P13 Orissa India

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Promoting Social Mobilisation and Appropriate

Housing Technologies for Disaster Mitigation and

Poverty Reduction in Orissa, India

an UNDP initiative

"Local Poverty Reduction and MDG Localisation: Good Practices and Lessons Learned

UN Asia & Pacific Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka 29-31 October 2007


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The MASON - the catalyst of change emerged as the HERO.

At the onset, there was a Housing Reconstruction project (Dec 2000

Jun 2002) which lead to this Initiative

SDC - UNDP then embarked on a long-term project (Jul 2002 Jun 2007)

Promotion of Appropriate Disaster-resistant Housing Technologies

and Opportunities for Sustainable Livelihoods in Orissa

Promotion of Appropriate Housing Technologies

Capacity Building of various stakeholders in the

housing sector

Building up self-supporting sustainable institutions

Capacity building of local institutions for integrated

disaster-proof habitat

Networking for access to information and Knowledge


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Promotion of local building materials and

technologies

Resource

Mapping

exercise

Trainingof

Masons

Trainingof

Trainers

Technology Demon-

strationUnits

A SUSTAINABLE

HOUSING

MOVEMENT -

AFFORDABLE

SAFE HOUSINGFOR ALL

Bridging the gap between the(untrained) local Masons/Construction Artisans andArchitects/ Engineers (formallytrained) in the constructionsector

Inspiring more and more

Architects/ Engineers/Planners to graduate into socialArchitects/ Engineers/ Planners/

Networking and Promotion of Learning

Platforms at micro and macro levels

- Sensitization of Architects/ Engineersof district/ province administration

- Orientation of students ofArchitecture/ Engineering/Planning

- Focused Group Discussions with

masons/ construction artisans

Improve the capacity of community to

access house building options

Information, Education andCommunication - Documentation toinspire people to rebuild/ upgrade their

houses and habitat

Formalizing the constructionsector

Access to enhanced livelihoodopportunities in the Habitat

Sector

- One-Stop Shop in production,thrift & trade of goods

- Offer services as a group

Development of self supporting

system - institutions in an

entrepreneurship mode

Artisan SHGs

Artisan Federations

Development TechnocratsForums

Orissa DevelopmentTechnocrats' Forum

METHODOLOGYADOPTED


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Learning from indigenous practices and large-

scale dissemination of the same

- a 50 year old traditional house in Kendrapara

district that withstood the supercyclone

Selection of App Tech

through Resource Mapping

Tech. Demo. Units

Training programmes

Masons

Govt

PROMOTION OF APPROPRIATETECHNOLOGIES


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Category/ Grade Training module content

Construction Labourers

(men & women)

Basic construction practices (foundation, wall, openings,

roof, etc)

Semi-skilled Masons Good construction practices (lay-out, foundation, wall,openings, roof, etc)

Skilled masons Cost-effective and Multi-hazard resistant constructiontechnologies, reading drawings & designs

Master masons Multi-hazard resistant construction technologies, basicdesigning and estimation

Trainer Masons Skills on imparting training programmes

Various Training Modules and Course Curriculadesigned for Capacity Building of Different Target Groups

Masons &

Engineers have

been trained in the

most disaster-

prone states of

Uttaranchal,

Karnataka, Bihar,

Uttar Pradesh,

Tamil Nadu, North-

eastern states &

West Bengal

Skill

Upgradation

of Women

Construction

Labourers inMasonry


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Artisans Self Help Group (ASHG)

ASHG

Mason

Semi-

skilled

Mason

Mason

Semi-

skilled

Mason

Car-penter

Barbender

Elec-

trician

Plumber

Mason

Mason

ST

ATE

DIST

RICT

GR

President

Secretary

Treasurer

Mason

Mason

Presence of /

Facilitation by

UNV/DT

UNV /

DT


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AFedASHG

Mason

Mason

Mason

Semi-

skilled

Mason

Car-

penter

Bar

bender

Elec-

trician

Plumber

Mason

Mason

ASHG

ASHG

ASHG

ASHG

ASHG

ASHG

Artisans Federations (AFed)

ST

ATE

DIST

RICT

GR

President

Secretary

TreasurerUNV /

DT


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A rural family trying to build

a house now finds in the local

ASHG a one stop shopwherein all services

(excavation, brick laying, roof

casting, bar bending, carpentry

works, electrical works,

plumbing works painting etc.)

are easily available

This endeavour has been able to create 153 such locally empowered

ASHGs facilitating easy access to housing by the rural poor.

Rural Sanitary Mart in

Rayagada district &

Brick Kiln in Puri

district

more Livelihoodopportunities in

construction sector for

the construction

Artisans

Promotion of Micro-enterprise

ASHGs have availed of

loans from local banks to

start micro-enterprise forproduction of better quality

building materials using

local resources e.g. brick

kilns, tile production,

sanitary marts, renting of

steel shuttering sets etc

EmpoweringASHGs in an

entrepreneurshipmode to take up andmanage constructionprojects and developmicro-enterprise,setting up of onestop shop etc.

ACTIVITIES ARTISAN SELF HELP GROUPS


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Brochures

Participation in Exhibitionsand local Fairs

IECACTIVTIES


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Preparing the habitat planfor sustainabledevelopment of a village converging activities

and rural development programmes that havebeen till today taken up separately

INTEGRATED HABITAT & LIVELIHOODPLANNING

Habitat development

synergized with

Decentralized

Governance in

Pathuri Panchayat,Mayurbhanj dist

Tribal Habitat

development in

Parsali Panchayat,

Rayagada dist

Samagra Awaas Yojana

Model Village

development programme

in 5 villages in Erasama

block, Jagatsinghpur dist

Ensuringeffective implementationbytechnology transfer and human resourcedevelopment through peoples participation


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MODEL VILLAGEPROGRAMME

Detail Plan, Elevation & Section

Blending of Vernacular

Architecture and Disaster-

resistant Technologies for the

Flood affected poorest of the

poor victims in the eco-fragile

Sunderban archipelago of WestBengal


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Appropriate design & technology optionsfor child- friendly, barrier-free school toilets

The schoolchildren are

considered better changeagents, and good toiletpractice at school will havefar-reaching effect on theparents, which will ultimatelyenrich the habitat system.

Various such model toilets forAnganwadi Centers and schools

have been demonstrated onground

Various models prepared forvisual conceptualization


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Govt NGOs Others

DRDAs & Collectorates

Jagatsinghpur, Rayagada,

Nuapada, Mayurbhanj

W&CD Dept, GoO.

Care-Today

(India Today Group)

Architecture &

Development

UN Agencies WFP/UNICEF/

UNFPA/ILO

ORMASPR Dept, GoO.

MHA, GoI

Govt. of Bihar, UP,

Nagaland

Sabuj Sangha

Vikalpa

Development

AlternativesOCHC

LokadrustiComm. Polytechnics

NABARDOPEPA

The Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration


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The up scaling of this movement would stand out as an

exemplary initiative aiming at addressing habitat and livelihoods

Growth in Average Monthly Income of ASHGs in Or

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The Impact


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