Goals:

•      To further enhance endogenous development in the region by supporting the tribal and rural communities in their efforts in further documentations, experimentations and revival of their indigenous knowledge systems, worldviews and institutions

The main objectives:

•      To further consolidate the efforts of documentation, analysis, preparation of educational material and revival of tribal and rural indigenous eco-agri-cultural and health practices, knowledge systems and related customary practices and to conduct and extend support to farmers for experimentations with the thrust on the specific programmes.

•      To further strengthen and promote dormitory education to tribal youth (Men and women) on agro-ecological and health practices and other sustainable development oriented activities.

•      To further strengthen tribal traditional institutional networks and extend support for necessary promotional activities.

•              To further strengthen IDEA's indigenous knowledge resource conservation centre and its units for indigenous knowledge resource conservation research, documentation and publication of the results of documentation and experimentations.  Besides, the strengthening of demonstration and training programmes, development interaction and natural resource conservation services ( DINARCS ) division and to initiate village level farmers research stations (F.R.S.)

•      To further strengthen coalition activities by target groups and IDEA and COMPAS partners and other NGO’s and research organisations for cross cultural and inter cultural dialogues, exchange of information and knowledge systems on endogenous development.
 

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