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Inauguration of the Centre for

Climate Change (CCC)

The Centre for Climate Change was inaugurated on 20 July 2018 at BIRD, Lucknow. Shri S K Pattanayak, IAS, Secretary, Dept. of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman, NABARD; Shri H R Dave, Deputy Managing Director, NABARD; Dr.Konrad Uebelhoer, Director, Indo-German Biodiversity Programme and Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management Programme;

Shri Atul Bagai, Country Head, UN Environment Programme, Shri Shantanu Gotmare, IAS, GGI, India and other dignitaries, viz Smt.T.S. Raji Gain, Director, BIRD; Shri Naresh Gupta, MD, NABCONS; Shri Shankar Pande, CGM, FSPD, HO NABARD, Smt.Toolika Pankaj, Principal, NBSC and Shri.A K Panda, CGM, UP RO, NABARD were present on the occasion.

Dignitaries in the CCC Stakeholders

Consultation Workshop

As a part of BIRDs green initiative, Plastic bottles

for water replaced with glass bottles in all

Seminars/ Meetings/Workshops and Training

programs of BIRD

Shri Raj Kumar, Joint Director, handing

over a Tree Certificate to GIZ Country

Director, Dr. Konrad Uebelhoer.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Joint

Secretary, MoEF&CC inaugurating the

CCC Learning Lab

Dignitaries during the inauguration of

CCC at BIRD Lucknow

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First, there was tree planting by the Chairman,

NABARD, Shri Harsh Kumar Bhanwala followed

by the Walkathon. Faculty Members and staff of

BIRD, the residents of BIRD Campus, NBSC

Campus, their family members and trainees took

part enthusiastically.

Green Walkathon led by the Chairman,

NABARD

Tree Planting in Neem Kunj by Dr. Harsh

Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman, NABARD

Dignitaries observing the watershed

models and other displayed items in the

CCC Learning Lab

Green Walkathon at BIRD on 20 July 2018

A Green Walkathon with the theme Reducing

Carbon Foot Print was organized in the Campus

on the eve of Climate Change Centre inauguration

at BIRD Lucknow.

Chairman, NABARD, Director BIRD and

Principal NBSC flagging off Green

Walkathon

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43rd Meeting of the Governing Council

(GC) of BIRD Lucknow

43rd GC Meeting was held on 20 July 2018 under

the chairmanship of Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala,

Chairman NABARD and Chairman of the GC.

During his address, Chairman shared that BIRD

had expanded its client base, and the satisfaction

index of people being trained here was higher. He

highlighted some areas which needed further

focus, especially, research and the steps being

taken to rejuvenate the same. He pointed out that

BIRD needs to focus on quality, content and need

of the client to whom the courses are being

offered. Smt. T S Raji Gain, Director assured the

GC that the BIRD will focus on areas of

diversification of clients, CSR, sectoral theme

based programmes, training, consultancy, etc. in

coming days. Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala,

Chairman NABARD and Shri H.R. Dave, DMD,

NABARD in the presence of other members of

Governing Council of BIRD released Volume X,

No. 1 of the journal THE MICROFINANCE

REVIEW.

Dr. H. K. Bhanwala, Chairman NABARD

and Chairman Governing Council, BIRD

Lucknow and Shri H. R. Dave, DMD

NABARD during the 43rd Governing

Council meeting

Shri Raj Kumar, JD, Smt. T S Raji Gain

Director along with other staff of BIRD

during 43rd Governing Council meeting

Release of "The Microfinance Journal -

Volume X" during the 43rd Governing

Council meeting

43rd meeting of Governing Council of

BIRD in Progress

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Honble minister for Cooperation, Govt.

Of Uttar Pradesh Shri Mukut Bihari Ji

Smt. T.S. Raji Gain, Director, BIRD

presenting a memento to the Hon'ble

Minister for Co-operation, Uttar Pradesh

Programme Design Workshop for CCC in

collaboration with GIZ and Acclimatize

BIRD Lucknow in collaboration with GIZ and

Acclimatize conducted 2-day Programme Design

Workshop for the upcoming Centre for Climate

Change at BIRD Lucknow. Focus was on

designing effective training programmes on

climate finance bringing in international best

practices in learning and helping the Centre in

developing climate finance training modules. The

best practices and innovative methods on the

following topics were deliberated during the

workshop:

Review of NAFCC Projects of all the States

by DMD at BIRD

Shri H.R. Dave, DMD NABARD and Shri S.A.

Pande, CGM, FSDD, HO NABARD reviewed the

progress in implementation of Climate Change

projects in different states under the NAFCC, GoI

on 21 July 2018 in a review meeting held at BIRD

Lucknow representative from the Ministry of

Environment and Forests, GoI was also present.

