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Name of the Initiative – Community Development in Sadiya (Local Rights Programme)
Supporting Partner – Action Aid Association (AAA)
Programme Duration – 2007 to 2017

• Villages Reached – 28
• Blocks Reached – Sadiya
• Districts Reached – Tinsukia
• No of Girls – 584
• No of Boys – 400
• No of People With Disability – 283
• Families Indirectly Benefited – 2,016
• Vulnerable Groups Reached – Tribals, Muslims, Women, Informal sector labour

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 providing them with equal socio-economic opportunities; Responding at emergency situation in the region.

Basic Information About The Initiative

The LRP, NEADS, has been partnering with ActionAid on a number of issues on various regional and national platforms formally since 2004. The first time NEADS was formally associated with ActionAid was during the severe flood of 2004. ActionAid was one of the first agencies to respond to the emergency in partnership with grassroots organizations and a group of dedicated volunteers. NEADS was a crucial partner in the network and led the response in Golaghat and Jorhat districts. Since then NEADS has been regularly partnering ActionAid in a number of initiatives in the state. A more definitive partnership began when ActionAid decided to start a NF project with NEADS in December 2005 to build perspective and capacities of peoples organizations engaged in movements seeking rights and justice being denied to some of the most vulnerable communities in Assam like the displaced populations, the flood affected the landless farmers, etc. In the past 10 years, NEADS has been a constant partner with ActionAid India, working on larger issues of development, displacement, globalization and its impact on the people of the region, disaster response, etc. The presence and capacity of NEADS to lead larger issues in the Upper Assam districts, and the working partnership build up over the years helped ActionAid to position peoplesﾒ choice and through NEADS.

• Families Benefited – 1,791
• Population Benefited – 10,604
• Women Benefited – 4,716
• Men Benefited – 4,621
• Children Benefited – 984

Programme – Improving Adolescent Girls Nutrition through Promotion of Kitchen Garden Programmes in Tea Gardens of Assam
Duration – 2012 to 2016
The Project Contextual Background:

Dibrugarh is situated in the eastern part of Assam and southern bank of the river Brahamaputra in the northeastern region of India. Tea is the major agro industry in the state Assam. Assam is the highest tea producer state in India which contributes immensely to the state’s economy. Dibrugarh, the hub of tea industry is situated in the eastern corner of the state. Poor socio economic conditions, ignorance due to illiteracy, overcrowded and unhygienic living condition in the residential colonies situated within the tea estates make the tea garden people vulnerable to various communicable disease and malnutrition. In addition to that health and low nutritional status is considered as biggest emerging issue of tea garden community. Considering health and malnutrition as contemporary problem of adolescence girls, NEADS in partnership with UNICEF aimed at developing this intervention to ensure the availability and use of quality local food that would help the tea garden communities specially the adolescences maintain good health.

The Objectives:

• Imbibe a sense of nutritious food among the tea garden communities.
• Ensure effective use of the activities as initial learning to the adolescent girls through the Adolescent Girls’ Group already existing in the tea estate.
• Move the tea garden communities towards self reliance in the matter of nutritional intake and its role in keeping good health.
• Enhance capacity of the girls’ group to participate in the development process
• Improve quality cooking in order to retain nutritional value to the maximum extent possible for maintaining good health.
• To make the meal more salutary.

Targeted Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries are the approximately 21,000 adolescents’ girls of 42 tea gardens. In addition to this mothers club members and community members are being considered as the other targeted beneficiaries.

