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Empowering Rural Communities

S M Sehgal Foundation is a public, charitable trust registered in India in 1999.<br><br>MISSION<br>Our mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve positive social, economic and environmental change across rural India.<br><br>VISION<br>We envision every person across rural India empowered to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.<br>

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Empowering Rural Communities

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  1. © Mick Minard/REEF Reports ©Mick Minard/REEF Reports Empowering Rural Communities

  2. ABOUT US S M Sehgal Foundation is a public, charitable trust registered in India in 1999. MISSION Our mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve positive social, economic and environmental change across rural India. VISION We envision every person across rural India empowered to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life. To date, we have reached nearly 250,000 peopleliving in 470 villagesin Haryana, Rajasthan and Bihar.

  3. WHAT WE DO Create opportunity | Build resilience | Design solutions • Strengthen rural governance, enhance self-reliance • Improve access to water and sanitation • Empower women farmers, build vibrant communities • Spread awareness through • community media • Undertake rural • research and impact • assessment ©Mick Minard/REEF Reports ©Mick Minard/REEF Reports

  4. WHAT WE DO Five impact areas to build a strong foundation of knowledge, skills and networks at the grassroots: Water Management Good Rural Governance Rural Research: Baseline Assessment Rural Research: Impact Assessment Agricultural Development: emphasis on women farmers Community Media

  5. GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE • Good Governance Now Program (Sushasan Abhi!) • Spread in 428 villages; 200,000 villagers reached • 31 trained governance guides. • 8625 local • leaders trained (equal • participation of men and • women) as • Sushasan Champions

  6. GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE Strengthening Village-level Institutions • Built capacities of village level institutions in 131 villages • Women collectives (Mahila Sangathans) comprising 440 members of village level institutions from 106 villages • 35 Village Health and Sanitation Committees, facilitated • 3,659 latrines • 28 Gram Sabhas (village meetings) with 54% of women participants

  7. GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE • Creating Community Assets • Improve infrastructure in government schools • Provide drinking water by installing roof water harvesting systems in government schools • Improve sanitation facilities in government schools • Provide storage water tanks in villages

  8. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT • Covered 124 villages and over 12000 crop demonstrations • Increase crop productivity by training farmers on improved agricultural practices • Promote sustainable farming practices: soil health and water- saving irrigation technologies • Promote best practices in dairy farming • Mainstream women farmers; deepen scientific knowledge of Self Help Groups © Mick Minard/REEF Reports

  9. WATER MANAGEMENT • Reached 74 villages; 1,84,000 people • Conserve local water supply for drinking, household and agricultural purposes • Apply appropriate technologies to harness rainwater for aquifer recharge and surface storage • Promote sanitation and wastewater management in schools, homes and in the community • Build capacities of local communities to manage their water resources through water literacy sessions

  10. OUR APPROACH • Design projects to suit varied community needs and different geographical locations • Implement projects to address • water, agriculture and • governance issues in villages • Assimilate, synthesize and • disseminate project’s outcomes • and learning • Research and document • project’s impact

  11. RURAL RESEARCH Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation | Development and Policy Research • Needs assessment, monitoring and evaluation of impact for effective implementation of programs • Collaborative research • Knowledge-sharing with multiple stakeholders including communities

  12. COMMUNITY MEDIA Community Radio Station, Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 107.8 • Reaching 183 villages in Mewat and • Rajasthan; • Broadcasting 13 hours daily • Trained 45 community members to • operate equipment, produce programs • and manage the station as technicians, • producers and facilitators • Spearheading governance through • radio • Collaborations with other community • radio stations in different states of India to • spread good governance

  13. SOME OF OUR PARTNERS FROM THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN NABARD

  14. Thank you! www.smsfoundation.org

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