ST Saraighat Trust
Programme portfolio

Five connected programme areas, each reinforcing the others.

Each programme area supports the others: delivery informs evidence, evidence improves programme design, and partnerships extend reach and influence across the region.

Programme 01 Climate-Resilient Livelihoods
Delivery Replication Livelihoods
An active women-led poultry value-chain programme in the Kaziranga belt, with two cohorts onboarded in 2026 in partnership with the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve authorities.
  • 20 farmers from the Tai-Ahom community in Chepenakubuwa village (Kohora)
  • 40 women from Adivasi, forest-fringe communities in Borbheta village
  • Revolving model: chick-cost repaid as donation to onboard new cohorts
Programme 02 Adaptation Evidence and Learning
Evidence Baseline Applied learning
Build a practical evidence base on observed climate change, coping strategies, local constraints, and institutional implementation barriers.
  • Produce briefs, toolkits, and decision-support outputs
  • Study both community and implementer perspectives
Programme 03 Climate and Health Resilience
Heat stress Health Evidence
Reduce heat-related health and productivity harms through tested protective behaviours, local protocols, early warning use, and better links to care.
  • Identify feasible interventions for outdoor workers
  • Build an evidence-backed response model
Programme 04 Partnerships, Systems, and Scaling
Partnerships Policy Scaling
Build relationships with delivery partners, researchers, and institutions to extend reach, attract aligned funding, and move evidence into use.
  • Strengthen pathways to policy influence
  • Participate in regional and international learning networks
Programme 05 Soil Health and Organic Agriculture
Soil health Certification Government partnership
Use scientific organic agriculture as a climate-adaptive pathway that improves soil health and opens market access for farming communities.
  • Train 100 farmers through a Government of India institutional partnership
  • Advance first-phase certification across 100 acres in Moupara village
Terraced agriculture in a river valley landscape
Adaptive agriculture is both ecological and economic.
Active in the field

A women-led poultry programme in the Kaziranga belt.

The Trust’s first livelihood intervention focuses on the poultry value chain, designed to be women-led, locally embedded, and self-propagating through a built-in revolving model that funds onboarding of subsequent cohorts.

Cohort 01 · February 2026 Chepenakubuwa, Kohora

20 farmers from the Tai-Ahom community received chicks and feed, followed by three structured trainings on farm setup, maintenance, and disease management.

Cohort 02 · 25 April 2026 Borbheta, forest-fringe

40 women from Adivasi communities begin with foundational training, followed by shed construction, advanced rearing and disease management modules, and input support.

Partnership Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve

The Trust leads on technical training, input support, and market linkages. Park authorities facilitate local coordination and feed support; farmers invest in basic infrastructure.

Seed capital ₹1 lakh founding commitment

Initial cash and in-kind contributions from friends and family demonstrated early viability and community trust. A revolving repayment model funds successive cohorts from within the same communities.

Local leadership

Local leadership is embedded by design: Plazma Gogoi, a lead farmer from the original cohort, has been appointed as Programme Coordinator for Kaziranga.

Village clusters

Three intervention clusters in the Kaziranga belt.

Clusters were selected based on existing engagement, community readiness, and alignment with the women-led poultry model.

Cluster I Panbaree

Mixed tribal population with Mising, Bodo, and Adivasi communities.

Cluster II Borbheta

Adivasi and forest-fringe communities; site of the second 40-woman poultry cohort.

Cluster III Chepenakubuwa

OBC and Tai-Ahom communities; site of the founding 20-farmer cohort.

What we are seeing

The binding constraints are structural, not technical.

Because the cohort is focused on a single economic activity, chicken rearing, the constraints are unusually clear. Farmers can rear; what is missing is the surrounding infrastructure, capital, and market access.

  1. 01 Aggregation and collective functioning
  2. 02 Early-stage seed capital
  3. 03 Local processing and cold storage
  4. 04 Reliable market linkages
  5. 05 Continuous economic benefit
How the portfolio works

Delivery generates evidence. Evidence strengthens delivery. Partnerships expand what is possible.

This system logic is central to the Trust’s positioning: it is not a set of disconnected projects, but a portfolio that compounds learning and reach across systems, communities, and households.

Systems level Better implementation fit

Institutions adapt programme design to real constraints rather than relying on assumptions.

Community level Stronger adaptive capacity

Preparedness, local protocols, and practical evidence reduce vulnerability and improve response quality.

Household level Greater income stability

Households adopt practices that make livelihoods resilient across seasons and shocks.