GOAL ( Going Online As Leaders) .. a collaborative program of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs , Government of India with Facebook
Implementation Strategies for GOAL following the Approaches to Integrated Landscape Management For Sustainable Livelihood
The programme aims to mentor 5000 youth from tribal communities with the help of 2500 expert mentors who will be leaders from industry, arts, politics, business etc. The selected mentees will be given a smartphone with internet access for 1 year and study material in digital format. Each mentor will be assigned two mentees and mentor will connect and guide the mentee through online mechanisms. The programme will run for 9 months where weekly sessions will be conducted for first 7 months, followed by an internship opportunity for 2 months in a reputed organisation based on skill set of mentees. A dedicated online portal (gov.tribal.gov.in) has been launched to apply under this programme and for any other important communication. All details regarding this programme is also available at GOAL portal.
What are the objectives of this program?
Identification of the social and natural features of the landscape, selection of Mentee if not identified, from where the tribal youth joins the program GOOL as a mentee with the core areas of mentorship program are Digital Literacy, life Skill, leadership and finally entrepreneurship
⦁ Identification of the Mentor-Mentee and the location, understanding the social and natural features of the landscape from where the tribal youth joins the program GOOL as a mentee for the core areas of a mentorship program which includes Digital Literacy, life Skill, leadership and finally entrepreneurship
⦁ Establishing Mentor-Mentee relationship where the Mentor will act more as a coach to monitor performance and friendly counselor for emotional support
⦁ Prepare a road map with milestones for grooming & capacity building of youths living in tribal areas which will inspire self and the tribal community and act as a change maker to facilitate the development
⦁ Guide and encourage mentees as counsellors to boost their confidence level and ignite higher aspirations among them.
⦁ Identify training need, plan for skill development, build the abilities which will help the tribal youth to gain leadership skills,
⦁ Build the competency of the youth who can have SWOT exercise, identify problems in their society, prepare a participatory micro plan of the village based on natural resources and livelihood to need and instill confidence to be able to solve the problems and implement some activities depending upon the available resources by involving the local government functionaries and the PRIS
⦁ Develop a plan of action to fight the challenges and use their knowledge to support their livelihood as well as the society’s socioeconomic status, particularly in view of women empowerment.
⦁ Develop periodical participatory monitoring criteria and Indicators and periodical evaluation make a point to celebrate the accomplishment at each milestone.
Concept of Sustainable Livelihood. The method includes the development of the strategy for the effective ways of building the capacity of the community to enable them to understand the concept of the ecosystem of the landscape and the interdependent relationship among the forest, water bodies, agriculture land, livestock to prepare a consolidated micro plan for conservation-based livelihood through their participation.
None of the habitats of agriculture can be managed to ignore the water quality and quantity, health of the soil, livestock, and forest biodiversity which has an impact on agrobiodiversincluding the wildlife at the forest fringe villages.
The Mentor will train the mentee to conducts situation analysis, create awareness, identify proactive leaders, development of training modules for building the capacity of the women entrepreneurs, in particular, to enable them to understand the stages and steps of livelihood related activities. Some of the activities are the development of Nutrition Garden., Vermicompost, fishery, horticulture, organic farming, and agribusiness.
The mentee will need to grow to learn the life skills and digital skills and entrepreneurship skill through as a blended modular, specially designed for the GOAL.
Identification of Landscape is done based on the vulnerability and drivers of degradation through consultation with the government functionaries and community as stakeholders, secondary data, and consultation of Google Maps.
Stage-I Inception meetings
Stage I :
Inception meetings at the District level/ Block level with the Tribal Development, Forests, Agriculture and other line departments to discuss the objective, concepts and approaches of GOAL to get the response from the government functionaries and also getting their help in identification of landscape, generally degraded tribal habitat (district level functionaries of the tribal development and other line departments, district heads, research institutions)
No development project will scale up unless both the community and the government functionaries work together for a common goal and agreed on plan of action, particularly where the government resources are used for tribal development. But sometimes the community institutions and the government institutions diverge over how to achieve similar ends of sustainable harvesting the forest produce, resulting in conflicts. Conflict sometimes is found for a particular issue of conservation of the forests between the bureaucratic institution of the Forest Department (FD) and the Tribal Forest Communities (FC) in India and elsewhere in the world
Therefore, the District-Block-level inception meeting or workshop with the panchayat representatives and the line department officials to finalize the plan of action for the livelihood program is important.
Workshop and meetings with the Forest officials, line depth and Kamar on the 3rd October 2019 at Forest colony with the Kamar Tribes one of the PVTG of Gariyaband district of Chhattisgarh for developing a plan of action to launch the project on sustainable Tribal Development’ under the auspices of IBRAD Centre of Excellence under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs Government of India.
