for Mason & Fitter

31 Technical knowledge for feasibility, source

selection, design criteria, understanding

about various water supply structures, CAD

and protection works and quality work in

reference to operation & maintenance.

5 Women Empowerment & SHG

workshop





on micro finance.

6 Tariff Fixation Workshop in 5 villages

(2 days)

124 Orientation of community on fixation of

terrif and maintenance of water supply

scheme.

7 3 Days Training on Preventive and

curative Maintenance

71 Operation and maintenance training

organized especially for VMS members.

8 3 Days Book Keeping, Accounts &

Management Training on O&M to

VMS

67 Skill enhancement on maintenance of

account and storage.

9 2 Days HESA Training 134 Importance of HESA programme,

communicable diseases, focused on Safe

delivery, immunization, maternal & child

health care, prevention of disease, general

health & hygiene.

10 Conflict Resolution Workshop with

MS & Community

116 Discussion on conflicts and their resolution,

formation of byelaws for smooth

implementation of water supply.


11 Village Level Coordination Meeting

with Gram Panchayat & Village Level

Institutions

124 Impact assessment of various component of

the project by the community.

12 Impacts Assessment Exercise with

Community

111 Coordination workshop with Gram

Panchayat and other village level institutions

for sustainability of the project.

13 Project Sustainability Exercise with

Community

114 Project sustainability exercise by community

for developing future strategies.

Community Contribution

For bringing ownership feeling and sustainability of the project, 10% community cash contribution is

mandatory in the water scheme. Along with this one years Operation and Maintenance fund is also to be

deposited in advance. Till the present reporting period following cash contribution has been made by the

community.

Community Contribution – Water Supply

Sr

Name of Villages

Target Contribution for

Water supply

10% (Rs.)

Contribution

Collected for water

supply ( Rs.)

Percentage

(%)

1 Qwairali Walli 71301 75901 106

2 Farika Dhar 115528 140528 121

3 Malsakhet 54851 57351 104

4 Chauna 113853 113853 100

5 Chintoli 78984 80000 101

6 Biralgaon 66854 67000 100

Total 501371 534633 107

Status of Contribution for Operation and Maintenance

Sr Village Target (Rs.)

Achievement

(Rs.) Achievement in %


2 Farika Dhar 17626 17626 100

3 Malsakhet 12677 12677 100

4 Chauna 16901 16947 100

5 Chintoli 14748 19357 131

6 Biralgaon 13775 15575 113

Total 89280 95734 107


Status of Corpus Fund

Sr Village

Target

(Rs)

Achievement

(Rs)

Achievement in

%


2 Farika Dhar 50000 16146 32

3 Malsakhet 50000 21419 43

4 Chauna 50000 2603 5

5 Chintoli 50000 11062 22

6 Biralgaon 50000 14958 36

Total 300000 66833 22

Technical and Engineering Activities

In 09 project villages individual sanitation work was implemented. Three villages Farika, Biralgaon and

Chintoli became open defecation free. Tata Trust provided incentive of Rs. 10000/- immediately to these

villages which motivated other project villages also.

Details of Individual items

S.N. Name of village Toilets Soak Pits Garbage Pits Bathroom

T C T C T C T C

1 Fadika 6 6 4 5 8 8 0 3

2 Quairali Walli 12 9 3 1 20 20 0 4

3 Malsakhet 18 15 6 7 15 15 0 13

4 Chauna 29 20 5 3 40 40 0 14

5 Chintoli 15 15 14 3 14 14 0 9

6 Kalchhipa Joshi 35 16 18 5 37 37 0 13

7 Biralgaon 12 12 4 4 16 16 0 7

8 Dugora 12 6 0 0 8 0 0 5

9 Batkotali 13 7 0 0 0 0 0 4

Total 152 106 54 28 158 150 0 72


Source Measurement and rainfall data

All the water sources are being measured and water discharge was found sufficient as per the requirement

of villages. Rain gauge was installed in all the villages where catchment development work was done and

rain fall data was taken regularly.

Water Supply Works

Work on all the 6 water supply schemes was completed in all the project villages and operation and

maintenance work was initiated.

Water Supply Works

Sl. Name of

village

Type of work Others /

Stand Post

Source Work Supply Main Distribution

Main

Treatment

Work

CWR

1 Qwairali

Walli

SCC Drain Type -

100% complete 100% complete

100% complete RF - 100%

complete

5000 liter. -

100%

complete

S.P.- 100%

complete

2 Farika SCC Drain Type-

100% Complete 100% complete

100% complete SSF 3 sqm.-

100% complete

7500 liter.

100% complete

S.P.- 100%

complete

3 Malsakhet SCC Drain Type-

100% Complete 100% complete 100% complete

RF - 100%

complete

5000 liter.-

100%

complete

S.P.- 100%

complete

4 Chauna SCC Wing Wall-

100% Complete 100% complete 100% complete

RF – 100%

Complete

12500 liter.-

100%

complete

S.P.- 100%

complete

5 Chintoli

SCC Wing Wall-

In 100%

Complete

100% complete 100% complete RF- 100%

complete

5000 liter.-

100%

complete

S.P.- 100%

complete

6

Biralgaon

SCC Drain Type-

100% Complete

100%

complete 100% complete

SSF 3 sqm.-

100% complete

5000 liter.

100%

complete

S.P.- 100%

complete

Impact:

Women have the responsibility for provision of water so provision of secure and safe water benefits them

directly. Apart from social development activities, women participated in many activities linked with the

project. Raw material transport and other labour work was done by the women enabling them to earn

good wages and feel ownership for the scheme too. The provision of drinking water at door step has

resulted in considerable time saving and reduction of drudgery.

In project villages women self help groups have been formed and women are dealing with financial matters

like collection of monthly saving and deposit it in the Bank, regulating inter-loaning among the members,

and assuring repayment of the loan with interest and promotion of house hold income generating

activities.


Women have started raising issues related social evils, corruption and other community matters unitedly at

one platform.

Health and environment awareness is also quite encouraging among the people of all project villages. In

each village monthly cleanliness campaign, initiatives for checking open grazing and forest fire have been

initiated in which women are playing a major role.

Provision of low cost toilet, garbage and soak pits facilities in majority of the households and motivation for

keeping clean and hygienic cattle-sheds, proper disposal of cow dung and maintaining proper drainage in

and around village premises has generated healthy atmosphere.

The healthy home survey conducted during the inception of the project reflects that over all healthy home

percentage in project villages is now near total

Improving Community Health through Drinking Water and Sanitation in Disaster Affected Villages of

Garhwal, Uttarakhand

In June 2013, a multi-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating

floods and landslides becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. Though some

parts of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in India experienced the flood, some regions

of Western Nepal, and some parts of Western Tibet also experienced heavy rainfall, over 95% of the

casualties occurred in Uttarakhand. As of 16 July 2013, according to figures provided by the Uttarakhand

government, more than 5,700 people were "presumed dead”.

From 2010 onward Garhwal Himalaya has been visited by severe natural disaster almost every year on

account of which majority of the villages are struggling for basic amenities like transport, electricity, safe

drinking water, sanitation and even food. In this situation INHERE in partnership with Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun identified 40 disaster affected villages for providing safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.

Out of these 40 villages 30 occur in Rudraprayag and 10 villages in Uttarkashi district. A prefeasibility study

for drinking water and sanitation was carried out in these affected villages and has been submitted for

support to implement project providing this basic and much needed infrastructure.


HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: BUILDING CAPACITY

Building of human capacity and competency, especially of those whose voices have remained unheard can

be remarkably transformative. Cutting across all the work INHERE does is the effort to build human

capacity, competency and the ability to network with those in the same situation and jointly raise and work

on issues of common concern.

INHERE works to form and strengthen community based groups and organizations around issues of

common concern such as farmer groups, women groups, youth groups, special interest groups. It helps to

build capacity of the members and networking among groups as required so that capacities stay on even

after direct support through targeted projects has ended. This is done through trainings, workshops,

exposures and solidarity events.

