Small farmers' association to start livelihood programme in 39 blocks of Meghalaya
Updated: May 07, 2014 03:26:10pm
New Delhi, May 7 (KNN) In order to promote effective utilisation of basic resources and at the same time ensure livelihood security and inclusive growth, the Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is planning to implement a livelihood promotion programme in 39 blocks of Meghalaya.
Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is a society functioning under the administrative control of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.
A partner agency of the Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA), SFAC which is supporting the Government of Meghalaya in implementing the Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Programme (IBDLP) is currently providing this support to a resource agency in eight of the thirty nine blocks of Meghalaya.
Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Program (IBDLP launched by the Government of Meghalaya (GOM) aims to achieve the integration of public programme and service delivery within the sustainability framework, so that value maximization takes place within the same natural and financial resources.
The Mission of the program is “To promote optimal and effective development and utilization of basin resources for ensuring livelihood security and inclusive growth within a sustainable framework.”
A significant feature of this programme is specific mission mode interventions in agriculture, horticulture, forest and plantation crops, aquaculture, livestock, sericulture and weaving, agriculture, energy, water, tourism, skills, and knowledge management.
The core objective of each of these missions is to facilitate the promotion of sustainable livelihoods for the people of the state leveraging on the opportunities and strengths of the State’s natural resources. The programme seeks to achieve this by strong entrepreneurship and capacity building of the individuals as also the communities, eventually to empower the common person to enable him or her to make their own choices and decisions within a rational and sustainable framework.
Key interventions of the programme are knowledge management, natural resources management, enterprise/livelihoods promotion, institution building and governance aspects.
The programme is managed by Basin Development Council (BDC), Basin Development Authority (MBDA), and Basin Development Units (BDU).
The Enterprise Facilitation Centre (EFC) is a unique effort to create a single point of contact for the enterprising citizens of the community to meet their needs of information, selection of opportunities, technology and finance for setting up enterprises. EFCs through the BDU coordinate with different agencies to facilitate the inception and growth of enterprises. The EFCs are being set up in all the 39 blocks of the state to act as a single window public interface agency under the Programme at the grass root level.
The EFC model is an attempt at making delivery of development demand driven. The EFCs are manned by two Enterprise Resource Persons (ERPs) and one Enterprise Support Person (ESP), (dedicated youth who have the passion to serve in rural areas who have been trained and deployed) who provide information and other facilitation support to the partners. What differentiates’ the EFC from the government department is the service delivery approach (as opposed to a scheme implementation approach) and the personal rapport that the ERPs build with the partners.
Based on the outcome of SFAC’s work to Resource Agency so far and the need to speed up the coverage of EFC support across the state, Government of Meghalaya is planning to take the program to scale, covering all the thirty nine blocks. The process of scaling the program from the current 8 blocks to 39, capacities of local NGOs (LNGOs) need to be built to partner with the MBDA program.
It is in this context that SFAC seeks to appoint a suitably qualified resource agency to provide support to MBDA in scaling up the existing project to all blocks of the state. (KNN/ES)
Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is a society functioning under the administrative control of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.
A partner agency of the Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA), SFAC which is supporting the Government of Meghalaya in implementing the Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Programme (IBDLP) is currently providing this support to a resource agency in eight of the thirty nine blocks of Meghalaya.
Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Program (IBDLP launched by the Government of Meghalaya (GOM) aims to achieve the integration of public programme and service delivery within the sustainability framework, so that value maximization takes place within the same natural and financial resources.
The Mission of the program is “To promote optimal and effective development and utilization of basin resources for ensuring livelihood security and inclusive growth within a sustainable framework.”
A significant feature of this programme is specific mission mode interventions in agriculture, horticulture, forest and plantation crops, aquaculture, livestock, sericulture and weaving, agriculture, energy, water, tourism, skills, and knowledge management.
The core objective of each of these missions is to facilitate the promotion of sustainable livelihoods for the people of the state leveraging on the opportunities and strengths of the State’s natural resources. The programme seeks to achieve this by strong entrepreneurship and capacity building of the individuals as also the communities, eventually to empower the common person to enable him or her to make their own choices and decisions within a rational and sustainable framework.
Key interventions of the programme are knowledge management, natural resources management, enterprise/livelihoods promotion, institution building and governance aspects.
The programme is managed by Basin Development Council (BDC), Basin Development Authority (MBDA), and Basin Development Units (BDU).
The Enterprise Facilitation Centre (EFC) is a unique effort to create a single point of contact for the enterprising citizens of the community to meet their needs of information, selection of opportunities, technology and finance for setting up enterprises. EFCs through the BDU coordinate with different agencies to facilitate the inception and growth of enterprises. The EFCs are being set up in all the 39 blocks of the state to act as a single window public interface agency under the Programme at the grass root level.
The EFC model is an attempt at making delivery of development demand driven. The EFCs are manned by two Enterprise Resource Persons (ERPs) and one Enterprise Support Person (ESP), (dedicated youth who have the passion to serve in rural areas who have been trained and deployed) who provide information and other facilitation support to the partners. What differentiates’ the EFC from the government department is the service delivery approach (as opposed to a scheme implementation approach) and the personal rapport that the ERPs build with the partners.
Based on the outcome of SFAC’s work to Resource Agency so far and the need to speed up the coverage of EFC support across the state, Government of Meghalaya is planning to take the program to scale, covering all the thirty nine blocks. The process of scaling the program from the current 8 blocks to 39, capacities of local NGOs (LNGOs) need to be built to partner with the MBDA program.
It is in this context that SFAC seeks to appoint a suitably qualified resource agency to provide support to MBDA in scaling up the existing project to all blocks of the state. (KNN/ES)
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