Capacity Building of Grassroots NGOs of Kalimantan (Indonesia) & Orissa (India)

Type

Action Project

Year

2002-2003

Project Details

Areas Covered by Initiative Work With

The grass root NGO from India basically from Orissa and Kalimantan (Indonesia) working for capacity building in rural and tribal areas.

Major Issues Addressed

The targeted areas selected for capacity building of grassroots NGO in better use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques, utilizing available resources and mobilizing more resources by joining network system in Orissa, and Kalimantan.

Objectives

To give maximum benefit to the society by capacity building of NGOs working at grassroots level was the goal of the project. Train the NGOs by using PRA, Connecting NGOs with networking system were some other objectives of this project.

Description of initiative in brief

The NGOs were scaled and mapped to be chosen as participant NGOs from Orissa (India) and Kalimantan (Indonesia). Three mini camps in Orissa, Five mini camps in Kalimantan, and one main camp in Delhi were organized. The main issues discussed in these camps of Orissa were disputes over tribal land, environment and forests of Orissa: threatened existence, reproductive health, traditional system of medicines, water conservation, migration, child labor, implementation of government schemes, panchayati raj system, drought and etc. The topics discussed in the camps of Kalimantan were like: sources of funding and self sufficiency, violation against women and social work, smuggling of forest items, increasing population blessing or curse, networking: meaning and technique, social entrepreneurship and etc. There were many other topics, which were discussed in these camps. Due to this project a good networking has been formed among many grass root NGOs, a good level of awareness imparted to the grass root people. Enhancement in reliability, and building of self confidence were also the main components of this project with small and grass root NGOs.