Samriddhi

Samriddhi Project Document
development priorities and share these with the UP through the appropriate channels. Sharique
will support the communities to assess how they can contribute to improve local governance
through the local governance self-assessment exercise. If they take up specific local
governance issues in the communities’ annual plans and require technical support in
implementation, Sharique will provide this. It is crucial that the community platforms share their
overall plans either in separate events with the UP at a time where the UP can still adopt the
communities’ priorities and/or through the ward level planning meetings, i.e. the Ward
Assemblies (Ward Shava) organised by the UP.
For clear assignments of roles and responsibilities between Samriddhi and Sharique and ILGS,
respectively, see annex 9.
The collaboration with the two Shiree Innovation Fund Projects 6 , funded by DFID and
implemented by Intercooperation, will continue on the present basis. This collaboration allows
extreme poor members of CBOs and communities supported by Samriddhi to access productive
assets provided in the form of grants, and subsequently start economic activities. These
extreme poor belonging to the “bottom 10%” usually cannot start any economic venture due to
their lack of assets and working capital.
Other opportunities of alliances exist and will be explored. This has already been and can still
be the case with the Char Livelihoods Programme in the field of medicinal plants or other
products. Collaboration with the National Agriculture Technology Project (NATP) of the Ministry
of Agriculture, financed by the World Bank, in promoting value chains is another possibility.
NATP already replicates approaches that were developed in the frame of SAAKTI.
The decision about the merger of LEAF and SAAKTI and the new orientation taken by
Samriddhi will have to be clearly communicated to stakeholders, particularly the present
partners of the two projects. LEAF and SAAKTI will organise during the current phase initial
workshops with partners (NGOs, line agencies, private companies) about the merger of the
project and the inception of Samriddhi. Written information will be provided regarding the
reorganisation of the projects and the consequences for the partners in terms of vision,
evolution of functions, transition strategy, activities and resources. At the commencement of
Samriddhi, new workshops will take place in order to orient project and partner staff on the
changes in applying the project approaches, in coordinating activities. These workshops will
also provide the guidelines to NGO staff on how they will to inform the communities, service
providers associations and MSE currently supported by LEAF and SAAKTI.
6 Shiree supports the economic empowerment of the extreme poor belonging to the bottom 10% of the
population in terms of poverty. The Innovation Fund awards proposals innovative proposal in order to
graduate the extreme poor from extreme poverty.
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