 Home |
Institution Building & Strengthening
It is the firm belief of
HARC that forming and strengthening the community-based institutions can be
the best mechanism to sustain the development process. The peoples’ institutions
are strong base for the socio-economic development and empowerment of the local
people. HARC has been involved in promoting the formation and strengthening of a
variety of community-based organizations for collective action and development
of a sustainable self-help promotion system. HARC’s main objective in promoting
the community-based institutions is to make them instrumental in providing food
security, economic security, social security and ensuring sustained livelihood
opportunities to the rural poor. HARC applies a multi-dimensional approach to
strengthen these people’s institutions in such a way that the local people are
able to get access to and control over the natural, financial and
developmental resources through these institutions.
Adhering to this
objective, HARC has been instrumental in the formation of various
community-based organizations such as the Women Self-help Groups (SHGs), Farmers
Interest Groups (FIGs), Farmers Association and Women Cooperatives.
To
strengthen and empower these institutions, HARC organizes training camps,
workshops, educational exposure tours and Interface with technical institutions
periodically in the areas of internal management of the institutions, leadership
building, facilitating access to bank linkages and social security schemes,
inter-loaning, increasing production and quality control and legal aspects.
Training is also given in the areas of Entrepreneurship development, Marketing
skills and Rural market linkages.
HARC is also active in providing Institution building services to
other agencies namely government, partner NGOs and private agencies in other
districts of Uttaranchal involved in group and federation formation and
strengthening processes.
|
