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Ehsaas 2023

February 21, 2023

Ehsaas Snapshots

About Us

Ehsaas: The NGO Mela is an initiative of DoCC at SPJIMR started in 2007 to provide a platform to several micro and small enterprises, profit-making social enterprises, NGOs & SHGs, to promote their products. Ehsaas 2023, a 2-day NGO Mela, was organised with M3M Foundation as the event partner and Krushi Vikas, Global Parli and Swades Foundation as the knowledge partners. It provided a platform for farmers, farmer-producer organisations (FPOs), financial institutions, government organisations, self-help groups (SHGs), cooperatives, agri-start-ups, enterprises, and buyers to network and build synergies.

Ehsaas 2023 Product Brochure

Event Dates

February 21 and 22, 2023.
Time: 9 am – 7 pm

Event Details

  • Mela Exhibition: The event engaged 50+ pan-India FPOs, SHGs, NGOs to sensitise stakeholders, and expand visibility and networking opportunities for FPOs, corporates and educational institutions alike
  • Round Table: Discussion on industry insights and updates, challenges, best practices and member concerns of farmers, FPOs, SHGs, and NGOs
  • Engagement Activities: Mela engaged stakeholders by knowledge-sharing sessions on policy making, legal compliance, financial linkages, business linkages, government schemes and conducted entertaining mela activities, keeping the audiences engaged

Ehsaas FPO Mela Objectives

The event took place at two levels

  1. Roundtable to discuss issues of farmers and FPOs and ways forward
  2. Event hosting farmers, FPOs and micro-entrepreneurs

As the event concluded successfully we hope it will:

  • Develop long-term relationships, which extend beyond the two-day event, and contribute in developing an ecosystem that efficiently serves the needs of the participating institutions
  • Help us identify entrepreneurs whom we could potentially handhold over the next few years to scale up their businesses
  • Offer opportunities for participating institutions to market their products and help them to scale their business
  • Provide a one-of-a-kind forum to address capacity-building issues for farmers and FPOs
  • Provide opportunities for farmers and FPOs to interact with buyers and sellers for forward and backward linkages, achieving the objective of networking and cross learning
  • Bridge the information and awareness gap for urban consumers

Ehsaas Round Table Objectives

  • Brought together key stakeholders to communicate, share and discuss challenges faced by farmers and FPOs and their mitigation strategies
  • Enabled conversations related to building market linkages and addressing funding challenges for farmers and FPOs; issues around access to funds
  • Provided an opportunity for stakeholders in the entire agricultural ecosystem to come together to network and build synergies
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