SWATI has vast experience and expertise on implementing programmes related to livelihood, Natural resource development, Community Forest management, Sustainable agriculture, Community health, Mother & Child Health, Adolescent health, HIV & AIDs, Community institution building, Women Empowerment, Skill development training, Early Childhood care and Education, Issue based advocacy and  youth mobilization.

The programme timeline of SWATI elaborates its involvement in issues and initiatives to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals.

Programme Timeline of SWATI

Sustainable Development Goals	Program Implemented by SWATI	Program objectives	Implementation Area	Time & Funding Support
To End poverty in all its forms everywhere in Goal-1 and to End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture in Goal-2 of SDGs	NRM activities in Watershed Approach	To preserve and develop the Natural livelihood sources of community	Phiringia and Tikabali Block of Kandhamal District	Year 2001 Supported by Government of Odisha
	Orissa Rural Livelihood Programme (JEEVIKA)	Livelihood promotion activities to strengthen the livelihood of community	Padangi, Gutingia, Kalungia, Padisahi & Boriguda of Tikabali block	Year – 2007 by the support of PD, Watersheds, Kondhamal
	Orchard based livelihood WADI	Development of horticulture and Orchard based livelihood	375 tribal households in Tikabali block	Year – 2008 with the support of ITDA, Baliguda
	MGNREGS programme	To provide employment opportunity to poor families and to develop land, plantation and water sources for agriculture and income	125 villages of 9 Gram panchayats of three blocks Tikabali, Phiringia and K.Nuagaon in Kandhamal district.	Year – 2011 with the support of District administration Kandhamal
	Pathways Programme	To increase SC and ST women farmers productivity and empowerment ensuring secure and resilient livelihoods	119 women groups of 114 villages in Tikabali and Phiringia block of Kandhamal district.	Year – 2012 with the support of CARE, India
	OTELP Extension	To ensure household food security and improve livelihood opportunities and overall quality of life of the tribal population	48 villages of 6 panchayats in Tumudibandha Block of Kandhamal District	Year – 2013 Government of Odisha
	NABARD WADI	To improve livelihood and food security through development of fruit orchards	Belaghar, Bilamal and Gumma panchayats of Tumudibandha Block of Kandhamal district	Year – 2014 Supported by NABARD
	Focused Area Development Program (FADP)	For economic development of ST families through implementation of various livelihood enhancement projects convergence with ITDA	Phulbani and Baliguda ITDA area of Kondhamal District.	Year – 2015 Supported by District administration Kandhamal
	DAY National Urban Livelihoods Mission	To reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor women by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities	16 wards of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, 10 wards of Berhampur Municipal Corporation, 17 wards of Boudh NAC and 13 wards of Phulbani NAC	Year – 2015 Supported by SUDA, Bhubaneswar
	Promotion of Farmers producers Organistion	To improve the agricultural marketing of farmers	5 FPOs in Tumudi bandha, Raikia, K Nuagaon, Tikabali and G.Udaygiri Block	Year – 2018 Supported by NABARD
To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages under Goal-3 of SDGs	Community based Malaria control Program	To aware, prepare and organize the community to prevent Malaria	K Nuagaon, Phiringia and Tikabali Block of Kandhamal Dist	Year – 2006 SDTT and TATA Social Welfare Trust.
	HIV & Aids eradication ( Targeted Intervention)	To Provide medicinal support, social security and counselling to prevent the disease	Phulbani, Tikabali, Phiringia, K.Nuagaon and Daringbadi of Kondhamal district	Year – 2010 with the support of OSACS, Bhubaneswar
	Village Contact Drive	To promote the health behavioural practices especially on Child health and maternal health	Phiringia and Tikabali block of Kondhamal district	Year – 2010 Supported by District Health Dept of Kandhamal
	Diversion Based Irrigation	To provide safe drinking water to water crises villages	K Nuagaon, Phiringia and Tumudibandha Block	Year – 2011 With the support of JTT and SDTT
	PEHECHAN	To strengthen system for MSM, Hinjras and transgenders communities to increase reach and quality of service, prevention and care service and counseling	Kandhamal District	Year – 2011
	Maternal Newborns and Child Health & Nutrition ( MNCHN)	To develop the Mother and Child health	14 GPs of Phiringia block in Kandhamal District	Year – 2012 Save the Children
	V4 sub centre programme	To address the unmet health needs in un-served and underserved areas	Indragada and Ranaba Sub-centre of Kandhamal	Year – 2012 District Health Dept. Kandhamal
	PRACDIP	To reduce down the incidents of infant and maternal mother deaths	4 GPs of Phiringia block in Kandhamal Dist	Year – 2018 Supported by Child Right and You
	Maternity Waiting Home	To provide medical delivery facility and to increase rate of institutional delivery in remote and inaccessible areas	Balndapada of Phiringia block Tikabali and katringia of K.Nuagan	Year – 2013 in Balndapada Year 2020 in Tikabali and katringia of K.Nuagan Supported by NRHM
