The Navrachna project aims to strengthen the governance system both at the local village and district level, for effective service delivery and to increase institutional accountability towards the socially excluded communities.

The project is working in 106 villages in Bilaspur and Sarguja district in Chhattisgarh with one partner organisation. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

Navrachna aims

• Creation of a pool of local facilitators and support organisations to strengthen community-based organisations (CBOs) and village level institutions and to assist the local communities.

• Increased awareness on MGNREGA and FRA by strengthening existing village level institutions formed under the act.

• Capacity building on countering violence against women at the work site of MGNREGA and equal right to work for women under the MGNREGA.

• Tracking and analysing funds provisioned under special central assistance to tribals sub-plan and state budget allocation.

About Navrachna

Navrachna was formally registered as a society in 2001 and works primarily with the Baiga community, a primitive tribe in Kota and Gaurella block of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh.

The name Navrachna signifies 'new creation' in Hindi. The major role that the organisation envisaged for themselves was community development through people’s initiatives. Navrachna has therefore always given importance to grass root planning, aimed at developing the local environment and creating assets for the village and the communities.

Navrachna primarily works on the issues of livelihood and basic rights and entitlements of the poor. They focus on proper implementation of food security provisions in the villages, inder the public distribution system (PDS), mid-day meal scheme (MDM) and the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).

Under livelihood generation for the communities, they focus on proper implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), child rights, access to health and education.

In addition, the issues of adaptation and mitigation of climate crisis has also been taken up by the organisation.
 

Network partners

PACS encourages projects to collaborate with like-minded organisations; these collaborations are called network projects. Navrachna is implementing the project with one network partners as listed below:

• Jashpur Jan Vikas Sanstha.

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• PACS work in Chhattisgarh

• PACS work on livelihoods and MGNREGA

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