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As part of its commitmellt to elltell'ri...e de','elol'mellt, Saml'arlc IUl... orgallizctl.\"{!lIcralI'rogra"""es for sellior le,'d .'italf of differellt ,'oftmtary orgclII;zatimls (VOs) a." weff Wi.,,'I,ifftrailli"g for imli"iduals. Hie effect... are t,,'ofold: tile gaps existillg in their approach toellterprise de ,'elop 111ell ( have been bridged ami lillkages with other organizatiollsestablishecL Also, trainers in the voluntary sector who attended tire programme... hcu'eimproved their expertise 011the current status of various programmes cOllducted bySampark durillg the year.

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.~j,III';~I".Sampark has afJirmed its intention to create marketing facilities Jor VOs and rural producers bysetting up a Market Resource Centre. Exlrihiti.on... oj craft items made by rural artisans have beenarranged year-round and marketing-related works/tOp...organized. Sampark has also participated inexhihitiOlrs organized hy other hodies. Keeping in view the dependence that the rural poor /UI~'eon1UJ/r-farm,income generating activities, .\'ampark keep... c(J/rstmrt(,iupgrcu/itrg its skill... tllUlstratcJ.:iesto sell rural products in urban markets. A workshop on the marketing of rural products, focusi"gon aspects of marketing concepts, product costing a"d pricing, exportpote"tialfor rural productsand design a"d product development was mr additional and importa"t marketi"g eve"t for the year.A Marketing Committee Meeti"g was held in July 1997 to discussa"d decide the marketi"gstrategies for Sampark. .

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1.' Sampark 19-22, June' 97 Safina Plaza

2. Sampark 6-9 Nov 97 Safina Plaza

3. NABARD 4-8, Dee 97 KASSIA Hall

4. Valley School 20, Dpc 97 Valley School

5. Sampark 1-4 Jan 98 Salina Plaza

6. KSWDC 17-20 Jan 98 Safina Plaza

7. Sampark 7-17,Fcb9R Salina Pla7.a

8. KYIC 2-3, Mar YS Yinayaka Hall

9. Sampark 5-8, Mar 98 Safina Plaza

10. KSWDC 9-10 Mar 98 Safina Plaza

11. Sampark 19-22, Mar 98 Safina Plaza

12. CICOPA 23-25, Mar 98 Co-op Comm Centre

13 Sampark-Marketing Workshop 2-3, Mar 98 Indian Social Institute

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Inl.,~tl"~Salllpar/c '.~portfofio of acli,'ities IlOWIta.~all tUMitiollalleaf: its Elltel]Jrise Cmlll.fellillg Cell.Experts have counselled 430 women so far on all aspects of business. Information onGovernment Schemes for elltrepreneur.~, .fillancial support from banks ami financialill.~tituti()ll.~are prm,idetl through tlte facifitie.~ .-.etup at the cell. 11,ere i.~till oil-goingprogramme to upgrade the counsellor's skill, knowledge and de.'elop new strategies to guidewomen in setting up businesses alld commercial velltures. 11,ese illformal amUmlepemlellt.'elltures are expected to make a mark in creating business awareness.

Activities of the coullselling cell have beell extended through holding workshops at the(listrict levels. Four districts have been cOJ'eredduring the year. A one day follow-upJIIorlc.-.lwpwas orgallized at Bmrgalore to identify problems faced by women in .-.etfing upbusinesses. The session paved tl,e way for identifYing the gllps in counselling.

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STUDENT PROJECTS

Sampark is always open to the idea of supporting students in their aim to conduct projects as partof their course work. In the last year, three such students, from ~amraj University, Madurai andXlME, Bangalore, were affiliated with the organisation. Their assignments were focussed onstudying Marketing and Finance in the voluntary sector and Government Assistance for Women.

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[11'1!11{~I':J:I{I«~fll~:~ Two dh"cctorics of VOs locatcd in Karnataka and in othc.' p:.."tsof the countl'y,

containing upto 2800 nddrcssces hns been compiled. Now it is nvnilable fo.. NGOs,government departments, funding agencies and individuals.

UJ .A qunrterly .;ounlal "KARMANI" publishcd in Kal11lnda amI English hns bccnp.'oduced in conjunction with the Karnataka State Women's DevelopmentCorpora tion. It provides informa tion on Women's En terp.'ise Developn~en t.

W "VIl~"VS" is Sampark's ncwslc((cr on Gcndcr nnd I~ntcrpdsc Dcvelopmcnt. Twothcme papers have becn published under its head: Miuo Enterprise Development,and Business Counselling for Women.

W A kit of 200 business ideas has been developed and tn1l1slated into Knnnada fOI' thebenefit of business women.

W A comprchcnsive list of governmental schemes to be avniled of by women intcndingto start business enterprises was collated by Sampark's counselling cell.

rn A paper on Gender Related Perceptions in the Management of Natural Resourceswas prepared, based on the work done by Sampark in the field of women andenvit'OI1111ent.

m"Gender Based Analysis of Leadership and Decision making with respect toSustainable Resource Management" was another project executed and documentedby Sampark's rcse:uch staff.

