Introduction
45 years of our development partnership with marginalized communities passed retaining our basic focus of “Partners in progress” through ‘Capacity Building and Empowering Communities’. Every single action that PIPAR initiated in a small Adivasi pocket of Sorisiapada latter became a people’s movement in the district and some of the issues also spread to the entire state. This people’s movement institutionally shaped as ‘People’s Institute for Participatory Action Research’ (PIPAR) in the year 1981. It started with the believe that any developmental process would be effective and successful to the extent it could raise people’s capacity for self-reliance. Hence its activities are driven with the philosophy that people are the final arbiters of their own development.
Starting from involving communities for protection of forest, protecting the right & dignity of women, community mobilization to restore the land of Sahukars and promote cultivation of crops and vegetables, community engagement in protection of land, forest, water, building capacity of men & women and formation of peoples’ organization, strengthening grass-root governance system. Every single action is the primary focus of the development actors at the moment. Our vision of skilled & enabled community, social justice & economic upliftment through devolution of power to panchayatiraj institutions, climate protection, gender equality etc during early eighties are the present focus nationwide. We feel proud to start our approach of enabling communities when the entire development approach was service delivery.
Vision
An alternative people-centered society based on the human values of Justice, Peace, Solidarity, Equality, Participation and Self-reliance
Mission
- Working for protection and promotion of women’s rights & dignity
- Promoting socio-economic status & self-reliance of tribals farmers and weaker sections with collective action & gender participation
- Ensuring food security through sustainable utilization of local natural resources like land, water, forest and skill etc
- Facilitating effective participation of people in local Self Governance system and grass root democracy through capacity building.
Objectives
- Educate, assist and establish organization of poor, youth and women to enable them realize their creative faculty for their socio-economic development.
- Raise people’s capacity through organizational activities, common awareness & self-reliance and exposing them to the realities of their social perpetuation.
- Protect and promote human rights especially women’s right.
- Initiate various kinds of people’s activities for protection of forest & environment and take up related activities with the people as organized groups.
- Take up various economic activities by mobilizing the local available resources to increase the income of the individuals and of the community production.
- Secure self-reliance and sustainability in achieving secures livelihood through true participation in and proper implementation of local self-governance system.
Legal Status
- PIPAR is registered under Societies Registration Act XXI of The Regn. Number is 179 Dkl of 1981-82
- PIPAR is registered under FCR Act & its Regn Number if 104890002 dtd 28 January 1985.
- PIPAR is registered under IT Exemption Act 12 A & 80 G
- By nature PIPAR is a non-profit making and non-political Developmental voluntary organization.
Present Governing Body Members
| Sl No. | Name of the Member | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mr. Sankarsan Satapathy | Chairman |
| 02 | Mr. Basudev Rout | Vice-Chairman |
| 03 | Mr. Kalandi Charan Swain | Treasurer |
| 04 | Mr. Sankarsan Hota | Ex-Officio Member Secretary |
| 05 | Mr. Jayant Kumar Hota | Member |
| 06 | Mrs. Soudamini Gochhayat | Member |
| 07 | Mrs. Mamatamayee Panda | Member |