YEARS. Empowering Poor Women through Business Services

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1 1 YEARS Empowering Poor Women through Business Services

2 VISION Foster gender equality by improving socio economic status of women to fully participate in decision making in domestic and public spheres MISSION Provide customized quality business development services to enable women to enhance their income, access better education and health services for their children with a special focus on girls.

3 UDYOGINI S REACH No. of States 4 No. of Districts 13 No. of Blocks 37 No. of Villages 1210 No. of Women Producers No. of children supported as part of ecosystem 5302 No. of VLSCs 176 No. of Entrepreneurs 4687 No. of WEGs 1110 No. of BDSPs 299 3

4 4 UDYOGINI THEORY OF CHANGE: IF POOR, MARGINALIZED AND VULNERABLE WOMEN ARE PROVIDED CUSTOMIZED BUSINESS SERVICES (SKILL, ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING, FINANCIAL AND MARKET LINKAGES) THEN THEIR INCOME SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES DUE TO INCREASE IN PRODUCTION AND QUALITY OF PRODUCT AND SERVICES. THE INCREASE IN ECONOMIC STATUS ENABLES WOMEN TO PARTICIPATE IN DECISION MAKING IN DOMESTIC AND PUBLIC SPHERE.

5 5 OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK Five stage Operational Framework of Udyogini 3. Enterprise promotion and incentives for producers & market players 5. Expansion & Outreach 4. Ownership and scale up through systems and institutions 1. Enterprise motivation and management awareness for grassroots women. 2. Creation of grassroots BDS providers and entrepreneurs About Udyogini - Udyogini s core competency is in business services and microenterprise development for women. Udyogini strives for developing models for inclusion of poor women works in remote regions. Udyogini has successfully implemented models (for women-focused value chains) that have been indigenously developed.

6 IMPACT SO FAR UDYOGINI S IMPACT We aim to reach Helped 2,00,000 Rural Women since 1992 Trained Non Profit Organizations Women Producers directly Impacted Rural Women by

7 7 MILESTONES YEAR Milestone 1992 Established to implement Women's Enterprise Management Training Outreach Program (WEMTOP) and provided microenterprise management training to 30 NGOs and reached over 1,00,000 poor women producers during Udyogini awarded 'Aga Khan Foundation India Innovation Fund to build handicraft enterprise in Bikaner, Rajasthan Selected for Yale University's Global Social Entrepreneurship Program Adopted value chain development model to enhance the income of 20,000 rural women Udyogini was awarded World Of Difference 100 Award by the International Alliance for Women, Washington DC, USA Selected as part of Global Learning Alliance on Agriculture Value Chains and Financial Services Udyogini recognized by National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), Ministry of Rural Department, Govt of India to deliver extension services for scientific cultivation of Lac to tribal producers in three districts of Jharkhand World Bank-BEES Network awarded Value Chain Studies for Lac, Cashew and Goatry in India

8 CAPACITY BUILDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SCALING UP OF VALUE CHAINS S.No Name of the Project/Assignment Client Period Area/State 1 Women's Enterprise Management Training Economic Development Rajasthan, Orissa, Bihar Outreach Program Institute of the World Bank 2 Promote and strengthen Crèches to improve the Indian Council for Child Jharkhand productivity of Lac Producers Welfare (ICCW) ongoing 3 Business Development Services for poor women. Misereor Madhya Pradesh 4 Development and Implementation of business plans Forest Department, MP Madhya Pradesh for small and medium size enterprises - SME in forest fringe villages 5 Market Development & Enterprise Promotion for Misereor Jharkhand poor Women. 6 Rural Business Hubs of Ministry of Panchayati Raj in Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt of India Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand 7 Integrated Tribal Development Project NABARD Madhya Pradesh 8 Strengthening quality and enabling scale up of BDS ICCO Jharkhand for poor people, especially women. 9 Wadi Programme under Tribal Development Fund NABARD Madhya Pradesh 10 Integrated Business Development support for Vedanta Madhya Pradesh enterprise development and promotion, 11 Vocational Education and training for vulnerable groups of women. European Commission Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan 12 Market Development and Enterprise promotion for poor women Misereor Madhya Pradesh 13 Sustainable livelihood for tribal women producers in Intel Foundation Madhya Pradesh Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh through Enterprise Promotion and Entrepreneurship training. 14 Integrated Business Development Support for Hindalco Madhya Pradesh Enterprise Development/ IGA & Promotion. 15 Integrated Business Development Support for Enterprise Development/ IGA & Promotion. ACC, Kymore Madhya Pradesh 8

