Mksp udyogini

Project Proposal on

Securing the livelihood of marginalized tribal community through a self

sustained model of Lac cultivation.

Head Office: Udyogini A-36, 2nd Floor, Gulmohar Park New Delhi-110049 Tele-Fax: 011 41651175 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.udyogini.org

State Office-Jharkhand Udyogini Business Development Services Centre Vimalayan, 1st Floor, 33-Saket Nagar Kanke Road,Ranchi – 834008

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.udyogini.org/

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Securing the livelihood of marginalized tribal community through a self sustained model of Lac cultivation

Project Title:: Proposal for securing the livelihood of marginalized tribal community through

a self sustainable model of Lac cultivation. Proposed area of action: Proposed project will be implemented in 3 blocks of Ranchi namely Bundu, Angara & Namkum. Executive summary:

Udyogini has an experience of working with NTFPs in states like Madhya Pradesh, Uttrakhand and started its intervention in Jharkhand in the year 2008 as a result of a feasibility study conducted which revealed lac to be a major source of alternative livelihood through NTFPs amongst the natives of Jharkhand. However, the study also revealed a dismal situation wherein the communities were giving up lac production dramatically given that the age old product was now unable to fetch them enough returns. When Udyogini intervened, it realized that there were several reasons for the advent of this situation viz climate change, non-practice of scientific methods of lac cultivation suiting with the changing climate hence leading to scarcity of brood1. The situation in these communities was depressing, given the minimal livelihood options these people had. Most worked as agriculture or daily labourers while some often migrated to other states to earn themselves a living. They did have a rich resource base of host trees but did not know how to optimally exploit them. Udyogini started its intervention with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj funded programme called as Rural Business Hub. This project was successful to bring profits to around 750 producers. Motivated by the positive results, Udyogini has been working tirelessly since then with various donours like Intel Foundation, Misereor (Germany), European Commission, ICCO, NABARD and the like.

In the meanwhile, Udyogini engaged carried out its integral activity of forming Women Enterprise Groups (WEGs) with individuals having the resource or potential to start small enterprises. This was followed by developing a Package for Scientific cultivation of Lac (with the support of technical experts like Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, IINRG), training materials for goat rearing, poultry, small enterprises etc, promotion of Community Resource Persons for training and monitoring and establishing proper financial and forward and backward market linkages for the enterpries. However, some of the lac producers presently are also individuals who will get included into WEGs in due course.

1 Brood is the seed of lac required for inoculation on host trees for its propagation.

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In a tenure of 4 years, Udyogini has been able to reach to a scale of 5500 lac producers in 3 blocks of Ranchi and 1 block of Khunti district. Of these producers, 3500 have already successfully demonstrated the practice and earned profits in Angara and Bundu blocks of Ranchi and Khunti Block of Khunti district respectively. In Namkum block of Ranchi district, 2000 additional producers have joined in April’12 with whom successful demonstration of lac cultivation is yet to be achieved. Though this project is for working with 4000 producers in Ranchi district but during the implementation of project (after getting the success) we will up scale the model and replicate it in nearby district named khunti with another set of 5000 producers. Under the proposed project focusing on lac cultivation, Udyogini aims to achieve two major objectives with the support of MKSP: a) Federating the already functional 2000 lac producers into Institutions for value addition

of lac with 2000 producers already into production to achieve sustainability and enhancement of income for the producers at the village level.

b) Promoting producers’ profits with 2000 new producers and also federating them into Institution. It is being felt by Udyogini now that since the producers have already started earning enough profit, the community should come forward to take greater ownership. Hence, a community owned producers’ Institution will help the producers to sustain in the long run and take ownership of the activities. Also, now that brood sufficiency has been achieved by the existing 2000 producers, a large amount of scrapped lac is available from these areas along with the scrap that will come from the new 2000 producers, hence a processing unit for initial level value addition to lac should be established here. The institution in the form of Cooperatives would be established at the Block level, that is one cooperative per block having all the members of WEGs (having a common interest in lac cultivation) as members of the cooperative. The members of the cooperative would consist of producers from villages per block. The cooperative would function in a rented store house. It would perform the functions of Bulk purchase and sale of brood lac, Market negotiations, loan provision to producers etc. The cooperative would receive revenue for post project sustainability from 2% Commission per Kg of transaction of brood or scrapped lac, annual membership fee from members and interest from the soft loans provided to the producers. Producers’ profit for new 2000 producers would be promoted through the provision of training, handholding, financial and market linkages and ultimately federating them into a cooperative as well. At the end of the project duration, producers will have 100% increased production from the baseline and earn an average profit of INR 29175 annualy. The value addition to lac at the Processing units with the existing farmers will also help them gain small profits INR (1500-2000) initially which will increase as the production and stages of value addition further increase with time.

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The per farmer cost comes to INR 6268 while 25% of the project cost has already been committed through a sanction letter from Misereor (Germany), the rest 75% is requested from MKSP. Total project cost is INR 25070000 for 3 years.

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Section A - Basic PIA Information

1 Name of PIA Udyogini

2 Legal Status (NGO / Network NGO / CBO / Producer Co. / Section-25 Co. / Pvt. Co/ Other – Please specify)

NGO registered under “Societies Registration Act”

3 If Network NGO, number of partners being supported? NA

4 Registration No. & Date of Registration No.: S-23137, Date of registration: 09-07-1992

5 Name of Donors in the past 3 years, if any (give max3) 1. Rural Bussiness Hub; Ministry of

Panchayati Raj.

2. INTEL Foundation

3. Misereor

6 Name with Size (Budget in INR) of relevant projects handled in the past 3 years (give max 3) in the proposed area

1. Rural Business Hub(Ministry of

Panchayati Raj, Government

of India) – INR 9,50,000.00;

Project duration: 2008-2010

2. Sustainable Livelihoods for

Tribal Women Producers

through

Enterprise Promotion and

Entrepreneurship Training( Intel

Foundation) – INR.

55,00,000.00; Project duration:

2010-2012

3. Market Development and

Enterprise Promotion for Poor

Women( Misereor) – INR

36,00,000; Project duration:

2010-2012

7 Annual Revenue of PIA for the most recent audited financial year

Rs. 3,04,70,332

8 List ongoing projects (max 3.) and their Size (INR) in the proposed area

1. Rural Innovation Fund for Kusmi Lac Cultivation on Ber host by NABARD of Rs. 9,85,000.00.

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2. Vocational education and training for vulnerable and marginalised groups by European Commission of Rs. 75,00,000.00

3. Market Development and Enterprise Promotion for Poor Women( Misereor) – INR 63,00,000;

9 Completion of last project (MM/YY) March/ 2012

10 Total value of assets available with the PIA in the proposed area?

Nil

11 Experience of working with, in the proposed area (i) Women SHGs/Groups (Y/N) (ii) NTFP based livelihoods with existing tribal

groups (Y/N)

(i) Yes

(ii) Yes

12 In the proposed project, what % of the implementation will be undertaken by existing capacities and what % will be leveraged from external community based organizations in the project area?

Existing - 60% External - 40%

Section B – Community Institution Architecture

1. Community Institutions Architecture

Past Experience of PIA in the proposed area

Udyogini as the name suggests works to promote women entrepreneurs majorly to ascertain that women in rural areas get an opportunity to earn their own livelihood and hence prosper socio-economically through small enterprises. For this purpose Udyogini works with Women Enterprise Group (WEGs) consisting of 12-15 members each in the intervention area/clusters. These Groups are formed with individuals having involved in enterprises like lac cultivation, goat rearing, poultry, rural kiosks etc. There are presently 520 WEGs working with Udyogini in Jharkhand only of which 217 have been bank linked. These WEGs majorly:

Engage themselves in lac production

Establish Small enterprises

Build their own corpus

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Udyogini as an resource agency provides them entrepreneurial trainings in the form of Grassroots management training (GMT) and Enterprise management training (EMT) to strengthen their enterprise and cope up with the market fluctuations.

