Other Services

Please contact us for information on other SEDCO services:

  • Participatory value-chain assessments
  • Comprehensive sector analyses
  • Financial assessments and feasibility studies
  • Business counseling
  • Support for business plan development
  • Infrastructure development services for rehabilitation projects

SEDCO can also arrange the following services through Sewalanka Foundation and Sewa Finance:

  • Institutional capacity building
    • Participatory Rural Appraisals and village-level assessments
    • Establishing democratic management systems
    • Basic financial management and transparent record keeping
    • Strategic planning and the Participatory Learning and Action approach
    • Facilitation and consensus-building techniques
    • Savings systems and internal revolving loan funds
    • Managing infrastructure development projects
    • Collection and quality control systems
    • Shareholder systems
    • Linkages and exchanges with other institutions
  • Coordination of sector-specific training and advisory services
    • Reducing external inputs and transitioning to organic agriculture
    • Cultivation plans for market oriented production
    • Integrated agricultural systems to maximize sustainable production
    • Sustainable fish harvesting techniques
    • Fish handling and quality control techniques
    • Coast conservation and mangrove restoration
    • Aquaculture
    • Value addition, food processing and packaging
    • Natural dyeing and advanced handloom techniques
    • Updated market-oriented designs
    • Microenterprise planning and development (CEFE and SIYB)
    • Enterprise-related legal issues
  • Wholesale credit facilities for qualified CBOs
  • Individual loans for qualified rural entrepreneurs