wafd bharatpur report 2012 - 2013

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ACTIVITY REPORT // BHARATPUR 2012 - 2013


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All images and text Copyright 2013Womens Action For Development // wafdindia.org

PARTNERS:

Students Union, University of Jyvskyl //jyy.fiINSEDA // inseda.org

No part of this publication, or any part ofthe contents therein may be reproduced inany form without the written permission ofthe Executive Director, Womens Action ForDevelopment.

REGD. OFFICE:

WZ-34/5, Asalatpur, A-2 Janak Puri,New Delhi - 110058 // (91) [email protected]


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Foreword

The success of an organisation is measured in terms of sustainability

of the activities by the people without anymore support from the

organisation. After more than seven years of implementation of

programs in the EVD project, WAFD is not active there anymore, but

some of the women leaders trained in the dierent villages are now

slowly taking over the task of motivating people to take up organic

farming, make their own organic compost, or get biogas plants

constructed - thus testifying to the success of WAFD in the villages in

and around Bharatpur.

WAFD has trained 4 women to take up this work and they areindependently taking meetings, guiding other leaders who are not so

condent and motivating people. WAFD is currently providing only

background support in the form of arranging meetings, arranging

conveyance etc. This work is being carried out with small grants from

the Students Unions of University of Jyvskyl, Finland.

Zareen Myles, Executive Director,

Womens Action For Development


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AboutWAFD

Womens Action For Development (WAFD) was registered under

the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 (Registration No. 9670

dated September 18, 1978) as an endeavour of committed socially

responsible people.

WAFDs vision, mission and philosophy are based on the belief

that women are central to any sustainable development eorts.

Women have to be recognised asthe primary stakeholders in their

own development and growth. The role of WAFD becomes that of a

facilitator to equip the women for creative action through participatory

implementation, management and maintenance, so that ultimatelythey can take over these projects.

One of WAFDs volunteers with a bar of home-made soap


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Eco VillageDevelopment

WAFD, with support from University of Jyvskyl, Finland ( JYY),

had been working on the Eco-village Development (EVD) project in

Bharatpur, Rajasthan, from 2002 to 2009. From 2010 onwards, the

aim of the work has been to develop the leadership of the women and

promote and consolidate the work already done during the past years.

The present program also aims at increasing the awareness towards

sustainable development and climate change for the rural villages.

As part of EVD, WAFD has also partnered with INSEDA (Integrated

Sustainable Energy and Ecological Development Association) for

technical assistance in bringing renewable energy technology to the

village households.

The Eco Village - green and empowering the women


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Stories fromBharatpur

Ram Dulari from village Saidpura is 55 years old and very

enthusiastic in learning new things, practicing them and spreading

this knowledge in her village. She never went to formal school but

learnt some reading and writing in an adult literacy program. Her

village had no toilets and sanitation and slushy roads were a real

problem in the village. After being a part of WAFD programme, she

developed condence to travel by herself, and talk to people. Her

respect among the village people has grown and they come her for

advice at all times. She has attended almost all trainings organised by

WAFD. She has motivated her village people, because of which, there

are now 55 toilets there, and almost all houses have made a small

soak pit near their homes so that the roads are dry and not slushy any

more. Ram Dulari has also motivated seven people to take up organic

farming in her village, and about 73 women to set up small kitchen

gardens in their homes and elds.

Seema from village Darapur Khurd is a young widow in her late

thirties, who lives in a mud hut with her 4 children 2 daughters and

2 sons. She herself never had a chance to go to school, but is makingsure all her children go to school. She had a NADEP compost unit

built with some help from WAFD. She used the organic compost on

her small piece of land and grew mustard. Her crop was the best in

the entire village and she earned ` 20,000 from the sale of this. Since

she gets a lot of organic manure and now also sells it, so far she has

earned ` 4,000 from sale of the compost. Seeing her other people in

her village have also got motivated to build NADEP compost units and

take up organic farming.