	Swachha Bharat Abhiyan drive & Wash Academi	To improve Community Led Sanitation and promote Open defection free villages	KI.Nuagaon and Tikabali Block of Kandhamal district	Year – 2015 District Administration, Kandhamal, DFID & TMST
	Marriage No Childs Play	To provide girls and their communities with the tools and knowledge to stop early and forced marriages and give girls a better start in life	11 Gram panchayats of K. Nuagaon Block in Kandhamal District	Year – 2016 Supported by Save the Children
	Delivery Van and Bike ambulance	To provide health service in remote and inaccessible villages	Inaccessible area in Phiringia Block of Kandhamal District	Year – 2018 Supported by NRHM CDMO, Kandhamal
To take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts under Goal-13 of SDGs and to Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss under Goal-15 of SDGs	Drought Prone Area Programme ( DPAP)	To develop Land, water and Forest resources for the livelihood security of Community	Six Micro Watershed area of Tikabali Block in Kandhamal District	Year – 2003 Supported by District Administration and DRDA of Kandhamal
	Plantation and Land Development	To make the waste lands vegetative and productive	Phiringia and Tikabali Block	Year – 2011 Supported by District administration through MGNREGA
	Odisha Forest Sector Development Programme, Phase – 2	To achieve sustainable forest management in the project area through forest restoration initiatives along with providing income generating and livelihood opportunities to the forest dependent communities	100 Villages under Ghumsar North Forest Division of Ganjam district	Year – 2018 Supported by OFSDS, Govt of Odisha
	Millet Mission	To promote and revive the millet based crops for the food security of rural families	12 GPs of Raikia block	Year – 2017 Supported by Government of Odisha
	Campaign on Protection of Natural Resources to reduce Climate Change effects	To sensitize the people on Climate change issues and to encourage them in protection of Natural Resources	Whole Odisha	Year – 2017 Supported by US Consulate General, Hyderabad
	Cyclone Rehabilitation Programme	To rehabilitate the Failin affected Households	Chhatrapur, Rangeilunda and Ganjam blocks of Ganjam district	Year – 2014 Supported by CARE and ECHO
To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls under Goal-5 of SDGs	We Can Campaign	To aware and organize the community to end domestic violence against Women	Kandhamal District	Year – 2005 AINA
	Marriage No Childs Play	To provide girls and their communities with the tools and knowledge to stop early and forced marriages and give girls a better start in life	11 Gram panchayats of K. Nuagaon Block in Kandhamal District	Year – 2016 Supported by Save the Children
	Campaign for Youth on Gender and Gender based Violence	To sensitize and organize the Collage students to act on prevention of Gender based Violance	50 collages of Odisha	Year – 2021 Supported by US Consulate General, Hyderabad
	Gruhini – PREMA	To bring changes in the knowledge, attitude and practices of the women through trainings and handholding supports on life skills and skill building	Four pachayats of Tikabali block in Kandhamal District	Year – 2012 Supported by PREMA
	REHNUMA	To provide legal justice, rights and entitlements for the minority women	G Udaygiri and Raikia Block of Kandhamal District	Year – 2016
To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all under Goal-4 of SDGs	National Institution of Open Schooling (NIOS)	Institutional support for dropout student for formal education/ Creating resources for dropout’s adolescent education/ Enhancing Inclusive Education	Bandhagada, Kandhamal	Year – 2011 Supported by NIOS
	Early Childhood Care and Education	To Create an environment for Children of 3-6 years have an opportunity for a quality preschool education	14 GPs and 6 ICDS sectors of Phiringia Block in Kandhamal District	Year – 2019 Supported by Save the Children
	E Library and Information Centers	To provide learning opportunity and information to youth	Kandhamal	Year – 2009 Supported by District Adminstration
To promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels under Goal-16 of SDGs	Management of Relief camps during Kandhamal Violence	To provide assistance to violence victims and facilitate Govt relief camps	Tikabali and Phiringia	Year – 2008 Supported by District Adminstration
	ANTARANGA	To mobilize youths for the purpose of building peace, communal harmony and also to channelize their energies in the process of nation development	Kandhamal District	Year – 2009 Supported by EFFICOR
	Accountable Governance	To aware and educate the community on Right to Information	Tikabali Block	Year – 2010 Odisha Suchana Adhikar Mancha
	Social Watch Monitors	To aware and educate the villagers on constitutional rights and to guide the PRI	Tikabali, Phiringia and K.Nuagaon block of Kandhamal Dist	Year – 2010
	PRI, Social justice, Good Governance	To empower, educate, aware and organize the community enabling them to access their rights an government programmes and schemes and to participate actively in governance process	Tikabali Block	Year – 2012 Supported by CWS/Tricoair
	Local Self Governance	To strengthen the PRI institutions	Tikabali Block	Year – 2012 Supported by PREM/ C.W.W
	Accountable Governance	To educate the community on their right and duty	Tikabali Block	Year – 2013 Supported by Ford Foundation, USA

