Creating Sustainable Livelihoods - End Poverty

Creating Sustainable Livelihoods

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End Poverty is a civil society organization registered in 2009 with a purpose to contribute towards poverty reduction in India. With a mandate to work across the country, so far End Poverty has been working in the state of Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnatak and Delhi with focus on creating sustainable livelihood. EP’s main target segment is poor households, landless agricultural labourers, small and marginal farmers; traditional artisans, poor and needy women and youths.

Capacity building and training are the most important elements among others to support the families striving for change. EP is a professionally managed, forward looking, catalyst organization that designs & delivers customized, innovative and self-sustaining development programs which are replicable and create social impact. It has carried out development work of over INR 20 crores in last three years with the kind support of its donors, partners and other stakeholders.

VisionEconomic development of poor and needy people in its operational area through education, training and capacity building.

MissionTo develop the capacity and skills of members of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in India in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society.

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• Empowerment of women by way of their group formation, capacity building, skill up gradation and sustainable livelihood creation.• Promoting economic upliftment of the small and marginal farmers including dairy farmers by improving their farm management practices, facilitating

fair & transparent procurement activity and providing market linkages for remunerative pricing.• Creating employment opportunities for youths through training, capacity building and skill upgradation.• EP acts as catalyst to improve education in the selected areas with focus on out of school girls and primary school.• To build capacity of the villagers for taking up infrastructure development works in their villages like rural roads, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc.

Objectives

EP Core ValuesService beyond self: EP is founded to serve others. It will conduct its activities for the sake of others, whether the public at large or a particular segment of the society.

Transparency: EP is transparent in its dealings with the government, the public, donors, partners, beneficiaries, and other interested stakeholders. Basic financial information, governance structure, activities, and listing of officers and partnerships are open and accessible to public scrutiny and it will make effort to inform the public about its work and the origin and use of its resources.

Truthfulness: EP is truthful in its dealings with its donors, project beneficiaries, staff, members, partner organizations, government, and the general public. Any information given out should be accurate, whether regarding itself and its projects, or regarding any individual, organization, project, or legislation.

Accountability: EP is accountable for its actions and decisions, primarily to the community it serves, and also to its funding agencies, the government, staff and volunteers, members, partner organizations, and the public at large.

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Service Beyond Self

Truthfulness

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TransparencyAccountability

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Strategy EP’s strategy is not to give hand-outs or charity, but enable the community to build up their skills socially and economically and reach out for change according to their own cultural manifestations. To unshackle people from negative forces, and to unleash their energy EP believes in strengthening micro level, people centred self-managed activities with potential for growth. Toward this end EP will focus on formation of various community based organization at village level, network them in collectives, build capacity through training and exposure to new ideas to provide confidence and mutual support to the beneficiaries striving for social change and self development. EP believes that the sustainability of this model depends upon people’s ability to manage their group and form linkage with main stream development process from a position of strength and not merely be beneficiaries of program interventions.

Governance & ManagementBoard: The Governing Board consists of seven members. The Board meet atleast four times a year. Each meeting is held as per agenda and minutes of the meeting are kept. Every quarter, the management team reports to the Governing Board on the progress of the organisation by means of the quarterly reports & fund uttilisation report. Governing Body Members of EP are highly qualified and experienced and take keen interest in the activities of the organisation.

Management: EP is a forward looking organisation with an open and dynamic working culture. The management team consists of CEO, appointed by the Board and the heads of the departments which are appointed by the CEO, in conformance with EP HR and Admin policy.

Review meetings are held on monthly basis, topics are discussed that have organisation-wide or strategic importance, such as: strategic plan, budget estimate, human resources development, new initiatives, specific risks, audits, the quality system, etc.

Plan: EP prepare Annual Action Plan in the month of March each year based on the insights from the last year. Based on the year’s plan, a personal plan is drafted with each individual member of staff, which forms the basis of the end of year evaluation. The assessment system of EP is connected directly to remuneration.

Monitoring: The management team assesses the progress and the expenditure based on the quarterly report. This is shared with the Governing Board and the members of staff. Halfway through, the progress on the year plan and strategic plan is reviewed, in which the results from this mid-term review and all learning points from the previous year are analysed. Where necessary, points of improvement are formulated and adaptations are made to the plans.