Best practices adopted by the women groups/producers groups promoted by the organization:

Udyogini helped the producers internalize some ideas through practice which have now emerged as the best practices of these groups:

Proper maintenance of meeting minutes in group registers provided to them by Udyogini.

Reading out group norms in every meeting as mentioned in the printed Group register to compel members to abide by the norms.

Weekly meetings by WEGs to make them resilient to collapse.

Conducting Functional Literacy classes for the Group members.

Conducting Group motivational activities (Through Udyogini’s Women enterprise Motivation module)

In case of women not having access to own host trees, share cropping is promoted amongst the group.

Maintenance and checking of data card of each producer to keep track of lac production quantity and quality by the WEGs.

Strategies undertaken in the past in enabling access to credit, technology and markets

through the women groups/federations:

Credit: These are the key aspects for lac cultivation. Initially Udyogini sensitized its producers to take small credit support from their own WEGs to start lac cultivation. This has not only made the things easier for the producers but also created a road for the WEGs to earn interest and rotate their corpus for a very short span of time i.e. for 6 months. In the later stage the beneficiaries were motivated to save and open bank accounts for meeting their capital requirement related to Lac cultivation. Bank Linkages have been done to provide seed capital to the corpus of the WEGs. The State Bank of India is preparing a special scheme for Lac producers under which loans of Rs. 50,000 are offered to groups and individuals without collateral. Market: The backward and forward linkages have both been secured by Udyogini for the producers. Agreements with two market players viz Tajna Shellac and Gopal Shellac Pvt Ltd has been made to ensure the forward linkage of the product. The idea was to leverage suitable price for the producers and also to break the vicious cycle of middleman and small traders who cheated in price and weights measurement. While this provided the forward linkage, it was also critical to meet brood supply for propagation of lac cultivation in a given situation

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where there is acute brood scarcity in the country. This is done through the establishment of brood farms and exchange of brood within clusters of Udyogini.

(a) Proposed Plans/Strategies as part of the Project:

1. Proposed strategies to ensure implementation of the project community processes including use of community resource persons : Lac Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs): Udyogini has already created in other lac producing areas it has worked in, a cadre of women which is called as Lac BDSPs by Udyogini which are actually Community Resource Persons (CRP) who use PSCL for outreach to larger numbers of producers on a fee-basis from the cooperatives, thus creating an income source for themselves. These CRPs are well equipped with various other training curriculums of Udyogini which were specially meant for people who are directly engaged in livelihood and enterprise related works such as PSCL; Training for Enterprise support Team (TEST) for gender-sensitive entrepreneurship; Grassroots Management Training (GMT) for motivating and orientation of producers to undertake enterprise and livelihood activities. Being from the community, these CRPs have the advantage of being more acceptable and ensuring better learning processes in the community.

2. Systems and checks put in place to ensure that the local resource persons are

accountable to / managed by the women institutions:

Cooperatives pay CRPs: This is an in-built accountability mechanism as only if the Cooperative is satisfied with the quality of service, after giving training to the CRPs, a certificate would be issued to the CRPs confirming their capacity to train. The CRP’s payment would be performance based. CRPs selected from WEGs: Since the cadre of CRPs will be selected from within the WEGs established by the village women, these CRPs would already have been ‘incubated’ in the WEGs which are involved in lac production. Sustaiability model of CRP’s:-

CRP’s will be provided with social security through cooperatives.

Cooperatives will utilize CRP’s in other assignments as and when required on payment basis.

CRP’s will get paid by the cooperative for supplying pesticides, insecticides and brood to the producers.

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3. Plans to enable Smooth Accounting and Monitoring (internal and external):

Udyogini would follow a community owned initiative to channelize the Community Investment

Support to the producers. This would be done by transferring the total amount recieved by

Udyogini for brood purchase to the account of the Producer Cooperatives through cheques only.

The Cooperatives in turn would purchase brood and provide them to the producers on a

revolving loan basis that is the producers would have to return the amount of brood recieved by

them in one cycle to the cooperative in the next cycle for benefiting another round of producers.

This would also ensure brood sufficiency and help in meeting the huge amount of brood

constraint presently prevailng in the market. The producers would also be helped with the

purchase of equipments by the cooperatives only such as sprayers and sceteurs with preference to

the poorest of the producers.

The monitoring plan for the project is an in-built approach to enrich the project operations and

take timely corrective measures in case of negative deviations from project objectives. To ensure

focussed application of the monitoring process it has been divided at following levels –

Organisation Level Monitoring by the Project Coordinator for project progress. The

project monitoring will be based on –

Field visits, observation and interaction with beneficiaries

Tracking of field and office record

Quarterly staff review meetings

Periodic physical and financial progress reports

Cluster based monitoring based on MIS. The overall monitoring of the activities of the team,

is evaluated through a structured and scientific software system i.e. www.vikasdwar.com/udyogini

,developed by an external software agency which is known as Management Information

System (MIS) that helps the Head office as well as the State Office to keep a track of the

progress of the project activities. This is an excellent way of tracking the progress of every

project based on the project activities and their indicators and thus evaluating the overall

health of the organization.. It helps the Head Office as well as the State Offices to keep a

track of the progress of the project activities thus, evaluating the overall work-status of the

organization. MIS workshops for keeping the MIS officers updated with the process of

working on it are conducted on quarterly basis.

Cooperative level Internal Monitoring:

Cooperative Review Meetings: Quarterly meetings to review progress will be conducted convened by the board of the cooperative. Inter-cooperative Review: Udyogini will institute an inter-cooperative-review system where one cooperative will review the work of another cooperative and report the findings to the

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Federation. This will be cross-checked against the cooperatives self-assessment to create a robust Federation of cooperatives around lac outcomes. Producer Card: Each lac producer maintains a card in which details like the quantity of brood inoculated, the due date for spraying of insecticides, pesticides, removal of phoonki etc. This card helps the CRPs monitor the standing crop and handhold the lac producers accordingly.

4. Briefly elaborate on systems/ and procedures that you propose to put in place for

adoption of best practices by the women institutions:

Since 1995, Udyogini promotes Anita Sen Memorial Award (ASMA) as an incentive for the best performing group across all its states. This serves as a motivation for the group to work harder as the group receives a sum of Rs. 50000 award money. Other groups following the best practices are motivated through minor incentives like shields on the annual day celebration function of Udyogini and an opportunity to address the masses about the group’s experiences. Inter cluster and inter state exposure visits would also be conducted to give them an exposure of the best practices being followed across all the states of Udyogini. Self analysis of the group achievement would be promoted in within the best group by stimulating the members to analyze what practices have helped them to excel while stimulating the members of the bad performing groups to analyze what are the factors affecting their poor performance. The above activities would also be ensured in the present project to promote adoption of best practices by the groups.

Section C – Operational Details

C1. Description Of Context:

a.Context of area and community:

The historical oppression of people belonging to Scheduled Tribe, Schedule Caste and Other Backward Castes in India has no parallel in any part of world, wherein a person is not only discriminated because of the caste he was born into, but also is forced into a predetermined life and occupation. Any attempt to defy this is met with severe consequences and further subjugation. Though this problem exists in most parts of India but nowhere is it so predominant and blatant as it is in rural areas of BIMARU states and Jharkhand.

