The Jana Sahajya project aims to secure land and livelihood rights for socially excluded groups through empowerment.

The project is working in 378 villages in the Kalahandi and Kandhamal districts of Odisha. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

Jana Sahajya aims

• Strengthening community/village/Panchayat-level institutions through participation in the meetings such as self-help group (SHG) federation meetings, Gram Sabha and Panchayat meetings.

• Capacity building of the community leaders and groups to demand access to their rights and entitlements under different government schemes.

• Motivating the community leaders to participate in decision making processes through increased representation in village/panchayat level bodies of governance.

About Jana Sahajya

Jana Sahajya was founded in 1989. In the initial phase of intervention the priority area was education - vocational education like tailoring, agriculture and ensuring basic services to the people by successful execution of government schemes and programmes.

Other key focus areas include the protection of people's rights over natural resources and small enterprise promotion through women's groups.

The organisation has contributed substantially to the development of public/common property and resources, and the eradication of bonded labour through the undertaking of  'food for work' programmes. Even today, identification and freeing of bonded labourers is a key intervention of the organisation.

Find out more:

• PACS work in Odisha

• PACS work in Kalahandi, Kandhamal

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods

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