Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate considers information dissemination and percolation of technical knowledge in grass root level entrepreneurs in remote & rural areas is also very important as he understands that in India... if we train food producers for pre & post harvest handling & value addition activities and help them to aquire skills to add value or stabilise them so that food & nutritional losses are avoided.

He also feels important that creating small food processing units at food production areas backed with good marketing linkages will help them to grow over the years so that 100s or 1000s of such mini primary processing & value addition centres will grow into medium scale industries with regular input of technical services.

It is with this views he associated on a regular basis with many leading NGO centres who are striving to offer entrepreneurship among rural areas and sought his most practical technical services to crystallise adoptable & practiceble products in appropriate scale of operation & compatible packaging.

He is passionate to associate with rural & remote areas entrepreneurs also as he has skills to impart such empowerment, motivation skill trainings & setting up demonstrable mini food processing units.

Some of his association have been described below,

As mentioned above he associated with few leading NGO centre’s during his networking in the professional life and rendered very useful services in rural & remote areas. Assisting and working with needy and underprivileged is one of its high interest and passionate area; as he feels that the services rendered to such people and making their life beautiful and happy is something like God’s work and he gets delighted when he sees the happiness among those to whom he helped.

He undertakes assignments very selectively for a stipulated time from his professional life and renders help mainly through leading NGOs who are firm, reputed, well rooted for their real time, demonstrable works so that he is assured that the efforts he puts in will reach to the needy with full strength and results are seen on a real time basis. He has acquired excellent skills in training, demo implementing, empowering and imparting skills at grass root level with full impact and he is known and recognized among NGO centers for such passionate and high quality works. Some of the NGO’s with whom he associated are as below,

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ASSOCIATION OF

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF KARNATAKA –AWAKE – BANGALORE.

AWAKE is a not-for profit, Non-Governmental Organization, established in 1983, with the mission of 'Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship for Economic Development'.

It is totally devoted to Entrepreneurship Development among womens both in rural and urban areas of India.

AWAKE has a unique approach of ‘Entrepreneur guiding Entrepreneur’ through voluntary efforts of successful women entrepreneurs by counselling, training, business incubation, mentoring and peer group support.

AWAKE is a registered society and exempt from Income Tax under Sections 12A and 80G of the Income TaxAct,India. AWAKE is a recognized body in the Policy Advocacy forums of Government of Karnataka and Government of India. AWAKE is a proud recipient of both National and International awards.

AWAKE has developed a unique 4S module which encompasses all the programs conducted to support entrepreneurs at different levels of enterprise development.

CPFs Contribution : Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate was retainer consultant for the organisation on all their food processing activities to activate and crystallise entrepreneurship in food processing sector among women entrepreneurs from both urban and rural areas. During his association he offered various kinds of services required for making entrepreneurs among underprivileged. He also extensively worked in all the training programs like skill development, empowerment, EDPs and seminars, workshops and training sessions in among rural ladies and crystallised several home and cottage scale food industries of varied kinds like Ready to eat, ready to cook, ready to prepare foods in wet, dry, baked and fried formats from spices, condiments, cereals, pulses, fruits, vegetables, milk, based products and other raw materials which are available in their region.

CPF is instrumental for setting up of a innovative yet unique food processing incubator facility housing pilot level various food processing machines at Awake which is furnished with all the pre requisites of food industry standards and licenses which facilitates aspiring women entrepreneurs to establish their products and brands producing through this incubator and then launch their own food industry of appropriate size with full administrative and technical support of CPF / Awake. The said concept was recognised worldwide and was adopted & replicated in many countries including in India. The whole concept was coined by CPF and today Awake is been awarded on national and international levels many times to house, manage; promote such innovative food business incubator. Today also Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate is associated with them on various fronts and offers technical guidance and takes on classes on highly challenging tasks / projects.

INITIATIVES FOR DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION – IDF - BANGALORE

www.idfdevelopment.org IDF is a non-profit, secular trust established in 2001, by development professionals with domain expertise in sustainable agriculture, rural banking, social mobilization, entrepreneurship promotion and management in service sector. The learning’s’ and insights of working as a grassroots organisation is disseminated by functioning as a resource organisation in research, mentoring, training to institutions in rural development, micro finance, banking, livelihoods and governmental departments. Networking with knowledge organizations in the developmental sector, it is contributing to advocacy on issues for the welfare of the common people, sustainable agriculture, climate change and natural resource management.

