The network includes 32 Indian organisations and 13 individual members, with a seven-member Steering Group to guide its agenda. The secretariat of the Non-Traditional Livelihoods Network (NTLN) is currently co-hosted by the Azad Foundation and Samaan Society.
Organizational Members
Basera
Basera is committed to building resilient communities through a holistic approach integrating gender equity, climate action, and sustainable growth. Its focus is on creating a future where marginalized urban populations have equitable access to essential public goods and services while being empowered to drive their economic growth and participate actively in the development of their […]
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Avira Foundation
Avira Foundation supports women, trans, intersex, non-binary, and other gender-diverse people in becoming self-reliant in livelihoods. It works toward bridging the gaps that hinder their access to rights, facilitating further knowledge and awareness building, and creating opportunities where they can advocate for themselves with various stakeholders within and outside of the community.
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Abhivyakti Media For Development
Abhivyakti Media for Development has been working with youth, especially in the North Maharashtra region of India. From our experiences, the organisation realised that, in the field of development, the term ‘youth’ often pertains to male youth. India is largely a nation of villages and it has large rural populations. Due to gender inequality, women, […]
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Akshara
Akshara Centre is a non-profit organisation that believes in changing society by empowering women and girls. Over the past two decades, it has engaged on economic and social empowerment with underprivileged young women in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Approximately 5000 young women have been able to access educational scholarships and employment along with interactive and intense life […]
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Anjali (Mental Health Rights Organisation)
Anjali is one of the leading non-governmental organization in India, based in Kolkata, that is working to secure large-scale systemic changes in the mental health field, by making mental health institutions, systems and communities intersectional and inclusive. Anjali’s work relies on cross-sectoral partnerships with the state government, the media and other civil society organizations.
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Archana Women’s Center
Archana Women’s Centre is a voluntary organisation that stands for the sustainable development of women under the Kerala wing of Jyothi Jeeva Poorna Trust (JJPT) registered under the Indian Trust Act no.50/94. The Trust is run by the Secular Institute – The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate. The centre was started under the leadership of […]
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Azad Foundation
Azad Foundation is a professional feminist organisation working across social and religious divides to enable resource-poor women to empower themselves by engaging in viable non-traditional livelihoods. Azad is committed to breaking patriarchal structures so that the women can exercise control over their lives and live with dignity. It does this through transformative capacity-building programmes around […]
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Bright Future
Bright Future is a project of New Resolution India, a non-governmental Organisation (NGO) registered under Public Trust Act, 1950. Bright Future empowers youth to make informed decisions about their careers and thus enables them to transform their passion into gainful employment through life skills development, career development, mentoring support, internships and placement opportunities. Bright Future […]
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Carmdaksh
With its interventions spread across Bilaspur, Korba and Mungeli district of Chattisgarh, Carmdaksh started working on non-traditional livelihoods from April 2018 in the city of Bilaspur. The focus here has been on training and placing women as E-rickshaw Drivers, two wheeler and electrical Appliance mechanics.
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CYSD
Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) is a non-government and non-profit organisation working to improve the quality of lives of tribal, rural and urban poor in Odisha. Its primary objectives include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, ensuring social inclusion and justice, and focussing on good governance and citizen’s rights. Its work includes helping […]
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ETASHA
ETASHA Society, a not-for-profit organisation, has been working since 2006, to skill underprivileged communities for sustained employment and income generation. It envisions a future where every Indian is self-reliant, has self-worth and leads a dignified and productive life. It works with youth and their ecosystem in low-income communities, to empower them with skills, confidence and […]
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Girls Count
Girls Count is an independent national level coalition of many civil society organisations and individuals across India, working to address factors that lead to declining child sex ratio. Members are united in their commitment towards creating a more gender equal and gender just society by challenging patriarchy and stopping gender-biased sex selection. The coalition represents […]
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Humsafar
HUMSAFAR, a Support Centre for Women in Crisis was set up to ensure a holistic response to women’s rights violations and to work towards gender equality. Its strategies include the following: Working With Women Violence Survivors Engaging Community to Challenge VAW (Violence Against Women) Motivating Teachers and Students to Challenge VAW Group of Concerned Professionals […]
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ICRW Asia
The International Center for Research for Women (ICRW) is a global research institute, with regional hubs in Washington D.C., United States; New Delhi, India; Kampala, Uganda; and Nairobi, Kenya. Established in 1976, ICRW conducts research to identify practical, actionable solutions to advance the economic and social status of women and girls around the world. ICRW […]
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iPartner
iPartner works on six thematic areas namely, Anti-child trafficking, Education, Health, Vulnerable children, Women and livelihoods and Environment. With the support of individual donors, foundations and philanthropists, iPartner India is currently partnering with 21 partners on 32 projects across 13 states of India. In less than ten years, iPartner India has invested in 90 programmes […]
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i-Saksham Education and Learning Foundation
i-Saksham aims to promote “Voice & Choice of every woman”. Towards this vision, the organisation is building young rural women and girls as “Leaders of change” to create an impact where women have equal participation in households, society, and the economy.