Ranchi district which we have selected to intervene with our model of Lac cultivation. These two districts are considered as most backward and naxal affected areas among the 24 districts of Jharkhand. 94% and above community members to be addressed through this project are from tribal community. These areas are far away from the development and people here are forced to live in the dearth of poverty. People belonging to Scheduled Tribes have to face discrimination. The only opportunity for employment is menial work in the field; that too at rates which are highly exploitative. Often women are subjected to physical and sexual

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harassment at their work place because of their extreme vulnerability and poverty.. Although they have accessed credit facilities with the help of WEGs their chances for economic improvement is limited because of lack of market access, enterprise skills, skills to aggregate and add value to their products and lack of access to agricultural services to improve productivity so that they can earn more profit. All these factors form a vicious cycle of poverty, and there is need of immediate intervention to break this. This condition has remained there for a very long time, and it may remain same until interventions enable change. Proposed project will be implemented in three blocks of Ranchi district namely Angara, Bundu and Namkom. All the blocks are of same topology and climate condition is favorable for Lac cultivation.

b. Problem Analysis:

The following problems during the feasibility study conducted by Udyogini and from our previous experiences were glaring enough to motivate Udyogini into working with the communities in Jharkhand on lac cultivation:- Marginalization of Tribal Communities, especially women: The incomes of tribal people are largely dependent on natural resources - forests and land. Population led pressures lead to several problems in both these two sectors - depletion of forests and loss of bio-diversity; and low productivity of land. Tribals own land but it provides income for barely 3 months in the year. They have to migrate out of the area in large numbers for work in exploitative conditions in industries such as construction. This disrupts family life, especially the lives of children in the family. Insurgency and Unrest: Forty per cent of India's top 50 mineral-rich districts, many of them in Jharkhand, are insurgency-affected, according to the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). They are also the hubs of tribal discontent. Though Jharkhand, because of its mineral wealth, should be able to provide sustainable livelihoods to its poor people, it is one of the 13 states in the country hit by Maoist insurgency that prevents government and private services from reaching its people in the affected districts.

Poor harvesting and production techniques: There is a paradoxical situation of underutilized capacity of forests to generate income on the one hand and destruction of entire trees to extract a part of the resource from them. In the production of a traditional product lac, poor harvesting and systems of production are majorly due to reasons like lack of awareness, motivation, extension services, and unavailability of working capital, insufficient and untreated brood lac (insect brood), lack of strong producers associations and lack of marketing institutions have constrained this sector.

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Informality and Unfairness along the value chain: One of the reasons for unsustainable harvesting is intermittent market access. Tribal communities, being in interior areas and having little access to the market due to poor road connectivity and awareness of market demand and prices, heavily depend on traders to come to their locations to procure the forest products. Poor entrepreneurship skills to improve returns all along the chain: Udyogini’s experience of working with women in order to move them up the value chains has shown that most women are constrained in motivation, skills and infrastructure to be able to become entrepreneurs in the professional sense, i.e. able to think and act innovatively, and be managers and leaders that can make their businesses grow. No efforts have been taken in past to engage producers for round the year in lac cultivation so as to maintain their interest in the activity and also fetch handsome income. One of the major lacking is absence of any institutional model in the state to sustain lac cultivation and ensure community ownership to take forward the theme.

c. Opportunities:

Our Presence: The greatest advantage for Udyogini is its presence in these communities since a duration of 4 years and the demonstration of success with the lac producers already made. This has helped us gain the confidence of the communities and even gives us a buffer against the much feared insurgency issues since the community now realizes the worth of this activity. In the duration of our work with the common interest SHGs, it becomes easy to identify Community resource persons from within the groups with which there is constant interaction of the staffs. Such Community Resource Persons (CRP) chosen so far have proved to be highly motivated cadres of people who have contributed significantly in making the community achieve its goals. The ratio of Community Resource Person to Producers is 1:50. In the present project, it should thus be equally easy to identify these CRPs from amongst the SHGs. Proven Model: Udyogini has already proven a model successfully with 3500 producers in Ranchi and Khunti district whereby the producers have already attained brood sufficiency, are engaged in year round production and also earn profits. The Market: Jharkhand is the largest Lac producing state (Data source: Lac statistics 2010, IINRG, http://ilri.ernet.in). It accounts for nearly 42% (6925 tonnes out of 16495 tonnes) of all India’s production of lac. Export of lac from Jharkhand, estimated at Rs.50 crore annually, accounts for about 53 per cent of lac exports from India. There is a major lac exporter in Jharkhand, Shellac Industries, who is willing to take as much lac as is possible to produce. The owner says his problem is supply not demand. Besides, Shellac, there are a number of others in the neighboring state of W. Bengal which is even a bigger market for lac

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than industries in Jharkhand. An interview with one of the local traders by Udyogini revealed that he was willing to purchase as much lac as can be produced in the market. Cultural affinity and resource: The tribal community in Jharkhand has been cultivating lac traditionally since time immemorial. The cultivation practices are traditional and are passed on from generation to generation. The producers in areas of the country which have lac have an average of 20-50 host trees though due to lack of finance and understanding of practices they don’t even practice lac in 50% of their trees. In the case of the area in which Udyogini is working with lac producers, 20% of producers had completely stopped doing lac because of infestation problems and they did not know the solution for it.

C.2 Project Description: a. Vision of Success: Aspired vision of the project is to meet brood sufficiency in the lac production sector through scientific techniques of lac cultivation and proper market linkages. b. Goals: The Project Goal is to establish Lac as a key product for supplementing the income of rural poor through creation of a sustainable model and hence bringing them one step forward towards becoming key players in an important growth-oriented product. c. Key Outputs/outcomes:

1. Essential Outcomes:

120 new WEGs formed with new 2000 producers.

At least 3 Cooperatives are functional and efficient by the end of project period.

At least 4000 producers practicing scientific cultivation of lac and earning additional

income of Rs. 25000 from their baseline income.

Exposure visits conducted for CRPs and Producers.

At least 80 CRPs (1 per 50 producers) created and functional.

Brood sufficiency achieved for 4000 producers of lac.

Plantation of semialata plant done in 150 acres of land successfully.

Market linkages established with MoU done for the produce (brood and value added

lac) to get sold at fair price in the market.

Social Audits done on half yearly basis to maintain transparency in dealings.

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C.3 Detail of proposed strategy:

1. Plans for promoting and enhancing food and nutritional security for women farmers? 1. Udyogini has already established 51 crèches facilities for the children of the lac producing women in the project area to be covered under MKSP with the support of the Central government funds under Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme. These centers not just provide care to the children of the lac producing women, hence affecting their productivity positively but also provide supplementary nutrition to their children everyday along with monthly health check-ups and ensuring routine immunization.

2. Moreover, in every monthly meeting held with the mothers at these crèches, the topics like importance of nutrition during adolescence and pregnancy for the female is especially emphasized while special days and weeks like breast-feeding week etc are celebrated to enhance the awareness levels. Udyogini would try to increase the number of crèches to atleast one per project village and train the crèche teachers to carry out trainings of mothers.

3. Areas where crèche facility would not be implementable, the BDSPs to be selected per village would facilitate the women producers to understand the need for adequate nutrition to enhance their own productivity as well as the family’s overall well-being and plan how to set aside a part of their increased income for availing better nutritional facilities.