Laxmi from village Chak Chauba has studied up to the eighth

standard, and is 52 years old. She has taken up all the activities which

WAFD taught during the project duration. Laxmi has a biogas plant

which gives her organic manure for her organic farming on 17 beeghas

of land. She uses the methane from the biogas plant for cooking

energy, which saves her 3 hours every day. She utilises this free time

doing stitching work as well as teaching girls how to sew and stitchand is proud to tell all she earns ` 300 per month from this free time.

From being a shy and scared village woman who could not talk to

anyone, especially men, today Laxmi is a condent person who can

travel anywhere, talk to anyone and hold her own. In her own village,

she has motivated 27 people to take up organic farming and helped

almost all the families to set up small kitchen gardens for better

nutrition for the family and sale of extra produce.


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Activities:April 2012 - March 2013

Clockwise from Left: Song and dance at a meeting, embroidery, and, soap preparation


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With continuing minimal support from JYY, the following activities

were carried out from April 2012 to March 2013:

Sewing classes in Chak Darapur, Kalyanpur, Naswaria and

Nagla Bhagat

Monthly meetings of leaders in the WAFD oce

Monthly meetings at village level

Monthly visits to villages by the change agents

Training of leaders

Celebration of International Womens Day

From Top: Sewing classes, and, one of the monthly meetings


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A report of programmes conducted in the villages is shown on the next

page. These results were achieved wholly by the eorts of the mahila

mandals, who were also able to achieve the following:

In Chak Chauba, 3 women also earned ` 3000 by selling the

extra vegetables from their kitchen gardens.

In Chak Chauba, Nagla Bhagat, Kalyanpur, Berga and Saidpura

a total of 40 women are regularly are making soap for washing

clothes and each woman saves ` 200 every month average as they

do not need to buy any detergent any more.

Nutritious recipes are being made regularly - soya chunks,

balanced diet, soya milk, paushtik roti etc.

Clockwise from Top-Right: A volunteer holding her organic produce, women partners with their combined produce, home-made soap, and, a

volunteer with her mini-market


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VillageOrganic

Farm UnitsToilets

Kitchen

GardensSoakpits

Tree

Plantations

Roofwater

Harvesting Tanks

Compost

Units

Saidpura 6 60 150 50 2000 - -

Chak Chauba 85 10 45 - 1000 10 10

Berga 6 20 35 - 400 - -

Naswaria 4.5 - 25 - 250 - -

Nagla Bhagat 17 9 30 - 300 30 -

Kalyanpur 10 10 30 - 600 2 -

Darapur 30 12 40 - 800 1 50

Table 4.1: Activity summary for 2012 2013


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Action Plan2013

The action plan for 2013 aims making village Chak Chauba into a

model of sustainable development. The targets are to achieve near

100% eco-village transformation in the village.

WAFD will only be providing motivation and guidance and no

nancial or material help will be given, as the aim is to gradually

transform our women leaders into stakeholders in our activities.

Of the 56 families living in the villages, 7 take small holdings

on lease for growing vegetables for income generation as they are

landless.

The action plan aims at converting all 49 farmers into

practicing organic methods on at least a small portion of their

land. An organic unit and a NADEP/compost unit have been

planned for each farmer.

Each household is encouraged to have a kitchen garden for own

consumption of vegetables as well as for sale.

Roof water tanks for harvesting rain will be installed in as many

houses as possible.

Biogas plants, due to the initial expense to be borne by the

households, still require strong demonstration and motivation.

Self Help Groups will be strengthened and will focus on thrift

and credit schemes.

The yuvati dal (youth group for young girls) will meet once a

month and make survey for trees and plants existing in village.

The youth groups will also motivate village for tree plantations

during monsoon (July August).

All the women of the village will be motivated to join the mahila

mandal so that every family is represented.


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ProgrammeTarget Units

(Current + Additional)Completion Target

Organic Farms 49 December 2013

NADEP/Composting Pits 49 October 2013

Toilets 46 December 2013

Kitchen Gardens 56 December 2013

Roofwater Tanks 50 December 2013

Biogas Plants 2 December 2013

Self Help Groups 4 December 2013

Mahila Mandal Members 60 December 2013

Table 5.1: Targets according to Action Plan 2013

Total number of families living in Chak Chauba: 56


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