Supported By
TATA AIA LIFE
Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Limited (Tata AIA Life) is a joint venture company, formed by Tata Sons Ltd. and AIA Group Ltd. (AIA).
Tata AIA Life combines Tata’s pre-eminent leadership position in India and AIA’s presence as the largest, independent listed pan-Asian life insurance group in the world spanning 18 markets in Asia Pacific. Tata Sons holds a majority stake (51 per cent) in the company and AIA holds 49 per cent through AIA International Limited. Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Limited was licensed to operate in India on February 12, 2001 and started operations on April 1, 2001.
Tata AIA Life offers a wide variety of life insurance solutions that cover Protection, Savings and Wealth Creation needs for its customers.
Financial & Technical Partner
CENTRE FOR MICROFINANCE (CMF)
Centre for microfinance (CmF) is an autonomous organization registered under the Rajasthan Societies Act, 1958. It came into existence in 2005 in response to the need
for an agency to guide the growth of microfinance and particularly, community-based microfinance in Rajasthan. CmF employs high quality professionals to provide a wide
range of technical and other support services to mF players. Given its mandate the centre places value on networking and collaborations with stakeholders. CmF undertakes direct action only in gaps where players neither exist nor can be catalysed.
Prof. V.S. Vyas, an eminent economist, conducted a feasibility study in 2005 and suggested the setting up of an agency to deepen, widen and upscale the sector in Rajasthan. The Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) supported the idea for such an agency acting as a knowledge and support centre for micro finance sector in Rajasthan.
A steering committee under the chairmanship of N.S. Sisodia with representatives from the state government, banks, voluntary organizations and eminent citizens, was formed to formulate the role, strategy and action plan of CmF.
As nodal agency of the Sakh Se Vikas (SSV) programme supported by SRTT, CmF has contributed significantly by providing technical support to SSV partner NGOs who have a combined outreach to more than 50,000 poor households in Rajasthan.
Implementation & Technical Partner
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
Established in 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers people at the edge of information, including marginalised and underserved communities.
DEF’s overarching cross-cutting goal is to end information poverty by ensuring access to information for all. DEF does this in various ways including the use of digital tools and infrastructure, connectivity and Internet.
One of DEF’s flagship programmes is to establish Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) in rural and semi-urban areas that are community-owned and managed, and equipped with broadband enabled basic digital infrastructure. These CIRCs spread digital literacy at little or no cost to empower information-dark communities to use digital tools and avail a whole range of digital services to meet their day to day requirements.
CIRCs also implement other projects that enable education services, entrepreneurship development and skilling, tele-medicine, empowering below-poverty-line people to know about and avail government welfare schemes, ensure conservation of natural resources, and promote culture and heritage.
Various DEF projects also empower village level local government bodies, schools, micro-enterprises, civil society organisations, primary health centres, public libraries and other entities to become digitally enabled and capable of availing all the benefits of the Information Age.
DEF has so far empowered more than 1 million people to use digital tools for bettering their lives. Through its awards and mentorship programmes, DEF identifies and honours innovations and best practices in the field of ICT for Development (ICTD) across all digital media and has successfully created a knowledge hub and database of more than 5,000 such innovations across India, South Asia and the Asia Pacific.
DEF’s advocacy and research projects seek to promote more intensive use of digital tools, access for all to the Internet and the right to information.
Local Partner
FEDERATION FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Foundation for Education and Development (FED) is a public charitable trust established by 5 renowned educationists in the year 2000. FED runs a project called Doosra Dashak (DD) for holistic and integrated education of adolescents. Since inception, this project has been able to successfully engage with “out of school” adolescents through significant contributions to making the lives of young people from rural areas more productive and meaningful.
Doosra Dashak has also been addressing the learning needs of the school going adolescents belonging to the most marginalized communities, in remote rural areas. It envisions holistic and value based education as a means of harnessing the latent potential of the youth for working proactively as harbingers of social change.
DD now continues to look at ways to further develop its work to address the ever changing needs of young people in rural areas who exist on the periphery of education.