4. The BDSPs and crèche teachers would be given training on half-yearly basis on specific topics like cost-effective nutritional food planning, nutritional need of children and adolescents, gender and the role of nutrition in growth etc.

5. Cost-effective and easy to grow nutritional crops would be promoted through kitchen gardens with atleast 50 kitchen gardes (20 in 1st year of project period and 30 in 2nd year of project period) which will act as model for replication by each and every producer by the end of the project period.

6. Strategies addressing sustainable/evergreen/regenerative agriculture practices:- Following are the strategies proposed for regenerative and sustainable lac cultivation practices:- Host Plant Management:- Proper host management practices will be incorporated which will give optimal rest to the host plants for getting maximum production. Seed Management:- Producers will be mobilized to rotate their brood(seed) among the other producer rather than scraping and selling it to the factory in order to meet the brood requirement.

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Bio-diversity enhancement:- Protection and plantation of new host plants in the project area will help in conservation of bio-diversity. Lac cultivation on semialata is done in inter-cropping mode which again adds to it. Low cost sustainable practices:- In scientific cultivation practices producers are taught to use the brood as per the requirement of the twigs. This practice will help producers to low down their input cost and get more return of the investment. Resilience to climate change:- Climate change is a big threat noticed during past 8-10 years influencing the lac production. Huge fluctuation in temperature lead to activation of various parasites. Timely spray of fungicides and insecticides

Ber

(July-January)

Kusum

(Jan. –July)

Semialata

(July-Jan.)

Brood rotation strategy for kusumi lac

cultivation

Palas

(April-

October)

Palas

(Oct. – April)

Palas

(April-

October)

Palas

(Oct. – April)

Brood rotation strategy in Rangini

crop

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The following table below shows different roles of women and men with regard to Lac cultivation:-

Gender based role classification in Lac cultivation

Sl. No. Activity Sub

activity/Host

Involvement

of Women

Involvement

of Men

1 Host plant

management

Plantation √ √

Pruning √

Selection √

Grading √

2 Bundling of Brood √

3

Inoculation of Brood

On Ber √ √

On Kusum √

On Semialata √

On Palas √ √

4 Funki Removal On Ber √ √

On Kusum √

On Semialata √

On Palas √ √

5 Spraying √ √

6 Harvesting On Ber √ √

On Kusum √

On Semialata √

On Palas √ √

7 Scraping Of funki √

Of rejected

brood

√

8 Sorting √

9 Packaging √ √

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7. Strategies for Development of pro poor value chain around NTFP collectors ensuring increased access to market and market information for better marketing of their products-

i. What are the key livelihoods of the tribal community in the proposed area: The key livelihood options for the tribal in the proposed area are:

1. Agriculture (seasonal)

2. Agri –allied activities like goat rearing, poultry, pig rearing etc

3. NTFP collection and sale

4. Small trading

5. Group or individual micro enterprises

6. Agricultural and wage labourer

7. Service like blacksmith, hair cutting, carpentry, small shops

ii. Primary analysis of the value chains of some of these key livelihoods:

Since Udyogini in Jharkhand is concentrating upon lac value chain only, the analysis of it is

as follows: The pyramidal structure of the value chain

involves the producers/villagers at the lowest

rung, from where the village produce directly

goes to the village level traders and then to

the Block Level traders, ultimately reaching

the producers in a much adulterated manner.

The worst irony is the profit distribution

chain where in spite of the tedious efforts, 30% of the profit margin goes to the intermediaries

while the producers have to suffice with a mere 70% only because the producers neither have

bargaining power nor do they have sufficient market knowledge or access.

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iii. Analysis of the value chain gaps:

As far as Lac as a product is concerned the gaps are found in each level which are cited below;

Primary producer level:

The farmers use unsophisticated inoculation and harvesting techniques. Despite their proximity to IINRG, they lack knowledge of basic information such as what length they need to cut and what is the best way of pruning the plants.

Drying is done anywhere in the fields, rather than in clean platforms, leading to reduction in quality of lac.

Standard measurement practices are not followed. Measurement tools are in fact not used at all in many cases.

There is no concept of aggregation of lac at the village level. All the produce is aggregated by the intermediaries.

Intermediaries:

It was difficult to get exact price information from intermediaries and they are not trusted entirely by producers or by the factory owners.

Adulteration at the intermediary level is a widespread and common practice. This brings down the price of lac and is detrimental to sustainable supplies in the long run.

Intermediaries try to work on scale. However, they too lack adequate funds to store the purchase, and hence try to sell their produce the same day, leading to increased transportation costs. This reduces even their scale potential.

Factory owners

Factory owners find it difficult to give an accurate price of lac due to widespread adulteration by intermediaries.

Since the supply of lac has been sporadic, it is difficult for them to maintain a stable price even during a season.

Other ecosystem factors such as threat of naxals, that disrupts supply, also make it difficult for the owners to operate fairly themselves on assessing lac quality and price.

iv. Proposed interventions for moving up in the value chain- production, processing and

marketing

To ensure better market access to the producer Udyogini has created a supply chain

model for its intervention areas. Earlier the producer was primarily responsible for the

production, harvesting and sale of the Lac crop. The value chain established by Udyogini

then performs the function of accumulation and transportation of the crop. The traders

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or factories then buy and process the Lac into various products in order to market and

sell them in both national and international markets

Udyogini has created a social enterprise through community participation making the idea unique as it ensures a higher ownership & social capital along with financial gains unlike the conventional approach. The enterprise operates on a supply chain model where few community anchors like Women Enterprise Group members or Business Development Service Providers take up entrepreneurship roles at village level service centres and help in aggregation of produce at each village from where it gets aggregated at a larger volume and gets sold directly to the processing units , hence accruing greater margins for the produce to the producers. (see figure). This whole Supply chain model is backed by resource agencies, CBOs, Community resource persons, PRI etc.

8. Targeting:- Approach and Details on landless, small and marginal farmers as project participants:- This activity is only taken up with poor farmers, 85-90% tribal residing near forest fringes. These farmers are generally small or marginal with minimal capacity to produce food grains but resources in the form of host trees for lac cultivation. However, it will still be ensured that the farmers chosen for this activity should belong to the poorest of the families in from the community.

9. Plans for Post-project Sustainability and Scaling-up strategies

At Udyogini we believe in community ownership of the project and a proper withdrawal

strategy by forming institutions (Cooperatives at every Block)owned and operated by the

Re-configuring the Existing Value Chain

PRODUCERS

Self Help

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(SHG)

Self Help

Group

(SHG)

Self Help

Group

(SHG)

Village-

Level

Service

Center

(VLSC)

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Service

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Udyogini’s Support

Udyam Jagran Sansthan (UJAS)

Institutional Support (IINRG & LAC)

PRIs

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member lac producers from the community. The focus is thus on capacity building of the

members of these institutions to take forward the theme in a sustainable manner.

CRP’s promoted through this project will be key to the sustainability. Capacity of these

CRP’s will be built in such a manner that they will be able to deliver to the community on

all the fronts and get their honorarium from the cooperatives based on their performance.

Capacity of community will be enhanced to deal with the credit needs and other

requirement of the community.

