Climate change is likely to increase mass migration, to put increasing strain on health systems due to an increased incidence of disease, threaten food and water security, and lead to loss of shelter, land, livelihoods and culture, not to mention the threat of conflict. However, the climate change debate has, so far, given little attention to human rights aspects. The most severe effects of climate change will occur in the poorest countries, which frequently have weak human rights protections. It is critical that human rights criteria are included in climate change planning and policies.

The International Council On Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) has jointly published a new book 'Human Rights and Climate Change' with Cambridge University Press which examines the human rights dimensions of climate change. It considers the questions raised by climate change policies, such as accountability for extraterritorial harms; constructing reliable enforcement mechanisms; assessing redistribution outcomes; and allocating burdens, benefits, rights and duties among perpetrators and victims, both public and private

There will be more natural catastrophes in future. But these will not always involve horrific headlines and images of hurricanes and tsunamis. More commonly and will be cumulative and unspectacular. People who are already vulnerable will be disproportionately affected. Slowly and incrementally, land will become too dry to till, crops will wither, rising sea levels will undermine coastal dwellings and spoil freshwater, species will disappear, livelihoods will vanish. Occasional cataclysms will exacerbate these trends. Mass migration and conflicts will result. Climate change will, in short, have immense human consequences..

Human rights law is relevant because climate change causes human rights violations. But a human rights lens can also be helpful in approaching and managing climate change. The human rights framework reminds that climate change is about suffering – about the human misery that results directly from the damage we are doing to nature.

Many communities already feel the adverse effects of warming temperatures – yet so far few remedies are available. Climate change already threatens the livelihoods of peoples in distant corners of the world, from North Alaska to the Pacific islands. It is contributing to rising prices for grains and staples that are undermining food security for millions, particularly in countries with unstable weather patterns. It poses a profound threat to development in states that currently lack the resources to fulfil basic human rights. The scope of these problems – and of the action required to treat – reach beyond previous human challenges. Climate change shows up countless weaknesses in our current institutional architecture, including its human rights mechanisms. Fear, Risk, Stress, Shocks, Trauma, Worries, Threats, Hazards, Conflicts, Drudgery, Imbalances, Speculations, vulnerabilities are getting accelerated due to recent climate changing chaos. Despite there are severe threats of floods cyclones, coastal erosion, inundation, heat wave, flash floods, distress migration and hunger, enormous opportunity are there to regenerate revive, and rejuvenate the fragmented livelihoods through consorted actions and initiatives with regard to human adaptation and regional resilience capability. The has come to concerted action in mobilizing mainstream resources with value added initiatives that will complement and supplement the initiates of government, CSOs, institutions to carry forward broad based human adaptation initiatives.

Fundamental human rights and freedoms are described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as” freedom from fear and want” has been proclaimed as the highest

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“Accelerating Citizen Action on Community Resilience”Linking Governance-Gender-Livelihoods-Climate Justice:

Rights based Perspective in Odisha

aspiration of the common people, (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/)The declaration further proclaims that every one as a member of society.. is entitled to realization, through national and international cooperation and in accordance with the organizations and resources of each state, of the economic and social and cultural rights indispensable for dignity and free development of personality. Human Rights standards offer a valuable perspective with which to understand the impacts of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable people. And this has clarified the obligations of states both collectively and individually, to minimize that results from climate change and help vulnerable people and community adapt to its inevitable effects. Office of High commissioner for Human Rights has established that “looking at climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in human rights terms, highlights the importance of analyzing power relationships addressing underlying causes of inequality, discrimination and gives particular attention to marginalized and vulnerable communities of societies especially people living in poverty, climatic variances, livelihoods resilience.

Vulnerability the degree to which people are susceptible to the adverse impacts of climate change i.e level of resilience and capacity to cope of community. Persons living in a developing country faced 79 times greater risks of being affected by climate induced disaster .262 million people affected by climate disasters annually from 2000 to2004 over 98 percent were living in the developing world.

Reality realization:

91% disasters in 2009 due to weather Half of these disasters — mainly storms and floods — have taken place in Asia, a UN study sayshttp://igovernment.in/site/91-disasters-2009-due-weather-36305

Climate change disproportionately affects those living in extreme poverty. Further undermining their ability to live their lives in dignity, Rising sea level, increasing ocean and surface temperature and extreme weather events like storms, droughts and cyclones are felt most acutely in poorest countries of the world and amongst the poorest and most marginalized.People living in poverty are less able to prepare for, or adapt to, climate change effects on the associability and availability of food, drinking water, sanitation adequate housing and health care. A growing number of people will face disproportionate and loss of their homes and livelihoods which may also result in increased social unrest.