Current Programmes

To End poverty in all its forms everywhere in Goal-1 and to End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture in Goal-2 of SDGs SWATI is implementing these Livelihood and Income generation Programmes:

NABARD WADI

The Tribal Development Fund of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has promoted the development of WADIs for economic upliftment and social empowerment of marginalised tribal communities. The programme encompasses solutions that promote natural resource management, livelihood development and women’s empowerment through people’s participation. The wadi model is an agri-horti based sustainable livelihood model that makes farming profitable even on small farms. Its multi-tiered and inter-cropping approach helps ensure the nutritional security of the household by the provisioning of cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits. The land and water management practices integral to the model lead to regeneration of the land and its productive potential. It reduces climate risks, improves farm productivity and ensures that farmers enjoy a regular flow of income due to diversification of production. The wadi model demonstrates tremendous potential as a pathway out of poverty for small and marginal farmers.

SWATI has been implementing this Orchard based Livelihood Programme WADI in 725.5 Acres  of 789 Kutia kandha families covering 42 Kutia Kandha villages of Belaghar, Bilamal and Gumma panchayats since 2014-15.

This programme includes components like Water Resource management, Soil and water conservation, Drudgery reduction of women, Sustainable Agricultural Practice, Improved Agriculture, Cooperative Marketing and Integration of Landless.

Major Activities of this project are:

Development of fruit bearing orchards for small and marginal farmers

Land and water conservation activities in WADI plots

Intercropping support for strengthening agricultural livelihood of families

Irrigation and fencing support for plant protection and irrigation

Promotion and Strengthening of Udyana Vikash Samitis, User Groups, SHGs and skill development

Adoption of Sustainable agricultural practice

Non-Farm livelihood support for landless families

Promotion and Strengthening of Farmer Producer Organisation for cooperative marketing

 

Focused Area Development Programme (FADP)

Focused Area Development Programme (FADP) is being implemented in the State ST & SC Development Department, Govt. of Odisha to ensure sustainable livelihood of ST families through land and non-land based livelihood activities, develop suitable infrastructure so as to improve the standard of living and facilitating incremental results in their livelihoods, develop backward & forward linkages and strengthening local institutions; improve the governance system in the tribal villages by strengthening the Community Institutions. The initiative is anchored on convergence with ITDA to plan & support livelihood enhancement projects by converging with various National & State programmes and external donors.

SWATI is facilitating Focused Area Development Program (FADP) in 889 villages of 48 Gram panchayats in 3 Blocks of Phulbani ITDA Area covering 2017.61 square kilometre and 1,74,846 population, out of which the tribal population is 96,610. Similarly in 9 Blocks of Baliguda ITDA Area covering 6511.54 square kilometer and 4,50,277 population, out of which the tribal population is 2,45,210.

