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Commonwealth NGOs
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 BAIF Development Research Foundation
BAIF Bhawan Warje
Dr. Manibhai Desai Nagar
Pune 411052
India
Email: baif@vsnl.com
Website: www.baif.com
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description
THE BAIF MISSION: BAIF's Mission is to create opportunities of gainful self-employment for the
rural families, especially disadvantaged sections, ensuring sustainable livelihood, enriched
environment, improved quality of life and good human values. This is being achieved through development
research, effective use of local resources, extension of appropriate technologies and
upgradation of skills and capabilities with community participation. BAIF is a non-political, secular
and professionally managed organisation.
PROGRAMME APPROACH
To address the problems of the poor families who live in a heterogeneous society, BAIF has developed
the following strategy:
* Consider each BPL family as the unit of development
* Multi-disciplinary village cluster development approach for socio economic development
* Blend development with applied research and training
* Promotion of people's organisations for programme implementation and sustainability
* Ensure empowerment of women, education and community health for better quality of life
* Integrate environmental protection with livelihood programmes
PROGRAMME COVERAGE
Various programmes are implemented by BAIF and its Associate Organisations in more than 47,000 villages
in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar,
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand. The programmes are:
Livestock Development
Watershed and Land Resources Development
Agri-Horti-Foresty for Tribal Rehabilitation
Empowerment of Women
Community Health
Renewable Energy and Environment
Training in Sustainable Development
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