National Centre for Human Settlements & Environment (NCHSE), a not for profit action oriented organization established in 1984, promotes sustainable development of human settlements and their environment with a focus on weaker sections of the society. It promotes environmentally compatible and locally acceptable development models that comprise natural resources management, especially conservation of soil, water and biodiversity of the environmentally stressed areas through advocacy, capacity building, transfer of knowledge and hand holding support to bring about desired changes in the community.
Thematic Areas
Integrated watershed development, Natural Resource Management including conservation of biodiversity, Climate smart agriculture Empowerment of rural women through financial literacy programme GIS application in project development and monitoring Consumer Protection through public awareness and counselling Promotion of proper WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) practices
Achievements
Completed over 325 projects More than 1.5 Lakh Ha area brought under watershed development programme Undertaken restoration of more than 50,000 Ha degraded ecosystems Reached out to > 13.6 Lakh households in Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan during the last decade. > 26 Lakh women SHG members were trained to manage their finances and improve their livelihood.
Aligning NCHSE Activities with SDGs
SDG 2: Promoting sustainable /Climate resilient agriculture to achieve food security and improved nutrition SDG 5: Empowerment of women through their capacity building for income generation as well as to facilitate gender equality SDG 6: Promoting water conservation and its sustainable use to ensure availability and sustainable management of water SDG 13: Promoting adaptive actions to combat climate change and its impacts SDG 15: Active on restoration on degraded ecosystems to promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss
NCHSE’s Activities
Integrated Watershed Development:
NCHSE has been implementing holistically designed watershed development and management projects at Mili and Micro watershed levels, which have transformed water regimes of whole villages which chronically suffered due to acute water shortage. These initiatives have facilitated increased surface water availability and improving ground water levels leading to increased irrigation to the fields and enhanced crop production. Restoration of degraded common lands/ terrestrial ecosystems have caused higher fuel and fodder availability and promoted animal husbandry in the area. Read More…
Climate Smart Sustainable Agricultural Practices
This initiative aims to make the agriculture sustainable through adoption of technologies and practices that are environment friendly and appropriate to the changing climatic conditions. The initiatives help the farmers sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes; adapting and building resilience to climate change; and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.
Initiatives towards Socio-economic Transformation of Rural Women
NCHSE is continuously promoting Socio-economic transformation of rural women through facilitation of formation of SHGs and their capacity building. This is a common feature of its all implementation projects related to watershed development, Livelihood Promotion, Agricultural Sustainability, specially focused projects for women empowerment, etc. Besides this, a state wide financially literacy for women SHGs are being implemented in all the districts of Madhya Pradesh.
Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
	NCHSE has actively carried out a number of (near about 150) monitoring and evaluation studies of developmental projects related to poverty alleviation, housing, rural roads, water supply, sanitation, electrification, urban basic services, public distribution system, watershed development, health services, etc. Read More…
Implementation
	Implements programme/projects related to Watershed development in partnership with Government, public and private sector agencies; and include empowerment of community organizations, self-help group formation, identification of income generating activities, skill development, linking of SHGs to credit, creation of revolving fund  etc. Read More…
Training
	The training wing of NCHSE has been active for the past 30 years and has successfully completed a sizable number of workshops and training programmes for NGO representatives, master trainers, middle level government programme functionaries, panchayat level functionaries, members of civil society, local people, women SHG members, user group members, etc. Read More…
GIS IT & ICT Centre
	NCHSE boasts of a fully-fledged GIS centre at its Head Office in Bhopal and undertakes the work of fulfilling the GIS needs of the State. This Centre today is one of the most reputed GIS centre in India. Training on GIS Application and Operations : Click here The Forty five days training programme on GIS Application & Operations conducted by NCHSE was concluded on 13th April 2016. Read More…
Consumer Complaint Redressal Centre
	CCRC (Consumer Complaint Redressal Centre) was established in 2001. Initially it has supported by the Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs, Govt. of India. Now NCHSE through its own initiative takes care of consumer grievances at large. This centre has also been recognized by TRAI as Consumer Advocacy Group (CAG) throughout Madhya Pradesh. & Chhatisgarh region. Read More…