BAIF LIVELIHOODS

BAIF INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND DEVELOPMENT [BISLD]

About BAIF Livelihoods

BAIF Institute for Sustainable Livelihoods and Development (BISLD), is a not-for-profit Organisation registered under Section 8 (formerly Section 25) of the Companies Act, 1956 and formally established on April 16, 2012. BISLD is closely associated with BAIF Development Research Foundation, a reputed Non-Government  Organisation founded in 1967 by Dr. Manibhai Desai, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

Mission

The Mission of BISLD is to create opportunities of gainful self-employment for the rural families, ensuring sustainable livelihood, enriched environment, improved quality of life and good human values. This is being achieved through skill development, effective use of local resources, extension of climate smart technologies, facilitation for value chains of farm-produce and community participation.

Board of Directors

Mr. Hrishikesh Mafatlal

Chairperson

Mr. Kishor Chaukar

Director

Dr. Devendra Raj Mehta

Director

Mr. Jagmohan Bajaj

Director

Mr. Sunil Lalbhai

Director

Mr. Sharad Upasani

Director

Mr. Deepak Mehta

Director

Mr. Girish Sohani

Director

Dr. Bharat Kakade

Managing Director

Regional Advisory Boards
Maharashtra Region

Mr. Sharad Upasani, Chairperson

Mr. Popatrao Pawar, Member

Mr. Vijay Borade, Member

Dr. Alok Juneja, Permanent Invitee

Ms. Pritam Chandak, Permanent Invitee

Dr. Raviraj Jadhav – Convenor – Regional Director

Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh Region

Mr. Sunil Lalbhai, Chairperson

Dr. Dattatreya Rangnekar, Member

Mr. Ramesh Sama, Member

Dr. Jayant Khadse, Permanent Invitee

Mr. Waman Kulkarni, Permanent Invitee

Dr. Raviraj Jadhav, Permanent Invitee – Convenor – Regional Director

Northern Region

Dr. Devendra Mehta, Chairperson

Dr. Rita Sharma, Vice Chairperson

Mr. Pramodkumar Takawale, Permanent Invitee

Mr. Dharmesh Bhavsar, Permanent Invitee

Mr. Veerbasappa Dyasa, Permanent Invitee – Convenor – Regional Director

Eastern Region

Mr. Jagmohan Bajaj, Chairperson

Mr. G. Mohan Kumar, Member

Dr. Rajeshree Joshi, Permanent Invitee

Mr. B. Shivarudrappa, Permanent Invitee

Mr. Rakesh Warrier, Permanent Invitee – Convenor – Regional Director

Southern Region

Mr. Kishor Chaukar, Chairperson

Mr. P. V. A. Ramarao, Member

Dr. B. Venkateswarlu, Member

Mr. Shrinivas Kulkarni, Permanent Invitee

Mr. Yogesh Sawant, Permanent Invitee

Mr. B. Shivarudrappa, Permanent Invitee – Convenor – Regional Director

Organogram

Programme and Programme Outreach

BISLD is committed to promote sustainable livelihood of the rural poor. With an innovative and integrated approach to rural development and environmental conservation, the flexibility of the programmes enables BISLD to serve the most disadvantaged by addressing the specific needs of each family, village and local area. Community participation is the foundation of all the programmes.

Livestock Based Livelihoods: The Dairy Development Programme aims at improving the livestock breed through artificial insemination for enhanced production. The Dairy Development Programme aims at improving the livestock breed through artificial insemination for enhanced production. Promotion of goat husbandry and backyard poultry for landless, small and marginal farmers are another activity.

The key components are:

  1. Genetic improvement of livestock through artificial insemination centres, each catering to a cluster of about 12-15 villages
  2. Preventive health care and first aid services
  3. Promotion of fodder production and feed management
  4. Facilitation for developing value chains for both dairy and goat development programmes

Outreach:

33,95,933 families 99,452 villages 343 districts
13 states 4542 Centres 53,53,640 Artificial Inseminations

Water Centric Livelihoods: Sustainable management of natural resources for viable development of community and ecosystem is the key aspect of this programme.

