CROSS CUTTING INTERVENTIONS

Interventions and activities, which are common to most of the IFFDC projects have been placed under the thematic area "Cross Cutting Interventions" and are as under:-

A. Community Institutions

Building capacity for collective action is crucial for the successful management of Common Property Resources (CPR) and for providing suitable mechanisms for a sustained development process after the withdrawal of project-based interventions. IFFDC has consciously adopted the policy of promoting Community Institutions for institutionalising its development interventions and systems and processes. The promoted groups are accordingly appropriately designed and work mainly on cooperative principles but are named differently under different projects, appropriate to the purpose for which formed, viz: Primary Farm Forestry Cooperatives Societies (PFFCS), Primary Livelihood Development Cooperative Societies (PLDCS), Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO), Livelihood Collectives (LC), Farmer Clubs, Wadi Groups, Self Help Groups (SHG), Village Watershed Development Committees (VWDC) and so on.

PROGRESS

Being a Cooperative itself, IFFDC believes strongly in the strength of 'cooperative action' to create institutions at the local level and to provide support to the development process, helping them sustain after withdrawal of the project assistance. Community Institutions provide institutional mechanisms and opportunities for collective management of resources.

Community Institutions Developed and Nurtured under different Projects :

• During the year, 14 new Self-Help Groups (SHG) have been formed with 126 members.