Project Brief

IL&FS Clusters Development Initiative Ltd. partnered with ALC India to design a sustainable institutional structure and to build the capacity of women leaders to effectively run enterprises.

Project Description

IL&FS Clusters Development Initiative Ltd. has been set up with an objective to provide commercially sustainable integrated solutions for the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), through a cluster based Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach that would enable them to become globally competitive.

IL&FS Clusters has implemented a plan for the project “Capacity Building & Skill Development of 1200 women, for setting up a Producer Owned Garment Manufacturing Unit in Bhilwara District”. The objective of the project was to provide self-employment opportunities to the women from the villages in Bhilwara District. IL&FS Clusters have also been selected as the resource agency for building a value chain for papad. This livelihoods promotion project is being implemented in two blocks of the Jaunpur district, in Eastern UP. The project ensured that the papad cluster in the region emerged as one of the model food processing, cottage industry clusters in the country, with food safety standards enforced at every stage of the papad production process.

IL&FS Clusters engaged with ALC India as the technical agency to design a suitable institutional structure, register & incorporate producers’ institutions and build the capacities of women leaders to effectively run and manage their businesses for two projects.