By Action Village India | Registered Charity
Chilika Lake, the world’s second largest coastal lagoon, and also an internationally recognised Ramsar site, faces severe ecological disruption due to climate change and human intervention The project region lacks livelihood opportunities, causing widespread poverty, inequality, and distress migration. Its proneness to severe cyclones coupled with erratic rainfall and unpredictable temperatures exacerbates the vulnerability of poor communities. Moreover, human interference with the lake’s ecosystem, reduced fish stocks, undermining the livelihoods of over 200,000 fishers and landless communities. Caste-based exclusion from natural resources, weak infrastructure, recurring climate shocks and external commercial pressures in tourism and aquaculture further marginalise local populations. As resources shrink and competition rises, migration and social tensions have intensified.
Action Village India partners with Regional Centre for Development Cooperation to tackle these issues in Odisha, running a plantation programme, 62 village development committees and cleanliness campaigns in 7 villages. Partnership with the government meant that 1520 trees were planted under the government’s “One Tree in Mother’s Name” as well as a healthy women, healthy family programme where regular health-checkups were facilitated and 1,777 women learnt how to keep themselves and their families healthy. Also, an additional 54 new target villages were added to the project, in addition to the existing 39 villages. An integral part of our initiatives focus on strengthening community resilience which can be seen in the photos attached that depict participants not only collective cleaning but also villagers coming together to create a communal resting place for all to enjoy at the centre of the village
The project's objectives remain to strengthen livelihoods by improving household incomes, develop ecological conservation to protect local natural resources and reduce distress migrations by creating local self-help groups, a Shram Bank (Labour Bank), and a Producer Organisation to market their products better and sustain local employment.
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