IDF is working with rural and urban poor, small, marginal and oral lessee farmers, labourers, women, youth and dalits. In its quest for ‘Empowerment of Under-privileged’, IDF is partnering with similar Civil Society Organisations, Community based organizations (CBOs), Governments, Banks, Public and Private Corporates, Foundations, and Networks at local, national and international level. Governance & Management: The Governing board consists of Board of Trustees and co-opted members having eminent experience in developmental sector & is the policy making body. The Executive Board which consists of mature and enthusiastic project executives implements the policies and programmes. Specific interdisciplinary teams are constituted for specific projects and programmes.IDF net work: It is an internal network of organizations supplementing and complementing IDF.

IDF Financial Services Pvt Ltd is the Poor community-owned microfinance organisation providing primary financial services to financially excluded women and farmers, building their credit history and facilitating their direct linkage to the banks.

CPF’s Contribution : At IDF in its early days we got associated with our rich background of building food income generating enterprises in rural areas and empowerment of rural, underprivileged women’s CPF / Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate was requested to offer his expert services to help them to crystallise certain innovative business concepts in food processing in 4 districts ofNorth Karnataka. CPF associated with them as the Board and Managing Trustees were highly skilled, empowered having extremely good track record and career path and most of them were off shoot of Rudseti which is one of the leading training institutions inIndia.

Here Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate coined a new concept of “Group Enterprises” among rural, illiterate & underprivileged women community which comprised of few forward looking, fully empowered SHGs to form Group Enterprises in food processing and in 4 districts we formed about 25 groups comprising of many SHGs and for each group we offered full fledged information’s, trainings, techniques and hands on experience in production of food products (one category of products for one group) in a designated premises by using locally available produce.

The facility created complied to all the pre requisites of food industry norms and licenses and such facilities produced high quality of a pool / basket full of different processed foods products with professional packaging and labelling.We trained them to market these products through their weekly Market days and also to neighbouring village market days and further trained them to take it to nearest district head quarters and then to cities successfully.

As the chain of activity went on large the good quantities of production started from these profit making groups we realised that marketing would become more challenging hence formed an exclusive marketing agency for their products in Bangalore called Gramya with full time sales and marketing dedicated team to promote and distribute it to the retail chains which offered further momentum to make all these ladies earn more than what they were earning before joining the said concept of Group Enterprise Activity. Most of these groups are active and are operating as profit centres.Apart from the above CPF / Chetan L. Hanchate have associated with IDF on many sessions of classes on empowerment, skill training, awareness, counselling etc at rural community.Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate is full time food expert attached with IDF and keeps offering assistance on most challenging tasks in the area of agro and food processing

UNNATI – PORT BLAIR -- ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS www.andamanunnati.org

UNNATI was formed by Shri. C. Mohammed a retired State Civil Service Officer of A&N Islands in 2000 which is working in the field of Rural Development, Social Welfare and self employment in partnership with Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, UNICEF, Rashtriya Mahila Kosh, New Delhi, NABARD, AWAKE, Care India, Centre for Processed Foods, Food and Extension Unit, Ministry of HRD, Agriculture Technical Management Agency (ATMA), Departments of Social Welfare, Rural Development, Industries, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture etc. of A&N Administration and carried out various promotional, awareness programmes.The main achievements of UNNATI are as under:- All round development of children in partnership with UNICEF and Social Welfare Department and reduced the mal-nutrition status from 47% to 27%. Which was a record achievement appreciated by UNICEF.

