Significancet

We believe that the process of organizing the group, facilitated by the Group Organization Sector, has very successful for any organization. Despite the fact that there was a strategic shift of working more intensively by involvementing at Falia (Hamlet) level rather than expanding geographically by adding on more villages. Organization has been making Falia Level Committees (VDC) and Cluster level Samities. An effort was directed at setting governance structures analogous to the organization, at the community level. The people were intensively involved in spelling out their own perception of the problems and its solution through various participatory processes. This helped them did help them in analyzing and critically looking at their own problems. Inducting the social power analysis into the ambit also sharpened the understanding of the social issues and poverty. The advocacy on social reforms also got a boost because various analyses by the communities themselves had made them believe that they themselves were the reason of their sorry state. So, they cut off on many of the social extravaganza. The savings and credit activity were also given boost by their involvement, which further helped them escape the debt traps.

Some remarkable achievements of the organization are:

SMUT is working with Adivasi community of this area and is very well aware of the problems of this community and their socio-economic condition.

Organization has developed status relation with local community, social leaders, delegates of local panchayats, traditional Dai/healers and social leaders.

SMUT has analyzed poor families with the help of PRA system for wealth ranking in the area and has categorized them according to their economic condition in A, B C D and E categories.

Organization has a dedicated team of volunteers at ground level

Organization has developed village level institutions like Village Development Committees (VDC), SHG’s, Gram Sabhas and Farmer’s Producer Organization (FPO).