Members of AIPP

Adivasi Mahila Maha Sangh (AMMS)

Adivasi Mahila Maha Sangh (AMMS) is a grassroot level women’s led people’s Organization founded in 2003. There are 55 women members organization at the village level who are the primary members of the organization. Through the collaboration with these 55 AMMS have been formed. Basically, it was a local /district level organization but gradually expanding to the divisional level which comprises of 5 districts. The major ethnics groups involved in the organization are Oraon, Birhor, Gond, Nagesia, Pahari Korwa, Dihari Korwa and Assur. The major goal of the organization is Ensuring Justice, Peace and Positive development among the tribal communities.

Major objectives of the organizations are:

• Capacity building of the tribal women.
• Ensure the social justice and livelihood at the grassroot level.
• Conducting lobby and advocacy with the local administrations and government.
• Conducting workshop /training on tribal rights.
• To ascertain self-governance.
• Implementation of FRA & PESA at ground level.
• Working towards minimization of violence against women.
• Working for economic development of tribal women.
• Implementation and Access of all welfare government schemes at ground level.

Adivasi Navjeewan Gathan Navjyoti Agua (ANGNA)

ANGNA (Adivasi Navjeewan Gathan Navjyoti Agua) which translates verbally to mean “the tribal torch of Leadership for Building of New Life”, has been the leader in bringing hope to the Tribals of the area. ANGNA in the SADRI the local language means the “courtyard” where everybody has a place to feel at home, feels accepted and respected. This NGO started out in its inception stage in 1994 by Remish Ekka and was officially registered as a society in 1998 under the Societies Registration Act 1860, XXI. This organization, with local participation and energetic leadership of Remish Ekka took it upon himself to do something for and with his Tribal people. As a tribal himself (Kisan) from the area, he decided to initiate an array of community development activities and cooperative type projects for several years in the villages throughout the area. As wider experience was gathered, and village participation grew and so did the number of people and projects.

Historically the first step that was initiated was to establish the village Committee (VC) groups. These became training nucleuses that in fact constituted the building blocks for the various development challenges and projects chosen by the villagers and empowered the people in making them realize that they themselves should be the first to take their own destiny in hand Through group dynamics and leadership training they determined priorities and executed a number of chosen village level projects.

Indigenous Identity:
Organization has been formed with the core experience of plights of tribals. All the founding members of the organization themselves come from most poor farming families. Their deep wounds of suffering, exploitation and suppression from the industrialists and the Government determined to change the existing situation. As the day today living situation of tribals every year was becoming worse it was felt that if all suffering people (tribals) come together and realize this situation it is they who can bring change. It is an organization of tribal farmers. It does not mean that organization excludes other communities. It is committed for all poor people. It likes to keep up the core values of indigenous people.

Vision:
To build a transformed, sustainable self-dependent, dignified society with social justice rooted in human value.

Mission:
Empowerment of the tribals and weaker section communities, including women and vulnerable groups with their capacities to claim their entitlements, social and economic justice. Community mobilization for participatory, equitable sustainable development. Institutionalization of the alternative peoples mechanism and community support structures for the better governance at the grass root level.

Adivasi Women’s Network

AWN is founded in 2009 by the women who faced injustice themselves and struggled to survive with a commitment to helping other women to survive with dignity. As the Adivasis from Central India are facing various forms of violence such as domestic violence, human trafficking, killing in the name of witch hunt, state violence, land dispossession and displacement and so on. So AWN started to strengthen from village level communities to connect with other adivasi women to build community based strong women organizations and capacitate them through their skills development to manage their community related issues. In this process AWN through various project strengthened its network within five districts with five major communities i.e. Munda, Oraon, Ho, Kharia and Santhal. Now the network is working at State and Inter- State Level to strengthen the capacity of adivasi women leaders to do advocacy and lobby for their rights as well as for their social, cultural, political and economic empowerment.

Vision Mission and Goals of the organization:
Adivasi Women’s Network (AWN) is committed to address, sensitize and empower Adivasi Women on gender-based injustices, human rights of adivasis and on sustainable developments for the larger advocacy and lobby from local to global level. The goal of AWN is to empower Adivasi Women socially, culturally, politically and economically.