Livelihoods Group For Tribal Mission

Goal: To Enhance dignified income and employment options for ST

families (trust on women sensitive livelihood) from X to Y BY 2020 through facilitated actions and convergence.

Indicators : Average Income per Capita for STs, Man days of

Employment in their own settings, Number of days of migration and persons migrating, Sources of additional income, Type and number of assets (farm and household), Resource enhancement in tribal region, Livelihood risk mitigation, Diversified income options, self employment and employability, complimentary income fro STs women

Livelihood Sectors for ST Communities

1.Land based livelihoods ( Agriculture, Livestock ) 2.Forest Resource based livelihoods ( CFRA, NTFPs) 3.Nonfarm Options ( new skilled based , traditional

skilled based (Handicrafts), processing of produce and collective trading, individual / group enterprises , service provision through CRPs )

4. Migration + Wage based livelihoods through government schemes + Reservations in jobs

Land based Livelihood Issues

Small land holdings Low inputs and lack of knowledge on scientific management

Rainfed agriculture Eroding base of traditional nutritive local crops

Very less irrigation coverage Subsistence agriculture

No electricity Shifting cultivation

Infertile and marginal soils Perpetual indebtedness

Single crop Absence of organized marketing

Low production and productivity On field technical support

Distress sale Absence of farm mechanization

Wild life attack ( crop destructions) Low / No Diversification

Land Based Livelihoods

Objectives Interventions

•To diversify and enhance agriculture income

•To improve water availability in ST areas

•To overcome technical , technological and mechanical problems in agriculture

•To promote climate smart agriculture technologies

•To support innovative interventions to address issues ( wild life attack)

Thrust on irrigation improvement, WRD and water use efficiency High value , small plot agriculture with required technical and on field support Promotion of horticulture, fodder etc with required technical and on field support Provision of seed grant / working capital for groups /access to finance Conservation and revival of ITK Innovative use of FRA lands of individual beneficiaries ( Model) Soil health cards /soil improvement actions Introduction of livestock and scientific management ( Dairy, Goat, Poultry, Fishery, duckery, piggery ) Crop insurance, weather based crop advisory service, protected cultivation for climate resilience Farm mechanization/ custom hiring centers Formation and strengthening of farmer’s collectives for market linkages, aggregation, sale, processing, storage etc. Agriculture related advance knowledge dissemination + partnerships ( With Technical institutes, expert NGOand private agencies ) Training and capacity building efforts for farmers

Forest Resource based Livelihood Issues

Forest degradation CFRA access

Procedural simplification Absence of post harvest management facilities

Lack of capacity building and hand holding efforts for processing Market and branding

Pricing of forest produceMan animal conflict in forest fringed areas

Exploitation by outsiders

Forest Resource Based Livelihoods

Objective Intervention

•To enhance and optimize potential of forest resource to benefit ST families

•To focus on additional income through value addition / supply chain innovations to NTFPs

Village level resource mapping in cluster approach and Livelihood document To form and strengthen community based groups for aggregation , value addition and marketing ( commodity specific end to end actions ) Procedural simplifications Skill Training for Scientific Harvesting ( Lac/ Tasar, Honey, Gum, Bamboo, wild Fruits ) Arrangement of finance for groups Post harvest storage/processing facilities /work sheds Training /capacity building ,technical hand holding, linkages and partnerships Actions around management of CFRAs , Strengthening of water bodies for fisheriesMSPs /TDCs etc Fodder promotion, fodder banks , fodder seed production etc Wild life tourism involving youths, Eco-tourism innovative actions around forest fringed villages for STs

Non-farm Sector Issues

Skill based Entrepreneurship Handicraft promotion

Government Employment / reservation

Labour centric livelihoods under government schemes ( MGNREGS)

Non Farm Sectors Objectives Interventions

•To enhance and optimize and diversify income for ST families through non farm sectors

Skill mapping – demand supply gaps- Migration skills Revival and up gradation of traditional skills ( Handicrafts , design inputs, innovative marketing , branding efforts ) Livelihood profiling/ Micro planning village wise/ region wise Special focus on permissible work in ST areas resulting in to livelihood gains Migration : Geographic Pockets Identification, studying migration patterns, education during migration Skill building , linkages and partnerships with skill imparting agencies IEC material preparation in local languages/ it’s disseminationMaximum man days of Labour for STs under NREGS Collective Actions, thrust on skill training institutions which are accessible to villagers Business Incubators idea promotion ITI, Link with fair trade organizationsDovetail with bamboo and other missionsDovetail with art and culture festivals , CSR Funds appeals and private partnership

Livelihood Finance

• Convergence with line department – SRLM, IWMP, WCDC, MGNREGs, Agri. and dairy Development Department, Forest department, etc.

• Ensure bank Finance (SHG Finance, Producer groups / user group, JLGs, etc)

• CSR Fund • Public–private partnership• Donations • Gap filling should be done by TDD (eg. Pond

deepening)

Voluntary Organization Govt. Pvt. Institutions

•Livelihood Identification and Plan preparation

•Study Migration

•Resource Specific Potential and mapping

•Capacity Building

•Facilitation Role

•Formation of Group

•IEC dissemination

•Skill Imparting

•Livelihood Resource Support Organization (RSO)

•Address manpower shortage in line department•FRA: Preparation of Management plan for livelihood and dove tail with schemes (prepared by TDD and RDD)•Storage and Warehousing•Post Harvest Management•Convergence for livelihoods of ST•IEC designing•Skill Imparting•Agricultural Universities TRTI•Role of TDC

•Bridge grant for Livelihood outcomes

•Template development for project support

•Identification of best livelihood model and replication of the same

• State level RSO for Livelihoods (Sector, region and expertise wise)

•Skill Imparting

•Hiring

•Job Creation

•Creating Livelihood Professionals and inputs from subject matter specialists

Role of the Stakeholders

Dignified Sustainable Livelihood