Partners

Current Partners

Voluntary Health Association of Sikkim (VHAS)

NFI has been supporting Khedi Eco-tourism and Environment Promotion (KEEP) through the Voluntary Health Association of Sikkim (VHAS) for the last two and half years. The project aims to explore livelihood and employment opportunities for 95 families living in Pastanga village by promoting eco-tourism. The initiative has really caught the imagination of the local population, especially youth and women who have proven to be the most enterprising. The organizations KEEP and VHAS have been receiving enthusiastic responses from the locals for their campaigns and cleanliness drives to maintain ecological balance with responsible disposal of waste.

CARM-DAKSH, Bilaspur

NFI supports Carmdaksh to empower women agriculturists in Korba and Bilaspur districts in Chhattisgarh. Most of the women and their families were dependent on sharecropping, collecting minor forest produce and wage labour for livelihood. So far, Carmdaksh has worked with 3000 marginalized women and their families, by organising them into 180 self-help groups (SHGs) and 10 cluster level organizations (of SHGs) in 55 villages. The SHGs are trying to work closely with Panchayat members and block officials under the leadership of Carm-Daksh. The organisation has mobilized the community to improve social cohesion and support for women engaged in agriculture and other income generating activities. The project has also touched upon issues of gender and social inequality, education for girls and boys and issues of social development  Women have initiated systemic rice intensification-based rice cultivation for improved yields of paddy. Value-chain based approaches have also been used to improve yields of  fisheries, lac cultivation, vermicompost production, vegetable farming and local opportunity based production and trade.

Center for Sustainable Development and Food Security (CENSFOOD), Ladakh

NFI provides support to the Center for Sustainable Development and Food Security (CENSFOOD) for a project in Durbuk and Nyoma block in the eastern part of Ladakh (called Changthang), which is a cold arid zone located in the Himalayas. The project focuses on strengthening the capacity of people to improve the chances of survival of their livestock during the long and harsh winter months. This is done by setting up fodder and feed banks. The project presents a host of openings to ensure sustainable livelihoods and food security for nomads inhabiting the region. A total of 43 families of Kharnak and 85 families of Phobrang have been benefited by this project. Most of them are Changpas, a pastoral nomadic community dependent on livestock rearing for livelihood.