CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF EMPOWERING RURAL COMMUNITIES Sehgal Foundation’s community development programs and initiatives in rural India have spread over 890 villages in eight states, impacting more than 2.2 million people in the last twenty years—and the work continues to expand.
Contents
Message from the founders at twenty years 3 Sehgal Foundation overview 5 Key programs intersect to meet critical needs 6 Methodologies 7 Agricultural productivity results 8 Crop improvement research since 2002 13 Water management interventions 14 Good rural governance empowers communities 19 Powerful initiative transforms lives one school at a time 23 Rural research provides evidence 28 Communications enhance reach 29 Internships 31 Sehgal Foundation publications 32 Moving forward in partnership 37 Memberships & Affiliations 44 Individual and Group Donors 46 Selected Awards & Honors 50 Financials 53 Our Team 55 MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDERS AT TWENTY YEARS
Suri Sehgal—
When we established Sehgal Foundation twenty years ago with a vision to help uplift village communities in rural India, we did not want to be a “charitable” non-governmental organization (NGO) but a “development” NGO that is secular and non-political. In addition, we maintained a firm belief and a driving force that whatever we do must have impact and sustainability. We often heard from other NGOs in the field that sustainability is a “mirage” that every respectable development organization pursues but seldom achieves. In spite of this, we were determined to follow that guiding criteria in our work. As long as people are living in poverty without food security, water security, or social justice, we can never Since so many NGOs in India have a reputation for be completely satisfied that our work is done. India not being credible or transparent, we took the time and many other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin to prove ourselves as credible, transparent, and America are in similar stages of development. The accountable. We are pleased that Sehgal Foundation work we do and the technologies we develop are is now recognized in India as one of the most credible applicable to most of these countries, so we must NGOs, known for demonstrating strong ethics, make sure our work is replicable and dynamic. integrity, transparency, honesty, and accountability. We have been honored to present our innovations at the United Nations and offer them freely From the beginning, our teams understood that throughout the world. work in the field of development is a never-ending process. Thanks to our talented teams and generous We have come a long way in our short history. partners from around the globe, work that started The growth of our key programs in agriculture in four villages in (Mewat, now Nuh) Haryana, now development, water management, and good rural reaches across India in eight states and continues to governance has been organic and strategic. We expand in collaboration with communities. To assure have combined aspects of each program in our most sustainability, all our projects begin with an initial successful initiatives such as the Transform Lives one survey on focused development areas followed by school at a time, which is giving hope for a better empowering the community with critical training in future to India’s rural schoolchildren. good rural governance. Monitoring of each project is continuous, and an impact assessment is done at As we enter our third decade in rural India, we resolve the end. From time to time, we pull back for serious to continue Sehgal Foundation’s ongoing re-evaluation introspection of our work and make whatever changes and reinvention based on positive results and lasting are needed, discard what may not be working, and impact. All in all, it is a wonderful feeling to be helping inject new ideas to ensure that the communities we people, society, and the planet, which makes our lives serve are being positively impacted. very satisfying. We are proud of what we do!
3 Edda Sehgal—
When Suri and I made the decision to create a can be seen so directly by the beneficiaries and foundation to do what we could to address the by our donor partners. When a poorly attended crushing poverty we saw in rural India, we had no government school that is falling to pieces and has previous experience in development work. You could no drinking water or toilets is transformed into an say we were “innocent.” We saw the looks of defeat, attractive and nurturing learning environment with all hopelessness, and suspicion on the faces of villagers, needed amenities—including vital trainings in life skills, especially the women, who had been disappointed digital literacy, and good governance—the results can so often by false promises. We vowed to listen, and be vividly seen on the faces of the schoolchildren. the team continued to experiment with a growing Enrollment is up and communities are empowered in assortment of solutions to some of the most pressing more and more ways. That is concrete, demonstrable issues. Those early years were a powerful educational change for the better. experience. We were learning by doing, a method our teams still embrace. The vision for the future is fantastic—a vision of ongoing rapid progress and movement for change that In recent years we have seen the natural result of will continue to spread from village to village in all the team’s early work and ongoing commitment directions throughout India. I am confident that this to growth, impact, and sustainability in the three will happen, perhaps not in my lifetime, but I believe it key programs (water management, agriculture will happen. development, and good rural governance) as progress accelerates. For some years now, we have We are proud of the Sehgal Foundation team, the seen a totally new look on the faces of villagers in work, and the results, and we thank every partner in communities where we work. The sad faces we once the process—every individual, corporate, educational, knew are now alive with hope. and government partner; all the collaborating NGOs and nonprofit organizations with similar visions for a The Transform Lives one school at a time initiative better world; and each person with a desire to help has been a significant part of this because the results others feel hope for a better future.
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THE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM addresses critical needs felt by most of most of the 640,000 rural communities in India, which are comprised of small landholders, landless farmers, and marginal farmers. The agriculture sector employs nearly half of India’s workforce but contributes only 15.8 percent of the GDP. To address the needs of farming communities, foundation teams demonstrate best management practices and promote farm mechanization, water conservation in agriculture, livestock health and development, and the use of doorstep extension services and other interventions to improve farmer remuneration.
