TeleSupport India was a European-Indian framework to develop and test a model for two-way communication between rural communities in selected regions of India and European and Indian knowledge centres and networks to find solutions to local problems in agriculture and natural resources management.Direct beneficiaries were the participating women and farmer groups in local communities in Kerala and west Bengal who had access to good practices and technologies developed, while Indian NGOs benefited from improved information services for their extension programmes.
The ECCP TeleSupport project was implemented in 2006-2007 with the following project partners:
Key thematic focus: Soil fertility, Livestock, Post-harvest, IPM and Gender in development.
Project activities were:
NRI experts were focusing on the capacity development on the key themes of the project. Focus of the InfoBridge Foundation experts was on capacity development on knowledge sharing, networking and on setting up the web-based interaction tools and TeleSupport India Repository. Indian partners focused on needs assessments in their regions, capturing good practices in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management (in documents and videos), on the expert-farmer interaction, local networking and the dissemination of the captured knowledge within their networks and to their local communities.
Reports of the TeleSupport-India project can be found under 'Key Documents'.