Evaluering
Facilitating Community Based Resource Management and Development for Ensuring Livelihood Security and Sustainable Development in Chacha Gram Panchayet of Nabarangpur District of Orissa
Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC), established in 1993, started facilitating development of a programme with support from Strømme Foundation in 2001, following participatory approaches, believing that tribal communities do have adequate capacity to plan for their own development being better resource managers than the external agencies and the government to address myriad of problems and challenges they face. The objective of the evaluation was to assess the changes/impact on the target population as well as to assess the suitability of the concept of the programme and its impact e.g. focusing on (a) the physical progress of the project including significant changes in the economic and social life of the women due to the increase of micro-credit activities, (b) changes that have taken place in the lives of the target populace and (c) changes in the community based people's institutions and their capacity to sustain the efforts of the project.