THE WATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM is a vital part of every Sehgal Foundation project. India has 16 percent of the world’s population, but only 4 percent of the world’s water resources, of which 85 percent is consumed by the agriculture sector. All agriculture efforts are strongly linked to mitigating water scarcity because water is essential to life and good health. Combining traditional and modern knowledge and technologies, foundation teams partner with communities to create water augmentation systems that include check dams, rainwater harvesting structures, storage tanks, ponds, soak wells, soak pits, and filtration systems that provide access to safe drinking water.
THE GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE PROGRAM (GRG) components are essential for sustainability of all initiatives. GRG reflects a priority for an entire community to be aware, confident, and knowledgeable about their rights and responsibilities as citizens and for their own ongoing development. The program enables individuals and groups of citizens of the village, with a strong emphasis on the participation of women by at least 50 percent in all initiatives, to learn how to access public services and participate with government officials in addressing local problems. Village-level councils and committees are trained to maintain community structures and improvements and to hone their skills in procuring government funds and availing government benefits. The trainings enhance individual and community responsiveness, accountability, and transparency, resulting in growing empowerment.
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METHODOLOGIES
The primary objective of Sehgal Foundation efforts is MODEL DEMONSTRATIONS to create and sustain a positive impact in any project by investing in social capital with community education, Sehgal Foundation has a center at the Rural community sensitization, and community empowerment. Technology Park (RTP) on the National Institute of Village development implementation requires Rural Development campus in Hyderabad. RTP is community participation throughout all steps of an initiative of the Ministry of Rural Development, every project. Government of India, where Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) donor communities, government, To accomplish this, Sehgal Foundation begins with the international agencies, entrepreneurs, academia, preliminary rural research, and works directly with NGOs, venture capitalists, Angel investors, panchayati the panchayat (local council) and the citizens to build raj institutions/rural communities, and media come trust, starting when first entering a new village with the together to promote innovation and entrepreneurship formation of a Village Development Committee (VDC). in rural areas. Sehgal Foundation displays program The VDC is made up of responsible key members of information in exhibits and working demonstration the community such as opinion leaders, panchayat models for various stakeholders, explores members, representatives of all parts of the community collaborative possibilities, and initiates further (at least 50 percent women), and members of village-level partnerships. institutions. The VDC is trained in collective action and technical aspects of projects and government schemes ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY and becomes empowered to mobilize and engage the COMMITMENT community in project activities and village governance. The sarpanch (panchayat head) and panchayat members In keeping with the organization’s mission to promote of the VDC facilitate relationships with government sustainable development and reduce impacts bodies, monitor project activities, collect community on human health and the environment, Sehgal contributions for future maintenance of completed Foundation headquarter buildings in Gurugram, projects, and continue to carry on the impact of Haryana, were constructed to meet the Platinum those projects. standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) set by U.S. Green Building Council RESEARCH MEASURES and the Indian Green Building Council. Solar panels AND ENSURES IMPACT meet 100 percent of the building’s electricity needs except air conditioning, and a rooftop rainwater Sehgal Foundation’s Rural Research team provides an harvesting system and on-site water treatment and essential support function in all project areas that assists other innovations minimize the ecological footprint. in improving strategies by evaluating and quantifying the Ghaghas Community Center, in Nuh district, Haryana, impact created by each activity. Findings are provided which was created as a training center, also houses the to donors, communities, and policymakers. Sharing foundation’s community radio station, Alfaz-e-Mewat impact information with communities from the beginning FM 107.8. helps to ensure greater sustainability of initiatives after implementation teams complete the projects.
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the period beginning.” —M. K. Gandhi
6 7 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY RESULTS
griculture is the backbone of India’s economy, and smallholder farmers constitute the bulk of India’s agrarian population. As a result of the division of holdings as well as increased double cropping, the gross cropped area of small and marginal farming has risen significantly in recent years, while there is a A 1 decline in large holdings. Although the cultivated area under food grains has remained stagnant, India’s food grain production doubled between 1970 and 2000s. Farmers with less than two hectares have contributed to half the production of rice and wheat output and 40 percent of the wheat output.
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To enable marginal landholders to rise above the do not follow appropriate agronomic practices. poverty line, they must be able to generate more Furthermore, in the absence of reliable sources of income from the same piece of land and also meet information, farmers rely on input suppliers and the minimum dietary energy requirements for the retailers even for pest and disease management. whole family. This is possible by making efficient use Sehgal Foundation addresses this through the of agri-inputs and natural resources (land and water), principle of “seeing is believing,” where the steps of cultivation of demand-oriented high-value crops, and program implementation are undertaken with the income diversification through horticulture and animal full participation of the farmers, and the operations husbandry. As the market demand has changed, the and results are demonstrated on the farmers own intake of cereals per person has stood at a constant fields. level, and there is increased demand of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and milk. A “package of practices” (POP) for the farmers is designed, which includes inputs such as quality Due to limited holding size, marginal and sub- seeds and need-based fertilizers. To motivate marginal farmers are the net buyers of crop-based farmers to adopt the modern technology shown in food. The latter group buys more than half their the demonstration fields, day-long Khet Diwas (field cereals, but they are able to meet most of their days) take place at various stages of crop growth— household consumption of milk and milk products. germination, fruiting (pods, spikes), and prior to Collectively, the marginal and sub-marginal farmers harvesting. Farmers are invited to see for themselves own 60–70 percent of the cattle, buffalo, goat, and the results accruing from the recommended 2 pig population. Possession of milch animals has practices. Annual Krishi Sammelans (agriculture been found effective in reducing poverty and hunger gatherings/summits) are held, wherein farmers and improving the nutritional balance of food eaten. from many villages gather to interact about Sehgal More efficient animal husbandry practices must Foundation programs. be introduced for marginal and sub-marginal farm households. A general perception prevails that farmers with small The clear-cut pathway to propelling transformative and fragmented landholdings will not benefit from social change and inclusive growth is to help mechanization. But the Sehgal Foundation team farmers move away from subsistence farming has demonstrated that successful mechanization of toward commercial agriculture. Examples in China small landholdings is possible with adequate training demonstrate small landholdings that yield twice as and with the creation of shareable infrastructure much as Indian farmers on similar landholdings. at subsidized rates. Such interventions at the level of the smallholder farmers encourage them to Most of India’s farmers use old seed varieties, continue with agriculture and refrain from population apply fertilizers arbitrarily without soil testing, and migration to cities.
