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Marketing Initiatives
8TH INTERNATIONAL EXPO,
CHANDMARI, GUWAHATI
On the initiative of Regional Society NERCORMP,
the district offices of NERCORMP participated in the 8th
International Expo organized at Assam Engineering Institute
Ground, Chandmari, Guwahati, from 25th Oct’07 till 7th Nov’07.
All the districts brought different products
produced by the community. The products ranged from Honey
(medicated and normal), Jams, Jelly, Pickles, King chilly (dried
and fresh), dried flower, Tree tomato, Candles (different
types), Black pottery, Spring salt, Handloom and handicraft
items, Necklaces, Stevia powder etc.
Many international participants like, Kenya,
Bangladesh, Myanmar, Egypt, Thailand apart from national and
local organizations also participated in the Expo. NERCORMP
Stall was unique of its kind in the whole Expo. and received a
good response from the crowd.
WORKSHOP—”VISION 2008”
A Two day Work Shop was organized at the Board
Room of Regional Office, NERCORMP, Malki Dhankheti, Shillong on
15th and 16th of November ’07. The workshop was organized with a
view to arrive at an action plan based on the mission of making
the community self dependent in earning a better income from
their products through better market led production and
activities that follow. This action plan is for the BDOs and
NRMOs who will put their efforts as delineated in the action
plan for the period until March 2008.
The inaugural session and the
valedictory function were also attended by the sector heads from
the RS office and Dr RP Singh, Consultant.
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Women Entrepreneurship & Governance
During the last quarter, the GNC sector was deeply involved in
documenting the “Rise of Women Entrepreneurs” in all the six
districts. The study involved documenting the women, who after
our trainings in increasing their capacities on income
generating activities and giving a push to their confidence, are
achieving to become entrepreneurs. The study is almost complete
and will be brought out within the month of February under the
name of “NERCORMP-IFAD Women Entrepreneurs”. This study was very
important because in the scenario where women had no voices in
the decision-making, this project has been able to mainstream
them and therefore today stands in testimony of it being given a
chance for replication by the state machinery.
Another study which is in the offing and which has a
similar purpose and aim is, “NaRMGs: An Alternative to Village
Governance”. This study will revolve around gauging the level of
confidence of this village level Institution. It will also study
the level of transparency, the visionary zeal and the collective
spirit. At the end it will try to authenticate the above stated
hypothesis.
Our final wealth ranking is almost complete and this
time we are hoping to give harsh statistics to show the decrease
of families living under BPL and the increase of families risen
above!
The various trainings on the capacity building are an
ongoing effort in all the six districts. Now we are being more
specific and aiming towards training on demand and on the
specified issue. The NaRMG Associations and the Federations have
been told to prepare their business modules and list the
specific training they would require. In other words we are now
aiming at cluster specific trainings.
We are also in the process of giving final touches to
the Training Manual consisting of six modules. It will be more
interactive and visually explanatory.
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