Giving back to the Society

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DHAN FoundationDevelopment of Humane Action
Giving back to the Society
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Social capitalisation the basis for
sustainable development DHANs Way
A.Umarani, Director, Tata-Dhan Academy December
02, 2014 First International ART on Micro Pension
Programme JC Residency, Madurai
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DHAN Mission Building people and institutions
for development innovations and scaling up to
enable the poor communities for poverty reduction
and self reliance.
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• Core Values
• Values are the life line of the organization.
  Values represent the core priorities on how the
  organization chooses to operate and to be viewed
  by stakeholders both inside and outside the
  organization. DHAN Foundation has six core values
  which are briefed as below

• Grassroots Action
• Enabling
• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Excellence
• Self Regulation

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• Purpose(s)?
• Mothering development Innovation
• It aims to promote and nurture new ideas on
  different development themes, which have larger
  potential to address the livelihoods and
  development of the poor in a region viz.
  microfinance, small scale irrigation, dry land
  agriculture, working with panchayats.

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Purpose(s)?

• Establishing thematic Institutions and People
  Institutions for up scaling
• Exclusive thematic organisations will be
  promoted to undertake development work with a sub
  sectoral focus. The primary role of these
  institutions is promotional and to ensure that
  benefits reach a large number of poor with
  quality.

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Purpose(s)

• Nurturing development professional with
  systematic HRD
• The institution would bring young
  professionals into the development sector and
  provide them an opportunity to practice and
  develop relevant knowledge, attitudes and skills
  to work long term in the development sector.

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• Principles
• Socially committed high quality young
  professionals to work at villages and slums
• Building nested People Institutions for
  generations with mutuality, self-help and self
  management
• Collaborating with mainstream institutions for
  development
• Thematic focus for enabling
• Livelihood focus for poverty reduction

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• Coverage
• 1.4 million families in 14,000 villages including
  slums in 12 states TN, AP, Karnataka, Orissa,
  Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Assam,
  Maharasthra, Rajasthan, Bihar and Pondicherry
• More than 300 locations (panchayat unions /
  blocks) with more than 700 professionals
• Microfinance, Reviving Traditional Water Bodies,
  IT for Poor, Rainfed Farming, Coastal
  conservation Livelihood restoration, Working
  with Panchayat, Development Education Tata-Dhan
  Academy

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Programmes of DHAN Foundation

• Kalanjiam Community Banking Programme
• Tank fed Agriculture Development Programme
• Coastal rehabilitation and livelihood restoration
  programme
• Rain-fed Agriculture Development Programme
• Democratizing Panchayat
• ICT for poor
• Tata-Dhan Academy- Development Mgt Education

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DHAN Foundations Approach on its Programmes
Community Organisation
Scale down technology
Facilitating environment
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Community Banking Programme
Promote alternative financial services and
mechanisms at the grassroots level for poor women
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Community Banking Programme

• Savings and credit
• Civic Programmes like health, education,
  deaddiction programmes, social security for poor
  etc
• Fund for supporting and creating infrastructure
  for members
• Support for income generating activities
• Matching endowment support for institution
  building
• Collaboration with apex banks/ agencies/
  organisations
• Policy Advocacy efforts

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Tankfed Agriculture Programme
Organise the farmers to conserve and develop
tanks and improve tank fed agriculture
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Activities

• Tank rehabilitation
• Oorani rehabilitation
• Watershed Development project
• Promotion of Micro Finance Groups
• Promotion of Vayalagam Agriculture Development
  Clinics
• Endowment Grants
• Collaboration with funding agencies/allied
  institutions
• Policy Advocacy efforts

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Rehabilitated Tank
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Rehabilitated Oorani
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Watershed works Check dam
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Tata-Dhan Academy
Groom young graduates into development
professionals, undertake research studies
documentation of experiences
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Tata Dhan Academy
Groom young graduates into development
professionals, undertake research studies
documentation of experiences
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Core Activities

• Education Programme in Development Management
  (PDM)?
• Faculty Induction and Development
• Building Capacity of Practitioners through
  Development Management Programmes
• Research and Teaching Materials Development

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Developing IT applications for poverty
alleviation and livelihood promotion
Information Technology for poor
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Activities

• Community colleges for computer education
• Village Internet Centres
• Adult Literacy Programme (ALP)?
• ICT Groups

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Community College
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Democratizing panchayats and developing them as
effective local governance systems
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Multi year planning
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Reviving the best practices of rain fed farming
and promoting livelihoods

Dryland Agriculture
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• Activities
• Transfer of farmers best practices
• Transfer of suitable technologies from research
  agencies
• Experimentation - improved agronomic practices,
  plant protection measures, crop improvement, farm
  mechanisation

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Coastal conservation and Livelihoods Programme

• Relief (immediate)?
• Livelihood restoration (short term)?
• Habitat reconstruction
• (medium term)?
• Coastal zone conservation and management (long
  term)?