1 P. Kumar. “Empowering the Small Farmers Towards a Food Secure India,” Chapter IX in India’s Agricultural Challenges Reflections on Policy, Technology, and Other Issues, edited by Dr. Ramesh Chand, Centad September 2005. 2 Report of the Working Group on Animal Husbandry and Dairying, 11th five-year plan, Planning Commission (2007–12).
8 9 The Sehgal Foundation team introduces solar leveling, zeba-water absorbent soil input, farm bunds, irrigation pumps, farm mechanization equipment and irrigation ponds. In partnership with a donor, (zero tillage, maize sheller, potato planter, solar Sehgal Foundation now has a Mobile Agri Clinic, which sprayers); new practices such as hi-tech vegetable brings holistic agricultural programs for small farmers nurseries, crop diversification, and kitchen gardens; to their doorstep. and livestock management such as goat promotion and preventive animal healthcare through health Agricultural scientists have flagged the requirement camps and animal nutrient management. Subsidies of integrated advice for farmers trapped in the for farm mechanization come partly from the agrarian crisis due to unseasonal rains and hailstorms government and partly from the project, and they are as the need of the day. Farmers’ needs are not yet provided for first-time buyers of the machines only. adequately met by government, extension services, Farmers earn additional income by renting out their agricultural universities, and development agencies. machines to other farmers. With the adoption of farm The Sehgal Foundation team builds the capacities of mechanization, crop productivity increases by 25 to the farmers during the project periods and further 60 percent. Farm water conservation is promoted links them with various institutions to address this. in the form of sprinklers, drip irrigation, laser land
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Sehgal Foundation Agriculture Development Program interventions.
Agriculture Mobile Agri Clinic interventions benefited more than 2,147 training have reached 3,000 farmers in its sessions were held on first two years. modern agricultural 269 villages. practices.
kitchen 1,727 acres of 19,200 gardens were adopted 640 demonstration laser leveling were (providing nutritional plots were planted. completed. food for families).
acres acres used acres were 2,763 473 788 of land benefited drip and sprinkler irrigated with solar from using irrigation. pumps. zero tillage.
*Data figures till March 2018
“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”
—Bill Gates
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“Congratulations to Sehgal Foundation on the side of the land. Now it gets distributed equally over twentieth anniversary. We’ve had a great partnership the entire farm, and the crop does not get damaged. with Sehgal Foundation for the last ten years. Your The amount of expenditure on labor was also dedication, commitment, and the zeal to work reduced by 400. The productivity of the crop is 1.25 toward uplifting the rural community has been very quintal more compared to other farms. This infectious and helped the Krishi Jyoti project to year I got five beeghas of my land leveled and become one of the most successful projects for leveled 20 beeghas for other farmers.” Mosaic Global.” —Rajesh Kumar, Gadhi, Alwar, Rajasthan —Robin Edwin, managing director, Mosaic India Private Limited “I purchased a potato planter as a part of Samagra Krishi, where I had to pay a subsidized rate of only “I have been involved in agriculture for thirty Rs. 20,000 and undertake a community contribution. years before Krishi Jyoti [a long-term partnership With the help of the project team, I sowed around project between Sehgal Foundation and The Mosaic fifty-five acres of potatoes not only in my village but Company] program came to our village in 2012. They also in other villages by renting my machine, through took soil samples of our land for testing and gave which I got an extra income of Rs. 110,000. My profit us pearl millet crop for demo in 0.5 acre of land. In helped me to start a poultry farm, purchase a laser other half acres of land, they asked us to follow our land leveler, and provide better education for my traditional way of farming, but the crop distribution children.” was the same. For demo crop they gave us fertilizers to use and asked us to follow the techniques —Ram Pukar Kushwaha, Ghanshyam Pakdi, instructed to us. We could see the changes between East Champaran, Bihar the crops in the demo and the control fields from beginning to end. There was a profit of 100 kg in the demo crop. The same demo was applied in rabi “Previously, I had no idea that banana farming could season for mustard crop where I got profit of 160 kg. yield profit. Based on the training provided by the I also cultivated brinjal on a half acre of land, and Sehgal Foundation team, I decided to undertake my profit was around 15,000 rupees. In 2014, after banana farming in my ten-kattha (half-acre) land. I seeing such improvements, I decided to apply the also realized that the expenses and labor incurred same practice to six acres and gained a profit of in growing banana were less than other crops. I was 35,000–40,000.” provided with 1,000 banana saplings from Sehgal Foundation, each plant producing 10–15 dozen —Budhsingh, Mundaka, Nuh, Haryana bananas, which I then sold to the middlemen. I got about two lakhs of profit because of banana cultivation. Before banana farming, I used to grow “The solar pump has been a blessing in my life. I am only vegetables, which brought Rs. 7,000–8,000 no longer required to rent diesel tanks from others income for me. The biggest advantage was that and thus am able to save around Rs. 3,000 on each besides banana, I could grow other vegetables too on crop per acre. The uninterrupted supply of water for the same land.” irrigation during the daytime has encouraged me to grow cash crops like onion, potato, and maize, which —Dinesh Kumar Kushwaha, Amwa, require a small but regular supply of water. My yield East Champaran, Bihar of paddy and wheat has largely increased from 50 kg to 1 quintal per kattha (1,360 sq feet).” “After the death of my husband, I was totally —Jitender Sharma, Ramban, East Champaran, Bihar dependent on my sons. With the help of this kitchen garden kit, I not only have a supply of vegetables for consumption but I am also earning some money by “Due to Krishi Jyoti, I installed a sprinkler irrigation selling them in the village.” set in my field, and in 2016 leveled my 1.25 beegha field. Previously it used to take twelve hours to —Ganauri, Banar Jhula, East Champaran, Bihar irrigate my field, and now it takes only eight hours. Before leveling, water used to deposit in the lower
