The Chetna Vikas project aims to improve livelihood opportunities for women and persons with disability (PwD) through active participation in the MGNREG scheme.

The project's purpose is to provide dignified, sustainable livelihoods for socially excluded communities. The Chetna Vikas project is working in 448 villages in the Deoghar and Dumka districts of Jharkhand.

Chetna Vikas aims

• Capacity building of community based organisations (CBOs) and Gram Sabha (local self-governance mechanism) in participatory planning and monitoring for good governance.

• Awareness of the community on entitlements and social mobilisation to generate demand for the entitlements.

• Increased participation of women and PwD in rights-based decision making processes at the community level.

About Chetna Vikas

Chetna Vikas was founded in 1985 by a group of activists from the 1980 political movement of reform. The organisation works for empowerment and overall development of the disadvantaged section of society in the Santhal Pargana (tribal) region of Jharkhand. Chetna Vikas particularly focuses on scheduled tribes (ST), scheduled castes (SC) and other indigenous communities.

Chetna Vikas initially began with a small cluster of five villages and gradually expanded its outreach to other districts in Jharkhand.

Network partners

PACS encourages projects to collaborate with like-minded organisations to deliver the best results in the designated project area. These collaborations are called network projects. Chetna Vikas is implementing the project with six network partners:

• YAM India

• Prabha Bharti

• Tribal Foundation

• AANTEEKA

• Jan Astha Seva Sadan

• Bhartiya Manav Vikas Seva Sansthan.

Find out more:

• PACS work in Jharkhand

• PACS work in Deoghar and Dumka

• PACS work on livelihoods and MGNREGA

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