Agragamee

Agragamee promotes all aspects of tribal development through an integrated approach to help tribal communities mobilize for self-sustaining development initiatives. The approach combines socio-economic development with awareness and education to build a synergy of food and voice that has ensured self-reliance and self-sufficiency of local communities.

Major Interventions:

Eco-village Development: The NGO works with small farmers, in ecologically fragile areas, it has encouraged tribal communities to develop their villages as eco-villages. The core concept is sustainable management and governance of the Jal-Jangal-Zameen (water forest and land) resources. The concept is based on a landscape approach and draws inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s Gram Swaraj. It seeks to help tribal communities have long term food and livelihood security through commons development and rejuvenation, and support for establishment of sustainable family farms that can help to address the problems of shifting cultivation.

Village Learning Centres: Training and capacity building of the youth has been a cornerstone of the programme which has helped youth who were just matriculates or +2 pass outs to take up teaching in multi-lingual and multigrade classrooms thereby create tangible impact. Regular parent teacher meetings are organised along with proper school monitoring, as much to ensure regularity of the Edu-leaders, as to provide support, guidance and advice.

Education: Agragamee School is an effort to develop a model of education that can help First Generation School children learn. The NGO conducts workshops thereby bringing together Government Officials, Academicians, SMC members and Civil Society organisations, etc for holistic and meaningful adult literacy, primary education and promoting inclusiveness. The focus is on creating young paraprofessionals and ‘Ecopreneurs’ skilled in natural resource based livelihoods through entrepreneurship and vocational trainings.

Climate Smart Agriculture: The objective is to Increase awareness, knowledge and skills among 1200 small land holders from indigenous communities on climate change issues and challenges thereby enhancing awareness and collective actions by farmers from Indigenous Communities on climate change issues and challenges. The participants get the opportunity to learn about Land development for soil and moisture conservation, Cropping pattern, Livestock management and Adoption of climate smart crops like minor millets, pulses, vegetables under organic farming.