Objective:
The project has set the following objectives:
? Strengthen the Rural Women SHGs in Micro Enterprises for enhancing their income generation capacity
? Check the fiber waste in the villages and ensure better utilization of the resources. This will help to control release of methane generation.
? Empower the economic and social status of Rural women through alternate employment. Building capacities in managing simple technologies through they themselves
? Protect the environment by harvesting wealth from agricultural waste. This will have spillover effects in all villages and possible scaling up can also be seen
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Output:
The project would achieve the following outputs:
? 90 Rural marginalized Farm labour women gained self employment by providing the raw materials.
? Individual member earned Rs.2000/- as additional income every month apart from working as casual labourers in the farm sector
? Women members gained Self respect and dignity in the Male dominated society
? Gender bias, violence at home, family disharmony have come down substantially
? The process of extracting fiber from banana stem has reduced the incidence of bacterial blight etc in the banana plantations in the target area
? Check release of methane from the decayed banana fibre.
? The intervention has paved the way for a Clean and Healthy Environment in the target area
? The Success of the Banana Fiber and Craft Micro Enterprises have shown the way for Replication of the programme in other banana plantation areas in MNTN service villages

Activities:
? Capacity Building of the Project Team and the NGO
? MoU with Ecogreen Unit, the technical providers
? Establishment of the technology unit
? Collection, Production and Marketing of banana stems, fiber etc
? MoU with the Banana Plantation owners
? Raw materials collection at the SHGs level
? Linkages development with other stakeholders
? Participatory exercises for work plan finalization