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The impact of the Shelter Project

At a village level, the local community has realized the benefits of building in appropriate technologies. Over 250 IAY houses have been built in the 4 project districts. Many more IAY houses are to start soon. Even the rural rich are accepting these technologies and houses of 2000-3000 sq. ft are being built. Village ‘Nirmiti Samitis' helped in bringing about more community involvement, development of project management skills, participation of women and backward sections of the society in the decision-making process.

At the government level, after UNDP completed a few IAY houses within the grant, the district and block official have begun to acknowledge the benefits of the building technologies. They have now requested the UNVs to also train the government engineers. After seeing the technology exhibitions set up by UNDP, the government has also shown interest in dissemination programmes for the to the local masons and villagers. They have also announced the construction of a few government buildings in these technologies.

The impact of the planning efforts

Based on the resource mapping and habitat planning activities many development initiatives have now been taken up for the holistic development of the rural communities. ‘Adarsh Basati Yojana', a model habitat-planning proposal, which was prepared for the Panchayati Raj department, has now been accepted for replication in all 30 districts of Orissa. The concept of ‘Amagaon' has been taken up by the Government after being inspired by the Habitat Planning Scheme for the networking and integrated development of the whole of rural Orissa. Many village level initiatives are also being taken up, such as the habitat-planning proposal for Dalavanapur village in Puri District, on behalf of the Government of Orissa, which is being partly funded by the Habitat for Humanity

Visit the ‘www.amagaon.com' portal, which has been launched by the government.

See documents on habitat planning.