“Empowering vulnerable communities to become self-reliant”
Our ecopowerment program focuses on empowering vulnerable communities from rural areas by enabling them to participate, contribute and benefit from the growth process. Women and men in rural areas are vulnerable and lack financial access to produce, process and market their farm and non-farm products. The primary focus of the program is to support farmer producer organisations, women led self-help groups, artists and artisan communities, and other vulnerable groups to access finance to produce quality products, value add and market their products in the traditional and e-commerce platforms to earn maximum economic benefit.
Identifying Needs and Gaps
Skill Building
Trainings
Digitizing Self Help Groups
Onboarding to
E-Commerce Platform
Establish Infrastructure
Our Ecopowerment sector focuses on achieving targets of Sustainable Development Goals 3,4 and 5
The E Village market aims at enhancing income & employment opportunities in rural areas for women SHGs, reviving handmade products in rural areas through SHGs, leveraging technology for productivity gains, improving market linkage, creating year-round demand for products and empowering rural women and their capacities in the entire value chain.
Swayam Sikkim is a pilot intervention project based in Sikkim, the first Organic State in our country. The project was initiated in collaboration with Kalgudi Digital Private Limited Company and with support from the Rural Development Department, Sikkim. The prime objective of the project is to create sustainable income to women led Self Help Groups by digitizing and onboarding their products to an ecommerce platform.
The e village market is another pilot project initiated in the state of Telangana in collaboration with Kalgudi Digital Private Limited Company, District Rural Development Agency, Narayanpet under Ministry of Rural Development, Telangana with funding support from Mashreq Global Services.
We got an opportunity to work with 5 large Self Help Groups under Arunya Handlooms Handicrafts and Organic Producer Company Ltd
In the first phase of the project we were able to Digitise and Onboard 5 SHGs and 100 Products.
The e village market pilot was also initiated in the state of Karnataka in Sirsi in collaboration with Kalgudi Digital Private Limited Company and with funding support from NABARD, Karnataka.
SCODWES – Sahyadri Community Development & Women Empowerment Society and 30 of their products have been onboarded on the platform so far.
FPO connect is an initiative in collaboration with Kalgudi and supported by NABARD, Telangana.
Swayam Sikkim is a pilot intervention project based in Sikkim, the first Organic State in our country. The project was initiated in collaboration with Kalgudi Digital Private Limited Company and with support from the Rural Development Department, Sikkim. The prime objective of the project is to create sustainable income to women led Self Help Groups by digitizing and onboarding their products to an ecommerce platform.
So far the project has digitised 10,000 farmers from 22 Farmer Producer Organisations on to the ecommerce platform to create market linkages.
In collaboration with Hosa Belaku Artisans Foundation and with funding support from Mashreq Global services we have been working with socially disadvantaged individuals and groups from rural Karnataka to create an alternative income source.
So far the project has been able to impact 30 individuals from vulnerable sections of the society by providing them the working capital requirements and technical support required to successfully establish a social enterprise.
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A management professional with 24 years of experience in international leadership positions in India, Africa, South Asia, Europe, and the United Kingdom, graduated from India’s Symbiosis Institute of Business Management with an MBA in marketing. He has led teams of up to 6500 personnel and has executed top-notch processes for sales, operations, human resources, quality assurance, and auditing. He has led and carried out programs for vulnerable communities in India and Africa, focusing on education, economic empowerment, life skills, the environment, sanitation, healthcare, and nutrition. In 2011, the Lions Club International Foundation awarded him the Melvin Jones Fellowship for his humanitarian work, and in 2014, the Lions Club International President’s Certificate of Appreciation was given for his outstanding accomplishments in carrying out the organization’s mission.