ADB – JFPR: Project Background, Strategy & Objectives The Asian Development Bank & Japan Fund for poverty reduction assisted “Sustaining Income & Basic Human Needs of the Poor in Disaster Prone Areas” Project is located in Gujarat state of India, which covers a part of sixteen districts. The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Project was consequently prepared by the Asian Development Bank at the request of the Government of India and the Gujarat Government to address the grave situation in the rural regions. As a result, the ADB-JFPR Project has been envisaged as one that will address the poverty reduction needs of the rural communities. The Project commenced in January 2004 and will be completed in three years. The operational area of the project in Ahmedabad, Porbandar, Banaskantha, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Kutch, Patan, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surendranagar, Panchmahals, Vadodara and the poor tribal districts of Dahod, Narmada, Bharuch & Dangs districts of Gujarat. These project areas are amongst the worst affected by the earthquake and tribal dominated districts in the state. The ADB-JFPR Project focuses on the basic needs and the non-traditional income generation approaches for the rural poor.
For the preparation of the Project, there has been intensive consultation with the state government, various nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, the poor, particularly women, and other critical stakeholders. Project Objectives and Strategy • To pilot new approaches for sustaining income generation of the poor under leasing arrangements; • To address specific needs of the rural poor and tribal families, with a focus on women; • To use the results of the pilot projects as pilots for ADB’s and Government of Gujarat’s growing poverty agenda. The Project activity focuses on effective delivery mechanism by making concerted efforts to develop physical infrastructure and by enabling the communities to have ownership of the project. Better and non-traditional technologies will be adopted and tools centers would be established in order to augment the income of the project beneficiaries. The project activities will also be supported by marketing and related services through the creation of transport cooperatives and market centers.
Essay on Poverty
“I often asked what is the most serious form of human rights violation in the world today and my reply is consistent: extreme poverty.” (Mary Robinson, 2002) World Poverty: New policies to defeat old enemies, Bristol: The Policy Press, 2002, p. x1 This essay will account for and assess ways in which contemporary society seeks to end world poverty by doing the following. As poverty mean different ...
Special Features of the Project The Project activities will focus on effective delivery mechanism by making concerted efforts to develop physical infrastructure and by enabling the communities to have ownership of the Project. The major features of the Project are: • Would serve as a model project for Government – NGO Cooperation • Would support new initiatives and ideas for improving the livelihood and income generating activities of the poor • Would be implemented in the earthquake affected districts as well as the tribal districts for maximum benefit to the poor • Successful subprojects would be upscaled in terms of the geographical coverage and the number of participants • Financial contribution will be made by the state government, participating communities and civil society • There would be a strong concurrent monitoring mechanism by an external agency for the output and outcome of the subprojects The implementation of the Project is being done through community-based subprojects and the overall Project is to be implemented in three phases. The first phase will involve the finalization of subprojects with NGOs and making the project operational. The second phase will focus on the community management development system and the actual implementation of the projects.
The Term Paper on Complexity Measurement of a Project Activity
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The third phase will review the benefits of the project and will focus on sustainability Guiding Principles • The objective of the ADB – JFPR is poverty reduction bringing the assisted poor families above the Poverty Line by ensuring appreciable sustained level of income over a period of time. This objective is to be achieved by inter alia organizing the rural poor into community based organisations through the process of social mobilization, their training and capacity building and provision of income generating assets. The project would cover all the BPL families living in 4/5 villages and through intensive input supply in secondary or tertiary sector attempts to bring them above the poverty line. ADB – JFPR project lays stress on the cluster approach. What this means is that instead of funding diverse activities, each NGO should concentrate on a few selected activities (key activities) and attend to all aspects of these activities, so that the beneficiaries can draw sustainable incomes from their investments. These key activities should preferably be taken up in clusters so that the backward and forward linkages can be effectively established. This would facilitate
