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Project Mission:

The Mission of the Project is to respond to climate change with the aid of adaptation and mitigation measures which facilitates

*Sustainable Ecological development resulting positive Climate Solutions *Rehabilitation of forest-dependent communities *Women Empowerment through Self-help groups

Green Village:

A Green Village is an eco-village built using natural and traditional building methods that facilitates sustainable environment .It is a sustainable eco restoration project aimed at providing climate solutions, enhancing forest cover and facilitating livelihood for rural poor women through Self Help Groups.

Objectives of the Project:

*To create a Green Village by conversion of a dry land into a fertile land

*Eco-restoration/afforestation resulting in the development in forest and tree cover

*To facilitate to generate forest-based livelihood income for Poor rural women

*Improvement of Uncultivable lands into cultivable lands

*Promote Agro Forestry and Social Forestry

*Administration of public forest/ non-forests project area by the women self help groups

*Promote Agriculture and forest-based livelihoods

Problem Definition:

• The Project area is generally accepted to be drought prone, where the rainfall is uncertain. The agricultural practices are traditional and exploit (use) the local available natural resources optimally. • The average rainfall is 500 mm per annum. The area is generally degraded and the common lands are often barren. The vegetative cover on the land has more or less disappeared. The area is declared as “grey” for ground water potential. • Very less sources for clean water and hence people live in water scarcity. • Unemployment and Poverty among the rural women • Lack of education and no sources for livelihood among women

Anticipated Benefits /Outcome of the Project:

*A Green Village – adaptation of a dry land and converting it into a Green land

*Social Forestry involving local communities

*Afforestation – Increasing Forest Cover

*Free Supply of Tree Sapling to the community around

Ensuring clean drinking water for the village people

*Agricultural Jobs for the Women in the community

*Social and Economical Empowerment

*Creating an Eco friendly Environment

*Improved health of the community and improved living conditions and quality of life for children.

*Income generation for Community development programmes through cultivation in the identified land thereby providing employment opportunities for agriculture and agro based programmes like dairy farming and thereby improving the living conditions of the rural poor women.

Conclusion:

Green Village Project, an Eco-Village initiative is a sustainable eco restoration project aimed at providing climate solutions, enhancing forest cover, facilitating livelihood for rural poor women. The project definitely has a long term impact in developing the environment of the village and would definitely build the lives of the downtrodden people of the village. The project would multiply in terms of more Green villages in the Neighborhood with the means and income generated with this project. This project would be a seed project for many future projects in the days to come and would become a ladder to create more Green Villages.