This year, the uniting theme for the International Day for the EradicationAlmost 50% of the population in the sub-Saharan region of Africa lives on under $1 a day.In Nicaragua, 45.1% of the population lives on less than $1 a day.In India, the number of people living under $1.25 a day increased from 421 million in 1981 to 456 million in 2005.

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Washington: India and China rank 123rd and 121st in pollution control

respectively, reflecting the strain rapid economic growth imposes on the environment, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries, says World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

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Orissa and climate Change

Solar influence over

climate change

Sea level rise -Coastal inundation

Temperature Rise and Heat

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Variability in monsoons –

affecting crop production And

Drought Distress

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• Increased Extremist and Conflicts• Increased degrading of Natural resource base• Increase in Human & Other Life form stress, fear, health hazards

Extreme Weather and unforeseen floods and

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There are several studies have made as both climate change and extreme poverty are human rights matter .It considers seriously full realization of many in addressing to respect, protect and fulfill human rights and resilience.

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Hence there are following few basic thrusts on human rights ad climate justice: “Freedom from Hunger” and right to food in a changing climate Right to Health in wetter and warmer condition Civil and political rights in climate constrained community Displacement, adequate housing /shelter and human rights in degraded and

unstable environment Obligation to respect and protect :mitigation and adaptation for most vulnerable to

impacts of climate change Citizen action and community resilience to full fill the human rights in the context of

climate change Harnessing Green growth for the realization of Human Rights Linking Governance-Gender-Livelihoods-Climate Justice: as people matter

The relevance of the concept in the Odisha context:

“Floods, Droughts, Cyclones, Earth quakes, Tornadoes, Heat waves, Village fire, lightening, Distressed Migrations, Environmental Hazards, foeticides, trafficking Extremists”: What Next?

“If ever a concept called disaster tourism is to catch fancy of those bitten by wander bug, then Odisha certainly will be the number one destination”.

Odisha unfortunately is in the path way of depressions and cyclones formed in the Bay of Bengal during south west monsoon. With advance in global warming and climate change if sea storms acquire greater destructive power as is being forecast, the state will be required to bear the brunt of such storms which means all the gains of development will be washed away in flood/storms waters. According to the state government’s Human Development Report 2004, property loss has been steadily growing every year over the past few decades. Droughts and floods will be accelerated resulted in Food insecurity, starvation deaths, dreadful diseases, distress migration will be manifold.http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/Chronic-hunger-kills-50-in-Orissa-district/H1-Article1-512211.aspx

Chronic hunger kills 50 in Orissa districtNine-year-old Ram Prasad Bariha saw his brother, sister and mother die within a month — September 2009. His father, Jhintu Bariha (42), followed a month later. The dreaded Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) belt of Orissa is yet to come out of the starvation-migration-death cycle. It accounts for 71 per cent of the state’s families below poverty line (BPL). https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12608ef2e0b8ca8cOrissa to reduce

High malaria mortality rate

The malaria mortality rate came down to 15 per cent till July 2009. But the mortality rate is still high, as about 239 died last year. We are aiming to reduce the mortality in the next five years," Health and Family Welfare Minister of Orissa Prasanna Acharya said.

High mortality rate worries govthttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/High-mortality-The state has witnessed a fall in birth rate between 2002 and 2008. At the same time, the infant mortality rate (IMR) has gone up. According to the Population Foundation of India (PFI), crude birth rate has come down from 23.2 in 2002 to 21.4 in 2008, while the state has second highest IMR in the country with 69 per 1,000 live births. Even after the passage of 62 years of independence, people continue to struggle with the problems of deprivation and powerlessness. The extremity of the degree and implications of poverty is experienced by the situation that forces the people to live within a constant state of impoverishment, in circumstances where their most basic human rights, entitlements are need to rethink. The intensity and frequency of droughts and floods appear to be increasing every year with declining vegetation and ground water availability followed by increasing of flash floods. There is media reporting that these regions are slowly moving towards desertification. . Thus, under the changing climatic situation (arising as a result of natural phenomena and or outcomes of human made developments), the relationship between ecology and sustenance has been badly affected“Perpetual hunger, perennial drought ,uneven rainfall, climatic variability, continuous crop failure, malnutrition, depletion of natural resource base, squeezed food basket, skewed land distribution, inadequate institutional linkages and infrastructure, inadequate bargaining power etc. count amongst the primary concerns of western/tribal districts in particular and Odisha in general. ” Risk and vulnerability is getting compounded due to devastating natural, social, physical, economical and environmental capital, combined with poor political representation followed by nutritional and health hazards causing to disrupting the livelihoods that causes distress migration, child sale and women trafficking with rampant social, mental and physical abuse HDI Failed in Odisha:

