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Livelihood

Live Projects

Funded Projects

 

Mahila Shram Seva Nyas (MSSN), Madhya Pradesh (2005), ($55,917)
MSSN is a union of women workers in the informal sector committed to developing its member’s socio-economic condition. MSSN, through AIF support, has promoted 40 self-help groups.
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Nidan, Bihar (2004), ($89,000)
Nidan was started in 1996. Nidan felt it was important to facilitate a broad based movement for recognition and implementation of rights of informal sector workers. Thus Nidan got engaged in organizing vendors, hawkers, home-based workers, rag pickers, construction workers, domestic maids, agricultural workers etc by taking up the issue of legal rights of these workers.
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Freedom Foundation, Karnataka (2004), ($19,200)
Freedom Foundation (FF) rehabilitates people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction, and offers HIV positive people opportunities to support themselves.
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Prayas, Gujarat (2003), ($42,444)
Prayas works on improving livelihoods among the poorest sections of society in Jhabua district (MP), and Bhuj and Dahod districts (Gujarat). AIF’s grant is supporting the restoration of livelihood activities for 300 marginalized women in the town of Anjar in Bhuj district, who were affected during the 2001 earthquake.
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Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA) Organic, Karnataka (2004), ($150,000)
MAYA Organic, (through a previous grant supported by AIF – see past grants), has organized collectives of workers in the garments, lacware and the construction sectors, and has facilitated the formation of worker-owned enterprises.
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Centre for Rural Development (CRD), Assam (2005), ($31,111)
CRD is a registered society. It was registered in the year 1994-95 with the initiation of a few young professionals who were already working in the field of rural development for some years. The Society, since its inception, has remained actively involved in developmental work for the poor and underprivileged of the North Eastern Region of the country.
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Saath, Gujarat (2006), ($46,364)
Saath, which means ‘together’, ‘co-operation’, ‘collective’, or ‘support’, is a charitable Trust working in Gujarat. Saath has completed 15 years as an organization working on initiatives for equity in development. In the urban settlements, it has been working since 1989. Its mission is to make human settlements equitable living environments, where all residents and vulnerable people have access to health, education, essential infrastructure services and livelihood options.
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Samaj Parivartan Samudaya (SPS), Karnataka (2002), ($ 61,700)
SPS works to protect the environment in Karnataka by advocacy and organizing people dependent upon natural resources, mainly forests, land and water, for their livelihoods. SPS has been implementing a five year livelihood project since 2002. The main objective of the program is to contribute significantly to the livelihoods of 3,841 families in 26 villages in two districts of Karnataka - Davanagere and Haveri.
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Professional assistance for developmental action (PRADAN), Chattisgarh (2004), ($133,111) PRADAN is a voluntary organization registered under the societies registration act in Delhi. It currently works in selected villages in 26 districts across 7 states, through small teams based in the field. The focus of its work is to promote and strengthen livelihoods for the rural poor.
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Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation (NDPF), Haryana (2003), ($44,755)
Navjyoti- Delhi Police Foundation was established in 1987 as a result of an inextricable link that existed between crime and drugs. What started as a small initiative for rehabilitation and training has grown into a large network of community development programs in three major resettlement areas of Delhi, namely Jahangirpuri, Holambikalan, and Bawana, a rural development program in Naya Gaon, Gurgaon and a Drug De-Addiction and Training Centre in Kerala.
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Grameen Development Services (GDS) Uttar Pradesh (2005), ($ 100,000)
GDS has been working for over a decade in UP focusing on livelihood augmentation and the social empowerment of the poor. Through this project, GDS seeks to undertake the task of equipping the secondary level community institutions (that is, the federations of Self-Help Groups (SHGs), that it has promoted, to provide their members various services...
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Area Networking and Development Initiatives (ANANDI), Gujarat (2004), ($155,133)
Area Networking and Development Initiatives (ANANDI) is a women’s organization that works with women of the marginalized sections of rural and tribal communities of Gujarat.
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Vikas, Gujarat (2004), ($78,000)
Vikas Centre for Development is a registered public charitable trust, established in 1978, and works with the under privileged sections of society to improve the quality of their lives.
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Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS), Madhya Pradesh (2002), (2004), ($64,000)
Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) is a grassroots people’s organization, headquartered in a drought prone tribal area of Bagli Tehsil of Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh.
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Utthan, Gujarat (2004), ($93,577)
The project has created various water resources through activities like well recharging, construction of check dams, pond recharging, etc. in 6 villages of Mahuva Taluka of Bhavnagar district of Gujarat.
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Samerth, Gujarat (2003), ($96,885)
The project supported activities like construction of wells, check dams, and land bunds in 15 villages of Kutch district of Gujarat.
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Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA) Organic, Karnataka (2004), ($59,277)
The grant period ended in December 2005. During the grant period, MAYA ORGANIC has been active in 3 sectors: Lacware, Garments and Wood-and Metal Fabrication. More than 375 beneficiaries work in or with 21 group enterprises in these sectors.
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Udyama, Orissa (2005), ($92,168)
Udyama works in Western Orissa to improve livelihoods by ensuring sustainable uses of natural resources. AIF supported a project focused on watershed development, restoration of traditional land and water management systems, and the promotion of farmer’s groups in 12 villages.
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