10. Plans aiming at drudgery reduction for women farmers Equipments: Earlier, women could not participate in pruning because the implement used was heavy and blunt and more a traditional axe. Udyogini is providing and encouraging the wider use of secaturs to replace the traditional implements. Secaturs are medium-size scissors for easy use by women. Fleminga Semialata host plant: This plant is women-friendly because it is shorter in height than the traditional Ber and Kusum. This is going to be wide promoted and used by Udyogini its project areas for brood development and increasing women’s labor force participation in lac value chain for creating brood. This can also be promoted in kitchen gardens reducing the burden of headloading for carrying equipments, inoculation of trees and aggregation. Creches: UJAS Society (a sister concern of Udyogini) is running crèches for lac producers where we are currently working. These provide needed drudgery reduction as while working, women have a place for leaving their children for quality care and nutrition. Helmets for security: Helmets will be provided to each producer to ensure their safety during pruning of trees and harvesting of Lac from tree.

11. Knowledge and information dissemination:-

Documentation: Best practices by farmers in this area will be recorded, published & circulated in the community by using the services of Digital Green. Workshops: Udyogini will produce the documentation in the above form and disseminate at the workshops planned under this project. The workshops will bring cooperative members, CRPs, entrepreneurs, other stakeholders and experts to share lac practices and promote it for scale in the future. Public Display boards:- Display boards will be placed at the entry point of each of the target villages which will contain information about the project physical and financial targets and amount of money to be spent on it. We will also place boards at each of the plantation sites.

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Use of Community Radio:- Community Radio will be used to disseminate knowledge and information about the project.

12. Plans for increasing access of credit to women farmers and women groups

WEGs-bank linkage: Since WEGs are being promoted, Udyogini will facilitate the groups to be linked to banks under the WEG-Bank Linkage program. Special Bank Scheme: The State Bank of India is preparing a special scheme(with Udyogini) for Lac producers under which loans of Rs. 50,000 are offered to groups and individuals without collateral. If it is found workable, lac producers supported under MKSP will be linked to this scheme.

13. Please elaborate on the direct ‘incremental’ income (returns) to women farmers through proposed project. The incremental income should be sustainable. There would be an incremental income to existing producers of INR 1350 through the initial value addition work proposed at the lac processing unit. Although the incremental income is not very significant, this will however help to build sustainability into the institution (analysis attached in annexure) as this will also be one of its sources of revenue. The incremental income of the producers will however, also increase with the increase in their production capacity of lac. Hence, in the following years, their income would further increase. The new 2000 producers would have an income of INR 29,175 (details attached in annexure) from baseline through lac cultivation.

14. Linkage with other government schemes:- On the basis of the proposed project, Udyogini will mobilize other government projects as per the need and demand of the community. We are already well ahead in dialogue with JASCOLAMPF(An apex Co-operative institution sponsored by government of Jharkhand) in providing infrastructure and financial support to our groups

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C. 4 Project Implementation Strategy:-

i. Internal Structure of Implementation:-

ii. Elements of Implementation process:- Following are the part of project implementation strategy:-

First year of implementation would mainly focus on building the capacity of producers

on scientific method of lac cultivation as well as organizing them in groups

Focus of the project is to build a self sustainable institutional model of replication so we

will build a Cooperative which will then act to keep the process going.

Product Head-Lac, Udyogini

Master trainer Cluster co -

Ordinator Accounts and Admin

CEO - Co Operative

CRP Self Help

groups(livelihood)

Head of Operations,

Udyogini

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Each and every producer will be provided with the equipments required for scientific

method of Lac cultivation.

Creating an enabling environment through forward & backward linkages to achieve

economies of scale to bargain with market.

Recording the best practices & knowledge dissemination through organizing kisan

melas on yearly basis.

Monitoring & evaluation of project by conducting internal/external audits, half yearly

social audits.

Funds required for purchasing of brood and equipments will be routed through the

institution along with the support to the CRP’s.

iii. Geography and Yearly Distribution:-

Proposed project will be implemented in Ranchi districts of Jharkhand state. Yearly distribution will be as follows:- This project will be implemented in 3 years as per the below time line:-

Physical targets of existing producers Sl. No. Year No. of

Producers to be covered

1 1st Year 2500 2 2nd Year 1500 3 3rd Year

TOTAL 4000

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Budget Narrative:- The Table:1 below shows the budget summary for different Components of the project to be achieved.

Table:1

Udyogini-MKSP Budget Summary Sheet

Sr.No Components Amount (INR)

A Project Inception 350000

B Institution Building 1812000

C Capacity Building 4634900

D Community Institution Support 14850000

E Knowledge Management 870000

F Monitoring & Evaluation 1300300

G Administrative Expenses 1252800

Total 25070000

The Table 2 below shows the budget summary in form of contribution from various sources for the project. The total project cost is INR 25070000, of which 5% is administrative expenses while 95% is the total program cost. Of the total amount, 75% contribution is being proposed to Ministry of Rural Development through Mahila Kisaan Sashaktikaran Pariyojna amounting to INR 18802500, while rest 25% has been agreed upon by a Germany based donour Misereor amounting to INR 6267500 through its sanction letter2 over the three year duration of the project.

Table:2

Budget Summary (Contribution %)

Total project Cost 25070000

% of Administrative Expenses 5%

Program cost 95%

Contribution Requested From MoRD 18802500

% Support required from MoRD 75%

Contribution from Misereor 6267500

% Support from Misereor 25%

2 Sanction letter by Misereor attached in the annexure.

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MKSP Standard Budget Template

Yr1 Yr2 Yr3 Total

No.of mahila kisan/NTFP collectors 2500 1500 4000

No.of producer groups 167 102 269

No.of villages 28 34 62

No.of Blocks 2 1 3

No.of Districts 1 1

S.No Component

Unit Description

Physical Outlay (No.of units planned)

Unit Cost

Financial Outlay

Remarks

Project Cost Yr1 Yr2 Yr3 Total Yr1 Yr2 Yr3 Total (Rs)

Central Share (Rs)

State/PIA Share/ Other funding agency (Rs)

1 Project Inception

1.1 Mahila Kisan profiling No.of mahila kisan 2500 1500 50 125000 75000 200000

262500 87500

1.2 DPR Preparation lumpsum 1 25000 25000 25000

1.3 Technical protocols documentation lumpsum 1 25000 25000 25000

1.4

Value-chain Studies (On value addition processing at institution level) lumpsum 1 100000 100000

A Subtotal 350000 262500 87500

2 Institution Building

2.1 Mobilisation & Promotion of producer groups

No.of producer groups 167 102 3000 501000 306000

807000

1359000 453000

2.2 Promotion of producer group federation

No.of producer federations 2 1 15000 30000 15000 45000

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(Registration and legal procedures)

2.3

Management support to producer federation (Salary support to CEO and Accountant cum data entry operator for 2 instituion in one year and three from second year onwards) Months 24 36 36 10000 240000 360000 360000 960000

B Sub total 1812000 1359000 453000

3 Capacity Building

3.1 Printing of existing training materials for circulation to CRPs No. of copies 80 500 40000 0 0 40000

3476175 1158725

3.2 Training module development : audio-visual

No.of training modules 1 74900 74900 0 0 74900

3.3

Training equipment & material (Purchase of secutier and sprayer for CRPs demonstration) Nos 20 4000 80000 0 0 80000

3.4 6 day residential Training to CRP in IINRG on PSCL every year No.of CRP 40 80 80 3000 120000 240000 240000 600000

3.5

One day training in three block to the producers by Block Cooperative Officer on importance and functioning of Cooperatives No. of trainings 3 3 10000 30000 30000 60000

3.6

One day training to executive committee(EC) of cooperative on cooperative management

No. of EC members 22 33 33 1500 33000 49500 49500 132000

3.7 Exposure visit of Executive Committee to any successfully

No. of EC members 22 33 33 2000 44000 66000 66000 176000

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functional cooperative within state