Stakeholder: EP pursues an open dialogue with all its stakeholders, such as volunteers, professional employees, donors, collaborating organizations etc. Our stakeholder receive a quarterly progress report and a annual report and annual account. Donors also visit projects that they support. EP also organise stakeholder Meet once a year where stakeholder review the progress of previous year and make suggestions for next year plan.

ProgramsSustainable Agriculture: Over 2500 farmers from Alwar of Rajasthan have been mobilized and supported in various aspects of sustainable farming such as conservation of land and water, organic farming, bio pest control, agriculture risk mitigation, impact of climate change on farming etc. with a purpose to improve farm productivity in a sustainable manner. Farmers are supported in aggregation of input demand and collective purchase directly from the main source. Farmers are facilitated in soil testing and preparation of soil health cards. Exposure visit to KVKs, Agriculture Summit, IARI, Trade Fair, Model Agri farm etc. are held regularly to showcase best practices, new technologies in agriculture, horticulture sector.

Plant a Tree for Life: It is a livelihood cum environment project of EP under which we have planted over 35350 fruit tree covering 650 farmer from 60 villages. The sapling planted three years ago have started

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bearing fruits and support is being provided to farmers in marketing of their produce. The horticulture farming is the best solution towards sustainable farming as it consume less water, give more returns, need less labour, improve local environment and family nutrition.

Dairy Development Program: Dairying is a extremely important economic activity in EP’s operational area. But the value chain is infested with petty middle man in absence of any organised player to procure the surplus milk, farmers are exploited at every stage of the value chain. EP has mobilized over 2700 farmers from Alwar and Jaipur district of Rajasthan state and provided training on modern dairy farming and helping farmers to get the best genetics to improve their animal breed and guiding them about the balance nutrition, animal health etc.

Women Alternative Livelihood Program: Ajeevika Craft Center (ACC) creates alternate income opportunity for the poor and needy women who otherwise depend on farm income for their livelihood. Ajeevika Craft Centre are set up at village level which are fully equipped with motorized machines, support kit and necessary furniture / fixture. EP has set up 10 centres, where 300 women have been trained and registered for production of handicraft items. Products like different types of bags & pouches, cushion cover table runners, quilt etc. are being made by these women and marketed to earn extra income. Payment is made directly to the woman beneficiary on monthly basis.

Youth Employment: The/Nudge Project which aims to build up skill of youth in such a way that they get employed has been launched in September 2015 with the support of leading CSRs. Under the program selected youths are provided 100 days residential training program to build a strong 360-degree life skills for youth from underprivileged backgrounds. 2750 young man and women graduated from Gurukul and been placed.

Kishori Sikhsha program ( KSP ): The KSP is a 12 months, in-house designed, holistic literacy program for adolescent girls who have not been educated in regular schools. This program provides literacy, numeracy, reading and expressive skills, sewing as a vocational skill, health and environment awareness to girls who are illiterate and may not get chance to get change to get literacy if left out. Cumulatively, EP has made over 2250 girls literate till date.

N/Core: N/Core is an incubator for early stage non-profits, who are working on problems related to poverty. N/Core offers innovation grant of INR 10 Lakh through a seed grant, dedicated mentoring during 6-months of incubation and support network. N/Core launched N/Core alpha, a 14-day intense boot camp in March 2017 with 20 non-profits. The first 6-month incubation was launched in July 2017 in partnership

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest.Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa

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with Book A Smile, Dr. Reddy’s Foundation and Indira Foundation. The first cohort graduated in the month of March 2018. N/Core launched N/Core tech- an exclusive track in partnership with Cisco CSR in May’ 18, selecting 8 non-profits who are leveraging technology as a means to improve lives of the poor. N/Core launched second open cohort in July 2018 in partnership with Mphasis, Omidyar Network and DE Shaw Co. Through second open cohort, N/Core is incubating 10 early stage non- profits.

Rural Development program: EP has formed 20 Village Development Groups (VDGs). The group members meet regularly, undergo trainings and take up development work in their villages in a planned way. VDGs have taken up several works in their villages such as boundary wall in school, covering of unused well, pavement, repair and installation of hand pump for drinking water, cleaning of village ponds, sanitary toilet, preparation of UID card, getting cooking gas connection under prime minister ujjawala gas yojana, pension for old age and widow etc.