In the reporting period INHERE worked with smallholder farmers, seed producers, women self help groups

and community based organizations as components of projects or directly.

Medium Term Cooperation Program (MTCP-2)

The Medium Term Cooperation Program -2, aided by the International Fund for Agriculture Development,

supports farmers organizations in the Asia Pacific region. The overall goal of the project is to improve the

livelihoods of the rural poor producers and to enable small farmers organizations in the Asia Pacific region

and their networks to influence policies affecting their members. The project is being implemented across

10 pilot countries in the region of South East Asia, China and South Asia. INHERE is associated with the

South Asia program component which is being coordinated by SEWA India.

The program has three main components focused on capacity building.

1. Strengthening networks of farmers organisations

2. Strengthening the involvement of farmers organisations in policy processes.

3. Promote the involvement of farmers organisations and associations in IFAD country programmes.

INHERE has linked its farmer groups with this program and chalked out a program for building capacity,

solidarity and networking among farmers.

Grassroots Foresight Initiative

The Grassroots Foresight Initiative responds to the uneven capacities to engage on foresight and shape

research and policy agendas. The future is shaped by the views of the international community and

organizations from advanced and emerging countries, they address global issues with limited application to

local development. At the Global Conference on Agriculture Research and Development -2 held at Punta

del Este, Uruguay in 2012 stakeholders called for a farmer-led, farmer managed foresight process engaging

local level organizations in a forward thinking initiative. INHERE was present at the meeting represented by

Ms Sonali Bisht who also co chaired the session. The call from stakeholders present was to empower

farmers and farmer organizations in foresight and for their genuine and not symbolic presence in planning.

As a follow up Grassroots Foresight initiatives were taken by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research

(GFAR) in many regions of the world. In Asia, the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), headquartered in the


Philippines has taken responsibility for workshops to be organized in India, Indonesia and Philippines. To

this end GFAR conducted a Training of Trainers (TOT) in Quezon City, Phillippines from 2nd

Feb. to 7th

Feb.

2015.

For participation in TOT three grass root organizations, one from each country were identified and invited.

1. From India: - The Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education.

2. From Philippines: - PAKISAMA (Federaration of Farmers Organisations in the Philippines

3. From Indonesia:- API (Farmers Organisation)

The training was conducted by Mr Robin Bourgeois from GFAR. Three representatives from INHERE- Mrs.

Sonali Bisht, Mr. Manoj Maheshwari and Mr Sudhir Saxena participated in the training to build their own

capacity to train others in taking up Grassroots Foresight work. In February 2015 follow up workshop in

India was discussed with AFA and contract signed for a Grassroots Foresight Workshop in India – process to

be undertaken March- May with reporting in June 2015. In March 2015 two workshops were conducted to

orient and train the staff of INHERE. The training material was translated from English to Hindi to facilitate

its application.

The desired outcome of the grassroots foresight initiative is to enhance regional foresight capabilities for

greater self determination and empower farmers and national stakeholders to better negotiate their own

agriculture future.

Readiness for Climate Change Resilience:

Three staff members participated in a workshop organized on April 26th

– to 2nd

May 2014 at Jabalpur

Madhya Pradesh for better understanding of community resilience to climate change and application of

community resilience assessment tools in the field. The workshop was hosted by the Jabalpur Diocesan

Social Service Society with Misereor appointed resource person on climate change.

Joint Experimentation by Farmers

Farmers are encouraged to carry out joint experimentation for varietal selection in farming, innovating and

adapting innovations from elsewhere to their own context. INHERE considers this an empowering activity

for farmers and encourages it. The work done on this under the LINEX-CCA program is given in the section

on Food and Livelihood Security.

Women Self Help Groups

Majority of the youths, especially men, have been migrating from the mountain villages for education or

jobs. It is women who have survived in the villages in spite of facing different individual as well as

community and other village problems. INHERE’s work with women is an ongoing effort right from the 1994

when INHERE started bringing women on one platform and forming their self help groups.

During the reporting period 2014-15 regular meetings/workshops were conducted with 118 members of 7

SHGs for their integrated development as part of the water and sanitation project. The total deposit of

these groups is Rs 218082 and 51 members have taken loans so far amounting to Rs 1,61,300.

The detail of SHGs formed under the project till so far is been given in following table:


Detail of Self Help Groups Position

Sr Name of

Village

Name of

SHG

Date of

Formatio

n

Name of Bank &

A/c No.

No. of

Members

Monthly

Saving

(Rs.)

Total

Saving

since

formation

(Rs.)

Inter-

loan

given

since

Formati

on in

No.

Total

loaning

since

formation

in Rs.

1 Qwairali

Walli

(Jhunela

Gaon)

Jai

Bhumiya

SHG

5.1.2012 Almora Zila

Sahkari Bank Ltd.

11213 2 5000

2 Farika

(Dhar ki

Bakhali)

Shiv Shakti 16.11.11 Bank of Baroda,

Jaurasi

36354 2 20000

3

Chauna

Ekta SHG 5.1.2012 Oriental Bank of

Commerce,

Deghat

37698 14 46500

Women

SHG

11.1.201

1

Oriental Bank of

Commerce,

Deghat

70920 19 55800

4 Chintoli

(Okhayar

Bakhali &

Doba)

Saraswati

SHG

25.1.12 State Bank of

India,

Mehalchauri

15983 10 10000

5 Biralgaon

(Deshwal

Bakhali)

Jagrati SHG 16.11.11 State Bank of

India, Pesia

33903 4 24000

6 Malsakhet Jai

Bhagwati

Utpadak

5.7.2011 Bank of Baroda,

Jaurasi

12011 0 0

Total 7 218082 51 161300

Capacity Development of Community:

During the reporting period various community development activities were performed for successful

implementation and sustainability projects, capacity development of the community was done through

contact, meetings, trainings and workshops.

Meetings were organized with clusters, Village Management Samitis (VMS), Self help Groups (SHG) and

community level for implementation and sustainability of project, transparency in expenses, purchase of

construction material, quality of physical works and sharing of experiences. The main issues of meetings

with SHGS were regular deposition of monthly saving and inter-loaning; maintaining hygiene in village

premises; water supply tariff and regular collection of amount; formalities regarding bank CCL; income

earning opportunities; proper establishment of operation and maintenance system and creation of corpus

fund for sustainability ; resolution and loan applicationand timely repayment of inter-loan; assessment of

results obtained from healthy home survey.


The Village Management Samitis met to pass the various resolution regarding timely completion of the

project work; deposit of extra cash contribution due to rate inflation and additional work required for

water supply works ; resolution for withdrawal of money regarding various software activities ; regular

collection of water charge and arrangement for health camp; discuss sustainability of the project; pending

payments and timely clearance; establishment of O&M system ; evaluate and discuss chlorine testing result

found on various stand posts.

Community meetings discussed proper maintenance of created assets and regular collection of water

charges, approval of private connection, transfer of created assets to related gram panchayat and entry in

fixed asset register, operation and maintenance rules and approval from village community. The village

community passes the various resolutions regarding expenses incurred in software activities. It discusses

proper chlorination and roles of village maintenance worker, equal distribution of water in every stand

posts , result obtained from chlorine testing , pass the accounts of DTR-II at regular interval.

During the reporting period total 44 community meetings,19 VMS meetings and 43 SHG meetings were

organized in which total cumulative participation of the beneficiaries was 1856

Meetings

Thirteen trainings and workshops were organized during the reporting period April –Oct 2014 in which total

1081 beneficiaries participated.

Trainings/Workshops Conducted

Sr Name of Activity Participants Remarks

1 Women Seminar and Empowerment

workshop





on micro finance.

2 Staff Follow-up Training 19 Follow-up refresher workshop of staff for

clear understanding and smooth running of

implementation activities.

