Approach & impact
We do not hand a plan over and leave. The team that walks your ponds and fields in the first week is the team that helps run the season and tells you honestly, at the end, what worked.
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Not every assignment runs through all six. A feasibility study may stop at the second; a managed farm lives in the third and fourth. The order does not change.
Walk the site, read the records, talk to the people who will run it.
Every engagement starts in the field. We look at ponds, plots and institutions as they are, not as the proposal describes them, and we listen to farmers, staff and officials before recommending anything.
Diagnostic note or baseline
Decide what is worth doing, and what it will honestly cost.
We narrow the options to the few that fit the site, the budget and the people. The result is a plan a bank, a board or a department can approve, with its assumptions in plain view.
DPR, strategy or theory of change
Training, inputs, linkages and handholding, on the bund.
We work alongside farmers and field teams through the season: pond preparation, stocking, feeding, harvest and sale. Where we are the implementing partner, we are accountable for the numbers.
Operating plan, trained teams, working linkages
Track the handful of numbers that matter, every month.
Simple monitoring that field staff can keep up: stock, feed, water, costs, sales and participation. Problems get spotted in weeks, not at the endline.
MIS, dashboards, monthly field reports
Say what worked and what didn’t, in plain language.
Midlines, endlines and reflection sessions that separate programme effects from good or bad seasons, and that name failures as clearly as successes.
Evaluation reports, learning briefs
Take what works to the next block, district or state.
Once a model has proved itself, we help take it further: scale-up plans, convergence proposals and the institutional arrangements that let it spread without us.
Scale-up plan, convergence proposals
Fees are fixed before work begins. If the scope changes, we agree the change in writing first.
For a defined deliverable
A DPR, a baseline, a feasibility study or a training programme, with a fixed fee, timeline and deliverable list.
Typical length: 2 to 14 weeks
For ongoing support
A monthly retainer for FPOs, NGOs and CSR programmes that need a technical team on call, with scheduled field visits and reviews.
Typical length: one season to three years
For delivery on the ground
We run the programme or the farm ourselves, with agreed targets, monthly reporting and independent verification where the funder needs it.
Typical length: two to five years
Much of what goes wrong in a field or a pond was decided months earlier. This is the year we plan around in the Brahmaputra valley. Pick ponds or fields, then a month.
Grow-out
September
Overcast days pull dissolved oxygen down before sunrise. Aerate in the early hours, reduce feed on cloudy days, and lime after flood water has entered.
General guidance for Sali-based cropping and composite carp culture in the Brahmaputra valley. Local conditions and department advisories take priority.
Every respondent is told who we are, why we are asking and what happens to their answers, in their own language, before we begin.
Where it matters, we field gender-matched enumerators and hold separate discussions, so women’s views are heard, not relayed.
Personal data is collected, stored and shared in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and anonymised before analysis.
When we evaluate, we report what we find. We do not evaluate programmes we have implemented without saying so.
Where we buy seed, feed or equipment for clients, invoices are passed on at cost or at an agreed, declared margin.
Every report has a short version that a farmer group, a trustee or a district officer can read in ten minutes.
We count what reached the field: money sanctioned, not proposals written; farmers trained in their own ponds and fields, not seats filled in a hall.
DPRs and feasibility studies prepared
in bank finance and scheme support mobilised for clients
farmers and SHG members trained in their own ponds and fields
FPOs, SHG federations and cooperatives supported
baselines, evaluations and impact studies
states: Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh
Our assignments contribute to 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Pick a goal to see how, and what we measure.
Goal 1
Most of our work is about household income: more from the same field or pond, a second crop, a better price, a small enterprise that pays through the lean months.
What we measure
Goals in colour are the ones our work contributes to. Icons follow the United Nations SDG icon set, used for information.
Tell us what you are working on. A senior member of the team will call you back within two working days, usually sooner.