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CROP IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH SINCE 2002
ood quality-improved seed is critically important to crop yield. Sehgal Foundation is committed to finding improved varieties and hybrids that give high yield. Sehgal GFoundation has collaborations with ICRISAT, CIMMYT, Kasetsart University, and University of Hohenheim for infrastructure and for acquisition of new germplasm.
Crop improvement research work by Sehgal testing in target areas; two new testers (proven Foundation scientists and researchers housed at inbred lines) have been identified with good International Crop Research Institute for the Semi- combining ability; the team has successfully Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) resulted in being recognized deployed doubled haploidy (DH) and as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization developed 730 DH inbred lines and screened (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial 500 germplasm accessions for diseases and Research (DSIR). Their work has been presented in identified resistant sources for turcicum leaf papers at International Maize Conferences. blight (27), stalk rot complex (21), and polysora rust (38); and 21 multiple disease resistant Each of four mega field days attracted the (MDR) sources were identified. participation of at least 100 public and private-sector scientists. Sehgal Foundation supplied 10,372 seed • Sixty-seven DH lines have been screened packets of inbred lines on request from scientists and and identified that are moderately tolerant to progressive farmers. tursicum leaf blight, and screening of the hybrids for tursicum leaf blight in hot spots has continued • The program synthesized and evaluated more for three years. More than 1,000 new germplasm than 7,000 hybrids at initial levels and more accessions are now in possession, and more than than 800 hybrids in replicated trials at target 1,000 germplasm accessions were genetically locations during the rainy season. At present, fingerprinted using SSR markers and 800 250 hybrids are being multiplied for further accessions by using SNP genotyping.
12 13 WATER MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS
n India, the production of grains, vegetables, and fruits has increased 1.5 times in the last decade, from 365 million tons to 534 million tons; and farming contributes 15.8 percent to the country’s GDP1. IApproximately 78 percent of the freshwater available in the country is used in agriculture, and India now uses more groundwater than China and the United States combined (the second and third largest users of water in the world). And the water is largely mismanaged. India uses two to four times more water to produce a unit of major food crop than China and Brazil. Water management must be addressed at the government policy and local levels.
1 Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation 2018-19
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Highly water-intensive crops like sugarcane and paddy Census data identifies 100 million people as the main are grown in states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, cultivators (farmers), which is about 8 percent of the and Punjab resulting in over-exploitation of water population. A large number are farmers with small resources. A recent ICRIER study suggested policy land holdings who have difficulty with key inputs changes such as encouraging these crops in relatively like irrigation water and credit. They also deal with water-abundant states like Bihar and eastern Uttar reduced soil fertility and find it difficult to access Pradesh. facilities from local administration. The number of main cultivators decreased by 15 million between 1991 Depleting groundwater levels are a major concern and 2001, and by 7.2 million between 2001 and 2011. for agriculture. Farmers using groundwater obtain twice the crop yields compared to using surface Policy measures alone cannot transform the situation. water, as they have the flexibility to decide when In 1997 the government set up the Central Ground and how much water to use for irrigation. The Water Authority (CGWA) to regulate, conserve, and Economic Survey Report 2017–18, showed a drop in protect groundwater. The National Water Policy the cultivation of crops in areas that are dependent (2012) was followed by the formulation of water on groundwater for irrigation. The total area policies by many state governments. A comprehensive under cultivation for rice, pulses, and oilseeds has administration was created for implementing the been reduced by 29 lakh hectares; and the area water policies that is led by the National Water for cultivation of sugarcane and cotton has been Resource Council, which is assisted by the National reduced by 10 percent during the last year. Water Board. Significant investments have been made by the government for developing irrigation facilities, Agricultural credit is another major policy issue. canals, etc. Crops fail mostly due to inadequate irrigation or rainfall, but the high interest credit drives farmers to bankruptcy.
