Business Impact Analysis 2.2.4

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Prime Minister Lyonchhen leaving to NY
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Peach Melba for Dessert
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Ministry Agr. and UNDP
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Community Based Poverty Reduction
Initiative2008-2012
Royal Government of Bhutan
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Objectives

• Bring poor households above subsistence level by
  ensuring appreciable level of income.
• Ensure social mobilization and collective
  decision making in the execution of economic
  activities.
• Strengthen capacity of poor households through
  skill up-gradation training to ensure
  sustainability of employment activities beyond
  project period.

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Project Overview

• Scope 5 eastern districts (these are the 5
  poorest)
• Duration Oct 1, 2008  - Sept 30, 2012
• Budget US 500,000
• Stakeholders Ministry of Agriculture
• UNDP
• Government registered CSOs
• Representatives from the communities

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Project Management
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Strategy

• Identification of the CSOs
• Signature of individual contract between the
  districts, UNDP and the selected CSOs
• Facilitation of social mobilization by CSOs
• Particular focus on women and other disadvantaged
  groups identified
• Empowerment and capacity building of the
  beneficiaries
• Consolidation of the local farmers organizations

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Roles Responsibilities (Govt UNDP)

• Government   Identify CSOs with
  appropriate capability.   A government officer
  will oversee activities of the CSOs. 
  Facilitate interaction and consultation with
  departments, districts CSOs.  Through its
  designated agency either at National or District
  level monitor progress
• through reviews, visits and
  participation in mtgs.UNDP  Provide financial
  resources   Technical assist. to CSOs in
  implementation of work plans (prepared by CSOs in
  
• collaboration with Govt).
•   With Govt and CSOs, support
  identification of options for HD initiatives at
  district
• level and identification of
  research/training needs for beneficiaries. 
  Participate in review meetings and monitoring
  visits

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Why CSO

• Challenge reaching the genuine poor
• Social mobilisation and development is not a
  spontaneous process.
• Can play a critical role, as facilitator, in
• Social mobilization
• Organising them into clusters for development
  intervention
• training and capacity building
• Liaising with community to ensure sustainability

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Roles Responsibilities (CSOs)

• Draw up annual work plan
• Liaise with community
• Provision of orientation capacity building
  training
• Identify location-specific feasible activities
• Help beneficiaries prepare their economic
  proposal
• Appraisal of proposal, funding and monitoring
• Develop standard of product (product dev, design,
  packaging etc.)
• Ensure collaboration with market and networking
• Find out sustainable ways and means

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Deliverables of CSOs

• Survey and identification of feasible economic
  activities
• Social mobilisation and formation of farmers
  group
• 1/3rd must be of exclusively women farmers group
• Awareness built on possible income generating
  ventures
• Farmers provided with assistance for investment
  activities
• Training needs assessment through participatory
  mechanism
• Collaboration with research and institutes for
  training
• Quality of products for better marketing improved
  
• Marketing network established, marketing linkage
  facilitated

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• Monitoring
• Annual Reports by Project Manager presented to
  Project Board
• Participatory process include beneficiaries
  reporting on results
• Evaluation
• Mid-term evaluation external, realign project
  as necessary
• Final external, for lessons learnt for future
  interventions
• Baseline
• and of unemployed members in the
  employable age (15 65)
• and of unemployed women in this age group
• Average house hold incomes.
• Results of initial survey of happiness using
  Bhutan methodology
• Indicators of success
• Annual incremental increases of 10 in all of
  the above indicators
• Overall 40 increase over the project duration
• Annual increase of 10 on level of happiness

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Risk Management
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Exit Strategy

• Exit
• Gradual exit of the program. Last year of the
  strategy will be only supervising and advising
  specific problem for the group.
• Sustainability
• Social and cultural - the micro-enterprise was
  identified in a participatory manner by the
  community members themselves..
• Economic.- through continued improvement of the
  product and search for marketing networks.
• Capital micro-savings and micro-insurance
  programme.
• Political through, the participation of the
  government from the initial stages including
  through monitoring the progress of the
  implementation.

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Gross National Happiness
Indicatorseducationhealthemploymenttime
usecultural vitalityenvironmental
diversityemotional well beingliving
standardgovernance
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