Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
making processes. The SPAs are also selecting and recruiting new LSPs, with a special
focus to recruit women LSPs.
• The capacity of the SPAs to effectively organise the service transactions between them
and their clients. This includes business management aspects like business planning as
well as negotiation skills and service contracting.
Output 1.5: The business management capacities and social responsibility of MSEs are
strengthened.
Output 1.6: Access to financial services for the MSEs improved.
The last two outputs for outcome 1 focus on enterprise development. Two major aspects are
covered:
• The capacities of the MSEs in terms of business management are strengthened. This
includes training by service providers on business planning, production management,
financial management, etc. Furthermore, the MSEs are sensitised regarding their social
responsibility to be gender sensitive and give poor and extreme poor people of the
community the chance to become economically active.
• The project is aiming to strengthen the access to capital through two ways. First, it aims
to improve the existing products and access to those products in collaboration with the
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), the biggest provider of funds for micro-finance
institutions in Bangladesh. Second, it works together with private companies that are
interested to invest in rural MSEs like for example venture capital companies.
Outcome 2 is covered by three outputs:
Output 2.1: Human and institutional capacities of the community platforms are built to
represent and advocate for the interests of all segments of the community, giving
special attention to poor and extreme poor, and minority groups.
Output 2.2: Coordination and exchange between community platforms and relevant
development partners (UP, UDMC, LA, BMO, etc.) are strengthened.
The two first outputs of the second outcome focus on the human and institutional development
of the community platforms.
• The project will select community facilitators in every community and build their capacity
in facilitating the annual planning process of the community platform and also the
exchange between the community platform and local government bodies or other
relevant institutions. Community platform leaders will be sensitised to the importance of
including all segments of the community in order to become a strong voice for the whole
community when negotiating with local government bodies. The inclusion of women into
decision making process will be stressed.
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