The SWAD project aims to facilitate civil society organisations (CSOs) to enable socially excluded groups to have increased access to their rights and entitlements through work and access to land and common property.

The project will work in 182 villages in the Rayagada district of Odisha. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

SWAD aims

• Improved and non-discriminatory access to work under MGNREG for excluded groups.

• Increased access to land and other productive assets and control over them without discrimination 

• Improved monitoring and advocacy systems to address issues of exclusion and denial of services at different levels.

About SWAD

For the last 17 years SWAD has manifested the social concern of the Catholic Church in the eight districts of South Orissa (Odisha) through programs that promote education, healthcare, community organisation, agro entrepreneurship, and natural resource management through a rights-based approach.

SWAD also provides institutional care for orphans, the elderly, lepers, prisoners, and the physically challenged. It also provides relief and rehabilitation in times of disasters.

The operational area of SWAD covers the eight districts of South Odisha: Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi and Nuapada.

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. SWAD is implementing the project with the seven network partners:

• Bangsadhara Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences (BISWAS)

• Adhibasi Bikash Trust (ABT)

• Adhibasi Kalyan Parishad (AKP)

• Community Movement for Education (COME)

• Natural Environment and Education for Tribal Rural Agriculture (NEETRA)

• Utkal Vikas

• Deepti.

Find out more:

• PACS work in Orissa

• PACS work in Rayagada

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods
   

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