Livelihood – GYANALAYA FOUNDATION

Ensuring Sustainable Development For Livelihoods

Building safe and resilient livelihoods for marginalised women

GYANALAYA FOUNDATION’s Livelihood mandate works with the women engaged in smallholder agriculture, small businesses or employed as farm or non-farm labour. Implementing a range of innovative initiatives, we help women build secure and resilient livelihoods and climb out of poverty permanently. The key approaches adopted in livelihood sector initiatives include capability enhancement, asset building, collectivisation, inclusive value chain development and engagement of men and other influential actors.

187,724

Individuals reached directly through livelihood interventions across 12 states, out of which 144,709 are women.

25,623

Households supported to transition to clean energy cooking solutions under SDG 7.

31,832

Individuals received support for inclusive and sustainable economic opportunities and to have decent work (SDG 8).

33,972

GYANALAYA FOUNDATION worked with 33,972 people to overcome hunger and poverty (SDG 1).

3,962

To enhance resilience of communities arising from climate-based vulnerabilities, CARE India reached 3,962 individuals with Climate Smart agriculture interventions (SDG 13).

1,163

1,163 smallholder cotton growing farmers shifted to waste-water reduction technique in Buldana district of Maharashtra.

348

348 smallholder organic cotton growing farmers have improved soil fertility with reduction of excessive chemical inputs in Buldana district of Maharashtra.

Focus Areas

Empowering Smallholder Women Farmers

Harnessing cutting edge research and innovation to build strategic partnerships.

Women Entrepreneurship Development

Employing cutting-edge capabilities to positively impact marginalised.

Clean Energy Solutions

Increasing the adoption of sustainable lifestyle by transiting towards.

Secure and Resilient Livelihoods for Smallholders

Promoting secure and resilient livelihoods for smallholder households and ensuring a sustainable agriculture-livestock production system.

The project aims to promote more secure and resilient livelihoods for 5750 poor smallholder/forest fringe households from 21 villages in the Hazira and Umarpada locations of Surat, and ensure their productive and equitable participation in a sustainable agriculture-livestock production system. For almost 70-80% of the farmers from both locations, the landholding pattern varies from 0-2 acres, due to which they are not able to scale up their agricultural practices and earn more. The project is being undertaken in partnership with Shell India.