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Living with Environmental Change: Our planet faces unprecedented change. If we continue on our current path, by the end of this century, or earlier, our environment will be in a state that modern humans have never experienced. In parts of the world, supplies of food and water will be at risk and flood defences stretched

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/searchresult.aspx?AliasName=LGvEiZyRiiyPaylP3jQooVmbBdf6gIQAProviding proper atmosphere to ensure decent living of the citizens, access to knowledge, health, food and nutritional security are benchmarks for sound Human Development Index (HDI) ratings of a State.

But Orissa, it seems, has failed miserably in discharging the necessary obligations if the latest District- Level Household and Facility Survey- 3(DLHS) 2007-08 is taken into consideration. The findings reveal that 15 ofthe 30 districts in Orissa have over 80 per cent of households with lowstandards of living.

The report card is quite grim with a total of 18 districts having a high ofover 50 per cent households as BPL cardholders. As many as eight districtshave over 60 per cent households as BPL cardholders This natural endowment has not at all benefited the broad masses of Odisha, the farmers, urban and rural poor, Adivasis and large number of unemployed Oriya youth. It is one of the poorest states in India in a wide variety of socio-economic indicators. It has the lowest per capita income and very high below poverty level compared to all-India average. Odisha’s Human Development Index compared with other states is 27. The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) indicates Odisha’s per capita income according to the prices of the year 2003 was Rs.12,388.00 while the all-India average per capita income was Rs.23,359.00. The census for the year 2001 indicates that while the people below poverty level were 26.10%, in Odisha it is 47.15%. Suresh Tendulkar committee puts Odisha BPL – 57.2 and all-India – 37.2% BPL, the Saxena Committee puts Odisha – 84.47%, for all-India – 50%.

In the year 2008, the all-India maternal mortality rate was 254 per thousand, while in Odisha it was 303 per thousand. Life expectancy for India in the year was 62.3 years for males and 63.9 for females, while for Odisha it is 57.6 for males and 57.8 for females. These figures were given in a reply by the Union Health Ministry in Rajya Sabha. Odisha’s literacy rate is also lower than the national average. For all-India it is 64.84%, while for Odisha it is 63.08% according to the 2001 census. Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar account for the highest infant mortality rate; in Odisha, in the year 2003 according to UNICEF it was 57 per thousand births, which is one of highest in India. 65% of infant and neo-natal mortality rate in India, over 46% children under five years in Odisha are malnourished. Chronic poverty is rampant in a broad majority of Orissa’s population. The poverty level is 85% in the southern region in Orissa. An overwhelming majority of the Adivasis, Dalits and large majority of rural labourers, small and marginal farmers, suffer from chronic poverty and malnutrition. Unemployment and under-employment are very high in Odisha i.e., 8%, while for India it was 6.80% in the year 2009.

The development policy pursued by successive government in Odisha after Independence produced massive poverty and displacement in Odisha. The National Advisory Council estimates 90 lakh people have been displaced from different development projects in Odisha. Odisha leads in the country for labour migration - due to chronic poverty, and unemployment, millions migrate from Odisha to other states and metropolitan centres..

Starvation deaths have been reported from west and southern Odisha, especially from the infamous KBK districts (Undivided Koraput-Bolangir-Kalahandi districts), the recent

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news item of Hindustan Times reporting 50 people dying of starvation, has made it into a central issue of Odisha. .the widespread failure of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) later. Poverty, malnutrition, migration, starvation deaths and recently farmers' suicide have all become the hallmark of the western and southern districts of Odisha, including districts like Keonjhar, Kandhmal, Gajpati and Sundergarh, which are predominantly tribal. In these districts thousands die every year due to gastroenteritis, diarrhea, cholera, malaria and tuberculosis, under-nutrition, infant mortality and maternal mortality, anemia is among the highest in the country. The main cause is chronic poverty in these districts. A glaring example is the malaria and cholera deaths in Kashipur Block of Rayagada district, which comes in the K.B.K. region. Kashipur Block also has a high level bauxite deposit. Destructive development projects, mines and the timber mafia are responsible for large-scale deforestation in Odisha. In the year 2005 Survey of India estimated 48,000 acres of forestland, 31% of the geographical area out of this 28,000 is dense forest and 20,000 acres are degraded and due to various mine, dam and development projects and deforestation further degraded the land areas totally shattering their food security.. Central Schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is not up to mark here due to corruption and lack of political will.