Key Project Activities Undertaken

• Mobilization and Strengthening of Kishori Sangh (Adolescent Girls club) and Mothers Club in 42 Tea Estates
• Support for Sustenance of 51 Community Kitchen Gardens in 42 Tea Garden
• Capacity Building Training on Kitchen Garden Preparation, Development and Maintenance
• Mobilization of Adolescent Girls for Individual Kitchen Garden
• Orientation cum training to Adolescent girls clubs and mothers’ clubs members for improving dietary diversity through kitchen gardening practice in the newly adopted 27 TG of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia
• Organized Annual cooking and Kitchen Garden Competition

PROJECT OUTCOME / ACHIEVEMENTS

• 68 kitchen gardens at community basis have been nurtured and prepared in 42 Tea estates collectively and 227 kitchen gardens at individual basis under the project. 227 individual kitchen gardens were developed by the adolescent girls of total targeted 42 tea gardens with the technical support of NEADS.
• Members of Kishori Sangh have learned the concept of Kitchen garden development as well as management. Awareness is being generated among them to prepare kitchen garden units at household level at individual basis.
• Throughout the entire yearlong project period, NEADS built up rapport with the tea garden management, ABITA and MCH Cell of Assam Medical College as joint partner initiative towards effective implementation of the programme.
• Adolescent Girl club members are setting role play as method of awareness generation and mass information dissemination on importance of health and nutrition in form of demonstration and cultural events.
• Individual kitchen gardens at own household level are being initiated by the girls club members.

Programme Title: Capacity Building on Climate Change & International Humanitarian Law
Duration: 2014-2017
Supported by – Centre for Social Development (CSD), Imphal
The Background

The Objective

Rights & control of the community over land and resources are protected through strengthening of community based institutions with gender justice.

Key Activities Undertaken

1. Training on Climate Change Adaptation, Human Rights, Gender Mainstreaming, Globalisation, Neo-Liberalisation etc.
2. Capacity building workshop on Peace building and Conflict transformation
3. Campaign on Dams, Human Rights, Violence against women etc.
4. Seminar and convention on the issue of indigenous people
5. Research and documentation on environmental and human rights issue

Outcome

1. NEADS have able to promote 3 numbers of local POs with membership of about 2630 including 2070 females and 560 males
2. Developed strong working relationship with 4 numbers of existing state level POs with total membership of more than 85,000 including more than 25,000 males and about 65,000 females
3. Promoted 33 numbers of SHG with total membership of 443 including 423 females and 20 males
4. Promoted 3 SHGs Federation with total membership of 486 including 423 females and 63 males
5. Promoted 1 farmer club with total membership of 40 including 21 females and 19 males
6. Promoted 3 food banks with total membership of 193 including 144 females and 49 males.

The Childline 1098 Service has been launched in the river island district Majuli of Assam on 17th March, Friday. North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a Jorhat based grassroot organisation which has been officially aligned as partner to implement the programme in Majuli hosts the inaugural event, held at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner’s Office, Garamur, in association with the district administration. Mr. Pallav Gopal Jha, Deputy Commissioner graced the occasion with his presence and participated the meeting as the guest of honour. Further, delegates from various line departments, elected representatives from PRIs and social workers were present.

Childline 1098 service is run by Childline India Foundation which is supported by Union Ministry of Women and Child Development under Integrated Child Protection Scheme. The programme operates a telephone helpline for children in distress. It is a 24 hour, toll free phone outreach service for children who are in need of aid and assistance. Mr. Pallav Gopal Jha, in his inaugural speech urged everyone present in the gathering out there to reach out to every child who is in need of care, protection and emergency services. In his opinion, he called everyone to create an effort to establish a child friendly society where children as right holder have access to their rights and entitlements.

Childline 1098 service will work for the protection of the rights of all children in general. But the special focus is on all children in need of care and protection, especially the more vulnerable sections, which include street children and youth living alone on the streets, child labourers working in the unorganised and organized sectors, domestic help, especially girl domestics, children affected by physical / sexual / emotional abuse in family, schools or institutions, children who need emotional support and guidance, children of commercial sex workers, victims of child trafficking, children abandoned by parents or guardians, missing children, run away children, children who are victims of substance abuse, differently-abled children, children in conflict with the law, children in institutions, mentally challenged children, HIV/ AIDS infected children, children affected by conflict and disaster and children whose families are in crisis.