Stage II Awareness and community institution building
A UNIQUE blending of the three learning objectives and outcomes has been designed and needs field testing
In case of any kind of behavioral change, the basic requirement is a change of the ‘ World View
Training the Mentee about the method of Creating awareness Without Providing Any Advice….by asking questions following the methods and steps of PANCHATATWA and Identification of SICO as his friends to form the network in the village (Proactive Change Agents).
During the PANCHATATWA exercise five pictures of Forest, Water, Agri field, Livestock and Human are drawn on the top of a chart paper and the four questions are asked..(i) out of the five components which one is not needed at the village (ii) why all are needed (iii) How they are interdependent and (iv) how the villagers can come forward to conserve them. Villagers were divided into groups and write the answers through group discussions, Each group then present their answers and the best presentation is rewarded.
This is the first level of interventions at the landscape level to create awareness and sensitize the villagers to come forward as proactive members for the implementation of the project at the village level.
Instead of making the community as a passive recipient of the project benefits, this method helps the community to take charge of the development of their village as active partners of the project.
Through PANCHATATWA exercise villagers start linking their survival with the constituent ecosystems of their landscape and some proactive members from among the villagers, known as Self Initiated Community Organiser (SICO)
Through PANCHATATWA exercise some of the proactive change agents (SICO) will be identified. They will be the front line extension volunteers to transfer the information, key messages and technologies from the project to the villagers. Some of the SICO with good communication skills and leadership qualities will be groomed and trained as CRP (Community Resource Persons)
Stage III.. Preparation of IEC materials through community participation and brainstorming..and it is to be displaced.. Series of quiz contest, easy writing and debate will be organized to reinforce the issue of ; DOs and Don’t
Stage IV ..Informal Training of Community Resource Persons and games related use of
SMART phone
Stage V..Step (1) PRASHISHAKSAN SHIBIR Training of CRP
PrashikshanShibr as Community Supported and Managed Training hut is established for Continuous Learning Forum.
The PrashikshanShibir will serve as Outreach programme for NRM based Organic Farming and will be centre of Pride and identity of the farmers. It will have yearlong plan for continuous learning programme. There will be Soil Test kit with a simple approach to assess the available primary nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, electrical conductivity and pH of the soil sample of the agricultural land. Test will provide the exact details of the primary nutrients, but also suggest what crops they can cultivate in their land. Thus judicious use of Biofertilizer will improve health of Soil and save cost on excessive use of fertilizer.
Specialised and rigorous trainings are organised for the CRP membersfor improving the livelihood base through improvement of soil health, water conservation, seed treatment, production of inputs like biofertilizers and biopesticides, livestock management, plant protection methods, nursery techniques, pisciculture, preparation of business development plan, branding and marketing of products etc.
Implementation of the skills learnt in the field on project mode
The CRP trainings Mentees are conducted on modular basis. After each module, the participant implements the skills learnt in the field as project work for demonstration.
Training to fellow villagers by the Mentee
Mentee , in turn, train the CRP as the fellow villagers on the specific skills and facilitate the process of transfer of technology.
ASSIGNMENT OT MENTEE TO DEMONSTRATE THE USE OF SMART PHONE
Specialised training on Agribusiness for Women Empowerment
Specialised certificate course of one-month duration (200 hours) on Agri-Business is designed to develop skills for promoting Agribusiness.
The objective of such course is to create empowered women entrepreneurs at the grass-root level, paraAgri Resource Person for ease of access to agri advisory services like IPNM; agronomy; seed rate and seed treatment; timing for fertigation and irrigation; tips for improved productivity and quality of produce; harvesting and post-harvesting management.
Stage VI PRA Map.
Understanding the agroforest mosaic landscape and Participatory Microplanning ..Such exercise help in preparing the DPR, finally.
Stage VII.. Step (1) Use of PRA Exercise for Micro plan preparation
PRA exercise is conducted at the village level by involving the CRPs and the villagers. The participatory approaches and tools are designed to encourage participatory decision making by involving the primary stakeholders, i.e., the villagers.
Normally, Three to four kinds of PRA tools are used, viz., Trnasect walk, Village Spatial Map, Social Map, Seasonal Calendar and Venn Diagram.
The exercise helps in understanding the conditions of different ecosystems within the landscape, their interdependence and the drivers of degradation
House hold survey is done following the schedules as check lost
Stage VIII SWOT Analysis and Microplan preparation has to be carried out keeping in mind the findings of PRA.
SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat) analysis is one of the essential tools for participatory planning and interventions.
