F.a: Adivasi Rights Assertion The project envisages empowering the adivasis restore their tribal pride and dignity of being the custodians of the flora and fauna of the forest wealth and perpetrators of the rich culture, heritage and traditions of the tribes through viable measures of 
empowerment that they could emerge economically independent and socially dignified. To be able to achieve the aforesaid objective, it is proposed to embark on organized and planned activities that would lead to ensure assertion of forests rights, promotion
 of sustainable livelihood of the adivasis, natural resource management through traditional methods to combat climate change and also to take appropriate measures to ensure ecological balance and biodiversity. In achieving the aforesaid objectives, it is p
roposed to empower adivasis to take charge of their own development through measures of assertion of their individual and community rights over their legitimate abode of the forest where they have been living for generations. During the cause of project, c
ommunity rights recognition process and village governance bodies will be strengthened, and Forest Rights Act violations survey will be completed and its implementation will be advocated. Additionally, in the project minor forest produce value addition wil
l be strengthened and organic farming will be promoted by training, extension work and exchange visits. Growing of herbs and their medicinal uses are promoted through training. Additionally, the project strengthens NAA network level cooperation in the sout
hern states of India (especially Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala).