Over the last 5 years, SSP has developed a robust model to transform marginalized rural women working as mere labourers working in their family-owned farms to changemakers in agriculture. These women are bringing in food security, improved livelihoods, and means to conserve water for their families and the community at large. But how? The model helps an adopter farmer graduate from being an agri labour to an agri leader with focussed interventions in four agriculture seasons. To accomplish this, SSP’s project and leadership team co-designs and executes the Women-led Climate Resilient (WCRF) Model with community-based facilitators. They are by design local women who are coached to become agri experts and continue to extend knowledge support even after the end of the program – embedding sustenance at the core of the operating model. The village-level community facilitators known as Krishi Samvad Sahayaks (KSS) are responsible for selecting the adopter farmers, handholding and mentoring them throughout the adoption journey. The community facilitators also acts as a nodal point in the village to engage with multiple ecosystem partners of the model. To support them, SSP has also developed a team of specialized community-based trainers who demonstrate key elements of the model, guides them to adopt and troubleshoots when required. The community-based facilitators disseminate key interventions through a participatory approach of farmer groups which graduate into agri enterprises at the end of the project period. This approach induces peer-to-peer learning, exchange of knowledge and inputs, collectivization of activities and later sustenance of the model. The community facilitator selects two group leaders for each 20-membered farmer group who become points of contact for the group, coordinators to process and cascade information and leaders for group activities. The collaborative efforts have unlocked the true potential of the model. SSP has strategically developed partnerships with Agriculture departments, ATMA, and KVK to access relevant schemes, training and knowledge for the adopter farmers. On the other hand, the key partners could reach women, farmers, more efficiently with the help of SSP. “ATMA used to work with mostly male farmers in Osmanabad. It is due to SSP that we can also transfer agriculture technology to women now”, shares Nagesh Popat Ugalmole, Block Technology Officer from ATMA, Osmanabad. With on the ground experience of working with about 11,000 women farmers, SSP has developed a Build-Empower-Sustain operating model that can be replicated, deepened and scaled up with prospective partners.