Proceedings - Balai Penelitian Tanah
Proceedings - Balai Penelitian Tanah
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Mohan GMC<br />
NGOs wherever there was an overlap already existing. These<br />
meetings went on well and in addition they also served the purpose of<br />
seeing the NGOs’ potential (in terms of personnel and funds) to take<br />
up more area on one side and building good rapport with them in the<br />
process. These were followed by few district level meetings in order to<br />
fill-in gaps in terms of area of coverage and to discuss on the package<br />
for a better common understanding during August.<br />
1.4.6. Facilitating Linkage with line departments:<br />
In the meantime, linkage with the Department of Agriculture and the<br />
Department of Horticulture have been strengthened and a joint<br />
workshop involving all the line departments and the panchayat<br />
presidents of the affected villages was organized in which the District<br />
Collector also participated. This workshop served for validating the<br />
comprehensive package with the community and to get the<br />
departmental plans presented. The Joint Director of Agriculture and<br />
the Assistant Director of Horticulture have been part of most of the<br />
district and taluk-level meetings organized henceforth.<br />
1.4.7. Facilitating Linkage of Departments, NGOs and Farming<br />
Community:<br />
A second series of taluk-level meetings in the respective taluks<br />
involving these two line departments (Agriculture and Horticulture),<br />
implementing NGOs, panchayat presidents and the Tsunami Farmers’<br />
Self Help Groups were organized during August. These were basically<br />
to introduce the NGOs to the community and vice versa, declaring the<br />
area to be covered by each of the NGOs revenue village-wise (after<br />
tallying varied assessments of the damages by different stakeholders<br />
and coming to a consensus) and to reiterate the activities covered in<br />
the package getting the feedback of the community.<br />
1.4.8. Co-ordination of Implementation of activities in the package:<br />
During September and October the concentration was on the<br />
implementation of “immediate” and “short-term activities” of the<br />
package in the field by the NGOs. 23 NGOs implemented the<br />
activities in the package across the 42 tsunami affected villages.<br />
Meetings were conducted more on a weekly basis to closely review<br />
the progress of work of these NGOs, to sort out issues if any and to<br />
discuss areas of concern like long-term activities, capacity building<br />
and research.<br />
International Workshop on Post Tsunami Soil Management, 1-2 July 2008 in Bogor, Indonesia