Tag Archive for: Capacity Building

Chennai Resilience Centre signs an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company
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Chennai Resilience Centre – 2024-2025 Year End Report

The Chennai Resilience Centre (CRC) has made significant advancements in 2024-2025 across its core programmes.

The Chennai Urban Farming Initiative (CUFI) expanded its urban gardens to 168 locations, including 10 new schools/Anganwadis, demonstrating substantial urban cooling (2-3°C cooler on average, up to 7°C maximum difference). This initiative also provided green livelihood skills to 245 women, with 16 women collectively earning approximately INR 60,000.

The Urban Ocean Programme’s “We Segregate” project in Kasturba Nagar notably improved waste segregation behaviour, reducing “not segregating” buildings from 48% to 31% and increasing “segregating well” from 37% to 54%. This diverted 5920 kg of organic waste and 364 kg of food packaging plastic from landfills, and Chennai successfully hosted the first in-person Urban Ocean Summit in June 2024.

The Water as Leverage (WaL) Water Balance Pilot Project at Little Flower Convent, operational since August 2023, successfully treats 27,000 litres of grey and black water daily, eliminating sewage back-flow and improving water quality well above discharge standards. CRC also conducted capacity-building for 29 Greater Chennai Corporation Storm Water Drain Engineers and signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company to further these flagship programmes.

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CRC 2023-2024 Year End Report
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Chennai Resilience Centre – 2023-2024 Year End Report

In 2023-2024, the Chennai Urban Farming Initiative (CUFI) established 169 new farms across Chennai and trained 951 people in urban gardening, including 245 women from Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to become professional gardeners (Madras Malis).

These efforts significantly improved access to nutritious food and medicinal plants for vulnerable communities, created livelihood opportunities for women, and contributed to urban cooling, with rooms below gardens being 2-3°C cooler on average, up to 7°C.

The initiative also fostered sustainable behaviours like composting, producing 780 kg of compost, and is now focusing on building self-reliant gardens, expanding community engagement, and scaling the Madras Mali program into a social enterprise.

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Skills Training for Integrated Child Development Service Centres (ICDS) Teachers and CoordinatorsChennai Resilience Centre
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Skills Training Report for Integrated Child Development Service Centres (ICDS)

In collaboration with Sempulam Sustainable Solutions, Chennai Resilience Centre (CRC) distributed kitchen garden kits to homeless shelters and Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) centres within the jurisdiction of Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), as a part of the Chennai Urban Farming Initiative (CUFI). A skill-based training session was organised for 66 Anganwadi workers and 15 ICDS block coordinators at the Anbagam shelter for mentally challenged on 9th March 2022 and the Madras Seva Sadan on 10th March 2022 and 11th March 2022, and between 2 pm and 5 pm.

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Skills Training for Homeless Shelter Coordinators at Sempulam Farms, Sukkankollai, Kanchipuram DistrictChennai Resilience Centre
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Skills Training Report for Homeless Shelter Coordinators (2021)

A skills training cum exposure visit was organised by CRC for shelter coordinators from the homeless shelters administered by GCC and Assistant Coordinators of the SUH initiative on Aug 30th, 2021 and Sept 5th, 2021. Participants were taken to an organic farm, owned and maintained by Sempulam Sustainable Solutions, at Sukkankollai, Kancheepuram district.

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