SHILLONG: International Fund for Agricultural Development, New Delhi, has granted a soft loan of $30 million for development under the North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project Phase IV to be extended to the new northeastern districts, Ram Muivah, secretary of the North Eastern Council (NEC), said on Thursday.
Muivah was speaking at the two-day North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORMP) organised by the Eastern Himalaya Trans-Regional workshop on ‘Learning and sharing from best practices of community-led sustainable livelihood development in North East India’ at State Convention Centre.
He hoped that the discussion to improve the livelihood of the rural populace and women in the Himalayan regions and the North East, would be fruitful.
Governor Ganga Prasad, who was present at the programme, said development in the North East, which is blessed with several species of medicinal herbs, should take place without harming the natural environment.
Prasad released NERCORMP publications presentation of the World Herbal Encyclopaedia by Acharya Sri Balkrishna, CEO of Patanjali Ayurved.
On the same day, there was signing of four MoUs between NERCORMP and IIT Mumbai, GIZ Meghalaya, Manipur University and India Foundation for Humanistic Development.
The workshop is organised with an objective to facilitate meeting of development practitioners, participants and financiers working in the North East as well as adjoining countries.
Besides, the workshop aims to facilitate stakeholders for learning and sharing of experience, especially on innovative practices for sustainable development.
There will be technical sessions on the following broad themes of spectrum of development models, community institutions, participatory planning and convergence, livelihoods, rural investment and marketing, scaling up, development communication and solution exchange.
NERCORMP is a livelihood development project of NEC working in the northeastern region since 1999 with support from International Fund for Agricultural Development.
It has successfully completed two phases of the project with the ongoing third and fourth phases under consideration of the Centre.
