Covenant Centre for Development

ENVIRONMENT IS CALLINGmodern thinking while borrowing from the tradition

A group of students studying Social Work started working with pavement dwellers and slum children of Madurai in improving their conditions. These students from Madurai, along with a few boys from the first batch trained at their vocational centre joined to form the resilient Covenant Centre for Development CCD team in 1993 with the objective of achieving human well-being. It has responded to the changing needs of times by creating models of development that are novel, viable and replicable. To combat the problem of school drop outs and rural migration It started providing vocational training and mobilising women groups to improve their economic and social conditions. Today CCD is a large institution that includes a team of over 140 workers, 4 Women Self Help Group (SHG) Federations with over 16,000 women members from more than 300 villages in Tamil Nadu. It has a networks of artisans, medicinal plant cultivators and collectors, fishing, farming and coir communities, community based organisations (CBOs) like SHG Federations and coastal resource-based activity groups, and organisational partners from across the country, and well-wishers from around the globe.

CCDs intervention programmes address specific problems in the rural community through novel methods using local understanding and wisdom. It looks at issues including livelihood that is being threatened due to the market forces,

Traditional Skills & Knowledge

Programmes Projects By Linking with experts from professional mainstream institutions it provides the communities with the channels of CCD CCD exchange and learning. Initiatives

Community Based Enterprise

Sustainability

Community

And mobilises the community as groups and utilising the local resources towards livelihood improvement and building sustainable community

The groups are organised on the basis of their involvement with CCDs long term programmes, i.e., 1) marketing agents of GMCL products, 2) women working in the area of Medicinal plants (MP) conservation and enterprise, 3) procuring, processing and marketing of traditional crop produces, 4) rural energy products & services and 5) education & health. Beyond micro-credit, the Kalasam members have identified 5 categories of enterprise support that they can offer in the village: 1.Individual centered micro enterprise - access to credit and loan 2.Family based hereditary activities - technological intervention 3.Group IGP - Income Generation Programme - support in terms of raw material, market, and other resources 4.Regional resource-based enterprise (the lean seasonal activity) - wherein raw materials and skills are available; finance, technology and infrastructure support is provided 5.Medicinal Plants (MP) Medicinal plants based activity like collection, supply as well as semi-processed MP products, promoted as Community Enterprise activities

Income Generation Programme

Procurement and processing Aaharam, rural supply chain

the women in the village sow seeds in their own small pots and take care of them for 15 days. healthiest saplings are taken as source for everyones crop for that season

Tamarind

Covenant Center for development the catalyst

Sustainable village communities
Increase income for the families Reduce family expenses

Increase agri yield

Quality seeds Better practices Agro services

Channels for better trading

Rural sales channel

Food

Health

Educat ion

Market linkages ProSumer model Extending life Training Pre processing Capacity building Eunternprenuers

Quality inputs Kitchen gardens Quality education Fair price Medicinal herbs Affordable cost Local employment Fair weight Training

Rural Intervention Model Local Resources & Traditional Skills

Identify Natural Resources with Economic Potential

Build on Local Skills & Knowledge

Organize Community around Resource

Link to Regional, National, Global Markets

Stages of Growth

Inception

Nurturing

Maturing

Social Enterprise

Idea to Concept development Fully donor funded CCD governance Field testing with community High risk

Developing Leadership Building systems & procedures Training/Capacit y Building Partnership identification Assessment of value creation Low turnover Mainly donor funded Medium to high risk

Vision & Mission exercise Developing strategy plan Monitoring & Evaluation framework Operational Planning Ownership Structure Independent Governance Increasing turnovers Partially donor funded Low risk

Expanding geography & markets External Partnerships Opportunities for expansion Self governance Community ownership Stable turnover No donor funding Low risk

Snapshot of Enterprises CCD

Society received Grants of Approx. ` 2.00 Cr.