Climate kills Orissa farmers :Farmers' Suicide and Agrarian Crisis in Odisha Around 43 farmers have committed suicide in Odisha since 9 months. This indicates a severe agrarian crisis has gripped Odisha.Though farmers' suicide has been reported throughout the state including coastal districts,. These deaths are caused due to various factors, neoliberal policies, indebtedness, loss of access to land degradation, water sources, forest, distress sale, etc and total lack of access to water resources and forests. Exploitative and insecure land tenures are a big factor in agrarian distress and farmers' suicide.

Mining and Displacement Mining and displacement caused by mega projects like big dams and senseless industrialization is one of the most important factors in the present predicament of Odisha. Indoctrinate mining has caused widespread deforestation, soil erosion and degradation, and drying up of water sources. Displacement A conservative estimate puts the number of displaced people from Independence to the end of the millennium at about 1 crore. It is overwhelming! It is one-fourth of the present population of Odisha. Almost 80% of the people displaced are Adivasis and Dalits.. Infact, the Adivasis are the biggest losers Source – Kundan Kumar “Dispossessed and displaced: A brief paper on tribal issues in Orissa." epgorissa.orgApril 2007.

Odisha is having among the fastest rate of desertification. The ISRO study that he has referred to was a part of India’s commitment to the UNCCD, signed in 1997, where the signatory countries were mandated to conduct ‘desertification monitoring and assessment’. The Indian government had entrusted the ISRO to conductthat study.“Orissa is among the top FOUR states that are on track of desertification”. In fact the report has not (at least those which have been published till now) at all expressly stated anything verysignificant or startling with reference to Orissa.

Compiled by <mailto:se-drm@solutionexchange-un.net.in> G Padmanabhan,,We all are aware of India's vulnerability to natural disasters because of its unique geo-climatic conditions. Floods, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes and landslides are recurrent phenomena. About 60% of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of various intensities; over 40 million hectares is prone to floods; about 8% of the total area is prone to cyclones; 68% of

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the area is susceptible to drought; and about 30 million people are affected by disasters every year.

Oissa forest http://www.ofsdp.org/aboutus.htm

The existing forest cover in Orissa is 48,366 km2. Out of the area having forest cover, 20,196 km2 have crown density of less than 40%, which would require treatment for regeneration and reforestation. The degradation of forest has resulted into the vicious poverty cycle wherein absence of livelihood options encouraged the local people for more and more removal of forest produce in unsustainable manner leading further degradation of forest with spread of poverty and unemployment..

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Next Mineral production value up in State

11-Dec-09BHUBANESWAR: Mineral output has begun to play a crucial role in strengthening the State’s financial health. Despite a fall in the number of reporting mines in the year 2007-08 to 227 from 233 in 2006-07, the value of mineral production in Orissa has increased by a national high of 29 per cent.AClimate change talks bring focus on State

10-Dec-09BHUBANESWAR: The Copenhagen summit on climate change has brought to focus the vulnerability of Orissa particularly as it has embarked on a path that entails development through fast paced industrialisation. For, the State is highly prone to climatic aberrations and in the last 105 years as many as Health indicators not so rosy for State

05-Dec-09BHUBANESWAR: Crude death rate (CDR), infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR) mirror the health of a state. And, Orissa has a mixed result on these fronts, reveals the recently released Sample Registration System-2008 (SRS-08) by the Registrar General of India (RGI).It putsPoverty, illiteracy impeding awareness levels in

03-Dec-09BHUBANESWAR: The society’s awareness levels are gauged by the quantum of media exposure it has. Orissa fares no good on this aspect too.The recent WHO report on `Reproductive health of young in India’ is a revelation in this connection.About 43.5 per cent of the population here has no knowlOrissa: Low in prevalence, high in vulnerability