14 15 The knowledge flow to the farmers must increase, and Check dams/anicuts are built for groundwater the issue of groundwater availability must be tackled recharge and dilution of contaminants including largely at the local level. Considering the enormity the treatment of catchment area through of India’s water issues, encouraging single villages to gabions, contour trenches, and planting of foliage. revive and protect their own watersheds may seem Groundwater level and water quality are periodically like a feeble response. But a careful grassroots effort monitored at multiple sites in each village. There has to manage water locally can be highly effective in already been a marked improvement in groundwater conserving water for agriculture. quality in the project villages. The overall impact of rainwater conservation on the groundwater level will Sehgal Foundation is working to improve management be clearly seen only over a longer period of time. of water resources in Indian villages through a comprehensive set of interventions including Farm bunding is done to promote water retention and groundwater recharging, collection of rainwater, minimize topsoil erosion by decreasing runoff. Ponds drinking water purification, wastewater management, and well platforms with wastewater disposal systems and capacity building of villagers and local leaders to are built to improve the availability of surface water take charge of water projects. Village development for cattle and other domestic uses. committees (VDCs) are formed to sustain the impact of any work done beyond project duration.
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Sehgal Foundation Water Management Program work in 407 villages included
Construction Construction Construction of Construction of 42 village of 183 recharge 52 nallah of 1,850 soak ponds. wells. bunds. pits.
Creation of Construction Completion of Construction rainwater of 83 common harvesting of 163 soak storage rainwater 2,261 water literacy and systems for safe wells. harvesting drinking water in systems. training sessions. 102 schools.
Development of an Development innovative rainwater Created pressurized of an effective, harvesting model that sustainable, low-cost, creates pockets of recharge wells that freshwater within the store freshwater in lightweight biosand saline aquifer that can water filter, JalKalp, be extracted with a saline aquifer for pump for filtering and requiring little drinking. 17 schools. maintenance.
Installation of Construction JalKalp biosand of 65 check water filters for dams. 1,605 people.
*Data figures till March 2018
“The main problem is not physical scarcity of water, but its continued mismanagement!”
—Asit K Biswas, Stockholm Water Prize winner
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“An old well and dam in bad condition in our village committee, we contributed labor for the work and always concerned me. I approached the government provided cash contributions to maintain the four for funds to rebuild the dam but to no avail. Later tanks of one-lakh liters of water.” with the support of Sehgal Foundation, we revived the dam. As a result, the water level increased by —Memuna, Nangal Shahpur, Nagina, Haryana forty to fifty feet, and three wells in our village have water. The neighboring village has also benefited by the intervention in our village.” “Water levels in our village really dipped, which caused many people to migrate. I raised this concern —Noor Mohammad, former sarpanch, at a village meeting, and the Sehgal Foundation team Bhond, Nuh, Haryana visited the site. We started to collect community contributions for a check dam. After the check dam construction, there were fewer rains. Villagers “Our village, Khohar, had many wells, but all became had a suspicion that rains decreased because of dry except one, which served as a lifeline for many the check dam. However, with good rains in the farmers. Soon the only well with water also became subsequent years, water levels increased and washed dry until the construction of a check dam in our the suspicion away. The tube wells in nearby wells village in 2015 yielded water in the well, leading to also started yielding water, and the vegetation cover better yields.” increased.”
—Gyanchand, Khohar, Nuh, Haryana —Islam, Rooda, Nuh, Haryana
“There is a well near the village school that was “I have been using the biosand filter and am fully constructed about twenty years ago. However, satisfied with it. Incidence of diarrhoea in my family due to declining water levels over the last eight has greatly reduced since we started using it. We years, the well went dry. The check dam built by clean the filter every four to six months, and the Sehgal Foundation gave a new lease of life to process is easy.” the surrounding wells. The water level in my well increased 20–25 feet, helping me with irrigation.” —Mala Devi, Sedukha, Samastipur, Bihar
—Umar Khan, Boojaka, Alwar, Rajasthan “Our hamlet is on a hilly area and one of the three government tube wells nearby directly provide water “The anicut made on rivulet Pal in our village in 2017 to us. However a dominant group in the village took under the Jaldhara IV project helped to augment over this water source due to which the rest of the rainwater. My well had been dry for five years, but village does not have access to water for drinking or now it has water. The water has risen by fifteen feet irrigation. Women walked up to two kilometers to and enabled me to do farming.” collect water several times a day, and people did not have baths for several days at a time. I inspired the —Sawai Singh Rajput, Gudachandraji, Karauli, community to build a storage tank for the village. It Rajasthan was built with the participation of the sarpanch, five thousand rupees contribution from the community and Self Help Group, and labor from the village. “There was no water source in our village. We used Upon seeing the success of this water storage tank, tanker water for drinking and household uses. Our subsequently the panchayat built two more such village school had no provision for drinking water tanks.” because of which children skipped school. We decided to replicate the rainwater harvesting system —Moona, Rawli, Nuh, Haryana, mahila sangathan in our school after seeing the system work well member in a neighboring school. As a school management
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GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE EMPOWERS COMMUNITIES
illagers and their local councils and village-level institutions often lack the awareness and skills to combat the ineffective delivery of government services that afflict much of rural India. VSince citizen participation leads to better delivery of public services and a more engaged and empowered community that is capable of furthering its own development, Sehgal Foundation formally initiated a Good Rural Governance (GRG) program in October 2008. The program had two areas of focus that integrated naturally over time.
