The Chaupal project aims to enable persons with disability (PwD), especially from tribal communities, to access their nutritional entitlements and rights under the MGNREGA scheme.

The purpose of the project is to empower the scheduled tribes (ST), scheduled castes (SC), persons with disability (PwD) and women, to ensure discrimination-free access to entitlements, mainly nutrition and MGNREGA on a sustainable basis.

The Chaupal project is supported by PACS for four years, and the project is working in 660 villages of Koriya, Sarguja, Raipur and Dhamtari districts in Chhattisgarh.

Chaupal aims:

• Community-based organisations (CBOs) developed that include the poor and excluded communities for collective action at all levels -  from village to state level.

• Building capacity of ST, SC, PwD and women to monitor, articulate and demand entitlements.

• Strengthening Gram Sabhas and Panchayats (mechanisms of local-self governance at the village level).

• Collecting and articulating real evidences using participatory research methodology for policy advocacy.

• Engaging with the government at various levels for evidence based advocacy.

•  Mobilising the targeted communities around issues of nutrition and livelihoods.

About Chaupal

Chaupal Gramin Vikas Prashikshan Evam Shodh Sansthan (Chaupal) came into being when five people’s organisations, working mainly on Right to Food in tribal areas since 2003, came together and registered the organisations with an objective of empowering tribals to access their basic rights.

Chaupal has worked mainly with tribal communities in Sarguja, Koriya, Jashpur, Korba, Raigarh districts in north Chhattisgarh and Dhamtari district in central Chhattisgarh.

In north Chhattisgarh, the organisation works specifically with three vulnerable tribes, the Pahadi, Korwas and Birhors. In central Chhattisgarh, Chaupal works with the Kamars. Chaupal has also worked with the  Gond , Majhwar, Cherwa, Oraon, Kanwar, Agaria, Saonta,  Mawasi Baiga, and Pando tribe.

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• PACS work in Chhattisgarh

• PACS work on nutrition and MGNREGA.

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