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4- Disaster Risk Reduction |
Floods, water logging and droughts characterise many parts of UP. And now there
are droughts in chronically flood prone areas and floods in drought prone areas
due to the impact of global warming. GEAG along with its partner organisations focuses
on building the adaptive capacity of the communities through participatory planning
for disaster management and coping with the impacts.
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Due to floods in 1998 total 72 lakh ha. area, 9 lakh people and 12 thousand village were affected in U.P alone. |
| 5- Gender and Poverty |
Gender and social equity are cross cutting issues in all of GEAG’s work. Its field
level interventions have immensely strengthened the struggles of poor women and
men members in its project area against poverty and gender and caste based discrimination.
Its field-based work informs its other interventions and is based on a three pronged
strategy of :
1. Social mobilization through development SHGs, village
to state level morchas (struggle units) and village level federations
bringing the two together.
2. Sustainable agriculture interventions
(techniques, marketing and service centres).
3. Micro savings and credit programmes.
According to an external study, the poverty and gender
impact of GEAG has not only been impressive but been better than
most NGOs and government which primary focus on micro credit. Study Reports
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| 6-Urban Climate Change Resilience |
Cities of the future face unprecedented challenges particularly for the most vulnerable.
Fifty percent of the global population currently lives in cities and this is expected
to increase to 70 percent or 5.4 billion people by 2050. Asian cities are expected
to see more than 60 percent of this increase and 46 percent of all urban population
growth will occur in cities with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants. UN-Habitat estimate
that over 1 billion (or one in three urban inhabitants currently do not have adequate
access to water and sanitation, live in overcrowded conditions, live in poor quality
temporary shelters or lack security of tenure and they predict that the number of
‘slum-dwellers’ could double by 2050. On top of it is the reality of climate change
due to decades of global warming. Climate change will have the greatest impact on
communities who have done the least to cause it. Poor and vulnerable populations
have the least capacity to prepare and plan for the impacts of climate change and
the least capacity to respond.Against this background, GEAG has tied up with the Asian Cities Climate Change Resiliences Network (ACCCRN) in the creation of a network of cities in Asia that will by 2012
have developed robust plans to prepare, withstand and recover from climate change
impacts.The focal city for GEAG is its base: Gorakhpur.
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300 tones of solid waste generated daily is dumped on the roads / wayside or open dumps. |
| Gorakhpur’s present population is 683,000 but it is expected to rise to 1,154,044
by 2031. Located on the banks of the river Rapti, in the middle of the Indo-Gangetic
plains, its prone to prolonged water logging. A poor sewage system (only 22 percent
of the total city area has an underground sewer network) and an equally poor waste
management system (the city generates 300 tonnes of waste a day of which 13 percent
are plastic bags) has caused a spurt in vector borne diseases and related health
problems as well as ground water contamination. |
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