The capacity and skill of all anganwadi teachers of Andaman andNicobar Islands(561) were improved by arranging quality training.Organised 27 motivational programmes for self-employment, 261 Self Help Groups were formed and were given training for capacity building in partnership with Rashtriya Mahila Kosh, New Delhi and NABARD.27 Self Help Groups were arranged loan from different financial institutions.14 training programme for capacity building and skill-up-gradation in food processing was organised in partnership with Rajiv Gandhi Foundation,New Delhi.30 Farmers Interest Groups were also formed in partnership with ATMA and they were assisted to undertake income generation activities besides training in food processing. Unemployed youth cooperative societies were also formed by UNNATI in association with A&N State Cooperative Union and they were assisted to get work from Govt. Departments.Working for the welfare of tribal youth in association with Nicobari Youth Tribal Council and organised 5 workshops inNancowry group of islands for implementation of NREGA and advocacy for tobacco control.Organized 30 NREGA workshops in different Panchayats for general awareness of NREGA in association with DRDA and District Administration. 18 training programmes were conducted in Animal Husbandry, Dairy Farming and fisheries related activities in association with A&N Administration.Organized following health related meetings/awareness programmes in association with health department & PRIs:

• Mothers meeting - 710
• Awareness meeting for child care and nutrition 522
• Sanitation meeting - 399
• Working in the field of adolescents and organised 5 workshops.

UNNATI - Port Blair - A&N Islands has been nominated by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur. 19 widows were assisted to avail widow pension. UNNATI is also taking up various civic issues and welfare issues with the Administration. UNNATI is a member of Confederation of NGOs, AWAKE and Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC).Because of active participation and involvement of UNNATI in Rural Development works, the chief functionary of UNNATI was also nominated as expert Members of U.T Level NREGA committee.Sectors of Activities : Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries, Aged/Elderly, Agriculture, Children, Civic Issues, Education & Literacy, Environment & Forests, Food Processing, Health & Family Welfare, Legal Awareness & Aid, Micro Finance (SHGs), Minority Issues, Micro Small & Medium Enterprises, Nutrition, Panchayati Raj, Right to Information & Advocacy, Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation, Science & Technology, Tribal Affairs, Tourism, Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, Vocational Training, Women's Development & Empowerment.

CPFs Contribution : CPF associated with great passion with this NGO as CPF felt that the impact of our work will go in great depth to poor and needy dwellers of island. Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate initially focussed on imparting training to several poor tribal and farming families and small time fishing families in all the areas of Andaman’s by offering very innovative and high quality Sea food based – Prawn, fish, lobsters pickles and chutneys packed in very attractive packaging which gained immense popularity in the Island market and also when it was shipped to Kolkata and Chennai markets gained very good momentum.

All these products were made by the extensively trained ladies at a food business incubator facility in North Andaman’s and in Port Blair, both places housed all the food processing equipments, lab facility etc. Due to good popularity of the sea food pickled products, the training demand came from Nicobar Islanders also and we immediately conducted similar skill trainings on same said products at various deep islands of Nicobars. These islanders were also trained on fish and prawns drying methods and very good fillets were produced from air dried freshly caught fishes.Later on Unnati continued to avail our services and we identified many other crops which were abundantly grown in A&N islands and offered training to many other networked SHGs in converting them into value added products while offering training and skills to sell them to tourists etc. Over 50 products were started producing at various pockets of A&N islands with professional packing and these products were of high quality and low in costs which helped consumers in the islands to forgo buying high cost products which were imported from main landIndia. This is how a cluster of food processing units were established in A&N islands and all of them have now grown to sizeable units producing regularly topical products on which they are trained. All of them are now self sustaining and functioning on their own with funds managed at their SHGs. This is how food processing activities were revolutionised in A&N for the first time.

Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate also associated with Prince of Nicobar islands for set up a food processing unit to mfr. prawns and fish based pickles exclusively for exports purposes namely M/s.Nicobari Food Productsin a shed offered by DIC free of cost for the activity.Currently CPF is assisting Mr. Mohammed to set up a demonstration cum production unit for exclusive mfg. of coconut based products in Port Blair.Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate travelled about 50 times to A&N to make this happen and he took very special interest to crystallise with a reason that the raw materials available were of very high quality and organic in nature and the Passion of Mr. Mohammad which is appreciable and I always fascinated by his hard work put in to organise all these activities. The Commission IAS was highly impressed with me about the kind of works implanted in A&N and appreciated profusely for the contribution extended in upliftment of the livelihood in under privileged population in theIslands.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YUVAK MONDAL – DAMAN

Purpose : Social welfare, education, health at SHGs Aim/ Objective /Mission : Eradication of rural poverty from country.

Work with the people and their communities as partner to bring change and enable them to improve their full potential. Join hands with others partner’s in development to promote and achieve equality, justice and peace for all.

