Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction

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At present there are 96 Tree Growers Cooperative Societies (TGCS) having 15363 members protecting around 7992 hectares of forest land. Out of the 96 TGCS, 56 are registered under the cooperative society act

VIKSAT has been facilitating two of such projects in Khedbrahma block, Sabarkantha district along with activities under watershed plus project. In total the two watershed projects covers 1110.58ha.

The programme develops alternative financing solutions to institutionalize community-based public private partnership approaches for natural resource sector. In total 310 SHGs formed with total 3957 members.

VIKSAT is Regional Resource Agency since 1986 for Gujarat, Diu and Daman and sponsored by MoEF, GoI. The theme for 2009 was “Climate Change” and 482 proposals were sanctioned.

VIKSAT provided technical guidance to 4 districts i.e. Banaskantha, Dangs, Narmada and Sabarkantha for preparation of the district perspective and annual action plan through a participatory approach.

Forestry

Development and protection of forest along with deriving economic benefits for the stakeholders in a sustainable manner has been one of the key areas of intervention for VIKSAT particularly in tribal areas. Activities like JFM, afforestation programme, social forestry, grassland development, nursery development etc, have been the means to address the same. The activities are carried out keeping ...

Land & Water

Watershed development is an important approach to improve the social and economic conditions of people living in resource starved semiarid regions covering approximately two-thirds of the country’s agricultural land. In addition to achieving biophysical objectives, contemporary watershed aims to promote the livelihoods of rural people, especially the poor and disadvantaged.

Sustainable Livelihood

VIKSAT has taken up a new project titled “Promoting Sustainable Natural Resource Management through People’s Institutions” under larger “Umbrella Programme for Natural Resource Management” (UPNRM) being executed by NABARD. The programme aims to develop alternative financing solutions and to institutionalize community-based public...

Institution &
Capacity Building

VIKSAT strongly believes that development of People’s Institutions is essential for the sustainability of any programme and the same reflects in its efforts under every programme and so in NRM or livelihood activities too. VIKSAT has thus been promoting and supporting a number of PIs in 4 regions of Gujarat. With continuous efforts for...

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Resource Centre

A new training and resource centre with support from Sir Dorrabji Tata Trust (SDTT) has been developed to facilitate capacity building activity for a variety of stakeholders.

The centre is well equipped with all necessary audio visual equipments which will help to explore various resources for developmental intervention. It has an integrated conference hall facility to host about 100 participants along with board room, registration area, reception and pantry.