Major Activities of this project are:

Agricultural Development Activities

Horticultural Development Activities

Skill Development and placement for youth

Micro Enterprise Promotion Income generation activities

Convergence Activities with MGNREGA for income and job security

Mission 171 for farm based livelihood

Animal Husbandry, pisciculture and other skill based livelihood support

Village infrastructure development

Establishment of VDVK

 

Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO)

To enhance productivity through efficient, cost-effective and sustainable resource use and realize higher returns for their produce, through collective action, to create an enabling policy environment for investment in Farmers Producer Organisations and to leverage their Collective Marketing Power, SWATI has promoted five Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO) in its working area. The FPOs are: Surgabhata Farmer Producer Organisation Ltd at Tumudibandha, Raikia Farmer Producer Organisation Ltd at Raikia, Gadabisara Farmer Producer Organisation Ltd at G.Udayagiri, Udyagi Farmer Producer Organisation Ltd at Gutingia and Hatishala Farmer Producer Organisation Ltd at K,Nuagaon of Kandhamal district.

Major Activities of this project are:

Promotion of FPOs, Membership Collection, Registration and Bank linkage

Training and Orientation of office bearers on FPO management and Accountancy

Training and Exposure of members on product collection, storage, processing, packaging and marketing

Product collection and marketing

Establishing information access and dissemination mechanism for farmers on climate, crops, pest and disease, Government provision etc

To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages under Goal-3 of SDGs, SWATI is implementing these Health Programs:

Maternity waiting homes ( Maa Gruha )

Establishment of Maternity waiting homes in remote and inaccessible areas has been one of the initiatives designed under National Rural Health Mission to increase institutional delivery so that maternal mortality as well as Neo Natal Mortality could be reduced. Maternity Home not only provides accommodation facility to the pregnant mother days before the expected date of delivery but also health care services by trained health professionals and includes provisions of nutritious food for the pregnant mothers. It is a temporary home for expectant mothers where they can wait for safe delivery preferably 7 -10 days before EDD. On onset of labour, they are to be shifted to nearby health facility having at least Basic Emergency Obstetric Care facilities for delivery.

SWATI has been managing three maternity waiting Homes at Balandapada of Phiringia Block, Katringia of K.Nuagaon Block and at Tikabali of Tikabali block  with the support of National Rural Health Mission of Government of Odisha. The outreach area of these Maternity homes covers above 20 Gram panchayats of three blocks.

Major Activities of this project are:

Awareness building on Institutional Delivery and Maternity Health Care

Building contact with pregnant women in villages and provide counseling on pregnancy care and institutional delivery

Ensuring all vaccination and maternal health care of contacted pregnant woman through Anganawadi centers

Bringing the pregnant women to Maternity homes

Providing accommodation, Maternity health care, nutritional food and child care orientation at Maternity homes

Providing institutional delivery facility through Government Medical and by trained health professionals

 

Targeted Intervention for Prevention and Care of HIV & AIDs

Prevention of spread of infections in High Risk Behavior Groups and the general population is a major challenge. It is considered that the most effective means of reducing HIV spread is through implementation of Targeted Intervention Projects amongst persons most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, such as FSWs, Transgender, IDUs, MSMs, truckers and migrants. Targeted Intervention has focused on sexuality minorities who practice risky sexual behavior, to prevent and control spread of HIV/AIDS among them and prevent spread through high risk groups to bridge population and general population.

Targeted interventions are aimed at offering prevention and care services to high risk populations ( Female Sex Workers- FSW, Male having Sex with Male- MSM and Injecting Drug Users- IDUs) within communities by providing them with the information, means and skills they need to minimize HIV transmission and improving their access to care, support and treatment services. To prevent infection through saturation coverage of high- risk groups, provide care, support and treatment to PLHA, strengthen the infrastructure, system and human resources in prevention, care, support and treatment programme and strengthen strategic information management system,

SWATI got a chance to come under the umbrella of NACP-IV & had signed MOU with OSACS to contribute prevention of HIV/AIDS in implementing Targeted Intervention Project for the Female Sex Workers with overall objectives of NACP-IV i.e. to halt and reverse the epidemic in India by integrating programs for prevention, care, support & treatment. SWATI has been implementing the Programme since 2010 for core group of FSWs spread across five blocks i.e; Khajuripada, Phulbani, Phiringia, Tikabali and G.Udayagiri  covering 418 female sex workers (home based – 346 and Street based – 72).