3 2 Days HESA Training 54 Importance of HESA programme, Mother

Sr Village Name Community Meeting VMS Meeting SHG Meeting

No. Person No. Person No. Person

1 Qwairali Walli 7 134 3 60 7 114

2 Farika 7 84 3 73 8 117

3 Malsakhet 8 150 3 52 0 0

4 Chauna 8 264 4 81 14 277

5 Chintoli 7 102 3 53 7 80

6 Biralgaon 7 39 3 64 7 112

Total 44 773 19 383 43 700


and child health care awareness,

Comparative study of village hygiene,

Immunization, communicable diseases and

their prevention.

4 7 days Construction & Technology

Training for Mason & Fitter

31 Technical knowledge for feasibility, source

selection, design criteria, understanding

about various water supply structures, CAD

and protection works and quality work in

reference to operation & maintenance.

5 Women Empowerment & SHG

workshop





on micro finance.

6 Terrif Fixation Workshop in 5 villages

(2 days)

124 Orientation of community on fixation of

terrif and maintenance of water supply

scheme.

7 3 Days Training on Preventive and

curative Maintenance

71 Operation and maintenance training

organized especially for VMS members.

8 3 Days Book Keeping, Accounts &

Management Training on O&M to

VMS

67 Skill enhancement on maintenance of

account and storage.

9 2 Days HESA Training 134 Importance of HESA programme,

communicable diseases, focused on Safe

delivery, immunization, maternal & child

health care, prevention of disease, general

health & hygiene.

10 Conflict Resolution Workshop with

MS & Community

116 Discussion on conflicts and their resolution,

formation of byelaws for smooth

implementation of water supply.

11 Village Level Coordination Meeting

with Gram Panchayat & Village Level

Institutions

124 Impact assessment of various component of

the project by the community.

12 Impacts Assessment Exercise with

Community

111 Coordination workshop with Gram

Panchayat and other village level institutions

for sustainability of the project.

13 Project Sustainability Exercise with

Community

114 Project sustainability exercise by community

for developing future strategies.

Producer Groups and Cooperatives:

The Maximizing Mountain Agriculture project envisaged formation of Slf Help Groups, Producer Groups

and Cooperatives to implement and sustain the seed production program. The Self Help Grpoups among

other activities is undertaking a thrift and credit programme for its members.


Self Help Groups Formed and their Savings

Sr Name of

Village

Name of SHGs Savings (Rs.) Saving in

Bank (Rs.) No of

members

Monthly

saving

Total saving

(Rs.)

Total Inter

loaning (Rs.)

1

Baralgaon Shri Mansa Devi

20

50.00

12900.00

5000.00 7900.00

2

Baralgaon Shri Nanda devi

20

50.00

12900.00

7000.00 5900.00

3 Pechuni

Ekta

13 25.00 4550.00 4550.00

4 Pechuni Maa Durga

14 25.00 4900.00 4900.00

5 Chhitar Bhagwati 15 20.00 3300.00 3300.00

6 Bagari Dunagiri 20 20.00 5925.00 4000.00 1925.00

7 Bakhali

Gurugorakhnath

10

50.00 6000.00 6000.00

8 Bakhali Maa Bhagwati 10 50.00 6000.00 6000.00

9 Bagari Agneri 15 20.00 2700.00 2000.00 700.00

10 Chhitar Gouradevi 12 20.00 1920.00 1920.00

11 Baralgaon Deepa mata 12 20.00 1680.00 1680.00

Total 161 62775.00 18000.00 44775.00

Detail of Cooperative/ Federation:

Sr Particulars Description

1 General Information

A Name of Cooperative/ Federation Ram Ganga Swayatt Sahkarita.

B Date of formation of Federation / Cooperative 19.03.2015

C Total No. of members 159

D No. of villages covered under the cooperative 6

E No. of SHGs/ Producer Groups linked with cooperative 12

F No. of Board Members (Board of Directors) in Cooperative 11

G No. of members in Executive committee 3

O Enterprise is being managed by federation with number of activities

taken up for the purpose.

1. Seed production, procurement and

supply to TDC and other sources.

2. Payment collection and

distribution to members.

3. Selection of farmers.

4. Input availability and supply


5. Regular monitoring.

6. Regular management of Common

Facility Centre

Capacity Building Programmes : Training/Exposures/workshop/Seminars Organized

Name of training Level of

program

(Village/

Cluster/

District /

State

level)

Date

(from-to)

Place of event Name of

Resource

person/

agency/

Institution

Groups/

Villages

Covered

No. of participants

Male Female Total

Federation

formation.

Cluster 19.3.15 CFC Baralgaon Mrs. Sumitra

Chouhan and

Dr. Sanjay Joshi

from

Himmotthan

6 village

11 SHG

6 72 78

Post harvest

processing and

marketing

District 20.3.15 VPKAS Almora Dr. Laxmikant

and S.S.

Khetwal

3 village 1 3 4

One day training

on SHG Book

keeping

Central 30.3.15 Inhere Trg.

Centre Chinoni

Smt.Pusplata

Fulouriya

11 SHG’s

/6village

2 20 22

Two days

experience sharing

workshop

District 29.10.14

to

30.10.14

Himmotthan

Almora

Himmotthan

Dehradun staff

Almora

1 staff 1 0 1

One day training

on SHG book

keeping


Centre Chinoni

Inhere project

staff

11 SHG’s

of 6 village

3 22 25

One day training

on sorting, Grading

and packaging


Centre Chinoni

Inhere project

staff

11 SHG’s

of 6 village

3 19 22

Three days Training

of IPM

District

12.8.14 to

14.8.14

VPKAS Almora VPKAS scientist Project

staff

3 1 4

Farmer’s field day Village /on

farm

20.09.14 Village

Pechuni

VPKAS scientist

and Agri. Dept.

Officials

6 village 95 155 250

Paddy nursery

raising

Village /on

farm

17.05.14 Vill. Pechuni,

Bagari and

Chhitar

Mr. P.C.Pant

Consultant

Himmotthan

4 group of

3 villages

15 45 60

Paddy field

preparation,

fertilizer

application and

seedling

transplantation.

Village

level (On

farm)

17.06.14 Village-

Pechuni,

Chhitar &

Bagari

Mr. P. C. Pant

Consultant

of

Himmotthan

4 groups

of 3

villages

15 45 60

One day

Experience sharing

District

level

9 th May

2014

Himmotthan

Office Almora

Dr. Yashpal

Bisht

INHERE

Staff

2 2


workshop

Total 146 382 528

Out country exposure:

One exposure to CEDAC, combodia was organized for 4 members of INHERE staff (G.C. Pant, sudhir saxena,

Manoj Maheshwary and Neelam Joshi) to share the experiences of climate change adaptation in

agriculture. In combodia, INHERE staff noticed the crop diversity is very less in comparison to India. Due to

different climatic conditions in Cambodia one crop is being cultivated 2-3 times in the year. SRI technique is

very successful there. Many other small innovation adopted by the farmers there are also effective.


TRAINING, WORKSHOP AND MEETING

Workshops, Trainings and Meetings attended by INHERE in 2014-15

Sl. Detail of Workshop/

Training

Date No. of

participant

Name of

Participant

Place Organized

by

Duration

1 29th Global Forum for

Agriculture Research

(GFAR) Steering

Committee meeting

7.4.14 to

9.4.2014

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

Headquarters

of Agro polis

International

in Montpellier,

France

Global

Forum for

Agriculture

Research

(GFAR),

Rome, Italy

3 days

2 Workshop on Capacity

Building regarding

People’s Biodiversity

Register

7.4.14 1 Mr. G.C.Pant Watershed

Management

Directorate,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand

Biodiversity

Board,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

1 day

3 Workshop on tools for

Assessing Climate Change

Resilience

29.4.14

to 2.5.14

3 Mr. Sudhir

Saxena, Mr.

