Workshop On INTERINSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL

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Workshop OnINTER-INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL MICRO ENTERPRISES IN THE
NORTH EASTERN REGION
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POSSIBILITIES OF COORDINATED INTERVENTION IN
MEDICINAL PLANTS SEGMENT IN NORTH EASTERN
REGIONSUBMITTED BYP. S. OJHAMAN POWER
PLANNING DIVISION5th FLOOR, YOJANA BHAWAN,
LUCKNOW, U.P.Email ps-ojha_at_yahoo.comMobile -
09415004917 Ph. 0522-2425293
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Multi Stakeholder consortium approach-
whyProvides framework for a group of unrelated
(to each other) organisations to act together for
a common objective
Promotes improvement in services and support
through resource sharing among its members
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Ensures that uniform operations and quality
parameters are met across membersDevelops a
common voice for organizations working across
various parameters and towards different
objectives in a specific sector
As coalition of organizations, members could work
together to set up a fund for ventures requiring
large capital resources beyond individual
organization, SIDBI, being a national level
premier institution, may be venture leader
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National Consultative Committee at SIDBI H.O.
Level
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WHY A total lack of a comprehensive and well
articulated vision for the sector What
exists today?
NATIONAL CONSORTIUM ON MAPS

• A TRADER'S VISION (EXIM BANK - AUG 2003)
• Restricted to sale of raw materials
• It prevails due to the absence of a national
  vision

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WAY OUT Articulate a national mission Has
to involve all stakeholders Creation of a
working environment for public private
partnership

• SOLUTION- A MULTI STAKEHOLDER CONSORTIUM
• SCOPE
• Global
• Regional
• Piloted at a national level

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FORM A membership based institution with
members entering into an agreement to share
information, bid for projects, provide services
and take up advocacy that help achieve
consortium goals Its a framework of
interaction and collective advocacy for
unrelated organizations to achieve a wider
objective A long term institution building
mechanism
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OBJECTIVES

• Promote and advocate for an enabling
  environment to realise economic, ecological,
  social, cultural and health security potential
  of MAPs
• Promote sustainable resource management through
  inclusive conservation strategies
• Integrate traditional and fold systems of
  medicine into the mainstream health care and
  delivery system in India

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Strengthen the involvement of TSM at primary,
secondary and tertiary levels of health
delivery systems in India Contribute to and
strengthen the Intellectual Property Protectin
framework for Indian traditional knowledge
Promote compliance of legal, moral, ethical and
environmentally friendly trade practices
Usher transparency in trade and raise
credibility of the country in the international
forum/markets
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Evolve a favourable policy framework for
sustainable and progressive development of
primary collectors and cultivators, traders,
industry and financial institutions, involved
in the sector Contribute to efforts to the
above-mentioned effect by government,
non-government and private sectors Support and
complement existing initiatives and
institutions if they are in congruence with the
goal of the proposed venture under SIDBI
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FUNCTIONSAdvocacy

• Regulatory framework for the sector
• Assist and advise the relevant authorities to
  take positions and stands in conventions,
  treaties, agreements pertaining to the sector
• Quality assurance (GCP, GACP, GMP...)
  mechanisms
• Certification mark for produce of MAP origin

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Institutional, social and financial
accountability Evolve and strengthen
equitable benefit sharing frameworks and
intellectual property protection regimes for the
benefit of involved stakeholders Research on
agro-technologies for species of trade and
health potential Promote and undertake
institutional funding and investment in the
medicinal and aromatic plant sector at
micro-level and corporate level
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Networking Promote and strengthen access to
and exchange of information pertaining to all
aspects of the sector for relevant users
Evolve a user friendly mechanism for continuous
sharing and upgradation of information
Liaison with industry, government departments,
research institutions, community organizations,
non governmental agencies, financial
institutions, academic institutions, media,
bilateral and multilateral agencies
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Initiate and maintain effective collaboration
with various organizations at different levels
of operation Spearhead campaigns on
identified issues of relevance in the medicinal
and aromatic plants sector Promote Business
to Business and Business to Client interactions
and Business to Community interactions (last
mile linkages)
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Promote networking of non governmental
agencies working towards strengthening
community enterprises Promote consumer
awareness on areas relevant to the growth of
the sector (TSM, products originating from MAPs)
Sensitise different stakeholders and for
virtual trade fairs, business auctions and
other interactive forums
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Resource assessment (compilation, collation
and analysis of existing information to enable
usage of the same by different
stakeholders) Identification /assessment of
market trends and market intelligence and
analysis of the same to enable benefits for
relevant stakeholders Identify research (agro
practices, sustainable harvesting, validation,
processing) needs of different stakeholder
groups and facilitate cooperation between them
followed by specific action
Research and Analysis
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Trade, taxation, subsidies, investments,
insurance and impact of various national,
regional and global agreements or treaties on
the sector in N.E.R./India as relevant to
different stakeholder groups Intellectual
Property Regimes, Benefit Sharing frameworks
and mechanisms and work abilities for different
concerned groups of stakeholders
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Quality assurance - cost effective and user
friendly mechanisms, standards relevant to
different facets of the sector Health
security areas - validation, documentation,
cost effective and quality assured mechanisms of
delivery Advise the government policy makers
based on this analysis
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Newsletters Mass media (print/electronic-
audio/visual, regional, national) Dedicated
journal on policies, legislation's and their
impact on different stakeholders Create,
generate and share information on a mutual
sharing/clientele basis
Communication
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Position papers and reports-issues/concerns
of different stakeholders Publications to
help stakeholders Web portal Meetings at
different levels, essentially villages where
formal methods of communication do not work
Promotional events SIDBI may be the
information HUB for MAPs at national level
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MembershipTypes Founder - initiators of the
consortium, say SIDBI, NER and different State
Governments in the Northern Eastern Region
Governing Board (equitable representation of all
groups of stakeholders) Primary Members
Farmers/farmers groups and other institutions
interested in promotion of MAP in the region.
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Norms Will differ for each category of
members Institutional membership will be the
preferred mode Individuals as members only
under exceptional circumstances
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Stakeholders Informal/formal groups of
collectors (tribals and other communities),
cultivators, processors, traditional healers,
folk medicine practitioners, intermediaries/middl
emen Village level formal institutions
Government departments, ministries
Institutions- research, academic
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Financial institutions Private sector
players- business houses, manufacturing units,
traders/industry associations, industry
chambers, private labs, institutions that are
part of health care and delivery systems, legal
firms Non governmental organisations,
bilateral and multilateral agencies
Consumer interest groups/consumer rights
activist groups
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INTERACTION FRAMEWORKWithin Consortium
Issue based standing committees (appointed/
nominated by the governing board)
Coordination through secretariat at SIDBI/NER
level Zonal committees effective at zonal
level for relevant issues
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Governing board is the decision making body
(tenure of members) General body (will elect
the governing board) is the final authority
Zonal committees will be responsible under the
guidance and review of the governing board for
issues of zonal importance
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• Registration
• As N.G.O. ?
• As Cooperative Society ?
• As Company ?

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Proposed Name
1. Integrated Institute for Promotion and
Development of Medicinal Aromatic Plants
? 2. Aushadhiya Evam Sagandh Paudh Utpadan -
Vipanan Sehkari Samiti Ltd. ? 3. Medicinal
Aromatic Plants .?