Empowering Rural Communities May 3, 2016 Suri Sehgal Development must be community-led Strengthen community-led development to achieve positive, social and economic change across rural India. Empowerment Envision each person across rural India empowered to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.

1. Empowering Rural
Communities
May 3, 2016
Suri Sehgal

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•Impact
•Sustainability
Key Concerns

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• Baseline Data
• Monitor
• Evaluation / Assessment
Measure Impact

4. Development must be community-led
Strengthen community-led development to achieve
positive, social and economic change across rural India.
Empowerment
Envision each person across rural India empowered to
lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.
Ensure Sustainability

5. • Water Management
• Agricultural Development
• Good Rural Governance
Primary Focus Areas
All three is intertwined and directly or indirectly address social justice,
most importantly the critical issue of gender equality

6. WATER MANAGEMENT - WATER SECURITY
 Collection
 Storage
 Conservation
 Access to safe drinking water

7. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - FOOD SECURITY
 Soil health
 Nutrient management
 Good seed
 Pest, disease, and water management

8. GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE LEADS TO SOCIAL JUSTICE
 Good Governance Now! (Sushasan Abhi)
 Strengthening Village Level Institutions

9. "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens
can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.”
Margaret Meade

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