Help communities prosper, and gain the vendors you buy from. Fund the readiness of rural and small enterprises across our five sector missions: households earn from an enterprise they own, and your procurement gains suppliers where none existed before. Your CSR today. Your supply chain tomorrow.
CSR spending ends as a report. This ends as a supplier.
Large companies buy from a narrow set of vendors because the rest of the market cannot meet a specification, hold a quality standard, raise an invoice or take a repeat order. Rural producers stay outside the procurement gate for want of readiness, not want of skill. Your CSR rupee pays for the work between a producer group and a purchase order: formation, costing, quality records, statutory registration, packaging, and the first buyer meeting.
How your CSR rupee works
You fund readiness
One cluster, a 24 week cycle, and a defined cohort of producer groups, FPOs, SHG collectives and artisan or waste units.
An enterprise is formed
Registered, costed, compliant and trained, holding a quality record and an audited supply capability.
A supplier reaches the market
Your procurement team, your peers, government buyers and institutional kitchens gain a vendor who was absent before.
Grant money is spent once. A supplier trades every year after.
Everyone gains
Communities prosper
Income stays in the village, in the hands of the producer, artisan or fisher who earns it.
Enterprises are built
Registered, costed, compliant units run by their own members, not beneficiaries of a scheme.
You gain future vendors
A supplier base in the districts you source from, ready to meet a specification and a repeat order.
Where this sits in your CSR policy
Four Schedule VII heads, one programme, one implementing partner. GAMSME runs the demand side. The School of Livelihood and Rural Development (SLRD), with 23 years in the field and offices at Bhopal and Guwahati, runs delivery on the ground, with sustainability and eco conservation built into every cycle.
Livelihood enhancement
Rural livelihood projects and enterprise formation for producer groups, FPOs, FPCs, SHG collectives and artisan units.
Rural development
Cluster level infrastructure, aggregation, grading, cold chain and common facilities owned by the enterprise, not by us.
Employment enhancing skills
One to three day certified programmes run in the cluster and in the local language, with measured outcomes.
Environmental sustainability
Waste diversion, compost, manure and biochar returned to soil, agroforestry, and eco conservation carried through every mission.
Five missions, five vendor pipelines
| Mission | Sector | Vendor pipeline |
|---|---|---|
| Krishi Udyam Setu | Agriculture and allied | Graded produce, primary processing, aromatic and medicinal plant extraction and packaged food. Farmer owned enterprises supplying food, retail and ingredient buyers. |
| NEER | Fisheries and aquaculture | Fresh and documented fish for institutional kitchens, mid day meals and defence catering, plus fingerling banks, ice and cold chain, feed, drying and smoking. |
| Paryatan Udyam Setu | Tourism and eco tourism | Bookable homestays, guiding, transport, food and experience operators. A ready destination circuit for your offsites, employee travel and tour operator partners. |
| Shilp Udyam Setu | Craft, handloom and handicraft | Artisan owned units supplying corporate gifting, retail, hospitality interiors and export houses, with design and branding built into the cluster. |
| Punarchakra Udyam Setu | Waste, recycling and circular economy | Collection, segregation and processing units delivering material with a weighbridge slip, moisture reading and certificate trail. Meets your EPR and waste obligations. |
Eleven states: the eight North East states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, with state chapters formed in nine of them. Pick the sector nearest your business.
Four ways to support
Adopt a cluster
The full 24 week cycle in one district: buyer requirements gathered, readiness clinics run, enterprises formed and registered, quality records built, and supply agreements signed.
Named as cluster partner, with quarterly reporting on every enterprise.Sponsor a Sangam
The buyer connect finale where enterprises and buyers negotiate in the open, with banks, the district administration and scheme officials present.
Title association at the event, and first access to every supplier in the room.Sponsor training and skills
One to three day entrepreneurship and skill programmes delivered in the cluster and in the local language, through empanelled local professionals.
Per programme costing, with certificates, attendance and outcome data returned.Fund an enterprise line
The equipment a specific enterprise needs to trade: grading and packing, ice and cold chain, feed or processing units, and testing and quality documentation.
Asset owned by the enterprise, traceable to a named unit and a named buyer.Start at any size. Each unit is costed and shared before you commit. Funds are received and accounted by the School of Livelihood and Rural Development, and statutory registration documents are shared on request.
What you get back
Reported quarterly, on numbers a buyer and an auditor both accept.
Enterprises
Units formed, registered and trading, named and traceable.
Supply
Agreements signed, volumes moved, and the buyers who signed them.
Price
Farmgate or artisan price before the cycle and after.
Work
Employment days created, and the share going to women.
Inclusion
Share of enterprises owned by women, SC and ST members.
Environment
Waste diverted, residue processed, and area brought under agroforestry.
How the work is governed: GAMSME leads, with sector councils and state chapters, and SLRD delivers in the field. One agreement, one reporting format, one point of contact, with field visits arranged for your CSR team at any point in the cycle.
Start with one cluster
A meeting
Thirty minutes with your CSR team to pick the sector and the geography nearest your business.
One pilot cluster
A single district cycle, fully costed, with the outcome measures agreed in writing before we begin.
A procurement introduction
A conversation between your sourcing team and the enterprises, so readiness is built against your own specification.
A multi year view
Three cycles let a cluster reach the volume and consistency a large buyer needs.
Abhijit Sharma, Founder and Chairman, Global Association of MSMEs · abhijit@globalmsme.org · +91 84158 85906