Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
Consolidation and institutionalisation efforts are especially crucial for established structures like
CBOs and their cluster platforms as well as service providers and their associations. With a
view on the post-intervention situation, the project will strengthen its role as facilitator and hand
over direct activities to the system stakeholders. Thus, capacity building will wherever possible
be done by system actors like community facilitators, LSPs, government agencies or private
companies. Besides these actors, the project will also make use of private companies as
service providers. Those include private firms and free-lance consultants. They will be mostly
utilised for providing support in market and value chain activities that were previously done by
NGOs. Their intervention will be done on ad-hoc basis and according to specific needs, not as
long-term contributors. The project’s support for this modality of collaboration should decrease
in the phasing-out phase, expecting service providers to be increasingly directly engaged by the
beneficiaries.
As described in the vision, the project aims at strengthening and transforming the cluster
platforms into community platforms. To do this step, the cluster platforms will be encouraged to
open their membership base to representatives of the civil society, good kings (progressive,
positive minded better situated persons), MSE representatives, LSPs, and female mentors.
Through sensitisation by the project, the newly formed so called community platforms will target
equal participation of women as well as the participation of poor and extreme poor, minority
groups, and disadvantaged in their activities and decision making process. The project will
develop the capacities of community facilitators and female mentors. The community facilitators
will be the main player in organising and facilitating the annual planning exercises and
subsequent sharing events with relevant organisations. The female mentors will lead the
participatory gender analysis in the community and will be the focal point for all gender relevant
issues.
The changing constitution and roles of the cluster/community platforms will take place during the
first phase of Samriddhi, with the support of PNGOs and community facilitators, whose
capacities will be developed in this regard. The responsibility of mobilising community platforms
in new communities will be handed over to the community facilitators who will be remunerated
for this task, whenever he or she is active outside hi/her own community. In the phasing-out
phase, the facilitation of community platforms will be done only by community facilitators.
The project will continuously analyse the capacities of individual community platforms, MSEs
and SPAs and phase out its support when conditions are met that they can sustain their
operation on their own. The support to present MSEswill be phased out after a process of
consolidation during the third year of the phase. For SPAs enrolled during the first phase of
SAAKTI, the phasing-out process will start from the third year of the first phase of Samriddhi.
For those who came later the process will start with the phasing-out phase. Phasing-out
scenarios will also be developed for value chain interventions.
The modality of collaboration with line agencies at national level already evolved during the
second phase, passing from the idea of institutional reforms to the provision of services to the
projects. As the government agencies have now the experience of pro-poor technology
development, the project will start to phase out the collaboration from the first phase of
Samriddhi.
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