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Jabala
Jabala Action Research Organisation works with vulnerable children, and youth whose lives are marginalised through the multiple axes of poverty, religion and region, leading to lack of educational entitlements, violence, child marriage and trafficking, towards a future that is safe, joyous and full of hope and promise. Jabala works to create social infrastructure, build synergies […]
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Janvikas
Janvikas is a training and support organisation that assists initiatives by marginalised communities. Its journey began by helping young professionals and organisations working with youth on multiple social issues. Over the years, it instituted a web of sixteen well-established national and state level organisations. Janvikas also fosters community based organisations (CBOs) and till date has […]
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Magic Bus
Magic Bus works with children and young people taking them on a journey from Childhood to Livelihood and out of poverty. By enabling children to complete secondary education, delay their age of marriage, and skilling young people to be in jobs, it is helping move a generation out of the vicious cycle of poverty. As […]
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Nirantar Trust
Nirantar, a Centre for Gender & Education works with feminist pedagogy and practices to develop collective knowledge and resources about the lives of girls and women in India. The organisation runs direct field interventions, build capacities, develop feminist leadership, create educational resources, and conduct research and advocacy deeply rooted in the lives of marginalised girls […]
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Nirman Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Sanstha
Nirman, a developmental organisation, began as an initiative from a group of youth who belong to the Denotified and Nomadic Tribes and completed their education in the field of social work. Their focus is on emancipation of the most discriminated communities, officially termed as the Nomadic Tribes (NT) and De-Notified Tribes (DNT). The aim of […]
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NSKK
The Nari-O-Sishu-Kalyan Kendra is a welfare and development organisation. It was formed by some women from the disadvantaged community, who aspired for dignified lives of the poor, marginalised and disadvantaged women, destitute and the children, through a sustainable and rights-based approach. During the last three decades, Nari-O-Sishu-Kalyan Kendra, has been able to spread its activities […]
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Openeyes
Eight years ago, the Open Eyes project started with the intention of creating a tourism company that could have a positive impact on both the local population and in the hearts of the travellers. Today, it is an Award-winning tour operator, organising cultural and wellness tours to India that support local communities, women, artisans, and […]
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Quest Alliance
Quest Alliance is a not-for-profit trust that equips young people with 21st century skills by enabling self-learning. It designs scalable solutions that enable educators to address critical gaps for quality education and skills training. Since its inception, Quest has impacted the lives of 1.2 million learners. Our core focus includes government middle school education reform, […]
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RASTA
RASTA started working in district of Wayanad, since in 1987. Initially its programme was designed to complement the activities of Poverty alleviation of the Government for Rural Development at Grass Root level. Over the period, on the basis of learning and reflection, the focus of the Programme shifted from implementation of activities by RASTA to […]
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SAATH
Saath (which in Hindi/ Gujarati means ‘together, co-operation, a collective or support’), works closely with the vulnerable communities and empowers the socially marginalised by providing them livelihood linkages, imparting skills leading to employment, health and education facilities. The focus areas of Saath are livelihoods, skill development, health and education, rights, urban governance, financial inclusion, rehabilitation […]
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Sakha Consulting Wings
Sakha Consulting is a social enterprise, providing safe transport solutions for women by women in four Indian cities, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata and Indore and creating remunerative employment opportunities for women as professional taxi drivers and chauffeurs. Working alongside the Azad Foundation, it has created a unique partnership model to create a market for women as […]
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Samaan Society
“Samaan” it is the word used for “Equality” in Hindi. Samaan Society has focused its work on those groups which are facing inequality in some form or aren’t given equal leverage in the society. Since women in India are facing gender disparities from decades and due to this inequality they remain deprived from social and […]
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Srijan
SRIJAN (Self-Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action) is a grassroots implementation organisation that is improving incomes of 80,000 rural families in 15 backward districts of five states in India- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana. SRIJAN works as resource support organisation in Assam, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh on externally-aided projects and with state governments. With attention […]
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Individual Members
Steering Group
Secretariat
The secretariat is co-hosted by Azad Foundation and Samaan Society and coordinated by Dolon Ganguly, Chief Functionary of Azad Foundation and Rajendra Bandhu, Founder & Executive Director of Samaan Society.
Dolon is an intersectional feminist with 30 years of experience in India’s development sector, primarily promoting women’s economic and social rights. She has been actively involved in the women’s movements in India and policy engagement to further women’s rights. Dolon is a published writer in leading Bengali journals and dailies and received the Laadli Media Award in 2013. She has been actively engaged in fostering cis and trans women’s inclusion in non-traditional livelihoods for the past decade.
Rajendra Bandhu has been an active social worker for the past 35 years. He specializes in people’s centric writing and has received many awards including Tarun Bhaduri award, Sarojini Naidu Award, Ladli Media Award, National Media Fellowship by NFI, and Peam Bhatia Scholarship. His major areas of interest are self-government and gender equality.