A short note on playbooks, by Abhishek, giving an overview of of the project.
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To help your village transition towards ecological and economical sustainability, playbooks is a project that aims to bring together proven best practices from different themes.
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Themes are wide verticals like chapters in a book like community building, water, food fuel fodder systems, local production, education, healthcare, livelihood, culture and pride, market connects, …and so on.
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The project is in open digital public commons and aims to crowdsource documentation and directories around existing models and know-how ready for scale in given themes.
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Each playbook is a page in an online chapter that answers a specific question for a specific user. Such questions of common themes make chapters described above - how to recharge a dry borewell, how to get started with honeybees, mushrooms, seed bank, natural farming, setting up a company, fssai licenses, branding and packaging, agroforestry, leaving wild pastures and forests for fodder food and fuel, getting the village together, etc. Each playbook has links to documentation from say 20+ practitioners, an online forum of experts who could answer questions, a directory of vendors who sell inputs, equipment, training.
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To operationalize the crowdsourcing, we have identified anchor and knowledge partner orgs to hold the listening circles/convenings between knowledgeable old time organizations who have a great to get started view on gaps in the ecosystem for their respective practices and knowledge about great models out there that can be said to be ready for mainstream inclusion via govt policy, industry or society as a day to day shift.
Active themes/chapters:
Getting the village together,
Water,
Food,
Fuel,
Fodder,
Energy,
Transport
Healthcare
Education
Livelihood
Local production
Culture and pride
Income
Market
Construction
Waste
Fisheries
Sub chapters(evolving list…):
Getting the village together
Theater
Success story, directory, documentation
Success story 2
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Games
Films
Radio
Panchayat
Religious institutions
Schools
Institutions of local influence
Competitions
Tourism
Water
Getting sense of carrying capacity of water for drinking, irrigation and farm animal needs
Community crop water budgeting
Wassan’s best practices
Paani foundation’s model
Jaltol
Bore well recharge techniques
Earthworks guides
Pond desilting community and finance
Reusing water guides
Grey and black water treatment
Traditional wisdom of managing water
Land acquisition at scale for large scale watershed management
Planting right species next to water bodies
Bore well budgeting at community scale
Financing maintenance of village water works
Aligning with government schemes
How to approach the right stakeholders in govt for active schemes?
Directories of orgs that help
Village’s dependence on plastic plumbing solutions
Food
Getting a sense of the village’s carrying capacity vs current state, accumulative cost of importing food
Planning water budgeting for crops
Kitchen gardens
Natural farming transition guides
Agroforestry and social forestry
Seed banks
Bio fertilizers, pest and disease management techniques
Harvesting
Processing
Information on produce wise product possibilities
Sources on yeast, bacterial and algal ferments
Machinery
Centres
Storage guides
Value added products
Extending shelf life
Medicinal uses of food
Drought resilience
Key categories of food sufficiency
cereals,
pulses,
nuts and oilseeds,
fruits,
vegetables,
spices
Plant resources
Nurseries and propagation centres
Native species reserves
Demonstration farm checklist
Teaching centres, contractors, online consulting groups
Checklists of what can be grown
Directories of bioregional seed banks
Integrated pest management
Checklists and research on key crops, pests and local solutions
For storage techniques
Traps and other techniques of mgt
Village commons and fuel
Cow dung
Used as cakes
Efficient stoves
Biogas
Methane
Wood and biochar
Agricultural by-products
Fencing
Irrigation
Farm machinery to reduce drudgery
Fodder and farm birds and animals
Getting sense of carrying capacity of cattle, sheep, goats and chickens
Village commons and fodder
Integrating earthworks with fodder
Working with shepherd community
Village ponds and water
Ethno veterinary
hens,
goats,
cattle
sheep
buffalo
horses
camels
Insects and worms as food
Energy
Getting sense of village’s sources of energy and carrying capacity
Models for local industry using firewood
Transitions away from fossil fuels
Solar based solutions
Wind based solutions
Water based solutions
Wheel wells for mechanical power
Small turbines for electricity
Home appliances for better energy efficiency
Insulation use cases
Appropriate technology
Models to bypass high energy input processes
Transport
Getting sense of village’s imports
Pathways to reducing dependence on transport
Draft animal powered solutions
Healthcare
Getting a sense of nutrition and long term healthcare costs of the village
Ethno veterinary for hens, goats, cattle
Plant based medicines
Basic healthcare facility checklist
Improving nutrition via organic produce, tree based products and millets
Education
For small children
For women
Open source curriculum
Remote and digital schools directory
Livelihood
Wood
Bamboo
Cultivation
Harvesting
Treatment
Uses as food
Uses as fuel
Uses as products
Uses as industrial input
Uses in construction
High value products
Teak
Mud
Grass
Crafts
Metal
Repair
Open source curriculum and trainings
Remote and digital trainings directory
Services based livelihoods
Waste upcycling based livelihoods
Local production success stories
Categories key to local economy
Product ecosystems
Ghee,
Honey,
Pickles,
Spices,
Suppliers of processing equipment
Toys and appropriate technology
Culture and pride
Village festivals
Supporting youth
Media and recognition
Income
Goods export - moving towards higher value products
Services export - moving towards newer categories of remote value add
Market
Building local markets
Finding market connects
Packaging
Branding
License and org setup
Marketing
Online marketplace
Logistics integrations and delivery services
IT and software to help businesses
Retail outlets
Annual fairs
Thematic conventions and product forums
Buildings and construction
Getting a sense of energy requirements of house in summer and winter
Vernacular architecture local to the place
Alternatives for plastic, cement and metal
Techniques of treating wood with fire, water, oil.
Long term commons plantation oftimber
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Waste
Dry waste
Wet waste
Handling hazardous waste
Reusing daily market waste
Repairing old things
Fisheries
Getting a sense of village’s carrying capacity and opportunities
Shrimp, Prawn, Crab and Fish rearing
Honorable harvesting during breeding seasons
Dehydration and storage
Reusing fish market waste
Capacity building
Supporting active people
Remote assistance for driving change
Skill resource bank
Finance
Innovative models
Government schemes
Lending marketplaces for small business loans
Grants and philanthropic support
Ecotourism
Social capital via village community
Inter FPO trade and barter
Land access systems, common works, leases and trusts
Legal and information services
More updates to come as this evolves further.