EACRD – Rural Development in Manipur, Northeast India

Livelihoods, land and dignity in the hills of the Northeast India

Churachandpur · Manipur · Since 2004

EAC Relief & Development (EACRD)

EACRD is an independent rural development organisation working with tribal and marginalised communities across Manipur’s hill districts — building sustainable farm livelihoods, protecting forests and water, and responding when crisis strikes.

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Years in Field

Projects Delivered

Families Reached

SHGs Formed

Two-Day Workshop on Community Stewardship Assessment Toolkit on Carbon and Land Held in Manas National Park, Assam

What we work on

Four themes, one goal: resilient hill communities

Sustainable Livelihoods

Turning degraded slopes into productive farms — orchards, climate-smart agriculture, skills and market linkages that give hill families income beyond a single season.

WADI orchards · Farm training · Market access

Natural Resources & Climate

Helping villages protect the forests and springs their lives depend on — catchment conservation, spring revival, and adaptation to a changing climate, governed by the community.

Forests · Springs & watershed · Carbon initiatives

Women & Community Institutions

More than 500 women’s self-help groups saving, lending and leading — alongside village institutions that plan and manage their own development.

SHGs · Village savings · Local governance

Humanitarian Response

When conflict or disaster strikes, we reach the families others miss — including displaced people living with host households far from relief camps.

IDP relief · Food & essentials · Recovery

Our work

Three ways we stand with hill communities

Livelihoods

Orchards on degraded hills — the WADI model

With NABARD, EACRD has helped tribal farming families turn shifting-cultivation slopes into thriving fruit orchards — mango, orange and guava intercropped with vegetables — securing income for years, not seasons.

With NABARD / Churachandpur

Climate & NRM

Communities governing their forests and water

Our climate resilience programme with Bread for the World (2026–2029) supports villages to protect catchment forests, revive springs, and adapt farming to a changing climate — led by village institutions themselves.

With Bread for the World / Hill districts

Humanitarian

Standing with displaced families

When conflict displaced thousands in Manipur, EACRD delivered rice, cooking oil, lentils and essentials to home-based IDP families — reaching people relief camps could not, with support from the King Baudouin Foundation.

With King Baudouin Fdn / Kawleng & beyond

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Who we are

Development that grows from the land — and belongs to everyone

EACRD (EAC Relief & Development) has worked in Manipur’s hill districts for over two decades — with farmers reviving degraded land, with women’s collectives building village savings, with communities governing their own forests and springs, and with families displaced by conflict.

Our programmes span sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management, climate resilience and humanitarian response, delivered in partnership with national and international agencies including Bread for the World, NABARD, Tata Trusts and ActionAid.

Independent & inclusive

Promoted by the Evangelical Assembly Church, EACRD operates as an autonomous, professional development agency with its own staff, governance and donor accountability — serving all communities regardless of faith or ethnicity.

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Trusted by our partners

Bread for the World / NABARD / Tata Trusts / King Baudouin Foundation / ActionAid / NEDFi / CORDAID