01-Dec-09BHUBANESWAR: Orissa might have low prevalence as far as HIV/AIDS is concerned but is highly vulnerable. Around 18 districts have the attributes to propel HIV spread and seven already marked under category A.But the prevention and control mechanisms are still to deliver effectively.Despite t

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Health infrastructure lacks in basics

29-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: Can a health centre function without supply of water, electricity and, most importantly, lab technicians? Well, it is in Orissa.Consider this. As high as 35 per cent of health sub-centres that form the backbone of village health care delivery apparatus function without regular suppLack of political commitment playing havoc

25-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: Notwithstanding the Government’s invitation to the National Institute of Rural Development to conduct social audits to curb corruption in NREGA implementation, transparency and monitoring are still a major deterrent to proper functioning of the programme in Orissa.An evaluation stu`Shoddy works undermined NREGA’ http://nrega.nic.in/netnrega/home.aspx

22-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has failed to achieve its set objectives in Orissa, an evaluation study on NREGA by the National Council of Applied Economic Research and Public Interest Foundation (NCAER-PIF) has concluded.Hailed as panacea for the poor states lUrban areas fare no better

18-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: Rural parts of Orissa, undoubtedly, have the highest deprivation. But, do urban areas fare better? The answer is an emphatic `no’ if the determinants are any indication.Lack of adequate urban development can be ascertained by the fact that the average per capita water supply in sucSecondary education gasping for breath

15-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: With all attention focused on improving primary education for achieving universalisation of education, the secondary education sector seems to have fallen off pace. Dogged by myriad problems from poor infrastructure to high dropout rates, secondary education in the State has begun to gNo integrated scheme in State to protect kids

14-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: Every two of three children in the 5-12 age group are physically abused in India. A whopping 70 percent of the abusers are none other than the fathers themselves followed by the policemen at 26 percent.Disturbing as it may appear, the revelation has come from a nationwide survey coVOID

09-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: Agriculture in Orissa is a gamble of monsoon. To insulate itself from the uncertainties, the State needs to focus on a long-term investment strategy. But the State Government seems to have other ideas. It has invested more in its loss-making public sector undertakings thereby allowing Capital expenditure on agriculture declining

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BHUBANESWAR: Agriculture in Orissa is a gamble of monsoon. To insulate itself from the uncertainties, the State needs to focus on a long-term investment strategy. But the State Government seems to have other ideas. It has invested more in its loss-making public sector undertakings thereby allowing Quantum leap in subscriber base

04-Nov-09BHUBANESWAR: In 1997, when Soura Gamang came to Bhubaneswar from a remote Koraput village and landed up with a job here, his joy knew no bounds.But the elation soon gave way to frustration as he was unable to convey the good news to his family in the village. It took him over five days to be abDelays dent ‘brand Orissa’ image

29-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: For the State Government, the adage ‘haste makes waste’ is beginning to prove true. The latest Assocham Eco-Pulse report has revealed that undue delay in solving the land acquisition problems for mega projects like ArcelorMittal, Posco and Tata have dented its ‘brand Orissa’ image.

Low thrift rate hits capital formation

27-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: For sound economic growth, increase in rate of capital formation is imperative. Domestic savings is an instrument that results in increased rate of capital formation. But Orissa performs miserably on this front.The recently released list of proactive States in savings by the NationCrop failure pushes farmers to debt and death

23-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: The sudden rise in incidence of suicide by farmers in rainfed regions of the State that are hit by drought has a pattern to it.The scores of farmer suicides that shook the nation about four years back were reported from the rainfed and drought-hit regions of Maharashtra, Andhra PraChronic unemployment triggering migration

17-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: The recently released Human Development Report-2009 has positioned Orissa among the top five states in the country by virtue of largescale migration of unskilled workers. Along with it, it has brought focus on the most important aspect of low development indices in the state that has wOrissa languishes at bottom in hunger parameters

16-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: Despite all pro-poor policies and much-hyped food programmes of the State Government, Orissa continues to languish at the bottom rung of the hunger parameters.The State stood 66th along with countries like Nigeria and Kenya in the Global Hunger Index-2008 measured by the InternatioOrissa poor in human development index

12-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: Providing proper atmosphere to ensure decent living of the citizens, access to knowledge, health, food and nutritional security are benchmarks for sound Human Development Index (HDI) ratings of a State.