B.S.Rana &

Mrs. Neelam

Joshi

Sneh Sadan

Bishop House,

Jabalpur,

Madhya

Pradesh

Jabalpur

Diocesan

Social

Service

Society,

Jabalpur,

Madhya

Pradesh

6 days

4 Workshop on Project

Implementation Plan 26.4.14 1 Mr. Manoj

Maheshwari

Hotel Aketa,

Dehradun

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

1 day

5 Workshop On Unlocking

Potential of Youth in

Context of Changing

Climates in the Indian

Himalayan Region (IHR)

28.4.14

to

30.4.14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

Uttarakhand

Academy of

Administration

Nainital,

Uttarakhand

Central

Himalayan

Environment

Association,

Nainital,

Uttarakhand

3 days

6 PROLINNOVA Annual

International Partners

Workshop

9.5.14 to

16.5.14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

Town View

Hotel

Phnom Penh,

Cambodia

Centre

d’Etude et

de

Développem

ent Agricole

Cambodgien

(CEDAC),

Cambodia

and ETC

Foundation

8 days


7 Experience Sharing

Workshop (Maximizing

Mountain Agriculture

Project)

9.5.2014 2 Mr. Inder

Bisht &

S.Saxena

Himmotthan

Society

Regional

Office, Almora,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

1 day

8 Accounting and Book

keeping system

development

29.5.14

to

30.5.14

1 Mr. Inder

Bisht

Himalayan

Gramin Vikas

Samiti Training

Centre,

Gangolihat,

Pithoragarh,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

2 days

9 State Level Steering

Committee Meeting of

Himmotthan Pariyojana

30.6.14 2 Mr. Manoj

Maheshwari

& Mr.

N.S.Bangari

Chief Secretary

Meeting Hall,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

1 day

10 Innovation Platform

workshop

22.7.14 5 Mr. Shankar,

Mr. Jagat &

3 farmers

Hotel Doon

Castle,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

Milk-IT

project,

India

1 day

11 Advisory council of Milk-IT

project

23.7.14 1 Mr. G.C.Pant Hotel Inderlok,

Dehradun, ,

Uttarakhand

International

Livestock

Research

Institute

(ILRI),

Nairobi,

Kenya

1 day

12 Asia Pacific Regional

Consultation on the Role

of Family Farming in 21st

Century

7.8.14 to

10.8.14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

MS

Swaminathan

Research

Foundation,

Chennai,

Tamilnadu

FAO

Regional

Office for

Asia and the

Pacific,

Bangkok

4 days

13 Training on IPM

(Integrated Pest

Management)

12.8.14

to

14.8.14

4 Mr. I.S.Bisht,

Mr. S.

Saxena, Mr.

Puran nath

& Mr.

Kailash

Mishra

Vivekanand

Institute for

Hill Agriculture

(VPKAS)

Training

Center,

Hawalbagh, ,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

3 days

14 Progress Review Meeting

of Integrated Watershed

Management Programme

27.8.14 1 Mr. G.C.Pant District

Magistrate

Office, Almora,

, Uttarakhand

Integrated

Watershed

Managemen

t

1 day


Programme

(IWMP),

Almora, ,

Uttarakhand

15 Training program on

‘Quality control, value

addition and on legal

requirement for

marketing of rural

enterprises

29.8.14

to

30.8.14

1 Mr. Inder

Bisht

Central

Himalayan

Rural Action

Group

(CHIRAG)

Training

Centre,

Simayal,

Nainital,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

2 days

16 Meeting on Farmers

Forum Network

19.9.14 1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

Hansiba Crafts

Centre, Delhi

SEWA,

Ahmadabad,

Gujarat

1 day

17 UN Climate Summit 23.9.2014 1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

United Nations

Headquarter,

New York

United

Nations

Secretary

General, UN

1 day

18 Launch of the global

Alliance on Climate Smart

Agriculture


Bisht

Grand Hyatt

Hotel, New

York, USA

Interim

Secretariat,

Global

Alliance on

Climate

Smart

Agriculture

1 day

19 Meeting on agro

biodiversity@scale

30 Sept.

to 6 Oct.

14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

De Kleine

Aarde, Boxtel,

Netherlands

Oxfam and

Novib, The

Hague, The

Netherlands

7 days

20 Kisan Mela 30.9.14 2 Mr. Mukesh

& Mrs.

Geeta

Paliwal

Vivekanand

Institute for

Hill Agriculture

Extension

Farm,

Hawalbagh,

Uttarakhand

Vivekanand

Institute for

Hill

Agriculture

(VPKAS)

Almora,

Uttarakhand

1 day

21 Review mission for

Medium Term

Cooperation Programme

(MTCP- II)

9.10.14

to

10.10.14

2 Mr. Inder

Singh &

Mrs.Geeta

Paliwal

SEWA Office,

Ahmadabad

Gujrat

SEWA,

Ahmadabad,

Gujrat

2 days

22 Experience Sharing

Workshop of Maximizing

28.10.14

to

1 Inder Singh

Bisht

Himmotthan

Regional

Himmotthan

Society,

2 days



Project

29.10.14 office, Almora,

Uttarakhand

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

23 Workshop on ‘Open

Access to Agricultural

Knowledge for Inclusive

Growth and

Development’

29.10.14

to

30.10.14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

National

Academy of

Agricultural

Research

Management

(NAARM)

Hyderabad,

Andhra

Pradesh

National

Academy of

Agricultural

Research

Managemen

t (NAARM)

Hyderabad,

Global

Forum on

Agriculture

Research &

Food and

Agriculture

Organization

, Rome, Itly

2 days

24 Workshop on Right to

Water and Sanitation

5.11.14

to

7.11.14

2 Mr. Manoj

Maheshwari

and Mr.

N.S.Bangari

Hotel Aketa,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

SCOPPECOM

, WaterAid

India and

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

3 days

25 Ration Balance 6.11.14

to

7.11.14

1 Mr. Shankar Central

Himalayan

Rural Action

Group

(CHIRAG) Head

Office Orakhan

(Mukteshwar),

Uttarakhand

International

Livestock

Research

Institute

(ILRI),

Nairobi,

Kenya

2 days

26 Final Synthesis Meeting of

IFAD Milk-IT project

7.12.14

to

12.12.14

1 Mr. Shankar

Devtalla

Lushoto, Dar-

Es-Sallam,

Tanzania

International

Livestock

Research

Institute

(ILRI),

Nairobi,

Kenya

6 days

27 Continuing the GFAR

Renewal, discussion on

Strategic Governance

Working Group (SGWG).

29.11.14

to

30.11.14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

Johannesburg,

South Africa

GFAR (The

Global

Forum on

Agriculture

Research)

Rome, Itly

2 days

28 Fabindia Town Hall 24.11.14 2 Mrs. Sonali Fab India Fab India, 1 day


Meeting Bisht & Mr.

Pradeep

Khulbe

Office, New

Delhi

New Delhi

29 Review cum planning

workshop on “Maximizing


Project”

5.12.14 2 Mr. Inder

Singh

Hotel Surabhi

Palace,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

1 day

30 Meeting on Climate Smart

Agriculture

17.12.14

to

18.12.14

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

Food and

Agriculture

Organization(F

AO), Rome, Itly

Food and

Agriculture

Organization

(FAO),

Rome, Itly

2 days

31 Microfinance

stakeholders workshop

18.12.14 1 Mr. Inder

Bisht

Hotel Inderlok,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

Himmotthan

Society,

Dehradun,

Uttarakhand

1 day

32 National Convention on

Union Budget 2015-16

8.1.2015

&

9.1.2015

1 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht

India

International

Centre (IIC),

Lodhi Estate,

New Delhi

People’s

Budget

Initiative

2 days

33 Finalizing the first draft of

Action plan and budget

for Medium Term

Cooperation Programme-

II for the year 2015

20.1.15 2 Mrs. Geeta

Paliwal &

Mr. Manoj

Maheshwari

SEWA Office

Ahmadabad,

Gujrat

SEWA,

Ahmadabad

Gujrat

1 day

34 Regional Workshop to

Implement A Grassroot

Foresight Initiative

1.2.15 to

8.2.15

3 Mrs. Sonali

Bisht, Mr.

