This document outlines a rural development project called SELF-AWARENESS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SARD) with the goals of alleviating poverty, increasing environmental awareness, promoting organic agriculture, and developing women's and children's health. The key approach is developing self-awareness among rural people through training programs. These programs will teach human values, physical and mental health, and ecological awareness. Participants will form cooperative communities to engage in climate-smart agriculture and handicraft production. The project will use marketing, information technology, and awards to promote and integrate the communities.

1. RURAL DEVELOPMENT
A concept note about

2. PRESENTED BY
PRIME-i FOUNDATION

4. PROJECT TITLE
SELF-AWARENESS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SARD

5. GOALS
• To alleviate poverty by developing self-awareness and human resource.
• To increase awareness about environment and climate change.
• To develop climate smart agriculture and to grow more organic crops .
• To develop production based cooperative community.
• To develop woman and child health awareness.
• To develop ethical awareness and social commitment.

6. INTRODUCTION
Awareness is the key.
Unawareness is the root of all problems.
Mass-awareness is futile-
Until self-awareness is developed within individual person.

7. INTRODUCTION
As a developing nation we are facing lots of problems and
challenges. Among all the challenges, according to their
impact and urgency we can mark them as red mark
challenges.
These are:
• Poverty
• Climate Change
• Woman & child health, malnutrition etc.

8. INTRODUCTION
Self-awareness development is the best way to develop
human resource.
A self-aware person is always fit for overcoming any kind
of problem and challenge.
By developing self-awareness among the rural people it
will be a revolutionary step to develop our country.

9. Major Steps of SARD
• Basic Training of Self-awareness Development for the Rural People.
• Self-awareness Development Training for the Guides and Supervisors.
• Production based Activities among the Co-operative Community.
• Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) for Community People.
• Using of ICT as a Development Tool.
• Skill Development Training for the Community People.

10. Self-awareness Development Training Program
Self-awareness Development Training Program will be implemented
in two stages:
• Self-awareness Development Training for Community People.
• Self-awareness Development Training for the Guides and Supervisors.

11. Self-awareness Development Training Program
Basic points of the Program
1. Awareness Development of Human Values:
• Inner Potentialities
• Self-respect
• Dignity of labor
• Awareness about human rights
• Self-evaluation for self-awareness development

12. Self-awareness Development Training Program
Basic points of the Program
2. Physical Awareness Development:
• Basic knowledge about one’s own body
• Basic knowledge about common physical problems
• How to maintain a good health
• Nutrition
• Hygienic lifestyle

13. Self-awareness Development Training Program
Basic points of the Program
3. Mental Awareness Development:
• Ethical awareness development
• Attitude and behavioral development
• Communication skill development
• Development of relationship for social co-operation

14. Self-awareness Development Training Program
Basic points of the Program
4. Ecological Awareness Development:
• How your existence is deeply related with your environment.
• How to take care properly your own environment.
• Strengthening ecological balance and as well as community
development.
• How to adapt and contribute to mitigate the climate issues
you are already effected.

15. Co-operative Community
• Co-operative community will work in small
groups. (30 members = 1 Group)
• Every group will get special training and
guideline on small projects like Organic Farming
and Handicrafts.
• If a community consists of 20 groups that means
30x20 = 600 skilled human resource; it can be
run like a big productive industry.

16. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) defines climate-smart
agriculture as consisting of three main pillars:
1. Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and
incomes (food security)
2. Adapting and building resilience to climate change
(adaptation)
3. Reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions
(mitigation) where possible.

17. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
• Co-operative members will get proper training
on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and will
know about essential climate related issues.
• They will also get practical guideline and
support to run commercial projects of Organic
and Herbal farming.

18. • Selective marketing executives will work for creating
national and international market for the produced
items of co-operative community.
• Produced items can be supplied to Shopping Malls
and as well as national and international trade fairs.
Co-operative Marketing Policy

19. Co-operative Marketing Policy
• An Organic Chain Store can be built in urban area,
where all kinds of organic and herbal food products
and handicrafts items will be sold.
• Quality products, proper marketing strategy and
running such Organic Chain Store are enough for
developing of all the community people, co-
operative community and as well as sustaining the
SARD project.

20. Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
• ICT will work as an integrator and development tool.
• An interactive website will contain all the training
materials and contents for the guides and
supervisors. They will provide necessary updated
information to the community people.
• Guides and supervisors will update regularly all
the activities and reports of SARD project.

21. Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
• Support and guideline from agronomist,
environmentalists and special experts will be
available through online.
• Co-operative community of SARD will be
connected with global forum of CSA.
• Online connectivity will also help promoting the
products of co-operative community.

22. Achievement Awards
• Motivational awards will be given to all the
sectors and target groups for their better
performances and achievements.
• Awards will also be given to the guide,
supervisor and individual co-operative member
for their excellence and achievement.

23. THANK YOU