Vision: Empowerment of the Under privileged and Alleviate Poverty in Rural India
Mission IDF aims to achieve its mission through holistic approaches involving social mobilization, financial inclusion of the excluded sections and promotion of prudent financial practices and sustainable livelihoods. It promotes sustainable agriculture and natural resource management as means of livelihood improvement among rural poor. Core Values: 1. Participatory functioning 2.Transparency 3.Innovations 4.Team work 5.Valuing stakeholders
Objectives 1. Promotion of Sustainable Livelihoods and Natural Resources Management 2. Promotion of Group Entrepreneurship 3. Promotion of Self Help Group Promotion Institutions (SHPI), Self Help Groups (SHGs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs) 4. Financial Inclusion, Promotion of Thrift Culture and Prudent Financial Practices 5. Participatory Technology Development 6. Education and Research on Development Issues 7. Implementation of Rural Development Programmes 8. Collaboration and coordination with Government Agencies, Industry, Commerce, Research and Development, Technical and Educational, National and International Organizations to foster development
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Our Focus
1.Livelihood enhancement in both farm and non farm sector promoting participative learning adoption of LEISA in farming, natural resource management, integrated farming with livestock component, produce aggregation and primary value addition, collective marketing, promotion of producers’ collectives and green enterprises, skill enhancement. 2.Self employment and Enterprise promotion by skilling and mentoring the youth 3.Skilling to make the rural youth employable and linkage to organized Employment market. 4.Financial inclusion through BC/BF channel, providing no-frill accounts, savings, EBT, credit, insurance, remittance products and services of the bank and community based MFIs through village banking at the CSCs of GP 5.Facilitating access to Entitlements like NREGP, Pensions to the poor through the CBO 6.Providing Education services to improve access to education, auxiliary education services to enhance educational competence of rural students 7.Providing Health Care services through operation of Telemedicine at the GP centers and include traditional systems of medicine to the poor, as well as ensuring insurance coverage for the poor for sustainable care 8.Facilitating access to public funds and mobilizing community for Planning and Development of community assets like rural warehouses, common processing centers etc
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
Sociocultural barriers we have come across in our rural practice areas are 1. Poverty leading to unavailability of Alternate fuels to Cowdung cakes and Wood. 2. Lack of knowledge about the health hazards of indoor air Pollution 3. Misbeilefs: Food cooked from Solid fuels taste better than food cooked in other fuels; Solid fuels are cheap; Fear of Blats from L.P.G among few households. 4. Lack of knowledge on the availability of alternate fuel.
We have experience in Market development for agricultural sector through our CBO structure in the Rural areas.
We have not experienced in technology standardization, however interested to participate in future.
Since we have a public health expert (MBBS and Masters in Community Medicine) who is heading all our health initiatives, we are interested in monitoring the exposure of indoor air pollution before and after various interventions in our rural areas.
Relevant Publications or Studies
None noted
Our Contribution to the Partnership
1. Assessing household energy usage and its health impacts. 2. Learn and adapt the good practices and 3. Research on Methods to build local markets and creating the demand by spreading awareness about Ill effects of Indoor air pollution 4. Monitoring 5. building up the local markets