Manoj

Maheshwari

, Mr. Sudhir

Saxena

Oracle Hotel,

Quezon City,

Philippines

Asian

Farmer’s

Association

for

Sustainable

Rural

Developmen

t (AFA),

Philippines

& Global

Forum on

Research

(GFAR),

Philippines

9 days

35 Final Milk-IT output

meeting

4.2.2015 2 Mr. G.C.Pant

& Mr.

Shankar

Vikas Bhawan,

Almora

Milk-IT 1 day

36 Workshop on, " Scaling

Up Climate Smart


Bisht

Development

Alternatives

Practical

Action

1 day


Agriculture: Potential and

Challenges"

Headquarters

New Delhi

Consulting

and

Developmen

t

Alternatives,

New Delhi

37 Round Table Discussion

for ‘Good Food for All’


Bisht

New Delhi CSE New

Delhi &

Misereor,

Germany

1 day

38 Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change's (IPCC)

Fifth Assessment Report

(AR5)

Uttarakhand Outreach

Event


Bisht

Board Room,

Forest

Research

Institute,

Dehradun

CDKN,

Uttarakhand

Forest

Department

and CHEA

1 day

39 Kisan Mela (Exposure) 20.3.15 10 Mr. Inder

Bisht, Mrs.

Geeta & 8

farmers

VPKAS,

Hawalbagh

VPKAS

Almora

1 day

40 Celebration Maatti Ma

and her bounty, as

Daughters of the

Earth, promoting organic

production and artisanal

processing of food

27.3.15

to

29.3.15

2 Mrs. Geeta

Paliwal &

Mrs.

Hemlata

Bhandari

Navdanya

biodiversity

conservation

farm, Bija

Vidyapeeth,

Dehradun

Navdanya,

Alliance for

Women and

Food

Sovereignty

(Mahila

Anna

Swaraj) and

Diverse

Women for

Diversity

3 days

Visits by INHERE Personnel 2014-15

Sr Date Purpose of Exposure Name of Organization Name of

Participant

No. of

Participants

Days

01 25.9.2014

to

1.10.2014

Cross visit on Climate

Change Adaptation

work

Centre d’Etude et de

Development Agricole

Cambodgien (CEDAC),

Cambodia

Mr. G.C.Pant,

Mr. Manoj

Maheshwari,

Mr. Sudhir

Saxena & Mrs.

Neelam

4 7


Training and Workshops held at Chinoni Training Center, INHERE - 2014-15

Sl. No. Date Name of the Training/Meeting No. of Training/

meeting

Participants Days

1

3.4.2014 to

4.4.2014 HMP staff O&M Follow-up meeting 1 12 2 days

2 14.4.2014

Feedback with DAS India Team,

Lucknow 1 16 1 day

3 24.04.2014 Training on SRI and SCI method 1 31 1 day

4 16.5.2014 INHERE-HMP Staff meeting 1 15 1 day

5 30.05.2014

Meeting with farmers on

experience sharing 1 17

1 day


7 30.06.2014 Training on SRI and SCI method 1 24 1 day

8 15.7.2014


Lucknow 1 15

1 day


10 12.09.2014

Experiences sharing & feedback

workshop on SRI and SCI method 1 36

1 day

11 18.09.2014 Training on Beekeeping 1 55 1 day

12 23.9.2014


Lucknow 1 20

1 day


14 31.10.2014

Training & workshop on SWI and

SCI method 1 40

1 day

15 26.11.2014

Meeting with farmers for

experiences sharing 1 18

1 day

16 29.11.2014

Celebration of International

Farmers Innovation Day 1 282

1 day

17 08.12.2014

Meeting and Follow up training with

INHERE staff 1 19

1 day

18 12.12.14 to

13.12.14

Training on SHG Income Generation

under IWMP Project implemented

by Soil Conservation, Ranikhet

1 15 2 days

19 14.12.2014

Meeting and Follow up training with

farmers experiences sharing 1 12

1 day

20 29.12.14 SHG Book Keeping, MMAP Project 1 28 1 day

21 30.12.14 Shorting, grading and packaging,

MMAP Project

1 25 1 day

22 29.12.14 to

30.12.14

Training on Goat Rearing under

IWMP Project implemented by Soil

Conservation. Ranikhet

1 15 2 days

23 8.1.2015 to

9.1.2015

Training on Poultry Rearing under

IWMP Project implemented by Soil

1 15 2 days


Conservation, Ranikhet

24 9.1.2015 to

11.1.2015

Training on Watershed Development

under IWMP Project implemented by

Divisional Forest Officer Civil, Almora

1 30 3 days

25 19.2.2015 Workshop on Building Platform for

Youth Farmers

1 43 1 day

26 20.2.2015 Workshop on Agriculture by

Michigan State University Students

1 12 1 day

27 17.3.15 to

19.3.15

Workshop on Foresight 1 18 3 days

28 24.3.15 to

29.3.15

Workshop on Foresight 1 12 6 days

29 30.3.2015 Account Keeping Training for

Producer Group

1 18 1 day


VISITORS TO INHERE IN 2014-15

Sr Date Name Organization/Village Purpose of visit

1 8.4.14 Eng. Mr. N.C.Pandey

and team

ENV- DAS India, Pvt. Ltd,

Lucknow

Field visit of INHERE WATSAN

Phase-III villages

2 9.4.14 Mr. Hemendra Singh

Negi

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun

Field visit of HMP-MMAP

villages

3 16.4.14 Dr. Malvika Chauhan

and team

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun

Visit INHERE-MMAP Project

Area

4 18.5.14 Dr. Kirit Kumar and

team

G.B.Pant Institute of

Himalayan Environment and

Development, Kosi Katarmal,

Almora

Science Outreach programme

GIC, Masi

5 8.6.14 Mr. Ashok Malhotra

and Team

Guliani & Co., Chartered

Accountant, New Delhi

Audit of INHERE

6 8.6.14 Mr. Shelendra Mohan

Singhal

MLA, Jaspur Organization Visit

7 9.6.14 Dr. Thannamal International Livelihood

Research Institute

INHERE Milk-IT project villages

visit

8 18.6.14 Dr. C.L.Chauhan Almora Organizational visit

9 25.6.14 Dr. R.S.Koshyari and

Team

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


Area

10 26.6.14 Mr. Santosh Kumar

Samal

Dalit Foundation, New Delhi INHERE EC meeting and

progress review

11 26.6.14 Dr. Anjali Capila Lady Irwin College, New Delhi INHERE EC meeting and

progress review

12 26.6.14 Mr. Raju Mahar APF, Almora Organizational visit

13 28.6.14 Mr. Gautam Merh and

26 Students

India: Traditional Medical

and Health Care Practices

Center, New Delhi

Visit on traditional medicine

and health care system

14 10.9.14 Dr. Rajendra Koshyari

and team

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun

Field Visit INHERE-MMAP

villages

15 10.9.14 Dr. Dileep Rajput Medical Officer, Govt.

