Project Report
| Sep 25, 2017
We Found KRAPAVIS's Work Very Inspiring
By Aman Singh | Project leader
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KRAPAVIS's work helps to restoring community lands
From 18-21 September 2017, GlobalGiving (GG) team conducted an evaluation of Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS). It was an excellent and unique opportunity for KRAPAVIS. Two of the GG’s skilled Project Evaluator volunteers, namely Dr. Victor Gracia Priego & Ms. Andriana Laskari, visited KRAPAVIS to gain a better understanding of its work and how GG can better support KRAPAVIS team. Project evaluators worked closely with us, for 4 days, to do an organizational assessment, and their visit allowed an in-depth opportunity for sharing knowledge and skills. The evaluators also provided training on how to effectively use GG’s technical systems including external review and professional feedback on our work and the organisation. Their visit has provided a more in-depth understanding of digital communications in order to increase awareness of KRAPAVIS team and reach larger audiences. A valuable audit report is yet to be received from the evaluators, which would be shared later –for proof of validation of KRAPAVIS work. In the meantime, Dr. Victor Gracia Priego & Ms. Andriana Laskari write “We found KRAPAVIS’s work very inspiring .....”
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Evaluators meeting with the communities
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Evaluator interact with KRAPAVIS Staff & Board
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Jul 10, 2017
Rural Women undertakes planting trees on 'Devbani'
By Aman Singh | Project leader
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Rural Women Planting Trees on their Devbani land
As monsoon starts in early July this year, the people, particularly women of Buntoli village in Alwar district of Rajasthan (India), have started planting trees on their‘Chandi Maiya Devbani’ grazing land. The women plant different kind of trees which are useful to them; to improving and enlarging the tree-sheltered area for their livestock and wildlife; to improving the fodder supply for the livestock and to improving water catchment in that area. Apart from these it revives the indigenous biodiversity through plantation of indigenous plant species to enhance ecosystem health in the buffer zone of Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR). Today, the buffer area of STR is invaded by IAS (invasive plant species) such as Prosopis juliflora, Cassia tora and Lantana camara leading to loss of traditional grazing lands of agro-pastoral community and the indigenous flora and fauna is also threatened due to these IAS of plants. The tree plantation helps towards livelihood security of the local people, where poverty and vulnerability to climatic changes (drought, famine) is common. and above all it helps in sinking carbon. “Hamari Chandi Maiya Devbani me ham Sabhi prakar ke ped-podhe uga rahe hai” (In our‘Chandi Maiya Devbani’, grazing land, we are plating all kinds of trees); Shailendramuni, a 60 years old community monk from Buntoli village, District Alwar Rajasthan.
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Community monk who look after the Devbani
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Apr 12, 2017
Pastoralists' women Raise Tree Nursery
By Aman Singh | Team Leader
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Pastoralist women preparing tree Nursery
For increasing fodder and grazing availability, 10 women from the pastoralist community in Bakhtpura village engaged in raising nursery for reforestation of Orans (grazing lands). A hands-on training program was conducted for the women by KRAPAVIS project. In the training, emphasis was given on criteria of selecting trees species is that encourage such trees that could provide more than one benefit to the communities (multi purpose trees e.g. fodder and fuel) i.e. 4E driven benefit - Economics, Employment, Energy and Ecology. “I now earn Rs. 400-500 every day through working on Nursery”, says Smt. Sauna, 65 yrs old pastoralist woman. Experiences from this village have been complied under an essay ‘From Stewards to Trespassers: Pastoralist Management of Forest Resources’ published in a book “Indigenous Perspectives on Pastoralism, Policy and the Environment”, The White Horse Press. The essay challenge common ecological approaches to understanding social change amongst pastoralist groups by focusing on the politics of resource distribution and control.
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Pastoralist woman also care livestock & water
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