The CWS project aims to ensure resource and livelihood rights of socially excluded communities and women through institutional and capacity building interventions.

The project's purpose is to ensure sustainable livelihoods for socially excluded communities by ensuring access to land resource and employment entitlements.

The CWS project is working in 220 villages in the Nabarangapur, Kalahandi and Sambalpur districts of Odisha. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

CWS aims:

• Strengthened local level institutions at village and Panchayat level to work as pressure groups.

• Improved participation of community leaders, representatives of village based institutions, Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) members in filing of claims and settlements for legal ownership of forest land and traditionally used revenue lands.

• Enhanced capacity of women to form self-help groups (SHG), livelihood groups and engage in income generating activities.

About CWS

The Centre for World Solidarity (CWS) emerged from the United Action Service for World Solidarity (ASW), a Berlin based charitable organisation.

In 1992 - through consultation and concurrence of ASW Berlin, Indian partners and the ASW India team - ASW India was transformed into an independent Indian entity. The Centre for World Solidarity (CWS) is now a registered Trust in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

CWS strives to capacitate and support its partners in their development work through a transparent and accountable methodology for meeting the aspirations of marginalised people in India. Currently, CWS collaborates with 186 partner NGOs, 24 networks and 16 fellows in five states: Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Bihar.

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. CWS is implementing the project with the five network partners:

• Association of Secular Initiatives for Social Humanism (ASISH)

• National Integrated Rural Movement for Action Network (NIRMAN)

• Ekta Parishad Trust (EPT)

• Association for Human Rights, Education and Development (AHEAD)

• Centre For Action and Rural Reconstruction (CARR)

Find out more:

• PACS work in Orissa

• PACS work in Nabarangapur, Kalahandi and Sambalpur districts

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods

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