Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
collaboration arrangements and ii) how can project experiences be scaled up through sharing
with other donors?
Programme management
Good achievements of the projects include the capacity building of the 20 partner NGOs (203
staff), the cost effectiveness of interventions (value creation is 7.47 times higher than the
projects’ costs), and quality of monitoring and experience documentation. However, PNGO are
still dependent on the projects. The future role of PNGOs and other stakeholders will be
carefully analysed and reorganised. Therefore, the process of phasing out, i.e. the consolidation
of approaches is a major challenge to be addressed with priority in order to ensure
sustainability.
4. Project description
4.1 Current situation and vision for Samriddhi
Since its inception, LEAF has developed the following vision regarding the beneficiaries (see
Figure 1): “The communities’ organisations and their respective networks (secondary level of
organisation of cluster platforms, MSEs, etc…) are able to identify, organise and lead their local
development initiatives based on their priorities, in mobilising and exploiting resources and
services available at their level (local administration, lines agencies, service providers and
market actors, etc) on a continuing basis and without further substantial inputs from
development projects. The fruits of this social and economic development have to be shared
with extreme poor and vulnerable households living within the boundaries of communities’
organisations”
The principal role of the project and its partners was to work towards this vision. In the future,
the principal setting of the actors will remain the same while Samriddhi will adopt the role of a
facilitator in a process during which the project will reduce its support on a gradual basis by
shifting the responsibilities to the actors in the system, with the aim to make the system
sustainable. What this means for the actors of the system and for the project’s view on
sustainability is described below. For an overview on the evolution of institutions and
approaches throughout LEAF, SAAKTI, and Samriddhi, see annex 10.
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