Impulse NGO Network & the Common Facility Centre
Women Artisans at work in the CFC
The venture in 1994 with the women’s programme:"UPLIFTMENT OF TRADITIONAL WORKSMANSHIP OF RURAL WOMEN ARTISANS" was for Impulse the beginning of a long term involvement with the handicraft sector eventually leading to the organization’s take over of the CFC at Shillong. The women’s programme aided and enabled the organization in formulating definite objectives for handicraft development, in particular the need for stable and sustainable markets for the women artisans to promote their skills. INGON’s role as a Mother NGO for three clusters in Meghalaya was to be an advantage when the Government, then, looking for an agency that would be able to run the CFC under the following criteria:
• An agency having experience in working with
handicrafts
• An agency with market links
• A financially sound organization
It was in this context that the government approached the organization for the taking over the CFC. The Agency’s role in the CFC is to initiate, encourage and promote technological upgradation in craft clusters of Meghalaya that would provide for better market linkages for the craft artisans
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