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Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS), Madhya Pradesh (2002), (2004), ($64,000)
Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) is a grassroots people’s organization, headquartered in a drought prone tribal area of Bagli Tehsil of Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh. SPS have been working in this district for the last 10 years. SPS had been implementing this AIF-supported water harvesting project for the last four years – in two phases of two years each. The second phase, of up-scaling the previous 2 years’ activities, was taken up in response to the urgent need expressed by the tribal community of the area. Having seen the success of SPS’s watershed projects, they strongly felt and expressed the need for SPS to make an intervention in their villages too.
AIF support has enabled SPS to create water-harvesting structures, which provide support for dry land agriculture and other inputs for increasing agricultural productivity. The project has provided drinking water security and drought proofing for 4 villages (3,000 people). 400 families could grow irrigated crops for the first time in their lives. About 5,000 families benefited from increased income through agriculture and other livelihoods activities. It also created 80,000 person-days of employment for the community.