Capacity Building is an essential component to enable various stakeholders to research, comprehend, plan and execute a study or project. Plastic being a comparatively newer and lesser explored topic in the development sector demands dire need of handholding at various stages.
Parisar is involved in direct and indirect capacity building of street vendors in 5 cities of India namely Kolkata, Nagpur, Delhi, Udaipur and Jamshedpur. This mainly includes training workshops, handholding and support in understanding the concept of ‘Single Use Plastic’, its composition, hazardous effect of plastic, especially single use plastic on health and environment. It further empowers the street vendors about information on the single use plastic ban imposed across India since July 1st, 2022.
A comprehensive 4-day national meeting was organized by National Hawker’s Federation (NHF) from 1st August – 4th August at Goa. Various NHF state leaders and representatives attended the event. Parisar conducted sessions on the first day, 1st August, 2023 on Single Use Plastic, Urban Mobility and Social Media.
Following are key insights from the meeting:
An interactive and activity-based capacity building workshop for street vendors on single use plastic was conducted on 3rd and 4th February, 2023 at Kolkata, West Bengal. Various street vendors and union leaders alongwith NHF General Secretary Shaktiman Ghosh and 15 other members attended this workshop.
