EMPOWERING SMALL AND TRADITIONAL FISHER PEOPLE IN WEST BENGAL – ActionAid India
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EMPOWERING SMALL AND TRADITIONAL FISHER PEOPLE IN WEST BENGAL

since: 2012
    • Name Of The Initiative
    • Empowering Small and Traditional Fisher People in West Bengal
    • Allied Organisation
    • Society for Direct Initiative for Social and Health Action
    • Working together since
    • 2016
    • States
    • West Bengal
    • Villages Reached
    • 174
    • Blocks Reached
    • 21
    • Districts Reached
    • 5
    • No Of Girls
    • 300
    • No Of Boys
    • 400
    • Families Indirectly Benefited
    • 100,000
    • Vulnerable Groups Reached
    • Scheduled Caste, Tribal, Muslims
    • Focus Areas Of Intervention
    • Empowering the communities to access their rights over land, water, forests and other commons; advocating for their participation in public welfare schemes; restoring rights of women and girls, and ensuring their safety; ensuring the rights of children, their education and protection; and advocating for providig them with equal socio-economic opportunities
    • Basic Information about the initiative
    • DISHA was formed in 1995 by some environmental, public health and social activists. Based in Kolkata, DISHA started its journey through small local efforts and reached out to policy level activities.DISHA has been working with the small and traditional fishing communities since the year 2000. It has been closely working with different forums, platforms and collectives all along the coast line of India. It has networking with National Fishworkersﾒ Forum which is the largest federation of fishworkersﾒ organizations all over India. Especially DISHA has been networking in the three eastern coastal states of West Bengal, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
    • KeyWords
    • Fish Workers; Women; Children; Minorities; Dalits; Tribals; Rights; Land; Resourses
    • Families Benefited
    • 32,500
    • Population Benefited
    • 125,700
    • Women Benefited
    • 60,000
    • Men Benefited
    • 65,000
    • Children Benefited
    • 700