1.~il__11/11order to strengthell the lillkages with VOs ami rural producers groups, Sampark's teamhas made se,'eral field trips covering Dhanvard, Mysore ami Bijapur districts. Such specific,'isit.'iIllu'e yielded ,'alliable informatioll 011tire prodllcts, their desigll 1lIid IIlllllllfactllringaspects.A "isit to ('APART, Delhi helped ill studying the strengths of orgallizatiolls cOllductillgCAPART /Hela durillg the last 3 years,

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1. a. Sampad< and the Valley School, Uangalo."c, have collabomted to sustain an A."tVillagc on thc school campus. Whilc thc wOlllcn artisans gain SOIliCundcl"Stnnding ofurban ma.'kets, the children are exposed to traditional craft making.Two women crafts persons from the Vasavya Mahila Mandali, Vijayawada, lived atthe Art Village for 2 months teaching children the art of textile printing and maldngcrochet lace. The products were sold at an exhibition organized by the School.

b. Three women from the Ranibennur Taluk of Dhanvad district taught lambanicmb.'oidery to the school children for a period of one and half months.

2. .a. A donation of Rs. 20,000/- was ."outed through Sam park to Vasavya MahilaMamlali as a gestm"e of apI)l'eciation .

b. Mrs. Shalini Gupta donated Rs, 10,000/- to be used as a I'evolving fund forphysically handicapped women to start M icro I~nterprises.

3. Mrs. Smita Premchander was appointed Member, National Standing Committee forMarketing and Media, CAPART, New Delhi.

4. The Secretary, Sam park presented a paper on Gender and Natural ResourceManagement at the University of Berne during July 1997.

5. The Secretary, Sampal'k visited England to teach at Dud.am University UusinessSchool, Durham U.K as well as to conh'ibute to the p.'epamtion of a rcsource bookintended to suppo..t senior staff of Goven.ment and VOs to plan and implcmentMicro- Cl"cdit1)I'ogrammcs.

6. The stalf of Sam park attended a NORAD supported VOs meet held duringSeptem her 1997.

7. Gayathri Samaksheme Vedike sought Sampark's guidance in raising funds to assistSelf-Help Groups in their' income generations prog.'anlilles.

8. Counselling cell staff attended a workshop on Micro Credit for women organized bythc National Alliance of \Voillen. They wcre ablc to shal"c their counscllingexpericnces with repl'esentatives from Madhya Prades.h, Andhra PI"adesh andKarnataka.

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rl~~~~1.f~~{~..~11Sampark is concerned with enlarging the experience, skill ami knowledge of its staff. Withtltis iit mimi, tlte staff are deP':lted to attend work.'i/wjJs and programmes which add to tlteirresources. Tlte details of some of these are tabled below:

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1. Ms. V.M Sherly August 1997 Entreprt(nuership Dvelopmentand Management

: Training.(lndian Module).'

2. Mrs. Smita Premchander April 1997 Programme on EnergyNovember 1997 Environment and Resource

sustainability conducted by TataEnergy Resource Institute.

3. Ms. Suguna Madappa June 1997 Photography for DevelopmentMs. Purnima conducted by Voices

4. Mr. M. Chidambaranathan August 1997 Communication skills and Public

speaking conducted by VOICES.

5. Ms. Vasantha Meeting with National Instituteof Design organized byNABARD.

6. Ms. Pramccla ' Dcccmbcr 1997 Entrcprcllllcrship ;\ warcllcssProgramme Organized by Canara

, Bank Women EntreprenuershipDevelopmcnt cell.

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7. Mrs. Vasantha I Talked on composite loanschcmc or KSFC !lnd KSWDC:organized by Abhaya Ashrama &DEEDS.

8. Mr. K.S. Ravi January 1998 Discussion on issues relating toMs. Pram eela state resources centre with M. D

KSWDC and other officials

9. Ms. Rosa Export of Rural Handicraftsorganized by Exp'ort Promotion13angalore

10. Mrs. Mary NGOs partners meet organizedby FEYORD-K

11. Ms. Sherly Feb 1997 to 2 months training programme onApril 1997 Entreprenuership Dcvelopmcnt

and Management Training atDurham University SmallBusiness Centre, U.K

12. Mr. K.S Ravi Dec 1997 Workshop on Internationalworkshop on small EnterpriseDevelopment at Cochin.Presented a paper on experiencesof Sampark on EnterpriseCounselling.

13. Mr. K.S. Ravi Dee 1997 Presented a paper on women andbusiness as a workshoporganized by NABARD atBangalore.

14. Mr. K.S Ravi June 1997 Workshop on SHG organized byPRADAAN at Madurai.

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'f'~~'~~f.l~II'I. Ms. Jayashree Vyas, Managing Director Sewa Bank spent a week at Sampark during May1997 ror preparing n puhlication in the field or Micro- Credit. .

2. Mr. Purshotham Raj of indian Business Community Partnership Trust, Delhi visited Samparkduring August 1997 to discuss networking possibilities for linkage of VOs with the corporatesector.

3. Members and coordinators of the Southern Regional Committee of CAP ART visitedSampark with the intention of seeing its activities in the field of marketing and enterprisesupport. They were accompanied by Mr. Vishwanathan, Director Mitraniketan ofTrivandrum.

4. Two officers from the South India Producers' Association visited Sampark to familiarisethemselves with Sampark's Marketing activities and took advice on project preparation anddesign support for VOs.

5. Mr. Jayesh Shah, Publisher of Humanscape magazine, spoke on the Humanistic movementand its work at Sampark, Bangalore, in June 1997.

6. Ms. Sita Angol, Project Director of the World Bank Rural Women's Empowerment andDevelopmentvisited Sampark.

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