The team has hands on experience in identifying innovative products and services in the areas of developing need based insurance products, identifying opportunities for income and economic growth, biotechnology, milk and dairy products, information technology, alternative fuels, plantations, finance and credit management, agriculture, FMCG, monitoring and evaluation of various projects, training and human resource development (HRD).
KOWA JAPAN
Purpose:
- Customer satisfaction through quality organic cotton production.
Recommendations and Suggestions:
- Organized support for better pricing and marketing.
- Advice to produce value added yarn and textiles.
- Option for leveraging the activity for up scaling through a strategic bussiness unit.
Objectives
- Institutionalization of farmer intrest groups.
- Provide managerical and technical support to customer
- Advice on certification process including quality parameters for better price and enhanced potentials for by-products.
JAYANT GROUP AND PERUMAL INDUSTRIES
Purpose:
- Business and Market Analysis.
Objectives Achieved:
Industry Analysis
- Policy Environment
- Products
- Marketing statistics
- Technology
Existing Market
- Market Store
- Customer
- Market size
- Current level of Business
Potentials of Investments
- Technology
- Partnership process
- Author potentials
- Business modeling
- Investment Pattern
- Marketing Strategy
The Rockefeller Foundation/Rapid Agro Bio-tech
Purpose:
- Agriculture Development in Marginal Areas of India: Options & Strategies
Objective Achieved
- Assessed the regional pattern of agricultural development in India.
- Technical and other constraints in agricultural
development in the marginal areas; and
- Suggested appropriate policy options and
development strategies for technology - led
agricultural development in the marginal
areas.
Recommendations and Suggestions:
- Natural Resource and Water Management
- Input Supply System
- Sustainable Seed System
- Commercialization and market Integration
- Strengthening Technology Systems
- Insurance and Risk Management
- Empowerment of the poor and gender Issues.
- Institutional Requirements
- Reforming public organizations
- Policy Interventions.
Mitsubishi, Japan and Winrock International
Purpose:
Assessment of Rare Earths, Its supply chain, Markets & Potentials.
Objective Achieved
- Policy Environment
- Legal obligation
- Environment issues
- Taxation
- Investments
- Certification for Exports
- Identification of Exiting players i.e. public/pvt
- Supply chain
- Technology Employed
- Processing and infrastructure
- Existing Marketing share
- Marketing & Distribution channels
- Customers segmentation
UNEP, Nairobi-Kenya
Purpose:
Practices & Experiences of Land Tenure System in Asia
Objectives
- To Document the links that exist between Land
Tenure and its Relevance to fight desertification.
- To assess Land Tenure Systems and Property Rights.
- To assess its impact on soil and water resources.
- Its relevance to UNCCD and UNFCCC convention.
Recommendations and Suggestions:
- Securing rights over resources and the
fight to combat desertification
- Shared role of state and community
resource users.
- Decentralized resource management
preparation, support and monitoring
- Sustainable land use-productive use
and improvement of land
- The necessary approach towards joint
management of resources.
CIDA: Canadian International Development Agency and Balavikasa
Purpose:
Comprehensive evaluation of Balavikasa development
interventions in Andhra Pradesh
Objectives Achieved:
- Problem Analysis
- Beneficiary Status before Interventions
- Opportunity assessment
- The role of communities
- Impact Interventions
- Change Analysis
- Empowerment of communities
- Organizational Potentials
- Sustainability of the project
- Indicators for sustainability
- Self reliance
- Networking
- Institutional capabilities
- Replication
YFA-HDFC CHUBB
Purpose:
Designing Health Insurance Model and Suggesting Data Management System.
Objectives Achieved:
- Conceptualization and designing a Health Insurance
Product for Women to reduce risks involved during
pregnancy and post natal care.
- Collection of information about policy holders with
respect to socio-economic conditions including their
health profiles, disease patterns, amounts spent on
health, number of labour days lost and productivity
affected.
- Collection of data pertaining to outcomes of particular
treatment; how often the treatment was required; which
treatment was highly useful; efficient and effective;
what kind of quality service parameters need to be
improved.
- Monitoring and analyzing on-going health initiatives,
particularly the insurance support schemes as health
protection.