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A GLIDE workshop was held on 26-28 September 2024 for Pragati Abhiyan at Nashik, Maharashtra. 30 Participants comprising Farmers, Farmer Groups, FPOs, Cluster Resource Persons (representing 200 Villages of 3 Blocks in 3 Districts), Village Volunteers, and Top Management, participated in the workshop. Established in 2006 Pragati Abhiyan is renowned for its work on rural livelihoods for Tribal communities, in and around Nashik, Maharashtra. The organization working with 500 villages, has done commendable work on MNREGA with the Government. But over 18 years of work, they have realised that only MNREGA will not be sufficient to bring rural populations out of poverty. Since 2019, they have been working aggressively on Millet production, with a focus to combat malnutrition. Now with some surplus, they have ventured into Millet processing, so that the farmers can get a slice of the millet market for their livelihood enhancement. The organisation has also formed lots of SHGs and some FPOs under Government programs, and have also collaborated with the MSME department to start businesses for rural and tribal women, but did not find the businesses sustaining long. Most support organisations (connected with MSME) gave the groups some raw material, but did not buy the finished products. The organisation was desperately looking for models that could clear the current livelihood cobweb, and help them look tangent, towards using local resources, and addressing the needs of other markets. ACTION taken: All 30 Participants representing 200 villages, were taken aback, when they found that what they thought as limitations, were actually in abundance. Learning the GLIDE approach in detail, on how to use every available resource as a livelihood opportunity, they took stage and created their own business plans. While the farmers decided to go back, and start the Group Livelihoods planned during the workshop immediately, the Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) decided to guide these Livelihood Groups start their businesses. Based on the results, they will spread the GLIDE approach to all 200 Villages. Here is what the Founder, Ashwini Kulkarni (Ashoka Fellow) had to say: https://lnkd.in/d89eFvg6 See feedback of all the participants and management too here: https://lnkd.in/dxTMU9aN Here is a picture gallery of all that happened during the GLIDE workshop: https://lnkd.in/dGtfeDSX

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