Empowering Communities
Objectives:
Organization building to mobilize people’s pressure to resolve and address land problems related to:
Bhoodan and Land Ceiling Act;
Regularizing settlements of homestead and cultivated land;
Land distribution to the landless and homestead land;
Access to land and forest produce for traditional forest communities;
Women, land rights and gender.
Land, forest rights and livelihood.
Empowerment of women, especially in relation to their equal right to land and property.
Conservation and regeneration of natural resources for local livelihood and food security.
Community organization, awareness building and capacity generation of education and health.
Advocacy and Networking with the Government and other stakeholders.
Promotion of traditional culture, with value-based education.