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Special Economic Zones in State are non-starters

10-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Orissa are fast assuming the status of `special embattled zones’, for the very fact that most of them have been rendered non-starters. As a result, the State has fallen far behind its counterparts in terms of execution of the projects.The recent PriIIM unravels irrigation woes

07-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: How does the ‘aam kissan’ in Orissa evaluate the irrigation scenario and the benefits it has brought to him? Not very highly spoken of. A glance at the recent farmers’ survey report submitted to the Centre by the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, unravels the ills and discrepancState failed on micro-irrigation front: Report

05-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: The focus of the 11th Plan is on exploiting micro irrigation to achieve the twin objectives of prudent water utilization-cum-increase in irrigation coverage. The plan has set a target of 15 million hectare to be covered nationally under the micro irrigation (MI) schemes.Micro irrigState failed on micro-irrigation front: Report

05-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: The focus of the 11th Plan is on exploiting micro irrigation to achieve the twin objectives of prudent water utilization-cum-increase in irrigation coverage. The plan has set a target of 15 million hectare to be covered nationally under the micro irrigation (MI) schemes.Micro irrigIrrigation system in deep water

03-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: Orissa’s irrigation system is plagued with one thousand and one ills. There is a huge gap of around 40 percent between the irrigation potential created (IPC) at around 28 lakh hectare and the irrigation potential utilised (IPU) at around 17 lakh hectare as of June 30 last year. CombineDiabetes, heart attack dog elderly people

02-Oct-09BHUBANESWAR: Even as the world observes the Elderly Day today, there is nothing to cheer about the old in Orissa. For the elderly population in the State, the risks associated with old age are more pronounced than in other parts of the country.With lack of focus on ailments like diabetes, cardiState has wherewithal to discharge obligation?

09-Sep-09BHUBANESWAR: With the Right to Education Act coming into force from August, the onus is now on Orissa to provide education to all. But, the moot question is can Orissa discharge the responsibility? As per an assessment by Centre, despite allocation of Rs 90,000 crore by Centre to operationalise theLiteracy rate looking up

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BHUBANESWAR: Literally, Orissa has made a good progress in putting up a decent literacy rate. The State’s male literacy rate of 90 per cent in urban areas, according to the latest National Sample Survey (NSS) report, has surpassed the national average of 89.4 per cent. Urban female literacy rate ofFruit prices to dampen festive spirit

07-Sep-09BHUBANESWAR: With the advent of autumn, the festival season has commenced. But the festive mood this season is going to be quite sombre, thanks to the astronomical prices of fruits.In the `mandis’ of Orissa, apples of low quality are being quoted at Rs 50 a kg, grapes at Rs 50-70, pomegranates Coastal dists to witness more rainfall during

05-Sep-09BHUBANESWAR: Even as a severe drought grips the country, Orissa seems to be among the handful of states to have emerged safe. About 15 districts have received excess and another around 10 districts netted normal rainfall till August. Is it because of a magnanimous monsoon that despite a delay has sNeta-babu nexus helps corruption grow

31-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: High decibel proclamations against `zero tolerance’ to corruption notwithstanding, the canker continues to eat into the system in Orissa.As of March 31, 2008, the State reported a whopping 1,820 cases of official corruption involving around Rs 1,722 lakh.Till March 31, 2007, abErratic rain: Govt must ensure food security

29-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: The inconsistent monsoon seems to have clouded the food security issue of the common man. The country is going to see a 10 million tonne fall in rice output this kharif season with Orissa being a significant contributor to reduced productivity.The situation in Orissa is going to beNo prudent investments by Govt to combat high un

28-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: Despite all claims of development and improvement in lives of the people, Orissa’s per capita income is Rs 16,195 at only 67 per cent of the national average of Rs 24,256. This has been solely effected by the State’s failure in maintaining a proper proportion between rate of increase iNo sops to farmers for lack of drought tag

27-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: Even as Orissa seems to have just about skirted the drought that has taken large parts of the country under its grip, the scenario is not very pleasant. Though none of the districts in Orissa has been declared drought-affected, the ground data and rainfall distribution project a picturUnemployment in state set to grow

19-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: With no appropriate policies in place to combat the global meltdown, Orissa is all set to see a quantum leap in unemployment in the coming days. The recently released survey on `Global slowdown and impact on employment’ of the Union Labour Ministry for the period April to June 2009 has

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Parliamentary panel suggestions, IBM provisions