18 19 1. Individual villagers were provided with THE GOOD RURAL GOVERNANCE governance training in an initiative called PROGRAM CREATES AWARENESS Sushasan Abhi (Good Governance Now) to enable them to understand their rights, learn how • Applied-learning and horizontal-learning to access entitlements, appeal against delays and approaches are used, such as knowledge-sharing denials, and participate with government officials and learning by doing, which build confidence in addressing and solving local problems. and self-reliance in the community. About 17,400 2. Strengthening the Capacities of Village Level- sushashan (governance) champion volunteers and Institutions was the other GRG focus because village information and support group members members of village-level institutions, such as have been trained. the gram panchayats, school management • A Citizen Information and Support Center (CISC) committees, and village health and sanitation makes a toll-free helpline accessible to rural committees, which are mandated by the people in district Nuh, Haryana, and Samastipur, government, often lack the information and skills Bihar. CISC provides a cloud-based integrated to perform their roles effectively. The members voice-response-system technology on government are often entirely inactive and serve merely as program information that has been used by figureheads without the adequate capacities to undertake development of their villages in a 16,723+ callers. The information is also available planned or effective way. Training of these local offline in village meetings. bodies help them function more effectively • Legal literacy camps are organized regularly, function and deliver basic services and 42,498 villagers have participated since 2009. Village Leadership Schools are formed Both areas have expanded and evolved and the with interested men and women who are integrated GRG program develops individual trained in taking responsibility in developing citizens and a local leadership cadre by providing their community. information and training on the community’s legal and constitutional rights, entitlements, accountability mechanisms, and compliance monitoring. The training involves needs assessments, roles and responsibilities, EMPOWERING VILLAGE-LEVEL micro-planning to create development plans, access INSTITUTIONS to government funds and their transparent utilization, networking and advocacy, and advancing women’s Gram panchayat, which is the smallest unit of participation in governance. government in India, is comprised of locally elected
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representatives who manage village administration Within the training at the centers, information is including planning, implementing, and monitoring also provided on various government schemes and village development programs. programs. Youth can access information online, submit forms, and participate in governance activities Gram sabha is the body of people registered in in their villages. More than 3,771 girls and boys have the electoral roll of a village within the area of the completed the digital literacy and LSE courses. panchayat. Gram sabha endorses all the plans of gram panchayat and is the foundation of direct Empowerment came to a long-neglected, democracy in India. Women members of gram sabha underdeveloped, and isolated hamlet on the constitute the mahila (women) gram sabha, which Haryana/Rajasthan border. Sehgal Foundation sometimes meets prior to gram sabha meetings to began working Mundaka in June 2011, and the discuss women-specific issues. These issues are then small village was transformed in three years presented and discussed in gram sabha. due to initiatives prioritized by the villagers themselves with the inclusion and participation School management committees (SMCs) are of all sections of the community. Government constituted in every government school under the officials were invited to the gram sabhas, so that Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education they could allocate time and funds for this village. Act, 2009 (RTE Act). Parents or guardians of children attending the school comprise 75 percent of SMC The panchayat implemented many projects upon members. SMCs are responsible for ensuring the the release of funds from the government. Sehgal implementation and monitoring of the RTE Act at the Foundation raised funds to fill any gaps in the school level. projects and implemented them in partnership with villagers and village-level institutions. Mahila Village health and sanitation committees (VHSCs) sangathan members ensured the construction of are constituted in villages under gram sabha as a water storage tank with a 50,000-liter capacity per the National Rural Health Mission’s guidelines. complete with a biosand filtration system and VHSCs are responsible for improving health, hygiene, funds for its future maintenance. One SMC and sanitation services in villages, and for raising member, on discovering that the plot of the school awareness about health and health entitlements with building was registered under the name of a a special focus on women and children. villager, replaced its ownership to the panchayat through the District Collector’s office. “We should • Training and capacity building of 6,500 members all change our mindset and make the government of village-level institutions have prepared them school better than a private school” says Tulsi to know their rights so they can function as Ram Saini, a member of the SMC. In addition a competent members of institutions of which they problem of alcoholism is rampant in the village are a part. was addressed through collective efforts. The • More than 900 women have been mobilized to residents of Mundaka were successful in closing form mahila sangathans, consisting of women down the alcohol shops. members of VLIs, which have provided a platforms for women to express their views and • With the help of the panchayat in 2009, seventy- priorities of development and call for collective six of one hundred below-poverty-line (BPL) action. families in Raniyala of Ferozpur Jhirka block • More than 1,200 sanitation ambassadors were were allotted plots to construct houses under mobilized in the villages and construction of the Indira Awaas Yojana. However they failed to 11,691+ toilets facilitated under Swachh Bharat get the ownership of these plots as there were (Clean India) Mission. The sanitation ambassadors families residing illegally there for a long time. selected from sushasan champions, mahila The panchayat did not know the procedure to sangathans, and members of VLIs ensure assist the owners with their rights. After Sehgal proper waste disposal, making the village open- Foundation trained the panchayat on their defecation free, and installing soak pits and soak roles and responsibilities in 2013, the panchayat wells to make the streets clean and dry. members submitted a written requisition letter to the district collector, subdivisional magistrate, • 119 VHSCs have been revitalized. and tehsildaar regarding the removal of illegal occupants on the land allotted for BPL families. Youth are mobilized in GRG program through a They tracked the progress of their application platform of digital literacy and life skills education regularly and, finally on June 2014, a fifteen-year (LSE). Girls can learn tailoring in some LSE centers. issue was resolved and the illegal occupants left.
