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  • We want to focus on improving engagement between FPO leadership (esp BOD members) and shareholders. Practically, this means we need to develop two interfaces:

    • A “dashboard” for BOD members which presents aggregated data and provides a repository of critical docs and info. More detail here

    • An interface / app that can be used by farmer members or PG officers to capture farmer level info and view individual and aggregated data, receive notifications

    • Some messaging tool for more frequent engagement; probably a Whatsapp group to start and maybe some IVR reinforcement as needed. DG provides a playbook to someone at FPO who manages the group, we will just observe interactions.

  • These interfaces will be used initially by two FPOs and will enable them to realize specific objectives by March 2023:

    • Saharapada (Odisha):

      • Increase shareholder from ~550 to ~[750]

      and generate
      • Generate cumulative [5] lakh in sales from nursery

      .
      • by March 2023

      • Farmer benefit is access to quality saplings and increase in income from vegetable sales

      .
      • ~40% of shareholders have smartphones and ~90% have phones

      • All women shareholders and BOD

    • Shravanbelogole (Karnataka):

      • Increase shareholders from ~600 to [800]

      and source
      • Source [25] truckloads of tender coconut from members per month (vs. 12 truckloads today, mostly not from shareholders)

      .
      • Farmer benefit is ~15% increase in earnings (FPO pays ~2 rupee premium vs. average 13 rupee sale price from local traders)

      • ~[90]% have smartphones.

      • Mixed gender, majority male.

  • We will identify 1-2 additional FPOs who could want leverage a similar solution over the next few months. Key selection criteria are mostly unchanged vs what we established earlier, a couple additional considerations:

    • FPO maturity: already active, some member engagement happening, desire for more engagement and for what purpose identified, quality of leadership and supporting resource institution

    • Operational overhead: Time to value, execution complexity (of what FPO wants to do), current DG presence / travel time

    • We do plan still plan to support the Jattu collection center / processing area as we have made this commitment; we think they will be a good candidate for the tool described above

  • As we ramp up, want to build a cohort of FPOs that supports our learning. Some considerations:

    • DG presence / ease of access to FO

    • Commodity: Want to cover a range of commodities incl something in dairy or livestock, high value / export commodity as well

    • Alignment with gender and climate themes

  • In addition to qualitative feedback from FPO BOD and shareholders, focus on a few critical FPO level KPIs

    • Increase in # of shareholders: Are farmers aware of FPO and is it delivering value which motivates them to come on board as shareholders?

    • Total Increase in Trading Volume and Revenue

      • It is critical to understand member engagement; % of revenue that comes from selling products sourced from shareholders or input sales to shareholders (vs other farmers) is a good signal for this and we need to figure out how to track this efficiently.

    • Service providers engaged: Is FO leadership leveraging data to engage with third parties?

    • Farmer impact will be assessed by MEL team through surveys

Immediate Next Steps

More detailed and longer duration plan to support this work under development

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Roles and Responsibilities

  • Ravi: Overall coordination of program activities. Some specific things that program team will do:

    • Inform product design by sharing user pain points

    • Document user feedback on designs / wireframes and share with product team

    • Identify resource institutions and FPOs and their needs

  • Gautam and Sai: Product management, translate

Open items

  • Finalize plan for India visit during week of Sep 26

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