Founded: 1996
Headquarters: Latur, Maharashtra
Geographical Focus: Maharashtra
Lives Impacted: 57,400+
Organization Overview:
Grameen Mahila Vikas Sansthan works with women and girls from underserved communities in the drought prone district of Latur. GMVS works on addressing issues of gender-based violence, child marriage and farmer suicides amongst others. They work to build capacities within the communities they serve and harness the transformative potential of collective action.
Founded: 1996
Headquarters: Lucknow, UP
Geographical Focus: Indo-Nepal border districts of Uttar Pradesh
Lives Impacted: 160,000
Organization Overview:
Nalanda works with children of religious minority communities in the flood and drought prone districts of Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh. Their approach is to impart inclusive education in faith-based schools irrespective of caste and socio-economic conditions. Nalanda’s model is a combination of direct intervention via education and in-direct support to government bodies for knowledge based inputs via research.
Founded: 1979
Headquarters: Kolkata, West Bengal
Geographical Focus: West Bengal
Lives Impacted: 547,000+
Organization Overview:
NOSKK is formed and governed by aspirational women from disadvantaged groups who envision a self-reliant, sustainable society. In West Bengal, it works to empower women and children, migrant workers, and minority groups who are vulnerable to trafficking, exploitative work conditions, and gender-based challenges.
Founded: 1993
Headquarters: Ballia, Uttar Pradesh
Geographical Focus: Uttar Pradesh
Lives Impacted: 600,000+
Organization Overview:
The organization was set up by Khalikun Nisha who basis her own lived experience of growing up restricted by patriarchal gender norms, was inspired to work on women’s issues. In order to achieve this, NBNVS believes that it is best for women to identify and solve their own problems. NBVS promotes women groups at the panchayat level that are responsible to identify issues and find solutions on their own.
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Beed, Maharashtra
Geographical Focus: Maharashtra
Lives Impacted: 70,000+
Organization Overview:
Navchetna Sarvangin Vikas Kendra was founded by Manisha Sitaram Ghule, a survivor of gender-based violence in Marathwada, Maharashtra. They operate in the drought-prone Beed district and focus on advocacy for land rights, and menstrual health for NT-DNT and Dalit communities. They support single women through microfinance and livelihoods.
Founded: 1997
Headquarters: Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
Geographical Focus: Odisha
Lives Impacted: 55,000+
Organization Overview:
Nirman works with farmers, tribals, and forest-dwelling communities in Odisha. Nirman is committed to the inclusive, holistic, and sustainable development of marginalized communities through a regenerative eco-system, and empowerment of the local community and resource-poor. The struggle as a household and community-led the founders to start Nirman to address the needs and issues of the farming community.
Founded: 2014
Geographical Focus: Assam
Organization Overview:
NEAID is co-founded and led by Neeladri and Miraj who have grown up in the northeast and have personally experienced the lack of exposure and focus on holistic education while growing up which prompted them to start NEAID. The organization is led by people from the region to support development initiatives in tribal and rural areas of Northeastern India focusing on Quality Education, Health, and its determinants. NEAID’s interventions are aligned with sustainable development goals (SDGs) and designed to complement the existing public system.
Founded: 2005
Geographical Focus: Odisha
Organization Overview:
Patang aims to build youth leadership to drive social change and mobilize youth by building their capacities. They do this through different thematic areas like education, gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (to build a gender lens), livelihoods (working with young farmers, 60% of whom are women) and child rights. By working with the youth across these themes, they are able to provide support on skill-building (interpersonal and project skills), work plan curriculum and an enabling fund of INR 3000 per month to youth teams to run their programmes. With these efforts, Patang is able to mould youth into more confident leaders who can contribute to the community and advocate with government.
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Geographical Focus: Karnataka
Lives Impacted: 5000+
Organization Overview:
Payana was established by leaders from the LGBTQIA++ community with the aim to build a community owned and managed organization to address the many challenges of their community. Payana works with different identities within the LGBTQIA++ community – Male to Female (MTF), Female to Male (FTM), Kothi*, Double Decker*, Bisexuals, Jogappa*, Manglamukhi* – from poor socio-economic backgrounds.
Founded: 1995
Headquarters: Bishnupur, Manipur
Geographical Focus: Manipur
Lives Impacted: 15,000+
Organization Overview:
People’s Resource Development Association (PRDA) was founded as a youth group to support with re-settlement of people impacted by flood that was triggered by the construction of the Ithai dam in Manipur in 1990. Since then, the organization has evolved to work on livelihood promotion, protection of women & child rights, access to rights & entitlements and natural resource management for the Scheduled Tribes (Naga, Meitei, Chiru, Kuki) that reside in the Bishnupur district of Manipur.
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Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Geographical Focus: Gujarat
Lives Impacted: 3,000+
Organization Overview:
Prabhat supports children with special needs and their families through education, rehabilitation, capacity building, and advocacy with the aim that these children achieve their full potential. It functions through community centres run by local leaders and focuses on children from Dalit and minority communities in the urban slums of Ahmedabad.
Founded: 1990
Geographical Focus: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh
Organization Overview:
Prakriti Women focuses on community involvement right from the start to build abilities to enable the transfer of ownership and accountability to community representatives and enable the sustainability of programs. The organization inputs community voices into program design via Focus Group Discussions, surveys with different village stakeholders (including village-level representatives) to identify challenges and solutions. They also form groups of community members who are capacitated through fellowship programs- to work alongside the organization to run these interventions. For each intervention that they plan with a specific target group, they onboard members of that group into the fellowship.
Founded: 1989
Headquarters: Gariaband, Chhattisgarh
Geographical Focus: Chhattisgarh
Lives Impacted: 390,000+
Organization Overview:
PRERAK was founded to serve communities that continue to be at risk of displacement due to the construction of a dam in Gariaband. Its work has evolved to also focus on tribals displaced due to coal mining and those who have been displaced from the Barnavapara forest. PRERAK works mainly with 7 primitive tribes – Baiga, Bhujia, Kawar, Abuj, Maria, Pahadi, Korba – and Gond, Halba and Dhurvaa Adivasis whose population is declining.