Allopathic Hospital,

Bhaisargaon, Someshwar,

Almora

Organizing health camp in

WATSAN Village

16 18.9.14 Dr. Sanjay Kumar Joshi Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


Area


and Team

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


Area


18 19.4.14

Dr. J.C.Bhatt Director Vivekanand

Parvatiya Krishi Anushandhan

Sansthan,Almora

Special Guest in Farmers Field

Day

19 19.4.14

Dr. Anjani Kumar Joint Director Agriculture,

Dehradun

Guest in Farmers Field Day

20 20.9.14 Dr. H.S.Rewal Agriculture Consultant,

Himmotthan, Dehradun

Guest in Farmers Field Day

21 20.9.14

Dr. Rajesh Khulbe Senior Scientist Vivekanand


Sansthan, Almora

Participation in Farmers Field

Day

22 20.9.14 Dr. Staubey Senior Scientist Vivekanand


Sansthan, Almora


Day

23 20.9.14 Dr. Jay Prakash Aditya Senior Scientist Vivekanand


Sansthan, Almora


Day

24 20.9.14 Dr. Raghu Senior Scientist Vivekanand


Sansthan, Almora


Day

25 20.9.14 Dr. Abhay Saxena Chief Agriculture Officer,

Almora


Day

26 20.9.14 Dr. Jagdish Arya Scientist Vivekanand


Sansthan, Almora


Day

27 20.9.14 Dr. Prakash Chandra

Pant

Consultant Himmotthan,

Dehradun


Day

28 20.9.14 Mr. Dheeraj Singh Agriculture & Soil

Conservation Officer


Day

29 20.9.14 Mr. Raju Negi Team Leader, Himmotthan,

Almora


Day


Dehradun


Day

31 20.9.14 Dr. Rajendra Koshyari Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


Day

32 20.9.14 Mr. Ganesh Singh Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


Day

33 20.9.14 Mr. Bishan Ram Block Pramukh, Chaukhutiya Chief guest in Farmers Field

Day

34 20.9.14 Mr. Pankaj Kandpal Assistant Block Development Participation in Farmers Field


Officer, Chaukhutiya Day

35 20.9.14 Mr. Shiv Singh Incharge Agri. Tools,

Vivekanand Parvatiya Krishi

Anushandhan Sansthan,,

Almora


Day

36 20.9.14 Mr. Bhuwan Chandra

Budakoti

Tarai Seed and Development

Corporation


Day

37 20.9.14 Mr. Munendra Kisan Trading Cooperation,

Rudrapur


Day

38 20.9.14 Mr. Satish Upadhyay Village Development Officer,

Chaukhutiya


Day

39 20.9.14 Mr. Purushottam

Thapaliyal

Mount Valley Development

Association, Tehri Garhwal


Day

40 20.9.14 Mr. Naveen Bhatt CHIRAG, Mukteshwar Participation in Farmers Field

Day

41 20.9.14 Mr. Chandan Singh CHIRAG, Mukteshwar Participation in Farmers Field

Day


Dehradun


Area

43 8.11.14 to

15.11.14 Mr. Kapil

International Livelihood

Research Institute (ILRI)

For impact assessment of Milk-

IT

44 10.11.14 Mr. Navendu Pandey Finance Officer, ILRI, New

Delhi Audit Milk-IT Project

45 15.11.14 to

20.11.14

Mr. Ramesh Joshi &

Mr. Lalit Joshi

International Livelihood

Research Institute, Feast Survey

46 24.11.14 Dr. Anjali Capila Lady Irwin college Delhi

University Board Meeting

47 24.11.14

Mrs. Anja Mertineit,

Officer for Rural

Development Asia

Department

Misereor, Germany Project Discussion

48 25.11.14 Mr. Gaurav Kumar Delhi Organic Vegetable Farming

Discussion

49

29.11.14

Dr. Ahmed Iqbal Chief Development Officer

Almora

Chief Guest of International

Farmer Innovation Day

Celebration

50

29.11.14

Mr. Bishan Ram Block Pramukh Chaukhutia

Block

President of the International

Farmer Innovation Day

51

29.11.14

Mr. A K Rai District Horticulture Officer,

Almora

Guest of International Farmer

Innovation Day

52 29.11.14

Mr. Dheerj Kumar Soil Conservation Officer,

Ranikhet


Innovation Day


53

29.11.14

Dr. Atheequlla

Scientist, Indian Council of

Agriculture Research, VPKAS,

Hawalbag, Almora


Innovation Day

54

29.11. 14

Dr. D S Rawat

Senior Scientist GB Pant

Institute of Himalayan

Environment and

Development, Kosi, Almora.


Innovation Day

55 29.11.14

Mr. Shiv Singh Technical staff VPKAS Guest of International Farmer

Innovation Day

56 29.11.14

Mr. M C Joshi Block Development Officer

Chaukhutia.


Innovation Day

57 29.11.14

Mr. Pankaj Kandpal Assistant Block Development

Officer Chaukhutia


Innovation Day

58 29.11.14 Mr. Uday Prakash

Joshi

Village Panchayat

Development Officer Bhagoti


Innovation Day

59 29.11.14

Mr. Mohan Ram Village Development Officer

Chaukhutia


Innovation Day

60

29.11.14

Mr. Sunder Singh

Vivekanand Parvatiya Krishi

Anushandhan Sanshthan,

Hawalbag, Almora


Innovation Day

61 29.11.14 Mr. Vinod Kumar

Pangti

Assistant Registerar

Cooprative Almora


Innovation Day

62 29.11.14

Mr. Suresh Chandra Executive Engineer Minor

Irrigation Almora


Innovation Day

63 29.11.14

Mr. Manoj Pandey Junior Engineer Minor

Irrigation Almora


Innovation Day

64 29.11.14

Mrs. Radha Pandey Jila Panchayat Sadasya Masi Guest of International Farmer

Innovation Day

65 29.11.14

Mrs. Kamla Masiwal Assistant Development

Officer Chaukhutia


Innovation Day

66 29.11.14

Mr. Heera Ballabh Sati Village-Qweralli Walli, Block

Chaukhutia Sharing experiences

67 29.11.14 Mr. Chandramani

Bahuguna

Village-Qweralli Palli, Block


68 29.11.14

Mrs. Yashoda Devi Village-Naugaon Beria, Block


69 29.11.14

Mr. Kishan Singh Village-Naugaon Beria, Block


70 29.11.14

Mr. Chandra Singh Village-Brahmdevchori,

Block Chaukhutia Sharing experiences

71 29.11.14 Mr. Jagdish Chandra

Masiwal

Agriculture Department

Chaukhutia


Innovation Day

72 29.11.14 Mr. Satish Chandra

Upaydhyay

Agriculture Department

Chaukhutia


Innovation Day

73 4.12.14 Mr. Pankaj Bisht and

Dr. Jyotsana Bisht

Senior Journalist and General

Body Member INHERE Organizational visit


74 9.12.14 to

15.12.14 Ms. Sonam Dhingra

(Research Assistant) Lady

Irwin college Delhi University

Research study on impact

evaluation

75 9.12.14 to

15.12.14 Ms. Vidushi Jain

(Research Assistant) Lady

Irwin college Delhi University

Research study on impact

evaluation

76 15.12.14 to

22.12.14

Mr. Basu Dev & Mr.

Pushkar Singh USOCA, Dehradun

Regarding organic certification

inspection

77 26.12.14

Dr. Vinod Kumar

Pandey & Dr.

R.P.Singh

District Ayurvedic and Yunani

Officer, Almora Organizational visit

78 3.1.2015 Mr. Kuwar Singh

Rawat

Project Manager, DPMU,

SWAJAL, Almora

Technology on low cost

sanitary toilet

79 8.1.2015

Mr. Mohammad

Shareef & Mr. Sundar

Rawat

Manager Finance,

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun

Audit of Himmotthan MMAP

Project

80 11.2.15 to

31.3.15

Ms. Christine

Blackledge & Mr.

James Nathaniel

Kreckman

Michigan State University,

USA Education/Internship visit.

81 16.2.15 to

18.2.15

Mr. Jamsheed K

Master, Mr.

Mehernosh Dhondy &

Mr. Herxes V.Dastur

V.S.Dastur & Co., Chartered

Accountants, Mumbai

For Himmotthan-WATSAN

Project audit.

82 25.2.2015

Dr. R.P.S. Yadav, Dr.

D.D.Sharma & Mr. R.K.

Dwivedi

IFFDC ltd. FMDI, IFFCO

Colony Sector 17B, Gurgaon For Organizational Visit


& Dr. Sanjay Joshi

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun

For field visit of Himmotthan

MMAP Project

84 19.3.2015 Dr. S.K.Joshi & Ms.

Sumitra Chauhan

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


MMAP Project

85 28.3.2015

Dr. H.S.Rewal, Dr.

