The Prayog project aims to secure, institutionalise, and enhance land and livelihood rights and entitlements of tribals, Dalits and other marginalised communities.

The project's purpose is to empower socially excluded communities to ensure sustainable livelihoods through empowered community leadership. The project is working in 403 villages of Bastar, Kanker, Koriya, Surguja, Bilaspur and Raipur districts of Chhattisgarh. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

Prayog aims

• Extensive group of community leaders across the entire project area that will engage in institutionalising the process of implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and Panchayat's Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) in favour of the excluded communities.

• Empowered community leaders to lead the process of community mobilisation which will lead to raising peoples' voices and influencing the system for pro-poor accountability.

• Generating mass awareness for stronger community based initiatives through programmatic interventions.

About Prayog

Prayog Samaj Sevi Sanstha (Prayog), Raipur was established in 1975 and registered in 1980. The organisation is well known for its contribution in rural leadership development. It works throughout India to build up grassroots activism but focuses mainly on central India and Chhattisgarh.

Prayog works to empower scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) communities by building indigenous leadership. It works towards uniting the often fragmented voice of these communities in order to secure their livelihood rights. Members of the organisation work with communities to help them assert their rights over natural resources such as land, water and forests, through community mobilisation and awareness building. 

Find out more

• PACS work in Chhattisgarh

• PACS work in Bastar, Kanker, Koriya, Surguja, Bilaspur and Raipur

• PACS work on revenue land and the Forest Rights Act

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