GMCL
> Public Ltd. > Medicinal Plants > ` 1.20 Cr. Turnover > 1000 Families
> Social Enterprise

Aharam
> Producer Co. > Crops & Services* > ` 2.18 Cr. Turnover > 22000 Fam. > Maturing

Adharam
> Private Ltd. > Energy Products > ` 8.26 laks Turnover > 400 Fam. > Nurturing

Bhagvati
> Trust > Coconut Coir & Handicrafts > ` 1.00 Cr. Turnover > 1000 Families > Maturing

KKDFF
> Producer Co. > Paddy Seeds & Crop > ` 1.50 Cr. Turnover > 2200 Families > Maturing

* Aharam Products: Medicinal Plants, Mango, Cotton, Coconut, Groundnut, Paddy, Retail, Agro Services

Adharam the creation

CCD has initiated Adharam, a Community Enterprise in collaboration with British Petroleum (BP), in 2006. low-cost and high-efficiency fuel and fuel appliances are being made available to the rural household, marketed through the SHG (Kalasam) network.

Biomass
 

Solar

Biogas


Manufacturing & distribution

Pellet Briquettes

Production & distribution Decentralized cold storages

Solar Charkhas Agro water pumps
CBG  Methane By product  Organic manure for farms

Energy efficient stoves

  

Applications
 

Domestic rural consumption Tea shops Small restaurants

Community kitchen Cooking Rural transportation

Pellets for rural consumption Briquettes for industries

Grid
Energy efficient motors (56% energy reduction) eBikes (battery operated cycles)

Soft drink companies Ayurvedic medicine Fruit and pulping Mid size restaurants

Pioneering low carbon pathways

Biomass product sales 2010

Domestic


Commercial


Oorja biomass stoves Total sales 31 numbers Spare 12 numbers Revenue Rs 33,952/Pellets Sales 5110 bags Weight 25 tons Revenue Rs 1,74,083/-

Sustaintech models  Dosa stoves 9 numbers  Frying stoves 3 numbers Pragati models -Moby (10 liters) 2 no.  Moby (30 liters) 2 No.  Orka stove 1 No.  Leo double 2 No.  Revenue - Rs 29,898/-

 

Lowering emission
Firewood used in kgs Customers Urangampatti Hotel, Melur Jeyamani Hotel, Melur Murthy Hotel, Melur Sekar Hote;, Melur Kanimozhi Hotel, Aviyur Sankar Hotel, Kariapatti Venmani Hotel, Kariapatti Shanthi tiffin centre, Pulluthu Ramachandra Prabhu Hotel, Samayanallur Total firewood consumption per day Old Type 50 30 30 50 30 40 60 40 40 370 SIPL stoves 30 20 20 30 20 25 35 25 25 230 Savings per year 23760 11880 11880 23760 11880 17820 29700 17820 17820 166320

Reduction in firewood consumption per day

38%

Mid size restaurants opportunity

Big size firewood users around Madurai Area in & around Kariapatti Chekkanurni Samayanallur Melur Total Within 30 kms radius Total mid size restuarants Average usage of firewood Consumption per day per week per year Nos 15 25 20 25 85

85 70 6 42 2142

numbers kgs tons tons tons

Biomass pellet
Challenges
y Usability issues (fan failures) y Service requests not y y y y y y y

Opportunities
y Expand to cover other y y y y y y

addressed Non standard spare parts Low sales volumes High inputs cost Long supply chain Non availability of stock Vehicle scheduling issues High pellet cost

districts Cash and carry practice Reverse engineer with COTS Warehouse in other districts Expertise in servicing stoves Could opt for local manufacturing Presence of sales channel

Biomass availability
Agro wastes Tamarind shell Coir pith Groundnut shell Saw dust Kg 3700 K (approximately) 4146 K 4524 K 3898 K Ash contents NA 9.10 % 3.80 % 8.20% Season Feb Apr Jan - Aug Apr Jun Nov - Jan Whole year Cost per ton ` 2000 ` 1200 ` 2000 ` 2000

Costing per ton

Fuel type Pellet Briquettes Procurement cost () 2000 2000 Production cost (`) 350 500 Fright (`) 800 800 Total cost (`) 3100 3300

THANK S FOR PATIENT LISTENING Madhu Shridhar