Srijan - Self-Reliant Initiatives through Joint Actions

Srijan supports the creation of collective institutions like Self-help Groups, Women Producer Groups or Village Level Collection Centres. It intends to involve in capacity building and create leadership for efficiently managing these institutions, and to this end, it organises training programmes for community leaders at each stage of the formation of the institution.

The programmes are tailored to suit the type of institution being formed and are aimed at building management capacity and leadership to take the development forward.

Srijan believes that rural development can be supplemented and accelerated with the use of the right technology. It is promoting various technologies to improve the quality of production in dairy, agriculture, forest produce, food processing, horticulture and natural resource management.

It not only demonstrates technological innovations to farmers but effectively handholds them to put them to use and derive benefits from them.

Being able to access micro-finance for minor needs like family, health, education and livelihood is a challenge faced by low-income villagers.

Srijan promotes the formation of self-help groups and women-led federations following the Pancha-sutras of saving, enabling the establishment of a good financial system and also the availability of micro-credits.

It acts to help small landholders and address problems of water and irrigation, these being the most important issues which trouble small Indian farmers.

Srijan works to create solutions to manage land and water and also create resources, it involves itself from basic land levelling operations to climate-resistant cropping systems to assist small farmers across the country.

Indian farmers are at the bottom end of the market chain leading them to be economically challenged. Srijan helps to address this by introducing a minimum level of processing to add value to their produce and creating collection centres in villages to gather produce.

It additionally provides services to the farmers, from primary aggregation centres to processing centres and the promotion of cooperatives, farmer groups and farmer producer organisations.

It mobilises a team of community professionals to engage with the farming community and promote collective marketing, grading, sorting and processing methods to ensure marketable quality and quantity of produce.