ENTRY POINT ACTIVITY

Satyabrata Guru,TE-Livelihoods

Entry Point Activities (EPA) are part of community mobilization process to get more and more participation of the community in the micro watershed planning.

Identification

EPA may be a bundle of different activities and not necessarily a single activity for a village.

EPA need not be capital intensive. No cost or low cost activities

Villagers should not be encouraged for such entry point activity which may disrupt communal harmony at village level.

Implementation

Facilitate villagers for identification of EPA through a series of informal discussion in small groups and through village meeting.

Resolute the EPA identified by the community Facilitate the process to get maximum participation

of villagers at planning stage. Encourage villagers for maximum contribution in

physical and financial form. PIA facilitated the process to create an environment

where a group of villagers take initiative to implement the identified EPA.

Different thematic area

Awareness Livestock development initiatives Food and nutritional security Health & Sanitation Address Gender issues Drinking water provision Agril development Rural infrastructure

Livestock development initiatives

Animal Healthy Camp Provision of BuckVeterinary kitTravis

Nutritional Food Security

Grain bankKitchen GardenBackyard fruit tressSchool nutritional garden

Addressing Gender issues

Women bathing GhatLadies changing roomDrudgery reduction

Awareness

Wall painting Street play Information centre

Provisioning safe drinking water

•Renovation of drinking water sources

• Renovation of well• Tube well platform

with soak pit

Rural infrastructure

• Drying yard•Threshing floor• Implement

centre

Agriculture Development

•Reclamination of soil •Crop demonstration• Supply of Agri

implement