taragram yatra towards green economies scalable solutions for people and our planet
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Vijay Chaturvedi from Development Alternatives discusses TARAgram YATRA: Towards Green Economies Scalable solutions for people and our planetTRANSCRIPT
GEC National Dialogues - a Global Multi-Stakeholder Consultation Process on the Green Economy
TARAgram YATRA Towards Green Economies
Scalable solutions for people and our planet
Development Alternatives
India
Global Transition DialogueNew York
17th -18th March 2012
Development Alternatives….
• A new kind of not - for - profit corporation that combines social objectives with business like methods and revenue streams
• Designs and fosters new relationship between technology - nature and people to attain the goal of Sustainable Development.
• Established in 1983
Development Alternatives Group - Mission
The Development Alternatives Group believes that the key to achieve sustainable development is the creation of sustainable livelihoods in large numbers
SL
social equity
environmental quality
economic efficiency
Thematic Focus
facilitate multi-stakeholder action for
Empowering Communities through Institution Development (with a focus on women and marginalised groups) Basic Needs fulfilment activities (more specifically habitat, water, energy,
information, literacy, where the organisation already has proven strengths)
effectively promote and support the
large scale Creation of Green Jobs through Employment Skills (Green Jobs) Enterprise Creation (Social Enterprises)
design and demonstrate
Low Carbon pathways for Development through Natural Resource Management Models Clean Technology Solutions (waste to wealth especially for micro, small and
medium enterprises)
… more urgent than ever before
The Sustainability Imperative
People and Natureare silent victims
of the way our economies have grown
Inclusive Growththe people driven approach….
… is measured in livelihood security
Jobs and Basic Needs
Green Economiesimply
Green and Inclusive Growththrough
Social (Green) Enterprises
and Green Jobs
Green Economies Streams of Activities (DA)
Rejuvenating the Natural Resource
Base
Watershed planning and management
Wasteland rejuvenation
Enhanced productivity from farmlands
Promoting Livelihood Enterprises
Farm based enterprises
Off farm enterprises and services
Hierarchy of support systems
Drinking water and sanitation
Rural energy
Rural roads
Upgrading Village
Infrastructure
Health
Education
ICT
Building / Strengthening Institutional
Systems
Formal and informal community institutional systems
Linkages with district, state and national institutional mechanisms
Seamless synergies to accelerate rural development
Social (Green) Enterprises – drivers of change
Innovation – technology and processes Implementation – on scale Influence – policy makers
With required Capacity Building – of stake holders
Compressed Earth Blocks
Micro Concrete Roofing
Ferrocement Roofing Channels
Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln
Renewable Energy Enterprises
Handloom Textiles Technology
Recycled Handmade Paper
Achievements and Impact
Economic: over one million livelihoods
Technology enterprises have marketed 100 million tiles; 100 million bricks; 50,000 houses and continue to grow.
Environment:
Over 48,000 environment conservation initiatives with a network of 1.25 million schools children.
Social:
60,000 rural women made literate
Empowered over 1.3 million poor to claim their rights and entitlements through a network of 25,000 community based organizations.
Practice to
Policy Connect
GEC - India DialogueTARAgram YATRA – 2010, India
GEC - India DialogueTARAgram YATRA – 2010, India
Focus 2010
Towards Green Economies
– scalable solutions for people and our planet
India DialogueTARAgram YATRA – 2010, India.
The TARAgram Yatra dialogue a milestone in a series of global multi-stakeholder consultation processes leading up to Rio+20.
The Yatra :•aimed to build consensus amongst key stakeholders on prioritised and sequenced issues in the transition to sustainability. •to communicate strategies and solutions that address sustainability challenges to policy audiences on national and global platform.
Yatra means a journey or pilgrimage that one takes with friends and colleagues to attain higher goals
Structure
TARAgram YATRA 2010 took place at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi and at the DA Group Resource
Centre at TARAgram, Bundelkhand in Central India over five days, consisting of:
•Inaugural session in New Delhi - half day•Working sessions at TARAgram and field visits - three days•Plenary and Valedictory sessions in New Delhi - one day
The sessions at TARAgram concentrated on “Field visits, discussion and design” of path breaking approaches; those at
New Delhi focused more on wider “consultation and communication” with a national and global audience.
TARAgram YATRA Declaration
Declaration was aimed to draw attention of policy makers and key stakeholders to consider that:
•Growing awareness of climate change has brought the concepts of “low carbon” and “climate resilient” growth into focus•There is an unique opportunity to re-orient the economic compass to initiate change at scale •Concerns over sustainability remain a long way over from being integrated fully into policy making that is closely linked with ethics
TARAgram YATRA Declaration
Declaration further:•Enumerated factors that can contribute to green growth •Called for action by policy makers•Pledged our commitment to share and induce transformative processes aimed at green growth
TARAgram YATRA Outcome and lessons learnt
Rationale for shifting towards green economy:
• The recent global economic crisis: an eye-opener • Persistent poverty and ecological degradation• Increasing risk to livelihood associated with climate variability
(e.g. crop failure)
Factors locking the country/region into its current paradigm:
• Policy - practice disconnect• Behavioral aspects; lack of awareness and education • High dependence on natural resources - particularly in rural
India context
TARAgram YATRA Outcome and lessons learntFoundation for shifting to a green economy:
•Multi-stake holder consultative/interactive approach in policy formulation•Building business models in “Scoial Enterprise” that can operate and invest at a large scale with appropriate pro-poor technology, natural resources conservation, renewable energy and clean transport•Ensuring waste reduction, through – resource efficiency with community participation in resource (e.g. water) management and administration, strengthening regulations, treating ‘waste’ as useful raw-materials (e.g. fly ash-brick)•Human capital: preparing a trained labour force that can take up jobs in the green economy, creation of green jobs – sustainable livelihoods•Sensitizing the youth, changing their lifestyle/employment aspirations and making them more environment sensitive•Enabling environment for green investments and market access
TARAgram YATRA Outcome and lessons learnt
Opportunities/way forward to act:
•Greening of the existing ‘brown’ economy/jobs/value chains•Building up base for “low carbon” and “carbon resilient” communities and their capacity building•Tapping green social investment in the areas of ecosystem services, sustainable agriculture, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), green construction, and urban infrastructure, etc.•Introduction of financial products for incubation of green enterprise and business models•Sharing of learning's and good practices for replication at scale into various economies •Capacity building of stakeholders
Towards Green Economies for scalable solutions for people and our planet
TARAgram YATRA continues . . .
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