3.8 Training to CRP on Semia-Lata Plantation by IINRG No. of CRP 40 80 80 500 20000 40000 40000 100000

3.9 Training on PSCL(4 modules) to 2000 new producers carried out in phases

No.of community members 500 1500 600 300000 900000 1200000

3.1 Training to leaders & PRI on Social Audit No.of leaders 60 120 120 200 12000 24000 24000 60000

3.11

Exposure visits of CRPs to immersion sites (Inter state exposure to other areas of Lac production in India) No.of CRPs 40 80 40 2500 100000 200000 100000 400000

3.12

Exposure visit of selected community members (50 every year) to IINRG field

No. of Mahila kisan 50 50 50 200 10000 10000 10000 30000

3.13

Exposure visit of Community to immersion sites (7 producers from each block (total 21)will visit MP to see Lac production by Mr. Moni Thomas)

No.of mahila kisan 21 2000 42000 42000

3.14

Service charge to CRP (Excluding the resource fee received by them as trainers) No.of CRPs 40 80 1000 480000 960000 0 1440000

3.16

Traning of creche teachers and BDSPs on food security and nutriotional need of family

No. of Creche teachers/BDSPs 2 2 2 6 25000 50000 50000 50000 150000

3.17 Promotion of Kitchen Garden Nos 20 30 0 50 1000 20000 30000 0 50000

C Sub total 4634900 3476175 1158725

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4 Community Investment Support

4.1

Community Infrastructure (Store house for 3 institutions on rent)

No.of Infrastructure units 2 3 3 1000 24000 36000 36000 96000

11137500 3712500

4.2

Inputs to the mahila kisan (grant) Purchase of Sprayer@1 per 5 producer No. of units 100 300 2800 280000 840000 1120000

4.3 Purchase of Seceteurr @1 per farmer for new farmers 500 1500 250 125000 375000 500000

4.3

Purchase of brood @ 7kg/farmer for new farmers for 1 cycle as loan by producer group

Number of farmer 700 1300 3400 2380000 4420000 6800000

4.4 Operational Fund of Producer federation

No.of producer federations 2 3 3 48000 96000 144000 144000 384000

4.5 Helmet to each producer (For drudgery reduction) No. of producer 2500 1500 250 625000 375000 1000000

4.6 Semia lata plantation in 150 acres Acres 75 75 33000 2475000 2475000 4950000

D Sub total 14850000 11137500 3712500

5 Knowledge Management

5.1 Identification of best practices (Through cross learning visits) Lumpsum 3 3 3 5000 15000 15000 15000 45000

652500 217500

5.2

Documentation of best practices (Through print and electronic media using Digital Green) Lumpsum 1 1 1 100000 100000 100000 100000 300000

5.3 Dissemination of best practices (Through kisan Mela and Award Lumpsum 2 2 2 50000 100000 100000 100000 300000

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ceremony)

5.4 Yearly workshop at state level with different stakeholders lumpsum 1 1 1 75000 75000 75000 75000 225000

E Subtotal 870000 652500 217500

6 Monitoring & Evaluation

6.1 Baseline survey (At the beginning of project period)

No. of HH to be covered 4000 75 300000 300000

975225 325075

6.2 Endline survey (At the end of project period)

No. of HH to be covered 4000 100 400000 400000

6.3

Independent evaluation studies (Hiring external consultant for mid term and end term evaluation) No. of Studies 1 1 150000 150000 150000 300000

6.4 Public information disclosure (display boards)

No.of information disclosure sites/places 65 50 1220 79300 61000 140300

6.5 Social Audit No.of social audits 4 6 6 10000 40000 60000 60000 160000

F Sub total 1300300 975225 325075

7 Administration Expenditure (Maximum 5% of total project cost)

7.1 Staff salaries Monthly 24 24 24 14000 336000 336000 336000 1008000

939600 313200

7.2 Travel & conveyance Monthly 12 12 12 5000 60000 60000 60000 180000

7.3 Stationary Monthly 12 12 12 800 9600 9600 9600 28800

7.4 Communication Monthly 12 12 12 1000 12000 12000 12000 36000

G Sub total 1252800 939600 313200

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H Grand Total (A+B+C+D+E+F+G) 25070000 18802500 6267500

Training schedule

S.No Theme

Name & Description of training module (Book keeping/ food security/marketing etc.,)

Location of training (If village / cluster / block / district /out-station)

Type of Trainee (Commuity/CRP/Para-professional)

Type of Trainer (External expert/Project staff/Para-professional/CRP) No.of batches

No.of training-days/batch

Optimum No.of trainees for each batch

Unit cost for delivering the training module (Cost Per batch) Cost of training (Rs)

Total No.of trainees

Cost per participant per day

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total

A B C D E F G H I J=(G)+(H)+(I) K L M

N=(G)x(M)

O=(H)x(M)

P= (I)x(M

)

Q= (N)+(O)+(P)

R=(J)x(L) S= (Q)/®

1

Technical protocols

6 day residential Training to CRP in IINRG on PSCL every year District CRP

External Expert 1 2 2 5 6 40 120,000

120000 240000

240000

600000 200 3000

Training to CRP on Semia-Lata Plantation by IINRG District CRP

External Expert 1 2 2 5 2 40 20000 20000 40000 40000

100000 200 500

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Training on PSCL(4 modules) to 2000 new producers carried out in phases Village Community CRP 20 60 0 80 4 25 15000

300000 900000 0

1200000 2000 600

2

Livelihood Institution Building

One day training in three block to the producers by Block Cooperative Officer on importance and functioning of Cooperatives Block Community

External Expert 3 3 0 6 1 200 10000 30000 30000 0 60000 1200 50

One day training to executive committee(EC) of cooperative on cooperative management District

Executive members of cooperative

External Expert 2 3 3 8 1 11 16500 33000 49500 49500

132000 88 1500

3.

1

Others (Specify)

Training to leaders & PRI on Social Audit Block

Natural leaders & PRI members

External Expert 2 4 4 10 1 30 6000 12000 24000 24000 60000 300 200

3.

2

Others (Specify)

Training to Creche teachers/BDSPs on food security enhancement and nutritional District

Creche Teachers/BDSPs

External Expert 2 2 2 6 1 32 25000 50000 50000 50000

150000 192 781.25

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need management.

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Activities Purpose/Objectives Output/Outcome

Project Inception

Mahila Kisan profiling To understand the current socio-economic conditions and capacity building needs of the women producers.

Ability to select the most needy women producers and design capacity building trainings accordingly.

Value-chain Studies (On value addition processing at institution level)

To understand the present value chain, identify its gaps and determine gap filling strategies.

A re-defined value chain with better returns at the producer levels along with value addition.

Institution Building

Mobilisation & Promotion of producer groups

To organize producers into groups and hence reap benefits of collective production.

Producer group becomes organized and realizes the benefits of federating.

Promotion of producer group federation (Registration and legal procedures)

To provide legal entity to collective and hence build their capacity.

The Producer federation becomes stable and sustainable in the long run.

Management support to producer federation (Salary support to CEO and Accountant cum data entry operator for 2 instituion in one year and three from second year onwards)

To facilitate the federation in self-management and hence run independently.

The federation becomes a self-managed producer’s organization for the maximum benefit of its producer members.

Capacity Building

Printing of existing training materials for circulation to CRPs

To train CRPs on the PSCL (Package on Scientific Lac Cultivation)

The CRPs become trained individuals spreading the knowledge of lac cultivation fast and wide which reduces the training cost of the producer federation in the long run as the CRPs become agents working on commission.