9 CAPACITY BUILDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SCALING UP OF VALUE CHAINS S.No Name of the Project/Assignment Client Period Area/State 16 Build capacity of 3000 women to establish and manage microenterprise NABARD Uttarakhand through 650 SHGs 17 Market Development & Enterprise Promotion for poor Women. Misereor Jharkhand 18 Enhancing Livelihood of 8000 families from Socially Excluded PACS-DFID Jharkhand Communities 19 Promote and strengthen literacy centres for women ICCO Jharkhand 20 Promotion and Establishment of One Farmer Organization HIVOS Madhyapradesh 21 Project on Cultivation of Tomato through transfer of techonology in NABARD Madhya pradesh Suhagpur block of Shahdol district 22 Promote and strengthen Income generation activities to restore Intel Foundation Uttarakhand livelihood of people affected by Natural disaster in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand 23 Increase the income level of women producers by adopting on-farm Aggarwal foundation Rajasthan product (tomato and other vegetables, food grain cultivation of 50 farmers 24 Core support for Enterprise-based livelihoods in non-timber forest produce (NTFP) for tribal women: Expansion of Lac in four states Ford Foundation Jharkhand 25 Promote and strengthen literacy Centres for women at Jharkhand Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai Jharkhand 26 Securing the livelihood of marginalized tribal community through a self State Rural Livelihood Jharkhand sustainable model of Lac cultivation Mission-(MKSP) 27 Building capacity of community to ensure smooth functioning of NRLM and MGNREGA Jharkhand MGNREGA convergence 28 Scheme for Farmers Producer Organization NABARD Rajasthan 29 Rajasthan Skill Training Programme RSLDC Rajasthan Rajasthan 30 Build the capacity of Lac farmers to enhance their Income State Rural Livelihood Mission-MKSP Jharkhand 9

10 Studies/Training/Consultancies/ Research In Value Chain and Micro-Enterprise Development S.No Name of Assignment Name of the client Year 1. Market Study for Aharam Producers Company to find bulk buyers for edible products Aharam Producer Company Enterprise Orientation Training (Capacity Building of NGOs ULIPH 2006 in forest and agriculture enterprises in Uttaranchal) 3. Supply Chain Study of specific food products for interstate trade Aharam Producer Company Micro-enterprise Management Training for NIWYCCD staff NIWYCCD, MP Entrepreneurship Development Training of Trainers and handholding refreshers Capacity Building for forest based communities of Uttaranchal Microenterprise Management Training for functionaries and District Poverty Initiatives Project 2005 NGOs of DPIP, Rajasthan 7. Workshop on Issues and Challenges in the policy, trade Small Grant Programmes 2004 and collection of tribal collectors based on NTFP 8. Orientation training in Micro-enterprise Management for NGOs Preparation of a Gender Strategy for Pench Tiger Reserve, MP Eco-Development Project MP 10. Microenterprise Management Training for functionaries and District Poverty Initiatives Project, 2002 NGOs of DPIP, Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh 11. Desk research on violence against women and analysis of BEES Network, World Bank 2015 how various organizations are addressing this issue 12. Feasibility Study for promoting Cashew Value Chain in Regional Centre for Development 2015 Navrangpur district of Orissa Cooperation, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. 13. Training cum exposure visit of 22 participants from Afghanistan focusing on enterprise development. Afghan Aid, Kabul Gender Justice Study in context of Enterprise Development Ford Foundation Capacity Building For Sustainable Women s Micro Enterprises In Madhya Pradesh and Orissa Danida

11 11 OUR PARTNERS CORPORATE, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT FUNDING AGENCIES MISERIOR, INTEL FOUNDATION, ICCO, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, FOED FOUNDATION, ACC, PLAN INDIA, RANG DE, SDTT, HIVOS, UNDP, IGSSS, OXFAM GB, RGVN, YOUTHREACH, IFAD, NABARD, DPIP, MPRLP, KVIC, MRRD-AFGHANISTAN, ULIPH, NIPCED, G.O.M.P, RUDA, ICCW, MKSP, PACS, JSPL, DIAGEO.

12 VALUE TO CLIENT Udyogini is registered under societies registration Act XXI of 1860 It is also a recipient of FCRA Certification, 80G & 35AC 12

13 Social Media Links Udyogini is registered under societies registration Act 1860 and recepient of FCRA, 80G and 35 AC Mailing Address: 3B, IInd Floor, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi , INDIA.