13-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: The recent exposures on illegal mining in Orissa has posed some harsh questions to the State Government. They generate from the fact that in 2006, Orissa had been listed among the 10 states witnessing large-scale illegal mining. The list was drawn by none other than the 19th ParliamentKendriya Bhandars need of the hour

11-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: Despite all claims of negative inflation, the steep price-levels of food grains and essential commodities have begun to gore into the vitals of the common man, with the poorer sections being the worst affected.At these trying times the Kendriya Bhandars, community marts, establishePer capita consumption of pulses declines

09-Aug-09BHUBANESWAR: While the Government seemingly content after harvesting rich over the Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme, the very `pulse’ of the nutrition security seems to be at stake in Orissa. At around Rs 90 a kg in the retail market, spiralling prices of pulses has robbed the aam admi of the most potent nutrWoman chosen as key player in population control

11-Jul-09BHUBANESWAR: With the theme “Investing in Women is a Smart Choice” for the World Population Day tomorrow, the United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNPFA) has significantly chosen woman as the key player in controlling the population.The objective is to provide a conducive atmosphere and make Rajiv Awaz Yojana will benefit State

07-Jul-09BHUBANESWAR: The 2009-10 general budget presented by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has some significant direct policy interventions for the marginal sections of society that are going to serve the interests of the State in a pronounced way.

Bhubaneswar: Child Migration and Education-The National Commission on Rural Labour in India (NCRL, 1991) estimates more than 10 million regular seasonal migrants in the rural areas alone in the country. These include an estimated 4.5 million inter- state migrants and 6 million migrants moving within the state, primarily landless vulnerable social groups. However informal estimates put the total number close to 30 million out of which 6 million constitute children. Studies and field evidence suggests that children accompanying their parents in the 0-14 age group may constitute one third of the total migrant population and put the number of migrant children below 14 years close to 6 - 9 million.

Aide et Action South Asia, an international NGO, conducted a survey on incidence of child migration in three districts of Western Orissa comprising Bolangir, Nuapada and Bargarh. The study covered 5 Blocks in the three districts. From each of the villages with high incidence of migration, 30 families having regular seasonal migration were chosen as sample for the study. The study covered a total population of 5380, out of which 4084 (76 percent) migrate.

Only 9% of households use tap water in State

PNS | Bhubaneswar

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http://www.dailypioneer.com/251953/Only-9-of-households-use-tap-water-in-State.html

Even as the first phase of the census is on in the State, Director of Census Operations in Odisha, Bishnupada Sethi, is busy in digging out interesting information on people. After a lot of research, Sethi has found out some interesting factual data.

In India 37 per cent of the total households use tap water, while in Odisha only 9 per cent of households have the same facility. Only 2.76 per cent households of Kalahandi and 2.65 per cent households of Nabaragapur get drinking water from tap.

"The key findings presented in the Odisha review report clearly spell out that livelihoods, ecology and economics share a strong organic bondage. Under the changing climatic situation (arising as a result of natural phenomena and or outcomes of man made developments), the relationship between the two has been badly affected causing disastrous harms to human lives, livelihoods and property. A lot is being talked about the causes of disasters, technical know-how on disaster management and rehabilitation. But, developing understanding on existing coping mechanisms at the community level and then propagation of this understanding at a broader level has remained an area of neglect. Keeping this in view, it is highly important to integrate mainstream development programs for the lasting solution to human adaptation relating to livelihoods in rural and urban and Biodiversity Conservation as a process (access, avail, utilize the resources, implement& maintain) to vulnerability adaptation to climate change variability. Further, temperature hike in Nuapada, Titlagada, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar, Jajpur, Angul and Bhubaneswar are considered the hottest places during summer especially mid April to May. Floods, Droughts, Cyclones and Heat waves are many more accelerating. Hence, Rich State Odisha is in the backward category due to recurrent natural disasters. Equally distress migration, hunger is also very common in western and northern parts. Food insecurity, starvation has resulted distressed migration and trafficking and bring more dreadful diseases.

Climate variability contributes significantly to poverty and food insecurity. Proactive approaches to managing climate variability within vulnerable rural communities and among institutions operating at community, sub-national, and national levels is a crucial step towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.

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Climate change Issue in Odisha as an opportunity to accelerate Community Resilience Process and come up with a citizen action form Human rights Perspective:

Since Climate Change and Poverty is global phenomena, in realty this has a greater impact at the local at community in relation to survival security, social security, economical security, environmental security and sustainability. Odisha is the hub of disasters.