Training module development : audio-visual To enable producers to learn techniques of lac production easily and CRPs

Community learned and practicing PSCL.

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demonstrate to the community more comfortably.

Training equipment & material (Purchase of secutier and sprayer for CRPs demonstration)

To enable CRPPs demonstrate PSCL

Community learned and practicing PSCL.

6 day residential Training to CRP in IINRG on PSCL every year

To orient CRPs on

PSCL by expert

trainers of IINRG.

CRPs become

trained individuals

for further training

dissemination in the

community.

One day training in three block to the producers by Block Cooperative Officer on importance and functioning of Cooperatives

To orient producers

on the benefits of

cooperative

Producers organize

themselves into

cooperatives and

hence get better

returns for their

production.


To train the core

management group

on better

management of the

cooperative

The management

group becomes

capable of managing

the activities of the

cooperative.

Exposure visit of Executive Committee to any successfully functional cooperative within state

To train the core

management group

on better

management of the

cooperative

The management

group becomes

capable of managing

the activities of the

cooperative.

Training to CRP on Semia-Lata Plantation by IINRG

To orient CRPs on

semialata plantation

for further

promotion of the

host plant.

Semialata plantation

and cultivation of lac

on it leads to

reduced drudgery of

women producers

and better produce

due to better

management of host

plants.

Training on PSCL(4 modules) to 2000 new producers carried out in phases

To increase producer

base on lines with

scientific techniques

of lac cultivation.

Producer base

increased by 2000

new producers

practicing lac

cultivation by

scientific techniques.

Training to leaders & PRI on Social Audit To orient the local

natural leaders, other

stakeholders and PRI

functionaries to

carry out social audit

of the programme.

Transparency of the

proramme is

maintained and

hence the

community and all

other stakeholders

extend maximum

cooperation.

Exposure visits of CRPs to immersion sites (Inter state exposure to other areas of Lac production in India)

To train CRPs in best practices being followed in other states.

CRPs able to combine best practices from different areas and provide better training and handholding support

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to the producers.

Exposure visit of selected community members (50 every year) to IINRG field

To help producers gain first hand experience of lac production in field.

Selected producers gain more than 100% increased production from baseline.

Exposure visit of Community to immersion sites (7 producers from each block (total 21)will visit MP to see Lac production by Mr. Moni Thomas)

To help producers gain experience in best practices of lac production being followed in other states.

Producers get better returns from investment on their produce.

Service charge to CRP (Excluding the resource fee received by them as trainers)

To provide remuneration to CRPs

CRPs get remunerated initially from the project and at the end of project period become capable enough to earn commission from community.

Service charge to para-professionals (Excluding the resource fee received by them as trainers)

Community Investment Support

Community Infrastructure (Store house for 3 institutions on rent)

To store produce at common place for the purpose of running a cooperative

The producers get better economies of scale through aggregation and sale from a common point.

Inputs to the mahila kisan (grant) Purchase of Sprayer@1 per 5 producer

To facilitate production process by provision of equipments

All Women producers produce lac by scientific means.

Purchase of Secutier @1 per farmer for new farmers

To facilitate production process by provision of equipments

All Women producers produce lac by scientific means.

Purchase of brood @ 10kg/farmer for new farmers for 1 cycle as loan by producer group

To facilitate lac production for farmers not yet involved in the production process

All producers have enough brood to sustain their production process by the end of the project period.

Operational Fund of Producer federation

Helmet to each producer (For drudgery reduction)

To provide women producers with safety in the process of production and

There is no casualty in case of any accident related to lac cultivation.

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hence reduce their drudgery in lac cultivation.

Semia lata plantation in 150 acres To provide women producers with more accessible host plants leading to their enhanced involvement in the production process

Women producers carry out 100% of the lac producing activities without support from men and have enhanced socio-economic status in their community.

Knowledge Management

Identification of best practices (Through cross learning visits)

To help in exchange of knowledge and experiences for better learning between producers of different clusters.

Producers gain better experiences through sharing and also become inspired through positive competitiveness.

Documentation of best practices (Through print and electronic media)

To create documents for further research and enrichment of training resources through required customization.

Producers beyond the coverage of this project would benefit through the gathered knowledge in the long run.

Dissemination of best practices (Through kisan Mela and Award ceremony)

To encourage positive competition and share best practices of production to disseminate it further.

Producers would enter into a healthy competition and hence become motivated to practice better.

Yearly workshop at state level with different stakeholders

To involve stakeholders at different levels to understand the potentials of the product.

In the long run stakeholders would influence policy level changes for better regulated market for the produce.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Baseline survey (At the beginning of project period)

To understand the current situation of the product viz- a-viz producers.

After the completion of the project, a comparison between the baseline and the end line will reveal the true potential of the produce and the model being implemented.

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Endline survey (At the end of project period)

To understand the situation of the product viz- a-viz producers after the completion of the project.

After the completion of the project, a comparison between the baseline and the end line will reveal the true potential of the produce and the model being implemented.

Independent evaluation studies (Hiring external consultant for mid term and end term evaluation)

To understand the progress and achievement of the model and deviations if any from the planned course of action through an independent authority.

The results of the study will yield directions at the mid-term level for further course of action and the total positive outcome from the project at its end.

Public information disclosure (display boards)

To maintain transparency and provide visibility to the project.

The community and various stakeholders would have a clear picture of the processes of the project and hence gain faith in it for better participation.

Social Audit To maintain transparency and provide visibility to the project.

The community and various stakeholders would have a clear picture of the processes of the project and hence gain faith in it for better participation.

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Training Heads Sub-activities Purpose/Objective Output/Outcome

Technical protocols

6 day residential Training to CRP in IINRG on PSCL every year

To orient CRPs on

PSCL by expert

trainers of IINRG.

CRPs become

trained individuals

for further training

dissemination in the

community.

Training to CRP on Semia-lata Plantation by IINRG

To orient CRPs on

semialata plantation

for further

promotion of the

host plant.

Semialata plantation

and cultivation of

lac on it leads to

reduced drudgery of

women producers.

Training on PSCL(4 modules) to 2000 new producers carried out in phases

To increase

producer base on

lines with scientific

techniques of lac

cultivation.

Producer base

increased by 2000

new producers

practicing lac

cultivation by

scientific

techniques.

Livelihood Institution Building

One day training in three block to the producers by Block Cooperative Officer on importance and functioning of Cooperatives

To orient producers

on the benefits of

cooperative

Producers organize

themselves into

cooperatives and

hence get better

returns for their

production.


To train the core

management group

on better

management of the

cooperative

The management

group becomes

capable of

managing the

activities of the

cooperative.

Others (Specify) Training to leaders & PRI on Social Audit

To orient the local

natural leaders,

other stakeholders

and PRI

functionaries to

carry out social

audit of the

programme.

Transparency of the

proramme is

maintained and

hence the

community and all

other stakeholders

extend maximum

cooperation.

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13. Human Resource (Give details of staff with relevant experience proposed for deployment towards the proposed project. Details should also include availability of Community Resource Persons with relevant knowledge deployed under the project. Answer to this question may be put as Annexure.

Name Gender Position and current place of work

Educational qualification

Experience in Lac cultivation( Yes /No)

Experience in years

In lac cultivation

Total

Nikhil Ritesh Sanga

M Placed at BDS Ranchi and looking after Bundu and Khunti

Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development from XISS

Yes 4 years 7 years

Mithilesh Kumar Singh

M Placed at BDS Ranchi and looking overall Lac intervention

Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development from XISS

Yes 5 years 5 years

Chaitanya Kumar Ganjhu

M Placed at Khunti Graduate and Lac entrepreneur

Yes 10 years 10 years

Bharat Kumar Rathore

M Placed at BDS Ranchi and looking after Khunti.