The projects under NRM include:

  1. Watershed Development
  2. Land scape Approach for resource management through convergence of resources
  3. Region-specific innovative approaches for water resource management – arid, semi-arid, hill, ravine, Western Ghats, rain-rich areas
  4. Promotion of efficient water use technologies
  5. Silvipasture for conservation of wastelands and production of fodder
  6. Promotion of non-conventional energy such as solar and bio-energy
  7. A forestation, Industrial Greenbelt Development, Environmental Awareness
  8. Forest-based livelihood
  9. Climate change adaptation and mitigation

Outreach:

26 watersheds 14592 ha 19,487 families 381 villages 14 states

Agri Horti Forestry (wadi ): The Wadi programme, an integrated farming systems approach, includes horticulture and forestry tree species and crop diversification in the farming system. Emphasis is laid on promotion of fruit trees and indigenous and multipurpose forestry tree species to address the nutrition, fodder, timber and fuel wood requirements of the families, while improving their farm income. Appropriate initiatives are introduced for soil and water conservation as well as soil improvement. These initiatives have helped convert degraded lands into productive assets.

Other location-specific short gestation livelihood activities like agriculture improvement, small plot vegetable cultivation, floriculture and inland fishery-based initiatives have also been promoted along with tree-based farming.

Outreach:

4239 ha 10598 tribal and poor families 472 villages 13 states

Rural Non-farm Sector-based Livelihoods: 

Outreach:

 13515 families  852 rural entrepreneurs  5195 youth trained  163 enterprises

Samruddha Gram (Holistic Village): 

Outreach:

 13047 families  89 villages  10 states

Climate Action Programmes: Based on the Fodder development resource base of the families and the area, the projects are designed to create a source of sustainable livelihood in the farm. The projects are mainly implemented in the tribal and resource poor areas.

The main projects include:

  1. Improved agricultural practices for enhanced production and income
  2. Sustainable Multi-species Agricultural Resource-use Trials (SMART) for diversified and intensive farming in small plots
  3. Climate smart agriculture
  4. Organic farming
  5. Sericulture
  6. Agri-business through local people’s organisations

Outreach:

303,938 vulnerable households 1894 villages  14 states

Agrobiodiversity Conservation:

Outreach:

4000 farmers from 15 tribal locations in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Odisha on 685 ha through  seed saver groups

Renewable Energy:

Outreach:

Solar Energy : 88 units Bio Energy : 560 units

Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation:

• Disaster Management Fund
• Relief and Rehabilitation
• Technical Institute for Drought Mitigation

Health, Nutrition and Women Centric Development: This programme aims at improving the quality of life of the participant families through preventive health measures and development initiatives as given below:

  1. Clean drinking water supply, sanitation, and hygiene
  2. Mother and child health care
  3. Empowerment of tribal healers
  4. Agriculture-nutrition and   nutrition supplementation
  5. Promotion of backyard gardens for better family nutrition
  6. Women Empowerment through –
    • Promotion of Self-Help Groups of Women
    • Drudgery reduction technologies
    • Empowerment of women through micro- enterprises
    • Linkages for micro-finance
    • Literacy and education

Outreach:

Health & Nutrition : 163517 households Women Centric Development : 4123 SHGs and 9 Federations

Skill Development and Empowerment: Community empowerment, promotion of leadership among community members and skill development for self-employment are the key measures.

The important activities include the following:

  • Awareness generation on overall development and entitlements
  • Promotion of People’s Institutions for continued and sustainable development
  • Skill development of rural youth in various farm-based and non-farm vocations

Outreach:

1205 employees through 235 trainings 127,465 farmers trained in Livestock, NRM and Farm-based livelihoods

ICT for Development:

Sanvadini: 200,000 marginalised and dairy farmers from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh

eDost: Doorstep digital and financial services by over 110 women in Maharashtra, MP, Gujarat and Odisha.

E-learning Platforms: 60 modules benefitted 1000 AI technicians, farmers, field and project functionaries.

Education:

Dr. Manibhai Desai Navchetan Secondary School: Higher education for 182 girls and 72 boys from 25 tribal villages.

Shikshan-Mitra Programme: 34 Ashram Schools and 5071 tribal children in Maharashtra.

Functional Literacy Programme: 1250women benefitted through 50 Literacy Centres in Bundelkhand Smart School Programme: 10,252 students from 55 schools benefitted.

Programme Impacts

A family with three milch animals earns an income of Rs. 60,000 – 75,000 per annum while a tribal family through Wadi (Agri-horti-forestry based livelihood) is able to earn Rs. 40,000 – 55,000 per year and come out of poverty. With the increase in cropping area by 20-30%, the watershed development programme generates year-round employment even for landless and increase in crop production by 35-60%. The quality of life of the community especially of women and children has increased with various health measures and development initiatives.