Enhance the living condition of people and provide opportunities to improve their socio economic status. Provide assess to basic services such as education, health, drinking water, sanitation, social security and employment.

Strengthen the natural resource base in rural and areas and improve livelihoods on such sustainable basis.

Adopt participatory approach with all project partners.CPFs Contribution: Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate was recommended to the said NGO by former Commissioner who had seen my contribution in A&N islands when he took over the administration of Diu & Daman.CPF carried out extensive works similar to the A&N islands by visiting them numerous times and crystallised several sea food processing activities among fishermen families and in SHG levels which is enlightening contribution to Diu andDamanunder privileged people. I heard that some of them have exported the said products to EU countries apart from offering and popularising in the local markets. There were several requests from them to continue to associate but due to paucity of time we could not continued to work with them.

OUTREACH - Association of Volunteers for Rural Development,   Bangalore – 560043 www.outreachindia.org

Outreach was established in 1993 in response to the needs of communities living in drought prone areas in southIndiaand also to the growing need for training in the Ngo sector and within government. The idea was to focus on small NGOs working in drought prone regions in south India , particularly those engaged in the natural resource management type of activities such as wasteland development, micro-watershed development, forestry & heir capability’s and effectiveness as development organizations. An important objective of OUTREACH was also to develop more effective interfacing between Non-Governments organizations (NGOs) and Government Organizations (GOs), especially those working in drought-prone areas. In order to demonstrate how the quality of life of poor communities living in these areas could be enhanced, OUTREACH established 8 direct projects and the same time linked up with a number of small NGOs who were also involved in addressing the issue of poverty in drought-prone regions.

The main thrust of the approach is the development of local initiative in the form of self help groups (SHGS), primarily women, enabling them to restore and manage economic activates also play a major role in the OUTEACH approach .the SHGs save &manage credit and at the same time take up integrated micro-watershed development activities thereby improving their primary production base. Non –land-based economic activates which follow the land-based ones help ones help to deflect pressure on the natural resources in the habitat.

This approach is actively promoted by OUTREACH among other NGOs and Governments projects working in similar regions of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. Partner NGOs are part of a network consisting of five regional clusters in the Rayalseema (Chittoor, Cuddapah and Anantapur) region of Andhra Pradesh, Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu and Bidar & Bijapur districts in northern Karnataka. Technical and managerial backup to NGO partners, specifically in the areas of community organization, saving & credit management natural resources management basic project administration and accounts & financial management are offered.

This has led to its establishment as one leading non – governmental development organisations in south India. Primarily, the organisations has been able to established a good standing with the governments donor organisations NGOs & other institutes working in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Karnataka and other parts of India

CPFs Contribution : Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate associated with Outreach in formulating various skill training programs relating to agro processing and food products making and conducted about 50 training sessions in various villages, interior parts of Karnataka & Temilnadu. We also networked with their farming members and studied the agricultural practices being followed and crops being grown and offered them our expert advices on pest and insecticide and fertilizer usage during crop growing and practices to be followed during post harvest management of the produce. Various new crops for potential also were suggested which possibly earns better remuneration per given farm. The follow up actions were carried out by Outreach to fructify them into mini home and small scale operations and sought guidance to run and manage such activities.

Mr. Chetan L. Hanchate offered over 70 products skill training to all these low end SHGs mainly among women’s who hailed from very poor and underprivileged society. I learnt later that many SHGs prospered greatly with such activities and developed a good market base and there after few of them split into individual entrepreneurs operating on their own. CPF is not very much associate with them currently as there has been no demand from their end for our continued services.

Gramya TS Pvt ltd is the dedicated marketing organisation for providing marketing support to products of SHGs and the small producers. Synergy to Solutions (S-2-S) provides services to NGOs and CBOs on management development and mentoring. Cumulatively IDF and its linked organisations have a workforce of about 700.Institutions of poor: IDF has promoted and is mentoring five Women SHG Federations, Two Women Artisan Federations and one each of Small, Marginal, Oral Lessee Farmers Federation, Tribal farmers Society and a Paddy- Ragi Producers collective. These CBOs cover 8 districts of Karnataka covering rainfed area of south and north Karnataka, having a cumulative membership of over 2.7 lakh rural households.

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Apart from the above -- We associated with many more NGO Centres -- The same will be uploaded soon,,,