1058 National SRI Consortium: Objectives and Roles

National SRI Consortium: Objectives and Roles
B C Barah and C Shambu Prasad

The year of SRI activities as background

Why a national consortium?
Lot happening on field on SRI, SCI that needs to inform national level policies
Positioning of SRI despite its enormous spread is poor, India can be world leader but SRI not mainstreamed
Upscaling SRI requires working in partnership and different institutional mechanisms for research and extension
ICAR and agricultural universities still not on board
Field level agencies on SRI need greater support for scaling
No research policy on SRI despite some excellent researchers

SRI map draft aug 2010 ICRISAT
45-50% of districts already doing SRI in GRER

SRI has had rapid spread in last few years through CSOs – 2010 estimates (before kharif 2010)
One lakh farmers 12,000 odd hectares, 160 districts

National Consortium Vision statement
To enable India to provide global/international leadership on agroecological innovations that reduce agrarian distress by demonstrating enhanced farmer incomes through sustainable eco-friendly and resource conserving (and enhancing) systems of crop intensification through novel institutional mechanisms that build on farmers knowledge, enhance local capacities with active participation of civil society, researchers and government agencies.

Mission statement
Ensuring sustainable income and food security for five million farmers, especially the vulnerable sections through accelerated adoption of science-led systems of crop intensification while achieving increased productivity and resource conservation.

Objectives of consortium.. For discussion
Synergising experiences, expertise and other resources on SRI built over time needed for accelerated SRI promotion.
Derive strategy for upscaling of SRI, identify and address sustainability issues
Set up vibrant MIS and Data base management
Expand the scope of SRI secretariat for capacity strengthening of the stakeholders
Strengthening research capability & training policy maker and research leaders (Course curriculum at under graduate and post graduate level on SRI, ICAR/SAU research scientist, KVK, ATMA)
Built up and maintain updated data base on rice and other sectors
Identify core groups of management of NCS
Identify future research needs and plan dissemination strategies

Functions of the consortium
SRI Consortium will provide strategic support and serve as a learning platform for :
Mainstreaming SRI promotional programs
Research on SRI
Linking various actors and promoting partnerships in the implementation, training, research, monitoring, evaluation and learning and advocacy
Emphasis on using vibrant human resource support (from the associates in the consortium) for mainstream SRI promotional programs
Develop and compile training modules, resource material etc. for supporting orientation and capacity building programs by providing resources for support in continuum.
To develop state of art and updated management information system (MIS) and maintain information base on SRI experiences and performance both at farm level and aggregative level.
Documentation of comprehensive compendium of farmers’ experiences, programs, research publications etc. and website.
Mobilizing resources for the above purposes.

Membership and Structure Group 2
What is the nature of consortium?
How to build up strong partnership with various constituent groups (Govt, FI, CSO, Research system)
Does the consortium require a secretariat / anchor? If yes,
With full-time staff members or an existing organization?
If needed, whether they will be on deputation from different organizations / departments / or hired from open market.
To build up strong bondage between government programme, research and development system and civil society
Fund raising initiative for running the consortium

Roles of National SRI Secretariat
Strategising SRI mainstreaming
Organising learning alliance meetings of this kind on regular basis (once in 2 months) to help plan, strategise and synergise activities
Linking Research agencies with SRI extension agencies through new institutional mechanisms
Mainstreaming SRI through
Developing standard training modules, communication material.
Develop training roster, organizing filed day, films, other publicity materials for dissemination at various disaggregated level.
Providing necessary technical backstopping to the implementing agencies
Use and strengthen the existing organizations, programme to make them more effectives (farmer groups, SHG, FFS, KVK, ATMA, e-portals etc.
Developing and managing the centralized MIS (a web based tool will be developed into which the field data can be directly entered)
High quality publications that highlight knowledge delivery on the experiences and, knowledge and experience dissemination.

Types of organisations in Consortium
CSOs at field level at the forefront of extension – PSI, PRADAN, AKRSP, Orissa learning alliance, Banglar SRI etc.
Govt agencies leading SRI – Tripura, IAMWARM in TN
Researchers … to hopefully research agencies
Financial institutions – NABARD
DRD, NFSM, NRLM, Planning commission
Consortium facilitators – NCAP, PRADAN RRC, XIMB, WASSAN, SRI secretariat of SDTT

Breakout groups to elaborate
Group 1 Functions and Role of consortium
BikshamGujja, Diwakar, SoumenBiswas
Group 2 Structure and functioning of NCS and secretariat
BiswanathSinha, BhagyaLakshmi,
Group 3Strategies, approaches and proposed activities of the consortium
TM Thiyagarajan, Sharat Singh, AmodThakur

Plenary
Report to plenary in 20 mins with further suggestions
Consolidated view of this will be taken up in afternoon plenary and beyond

1058 National SRI Consortium: Objectives and Roles

by SRS Program, CIIFAD, Cornell University on Dec 13, 2010

Accessibility

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

Statistics

1058 National SRI Consortium: Objectives and Roles — Presentation Transcript