The SPREAD project aims to enable socially excluded communities to access their rights over land and work.

The project's purpose is to build the organisation and capacity of tribals, Dalits, women, persons with disability (PwD) and displaced people of Koraput. Enabling them to claim a dignified living.

The SPREAD project is working in 162 villages in the Koraput district of Odisha. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

SPEAD aims

• Enhanced capacity of people's institutions, groups and community leaders to enable them to claim benefits and entitlements under different government schemes and acts.

• Strengthened village and Panchayat (local governance) level institutions under different schemes, for effective participation of socially excluded groups.

• Improved capacity of community based organisations (CBOs), groups and community leaders in claiming land rights under FRA.

About SPREAD

The Society for Promoting Rural Education and Development (SPREAD) was founded in 1989 and is dedicated to empowering the marginalised communities of the Koraput district, so that they can access their rights to land, food and work, leading to a dignified way of life.

SPREAD has been working with scheduled tribes (ST), scheduled castes (SC) and other backward communities in the Koraput region of Odisha. It has mobilised communities displaced by Kolab dam, HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), NALCO (National Aluminum Company) and Machkund dam against the displacement policy of the government on dams, industries, forests and land.

SPREAD has made significant progress in unionising these forums and facilitated mass mobilisations to demand food and employment rights and individual claims.
 

Find out more:

• PACS work in Orissa

• PACS work in Koraput

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods

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