Girin Chetia, Director of NEADS expressed his words that the service will bring hope for children across the island and its neighbouring districts who are in need of aid and assistance at any situation. We at NEADS are very much committed to work for protection of children at any level. He appealed everyone concerned about child to dial 1098, the toll free number to access the services. Also added that Childline not only respond to the emergency needs of children but also link them to ensure services for their long-term care and rehabilitation for their living of a dignified life.

Project Area – Sadiya sub-division, Dist.- Tinsukia
Supporting Agency – Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Duration – 2017-18

Overall objective

To advance rural, indigenous, migrant and urban poor (RIMUP) women’s human rights by increasing their capacity in Asia Pacific to author evidence-based community research and be vocal and effective policy advocates for climate justice, human rights and just development.

Specific objectives

• Develop the capacity of RIMUP women and their organisations in 8-10 communities to research and document evidence for use in engaging decision-making processes on climate change at local, national, regional and international levels;
• Foster knowledge and resources on the impact of climate change and climate policies, practices and projects on women at the local, national, regional and international levels;
• Establish strategic advocacy plans and opportunities to share evidence-based results and support women’s own positions and solutions for policy change at national, regional and international levels; and
• Strengthen institutional development of partner organization through leadership development and movement building.

Duration: 2009 to 2017
Supported by: Aide et Action

Programme Background

The Access and Quality Education Project now covers 20 most disaster affected villages of Golaghat district in Northern Assam mainly populated by the Mishing tribal community, Schedule Caste (SC) and other backward caste population. The Mishing are an ethnic group inhabiting the districts of Dhemaji, North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat and Golaghat of Assam. They are the second largest tribal group in North-East India, followed by the Bodo’s. Traditionally they live on both side of the bank of river Brahmaputra.
The traditional joint family dwelling system is most predominant among the Mishing people based on patrilineal and patrilocal system.

Cultivation is the primary occupation of the Mishing Community. The average land holding of the individual families of the villages are 7 hectares of arable land. Geomorphic and anthropogenic flood and erosion have robbed the Mishing of their land and property. Once very rich land lords have been reduced to landless by frequent waves of flood and erosion. Destiny has forced some Mishing families to reside on the river embankment permanently. The economic condition of almost all the Mishing families in the Project area is now very poor. The initial implementation of the project in 2009, somehow reduced the dropouts in the project schools and however in some of the other schools in the project area. But not in all the schools. Still in 50% of the school, the issue of dropouts has to be address in the project area.

The project area had 22 venture schools which are run by community. These schools are plagued by a host of problems such as lack of basic physical infrastructure, lack of trained teachers, lack of adequate school infrastructure, lack of adequate Teaching Learning Materials, textbooks and notebooks, lack of safe drinking water facility and sanitation facility. The conditions of the government schools are also equally not good so far as quality of teaching, regular attendance of the teachers and use of Teaching Learning Materials are concerned.
The State Government has passed an Act named ‘Assam Venture Educational Institutions in 2011 (Provincialization of Services) Bill 2011’ paving the way for regularization of services of 95,000 school teachers in 16,000 venture schools. It is hoped that after proper implementation of the Act the condition of the venture schools is somehow improving and would improve in a better in future.

The project area being flood affected, it was found that out of the 20 schools selected for Back to Basics programme in 2014. 11 nos. of schools are affected annually by flood. During this period, schools remain closed for an average of one month.

Aims and Objectives

:

• To improve the access and quality of education to the children below 14 years of age residing in 2(two) Panchayats under Bokakhat subdivision of Brahmaputra valley in upper Assam.
• To build the capacity of the community communal and develop them as pressure groups to promote and strengthen education governance and other cross cutting issues.
• To create a Children’s platform to led advocacy and motivate other children to pro-actively participate and contribute towards building of a compassionate, just society through child club.
• To build and strengthen the capacities of women and children in general and girl child in particular to advocate for their right to education and development’s

Geographic Operational Area: The Project location is at Mohuramukh under Bokakhat legislative constituency of Golaghat district (Assam).