Shri H.R. Dave, DMD NABARD and Shri

S.A. Pande, CGM, FSDD, NABARD HO

reviewed the progress in implementation

of NAFCC projects

Programme on Corporate Governance (25-

27 June 2018)

Programme on Corporate Governance for the

newly elected Chairmen and members of BoDs of

DCCBs of the State of UP was conducted at BIRD,

Lucknow. 33 Chairmen and 18 other BoDs

attended. The programme was also attended and

participants were addressed by Shri Mukut Bihari

Verma, Honble Minister, Dept of Cooperation,

GoUP, ARCS (Banking), Cooperation Dept, GoUP

and MD, UPStCB.

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Mitigation, Climate Finance, Renewable Energy

Products, Solar Powered Irrigation, Innovations

in NRM, Integrated Dairy Farming, Soil and

Moisture Conservation Measures, etc. A field visit

was arranged to the solar off-grid Mini Power

Plant of 27KW at Pipargaon village, Hardoi

district in association with M/s OMC Power Ltd.

The plant supplies power to mobile towers, fuel

station, small business units and retail customers.

During the valedictory session, Smt.T.S.Raji Gain,

Director, BIRD urged upon the participants to

implement green financing initiatives in their

Bank and make it a part of the Banking activities/

Businesses.

Field visit to Solar Off-grid Power Plant at

Pipargaon village, Hardoi, District UP

BIRD celebrates World Environment Day

The World Environment Day was celebrated by

Faculty and Staff members of BIRD, Lucknow on

5th June 2018 Dr. Abdhesh Kumar Gangwar,

Head, Centre for Environment Education (CEE)

Himalayan Region, was the Chief Guest on the

occasion. Participants attending training Program

on Green Finance, which was being conducted by

BIRD also joined the celebration.

Project formulation to access climate finance

Climate vulnerability assessment Innovative climate finance products Environmental, social, and gender

safeguards Tool kit on climate risk assessment in

bank finance

Programme Design Workshop for CCC in

collaboration with GIZ and Acclimatize

at BIRD, Lucknow(10-11 July 2018)

The team of experts from GIZ (Ms. Emilia

Holdaway, Mr. Alexis Brakhan, Mr. Thorsten

Hlzer & Dr. Shailendra Dwivedi) and

Acclimatize (Ms. Jennifer Steeves) guided the

Workshop. Followed by the workshop, GIZ team

also interacted with all stakeholders of CCC viz.,

Commercial Banks, Cooperative Banks, RRBs,

Government Departments, FPOs and NGOs to s

assess their capacity development needs.

BIRD Lucknow conducted Programme on

Green Financing

The programme was attended by 31 officers from

Commercial Banks, RRBs, Cooperative Banks,

MFIs and NGOs from 10 states. As part of the

programme, inputs were given on Green

Financing, Climate Change, Adaptation/

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Shri Sumanta Chaudhari, IAS, addressing

the participants of the Workshop

Training Programmes

June 2018

BIRD, Lucknow conducted 18 training

programmes (15 In-Campus and 03 On-

Location) during June 2018 of which were

attended by 391 participants.

July 2018

BIRD, Lucknow conducted 20 training programmes (15 In-Campus and 05 On-Location) during July 2018 of which were attended by 427 participants. Of these, the customized programmes are:

i. A training programme for IES Officer Trainees

ii. Training of Mater Trainers on IVCS was conducted for Officers of Meghalaya Basin Management Agency.

iii. A programme on Creating High Performance Organizations was conducted for Senior Officers of Pragathi Krishna Gramin Bank.

Shri Raj Kumar, Joint Director and Officer-in-

charge, BIRD, highlighted the importance of

celebrating World Environment Day on 5th June

every year and indicated that the theme for the

World Environment Day 2018, "Beat Plastic

Pollution" should be adhered to by all of us. Dr

Abdhesh Kumar elaborated on simple steps

required in everyday life to bring in much needed

improvement to our environment, He appreciated

the green campus of BIRD and urged upon one

and all to be sensitive to environment concerns.

OIC, BIRD, Shri Raj Kumar extended a

hearty welcome to Dr. Abdesh Kumar

Shri Sumanta Chaudhuri, IAS, Managing

Director, Small Farmers Agri Business

Consortium (SFAC) New Delhi visited BIRD on 22

June 2018 and addressed the participants in the

Workshop on Uniform Guidelines for Policy and

Programmes on FPOs. Dr.A. R. Khan, GM, FSDD,

NABARD, HO Mumbai also graced the occasion.

Smt.T. S. Raji Gain, Director, BIRD shared her

views and offered suggestions to make the FPO

movement successful. Representatives of NIRD,

IRMA, POPIs from different States and Tata Trust

participated in the workshop.

: . . , Chief Editor: Smt. T.S. Raji Gain, Director

: , Editor: Mr. Raj Kumar, Joint Director : . , /

Co-Editor: Smt. M. Jothi Srinivas, Deputy General Manager/Faculty Member

Special thanks to Shri A. C. Sarmah, FM