FW: Khagaria Field Visit Schedule of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Prem Narayan
From: Samir
[mailto:sami...@brlp.in]
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:18 AM
To: pre...@brlp.in
Cc: khag...@brlp.in
Subject: FW: Khagaria Field Visit Schedule of Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
From: Debaraj Behera
[mailto:deb...@brlp.in]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:15 AM
To: sami...@brlp.in; 'Kshovan Guha'; Neha
Cc: deep...@brlp.in; vi...@brlp.in; adity...@brlp.in;
ajay...@brlp.in; aja...@brlp.in
Subject: Khagaria Field Visit Schedule of Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
Dear Samir, Kshovan & Neha;
I thank you all for preparing such a beautiful field visit schedule for the Mission Team of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Kindly take necessary support from all concerned in the field. Involve COMFED in this field visit as well.
Please prepare a small budget for the below mentioned field visit and send us for approval.
Regards
Debaraj
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Debaraj Behera <deb...@brlp.in> wrote:
Dear Amir,
Please find attached the 13th September Khagaria Field Visit Schedule, which is mentioned below as well;
FIELD VISIT SCHEDULE FOR BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
Date : 13/09/2011
|
EVENTS |
TIME |
ANCHOR |
|
Starting from Patna |
06:00 Hrs |
Debaraj Behera |
|
Arrival at DPCU-Khagaria |
10:00 Hrs |
Debaraj Behera |
|
Visit to Narishakti JEEViKA Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS), Chandrapura Village |
10:30 Hrs – 11:30 Hrs |
Samir Kumar & Ambuj Kumar |
|
Meeting with Narishakti Village Organization (VO), Chandrapura Village |
11:30 Hrs – 12:30 Hrs |
Om Kumar Kanth |
|
Plot visit for System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and Paddy Seed Production |
12:30 Hrs – 13:30 Hrs |
Samir Kumar & Khsovan Guha |
|
Meeting with Village Resource Persons and Livelihood Committee Members (Community Managed Extension Mechanism & Community Institution Architecture) |
13:30 Hrs – 14:30 Hrs |
Neha & Samir Kumar |
|
Community Lunch with SHG members of the Narishakti Village Organization, Chandrapura Village |
14:30 Hrs – 15:15 Hrs |
President of the JEEViKA Mahila Agri Producers’ Company Limited |
|
Interaction with the BoD members and shareholders of JEEViKA Mahila Agri Producers’ Company Limited |
15:15 Hrs – 16:15 Hrs |
Kshovan Guha & Samir Kumar |
|
Arrival at DPCU-Khagaria |
16:30 Hrs |
Debaraj Behera |
|
Wrap up with DPCU team members at DPCU-Khagaria |
16:30 Hrs – 17:00 Hrs |
Debaraj Behera |
|
Starting from Khagaria for Patna |
17:00 Hrs |
Debaraj Behera |
|
Arrival at Patna |
21:00 Hrs |
Debaraj Behera |
The 14th Programme Schedule will be sent after getting the appointment time from the concerned officials.
Regards
Debaraj
From: Amir Khan
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:10 PM
To: sunil babu
Cc: Debaraj Behera ; Ankur Anand ; Anwesha Pandey
Subject: RE: Bihar plans
Thanks indeed
Sent from my Windows Phone
From: sunil
babu
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:03 PM
To: Amir Khan
Cc: Debaraj Behera; Ankur Anand; Anwesha Pandey
Subject: Re: Bihar plans
Hi Amir,
Debraj spoke sometime back, their meeting with the chief sec. ended only now.
He has got the schedule worked out for the field trip and he has promised to share it in sometime now.
Debraj has requested his CEO to help in getting time of Mangala rai and Mr. Sinha and also to suggest other critical people, which will probably be done tomorrow.
We should be able to send the draft itinerary with more details of field trip, in a few hours from now.
Thanks and best regards
sunil
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Amir Khan <Amir...@gatesfoundation.org> wrote:
Thanks
From: Debaraj Behera [mailto:deb...@brlp.in]
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:51 PM
To: Amir Khan
Cc: sunil babu; Ankur Anand; Anwesha Pandey
Subject: Re: Bihar plans
Dear Amir,
We will get back to you on 13th and 14th programme. The 13th Khagaria field visit schedule on Agriculture Productivity Enhancement for smallholder and dairy will be sent to Dr. Sunil Babu in a hour time.
Regards
Debaraj
From: Amir Khan
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 12:58 PM
To: deb...@brlp.in ; c...@brlp.in
Cc: sunil babu ; Ankur Anand ; Anwesha Pandey
Subject: Bihar plans
Dear Mr. Chaudhary
Could you please help in fixing these appointments so we could draw up a plan for the field trips? I am coordinating with Debaraj as you had suggested.
Amir
Debaraj,
Please finalise the plan for the 13th and 14th in consultation with Anwesha and Ankur. My plan is the following:
- Trip to Khagaria, for the 13th of September.
- Khagaria is a livestock intervention through women groups
- Is still work in progress, a difficult terrain an in hostile conditions
- But early results already positive
- 4 hours by road and a bit of a walk. So leave early at 6 am and back by 6 pm
For the meetings with Government, September 14, in order of preference
a. Mangala Rai, Principal Adviser, Agriculture Cabinet of the Government of Bihar
b. A K Sinha, Principal Secy Agri, slated to become the Development Commissioner this October
c. Vijayalakshmi, Secretary Agriculture
d. Anil Jha, Adviser, Department of Agriculture
e. Sudhir Kumar, Secretary, Animal Husbandry
Other suggestions…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently conducted a review of its Agriculture Development Strategy and decided to intensify its efforts in addressing the problems of smallholder productivity in South Asia. In India the Foundation proposes to focus particularly on Bihar and Orissa. Over the next few months the Foundation is conducting an assessment of the needs and priorities for enhancing smallholder productivity in Bihar. In this connection a team from the Foundation will be visiting Bihar from September 11th-14th 2011. The team will be lead by Prabhu Pingali, Deputy Director, Agriculture Development, and will consist of Brantley Browning (Senior Program Officer); Brian Love (Program Officer) and Tuu van Nguyen (Associate Program Officer).
The mission of the team is to understand the Bihar State Government’s vision and strategy for enhancing small farmer agricultural productivity in Bihar and priority investments that the government is currently making. The team would like to identify opportunities for enhancing the Foundations work in the State. While in Bihar, the team would like hold discussions with senior government officials as well as visit agricultural areas where the government is actively promoting small farmer development through productivity improvement.