Collective Action Model For Promoting Sustainable Livelihood Interventions: Lessons From Case Studies In Chhattisgarh State, India

Collective Action Model For Promoting Sustainable Livelihood Interventions: Lessons From Case Studies In Chhattisgarh State, India

AUTHORS :

S. N. Tripathy

 

DOI :

CP2020/OCT-MAR/ARTCL1

 

ABSTRACT :

The present paper with the help of secondary sources of data attempts to capture the major events that shaped the course of cooperative movements in Odisha. The paper portrays the prevailing socio-economic factors and key events which contributed to the development of cooperatives in different phases and its genesis and growth trend in Odisha in the national perspectives.

 
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KEYWORDS :

Cooperatives Movements, Rural credit, Money lenders, Farmers.

AUTHORS :

Sagar Kisan Wadkar

 
DOI :

CP2021/July-September2021/ARTCL3

 
ABSTRACT :

The promotion of sustainable livelihood interventions is an integral part of agriculture and rural development. The sustainability of any (development) interventions through the collective action approach primarily depends on the ‘sense of belongingness and ownership’ by
the clientele group. The paper aims to examine the process of collective action in promoting sustainable livelihood interventions for tribal people by analyzing the three case studies from Chhattisgarh State. The study analyses the three case studies viz. “Enroute women
empowerment through convergence and group formation in Surgujadistrict”, “Creating market linkages for millets produced in tribal regions of Kabirdham district” and “Harihar Bastar Bazaar, Bastar district” of Chhattisgarh State.

The author had observed the planning and implementation of the above intervention and collected data collected during 2015 to 2017 from Prime Ministers Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF), who had worked at the district level to improve effectiveness and efficiency of flagship programmes, as part of the Prime Ministers Rural Development Fellowship Scheme (PMRDFs), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.

As a result, author has modified the collective action model developed by Kruijssen, et al. (2009) in order to understand the collective action process in promoting sustainable livelihood interventions in a given area. The case studies illustrated underscore the importance of first two levels of collective action model – ‘conscientization’ and ‘social capital’ in the process of collective action, and how ‘social learning’, a byproduct of each level, feeds into the goal of achieving a collective action for the sustainability of efforts undertaken.

These cases differ in their degree of collective action and its form as cooperatives, self-help groups, and farmer producer companies. Comparative analyses of cases identified that ‘the institutionalization of collective efforts’ and ‘developing forward/ market linkages’ contributes to the sustenance of efforts undertaken

 
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KEYWORDS :

Collective Action; Conscientization; Social Capital; Social Learning; Sustainable Livelihoods.