Integration among thematic interventions necessitates the much needed holistic development of the communities. DHAN believes community as a whole has a lot of scope for several development interventions, per se, the foundation has been achieving it through the concept of community organizations since its inception.
“Jawadhu Hills of Tamil Nadu, Adilabad of Telangana, Koraput of Odisha – are some of the DHAN’s integrated location in Tribal context”
The various thematic interventions will always be demand driven rather than supply driven; addressing the demands of the vulnerable and downtrodden in the communities. The practice and pace of integration varies across the contexts. Community organizations’– otherwise called as people institutions; because they’re administered and managed by the people – sustainability plays a significant role and sometimes acts as one of the deciding factors for the new interventions and integrations of various themes.
DHAN’s entry point into a particular community could be any of one of the themes of DHAN collective, but over the course of journey, DHAN aims to have integrated approach through its community organizations.
SMALL MILLETS FOUNDATION
DHAN Collective has been engaged in identifying and addressing the members with co-morbidity. Envisaging zero death among the member families, special care has been ensured towards co-morbidity members by collaboration with health departments at the different levels of administrations. With the co-morbid members prone to high risk of casualty, DHAN believes it is the need of the hour for the communities to practice dietary diversification and to in-take nutrition rich, fibre content rich foods. Supplementing paddy with millets and pulses ensures the much needed dietary diversification for the people.
-Jawadhu Hills, Tamil Nadu
-Koraput, Odisha
With 33 varieties of plantation, finger millet biodiversity block has been created in Admunda village. - Koraput, Odisha
JEEVIDHAM
Jeevidam programme is a livelihoods initiative of DHAN, aiming at sustaining the production and market requirements of the primary producers at grassroots. One of the prominent contributions of Jeevidam is Farmer Producer Institutions. FPIs are promoted as collective institutions like Kalanjia/Vayalaga/Uzhavar/Neithal Jeevidam to cater the livelihood needs of women, tank farmers, rainfed farmers and fishermen of various thematic federations respectively.
-Jawadhu Hills, Tamil Nadu
-Adilabad region, Telangana
MIGRATION also called ‘Displacement Due to Poverty’
Providing employment and creating market linkages ensures the people to stay back. Making efforts toward that, Jeevidam ensured creating market linkages for the millets and honey.
-Koraput, Odisha
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
In the September month, 4700 silver oak samplings were distributed to 15 farmers.
In collaboration with Horticulture department, CCA team provided training to the farmers on plantation and irrigation procedures
100 farmers were trained on organic farming and were oriented with various organic farming incentive schemes
-Jawadhu Hills, Tamil Nadu
SUHAM Health Activities
Ensuring Healthy Practices
Napkins were distributed to 262 adolescent girls
Addressing the Iron Deficiency
1916 adolescent girls were provided with IFA tablets
Habituating New Normal
2132 families underwent Sustainable Behavioural Change Communication oriented through SUHAM’s SBCC posters
-Jawadhu Hills, Tamil Nadu
314 napkins were distributed to adolescent girls at Deoghati village, Koraput, Odisha
Co-morbidity screening tests – BP and Sugar – were carried out among 332 members; 12 were identified as comorbidity high.
Through the community call centres in Semiliguda and Koraput, 93 members were reached checking their co-morbidity status and three persons were identified as co-morbid.
- Koraput, Odisha
