This is the society of Indigenocracy. This lifestyle is based on justice, secularism and equal opportunities.  In Indigenocracy there is self-rule, selfhood, self-reliance of the family and dignity of the individual.

The fundamental tenets of Indigenocracy are as follows:

     

  • relationship of human beings with nature;

     

  • relationship of human beings with other human beings;

     

  • relationship between women and men;

     

  • relationship between humans and other animals;

     

  • relationship between individual human beings with the community



Mission

            JUDAV strives for self-reliant and self-respectful society based on equality, free from gender-discrimination, labour-oriented universe and self-governance by strengthening the communitarian lifestyle of the indigenous and downtrodden people.  Efforts are on to empower Gram Sabhas and traditional governance systems in the villages of Adivasis, Dalits, Minorities and the poor as a whole.  It ensures equal representation and participation of women and men in community level decision-making and development processes.



Goal

            JUDAV endeavors to strengthen capacities of community to establish self-rule and continue the creative struggle for Gram Swaraj (Village Republic). Abua Aturey Abua Raj is the goal.

            Continuous efforts are taken for revival of SWASHASAN, SWAVALAMBAN and SWABHIMAN (self-rule, self-reliance and selfhood).  It ensures to promote and strengthen people and local self-governance at village and Panchayat Raj level to achieve self-governance. We have advocated for community rights over natural resources Jal, Jungle and Jamin (Water, forest and land).

            We believe in community rights over natural resources. Our motto is Swashasan (self-rule), Swavalamban (self-reliance) and Swabhiman (selfhood). We are waging a struggle for a new Jharkhand based on democratic pluralism, communitarian lifestyle, equality, justice and peace towards a new world!

JUDAV believes that “another world is possible.”



Aims

            In order to realize its Vision, Mission Goal (VMG) and Objectives, JUDAV intensifies Indigenocracy and sustainable livelihood through   Gram Sabhas, Peoples’ Organizations and mass awareness for strengthening communitarian democracy, socio-political and economic equality and gender justice.

Objectives

            JUDAV together with our cabal of social activists and volunteers is firmly and deeply committed to intensify the struggle for the establishment of Indigenocracy that will free humanity and nature from the avarice of the so called science and technology to conquer nature at any cost is leading to destruction rather than development towards justice, secularism, equal opportunities, self-rule, self-reliance of the family, dignity of the individual and communitarian living.

JUDAV’s interventions to achieve these objectives will be carried out in the following manner:

     

  • Capacitating Gram Sabhas (village assemblies) and Peoples’ Organizations for Self-Rule and Gender Justice.

     

  • Organizing Unorganized Workers for upholding their “right to work” and rejuvenating their Livelihood.

     

  • Upholding child rights and ensuring common schooling for all.

     

  • Propagating, preserving and enriching “Adivasiyat” (culture and habitat of indigenous people) and to advance secular and democratic ethos

     

  • Building Alliance in Eastern India for community rights over natural resources as well as for common issues i.e. resisting anti-development forces,

     

  • To advocate and lobby for people- oriented policy that will uphold their human rights for self-rule, gender equality and sustainable development.



Strategies

            JUDAV uses human rights and gender based approach in analyzing and understanding the fundamental problems of social inequality, self-rule, gender violence and maldevelopment in society. It is the main plank of our advocacy work. This is being carried through mass capacitation, mass action and resource mobilization.

            These processes are further elaborated below:

     

  • To facilitate capacitation and dialogue in order to analyze and understand the prevailing issues that cause misery and plunge people into poverty. This represents the process of reflection- action- reflection towards conscientisizing the people by engaging them in a dialogical process to enable them to generate human rights knowledge out of their experiences. JUDAV believes that this process will enable the exploited people to empower themselves and to fight for and defend their inherent rights.

     

  • To arouse, organize and mobilize the people to intensify their struggle for their rights: self-rule, labour power, sustainable development, gender equality, culture preservation and enrichment and community rights over natural resources.

     

  • To develop and enlarge base of social cadres and activists
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last updated (May 2008)









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