Contact
Vrutti, Livelihood Resource Centre N. Raghunathan Chief Functionary No. 36, Ground Floor, Bhoopasandra Main Road, Vinayaka Layout, Bhoopasandra, Bangalore - 560 094
Website
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Description
Vrutti is a Centre for sustainable livelihoods enhancing people’s well-being. We are enablers of ecosystem solutions that are transformative to end poverty, marginalisation and create wealth for small-producers and marginalised communities in India and developing nations. We achieve this through innovation, knowledge and transformative actions, while engaging across grass-root to policy levels. We are here as there are number of societal problems, such as poverty and inequity, marginalisation and vulnerability to diseases, disasters, etc., low capabilities and lack of voice of people, and lack of services and opportunities; and these continue to grow. Solutions exist, but are usually isolated, verticalised and hardly converge to create impact or reach scale. We, as social entrepreneurs, try our best to facilitate solutions, rather than leaving it to the Government or to the people themselves. We strongly believe that ‘Sustainable Livelihood Approach’ can be a great lever to address poverty, marginalisation and inclusive development. It is very important that these approaches are customised to address different forms of marginalisation, people’s needs, aspirations and the local context. All our design and work starts with ‘People-First and People at the Centre‘– empathy-led designs distinct from technical/ scientific designs. To us, scale is about reach and impact at the community… how depth and width that we have contributed to and for how long these benefits sustain. Our solutions should therefore be modelled to take us to the scale. We don’t get satisfied with doing it at a few places or with few people. We therefore ‘model’ our approaches, ‘cost’ them, and ‘integrate’ them to be adopted by communities or market or public policy. We are passionate about measurement, critiquing ourselves and improve. We work through result-based planning tools, performance measurement metrics, impact and value for money assessments and use technology where feasible. We current reach out to about 310,000 families, which includes farming households, communities that are vulnerable to HIV, communities that are affected with limited access to drinking water, sanitation and disaster affected. We work through Four Models of livelihood transformation, which are built on different development approaches for different profiles of people - entitlement-focused models to market based models, and hybrid models. We work across seven states in India, and work through about 162 community based organisations (such as producer companies/ cooperatives, federations of marginalised groups, etc.) http://www.vrutti.org
IATI identifier
vrutti
Implementation Schedule
Organisations / agencies covered
Vrutti - all work undertaken at the organisational level
Timeliness of Data
Financial and Programme Details at organisational level - since financial year 2011-12 onwards
Frequency of publication
Annually
Frequency of publication (extra comments)
Annual financial reports
Units of Aid
Projects and programmes handled by Vrutti, supported by various partners
Segmentation of Published Data
Our data is limited to India
Data Definitions and References
http://www.vrutti.org
Field Exclusions
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Record Exclusions
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Thresholds
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Other Constraints
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Data Quality
These are audited statements
User Interface
We might provide link to the publishing in the IATI in future through our website.
User Interface Website
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