Villagers in the group meeting are asked to illustrate about some points or activities or some of the resources which are found only in this village for which the villagers are proud of it. Same way, they are asked what kind of weakness villagers appreciate and that they wish to overcome for the overall development of the village.
The third question is asked about who can help to overcome the weakness, what are the opportunities, they have before them that can help the village.
Finally, they are asked to measure the consequences that villagers are going to face if they do not act now.
It helps in having insights about the local situation that helps in designing the strategic planning and interventions. Through SWOT analysis method was originally developed in the context of business and industry but it has been proved to be equally useful for community-level developmental works as well.
Finalization of Microplaning will be done only after completion of all the data collection through House hold survey PRA and SWOT analysis.
CIG FORMATION, TNA..AND INSTITUTION BUILDING
Stage VI…Step (1) Formation of CIG
Based on the SWOT microplaning and the interest of the farmers, production of crops/animal/fish products, market demands and potentials Common Interest Groups (CIG) are formed with the villagers having a common interest to start some activities.
Stage VI.Step (2) Building institution of the CIGs
The CIGs form their own institutions with clearly defined rules and regulations and control mechanism. They identify their group leader and other functionaries to lead the activities and turn them into business mode.
One time training without follow up and hand-holding does not yield desired results. Trainings are meant for changing behaviour and practices of the people and to adopt new technologies and practices for production. Therefore, instead of one-time training continuous learning is needed.
Stage VII. Crop Calender at PRASHIKSHAN SHIBIR as an identity by the villagers
PrashikshanShibir is a semi-permanent structure established within the core village. The land is identified by the villagers within the village. The land has to be easily accessible and is to be located in a place that is visible and has some open space to accommodate people for meeting and training.
PrashikshanShibir is established to promote continuous learning in the villages and also to create an identity among the villagers.
The shibir becomes a centre for conducting different meetings, a place for exchange of information and ideas, cultural activities and villagers takes pride in it.
preparation of crop calendar and organizing in situ trainings
Village wise crop calendar is prepared and the training modules are designed as per the crop calendar. In situ trainings are organized by the CRP and the field facilitators as per the crop calendar.
The PrashikshanShibir will serve as Outreach program for NRM based Organic Farming and will be centre of Pride and identity of the farmers. It will have yearlong plan for continuous learning program.
Micro plans are prepared for all the constituent villages in each of the landscape with a special focus on the core village.
Identification of the existing land uses, issues and challenges in the PRA map
Existing land uses, issues and challenges are identified by involving the villagers and CRP on the PRA map.
Identification of CIG wise opportunities for interventions to improve the livelihood options
The opportunities of interventions for livelihood development such as nutrition gardens, plantation, nursery, vermin compost pits, fishery, rainwater harvesting etc are identified on the map by involving the stakeholders.
Preparation of budget and action plans
Activity wise budgets, activity scheduling and action plans are prepared by involving the villagers. Plan for convergence with different line departments are made.
EVALUATION for assessing the effectiveness of IEC through field testing
Design Different types of IEC materials are designed including graphics, audiovisual and mass media. These are field-tested and finalized.
Continue,Application of IEC materials for dissemination of information and knowledge
Application of the IEC materials in PrashikshanShibir and in the villages for dissemination of information and knowledge
Trait-based training for the CIG members and Training Plan
Based on the SWOT analysis and PRA exercises the issues and challenges of each landscape are identified so as the skill and knowledge gaps of the people. TNA exercise will be conducted considering the nature of interventions to be done in the village.
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Stage X..Step Arrangement, Procurements of tools kits and Materials
There will be Soil Test kit with a simple approach to assess the available primary nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, electrical conductivity and pH of the soil sample of the agricultural land. Test will provide the exact details of the primary nutrients, but also suggest what crops they can cultivate in their land. Thus judicious use of organic manure will improve health of Soil and save cost on excessive use of fertilizer.
Other materials such as amorphous, seeds will be procured in advance to provide handholding training for demonstration.
Stage XI Step (1) Trait-based training of the CIGs. Preparation of training modules and materials
To begin with, some basic trainings will be provided that will help the farmers to increase income through improved food production, plant protection and production of agri inputs such as
⦁ Organic method of seed treatment
⦁ Kitchen garden preparation
⦁ Vermicompost preparation
⦁ Neemastra preparation
⦁ AmritJal preparation
Training modules and materials are prepared in simple vernacular languages.
The trainings are conducted in situ in the form of hand-holding skill development training following the Adult Learning Principles and Andragogy.
Stage XI I..Step (3)
Post-training hand-holding and follow up
The facilitators of IBRAD act as coach and mentor with regular post-training handholding support to the trainees to implement the training skills in their field.