20 21 • Hasan of Khedla Khurd, Nuh, Haryana, had a decided to help them by first correcting their dream to own a home, for which she was entitled names in the required identification documents. to a grant of Rs. 90,000 under the Pradhan Then they filled out the pension application forms Mantri Awas Yojana scheme (PAY). She submitted for the twenty-five eligible people, completed her PAY application in 2014 to the panchayat the attestation process from the sarpanch, several times but each time they refused to sign and submitted the applications online at the it and just tore it up before their eyes and upon Common Service Centre of the village. When protesting she and her husband were beaten. She approval letters for seventeen pensions came decided to persist rather give up her right. Hasan from the Social Welfare Department, the trainees filed a complaint with the deputy commissioner submitted the letters to the bank to assure direct and at the Chief Minister’s window. In ten days, transfer of the monthly pension amount to the Hasan got a response from the CM’s window, the bank account. sarpanch visited her, and the first installment of her grant was provided. The other installments were received subsequently. Hasan’s victory has inspired other women to stand up for their rights. Sehgal Foundation has created a public private partnership on e-governance initiative in • Empowered Village Leadership School (VLS) Nuthankal village, Medchal mandal, Ranga Reddy members of Dihana village, Nuh, Haryana, in 2017 district, Telangana, together with government came to know that many people in their village and corporate partners, to digitize panchayat were not receiving their old age and handicapped processes which will streamline processes. pensions due to not knowing the procedure to avail them. Hakmuddin, Zamil, Sehnaz, and Ali
“Alone we can do little; together we can do so much.”
—Helen Keller
Testimonies
“We raised the issue of water “Our partnership with Sehgal “VLS has created a sense of scarcity and how it affected the Foundation was a highly enriching ownership along with leadership women. Women got together and experience which improved skills within us, not to mention approached the Public Health and our knowledge, community about the urgency to work for Engineering Department (PHED) mobilization, and leadership common good.” and reached out to the CISC to skills, which we will be able to seek help. We also lodged a formal utilize in other villages. Multi- —Rajwati, Kharkhari, Nuh, Haryana complaint before the District pronged strategies were used to Commissioner and within three achieve the goals of the project days, the officials from PHED fixed to create model villages through the non-functioning pipelines. Due empowering citizens and village to collective action led by women, institutions. The scientific impact fifty-five households are now assessment conducted by Sehgal enjoying an uninterrupted water Foundation was impressive.” supply.” —Kehkashan Alam, assistant —Nirmala, Barota, Nuh, Haryana general manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Lady Bamford Trust, JCB
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POWERFUL INITIATIVE TRANSFORMS LIVES ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME
ransform Lives one school at a time is an initiative that integrates Sehgal Foundation’s primary programs in Water Management, Agriculture Development, and Good Rural Governance to Tpositively transform the lives of rural schoolchildren in India’s government schools by giving them essential tools and trainings not previously available. Rundown rural government schools in disrepair are transformed into secure, healthy, and appealing learning environments, and schoolchildren are provided with important life skills education and the digital literacy training and good governance awareness they need for a more promising future. These features are especially empowering for girl children who have long been disadvantaged.
22 23 BACKGROUND repair of electric wiring, provision of clean drinking water using rainwater harvesting systems and biosand Most citizens who live in the villages a aware of the filters; repair or building of separate toilets for boys Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education and girls with a hand-washing station; creation of Act or Right to Education Act (RTE). Through the sanitary kitchen facilities for midday meal preparation; RTE enactment on 4 August 2009, under the Article provision of a main gate; repair of boundary walls; 21A of the Indian Constitution became one of the wall paintings, leveled school grounds with plantation, 135 countries to make education a fundamental right meeting areas, footpaths, and play equipment. of every child ages six to fourteen and to specify minimum norms in elementary schools. DIGITAL LITERACY, LIFE SKILLS World Bank education specialist for India, Sam EDUCATION, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE Carlson, observed that RTE is the first legislation in AWARENESS the world that puts the responsibility of ensuring enrollment, attendance, and completion on the Adolescents are the next generation of workers, government. (In the US and many other countries, that parents, and leaders of a nation. With proper direction is the parents’ responsibility.) The government remains and a supportive socioeconomic environment, young the largest provider of elementary education in the people are an asset for any society. Mentoring is country, forming 80 percent of all recognized schools. especially required for rural youth as they are more isolated and often lack self-esteem, especially girls In rural India, 640,000 government schools serve who face discrimination in the family, which is further more than 128 million children. However, most rural reinforced by their patriarchal culture. Parents make government schools require major repairs and all the major decisions regarding the life choices of improvements. Student enrollment and learning are their children including when and whom to marry. compromised by the defects in infrastructure and Adolescents, especially girls, do not have the courage teacher absenteeism. Without clean drinking water or separate toilets for boys and girls, students often to express their will regarding this. leave school premises to access drinking water or use toilets elsewhere. Some of the more financially able The digital literacy curriculum teaches students parents enroll their children in private schools, but about the uses of digital devices, fundamentals of MS children from economically “backward” families have Office, email functions, and the use of search engines no other choice but to attend government schools or to obtain information such as examination results, drop out of school. admission forms, job opportunities, and information about access to government programs. With the Transform Lives one school at a time initiative, launched in late 2016, Sehgal Foundation • An impact assessment study of the training began transforming these rural government schools in randomly selected villages showed that into secure, healthy, and stimulating spaces that knowledge on basic computers increased from encourage children to attend school regularly and 17 to 100 percent, and internet knowledge improve their learning. The initiative, which has grown increased from zero to 82 percent among course quickly with the generous support received from participants. donors and partners, has three components: school • More than 3,770 students were trained in life skills repair and renovation; basic life skills education education, digital literacy, and good governance that includes digital literary training and governance awareness in the first three years of the Transform awareness; and vital capacity building of school Lives one school at a time initiative. The management committees (SMCs) to ensure the interactive curriculum guides students to develop sustainability of the program components. Additional a positive peer culture, explore their attitudes training on tailoring (stitching, embroidery, and and beliefs, reflect on their approach to life, knitting) is provided as a community-based program make informed decisions about their future, and open to all women. inculcate skills to negotiate with the gatekeepers in their lives to help them make their own decisions. Knowledge on health and sanitation as SCHOOL RENOVATION well as on government programs, schemes, rights, and entitlements are also provided. The students School renovations include repair of classrooms, walls, agree that the training helped them to understand and roof; provision of new windows, doors, and desks; that boys and girls are equal in all respects.
