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INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985) First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011 Activity Current Progress Agreed Next Steps & World Bank Recommendations 3. Village Stakeholder meetings have been organized in 26 (of the planned 80 villages), and with 221 SHGs (of the planned 600 SHGs) in fishing villages in the priority investment stretches. Capacity building training has been completed for 77 SHGs, and skill upgradation training has been completed for 16 SHGs. A total of 22 SHGs have been provided with an advance of Rs.50,000 each during the project launch workshop organized at a fishing village where the Union Minster for Environment participated. 4. The activities that have been identified in consultation with the 221 SHGs include composite pisciculture (43 SHGs), scampi culture (9 SHGs), shrimp culture (1 SHG), fish seed rearing (4 SHGs), sea bass culture (1 SHG), fish drying (96 SHGs), value addition through household level processing unit (3 SHGs), dairy and poultry (5 SHGs), and individual other activities (57 SHGs). 5. Wherever possible and subject to fulfilling the objective of supporting fisher persons who have been affected adversely due to ban on fishing, the Fisheries Department is striving to use the existing but defunct SHGs. New SHGs are being formed only when necessary. All SHGs have a majority of women members, and in a near majority case, these are all-women SHGs. Each SHG has a bank account. 6. For mobilizing and continuous capacity building of the SHGs, procurement of an NGO for providing the required support was proposed earlier. The SPMU has now decided to complement this by recruitment of contract staff with suitable qualification in rural development and social work and locating them in the villages. This additional workforce from SPMU will not only support the Fisheries Department, but all other PEAs as well. World Bank welcomes this idea, as the presence of young, energetic and qualified staff in the villages appears to be providing much greater and immediate success in Gujarat, and similar result is expected in Odisha. SPMU has initiated the process of recruitment of filed coordinators and community organizers. Although the number of such contract staff needed may be in excess of 40, the first batch of recruitment is of 27. 7. The Fisheries Department and the SPMU has participated in the evaluation and stakeholder consultation related to the issue of livelihood of fisher persons in Odisha organized and led by Greenpeace strategic content in the choice of activities. This is important particularly in the light of the objective that by the 3 rd or 4 th year, these SHGs need to be organized (in federations or companies) to make them sustainable in the long run, including financial and commercial sustainability. To that end, the Fisheries Department shall take note of the recommendations of the Greenpeace India Report (see below), and the way the SHGs in the Chilika catchment are now slowly being transformed into federations. 5. Fisheries Department will ensure that (a) priority will be to all women SHGs or SHGs where all members belong to vulnerable communities including scheduled tribe or scheduled castes; (b) further higher priority to all-women SHGs, where all members belong to vulnerable communities; (c) see that the bank account of the SHGs are operated by the president and secretary of the SHGs; (d) very strictly, no official of the government department should either have any executive position in the SHGs, nor should any government official should be involved in operating bank account of the SHGs. A few instances were noticed during the field visits that officials or nominees of the Fisheries Department are joint signatories in operating bank accounts; or are holding a executive position in the SHGs. All such cases should be immediately resolved; and all such actions taken to ensure that there is no conflict of interest, and to ensure that there is no liability of the Government in the running of the SHGs. Any responsibility of the SHG that the Fisheries department desires to monitor should be clearly specified in the contract document to be signed between the PEA and the SHGs. 6. The recruitment of contract staff (filed coordinators and community organizers) should be such that best people could be recruited. This will mean, in addition to formal announcement and advertising, writing to management institutions such as XIMB and NGOs involved in such work to encourage young professionals to apply for such assignments. 7. SPMU and the Fisheries Department will discuss the recommendations from the Greenpeace India Report when available; and prepare a brief paper on how these recommendations are already incorporated in the Project, or could be incorporated. SPMU will 42
INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985) First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011 Activity Current Progress Agreed Next Steps & World Bank Recommendations [3C-C2] Support to Fisher Groups for Small-Scale Communitybased Tourism Activities by the Odisha State Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) India. The final stakeholder workshops for this Greenpeace India initiative were organized in two coastal villages in June 2011, in which the officials of the SPMU and the Fisheries Department participated and interacted. The final report from Greenpeace will include recommendations for the India ICZM project concerning the livelihood enhancement activities for fisher people in Odisha, and should be available by July/August 2011. Based on the collaboration with Greenpeace India, some of the recommendations are already being incorporated in the revised detailed project report for this activity by the Fisheries Department and the SPMU. 1. The OTDC has signed MOU with the SPMU, nominated a senior officer as the nodal officer for the activities to be undertaken; has opened the required bank account; delegated technical and financial powers to the nodal officer; and has installed the financial management and accounting software. 2. Recruitment process for a few of the required staff is under progress. Recruitment process for contract staff such as community organizer, capacity building coordinator, or engineers is yet to start. 3. Procurement of office equipment, furniture is under progress. 4. As a part of community mobilization process, OTDC has used complementary resources (50% of the cost borne by MPEDA, 30% from CDA and 20% cost shared by beneficiaries) a large number of insulated ice boxes to the communities. 5. For both Chilika and Tampara Areas: Several stakeholder consultation meetings were organized at most of the proposed locations of interventions. As each of the infrastructures created under this activity will be managed and operated by community groups, further work on community mobilization is underway. Consultancy for architectural design and supervision for the proposed tourism infrastructure has been awarded recently; consultants have mobilized. Procurement of another consultant to promote branding of OTDC and the proposed activities is also under progress. The SPMU and the OTDC has discussed with World food Program and the Odisha Bamboo Development Agency so that eco-friendly bamboo craft can be used at the maximum for the proposed infrastructure. 6. Activities in Chilika Lake Area (Barkul, Satapada, New Moth Chilika, share this paper with World Bank by September 2011. Given that the SPMU and the Fisheries department were involved in the discussions and workshops organized by Greenpeace India, and that there seems to mutual agreement in many areas, it will also be a good idea to discuss with Greenpeace India for their continuing advice related to implementation of the livelihood enhancement activities targeted to the fisher people. 1. Nil. 2. SPMU may like to share the expertise of the community organizers and field coordinators being recruited at SPMU for “fisheries based livelihood” activities in support of the Fisheries Department also to OTDC. An additional number of such contract staff may, if required, also be recruited at SPMU instead of OTDC to make the recruitment process simpler. 3. Nil. 4. Nil. 5. For both Chilika and Tampara Areas: Nil. 6. Activities in Chilika Lake Area (Barkul, Satapada, New Moth Chilika, Rambha, Chhelliakuda and Ghantashila): Mobilization of the community groups, and formal contracts with the selected community groups should start as soon as possible. The community groups should be formed with the objective of using the fisher person’s existing groups (CBOs or SHGs). Capacity building of the selected community groups should start by October 2011. 7. Activities in Tampara Lake Area: Given the location and current relatively pristine water quality of Tampara Lake, the OTDC should not propose any polluting activity; and should consider replacing the proposed procurement and deployment of motor boats and similar polluting activities. It is suggested that this lake area be rather used for water sports activities that do not require any use of fossil fuel. Also, the plan for community involvement should expand, given the relatively smaller size of the village (around 400 households) and the relatively higher educational status. OTDC shall revise the current 43
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