Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
Though the project will only touch two new Upazillas, significant horizontal and vertical
expansion will take place within the existing Upazillas through the following three steps:
1. Within the existing Wards there will be expansion to the untouched communities.
2. Within the existing Unions there will be expansion to the untouched Wards.
3. Within the existing Upazillas there will be expansion to the untouched Unions
Samriddhi will not move into totally new Upazillas as it will build upon the existing network of
stakeholders having already built a critical mass over previous phases. During this consolidation
phase the facilitation will be based on current assets (e.g. presence of local service providers,
community facilitators and local market actors). With the reduction of involvement of partner
NGO in the project and the limited capacities of project structure, a large geographical extension
to new areas could not envisaged. This is due to the fact that going to areas that are not
adjacent to areas already covered by the project would require considerable resources and time
for building relationship and rapport with local stakeholders. A more limited geographical
extension, mostly to adjacent wards, would not require so much resources and time since the
present stakeholders can be involved, and will anyway increase the outreach of the project in
areas where poverty prevail at the same level as present areas of intervention.
The project will continue with the current situation of a division of the geographical area into four
regions. These divisions will be the three regions in the Rajshahi division and the remaining one
in Sunamganj district.
A more detailed geographical map showing the selected Unions and Upazillas is presented in
the annex 2.
6. Partners and Alliances
6.1 Project partners
Partners should be seen as key actors of a “system” (vision) that are used by the project as an
entry point to achieve systemic changes according their capacities and incentives. They are the
players that will contribute to the well being of the final beneficiaries.
The community platforms will be the partners which will address social issues of the community
, particularly the women and the poorest. They will contribute to establishing an enabling
environment for socio-economic issues. The coordination role they will play at community level
and the linkages they will establish with other support organisations will benefit different
initiatives undertaken by CBOs and MSEs.
SPAs are the local key actors which will play a critical role in building the capacities of producer
groups and MSEs in the field of technical, managerial, marketing and organisational skills. The
good functioning of the system, and hence, the benefit to the poor, considerably depends on the
quality of services these actors will deliver.
The private sector will increasingly take part in the system, and is seen as an important partner
of the project in the view of sustainability of interventions, particularly in the field of value chain
promotion. The collaboration with private firms and companies will be therefore further
developed in order to achieve the sustainability of the system.
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