Create 1,000 jobs the Organic Way

Create 1,000 jobs the Organic Way

Summary

To create at least 1,000 employment opportunities among the deprived and dispossessed community, particularly among rural women farmers by way of promoting local organic development

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The need lies in promoting prosperity of conservation-based enterprise and livelihood in harmony with 3Fs (Food, Fuel and Fodder) income and ecological balance in 10 villages of Sitapur District one of the poverty-stricken district of the state among women farmers.

Activities

Mobilizing the Community with concurrent awareness generation with demonstrative interventions, information & the generic issues concerning environment, social & economic aspect of farm-based natural resource of livelihoods & enterprises.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The creation of local community-driven livelihood programs incorporating concerns of gender, technology, entrepreneurship with ownership, inter-institutional development, safety nets & premised on networks and participation.

Project Message

Anil is the joy of helping others help themselves.
- Sherry Cornard, High Commissioner

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Mr. Anil K. Singh, Ashoka Fellow
Chief Executive
Network of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
Indira Nagar, Lucknow-226016
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226016
India
0091-522-2712671
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

NEED
Dev. Alternative, B-32, Tara Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi- 110016
New Delhi, New Delhi 110016
India
0091-522-2712671
http://www.indev.nic.in//need

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in IndiaIndia and can also be found under Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 17, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 23, 2004