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Nested Institutions Model Communities
partnership
Federation
Movement
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DHAN Collective Structure
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DHAN Collective

• DHAN Foundation and the thematic institutions
  promoted together form the DHAN Collective.
• DHAN Collective is a creative concept to nurture
  and preserve the culture of collegiality,
  mutuality and solidarity.
• Shared purpose, core values and resources (human,
  financial and physical resources) bind the DHAN
  Collective.

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DHAN Collective

• DHAN Foundation as the parent institution guides,
  supports and regulates its family institutions on
  their mission, policies, strategies and values.
• Each institution defines its own unique space
  with synergy.

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Specialised Service Institutions for People
Institutions

• People Mutuals
• Kalanjiam Development Financial Services (KDFS)?
• Kalanjiam Thozhilagam limited
• SUHAM (SUstainable Healthcare AdvanceMent)

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Centres for Integration

• Centre for HRD People Academy
• Centre for Development Communication
• Centre for Policy and Planning
• Centre for Finance Centre for facilitating
  Philanthropy
• Centre for Research

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Movements and Networks

• Kalanjiam Vayalagam Movement
• INFOS Indian Network of Federations of
  Microfinance Self Help groups
• INAFI-International Network of Alternative
  Financial Institutions

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Achievements

• Bringing new stock of Development Professionals
  to grassroots action.
• Building Development leaders for the sector.
• Pioneering development themes for poverty
  reduction.
• Formalising, revitalising local practices in
  microfinance and small-scale water bodies.
• Kalanjiam - Enabling model of microfinance.
• Unique and large scale collaboration with
  mainstream institutions for program funds.

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Achievements

• Reaching out to the poorest and making changes in
  the lives of about 1.3 million households
• Creative nested institutions for sustainability
  and solidarity.
• Moving towards people movements on development
  themes.
• Policy contribution at national and global level-
  NABARD, RBI, JnNURM, etc

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Features of DHAN Model

• Community Governance
• Professional Management
• Self reliance
• Primacy on ensuring entitlements
• Mainstream linkage
• Federation model
• Thematic approach
• Financial intermediation as a basic service that
  cuts across all the themes
• Graduated financial services include savings
  credit first then proceed to insurance and pension

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Development Approach
Community Organisation

• Sustainable
• growth

Thematic InterventionIntervenon
Mainstream Partnership
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Four Generation Development Model
Civic
3-5 years
Livelihood
Intermediation
3-5 years
Financial
3-5 years
Social
3-5 years
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Goals of DHAN Foundation 2017

• Goal 1 Building social capital by organizing the
  unorganized poor households including vulnerable,
  differently-abled, and ultra poor/poorest of the
  poor into sustainable community organizations and
  integrating them with local governance/panchayats
  for grassroots democracy
• Sub goal 1.1 Organizing additional one million
  poor households besides the existing one million
  including vulnerable, differently-abled, and
  ultra poor
• Sub goal 1.2 Building 500 nested institutions
  i.e. federations and movements and working with
  200 panchayats to demonstrate grassroots
  democracy with local-governance
• Sub goal 1.3 Grooming and nurturing 50000
  community leaders for sustaining the people
  organizations

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Goals of DHAN Foundation 2017

• Goal 2 Impacting to bring 0.5 million households
  out of poverty through enhancing livelihoods
  through thematic interventions such as
  microfinance, agriculture, water and natural and
  coastal resource conservation and enabling access
  to entitlements related to social security,
  health and education services with gender focus.
• Sub goal 2.1 Impacting 0.3 million farming
  households based on agriculture and livestock
  (dairy) interventions.
• Sub goal 2.2 Facilitating access to financial
  services of significant scale (above Rs. 25000)
  to one million families

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Goal 2 continues

• Sub goal 2.3 Enabling additional one million
  families to access entitlements related to social
  security programmes including life, health, crop
  and livestock insurance and micro-pension.
• Sub goal 2.4 Promoting community owned health,
  sanitation and educational initiatives among 0.5
  million families
• Sub goal 2.5 Building skills related to various
  livelihoods among 0.2 million families for
  promoting sustainable livelihoods
• Sub goal 2.6 Creation of wealth of common assets
  such as common funds, reserves and surpluses,
  common resources with significant worth of
  physical works and strong social capital of 500
  people organisations for their sustainability

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Goals of DHAN Foundation 2017

• Goal 3 Enhancing the resilience of communities
  in different ecosystems by catalysing
  conservation and development of natural resources
  to promote sustainable livelihoods,
  agro-biodiversity, food security and adaption to
  climate change through community banking, rainfed
  agriculture development, tank fed agriculture
  development and coastal conservation programmes.
• Goal 4 Contribute significantly to development
  sector by networking as knowledge centres with
  NGOs, academic and research institutions,
  corporate, people organisations, government and
  banks, and donor organisations through knowledge
  building by rigorous sub-sectoral development
  practice and dissemination, and through grooming
  and nurturing 2000 quality human resources for
  the sector

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• Goal 5 Influencing sub- sectoral policies from
  the learning generated by large scale community
  led practice on microfinance, agriculture, water
  and micro insurance to have nationwide and
  worldwide impact

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Thank You!