Cluster development programmes provide a very good opportunity for donors and funding agencies to leverage their fund for poverty alleviation program and improved employment opportunities by leveraging the limited funds through CDP. The donors can use social capital as tool to evolve an inclusive growth among MSMEs and artisan based clusters.
In developing countries most of the employment opportunities are created in informal sector such informal sectors are primarily in the form of clusters. In India there are more than 400 industrial and 4000 artisanal clusters. Hence a huge potential lies untapped in clusters.
We at Clusterkraft organize various cluster development programmes and work for improving social capital in the clusters by meetings with various stakeholders, sensitization / awareness seminars, and networking events so that various donor and funding organizations along with the needful agencies could be brought together under one umbrella and a relationship of trust and amicability could be built between them so that the work of poverty alleviation and employment generation could be given a boost.
Clusterkraft has been working for National and International funding organizations namely GTZ, DFID, World Bank, etc.