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Transform Rural India
                                                                                              Annual Report 2022-23




 receive helpful information and                                                    "neo-market systems" with                                  1.  Prototype Development:          and Urban-to-Rural (U-R)           collectives of producers such
 ideas.                                                                             business growth across                                        Place-Based BMFL Models          goods and services segment.        as Producer Enterprises (PE),
                                                                                    mini and nano enterprises,                                    Our approach involves a          Public procurement                 Producer Groups (PGs), and
 Rural areas have seen a         Our nation is at the crossroads of                 both formal and informal.                                     district-based saturation        opportunities have been            Farmer Producer Organisations
 demographic shift with a        having highest demographic                                                                                       strategy that combines           created by mapping and             (FPO). Additionally, CMRE Youth
 young, aspirational, tech-savvy   dividend and aspiring for becoming            �•  BMFL also aims to catalyse                                   existing livelihood and          identifying openings.              Hubs provide peer spaces for
 population with formal          5-trillion economy. Changing the                   state capacity and crowd-in                                   employment programs and          To disintermediate the             collective analysis and
 education, including girls with   lives of the poor – stimulating                  public investments by                                         policies. It takes               fragmented supply chain of         solidarity, leading to higher
 professional degrees. Climate   growth and expanding access –                      building local market                                         data-driven, targeted action     input supplies and                 motivation, social mobilisation,
 change concerns offer            means changing the market systems                  capacity through roads,                                       to address labour supply         technology, agri-preneurs can      and the development of
 opportunities to exploit rural   around them. BMFL recognises this                 communication and                                             gaps, create local demand,       build marketable lots. They        enterprise leadership.
 competitive advantages in the   reality and provides a coherent and                business infrastructure, or                                   and improve the quantity         can form informal and formal
 bio-economy and eliminate       unified approach improve market                     asset building for                                            and quality of local
 economic barriers through       systems especially for flourishing                 pre-commercial                                                employment.
 digitization.                   localities in Rural India.                         households. It includes                                       Examples of this approach
                                                                                    design of new programs,                                       are:
 The challenge and opportunity   Aliva Das                                          including the Bharat                                       �   GOYN Bharat
 is "engaging masses in          Associate Director                                 Enterprise Enabler System,
 mass-production". The           Youth Employability and                            to bring synergy in public                                 �   Work for Progress (W4P)
 opportunity exists at two levels:  Enterpreneurship                                investments to the locality                                �   Rural Industrial Park
                                                                                    level market systems                                       2.  Special Purpose
 1.  Maximising the potential for                                                   infrastructure.                                               Promotional Vehicle
 economic enterprises within
 the area based on the local                                                     •  BMFL engages with private                                  For growth-oriented private
 economy and using this   BMFL interventions include   A: Structural Level          sectors to seed                                            sector engagement, scale is
 stock of enterprises to enter   locality-based interventions to                    entrepreneurial talent                                     crucial. In areas with
 the national and larger   increase demand and supply,   •  BMFL aims to increase the   ex-situ, and catalyse private                          unexpressed latent demand,
                                                                                                                                               there needs to be an effort to
 economic arena, and  designing rules of the game,   productivity of the existing   sector action through RISE,                                "create a market," which
          and catalysing the provision of       workforce and enterprises           SSA Million+ Livelihoods,
 2.  evolving an ecosystem to   missing supporting functions   and provide affordable, good   AgVenture CoUp MEET,                              requires specialised attention.
 encourage enterprises from   like capital, information, and   quality delivery of basic   Prajwala Challenge,                                 Examples of this approach are:
 Bending Markets   solutions that disrupt the   outside the region to   logistics.  services in health, education,   PPAVCD, FEED, and         �•  National Agriculture and
                                                nutrition, water, and
                                                                                    RuralSutra.
 actively participate in the
 for Flourishing   system.  local economy.  The interventions are at three   sanitation. We do this by:  •  Lastly, BMFL aims to curate           Food Processing
                                                                                                                                                  Organization (NAFPO)
 Localities (BMFL)  The need for differential   levels: structural, meso, and   �   -  Arranging partnerships   mechanisms for supporting       �•  Farmer Producer
 growth in languishing   BMFL aims to improve the   micro levels    with public programs      nascent ideas or expansion                          Organizations Development
 The BMFL approach is about   localities is a prime national   demand and supply interlock     with market-making   of existing business models   and Reform Vehicle
 helping poor areas become   agenda due to growing   by mobilising resources and   �•  Structural level    opportunities  through size-fit financing   Company (FDRVC)
 prosperous by developing their   opportunity-growth fault lines.  talent from both within and   interventions are related to   �   -  Creating private sector   with Sampark's MNRE and   C: Micro Level
 markets with the help of private   outside the area, in order to   systems change   partnerships  FaME.                                       Investing in "Market Readiness"
 businesses. "Languishing   While India has become the   promote economic growth. The   �   -  Establishing special                            is the main task, which involves
 localities" have limited   fastest-growing large   practice focuses on developing   �•  Meso level interventions are     purpose vehicles  B: Meso Level:  building assets, developing
 government help, so they rely   economy with a fast decline   solutions that work at scale,   related to constituents of                      skills, changing mindsets, and
 on subpar private markets and   in absolute poverty, it remains   leveraging TRI's ground   the market system and its   •  BMFL also seeks to   The aim is to create   identifying business models
 community systems. BMFL   a highly unequal society with   presence in live "Community   interaction with other   galvanise action and build   Locality-Focused Growth   with positive impacts on
 aims to use market systems to   large unemployment. Basic   Action Lab" to learn and   systems  momentum through   Clusters that capitalise on   market systems.
 help these areas grow in a fair   safety nets and government   demonstrate the prototypes   deliberate and persuasive   current opportunities while   To achieve this, the growth of
 way. It focuses on helping poor   and private sector   and contribute in the design   �•  Micro level interventions are   presentations of analysis,   preparing for future ones. Mini   local enterprises is critical,
 people and using non-market   commitments to producing no   and development of   related to the locality or   insights, and pathways. It   and Nano Enterprises (MNEs)   including partnerships with
 interventions. This approach is   net carbon emissions provide   complementary public system   local market or enterprise   provides insights on   can generate a large number   local business communities
 based on the belief that difficult   chances for people to get   interventions.  base.  opportunities for seeding   of rural jobs.              engaged in the Rural-to-Rural
 issues need interconnected   involved in the market and                                                                                       (R-R), Rural-to-Urban (R-U),




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