Major Activities of this project are:

Condom Promotion (Promotion/Distribution of Condoms)- Condom demonstration and distribution, Social Marketing and Establishment of Condom Outlet,

Develop Inter-personal Behaviour Changes Communication

Community Mobilization and IEC activities

Community based screening and testing

STI Clinic provisions of services for Sexually Transmitted Infections

Establishment of Drop-in Centers

Establishment of STI clinic and organizing health camps for Referral and linkage service,

Linkage to Integrated Counseling and Testing Centers (ICTC),

Creation of enabling environment (Advocacy for Enabling Environment and enrolling more and more TGs through counseling and mobilization)

Health Camps and Health care service

Awareness campaign and observation of national and international Days on HIV and Health

 

Promote right for Adolescent & Children on Develop initiative programme (PRACDIP)

To reduce down the incidents of infant and maternal mother deaths in the project intervention, to reduce the level of severe underweight and severely acute malnutrition children rate among the children at early age of 6 months to the 5 years from the selected villages and to reduce down the rate of anemia among the adolescents and the pregnant mothers SWATI has been implementing this Promote right for Adolescent & Children on Develop initiative programme (PRACDIP) programme from March 2019 in 4 GPs of Phiringia block i.e. Pahiraju, Kuermandu, Luising & Balandapada covering 75 villages and 3274 households with the support from Child Right and You (CRY).

Major Activities of this project are:

Community sensitization meeting on need, means & ways of nutrition balanced diet for girls, mother and children, including healthy eating habits

Growth monitoring campaign and Support to SAM for linking to NRC

Orientation to AWWS on effective service delivery, Community Health training on ANC & PNC care, Orientation to SMC members on role and responsibility of VCPC and SMC members

Healthy Baby Competition and Facilitation of VHND Sessions

Community mobilization on institutional delivery preparedness

Sensitization workshop with community leader, CBOs, PRIs on Access to primary health care

Felicitation Programme for mothers and service providers

Community meeting with mother and care givers on immunization, exclusive breastfeeding practices, food intake for pregnant mothers, ANC and PNC representatives, Facilitation in Immunization sessions, ICDS Sector meeting and G.P. MIS Meeting

Community meeting with mother and care givers on immunization, exclusive breastfeeding practices, food intake for pregnant mothers, ANC and PNC representatives, Facilitation in Immunization sessions, ICDS Sector meeting and G.P. MIS Meeting.

The Organisation has also organised District level sharing workshop on achievement and impact indicators of Health & Nutrition, Block level sharing workshop on different studies, Demand for New AWC, Demand for New Building of AWC, District Media interface on Health & Nutrition status , Advocacy Work shop at Block Level on availability of health care facilities at Sub-Centre and PHC involving BPM, CMO, Front line workers and elected, District level Interface on Health and Nutrition among children, Adolescent Convention on Stop Child marriage & arrest Malnutrition, Facilitation in ICDS Project meeting.

To improve the skill and knowledge of the stake holders the Organisation has delivered Training to GKS members on preparation of village health plan Demonstration programme with ICDS on cooking of THR (Take home ration), TOT on life skill education, Capacity building of Stakeholders such as GKS members, ASHA, ANM and Anganwadi Workers and Training programme for adolescents on life skill education

 

Bike ambulance and Delivery Van service

To resolve the health issues and to check the high rate of IMR & MMR in the district the Kandhamal district administration has been implementing different innovative programs like Delivery Van service, Bike ambulance and Janani Auto since 2018. To ensure the Institutional Delivery of the Pregnant Mothers in inaccessible areas of Kandhamal district and to provide Ambulance facility at the door step the district administration made facilities of special delivery vans equipped with all the facilities for a safe delivery. Similarly a bike fixed with a trolley is designed as Bike ambulance to carry the pregnant women from inaccessible villages to health centre.

SWATI is facilitating BIKE AMULANCE and Delivery Van services in Phiringia Block area with the support of National Health Mission, Kandhamal. The Bike Ambulance service is covering 73 village and 3078 household of 4 panchayats i.e. Sadingia, Panga, Sumarabandha and and providing service to the villagers in free. This service is supporting in transportation of pregnant mothers and reducing the percentage of IMMR and MMR in the remote villages. This is also engaging in transporting sick persons/newborn children up to 5 year and emergency health care.

