Major Assignments
 
Name of the Assignment
Client's Name

States / Districts

Effect of SHGs on branch profitability

UPLDC, Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh

Group savings and credit management.

World Bank & UPLDC, Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh

O&M, MIS and viability of PACS.

H.P.SCB Ltd.

Himachal Pradesh

Study on SHGs as financial intermediaries

DFID

Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Orissa.

Evaluation of Gramya Scheme

M.P.Women Development. Corporation & UNICEF.

Madhya Pradesh.

Viability Study of Manipur Rural bank

NABARD.

Manipur.

NABARD’s In-depth Study of VVV Clubs

NABARD

Assam, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Orissa, Karnataka & Uttar Pradesh.

Facilitation of  Revamping of RRBs through Organisational Development Initiative (ODI) 49 RRBs All India
O&M and MIS Study and Viability Study of PACS (Assam) NABARD Assam
Study of UPLDB UPLDB Uttar Pradesh
HRD Study of LDB Tripura Tripura SLDB Tripura
District Potential Survey of rural non-farm sector NABARD Kutch, Tirunelveli, Bijapur, Udaipur, Kamrup, Baragarh, Mirzapur, Akola
Indira Mahila Yojna - Training and Monitoring DWCD, Govt. of India All states in India
Study on Collateralisation Cost in Small Loans International Labour Organistaion (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland All states of India
 
Year - 2004 - 2005
During the year, in addition to the above, 13 In-Campus customised programmes and 7 On-location customised programmes were conducted for various banks, viz., Bank of Punjab Ltd., Delhi State Cooperative Bank, Punjab SCADB, Canara Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Panchmahal Vadodara Gramin Bank, etc. Programmes were also conducted for KVIC and UPLDC .
 
Year - 2005 - 2006
At the request of Canara Bank, 3 customized programmes were
conducted by on ' Achievement Motivation , ' which were very well
received by the bank and their participants. In addition. customized were
conducted for NABARD UPRO, NIAM, Jaipur and Microsoft and Natural Technologies, New Delhi.

During the year, 4 exposure visits on microfinance were undertaken to different countries viz., the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia and South Africa respectively.
 
 
 Areas of Core Competence

Organisation & HRD.

Information Technology &
Banking .
Microfinance & Gender Development.
Small & Micro-Enterprise Development & Financing.
Financial & Investment Management.
Agricultural Project Finance.
Turnaround Strategies - RFIs.
Rural Branch Management.
Trainers' Training.
 
 Collaboration
BIRD has functional
collaboration with a few national and international institutions of repute for Training.
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 Seminars / Conferences /  Workshops
BIRD has a mandate to play the
role of facilitating policy debate
in the area of Rural Credit and
microfinance.
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