Deliverables: By When And
How Will It Be Used ?
Project Parameters
 TIME FRAME: July 2007-June 2010
 DONORS: Oxfam Novib, Netherland;
Royal Norwegian Embassy
 BUDGET: 3,22,80,269 INR
 LOCATION: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu, Orissa, West Bengal,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
OUTPUT
 S: Specific; Research paper
 M: Measurable; QQTC
 A: Accepted; annotated agenda peer
reviewed
 R: Realistic; taking forward an advocacy
point
 T: Time-bound; relevant to target
beneficiaries.
Objective of the GRANITE 2
 1st year : to find out the involvement of
state government in the formation and
implementation of NFTP
 2nd year : How NTFP is impacting the
livelihoods of the poor in the specific
product category?
 3rd year : the product categories change, the
emphasis would be to advocate a pro poor,
pro development policy in 2009
ACTIVITIES
 RESEARCH: To produce advocacy
material
 ADVOCACY: Organising meetings, using
media
 NETWORKING: Making advocacy and
research more inclusive
RESEARCH
 WHY:
 How:
To prepare inputs for advocacy and
networking.
Institutional Analysis
Consultation with stakeholders
 DELIVERABLE: 1st Draft Research Paper
Product category to be finalized
 BY WHEN:
31st December.
 USE:
The research shall be taken for
discussion at the economic, political
and social front for deliberations
ADVOCACY
 WHY: Seek changes at grassroots, state, national
and international level to ensure economic
literacy.
 HOW: Outreach Meetings: 3 per state in a year. targeting
150 people
 WHEN: By 31ST JAN
 USE:
Final draft paper to be taken for advocacy at state
and national level.
225 parliamentarians targeted for advocacy each year.
Specific advocacy to be conducted in 2008: CUTS-
NETWORKING
 WHY: Connecting the targeted beneficiaries of the
project with state and national level policy
makers.
 HOW: State level meeting: 1 in each state in a
year
A national level meeting
 WHEN: 31ST MARCH
 USE: Draft paper to be placed in the informal
policy forum for fine tuning
Civil society statement to be prepared.
Deliverable on the part of CUTSCITEE
 A report on why nation wide consultations
are required while formulating this policy?
 A national conference
Use: to prepare a civil society statement
 Networking: dissemination of information
through e-distribution of research results.
Standalone Papers
 31st August, 2007: How to better engage
with politicians and policy makers?
 31st December, 2007: Advocacy and
networking strategy.
Deliverables according to the
objectives
1. Strengthening GRANITE network by
2010:
 A critique on the process of preparation
and implementation of NFTP by
December 2007
 Identification of two specific products for
2nd and 3rd year research.
2. Mobilization of 3600 beneficiaries:
 How: outreach meetings; inputs from outreach
meetings incorporated in draft paper
 Database on relevant beneficiaries time to time.
 500-100 newsletters to be produced quarterly in
each state.
 8 advocacy documents each year
 Advocacy documents to be submitted to state
officials and shared with media and others.
Deliverable on the part of NCU
3. Gathering the evidence of CSO
engagement in policy formulation:
 NCU would document the strategies and
tools for advocacy and networking.
4. Mobilization of 1350 representatives:
 Advocacy strategies in consultation with
the state partners prepared by September
2007.
 By June 2008, 9 advocacy meetings held
5. Educating 5000-8000 people by 2010 on
issues of political economy of economic
governance in India in context of NFTP:
 E-newsletters distributed by NCU
nationally and internationally
 Stocktaking report to be disseminated to at
least 5000 persons per year worldwide.
The Ultimate Goal
 By 2010: 5000-8000 people must be made aware
on issues relating to political eco. Of economic
governance in India in context to NFTP- on poor
 Employment generation aspects of NFTP policy:
FPI
 Making the next NFTP more inclusive
THANK YOU