Area of Intervention

Two Panchayat namely – Gulung and dushutimukh of Bokakhat legislative constituency under Golaghat district of Assam.
Major Activities Undertaken :

1. Strengthening VDC/SMC/mother’s group to support the child in improving their knowledge.
2. TRG members guide the VDC, SMC and mothers group to impart education to the child.
3. Conducted Child competency assessment for better competency of the child.
4. Regular monitoring of the CCA by TRG, SMC, VDC and the mother’s group.
5. Higher level activities would be conducted in the existing child club forums of the 2 Panchayats.
6. Women’s federation (Sanmilita Nari Adhikar Suraksha Manch) includes all women in the area.
7. Women’s federation takes up issues of advocacy.
8. Linking SHGs with financial institutions.

The Outcome :

1. With regular monitoring and follow 660 students in 20 projects schools was able to have proper competency level.
2. Once in a 2 month randomly TRG’s expertise utilized their efforts in the project area to develop the children.
3. TRG initiate the CCA in 20 project schools where 650 students have appeared.
4. VDC, SMC participated in the CCA sharing session.
5. 20 child clubs became regular village activity. 8 new wall magazines were being developed. 20 wall magazines come up with yearly edition. 4 outer level exploratory walks facilitated by VDC federation. 2 exposure visits facilitated by VDC federation. 8 outer level exploratory walk have been organized with 2 exposures for the child club forums.
6. 43 nos. of women in the federation.
7. More than 30 federation members and other 60 non members have been undergone a training on financial linkages.

Brahmaputra River Basin Resilience Building Programme

– A preparedness approach by strengthening coping capacity of the community living at the floodplain in the process of risk reduction.

The Project Context (Disaster Risk & Exposure to Hazards)

The eastern part of the region represents a severe floodplain area in the state of Assam. The southern valley of river Brahmaputra is highly prone to water induced hazards such as flood, flash flood, river bank erosion and land degradation. Flood and river bank erosion affect all aspects of the land, lives, and livelihoods of communities living in the region to a significant degree, leaving people homeless and displaced, destroy crops, damage public property, and damage development infrastructure. Moreover, annual cycles of flooding cripple people’s resilience and intensify the poverty spiral.

The Project Initiation

This community based preparedness approach of Disaster Risk Reduction in the floodplain pocket of the districts including Jorhat, Majuli and Golaghat was initiated in the year 2011 with the objective of preparing the affected community to meet flood emergencies and also mobilizing village community institutions at micro level for long term disaster mitigation process. At present a total number of 30 villages are being covered in the programme under three development blocks namely Koliapani of Jorhat, Bokakhat of Golaghat and Majuli block of Majuli districts respectively.

The Objectives (Both Long Term & Short Term)

• To increase target community’s capability to anticipate and prepare for natural disasters through knowledge, awareness and training – with a special focus on addressing the needs of the most vulnerable women and children, aged and Persons with disability.
• To substantially improve water, sanitation and hygiene conditions for the target community of the villages with particular focus on addressing needs of community.
• To improve food security and support livelihood of target communities in by providing capacity development training for building resilience in maintaining productive assets even when disrupted by disasters.
• To strengthen government, civil society, and community action for disaster risk reduction in order to enable communities, government and CSOs to identify, plan and act for reducing the vulnerabilities of communities to disasters.
• Promoting a culture of prevention, preparedness and resilience at all levels through enhancing knowledge, innovation and education on Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management.
• Mainstreaming disaster management into the developmental planning process by ensuring that different mitigation and preparedness activities are part of the regular development efforts and that plans at all levels from Village Plan, Gaon Panchayats to the development block.
• Ensuring efficient mechanism for identification, assessment, monitoring and mapping of disaster risks.