Stage XIII .Establishment of Demonstration Centres (DC)/trial plots
A demonstration or trial plot is used primarily to research or demonstrate various agricultural techniques including crops, different agriculture technologies and livestock. It becomes a central point for dissemination of new technologies and package of practices. Demonstration Centres/trial plots are used extensively for conducting Farmers Field School (FFS) for knowledge and skill transfer.
(1) Identification of Land and the lead farmers for demonstration of specified products/package of practices
Identification of the lands and the lead farmers near the PrashikshanShibir to establish the Demonstration centres. These DCs are used for demonstration during the in situ trainings of the CIGs.
planned prior to the commencement of the season and the demonstrations are done accordingly.
Stage XIII. Establishment of organic nutrition kitchen garden
Much of the homestead land of Tribal community remains either vacant or not properly utilized. Such land near their houses can be utilized as Nutrition Garden (Kitchen Garden) for growing organic vegetables,fruits,medicinal plants to meet immediate need of nutritious food.
Stage XIII Step (1) Identification of land based on the sources of water
Lands are identified based on the sources of water.
Stage XIII Step (2) Land preparation
Land preparation is done by making ridges and furrows. Soil ball with amorphous ad cow dung and soil is made and put by making holes on the ridges. Mulching is done.
Stage XIII Step (3) Seed treatment and seed sowing
Seeds are treated in the organic manner and are sown.
Stage XIII Step (4) Maintenance of the nutrition kitchen gardens
Maintenance of the nutrition kitchen garden by fencing, weeding, watering application of biopesticidesetc is done.
Stage XIV. Training on Agroforestry and nursery
Stage XIV Step (1) Preparation of training modules as per the site-specific agroforestry models
Site-specific agroforestry models of AgriHorti, AgriHortiSilvi, HortiSilvi crops etc are identified based on the agro-climatic conditions, land configurations, water availability, need analysis and market demands and training modules are prepared.
Stage XIV Step (2) Identification of the CIG members and their lands for implementation of the models
The CIGs interested in the implementation of the agroforestry models and availability of land is identified.
Stage XIV Step (3) Conduction of training
Training are conducted for the CIGs on the specific models and implementation schedule.
Stage XIV Step (4) Establishment of nurseries for production of planting materials Nurseries are established by the CIGs for the production of in situ quality planting materials.
Stage XIV Step (5) Establishment of the modes in the field
Establishment of the agroforestry model in the field as per the specifications.
Stage XV.Providing Productive assetssuch as Vermicompost Pit, Equipments, rainwater harvesting and drip irrigationetc
Stage XV Step (1) Identification of beneficiaries and land through collective decisions Organise village level meetings to identify the beneficiaries and the land. Selection is done through written resolutions.
Stage XV Step (2) Procurement of materials
Procurement of materials as per the specifications laid down in the project.
Stage XV Step (3) Implementation preferably through engaging local masons and labours
Any construction activities such as vermin compost pit or soil works are done preferably by engaging local masons and labour.
Stage.XVI..Exposure visits
Stage XVI Step (1) Selection of sites for exposure visits based on the skills/techniques/products to be learnt
Sites for the exposure visits are selected
Stage XVI Step (2) Conduction of Exposure visits
Exposure visits are conducted by taking the farmers to the sites and interacting with the farmers of the destination.
Stage XVII Supervision of Production Units(Agri- Horti- Livestock-Fishery)
Regular Supervision and monitoring of the Productions units of Nutrition Kitchen Garden, agriculture field, fisheries, livestock, agroforestry plantation following the Inspection Criteria.
Stage XVIII.Branding& Marketing
Stage XVIII Step (1) Workshops on branding and marketing
Workshop on Branding & LogoDesign, and demonstration of market survey, networking, branding, packaging, reaching the retailers, making their own stalls
Stage XVIII Step (2) Promotional activities
Cultural program, fests, and exhibition of the product of the tribal women entrepreneurs
Stage XVIII Step (3) Material inputs
Material inputs as productive assets for handholding support to filed test the skills learned and earn through the establishment of
1..Organic nutrition garden
2..Vermicompostunits (size 10 ’x3’x1.5’)
3.Rainwater Harvesting &Pisciculture with creation/renovation of small farm ponds for rainwater harvesting
4.Traditional organic Input Production units like Panchagavya, Beejamruth, and Jeevamruth, etc.
5.Application of liquid Biopesticides (Trichodermaviridae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Beaviouriebassiana, Pacelomyces, verticillium)
6.Neemleaves, preparation of NemmastraDrip irrigation.
7. Drip Irrigation
8. Pulse cultivation
9. Livestock support
10.Submersible pump sets