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Our Belief
“Communities as Drivers”

We believe that all people, no matter how poor, are capable of driving the change they need.

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Professionals as Catalysts

PRADAN believes people with education and empathy must engage with the poorest. That India's development cause is served better when educated Indians work directly with the poor, which is as important as working in industries and commercial sectors is more relevant today than ever. India continues to be overwhelmingly rural even today with low levels of human development in our villages.

PRADAN
"Our Strategy"

PRADAN is making a measurable impact on India.

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Social Mobilization

Reaching out to the poorest communities, human capabilities, building women's self-reliant collectives as change agents.

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Food Security

Reducing hunger, ensuring year-round food.

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Managing Natural Resources

Making the most of nature’s gifts through husbandry, suitable technologies and investments

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Social Mobilization

Reaching out to the poorest communities, human capabilities, building women's self-reliant collectives as change agents.

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Social Mobilization

Reaching out to the poorest communities, human capabilities, building women's self-reliant collectives as change agents.

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Our Presence

We organize our grassroots operations into 12 Development Clusters. Each cluster, or region, is a collection of districts that groups together people and villages with a shared history, culture, agricultural climate and institutional landscape. This strategy reinforces the connectedness among communities, enabling development to multiply and accelerate.

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Our Ambition

The world is aiming to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. They cover a broad range of interconnected issues, from economic growth to social issues to global public goods.

India is ranked low on global development indices, and will be an important factor in achieving many of these global goals. Meeting this challenge demands a strong partnership among government, the private sector, and development organisations.

In 2022-23, PRADAN charted out a road map to multiply our impact. Our energies today focus on bringing about multi-dimensional results through comprehensive empowerment of people in the poorest pockets of the country. By 2030, we plan to reach 10 million households and 50 million people across the states where we operate.

Our work is aligned closely with six of the 17 SDGs, and will be a significant contribution to the national commitment and aspiration. Our ambitions around each of the six global goals are described below:

No
Poverty

500,000 households

with gross income greater than 100,000, 50% livelihood coverage.

Zero
Hunger

500,000 households

with year round-food security and crop diversity to address nutritional needs.

Gender
Equality

750,000 women 

with enhanced consciousness of gender- caste-class discrimination.

Climate
Change

100,000 families

draw investments on farming infrastructure to build climate change resilient villages and strengthen livelihoods.

Clean Water
and Sanitation

6,000 (50%) villages

with adequate safe drinking water and 3,000 (25-30%) villages free from open defecation.

Peace, Justice and
Strong Institutions

25,000 collectives

promoting other collectives multiplying institutions for the poor, by the poor.

Some of
Our Projects

LEAP - PROWFIT

PRADAN is happy to announce "LEAP - Livelihoods Enhancement through market Access and women emPowerment", a two-year project supported by a philanthropic grant from the Walmart Foundation that aims to impact lives and livelihoods of 45,000 small holder women farmers (population of about 225,000 people), across the states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal in India. 
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ASSET

Assured Income Enhancement Model through Goat and Back Yard Poultry (BYP) Farming in Simdega, Godda and Dumka Districts, Jharkhand 
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START

RBL Bank Limited and PRADAN are partnering a three-year project called START (Stimulating Tribal and Rural Transformation) to create growth clusters in four districts of Kalahandi, Bankura, Banka, and West Singhbhum in the Eastern Indian states of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand respectively. 
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Join Us in Building Sustainable Futures

Together we can create lasting change across rural india

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