IAG Odisha

14/07/2022

14/07/2022

State consultation on DRR and Food and Nutrition Security is in progress at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

09/07/2022

Recently IAG odisha Participated at the State level consultation workshop on prepration of Block & GP level Disaster Management Plans held recently at SIRD Bhubaneswar.

During the inaugural session, Sri Pradeep Jena, IAS, DC-cum-ACS & MD OSDMA and Sri A K Meena, IAS, Principal Secretary, PR & DW Deptt opined about the planning process and requirements of linking local development plans and convergence aspects.

Dr. Gyana Ranjan Das, IAS Executive Director Odisha State Disaster Management Authority presided the meeting also ilucidately described about the plans with the participants.

Sri S N Das, Spl Secy, Sri Maheswar Panigrahi, Addl Secretary, UN Agencies, ADMs, Chief Development Officer, field Officials, PRI members,OSDMA/SRC Officials and other stakeholders participated in the said workshop.

06/07/2022

Many areas which are not traditionally flood-prone across the country are inundated now. The coping capacity of the people in such areas is low and the humanitarian agencies wishing to work for the affected community are finding it tough to reach out to those in remote pockets. Taking this grim situation into account, Sphere India conducted a much-needed and timely session on ‘Flood Situation in India-Status, Needs, Response and Pathway’ last week. At the session, expert panelists from the government, IAG, and CSOs reviewed the status of the flood situation across India and particularly in Assam. Following are some of the key recommendations from the discussions, during the webinar:

28/06/2022

What was behind the majority of the 308 recorded disasters in 2019? Climate change. https://bit.ly/36CZosw

25/06/2022

24/06/2022

08/05/2022

On a hot, humid afternoon on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar in eastern India, construction worker Sabitri Mahanand frets about increasingly "dangerous" summers. Carrying over a dozen bricks on her head, she fears getting sunstroke while at work, but home offers no respite...

05/05/2022

Recently our Chairperson Sri. Akshaya Kumar Biswal and State IAG Coordinator- Mr.Manoranjan Behera met Dr.Gyana Das,IAS - Executive Director of Odisha State Disaster Management Authority at State Secretariat.

During the meeting they discussed about GO-NGO coordination at state and district level, possible collaboration of SDMA in various DRR and Resilience Building activities.

During the occasion they also presented newly published Disaster Resilient WASH training manual prepared by IAG Odisha, OSDMA and Oxfam India under the aegis of UNICEF India

It's worth mentioning that- a similar training manual on Risk Informed Development was also published by IAG Odisha as a part of SIDM strengthening initiative.

We are thankful to Sri.Pradeep Jena,IAS- Development Commissioner, MD OSDMA and SRC Govt. of Odisha and Dr. Gyana Das, ED-OSDMA for their continued support in GO- NGO Coordination and resilience building initiatives in Odisha.

Akshaya Kumar Biswal Gyana Das Monika Nielsen Soumen Ray Pankaj Anand Manoranjan Behera Bharati Chakra

05/04/2022

23/01/2022

Glimpses of UN World Food Programme: Stakeholder Consultation in Odisha for WFP’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-27 virtual meet. The meeting was attended by many eminent personalities from UN Agencies, CSOs, Academic and research institution and Senior Government officials including Mr. Suresh Chandra Mahapatra, IAS -Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha, Mr. Pradeep Jena- Development Commissioner cm SRC & MD-OSDMA, Dr M Muthu Kumar, IAS, Director-Agriculture, Mr. Aravind, Agrawal, IAS, Director,ICDS Mission Shakti, Shri Bishnupada Sethi, IAS- Principal Secretary- School and Mass Education Department Shri Ashok K. K. Meena, IAS Principal Secretary- Panchayati Raj Department, Sujata R Karthikeyan, IAS Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Department of Mission Shakti, Ms. Anu Garg- Principal Secretary Water Resources at Government of Odisha, Ms. Mansi Nimbhal, IAS-CEO Odisha Livelihood Mission and other senior Officials.

WFP India’s current Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2019-2023, which is aligned to the national priorities, is focused on providing technical support and capacity strengthening to the Government towards achieving their targets under SDG 2 (Zero Hunger).

UNWFP is an integral part of IAG Odisha, it has been working very actively to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Government’s three food-based safety-net programme (ICDS, TPDS and MDM) through supply chain optimization, support to smallholders, food fortification and the application of appropriate technology.

Akshaya Kumar Biswal Himanshu Bal Monika Nielsen Ambika Prasad Nanda Manoranjan Behera

03/12/2021