Similarly the Delivery Van service is covering the whole Phiringia Block with two staff nurses, two attendants and two drivers for on road delivery facility in Van. This service has given a big support to the villagers in transporting the pregnant women and serious patients to the health centres during the COVID restriction time. During Corona lockdown all transport service were closed and villagers faced lots of problem to reach the hospital.

 

 

Village Contact Drive on COVID and Malaria

The state Government has been implementing a Program DAMAN is an acronym for Durgam Anchalare Malaria Nirakaran (Malaria eradication in inaccessible areas) in Odisha, to combat the disease. Around 320 extremely remote and inaccessible villages in Kandhamal district has been identified under DAMAN for targeted intervention since 2018. It has been decided that a medical team along with local volunteers and peer leaders will reach these villages for malaria test and medical intervention, in case of need, during the monsoon months. SWATI has been facilitating the program in K.Nuagaon Block of Kandhamal District.

 

COVID response and Health Service

COVID has affected the life and livelihood of the community very badly. The health, education and income standard of the community people has fell down severely due to fear of disease spread and continues COVID restrictions imposed by the Government. Looking the situation SWATI has been taken some COVID response activities in its project area.

COVID response Activities    

IEC Material Development and Awareness Generation on Covid-19

Support in Vaccination drive

COVID Care Centers support

Hospital Support

Food/Survival Kits Distribution

Animal Care Support

Hygienic Kits Distribution

Livelihoods Restoration

Migrants support

Education support

Psychosocial and Counseling Support

Rights and Entitlement’s support

Other Creative Initiative’s

 

To take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts under Goal-13 of SDGs and to Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss under Goal-15 of SDGs, SWATI is implementing these Natural Resource Management Programs:

Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project

 

Ama Jangala Yojana is an endeavor of the Government of Odisha , Forest & Environment Department, being implemented through Odisha Forestry Sector Development Society to promote sustainable forest management in the state with emphasis on livelihood support for the communities living in the forest fringe villages in VSS mode. SWATI has been selected as a field NGO to implement this programme with 100 VSSs and 300 SHGs in 4 FMUs – Mujagada, Jagannath Prasad, Tarasing and Central, coming under the Ghumushar North Forest Division in Ganjam district.

Major activities under this project are :

Promotion and strengthening of Community based Organisations like Vana Sanrakhyana Samitis (VSSs), SHGs and User Groups

Village level Infrastructure Development through convergence of different government programmes

Farm and non-farm livelihood promotion

Income generation activities through SHGs

Employment and job assurance through MGNREGS and other forest based works

Plantation activities

Protection, preservation and management of natural forest through participatory forest conservation and management strategy

 

Millet Mission

Millets are climate-resilient and nutritionally equivalent or superior to most other cereals, making them a favourable crop to address the prevalence of malnutrition. The challenge to food production posed by climate aberrations has been seeing increased attention to reviving millet-based farming systems. To revive the millets, Odisha Millet Mission, a flagship programme called “Special Programme for Promotion of Millets in Tribal Areas” has been launched by Department of Agriculture & Farmers Empowerment, Odisha. Programme intends to revive millets in rain fed farming systems and household consumption. SWATI is implementing this programme in 12 grampanchayats -Petapanga, Raikia, Mandakia, Beredakia, Dadingia, Sugadabadi, Gumamaha, Manikeswara, Karada, Badabaraba, Indragada and Ranaba of Raikia block  in Kandhamal district.

Major Activities of this project are:

Promotion of Millet farming with farmers

Adoption of scientific methods in millet cultivation to improve the productivity

Provision of Skill development, technical support and high yielding millet seeds to farmers

Marketing of Millets through Government collection procedure in Govt fixed MSP

Popularizing the millet based foods

Educating the community about the Nutritional Value of Millet crops

 

To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls under Goal-5 of SDGs SWATI is implementing these Gender Justice Programs:

ANANYA: Marriage No Child’s Play  

Practice of child marriage is a violation of child rights, and creating a negative impact on physical growth, health, mental and emotional development, and education opportunities of the children. It is also affecting society as a whole since child marriage reinforces a cycle of poverty and perpetuates gender discrimination, illiteracy and malnutrition as well as high infant and maternal mortality rates. So to stop this practice and to educate the community on bad effects of Child marriage SWATI has been implementing ANANYA Project in 11 Gram panchayats of K. Nuagaon Block of Kandhamal District since 2016 in association with Save the Children.

