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SAAKTI: Sustainable Access to Agroforestry Knowledge, Technology and Information |
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Vision at a Glance:
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Economic empowerment of rural households, with special attention to poor and extreme poor, through improved access to quality and sustainable service provision at local level.
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Approaches
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Three-tier approach for promoting local service providers (national-regional-local) |
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Promotion of coordinated platforms at local, regional and national level |
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Promotion of service providers' networks and associations |
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Process facilitation to strengthen the backstopping mechanism for the demand-led services |
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Commercial service provision and Business Development Services to ensure service sustainability at local level |
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Promotion of public-private partnership for sustaining project's interventions
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Objectives
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Quality local service providers contribute to economic development of communities. |
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Regional resource pools, including public and private sector, strengthen the capacities of local service providers. |
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National Agroforestry Working Group contributes to disseminate knowledge in agroforestry.
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Intervention area
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Main activities
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Capacity building of professional local service providers (LSPs) |
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Development and strengthening of regional resource pool for backstopping LSPs |
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Promotion of service providers networks and associations |
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Production of client appropriate extension materials by research institutions and extension agencies
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Achievements (December 2008)
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Functional collaboration established with 11 national R&D organisations who are motivated and becoming more responsive to the agroforestry needs of farmers |
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Functional collaboration established with 15 national and regional private sector organisations that are providing quality inputs and capacity building support to the Local Service Providers/Retailers, and purchasing produces from the producers. |
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Over 3'700 local service providers (LSPs) are helping in rural communities with; field crop, vegetables, fruit tree mgt., livestock, fisheries, bamboo mgt., agro processing, tailoring, etc. |
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51 local service providers associations established |
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8 Regional Resource Pools of experts have been established to backstop LSPs |
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Farmers are getting better livelihood opportunities using client specific information from R&D organisations |
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Budget
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USD 2,96 million (2004 - 2010)
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