Presented by Nils Teufel at the MilkIT Pre-Inception Workshop, Nairobi, 24 – 25 January 2012

1. Exploration of project
partners & sites
Uttarakhand, India
Nils Teufel, MilkIT Pre-inception Meeting,
Nairobi
24th – 25th January 2012

2. IFAD background
• IFAD links
– Country office
– Project office Dehradun
– Field offices (e.g. Almora)
• IFAD activities
– Institutions (phase I – 10 years) –
now Rural Livelihood Mission is moving in
– Technical support (phase II - ILSP)
• IFAD sites

3. Uttarakhand

4. Districts / sites Districts
HARKIDUN
IFAD
PUROLA
CHHOLMI
GANGOTRI
0
UTTARKASHI
JADAR PUROLA BHATWARI IFAD_ILSP
RAJGARHI
TIUNA BHATWARI
HATAR
RAJGARHI
CHAKRATA BADRINATH
DUNDA
"
CHAKRATA CHAURANGI KHAL JOSHIMATH
BHARKOT
DUNDA
PRATAPNAGAR OKHIMATH
JOSHIMATH
RUDRAPRAYAGOKHIMATH
VIKASNAGAR
PRATAPNAGAR BHATWARI
CHAMOLI
TEHRI GHANSYALI CHAMOLI
TEHRI GARHWAL
"
TILWARA POKHRI
DEHRA DUN
"
CHAMOLI
DEVAPRAYAG
"
DEHRA DUN KARNAPRAYAG MUNSYARI
"
SRINAGAR
PHURKIYA
NARENDRANAGARDEVAPRAYAG DHARCHULA
RISHIKESH
"
PAURI KARNAPRAYAG THARALI MUNSYARI
THALISAIN
PITHORAGARH
KAPKOT
BAIJRO BAGESHWAR
"
ROORKEEROORKEEHARIDWAR GARHWAL BAGESHWAR DHARCHULA
LANSDOWNE
HARIDWAR LANSDOWNE RANIKHET
"
DIDIHAT
LAKSAR KOTDWARA DHUMAKOT DIDIHAT
BHIKIYASAIN
ALMORA RANIKHET GANGOLIHAT
ALMORA PITHORAGARH
"
"
RAMNAGAR
NAINI TAL
"
CHAMPAWAT
KASHIPUR NAINI TAL
"
CHAMPAWAT
KASHIPUR HALDWANI
HALDWANI
UDHAM SINGH NAGAR
KICHHA SITARGANJ KHATIMA
"
SITARGANJ
KHATIMA

5. Dehradun

6. Dehradun – partners?
• Government
– Department
– Uttarakhand Livestock Dev. Board (breed impr.)
– State Dairy Co-operative (Aanchal)
• Himmothan
• Local NGO’s
• IFAD / Ajeeveeka office

7. Almora

8. Almora - partners
• Ag Research Station (VPKAS)
fodder crops
• NGO’s
(strong institutions, no market experience)
• IFAD partners – SHGs / Federations

9. IFAD Almora

10. IFAD Almora – milk price

11. INHERE field visit

13. Quercus leucotrichophora Bauhinia variegata

14. Current situation
• Partner selection
– INHERE
– IFAD partners (moving from NGOs to Federations)
• Site selection
– Kumaon
– 2 districts (Almora, Bageshwar)
– Block selection?
– IFAD villages – really poor