Institutional Setup

The Project is being implemented under the Odisha Forestry Sector Development Society(OFSDS), the registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, having registration number 2323/49 of 2006-07. The Principal CCF(Projects) and Project Director, OFSDP who is also the ex-officio Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OFSDS, is the Project Director of the AJY Livelihood Project, OFSDS-OMBADC. The Governing Body of OFSDS will be the highest decision-making body of AJY Livelihood Project, Funded by OMBADC. The State Project Management Unit (SPMU) of AJY-OMBADC will implement proposed project activities following project cycle, implementation schedule, and annual action plan and envisaged processes. In Division level, the project will be implemented through the same field institutional frame of Division, Range and VSS as the AJY project is being implemented. Resource organizations would be engaged from time to time by the SPMU of AJY-OMBADC to support the Divisions, Product Clusters and the Ranges. The Project have mandate to engage Animators at the VSS level to support the VSS in implementing the project at the community level.

The OFSDS- OMBADC Cell created at the SPMU, OFSDS will be responsible to manage, coordinate, implement and monitor the project activities. The cell will be administered by the Deputy Project Director, (CME&S) as the nodal officer, and will be assisted by Experts, from the PMC with adequate support personnel.