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ACTIVITY REPORT // BHARATPUR 2012 - 2013
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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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