Capacity Building

Capacity enhancement of members and like minded non member business support organizations, enterprises and producers are done by FTG Nepal through extensive and intensive service delivery. The modalities of service delivery vary from one target group to another. Categorically, FTG Nepal provides services to its 3 target groups as follows:

Services to Member Organizations

The membership of FTG Nepal comprises of business support organizations, private companies and cooperatives, all practicing fair trade in their activities. We provide following services to our members in order to strengthen their capacity to provide more services to the grassroots producers:

• One off and package trainings and counselling.
• Market facilitation through organizing Annual Fair Trade Fair and other fairs, facilitating participation in national and international fairs, developing joint promotional materials such as CDs, profiles, websites, coordinating joint market exposure trips to abroad, international buyer seller meet, coordination of product order consolidation etc.
• Business information dissemination on market trends, color forecast, order inquiry through FTG information centre and regular circular
• Managing expert volunteer services for its member organizations.
• Depending upon the need of the members, the above services are either delivered on a piecemeal approach or on a project basis.

Services to non member organizations/enterprises/producers

For non members, FTG Nepal provides trainings and counseling on different aspects of business. These organizations also receive market facilitation service through participation in its annual Fair Trade Fair.

Direct services to producers in collaboration with the partners

FTG Nepal members' possess decade's long expertise on skill transfer and have extended market linkages. Pooling these resources, FTG Nepal undertakes certain projects which intensively deliver services to the grassroots producers. These types of projects are carried out in collaboration with the partners having similar goals and objectives. Under the project, we normally conduct baseline survey, rapid market assessment, market feasibility studies, network creation, skill upgrading, product development, quality enhancement, market promotion services, and market linkup with FTG Nepal members.