Program: Climate Change, preservation of environment and Culture |
| To reduce the hazards associated with climate change, WOSCA also encouraged the use of solar home lighting equipment. Lanterns and several lights powered by solar energy have been installed to compensate for the energy that would have ordinarily come from fossil fuels. Solar lights and Fans require minimal maintenance and reduce the risk of accidents as external wires are eliminated. The use of solar energy also helps the communities battle the challenges of an irregular domestic power supply, thereby enabling students to study at night and families to fulfil household chores after sunset. In four blocks of the districts 100 rural farmers have been supported with home lights, 10 SHGs with solar fan and 4 SHGs with solar pump sets. |
Ongoing Projects |
.jpg) WADI is a holistic development program to approach a sustainable livelihood through tree base farming system. This programme is a horticulture development program to change the waste land same as natural resource management, soil moisture conservation and to support social mobilization effort. WADI project covers 1000 acres of land. |
Focused Area Development Program (FADP) This program has emphasized community forest management, land and water management, sustainable agriculture, food and livelihood security and strengthened the capacities of the community people on natural resource management. With the support of ITDA, Keonjhar WOSCA as an FNGO is facilitating this program in seven blocks, namely, Ghatgaon, Harichandanpur, Patna, Saharpada, Banspal, Telkoi and Sadar block of Keonjhar District. Through this program farmers are benefited by doing intercropping that has increased their income level. |
OTELP-Plus project is being implemented in 23 Tribal villages of Harichandanpur Block covering 3736 households since July 2013. The major objective of the project is to ensure that the livelihoods and food security of the families of those villages |
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Facilitation of Rain Water Management This program has contributed toward rehabilitating degraded land and changing them into a productive form in our intervention areas of Keonjhar where harvesting runoff water retains moisture in the land by constructing stonework core wall along with outlet at a suitable location. In hilly or plain areas, the principle of Ridge to Valley Treatment is followed in three consecutive parts like (a) managing the external runoff (b) managing the rain falling inside the treated area(C) preventing the loss of soil water through seepage from treated area. Rain water harvesting has increased cropping intensity—by converting about 20% of permanent unused lands into productive agriculture lands—and ensured irrigation availability especially during the critical crop growth stage. This has also enhanced land and water use efficiency of the system and increased household net income by two to three folds as compared to the baseline status. Read More |
Bio-diversity Conservation programme
This project is Supported by UNDP-SGP-GEF to sensitize the community on bio-diversity conservation and to create environmental awareness among the tribals of 50 villages of Sadar & Ghatagaon block of Keonjhar from Feb-2003 to Dec-05 and again from Apr-07 to Jun-09. Under this project 64 SHGs have been formed to undertake capacity building activities with regard to conservation of eco- system. | To reduce the hazards associated with climate change, WOSCA also encouraged the use of solar home lighting equipment. Lanterns and several lights powered by solar energy have been installed to compensate for the energy that would have ordinarily come from fossil fuels. |
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