Empowering Rural Communities

May 3, 2016
Suri Sehgal

Key Concerns
Impact

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Sustainability

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Ensure Sustainability
Development must be community-led
Strengthen community-led development to achieve
positive, social and economic change across rural India.
Empowerment
Envision each person across rural India empowered to
lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.

Primary Focus Areas

Water Management
Agricultural
Development
Good Rural Governance
All three is intertwined and directly or indirectly address social justice,
most importantly the critical issue of gender equality

WATER MANAGEMENT - WATER SECURITY

Collection
Storage
Conservation
Access to safe drinking
water

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - FOOD

SECURITY
Soil health
Nutrient management
Good seed
Pest, disease, and water
management

GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE LEADS TO SOCIAL

JUSTICE
Good Governance Now! (Sushasan
Abhi)
Strengthening Village Level
Institutions

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens

can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.
Margaret Meade

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