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Annex 4 Management of Social Safeguards and Social Development Gujarat 1. Community Based Mangrove Plantation and Socio-Economic Development of villages: a. Coverage: A total of 163 villages across 14 blocks of five districts will be covered under various components of the project. All these villages are within a distance of 5 km from the coast. Over 70% of the villages entirely depend on coastal resources and in the remaining 30% villages, agriculture and animal husbandry is the main occupation. All these villages not only have been adversely affected by coastal disasters, they also lack basic infrastructure. b. Baseline information and community mobilization: So far participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercises for collection of baseline data have been completed for 48 clusters and gram sabha meetings have been conducted in 140 clusters. In order to mobilize community for mangrove plantation and its maintenance, 30 eco-development committees (EDCs), and 70 community based organizations (CBOs) have been formed. SPMU has also formed 196 self help groups for livelihood generation activities. So far 42 entry point activities have been identified through PRA. The implementation is yet to begin. The community mobilization process followed by the GEC/ SPMU has been very comprehensive and abiding by the rules of inclusiveness of women and vulnerable groups by the group of dedicated and committed field workers and project coordinators. c. Awareness generation: SPMU has carried out several activities in these villages for creating awareness towards mangroves including street plays, health camps, veterinary camps, special day celebrations such as ozone day, international women’s day, World earth day, etc. SPMU also conducted a mangrove yatra covering 158 villages. d. Capacity Building: Several capacity building initiatives have been taken by SPMU including orientation / exposure visits for CBOs and EDCs and skill enhancement and administrative training for SHGs. A day long solar training workshop was held to train around 300 village youths in maintenance of solar appliances. 2. Monitoring mechanism: Four level of monitoring mechanism has been established. Apart from regular monitoring by project executing agency (PEA); SPMU and NPMU, participatory monitoring by community based organization has been introduced as fourth level of monitoring. Each CBO formed monitors at least two other CBOs. 3. Grievance Redress Mechanism: A toll free dedicated line has been installed at SPMU. A caller can register the grievance / feedback between 10am to 5pm. The response is provided to the caller by the competent authority within a fixed time frame. A theme based interactive and informative website has been designed, which apart from disseminating ICZMP information also serves as one of the channels for grievance redress. In each village where ever activities have been initiated, two information boards have been put up displaying the toll free number of SPMU and telephone number of PEA’s contact. In any case, field workers are the first layer of contact for any grievance that a community member wants to register. A day long workshop was also organized by SPMU for judiciary officials to orient them about (i) the ICZM project; (ii) grievance redress mechanism; and (iii) to enlist their participation in the project. The workshop was attended by 50 legal officers, including District Magistrates and High Court Judges. The workshop included a trip to Narara to educate legal community towards the sensitive issues related to natural resources along the coast and the populations that depend on these. 4. Staffing: Apart from hiring a Social Scientist in SPMU, three project coordinators located in Jamnagar, Gandhigram and Naliya, two field assistants and 31 field level workers have been hired. The field
INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985) First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011 workers are primarily responsible for mobilization of the community and collection of household data, where as qualitative data through PRA exercise is collected by the project coordinators. The field workers are stationed in the villages and each of them covers 5 to 7 villages. All the three project coordinators are women and over one third of the field workers are also women. All project coordinators and almost all field workers have experience of working either in government projects / schemes or NGO sector. 5. Visit to Khijadiya village: The mission visited Khijadiya village situated close to Khijadiya bird sanctuary. The mission was pleased to note that field coordinators are emphasizing the value of literacy and have taught women to write their names, built confidence that women can approach banks (mobile banks visits the village) and operate bank accounts. Books of account are being maintained meticulously in each village and discussions are also properly recorded as minutes of the meeting. The women in Khijadiya village have developed unique embroidery skill called "machi work" or "karchok" and SHGs wants upward market linkages to strengthen their acumen and gain livelihood through promotion of their craft. The community also showed keen interest in developing eco-tourist model village, given their proximity to the bird sanctuary. In order to sustain, SHGs need to go beyond one single trade. The EDC has taken up the village sewerage system along the cement concrete village road. So far EDC has completed construction of 300 meters of cement concrete road and 780 meters of sewerage system. Individual beneficiaries include 20 landless families those who received 70 solar cookers; 2 bio gas plants to two families; and 40 women members received training in sewing and embroidery. 6. Visit to Mota Asota village: The mission also visited Mota Asota village situated in the vicinity of Marine National Park. As per the PRA findings, 1100 meters of connecting road from Mota Asota village to Gadu Island was identified as entry point activity. However, villagers contributed to extend that road to 3300 meters to connect Azad Island to the main land thereby reducing the distance, travel time and also saving on fuel. The EDC in this village assisted forest department in planting mangroves in about 90 ha of land. Five SHGs have been formed in this village. The community expressed its satisfaction on the entry point activity taken up by SPMU and also on mangrove plantation as this provided employment opportunities to the vulnerable community of the village. 7. Visit to the site of Jamnagar Sewerage Treatment Plant: The mission also visited the site for the proposed 70 million litre per day sewerage treatment plant. Around 60 acres of land was acquired in 1988. Though all 25 land owners have been paid compensation, a few of them (who have neighboring land holding) continued to cultivate the land. Discussions suggested that these neighboring land-owners have no objections if the land is now not available for their use. The mission was informed that temple located in the acquired land will not be relocated. The project will also provide access road to the temple. 8. Way Forward: Additional attention will be given to the issues related to (a) sustainability of SHGs through market linkages; identification and implementation of well defined and demand driven trades. SHGs need to be linked to the government run schemes; and (b) priority implementation of identified entry point activities to sustain the momentum generated among the communities. Odisha 9. Staffing: SPMU has appointed a Rural Development Expert who works across the components. However, there is no support at the field level for the SPMU staff. It was agreed that SPMU will be strengthened by August 31, 2011. Instead of hiring NGOs to carry out social assessment for project villages, SPMU will hire 20 Community Organizers for 127 villages. Each organizer will cover 10 to 12 villages. To provide guidance to the community organizers, SPMU will also hire 7 Field Coordinators who will report to 4 project coordinators. The community organizer at the village level will be responsible for mobilization of the community and as well as for collection of household data. The qualitative data through PRA exercise will be collected by the project coordinators with the help of field coordinators. The field coordinators will also be responsible for quality control of household data and briefing of community organizers for quantitative data collection process. SPMU shared the draft household questionnaire with the mission. It 61
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