New Delhi: Ahead of the UN General Assembly discussion on sustainable development goals this week in New York, people associated with a special project in central India met for a review meet.
The Jeevika (livelihood) project under Caritas India, the social arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, involves six impacts models for sustainable development in six towns in Madhya Pradesh state.
It was launched three years ago and those involved met in Bhopal, the state capital, September 16-19 to present and deliberate on models namely Jeevika Haat, Jeevika Bricks, Sustainable Agricultural Practice (SAP), Women Gram Sabha (WSG, village council), Advocacy and Linkages and Liaison.
The project has been implemented in Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Khandwa and Ujjain.
The participants claimed that the project has revolutionized become a people’s movement. These models have made available knowledge products.
A knowledge product is the result of knowledge management within a given project. The Jeevika project has described it as the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organizational knowledge. It refers to a multi-disciplined approach to achieve organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge.
The products include Jeevika Haat, a tribal market enterprise, increasing income and livelihood capacity of the engaged tribal communities, Jeevika Brick, a self help group inspired venture in brick making resulting in successful business model.
SAP is a promising and tested convergence model for improved natural farming while WGS aims to improve women participation from zero to fifty percent in the informed choice for development.
Advocacy initiative involves persistent use of helpline as a tool to bridge people-leader gap
The Linkage and Liaison is model that connects people to government resources.