Knowledge and Institutions
Craft Resource Mapping
Evidence before intervention.
Cluster development starts with a clear picture of the local craft ecosystem. Programmes designed without one spend the first year discovering what a two month study would have shown.
What a mapping covers
- 01 Artisan locations and numbers
- 02 Traditional skills and master artisans
- 03 Existing products
- 04 Production capacity
- 05 Raw materials
- 06 Tools and equipment
- 07 Infrastructure
- 08 Existing markets
- 09 Institutions present
- 10 Training requirements
- 11 Technology gaps
- 12 Enterprise readiness
- 13 Market potential
Who uses the output
District administrations, state departments, rural livelihood missions, tribal development institutions, CSR foundations and development agencies planning cluster, district, state or regional programmes.
The outcome
A programme designed against what is actually there, not against what a proposal assumed.