The project is aimed at changing harmful cultural practices that normalize child marriage whilst providing girls with Sexual and Reproductive Health knowledge and access to the services they need to make informed health decisions. Young people are able to decide if and when to marry and pursue their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in a supportive environment.

Major Activities of this Program:

Providing girls and their communities with the tools and knowledge to stop early and forced marriages and give girls a better start in life.

Providing alternatives to child marriage and mitigating the impact on married girls.

Enhancing access to income generating opportunities for girls and their families, providing financial literacy training for girls to increase their ability and power in financial decision-making,

Enhancing access to improved Child protection systems for girls at risk of child marriage and already married girls so that preventive and response measures can be taken,

Increasing access to quality youth-friendly SRHR services (that are available, affordable, and acceptable and appropriate) for unmarried and married young people

 

Campaign for Youth on Gender and Gender based Violence

Violence against women and girls is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. It surpasses social, cultural, economic, or national boundaries. Gender-based violence is a violation of human rights and is rooted in gender inequalities. It is a violence that targets an individual or a group of individuals based on their gender, which results in physical, sexual, or psychological harm. It is rooted in gender inequality, the abuse of power, and oppressive gender norms. India posits a highly alarming case when confronted with gender-based violence. The deeply patriarchal structures that characterize it and the inadequate response of the state in countering  its presence within the country is disquieting. The cultural and social forces of the country outweigh the legislative and  policy framework existing in the country to address the disproportionate level of violence faced  by women. This violence is further proliferated along markers of class, caste, religion and ethnicity. Gender-based violence in India takes myriad forms which include high levels of domestic violence, dowry death, human trafficking, sexual violence, acid attacks, unnatural offences and honor killings. These crimes are a direct result of the hierarchies that underpin the cultural and social milieu in India based on the ascriptive norms of gender. These crimes stem from the disparity in power and the resultant inaccessibility to social, cultural, political resources that are embodied in patriarchal societies

So to sensitize the youth mass and the students to take lead role in prevention of Gender based Violence, SWATI has been organizing this Campaign with Collage students in 50 collages in the State.

Major Activities of this Program:

Two days workshop on Gender and Gender based Violence with students in each collage

Arrangement of debate, painting, essay and other competition on Gender based Violence in Collages

Awareness on Gender based Violence

Selection of student leaders and groups to act on prevention of Gender based Violence

Media campaign on Gender based Violence

To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all under Goal-4 of SDGs SWATI is implementing these Educational Developmental Programs:

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)  

SWATI has established a Study Center under National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) at Bandhagada helping the dropout children gain access to formal education since 2011. In 2011 FVTRS started support to SWATI for opening the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) center at Bandhagada accredited as AI-AVI-SLEID. Now NIOS is providing supports for Offline enrollment, registration for examination, study material distribution, personal contact programmes and conduct practical examination for Dropouts through Study center. .

NIOS is trying to create a friendly environment between student and facilitators for an easy learning process through different workshops and training programmes and trying to contact directly with the learners for smooth communication by issuing ID card till getting their certificate.

 

 

Back to Basic – Early Childhood care and Education

To create an environment for preschool going children for a quality preschool education and better preparation to be school ready and to reach their full potential, Increase access to a child-friendly learning environment in state run preschools (Anganwadi Centres) and ensure a smooth transition to primary schools, Enhancement of the capacity of ICDS workers and early grade school teachers to provide caring, stimulating and healthy learning environments for children and engage with government and other relevant stakeholders to prioritise pre-school education with evidence based research on the impact of quality early education. To create a healthy educational environment and to provide opportunity for children from the most marginalised communities SWATI is implementing Back to Basic programme in Tikabali and Raikia block of Kandhamal district. SWATI is implementing this programme in 11 GPs of Tikabali and 2 GPs of Raikia block covering 75 schools and 164 Anganawadi centres. Total 2088 children under 3 years age 2195 children of 3 to 6 year age and 8513 children from 6 to18 age group are treated through this programme.

Major Activities of this project are:

Collection of Base Line information & Capacity Building of Project Staffs

Door step education during the COVID situation

Preparation of Educational Learning Material Videos and Teaching Learning Material

Parents’ orientation on Educational care of Children and TLM preparation

Orientation to Anganawadi workers on qualitative education for the children

Promotion of Kitchen garden (Institution & Individual level)

Online education through Educational Learning Material Videos