The project creator & applicant NIRMAN is a premier civil society organization in Odisha/India whose major focus is on enhancing the food-, nutrition-, and livelihood security of poor farmers, tribals & other forest dwelling communities, and small fishers. Its primary interventions are focused on land and forest governance, sustainable agriculture, bio-diversity conservation, management of natural resources, small fishery, and women empowerment and skill building. Empowerment of rural, tribal and fisher communities and marginalized groups through collective action and nurturing local self-governing institutions are at the core of ethics.

We have succeeded in consolidating community forest conservation initiatives in the Dasapalla Block of Nayagarh district (Odisha) with protection of some endangered plant species also. This Block is a well-forested tribal belt.