Master in social work Yes 1 year 4 year

Sachin Kumar Sahi

M Placed at BDS Ranchi and looking after marketing.

Post Graduate Diploma in marketing from XISS

Yes 1 year 4 years

Benedict Naurangi

M Placed at Khunti( Field assistant)

Graduate Yes 4 years 6 years

Rakesh Ranjan

M Placed at Bundu ( field assistant)

Masters in Rural Development from IGNOU

Yes 8 years 8 years

Magan Say Mahto



Suberdhan Mahto



Dev Narayan Mahto



Shankar Bedia

M Placed at Angara ( field assistant)


Amar Singh Munda

M Placed at Angara (field assistant)

Intermediate Yes 6 years 6 years

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE PERSON REVENUE MODEL

Service portfolio of CRP's (1:50 producers)

Items

Charges (In Rs.)

Brood Procurement

2/kg

Funki Sale

2/kg

Fungicides Arrangement

5/cycle/family

Brood Sale/rotation

2/kg

Scrap Sale

2/kg

Estimated income of CRP’s through service ( 1: 50 Producers )

Brood Procurement

Average

Inoculation in Kg/

family

No. of

families

involved

Total

Inoculation

in Kg

Reven

ue / Kg

Total Revenue

( Inoculation

*Revenue / Kg

Kusumi on Kusum 20 20 400 2 800

Kusumi on Ber 15 25 375 2 750

Kusumi on Semialata

7 5 35 2 300

Rangini on Ber 10 15 150 2 300

Rangini on Palas 5 12 60 2 120

Funki Sale ( 25 % of

Inoculation )

Total Inoculation ( In Kg) Estimated Funki

obtained

Revenue Total

Revenue

1020 255 2 510

Fungicides Arrangements

Total No. of Family ( Including repetition)

Revenue / family

In Rs.

Total

Revenue

77 5 385

Brood Sale

Total brood inoculated ( in Kg)

Expected output

in terms of brood

( Average 3 times

of inoculation )

Revenue /

Kg

Total

Revenue

1020 3060 2 6120

Scrap Sale

Expected output in terms of brood ( In Kg)

Estimated scrap in Kg (5% of

expected

production of

brood )

Revenue / Kg in Rs.

Total Revenue

3060 153 2 6120

Total revenue from all

sources ( Brood

procurement , Funki sale

, Fungicides

arrangements Brood Sale

, Scrap Sale

Rs. (2040+510+385+6120+306) = Rs. 9361/-

Revenue / Month ( Rs.

9361/12 )

Rs. 780 ( This will increase on yearly basis as the producers gain interest in lac cultivation

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CALCULATION OF INCEREMENTAL INCOME OF EXISTING PRODUCERS

Income increment of existing 2000 producers

Items Quantity(in

Kg)

Revenue/kg after giving Rs. 5 to cooperative

through initial value addition

Total Revenue earned

Average Scrap in one year

18 30 540

Average Funki in one year

27 30 810

TOTAL 45

1350

CALCULATION OF INCEREMENTAL INCOME OF NEW PRODUCERS

Net Profit (Return- Investment)= Rs 29175

Investment

Items quantity

in kg Price/kg Investment

CROP -1

Brood 10 400 4000

Thread 10 10 100

Spraying 10 25 250

TOTAL 4350

Items quantity

in kg Price/kg Investment

CROP -2

Brood 15 0 0

Thread 15 10 150

Spraying 15 25 375

TOTAL 525

Total investment(crop 1 +2 ) 4875

Returns

CROP-1

Items Quantity in Kg. Rate/kg

Total Sale in Rs.

Funki (25% of brood inouclated)

2.5 450 1125

Brood (Three times of inoculation)

30 400 12000

Scrap (5% of Brood)

1.5 450 675

Total Return 13800

CROP-2

Items Quantity

in Kg. Rate/kg

Total Sale in

Rs.

Funki (25% of brood

inoculated) 3 450 1350

Brood (Three times of

inoculation) 45 400 18000

Scrap (5% of Brood)

2 450 900

Total Return 20250

TOTAL Return (Crop1+2) 34050

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Misereor Sanction Letter for 25 % Contribution

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Misereor Sanction Letter for 25 % Contribution

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European Commission Contribution

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Intel Contribution

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ICCO Contribution

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ICCO Contribution

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ICCO Contribution

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NABARD Contribution - FTTF

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Training Schedule of Lac Cultivation – By IINRG

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Training Curriculum for Food Security and Nutritional Security of Producer Women.

Duration ( 8 hours ) Sl. No.

Topics Methodology Duration Expected Outcome

Tea-10mins 1 Registration NA

2 Welcome address, briefing & Ice-Breaking (Aao Jaane pehchaane)

Story & Game 20 mins

To formally introduce the trainers and brief the programme and methodology to the group& help trainees to know each other easily and enabling them to get open for the coming sessions.

3 Samasyaon Ki pehchaan aaur samadhaan ki auur

Stpry, Exercise & Discussion

30 Mins

To help participants understand the difficulties faced by them and their families and how are they to a large extent related to health.

4 Swastha-Kya, Kyu aaur kaise

Exercise, Experience sharing & Discussion

60 mins

To help participants understand the different elements of health and differentiate between good and ill health and what factors influence them.

5 Hygiene and health

Exercise, Experience sharing & Discussion

30 Mins

TO help participants understand the importance of hygiene and its effect on helath and nutritional status of individuals.

6 Energizer Game 10 Mins To recharge the partcipants and make them feel fresh for the upcoming sessions.

7 Poshan aaur ku-poshan Presentation & Discussion

20 Mins

To help participants understand the difference between nutrition, mal-nutrition and under-nutrition and how it affects people.

8 Khadya suraksha aaur Poshan- zaruri kyu

Story & Game, Discussion

30 Mins

To help participants realise the importance of nutrition and how should their income be well channelised to ensure food security and meet nutritional requirements of their families.

Lunch- one hour

9 Energizer Game 15 Mins

To recharge the partcipants and make them feel fresh for the upcoming sessions after lunch.

10 Vitamin, khanij aaur urja dene waale khadya padarth

Game, story, presenttaion and discussion

45 Mins

To help participants understand the different types of food essential for the body and the different roles they play.

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11 Purush aur mahila ke poshan ki kahani

Story, discussion, presentation

60 Mins

To help the participants understand and address the issues of gender discrimination at home in terms of nutritional provision to the children. The specific needs of adolescents, girls, children and pregnant women would be emphasised.

12

Paushtik bhojan banane ke tareeke ewam peene ke paani ka mahatwa

Game & Presentation

30 Mins

To help the participants understand the variuos methods of cooking and preservinf food to ensure nutritional requirements of the family.

Tea- 15 Mins

13 Ghar me Sabji Utpaadan-paushtik bhojan

Presnttaion, exercise and discussion

30Mins

To help the participant understand methods to cultivate important vegetables in kitchen gardens.

14 Nasha aaur pariwaar ka swasth-Kaise bache aaur bachaye

Story and Discussion

15 Mins

To help the particpants understand variuos factors influencing individual's health such as drugs/alcohol and why they are harmful.

15 Summarization & Feedback Session

Presentation & Discussion

15 Mins To help the particpant collate the learning of the entire programme.

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Audit Report – F.Y. 2011 - 12

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