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The targeted 72 villages are located in a low-lying Arabian Sea coastal area of the Kanyakumari District. The area is predominantly composed of wetlands that have been severely affected by tsunami. Rehabilitation and sustainable development of the wetlands is an absolute necessity as they are the mainstay of the local community for their livelihood. The tsunami disaster and resulting eco-environmental degradation over the years has impoverished people's living conditions causing poverty and loss of biodiversity.
The VILLAGE SERVICES TRUST has been working with these tsunami affected wetlands communities since December 2004, just after the tsunami disaster. The VILLAGE SERVICES TRUST, in partnership with the local communities, is striving to rehabilitate the tsunami affected communities and their livelihood resources with the objectives of generating awareness, group formation, leadership training and empowering the population through collective action, generating income and employment for women, establishing bio-shield by developing mangrove and coastal forest. In the process of implementing this program we will inevitably encounter some of the problems of the local communities, which we have listed below. These problems are to be further studied and surveyed in detail with the stake holders' participation for meaningful involvement in the rehabilitation of the affected wetlands, equipping the weaker members of the population for the wise use of wetlands and recreating a sustainable livelihood with an ecological approach towards food security, thus reducing poverty. The program for the sustainable rehabilitation and development of the Wetlands is most urgent as no one, either government or non governmental developmental agencies, has looked at it or initiated any action plan whether that be at policy or at program level. Hence, this project by the VILLAGE SERVICES TRUST.
This document can be used as a proposal template for associations, organisations and groups working on environmental and community projects.
ISSUES AND PROBLEMS
Social, cultural and gender:
- Gender and caste discrimination, atrocities and violence towards women
- Dowry problems (bride money) and male chauvinistic values
- Lack of awareness about their rights, entitlements and, gender equity
- Lack of awareness, knowledge on alternative socio economic and environmental equity
- Spendthrift habits and attitudes to rituals and festivals
- Women do not have stakes or shares in their family property
- Division of labor having sway over women, making them passive, submissive and silent
- Over-burdening of fulfilling socio religious and cultural practices, and faiths
- Rate of suicide among women and educated youth
Economic
- Land and other natural resources getting alienated
- Failure of wetland Agriculture economy, more so after tsunami
- Unemployment, under employment, differential wages for women and seasonal migration
- Indebted at the hands of moneylenders
- Increasing prices of essential commodities and decreasing purchasing power
- Agriculture losing its socio economic status and land becoming saline and impossible to cultivate
- MNCs control over local resources and market
WETLANDS AND POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT CONCEPTS FOR SEED FUNDING
1. Background and Justification
1.1 Issues and Problems
1.1.1 Social, cultural and gender
1.1.2 Economic
1.1.3 Political
1.1.4 Environmental
1.1.5 The Modern Development approach and the Green Revolution in wetlands
1.1.6 Health
1.2 Where is the project going to take place?
1.3 Links
1.4 Poverty
2. Description of the process to develop the project proposal
2.1 Partnership
2.2 Activities
2.2.1 Consolidation of partnership agreements
2.2.2 Planning activities with local stakeholders
2.2.3 Definition of goals and aims of the project proposal
2.2.4 Identification of Indicators of success
2.2.5 Identification of risks
2.2.6 Identification of possible donors and project submission requirements
2.2.7 Drafting the project proposal
2.2.8 Proposal Translation into English
2.2.9 Submission of project proposal to donors
3. Explanation of how this process will involve local stake holders, minority groups and benefit from local and traditional knowledge.
4. Explanation of how this process will help to build capacity among the organizations, local committees and group involved.
Project time frame
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