SARDS has focused its attention in diverse socio-economic and developmental issues as its main area of interventions by Promoting grass root level community based self-help organization for participating in the community development process and local governance in addressing their own issues relating to their own life and immediate environment, Advocating the sustainable and eco-friendly human practices and acts for livelihoods promotion while ensuring the conservation and protection of nature. SARDS have been facilitating a process of change at multiple levels to bring a long-lasting impact on social and economic status of the poor and socially excluded families through its interventions. The experience of SARDS presents a strong opportunity for evolving its approach to development in bringing together effective programming approaches and ‘best practice’ methodologies in a consistent and convergent manner as a resource and strategy for effectively enhancing and promoting sustainable resource management. SARDS adopts an integrated livelihood development strategy, with the Community Based Organizations play a pivotal role in providing comprehensive financial services to their members on sustainable basis based on the needs of the members to strengthen the livelihoods portfolio of the poor and families having children and youngsters at Risk of School drop outs,child Labour, child Migration, Child marriages, child trafficking etc.; The focus of livelihood and micro-enterprises of SARDS is not only raising the income of the families but also ensures the adequate investment on the wellbeing of children and youngsters out of the raised income. SARDS follows the given Principles in Livelihood Promotion
SARDS adopts the Key Strategies in promoting livelihoods:
SARDS has been working in the sector of livelihoods promotion to ensure constant income flow in the households to resolve many pathetic issues in each of the disadvantaged and vulnerable families in coastal and drought proneareasof Andhra Pradesh. The learning helped SARDS to adopt sub sector approach in working with diversified livelihoods with a potential and best suit approaches with a strong focus on Institution Building, Capacity Building, Infrastructure Development, Value Addition, Marketing and Advocacy and promoting Convergence and Linkages. Out of it SARDS categorized its livelihood operations in to following sub sectors such as Salt production, vegetable production, Animal husbandry, Horticulture, Fisheries, Micro enterprises. SARDS is now partnering with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (NABARD) for promoting and sustaining the livelihoods and Micro enterprises of landless, small and marginal farmers, micro entrepreneurs, poor and vulnerable families under sustainable development plan of watershed villages, watershed development projects, tribal development Project, farmers producer organisations and KFW soli Project in Prakasam and Nellore Districts in Andhra Pradesh. SARDS has got a good history of partnering with external resource supporting agencies such as German Agro action/WHH Germany, Concern Worldwide Ireland, Oxfam Australia, CARE India, GIZ Germany, Plan international, Save the Children UK, TDH Germany, KKF Germany, Embassy of Ireland, Dalmia foundation, Industries Craft Foundation, FVTF, NSIC, GoAP for improving the lives and livelihoods of vegetable farmers, agriculture farmers, women dairy farmers, women salt, fish, vegetable, fruit venders, Micro entrepreneurs, petty trades, rural artisans, NTFP Collectors, grass root Para professionals and service provides etc; in its operational areas.
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