Programme Thrust Areas

• Institution Building, Disaster Preparedness and Response
• Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) Promotion
• Emergency Food Security & Vulnerable Livelihood
• Advocacy / Convergence and Linkages with Government Schemes

Key Activities Undertaken:

Community Based Disaster Preparedness

• Promoting villagewise ‘Duryug Bebosthapana Samiti’ (Village Disaster Management Committee). This is a grassroot institutional mechanism for preparing community to meet emergencies & mobilizing them for risk reduction.
• Conducted Participatory Vulnerability Capacity Assessment (PVCA) and Development planning at micro level of targeted villages. The emphasis was primarily in mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into development planning.
• Undertaking risk mapping and safety planning.
• Established Community Resource Centre for education, information and awareness on DRR at community level.
• Organized emergency mock drill trainings and carried out periodic exercise for preparedness and risk management.
• Establish Raised Granary for safe storage of food grain in the community.
• Support of emergency country boats & emergency equipments to the village institutions.

Risk Management by Accessing Safe Water, Sanitation and Proper Hygiene Education

• Installation of flood – resistant handpumps and sanitation structures in the chronic affected areas.
• Handpump tool kit and training support for village level mechanics including WASH Committees.
• Imparting training on water chlorination. Facilitation support of handpump chlorination drive after flood.
• Support of small water treatment units to the riverine community for accessibility of clean water.
• Community awareness generation events on WASH & Public Health Promotion
• Children centered Public Health Promotion (PHP).
• Sensitisation programme on children risks and safety in school.

Disaster Risk Reduction through Livelihood Concerns

• Support to farmers including women for restoration of livelihood through promotion of Early Harvesting Crop (stress tolerant), System of Rice Intensification (SRI), Kitchen Garden and Livestock.
• Post flood agricultural support to young farmers club.
• Promoting weaving as rural initiative for economy generation by the women collective.
• Farmers’ capacity building on sustainable agriculture, organic farming, System of Rice Intensification (SRI), livestock management, integrated farming practice and livelihood improvement.

Mainstreaming, Convergence & Advocacy

• Build linkages to government line departments for tapping resources under the development schemes.
• Submission of Village wise comprehensive DRR plan to Panchayati Raj Institution through special Gramsabha. Thrust has been given on disaster perspective development plan at PRI level policy.
• Block level and district level advocacy through ‘Village Disaster Management Committees’ with Line Departments to access services, also to mainstream DRR.
• DRR Capacity Building events for PRI, Block & Departmental functionaries, frontline workers including ASHA, AWW, VLEW, PARA-VET etc.
• Effort was on Convergence of programmes to build capacities of affected people.

Few Achievement of the Programme

• Institutionalizing disaster affected community as Village Disaster Management Committee for responding to any kind of hazard.
• Changes emerged in the awareness level of the affected community over disaster preparedness and perspectives. (Community sensitisation)
• Reduction of community morbidity rate occurred out of water borne diseases during and post flood situation.
• Building a chain of volunteers on water chlorination, handpump mechanics, and installation of bio-sand filters to act during emergencies.
• Community’s capacity enhanced on improvised livelihood practices in both farming and non farming.
• Adaptation practice started especially for early harvesting crops i.e. Bodo paddy is a good adaptation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
• Developing a chain of community volunteers for emergency disaster responses works including search & rescue, first aid, early warning and WASH. Some TFT members are included in district plan.
• Community accessibility increased towards development schemes implemented in the targeted villages.
• Women actions are organized for economic activities including upgrading weaving skills, livestock rearing and kitchen garden with market accessibility.

