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ACCESS Development Services is a global catalyst to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. By accelerating collaborative action with global, regional, and local stakeholders, ACCESS is driving financial resilience and security as key outcomes. Set-up in March 2006, ACCESS is structured uniquely to build evidence, create models and align thought leadership in collaboration with Civil Society Organizations, Governments, Private Sector, Donors and Multilateral / Bilateral Agencies.
In recent years, FPO promotion has gained significant momentum and shifted the narrative of Indian agriculture to ‘value-led enterprises,’ empowering farmers through market driven initiatives. The Union Budget 2019 brought focus on setting up and promotion of 10,000 FPOs over 5 years, with the launch of the campaign by the Hon’ble Prime Minister. Under the CSS Scheme for formation and promotion of 10,000 FPOs, there has been a dramatic spurt in formation of FPOs over the last two and half years, supported by apex institutions such as NABARD, SFAC, NAFED and NCDC.
While the vision around FPO promotion relates to making FPOs sustainable in the long run, only few FPOs are currently doing well on the ground. It therefore becomes critical to identify the small number of FPOs that have shown exemplary performance, and highlight their accomplishments to showcase them within the sector as model FPOs.
The FPO Impact Awards were institutionalised in 2018 to recognize and encourage exemplary FPOs that have overcome various challenges, to successfully build self-sustaining businesses and contribute meaningfully to their member community.
The FPO Impact Awards also aims to recognize and felicitate such FPO promoting and enabling institutions that have worked to promote sustainable and scalable models, incubate innovative solutions and support policy for promoting a conducive ecosystem for the growth of FPOs.
The Awards initiative would be a means to provide motivation to exemplary FPOs (registered as Farmer Producer Company under Companies Act 2013)/ Cooperative registered on or after 2002) and Promoting Institutions to continue to enhance the livelihoods and incomes of small and marginal farmers, through providing recognition to their efforts. It would also serve to enhance the credibility of the winning FPOs thereby making it more competitive among market players and financial institutions.
