Access to Rights & Entitlement
BRLF works with its partners to ensure that the poorest have access to the rights and schemes intended for them, including the MGNREGA, the Forest Rights Act, PM Ujjwala Yojana, PM Ayushman Yojana, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, PM Jan Dhan Yojana, PM Jiwan Jyoti Bima Yojana and so on.
The main objective of the program is to increase the reach of government welfare schemes and to address challenges in sectors such as education, health, nutrition and innovation in tribal areas, in order to ensure an integrated and focused approach to the socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes population in a coordinated and planned manner. Keeping in mind our core competence in the field of CSO facilitation and screening, MoTA has appointed BRLF to carry out a rigorous screening process for shortlisting proposals from different parts of the country on various themes such as education, health and innovation.
275,154
Households benefited through other Social Security Schemes – job card, ration card, pension, CM schemes etc.
206,207
Households linked to Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)
143,138
Households covered
under MGNREGA
Agriculture Improvement
BRLF promotes the No-Pesticide Management (NPM) approach to agriculture as a way forward. The idea of the NPM movement is to encourage farmers to grow crops without any chemical pesticides, create an identity for their produce and link these small producers to markets. NPM agriculture emphasises building up soil fertility through appropriate management practices (such as composting and recycling of agricultural residues, use of farm yard manure, cattle urine, green manuring crops, and application of tank silt) with a gradual phasing out of chemical fertilisers. In our agricultural program, we aim at promoting practices such as dry sowing, change in crop pattern, change in crop variety, Drip/ Sprinkler irrigation, Organic Mulching and System of Wheat/Rice Intensification among others.
880,152
Households covered under Agriculture
729,585
Household with improved Agriculture (improved seed, improved Package of Practices (POP), seed treatment etc.)
159,476
Households practising Non-Pesticide Management under Agriculture
Capacity Building
With the Gram Panchayat becoming a major spender and implementer in flagship government programmes such as the MGNREGA, it is imperative that capacities at the grassroots are strengthened. Outlays do not translate themselves into outcomes at the grassroots without such capacities. BRLF focusses on building capacities at the grassroots through targeted training programs on different aspects of livelihoods with the vision of preparing the local resource person to lead and guide the future development process there.
1,079,501
Community members trained
871,164
Female members trained
9,918
Community Resource Persons (CRPs) created
Land & Water Resource Development
Being a typical dryland region, rainfall in the Central Indian Tribal Belt is low, highly erratic and characterised by long dry spells between rainy days. With Natural Resource Management (NRM) assuming a pivotal role, our interventions have also been aimed at addressing short term problems such as providing crucial “life-saving” protective irrigation during the dry spells in the Kharif season and ensuring drinking water security for all households throughout the year. Our work on this theme aims to build climate resilience by leveraging resources from state programmes such as the MGNREGA, building wáter harvesting structures, carrying out works for control of soil erosión and conservation of in-situ moisture.
The Research and Knowledge Vertical of BRLF received grant support from the Statistics and Documents Division of the MoTA to conduct an evaluation study of the scheme. Under this grant, we will explore the processes of the scheme and its impact on the state, VOs/NGOs and community capacities for addressing the health and educational needs of the Scheduled Tribes.
BRLF achieves its key outcomes through strategic engagement with CSOs. We engage actively with CSOs to reduce gaps in program outlays and outcomes through strengthening of democratic institutions of governance at the grassroots, improving quality of implementation of programmes, and scaling up successful models of interventions.
CSOs often struggle to find sufficient and long-term support for significant budget components like HR and operations which directly influence the efficiency and impact the quality of livelihood interventions. Our grant support and capacity building initiatives are geared to help them find opportunities to scale and integrate with large-scale government interventions.
BRLF also enables institutional partnerships between CSOs and state governments to help them leverage programmatic resources available for national and state level programmes and schemes for rural development and livelihoods.
As of March 2021, BRLF has committed R. 113.39 Cr (USD) toward CSO grants. Partners have leveraged a cumulative total of INR.2035.01 Cr. (USD) from government schemes and raised co-finance of R. 354.75 Cr (USD) from multiple donors.
271,494
Households benefited through water harvesting structures
58,575
Net area(in Ha) brought under assured irrigation
30,948
Area under Plantation(in Ha)
Livestock
Diversification of livelihoods is a major protection against climate change as it offers resilience, as compared to putting all eggs in one basket. Diversification should embrace the whole gamut of livelihood options in tribal central India, instead of stopping at just the cropping systems. High incidences of disease and high mortality remain to be the major constraints to the livestock production systems. BRLF works to promote livestock based livelihoods, as it is an essential component and livestock act as assets contributing liquid income substantially to the current ways of living and growth of a household.
Households supported through vaccination, feed, shelter, breed improvement etc.
482,331
Net families under livestock promotion
477,037
Households covered under goatery
257,785
SHG and Micro Enterprises #Inclusion
BRLF facilitates and supports the creation of women-led institutions which lead all development efforts in their specific geographies while our partners work to créate these institutions, strengthen them and build their capacities.
The Research and Knowledge Vertical of BRLF received grant support from the Statistics and Documents Division of the MoTA to conduct an evaluation study of the scheme. Under this grant, we will explore the processes of the scheme and its impact on the state, VOs/NGOs and community capacities for addressing the health and educational needs of the Scheduled Tribes.
BRLF achieves its key outcomes through strategic engagement with CSOs. We engage actively with CSOs to reduce gaps in program outlays and outcomes through strengthening of democratic institutions of governance at the grassroots, improving quality of implementation of programmes, and scaling up successful models of interventions.
CSOs often struggle to find sufficient and long-term support for significant budget components like HR and operations which directly influence the efficiency and impact the quality of livelihood interventions. Our grant support and capacity building initiatives are geared to help them find opportunities to scale and integrate with large-scale government interventions.
BRLF also enables institutional partnerships between CSOs and state governments to help them leverage programmatic resources available for national and state level programmes and schemes for rural development and livelihoods.
As of March 2021, BRLF has committed R. 113.39 Cr (USD) toward CSO grants. Partners have leveraged a cumulative total of INR.2035.01 Cr. (USD) from government schemes and raised co-finance of R. 354.75 Cr (USD) from multiple donors.
626,697
Members in Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
516,344
Scheduled Tribe households in SHGs
47,780
Total SHGs reached
States - Number of Districts - Programmes active in these states
West Bengal
Jharkhand
Odisha
Chhattisgarh
Telangana
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
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