Stakeholders Engagement: EP regulary engage with its stakeholders. It conduct annual stakeholder meet where it invite community leaders, beneficiaries, NGOs, Govt. Officials, partners, interns, volunteers. etc and engage with them in detailed disucussion to critically review the ongoing program and chalk out plan for next year. Last stakeholder meeting was held in Feb 2018. So far nine such meetings have been held. The current structure of EP program is also outcome of these meetings.

Be the change you want to see in the worldMahatma Gandhi

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PartnersEP strongly believe in building strong, long term partnership with donor and CSR organizations, State & Central Government organizations, high networth individual like minded individuals. We follow open and transparent culture at EP. We have track record to deliver the project within a agreed timeline and budget.

Legal status Registered Charity No.HR/018/2013/00806

FCRA approval no:172270077, PAN No: AAATE3346B12 A approval no: AA/2014-15/107/1

80G approval no: 80G/AAATE3346B/929

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Governing Board

Vinod Kaushik (President): Mr. Vinod Kaushik is a Management Graduate from IRMA. He has over 25 years of experience in conceptalising and executing poverty allevoaition projects in South Asia. He has worked with wide spectrum of organisationss like NDDB Dairy Services, Jaipur Rugs Foundation, GEN Initiative UK, ANARDE Foundation, Gujarat Ecological Commission, ARCOGUL etc. Mr. Kaushik has served on CSR Committee of CII, Agriculture & Water Committee of FICCI, NABARD Committee on Rural Credit Intensification for Punjab & Haryana. Currently he is on Board Of Agriculture Sector Skill Council of India.

Dr. Rachna Singh: Dr. Rachna Singh is a graduate from Miranda House and Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. She has over 25 years of diverse work experience including Faculty positions teaching Research, Business Communication, managing engagement between Indian and international academic and business institutions like MDI, IILM, Gurgaon, CCIP Paris, University of Robert Schuman, University of Aix Marseilles, Eurpoean Embassies in India etc. She volunteered at a Special School in Canada, taught English in Tokyo, Japan.

Atul Satija: Mr. Atul Satija is an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad. He has 17 years of experience of start-up businesses, scaling and turning around businesses in some of the largest and most respected organisations globally. Until recently, he was the Chief Business Advisor of InMobi. Earlier, Mr. Satija was the Head of Mobile Business for Japan and Asia-Pacific, and Head of Business Development for India at Google. Currently he is CEO of The Nudge Foyndation and Give India.

Sukhbir Sharma: Mr. Sukhbir Sharma is an Engineer from CTI, Gwalior. He has over 36 years experience during which he has worked with leading organizations like Hotel Meridien, Imperial, Modi Group, DLF, Jindal (JSW). His work at Bellary Karnataka has been awarded as the best township in India and in Asia. He is currently the Sr. Vice President with TCG Real Estate and is actively engaged in philanthropic initiative.

Mr. Avinash C. Tyagi: Mr. Avinash. C. Tyagi, is an alumni of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has 44 years of experience dealing with various facets of water resources management devoted to poverty reduction at various levels in the government, UN organizations and NGOs. He has served as Governor in the Board of Governors (BoG) of World Water Council representing ICID; Governing Board of UNESCO-IHE, Delft; Governing Board of ICHARM; and Chair of International Flood Network IFNet. Mr. Tyagi, is an ardent advocate of multi-disciplinary collaboration for solving complex development challenges, and in continuing dialogue among various stakeholders and community participation in the water sector.

Mr. Rajesh Mehta: Mr. Rajesh Mehta has done PGDBM from Fore School of Management and he has over 20 years of experience in Industry. He specializes in setting up new companies and organizations, building on core management competence and advised international organizations like APCO World Wide, Tekes, Finnode, Finpro, European Business Technology Centre through efficient network, contacts and skills. He is Senior Advisor to Red Fort Strategies, EU Gate India , Infinite Sum Modelling and APCO Worldwide. He has advised CEO’s, Governments, Diplomats, Business Associations and Philanthropic Organizations. He has authored number of reports, books, policy papers, compendiums etc.

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