The Institution Building Challenge: National Workshop on FPOs
About the workshop
This national workshop focused on institution building challenges of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) is a continuation of IRMA’s efforts in three areas: building knowledge on contemporary FPOs, building capacities, and co-creating an enabling ecosystem.
The workshop was jointly supported by projects to IRMA from Ford Foundation ("Living Farm Incomes: Inequality, Sustainability and Civic Action in India") and from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) (under the project “Creating a Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem through the Incubator”)
Spread over a day and six sessions with over 10 different speakers, the national workshop saw a rich set of discussions on what was required to strengthen farmer collectives in terms of training, institution building, and policies. This section provides a glimpse into the speaker profiles and the ideas that they shared during the workshop.
Nilanjan Chaudhury
FWWB
Himanshu Vaghela
FWWB
Parthasarathy T
Welthungerhilfe
Saikrishna N
NSFI
Why institution building is key for credit?
Sridhar Easwaran
Sammunati
Markets and Institutions: Karnataka and the RRAN agenda
Prateek Abraham
IIHD,RRAN
Alternate models of IB: Learning from SHGs and MACS in Telangana and AP
C S Reddy
APMAS
FPO Incubation Centre: Yuvamitra's experience
Hiren Bohkhatariya
Yuva Mitra
Institutional challenges in Federated FPOs
Institutional lessons from Krushidhan
Lessons in managing diversity: AKRSP
Kuldeep Solanki
Gujpro
Sachin Oza
DSC Foundation
Naveen Patidar
AKRSP(I)
Institutional challenges in Federated FPOs
Kavitha Kuruganti
ASHA
Agricultural market reform in India
Sudha Narayanan
IGIFDR
Vijayalakshmi Das, who founded Friends of Women's World Banking (FWWB) and was considered the mother of microfinance in India,
C S Reddy
APMAS
Nilanjan Chaudhury
Himanshu Vaghela
FWWB
Sachin Oza
DSC Foundation
Tara Nair
GIDR
Sridhar Easwaran
Sammunati