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CEE
wins World Bank Development Market place project
CEE's proposal "
GRAM NIDHI-Eco Enterprises for Sustainable Livelihoods"
was one of twenty winners selected from among 1500 applicants
to the first ever India Country Level Development Marketplace
Competition, sponsored by World Bank…
The Country-level Development Marketplace is an innovative
programme sponsored by the World Bank to support non-governmental
actors in the developing world in finding creative approaches
to development issues. The winners were selected following
day-long presentations by 50 finalists to a selected
jury.
His excellency, the President,
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated the Marketplace.
Mr. Michael Carter, Country Director India, World bank
gave away the prizes for the winners.
CEE's winning entry -" GRAM NIDHI-Eco
Enterprises for Sustainable Livelihoods" aims towards
developing financial and human capital to conserve Natural
Resources leading to Sustainable Livelihoods. The proposed
project will be operationalized in 5 villages around
the Hingolgadh Sanctuary, Jasdan Taluka of Rajkot District
in Gujarat and will build on the work CEE has been doing
here for nearly 15 years.
The prize-winning Gram Nidhi project is an innovative
financing scheme wherein a principal (Eco-Enterprise
Fund - EEF) generates means to working capital for eco-enterprises
channelised through an Eco-enterprise Investment Committee
(EIC) on commercially sustainable interest rates along
with adequate capacity building and information service.
An Eco enterprise produces goods and
services that are economically efficient and viable,
ecologically sustainable and socially acceptable using
local resources and appropriate technology. They derive
maximum leverage from local cultural and natural environment,
by drawing upon existing managerial and technical skills
and developing a cadre with social sensitivity and environmental
concern.
The Implementation Plan of the
proposed project follows a one year cycle involving
setting up systems like EEF, EIC; Scrutiny, appraisal
and sanction of eco-enterprise proposals; Implementation
of 15 Eco-enterprise projects; Evaluation, experience
sharing, documentation, etc.
One of the major outcomes envisages
in this project is that it will held build a cadre to
exercise their voice in planning natural resources
futures , hone skills, access alternative livelihood
options and extend horizontal and vertical linkages
of eco-enterprises with big business, finance institutions,
etc.
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