NDDB's approach to Institution Building aims at a systemic and value-based strengthening of the capacities of the primary  members, management committee members and staff of  village  Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) as also the professionals and elected boards of Milk Producers' Cooperative Unions.
 
 

Institution Building focuses on enabling a cooperative to become a viable, salient and truly member-owned and controlled enterprise. The approach attempts to help the cooperative achieve immediate improvements in its  "physical and financial" performance, while striving to bring about its self-sustaining all around improvement over the long term.
 

The first step in Institution Building focuses on helping all those associated with the cooperative to achieve a shared vision -- most importantly among the owners and their elected representatives. 

The process begins with enabling the board or the management committee to evolve a set of organisational values and to define the Mission -- the purpose for the institution's existence.  This is followed by developing a strategic plan, including long term objectives.  Next, the strategic plan is elaborated through an action plan detailing the activities to be undertaken to achieve its objectives.  The design and process share a common conceptual base, but are implemented in a different way for  village Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCSs) and Milk Producers' Cooperative Unions.