Asian Development Bank

JFPR 9026: Sustaining Income and Basic Human Needs of the Poor in a Disaster-Prone Area of Gujarat
India (IND)
IND - Poverty Reduction for a Disaster-prone Area

Project Summary

Counterpart loan/project(s)

• Loan 1826-IND: Gujarat Earthquake Rehabilitation and Construction Loan

Budget

Implementing Agency

The implementing agencies will be NGOs registered under the Foreign Capital Registration Act of the Government of India. The tribal development component will be implemented jointly by the Gujarat Department of Tribal Development and the SabarDairy.

Coordinating Body/ Steering Committee/ Project Advisory Board

The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, as the coordinating agency, would play an advisory role for the Project. Decisions on project implementation would rest with the Project Implementation Unit financed by the JFPR project and supported by the ADB's Extended Mission in Gujarat staff under the Counterpart Loan.

Scope

The Project will focus on the six earthquake- and drought-affected districts of Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Kutch, Patan, Sabarkantha, and Surendernagar.

Objectives

Sustain income and basic human needs of the poor in disaster-prone areas of Gujarat.

• Provide alternate drinking water sources in drought-prone areas of rural Gujarat, and enhance water conservation and hygiene education and public awareness to ensure sustainability of the project component.
• Pilot new approaches for sustaining income generation of the poor under leasing arrangements.
• Address specific needs of the rural poor, tribal families, and women.
• Use the results from the pilot projects as pilots for ADB's growing poverty agenda in India.

• harvesting filtered rainwater for human needs
• agricultural tools and equipment library
• transport means for the rural poor
• modern processing units and non-traditional livelihoods
• tribal co-operative dairy unit
• community-based market and application center
• poverty impact assessment

Main Project Components and Activities

• Establish community rainwater harvesting structures for the poor's drinking needs.
• Set up community-owned tool centers.
• Support the poor's transport needs for commodity and goods produced.
• Promote new technologies for village-based use, including a major component for tribal development in Sabarkhantha to uplift the extremely poor tribal population who are the poorest (Below Poverty Line), and a community-based marketing center in Bhuj city of Kutch district.
• Project management, including poverty impact assessment, project administration, and dissemination of policy implications from the pilot project

NGO Cooperation

NGOs registered under the Foreign Capital Registration Act of the Government of India: A participatory workshop made a pre-selection of the NGOs, and the final selection will be based on competitiveness, delivery capacity and previous work experience with the communities in the designated areas for the subproject packages. Only one NGO would work in a given village cluster on one or more project components. Up to three NGOs maybe permitted to implement subproject packages in one subdistrict.

Any Other Relevant Information

• News Releases

Contact Information

Mr. Manoj Sharma
Project Director
Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP)
AVS Building
Jawahar Circle
JLN Marg
Malviya Nagar
Jaipur 302017


Tel No. -91-141-721966
Fax No. -91-141-721919

Mr. Alex Jorgensen / Ms. S. Viswanathan
India Resident Mission
Tel. (91 11) 469 2578
Fax (91 11) 463 6175
E-mail: ajorgensen@adb.org / sviswanathan@adb.org