Programme Coverage

Internal Committee

Ms. Lalita Joshi, Presiding Officer
Ms. Manasi Chiplunkar, Member Ms. Sujata Kangude, Member
Mr. Sagar Kadao, Member Ms. Ashlesha Deo, Member
Ms. Preeti Karmarkar, External Member

Outreach

The programmes of BISLD are being implemented across 13 states of India through a team of senior development professionals and field implementation staff. The operations are spread over the following Regions:

 

Head Office : Pune, Maharashtra

Northern Region – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan

Southern Region – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka

Eastern Region – Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Western Region – Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh

The Regional Headquarters are located at Prayagraj (North), Hyderabad (South), Sambalpur (East) and Nashik (West). The multidisciplinary programmes of BISLD and its Associate Organisations are spread across 325 districts reaching out to 4 million families.

BAIF Institute for Sustainable Livelihoods and Development (BISLD)

Address

BAIF Bhavan, Dr. Manibhai Desai Nagar, Warje, Pune 411 058, India

Phone No.

+91 20 25231661-8

Email

bisld@baif.org.in

Regn. no.

CIN: U73200PN2012NPLC42984

Northern Region

Rajasthan

Address

BAIF Bhavan, 18-G Block,
Near Community Hall,
Hiran Magri, Sector 14,
Udaipur 313 002, Rajasthan

Phone Number

+91-294-2640133

E-mail

bisld.rajasthan@baif.org.in

Uttar Pradesh

Address

BAIF Bhavan, 27 A, Tagore Town, Prayagraj (Allahabad) 211 002, Uttar Pradesh

Phone Number

+91 532-3500117

E-mail

bisld.up@baif.org.in

Uttarakhand

Address

Nathanpur Ring Road,
Mussoori Bypass (Jogiwala),
P.O. Nehrugram 248 014,
Dehradun

Phone Number

+91-135-3566165

E-mail

bisld.uttarakhand@baif.org.in
Southern Region

Karnataka

Address

‘Kamadhenu’, P.B. No. 3, Sharada Nagar, Tiptur 572 201, Tumkur,  Karnataka

Phone Number

+91-8134-250658

E-mail

bisld.karnataka@baif.org.in

Telangana

Address

House No: 17-1-382/SN/52, Srinivasa Nagar Colony,
Near Sports Club, Champapet, Hyderabad 500 059,
Telangana

Phone Number

+91-40-24075405

E-mail

bisld.telangana@baif.org.in

Andhra Pradesh

Address

House No: 23-1185, VishnuKundi Nagar, Vinukonda 522 647, District Guntur, Andhra Pradesh

Phone Number

E-mail

bisld.ap@baif.org.in

Tamil Nadu

Address

5 /268 A, Behind BDO Office Jawalagiri Main Road,
Thally, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu 635 118

Phone Number

+91 9677920224

E-mail

bisld.tamilnadu@baif.org.in
Eastern Region

Bihar

Address

House No. A/115, Park Road,
A.G. Colony, Ashiana Nagar,
Patna 800 025,
Bihar

Phone Number

+91-612-2292486

E-mail

bisld.bihar@baif.org.in

Odisha / Chhattisgarh

Address

Plot No. 1565/2682,
At Bhatra, PO. Dhanupali,
Sambalpur  768 005,
Odisha

Phone Number

+91-789-4418530

E-mail

bisld.odisha@baif.org.in

Jharkhand

Address

House No. 369 A,
Road No. 4 B, Ashok Nagar,
Ranchi 834 002,
Jharkhand

Phone Number

+91-651-3505973

E-mail

bisld.jharkhand@baif.org.in
Western Region

Maharashtra

Address

BAIF-MITTRA Bhavan, Opp. Nivas Homes, Behind Bodhale Nagar, Nasik-Pune Highway, Nasik, 422 011, Maharashtra

Phone Number

+91-253-2416057

E-mail

bisld.maharashtra@baif.org.in

Gujarat (South)

Address

BAIF Vrindavan Campus, Lachhakadi, P.O. Gangpur Tal.Vansda, Dist. Navsari 396 580, Gujarat

Phone Number

+91-2630-244005

E-mail

bisld.sgt@baif.org.in

Gujarat (Central)

Address

3rd Floor, Indra Complex, Near Amarjyot Society, Manjalpur, Vadodara 390 004, Gujarat

Phone Number

+91-265-2654897

E-mail

bisld.gujarat@baif.org.in

Madhya Pradesh

Address

E7/226, Bharat Nagar Road, Near Dhanvantari Complex, Arera Colony, Bhopal 462 016, Madhya Pradesh

Phone Number

0755-2561580

E-mail

bisld.mp@baif.org.in