The Project Context & Background

The eastern part of Upper Brahmaputra Basin represents a severe floodplain area in the state of Assam. Being located in the floodplain along the river bank of Brahmaputra, Jhanjimukh pocket of the district Jorhat is highly prone to water induced hazards such as flood, flash flood, river bank erosion and land degradation. The area represents numerous severe flood-prone villages where the landscape of river Brahmaputra and its tributary rivers like Jhanji and Morijhanji are comparatively high and have deep channels right from the upper catchment area of Arunachal Pradesh and the hills of Nagaland. Due to excessive and dynamic rainfall in the catchment areas and in the neighboring hill state, the river get charged with enormous quantity of silt and in their movement the river alter the condition of flow and sometime changes the river courses causing untold miseries to the people living in the downstream riverine areas. Flood and river bank erosion affect all aspects of the land, lives, and livelihoods of communities living in the region to a significant degree, leaving people homeless and displaced, destroy crops, damage public property, and damage development infrastructure. Moreover, annual cycles of flooding cripple people’s resilience and intensify the poverty spiral. Jhanjimukh is one of the most backward, poorest and almost entirely isolated area in the southern bank of Brahmaputra river valley in the district of Jorhat. The place is inhabited by different people groups including the Assamese, Mising, Fisherman community and Muslim etc. on the bank of in the main stream of the Brahmaputra river. The area is positioned in a place where mighty river Brahmaputra is being merged with two of its tributaries namely— Jhanji & Mori Jhanji.

The Goal

Develop resilience of communities in targeted areas of the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam (1 District and 15 Villages) to face natural disasters like floods and other emerging hazards – with a focus on the most vulnerable sections like women, children, elderly persons and people with disability.

Overall Objectives

Targeted communities in project villages are able to identify, understand disaster risk, to plan and to take actions to reduce community vulnerabilities to disasters especially the vulnerabilities of women, by themselves and with support from government, CSOs and the private sector.

Major Thrust Area of Work

• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH)
• Food Security & Livelihood
• Institution Building, Disaster Preparedness and Response
• Advocacy / Building Networking & Linkages

Project Geographic Location & Information

Total Households for intervention	1360 HHs
Number of villages for direct intervention	15
Number of Gram Panchayats	2 G.P.
Name of Block/s of intervention	Koliapani Block
Name of District/s of Intervention	Jorhat

Implementing organisation – North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS)
Targeted Districts – Jorhat, Majuli, Golaghat & Karimganj

‘We have been living in this Nikori gaon since many decades. Every year we face flood like conditions as our village is surrounded geographically by the three rivers system of Brahmaputra, Gelabil and Dhansiri. But this time severe flood situation in our village made the people helpless. We lost our properties including shelter, grain bank and other necessary stuff. In our village 18 households were completely washed away by the flood waves. Till now we are living in a temporary shelter in poor condition. Managing daily food is becoming tough for us. Not only this, the health condition of people deteriorated at large in the community’- Pahi Pathori, a woman of 67 years of village Nikori under Disoi Gaon Panchayat of Bokakhat developmental block of Golaghat district, Assam. Her life is an utmost example including many who are devastated by the flood disaster in Assam.

The massive waves of deluge in the year 2017 occurred out in Assam of North-Eastern region created havoc in the plains of Brahmaputra & Barak valley which had caused untold miseries to the people living in the downstream. The inundation wiped out many people’s land, lives, and livelihood living in the riverine areas and rendered numerous people as homeless and displaced. The heavy downpour destroyed crops, damaged property and worsened infrastructure of people to a worse extent.

North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a Jorhat based grassroot development organization working across the river basin regions of Upper Assam has been responding to this current humanitarian crises situation in the districts including Jorhat, Majuli, Golaghat and Karimganj in a range of support. The organisation has been serving widely the worse flood hit people with instant relief aid and intervening with long term rehabilitation plans to re-establish normalcy in the community.

NEADS is extending humanitarian services in the deluge ravaged Karimganj district of Barak valley by providing immediate relief aid of Hygiene kit, NFI & Shelter kit support to address the emergency need of the people. In partnership with Oxfam India, a global disaster responding agency, NEADS has been working in 16 villages of North-Karimganj & South Karimganj block, targeting 5200 families of a number of largely water marooned villages in the district which border to Bangladesh.

