The agencies that extended support for these programmes were
Health and Family Welfare department of Govt. of Orissa,
Ministry of Human Resource Development of Govt. of India,
District Rural Development Agency of Mayurbhanj, Unicef
Bhubaneswar, Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi Bhubaneswar, CENDERET
Bhubaneswar and CAPART Bhubaneswar.
2000-2006: It was towards the end of nineties, post-super
cyclone may be taken as reference period, when Unnayan began to
focus on its role as an implementing and facilitating agency
directing its resources towards a sustainable community
empowerment process. In the process it has been able to create a
vertical social capital in certain fields of intervention.
Addressing livelihood issues integrated with social issues
through a process of self-help has been the focus of our
programmes during this phase. Following are the major highlights
of our programmes during this phase:
• Integrated Tribal Development
programme
• Social and economic development by empowering the rural
communities particularly the women
• Rehabilitation of super cyclone victims
• Establishing an all women puffedrice producers and marketing
cooperative
• Sustainable livelihood generation for rural artisans by
promotion of goldengrass craft
• Promotion of Livestock
• Agricultural promotion by forming water users association
• Establishing community peace and harmony by creating cadres of
women peace corps(Mahila Shanti Sena)
• Setting up a maternity center to address the issues pertaining
to reproductive and child health
• Total sanitation campaign
The agencies that have extended
support for these initiatives during this phase are SEEDS
(Canada), AID(Australia),CAN OSA, Bishnu Mandir Trust(Canada),
Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, SOLID and Broederlijk
Delen(Belgium), Ministry of women and child development(Govt of
India), SEWA(Canada), Action Aid- India, Sakhya (UK), Oriya
Sevaks, Hindu Cultural Society of west, Kalinga Institute of
Industrial Technology(Bhubaneswar), DFID(Bhubaneswar),
OSDMA(Bhubaneswar), DCHandicrafts(Gov. of India), OXFAM-GB,
NABARD(Bhubaneswar), Uppsala University(Sweden), McMaster
University(Canada), AID(Philadelphia), MIVA(Switzerland), Heifer
International, Kalinga Hospital(Bhubaneswar).