Rajendra Koshyari and

Dr. Sanjay Joshi

Himmotthan Society,

Dehradun


MMAP Project


PARTICIPATION IN COMMITTEES 2014-15

• Department of Women Empowerment and Child Development, Govt. of U.K., Dehradun.

Member, State Level Empowerment Committee

(Ms Sonali Bisht)

• Department of Rural Development, Govt. of U.K., Dehradun

Anchor NGO, Distt. Almora for CAPART programme

(INHERE)

• District Rural Development Agency, Almora

Member NGO for SJSY, Almora.

(Secretary INHERE)

• Department of Labour and Employment, Science and Technology, Govt. of U.K.

Member Vigilance Committee of Bonded Labour Act, 1976 for subdivision Bhikiyasain, Distt. Almora

(Mr. Girish.C. Pant)

• Department of Rural Development & Forest, Govt. of U.K.

Member, State Level Planning Committee on Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Medicinal Plant.

(Ms Sonali Bisht)

• Herbal Research and Development Institute, Gopeshwar, Govt. of U.K.

Nodal Agency for Registration of MPs Cultivators in district Almora.

(INHERE)

• Block Level Education Office, Bhikiyasain

Member, Block Level Child Development Board for Bhikiyasain, Almora

(Secretary INHERE)

• Herbal Research and Development Institute, Gopeshwar, Govt. of U.K.

Member State Level Evaluation Committee for Development of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Sector in

the State.

(Mr. Bharat S. Bisht)

• Secretary, Govt. of Uttarakhand, Dehradun

Resource Organisation under GTZ-MOA Project for Organic Farming, Value Addition and Marketing

(INHERE till May 2013)

• Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education Dehradun

Representation on Project Selection Committee, ICFRE Govt. of India, MOEF, Dehradun.

(Ms. Sonali Bisht till April 2015)

• Chief Development Officer, Office, Almora

Member, District Level Committee on District Watershed Development Unit for Almora.

(Secretary INHERE)

• G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development, Kosi, Katarmal, Almora

Member, National Steering Committee for UNEP/FAO Global Pollination Project.

(Mr. Bharat S. Bisht)

• Chief Executive Officer, SLNA, Watershed Management Directorate, Dehradun

Member, State Level Nodel Agency for Integrated Watershed Development Programme.

(INHERE)

• UK State Biodiversity Board, Govt of U.K., Forest and Environment. Section-3 Dehradun

Expert non government member for the Uttarakhand State Bio-diversity Board.

(Ms. Sonali Bisht till July 14)

• District Magistrate, Almora

Member, Executive Committee for District level Food Security Mission. (INHERE)


INHERE Personnel and Responsibilities

Programme Personnel

Sr. Name Responsibility

1. Mr. Bharat Singh Bisht Chief Coordinator, Programmes

2 Mr. Girish Chandra Pant Senior Coordinator, Programmes

3 Mr. Manoj Maheshwari Team Leader, Project

4 Mr. Mohan Sharma Coordinator Pharmacy and Ratkhet Campus

5 Mr. Sudhir Saxena Agronomist and Project Coordinator

6 Ms. Neelam Joshi Field site Coordinator

7 Mr. Shankar Dutt Devtalla Field Facilitator

8 Mr. Indra Singh Bisht Project Coordinator

9 Mr. Kamal Bankoti Community Development Supervisor

10 Ms. Geeta Paliwal Community Mobilizer

11 Mr. Bishan Singh Negi Community Organizer

12 Mr. Jagdish Sharma Community Organizer

13 Mr. Nand Ram Community Organizer

14 Mr. Bhagwat Singh Community Organizer

15 Mr. Dheeraj Upadhyay Community Organizer

16 Mr. Jagat Prakash Upadhyay Community Organizer

17 Ms. Maya Adhikari Community Organizer

18 Mr. Jagat Rawat Field Facilitator

19 Mr. Bhuwan Sharma Coordinator Campus, Patalgaon and Chinoni

Programme Personnel - Technical

Sr. Name Responsibilities

1 Mr. Narendra Bangari Civil Engineer

2 Mr. Sunil Manohar Junior Engineer

3 Mr. Pramod Chaudhari Junior Engineer

4 Mr. Dharam Singh Coordinator Campus, Kanoni

Programme Personnel - Administration and Finance

Sl. Name Responsibilities

1 Mr. Manoj Maheshwari Manager Administration/Secretary INHERE

2 Mr. Lalit Deshwal Manager Finance

3 Mr. Raj Kishor Kandpal Accounts

4 Mr. Jagat Prakash Upadhyay Accounts

5 Ms. Manju Bhandari Documentation/ MIS

6 Mr. Pradeep Khulbe Office Secretary

7 Mr. Narayan Dutt Driver (on call)


INHERE INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEMONSTRATION UNITS

INFRASTRUCTURE

Two Main Offices and 02 field offices

Two conference rooms with Projector and Audio-Video facility.

One Library of 5000 + books

One Training Centre with lodging & boarding facilities for trainees and resource persons.

DEMONSTRATION UNITS NO. OF UNIT

Medicinal & Non Timber forest Plants Nursery 02

Waste water recycling system

Biodegradable waste composting silos for mountain areas

01

Biomass based agriculture dryer unit of 50 kg. capacity 01

Horticulture Plant Nursery of 15,000 Plants 01

Sanjivani Ayurvedshala 01

Organic Agriculture Farm 2

Organic Food Processing Unit 02


INHERE DOCUMENTATION & PUBLICATIONS 2014-15

Natural Resource

� Implementation Phase Completion Report of 09 Villages for Individual Sanitary Items -09 No.

� Implementation Phase Completion Report of 06 Villages for Rural Drinking Water Supply Work- 06

No.

� Implementation Phase Completion Report of 02 Villages for Catchment Area Development Work -02

No.

� Detail Project End Report of Catchment Area Protection and Individual Item Works under

Implementation Phase of the Water Supply and Sanitation Project Under Himmotthan Pariyojana

phase– III - 01 No.

� Quarterly Progress Report of Implementation cum Operation and Maintenance Phase (Part 2) of the

Water Supply and Sanitation Project under Himmotthan Pariyojana Phase- III - 04 No.

� Detailed Project End Report of Implementation cum Operation and Maintenance Phase (Part 2) of

the Water Supply and Sanitation Project under Himmotthan Pariyojana Phase –III - 1No.

� Completion Report of Pre Feasibility Survey in Disaster Area of Garhwal Region -01 No.

Climate Change Adaptation

Reports

� Impact Assessment Report on Local innovation and experimentation: an entry point to climate-

change adaptation for Sustainable Livelihoods in Asia prepared by Lady Irwin College, New

Delhi

� Community perceptions on climate change (English and Hindi)

� Farmer Innovations report with case studies (English and Hindi)

� Joint experimentation and trials by farmers

� 06 Monthly Progress Report of Local innovation and experimentation: an entry point to

climate-change adaptation for sustainable livelihoods in Asia – 02 No.

Livelihood

� Quarterly Progress Report of Maximizing Mountain Agriculture Project – 04 No.

� 06 Monthly Progress Report of Enhancing Dairy-based Livelihoods in India and the United

Republic of Tanzania through Feed Innovation and Value Chain Development Approaches- 02

No.

