Activity advancement through business process or plan development
After the need assessment and mapping, the first year of this multi year programme has undertaken the following activities to ensure energy efficiency and sustainability in the system.
- Setting up a Desert Innovation Fund to give soft institutional loans to enterprises for promoting renewable energy and enhance efficiency and innovation in the value chain.
- Consolidating and qualitatively enhancing the product line across the crafts value chain with installation of advanced machinery, bringing in renewable energy sources for lights, fans, etc and built environment initiatives.
- Research and development of activities to education and installation of biogas units, cattle feed units and setting up agro-farm.
- Facilitating the construction and mechanisation of milk storage and processing units, installation of advanced shearing facilities and renewable electricity sources at Common Facility Centres for pastoralists.
- Converging with other Urmul Programmes for leveraging knowledge and exploring partnerships to foster institutionalisation.
Data driven field visits
The research and programme team undertook several project locations and reference projects field visits. This helped ascertain the specific requirements for various activities designed in the programme. This objective of these recce or exploratory visits was situational analysis and intervention scoping for setting up the multiple infrastructure and technological units under the programme including craft and weaving centres, Bulk Milk Chillers, dairy setup along with ghee, mawa and milk processing units, and innovation fund investment scoping.
Vendor and technology identification
The programme team has been meeting and assessing a range of vendors, service providers and system integrators representing a variety of techs and solutions. Most of these have been recommended by Selco Foundation. Temperature control, built environment enhancement solutions, oil extraction machinery, BMCs have been some of the areas where the programme team has been looking for the service providers. Most of these shall be long term partnerships to be developed into larger programmatic arrangements to promote wider synergy and convergence.
