Sustainable Livelihood | News & Announcement

IGSSS Intervention on DRR Recognized as a Good Practice at The Asian Level

Aug 28, 2018

IGSSS has bagged the second position in the Asia Regional Good Practice collation exercise under the theme “Capacity development in Humanitarian, DRR and Development” organized by Oxfam International, SATHI Networks, ICVA. IGSSS’s developed a cadre of Para vets...

Gift Life to 1000 water starved families in Kalahandi

Jun 12, 2018

#GIFTOFWATER “We are facing severe problem because of no water. ponds, nala everything is dried up. We are not even able to get one mug of water from the pond”- Kamal Saju, inhabitant of Karlamunda region in Kalahandi. While we all are busy in our lives,...

Halma – A traditional Practice in the Bhil Community

Oct 3, 2016

Reported by: Prashant Thorat Halma is an age-old agricultural tradition in the tribal villages of Jhabua District in Madhya Pradesh wherein most of the families in a village collect their agricultural instruments and work on one person’s land on a given day together....

Creating Livelihood Adaptations under Drought Programme for Marginal Farmers

Jul 8, 2016

Reported by: Mukesh Dubey, Senior Manager – Communications, RM Ranchi, Jharkhand:The four year ‘Creating Livelihood Adaptations Under Drought(CLAD)’ Programme was launched in Ranchi. Supported by MISEREOR, this programme will be implemented by...

Amrudh Self Help Group – Step towards Self Reliance

May 20, 2016

Reported By: Samerth Charitable Trust, IGSSS Partner in West Bengal (Edited by IGSSS Communication Team) Surguja, Chattisgarh: Barkol is a remote village; 40 kilometers from the district headquarter Surguja. Besides being geographically remote, the village lacks...

In times of Drought – Stories from Bihar

May 6, 2016

Written By: Vipul Dixit, Officer Partnership Management, New Delhi Edited By : Communications Team Bihar: Visit to the Bihar based livelihood partners, requires one to travel or rather transect the region from north to south crossing the river Ganga to reach places...

Consultation on Domestic Workers Rights

Apr 13, 2016

Reported by: Dr. Sadanand Bag (Manager-Advocacy and Networking) & Ms. Savita Verma (Officer -Partnership Management-North Zone) Lucknow, 28 March 2016: Approximately 9 crore women currently work as domestic workers in Indian homes. They constitute a...

Food Fair in Jhabua

Apr 1, 2016

Written By : Harish Tiwari, Project Coordinator, Jhabua and Sreya Mozumdar, Sr.Manager, Programmes Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh: Adopting the People Led Development Approach (PLDA), IGSSS has been working with the Bhil women from eight villages towards improving the...

Exposure Visit – Self Help Group (SHG) Members

Mar 25, 2016

Reported By : Arpita Macwan, Officer Partnership Management, Ahmedabad Chandrapur, Maharashtra: As part of the livelihood intervention Sustainable Options for Uplifting Livelihood (SOUL) , LSSS, one of the partner organization of IGSSS organized the exposure visit....

Children’s Day Out

Mar 4, 2016

Reported By : Arpita Macwan, Officer Partnership Management Ahmedabad: As part of employee engagement initiative, IGSSS western region team organized half a day programme with children from slum areas of Thajtej area. Mr. Malik who is...