The Majuli island district was also heavily devastated due to both the flood situation in June as well as August. To provide sort of emergency assistance, NEADS as rapid relief distributed food and nutrition packets (including baby food), hygiene kit to 800 nos. of families of Lower Majuli area. At present public health promotional activities like drinking water chlorination, post flood hygiene campaign, women and children health awareness in the villages are being undertaken to reduce the morbidity of the affected people. The programme is being supported by German based Terre Des Homes (TDH).

In Golaghat district, the organisation is starting emergency response programme to the flood sufferers with a range of support including Food, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and restoration of livelihood partnering with Humanitarian Aid International, an Indian humanitarian organisation with back support from HCL Foundation. This restoration and rehabilitation activities will cover up support to 800 families of ravaged Bokakhat block including repair & maintenance of damaged handpumps, rehabilitation of drinking water source, post flood agriculture support, non-farm livelihood support to small & marginal farmers including the erosion hit internally displaced people.

In the district of Jorhat, NEADS is working on Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction initiative targeting 25 villages of Jhanjimukh area under Kaliapani block. NEADS is aiming to promote a culture of prevention, preparedness and resilience in the community through enhancing traditional coping strategy, building knowledge, innovation and education on disaster risk reduction. NEADS is promoting Village Disaster Management Committees, Emergency Task Force Team of Search & Rescue, First Aid, WASH, Early Warning, Camp Management and WASH Committees and this is a process we want to thrust upon for institutionalizing the flood affected communities into flood mitigating institutions at the grassroot level. NEADS is also initiating flood resistant WATSAN structures, Public Health Promotion, organizing emergency mock drill, child centred disaster preparedness, mainstreaming DRR into village development planning and works to improve food security and support livelihood of target communities in by providing capacity development training for building resilience in maintaining productive assets even when disrupted by disasters since many years back.

There is plan to extend further support for recovery & rehabilitation of the worst affected people in aspects of WASH, Livelihood, Shelters and Education to restore normalcy in their life. NEADS will continue to work in partnership with various humanitarian organisations like Charities Aid Foundation India and SEEDS India to implement such projects in the river basin regions of Golaghat district.

NEADS emergency response team has been engaging in the field actions since the devastation started back in June. The community volunteers are assisting the ravaged communities from rescue and in relief. NEADS core plan is not just to respond with relief aid but the main target will be basically to work on early recovery and rehabilitation with further long term development initiative incorporating disaster preparedness and mitigation plan to achieve capacity of peoples resilience against flooding.

The Emergency Aid Response Matrix of NEADS

Humanitarian Organisation	Targeted District	Affected Area/Block	Number of Targeted Village	Covered House Hold  /Beneficiaries (Direct)	Type of Emergency Support
Oxfam India	Karimganj	North Karimganj, South Karimganj	20 Villages	5200 HHs	Hygiene Kit, NFI & Shelter Kit, UCT & EFSVL Support, WASH (PHE/PHP) Support
Humanitarian Aid International (HAI)	Golaghat	Bokakhat Block (Mahuramukh)	7 Villages	800 HHs	Hygiene Kit, Emergency Food, NFI Kit, WASH (PHE/PHP)
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) India	Golaghat	Bokakhat Block	5 Villages	737 HHs	Emergency Food. Hygiene Kit, NFI & Temporary Shelter Kit, WASH (PHE/PHP) Support , Medicine Kit
Tere Des Homes (TDH) Germany	Majuli	Lower Majuli	9 Villages	800 HHs	Hygiene Kit, NFI & Shelter Kit, WASH (PHE/PHP) Support
SEEDS India (Intervention will be started)	Golaghat	Bokakhat (Bonkual)	—	—	Shelter, Education, Health
Oxfam India	Jorhat	Koliapani (Jhanjimukh)	25 Villages	1875 HHs	Disaster Risk Reduction (WASH, Livelihood, Preparedness & Mitigation, Convergence Support)