Consolidated Statement of Income & Expenditure Accounts for Year Ended 31st

March 2015

EXPENDITURE AMOUNT INCOME AMOUNT

CEDAC - Local Innovation & experimentation : an entry 2,983,543.00 CEDAC - local innovation & experimentation : an entry 2,644,051.00

point to climate change adaptation fo sustainable

point to climate change adaptation for sustainable livelihoods in Asia

MISEREOR - Local Innovation & experimentation : 1,104,246.00 MISEREOR - Local Innovation & experimentation : 2,759,169.40

an entry point to climate change adaptation for sustainable - an entry point to climate change adaptation for sustainable - livelihoods in India livelihoods in India

MISEREOR - Mobilising & Supporting Youth in sustainable - 406,872.00 MISEREOR - Mobilising & Supporting Youth in sustainable - 1,415,438.20

agriculture in Kumaon & Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand agriculture in Kumaon & Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand

FAO - GFAR Programme 439,000.00 FAO - GFAR Programme 620,000.00

AFA - Grassroots foresight initiative in the rural areas 196,515.00 AFA - Grassroots foresight initiative in the rural areas -

of central part of the state of Uttatrakhand of central part of the state of Uttatrakhand

Bank Interest 6,369.00

Bank Charges 3,097.00 VPKAS NAIP - ALMORA, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

GOVT. OF INDIA

Enhancement of Livelihood Security Through 37,740.00

Sustainable Farming System - Project

SIR RATAN TATA TRUST Mumbai-Himmothan SIR RATAN TATA TRUST, Mumbai-Himmothan

Implementation cum Operation & Maintenance 3,160,956.00 Implementation cum Operation & Maintenance 444,662.00

Phase (Part 2) of the Water Supply & Sanitation Phase (Part 2) of the Water Supply & Sanitation

Project Under Himmothan Pariyojana Ph-III Project Under Himmothan Pariyojana Ph-III

HIMMOTTHAN SOCIETY Deheradun : HIMMOTTHAN SOCIETY Deheradun :

Maximising Mountain Agriculture Project 1,030,211.00 Maximising Mountain Agriculture Project 1,125,701.00

ILRI-Milk IT Project ILRI-Milk IT Project

Enhancing Dairy-based Livelihoods in India and 927,256.00 Enhancing Dairy-based Livelihoods in India and 774,855.00


the United Republic of Tanzania through the United Republic of Tanzania through

Feed Innovation and value chain Devt. Approaches Feed Innovation and value chain Devt. Approaches

Honorarium/Consultancy 942,691.00 Miscellaneous Income 255,033.00

Programme Contribution 104,178.00 Services & Administration 1,174,700.00

Office Rent 200,500.00 Bank & FDR Interest 490,388.68

Telephone, Postage & Fax 66,657.00 Contribution From Training Centre 758,400.00

Travel & stay 26,070.00

Documentation 56,369.00

Audit Fee 27,368.00 Administrative Expenses 477,887.00

Miscellaneous Expenses 185,371.00

Bank Charges & Interest 1,193.00 Building Construction 117,020.00

Excess of Income Over Expenditure 49,507.28

Total…………………………………….Rs. 12,506,507.28 Total…………………………………….Rs. 12,506,507.28

FOR GULIANI & COMPANY

FOR INHERE

Chartered Accountants

( Arun Guliani )

( President ) ( Secretary ) ( Accounts Officer )

Partner

PLACE :: NEW DELHI

DATED :: 16/06/2015


Consolidated Statement of Receipts & Payments Accounts for Year Ended 31st

March 2015

RECEIPTS AMOUNT PAYMENTS AMOUNT

OPENING BALANCE - AS ON 1.4.2014 11,475,681.10 CEDAC - Local Innovation & experimentation : an entry 2,983,543.00

point to climate change adaptation fo sustainable

CEDAC - local innovation & experimentation : an entry 2,644,051.00

point to climate change adaptation for sustainable livelihoods in Asia

MISEREOR - Local Innovation & experimentation : 2,759,169.40 MISEREOR - Local Innovation & experimentation : 1,104,246.00

an entry point to climate change adaptation for sustainable -

an entry point to climate change adaptation for sustainable -

livelihoods in India

livelihoods in India

MISEREOR - Mobilising & Supporting Youth in sustainable - 1,415,438.20 MISEREOR - Mobilising & Supporting Youth in sustainable - 406,872.00

agriculture in Kumaon & Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand

agriculture in Kumaon & Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand

FAO - GFAR Programme 620,000.00 FAO - GFAR Programme 439,000.00

AFA - Grassroots foresight initiative in the rural areas - AFA - Grassroots foresight initiative in the rural areas 196,515.00

of central part of the state of Uttatrakhand of central part of the state of Uttatrakhand

Bank Interest 6,369.00 Bank Charges 3,097.00

VPKAS NAIP - ALMORA, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE GOVT. OF INDIA Enhancement of Livelihood Security Through 37,740.00

Sustainable Farming System - Project

SIR RATAN TATA TRUST, Mumbai-Himmothan SIR RATAN TATA TRUST Mumbai-Himmothan

Implementation cum Operation & Maintenance 444,662.00 Implementation cum Operation & Maintenance 3,160,956.00

Phase (Part 2) of the Water Supply & Sanitation Phase (Part 2) of the Water Supply & Sanitation

Project Under Himmothan Pariyojana Ph-III Project Under Himmothan Pariyojana Ph-III

HIMMOTTHAN SOCIETY Deheradun : HIMMOTTHAN SOCIETY Deheradun :


Maximising Mountain Agriculture Project 1,125,701.00 Maximising Mountain Agriculture Project 1,030,211.00

ILRI-Milk IT Project ILRI-Milk IT Project

Enhancing Dairy-based Livelihoods in India and 774,855.00 Enhancing Dairy-based Livelihoods in India and 927,256.00

the United Republic of Tanzania through the United Republic of Tanzania through

Feed Innovation and value chain Devt. Approaches Feed Innovation and value chain Devt. Approaches

Corpus Fund 260,000.00

Miscellaneous Income 255,033.00 Honorarium/Consultancy 942,691.00

Services & Administration 1,174,700.00 Programme Contribution 104,178.00

Bank & FDR Interest 490,388.68 Office Rent 200,500.00

Contribution From Training Centre 758,400.00 Telephone, Postage & Fax 66,657.00

Travel & stay 26,070.00

Documentation 56,369.00

Amount Payable 41,288.00 Audit Fee 27,368.00

Administrative Expenses 477,887.00

Miscellaneous Expenses 185,371.00

Bank Charges & Interest 1,193.00

Building Construction 117,020.00

CLOSING BALANCE AS ON 31.03.2015 11,826,476.38

Total…………………………………….Rs. 24,283,476.38 Total…………………………………….Rs. 24,283,476.38


FOR INHERE


( Arun Guliani )


Partner

PLACE :: NEW DELHI

DATED :: 16/06/2015


Balance Sheet for Year Ended 31st

March 2015

LIABILITIES AMOUNT ASSETS AMOUNT

CAPITAL FUND FIXED ASSETS 11,000,604.25

Op. Bal. As on 01.04.2014 10,966,884.25 ( As per schedule attached )

Add : Addition during the yr. 208,850.00

Less : T/F or Sold 175,130.00 11,000,604.25

CORPUS FUND 260,000.00 CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

Amount Received During the Yr. Inhere Aajivika Utthan Samiti 373,537.00

Project Advances 1,498.00

FDR with Bank 9,341,278.00

GENERAL FUND TDS Receivable 186,650.00

Op. Bal. As on 01.04.2014 6,788,999.44 Cash-in-hand 13,207.00

Add : Excess of Income Cash with Bank - Annexure 1,910,306.38 11,826,476.38

Over Expenditure 473,217.68 7,262,217.12

UNSPENT BALANCE OF PROJECTS 5,86,156.68

As per Schedule - A 2,258,228.26

Gratuity Fund 1,864,921.00 Staff Welfare Fund 119,709.00

Sundry Liabilities 61,401.00

TOTAL ……………………………….Rs. 22,827,080.63 TOTAL…………………………………….RS. 22,827,080.63


FOR INHERE


( Arun Guliani )


Partner

PLACE :: NEW DELHI

DATED :: 16/06/2015

PARTNERS 2014-15

We sincerely acknowledge our partners who supported us in our endeavours in rural development during

the year 2013-2014.

- Himmotthan Society, Dehradun.

- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), New Delhi

- CEDAC, Cambodia

- Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai

- MISEREOR, Germany

- FAO, Rome

- AFA, Philippines

BUDGET DISTRIBUTION FOR YEAR 2014-15

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