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Collective Action for Drought Mitigation in Bolangir popularly
known as Samuhik Marudi Pratikar Udyam, Bolangir or in short SMPU-B is a
network of seventeen Civil Society Organisations, Community Based organizations
and Peoples’ Organisations (Lok sangathans) workingin Bolangir district. The
network emerged in 1996 as a local response to acute drought and vulnerability
of people in Bolangir. Six partner NGOs began to work with support from Action
Aid Indiain 56 villages The initiative now spread across 516 villages
around 75 Gram panchayats of 13 Blocks of the district. The initiative covers a
total of 28% villages of the district and 21% of the districts total population
with 66.187 households. Out of the total families being covered, 13% of them
belong to poorest of the poor group. Out of them 27% are landless and 42% are
daily wage workers. Out of the poorest of the poor families 18% constitute
migrant population. This is the largest network in the district having maximum
coverage and accessibility to the largest population of the district.
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