In this backdrop, utilizing ecologically sensitive alternative methods of income diversification (using water, land, people and adaptive methods of treatment and maintenance of resources) can help to achieve important prerequisites for reducing poverty , distress migration, economical viability and environmental sustainability, reducing the financial burden on government with an enterprise mode .

The proposal would make a sincere effort to summarize all ongoing developmental schemes and make aware the eligible communities with simplified and easily understood steps to access to, pool and leverage these schemes. Improved management of climate variability has appealing synergies with other interventions that target hunger and poverty, including production and productivity, gearing greening, soil fertility management, small-scale water management, markets, and extension and communication systems in minimizing the fear and worries with solid engagement of state and CSOs. Further, following are key areas need to address the human adaptation & resilience initiatives: Survival Security( addressing Poverty, health problems especially of women and child, absorption of distress migration, , Employment generation at community level) Social Security (access and avail to social security programs for all sections, village safety nets and productive assets creation integrating ongoing development programs, grooming community level institutions and community empowerment and entitlement process , inclusion of social exclusion, demand driven work generate for community infrastructures Financial security (Group initiatives, small business development initiatives, micro-linkages with intermediary institutions for vending , capacity building and economic activity) Environmental sustainability (energy plantations , nutrition plantations, ,water, land and forest resource restoration and rehabilitation, awareness generation for climate variability and change adaptation, inclusion of school children on environmental stabilization .

Project Goal/Purpose;Accelerate community level action and initiatives linking governance-disaster-Gender- livelihoods to reduce vulnerability and drudgery of at-risk communities at local level from Human rights perspective.Objectives: Accelerating community resilience process with a grater inclusion and partnership Inclusion of Women as leaders to take responsibility for community resilience process Incorporate community resilient plan, safety nets at GP level linking Governance & livelihoods Enable the community to access benefits of government and non-govt schemes, Improve quality of life and reduce marginalization, distress migration linkage of families and welfare of economic excludes Enable local community to have economic and ecological gains through self empowerment process Acknowledge enhancement of social justice where livelihood security, food security and entitlement benefits

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Make their best coping mechanism ensured and enlarged at local to live with dignity, safety net for energy conservation and use of adaptive eco restoration for vulnerability reduction to disaster , climatic changes and global warming

Program components:Citizen action, Policy Advocacy, Sensitization,:Accelerating sustainable Agriculture and conserving bio-diversityEcosystem based Micro- Water initiativesLife Cycle based Skill trainingStrengthening Networks and Alliance building: protecting & Creating productive assets Promotion of renewable energy Undertaking waste management reducing health exigencies and hazards Development Communications: Innovative community based assets creations links to human interests Ultra-poor Initiatives and livelihoods resilienceMethodologyFurther, this is a inclusion of smaller CBOs, NGOs and PRIs to accelerate the Linking-Livelihoods and deepening grassroots governance for human adaptation to climate change resilience, Hence, the social mobilization of the communities and leveraging resources will be the cross cutting issue and will aim at improving their capacities in the long run through participation and capacity building.

Expected Impact The project is with best of our effort, would empower community to:Access to information: Informed communities will be better equipped to take advantage of opportunities, access services, exercise their rights and entitlements, and hold state and non-state actors accountable. Inclusion/participation: Opportunities for vulnerable and other excluded groups to participate in decision making are critical to ensure the usage of resources equitably and community priorities Local organizational capacity: The process equips communities and CBOs to plan and work together to identify, prioritize and resolve issues relating to community resilience process.This overall approach is aimed at empowering the vulnerable communities to participate, negotiate, change, and hold accountable the institutions that affect their well-being and improved capabilities in the long run.. Make environmentally sound programs and culturally acceptable , economically viable livelihood micro plans for their village Community be proactive to pursue with Govt and NGOs to converge available schemes broadly with social and employment guarantee schemes and allied sectors which covers almost all livelihood based activities Community capacity building and training to supervise the implementation of the

program help quality job assurance and Fixing Responsibility and accountability.

This will have an impact on Increased community demand for implementation of schemes to include and execute economically and climatically viable activities as in micro plan Better social monitoring of the execution of schemes Motivate and sensitize community and policy holder for environmental sustainability focusing livelihoods of vulnerable communities at risk Implementation of programs based on the gap

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Proposed Areas for community resilience process- Selected Gram panchayats in coastal & tribal districts prone to vulnerability in terms of poverty and disasters affected due to climate aberrations .

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