Project Deployment Manager
Mewat (Haryana),Mahad & Poladpur (Raigad-Maharashtra)
World Bank GEF Funded NAIP Comp-3:Adaptation to Climate Change project entitled, “Strategies to enhance adaptive capacity to climate change (CCA) in vulnerable regions”. Mobile Agro Advisory System (mKRISHI) connects farmers with an ecosystem that empowers them to make efficient decisions about agriculture, drive profits, and conserve the environment. mKRISHI uses advances in information and communication technology (ICT) to address such issues.1)The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, is an independent financial mechanism for providing new and additional grants and concessional funding to cover the “incremental” or additional costs of measures to assist in the protection of the global environment and to promote environmental sustainable development. The GEF provides grants for projects related to six focal areas: (i) biodiversity, (ii) climate change, (iii) international waters, (iv)land degradation, (v) the ozone layer, and (vi) persistent organic pollutants (POPs).The GEF also serves as financial mechanism for the following four conventions: (i) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), (ii) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), (iii) Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), and (iv) UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).The GEF helps fund initiatives that assist developing countries in meeting the objectives of the conventions.2)National Agricultural Innovation Project is to facilitate accelerated and sustainable transformation of Indian agriculture in support of poverty alleviation and income generation by collaborative development and application of agricultural innovation by the public research organizations in partnership with the farmer’s groups, the private sector, the civil society organizations and other stakeholders.