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• The Digital Literacy Training provided students • Inspired by Sehgal Foundation’s program, girl with computer skills and the ability to use students in Indragarh, Alwar, Rajasthan, engaged the internet to learn more about government their community in water conservation. They programs and services. The knowledge students explored the internet on water scarcity and gain impacts their families as well as their learned it is a global phenomenon and how communities. Villagers are now engaged in a innovative techniques and advocacy were helping quest to become truly digital, as their children to tackle this problem. Wishing to contribute have learned an extremely important skill to help to this endeavor with their limited resources, their parents and community members use online the students performed a street play on the resources to learn about their PDS and pension importance of water conservation in their village. statuses, book train tickets, pay bills online, and Their unusual initiative deeply influenced the further develop skills that can help them with community, and the village took an oath to future job opportunities. conserve water. Seeing the impact of the street play, school authorities decided to replicate it. Students performed in the Moreda village nearby, • A government camp, Nyaay Apke Dwaar (justice and had a similar result. The news reached at your door) held at Kalsada in Alwar, Rajasthan the students of Digital Literacy and Life Skills was attended by 300 people. Girls of the Life Education at Dholidhoop, twenty kilometers from Skills Education classes helped people fill Indragarh, and they created a street play as well our application forms for various government for their village. schemes. More than 120 people filled out Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) forms for getting • Getting strength from training about their rights, food ration. By filling a form at the camp with the girls from village Kalsada, Alwar, Rajasthan, raised help of her digital literacy teacher, and meeting their voices against harassment by boys who the official with several of her classmates, a made them feel unsafe in school. Many girls had student, Komal, was able to get electricity back dropped out of school due to the continued “eve to her house. A student, Sukhiram Prajapat from teasing” and other harassment by boys on the way Kalsada, Rajasthan, went online to check his PDS to and from school. The boys sometimes caused status. He discovered that the PDS dealer was damage to school property. The village panchayat taking his family’s share of wheat. Sukhiram’s intervened at the request of the girls and took family confronted the dealer, who confessed and actions to ensure girls’ safety and their continued now delivers the complete food ration to them. education in school.
24 25 SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE responsibilities, including how to prepare the (SMC) ASSURES SUSTAINABILITY School Development Plan. Members begin to meet together regularly, and the priorities they select The Sehgal Foundation team works with SMCs for action result in improved midday meals for to build their capacities to sustain the assets schoolchildren, ongoing monitoring of water and created through the Transform Lives one school at sanitation in school, and ensuring that the school a time initiative. Although most SMC members are receives their allotted government entitlements. aware of their membership before the trainings, Within the first two years of the initiative, lives of the capacity-building training provides them with schoolchildren in more than forty schools were comprehensive knowledge about their roles and positively changed forever.
“If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.”
—Confucius
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Testimonies
“The boundary wall of our school was broken. Now “My village school only goes to grade ten, so I could with the boundary wall, we are able to concentrate not study further. After coming to the center, I learned better on our studies. Construction of toilets has about computers and realized my love for the subject.” been a boon for girls as many of us missed school or dropped out from school.” —Poonam, Nawli, Nuh, Haryana who was admitted to Industrial Training Institutes —Khushboo Sharma, grade twelve, Government Higher (ITI) for learning the trades of computer operator and Secondary School, Choola, Alwar, Rajasthan programming assistant.
“Tanks of about 40,000-liter capacity store rainwater “I want to join the army, and this commitment has that earlier used to drain away. Now every drop become stronger after attending digital literacy and of this water is being stored. The repair of the life skills sessions in my village.” dilapidated veranda has made the schoolyard safe.” —Irfan, Nawli, Ferozpur Jhirka, Haryana —Ashok Kumar Gupta, headmaster, Government who recently won a race organized at the block level. Higher Secondary School, Choola, Alwar, Rajasthan He is training to compete at the district level.
“I despised coming to school as we had to face a lot “Sehgal Foundation changed the way our school looks of trouble. There was no gate, boundary wall, drinking in a way that we could not imagine was possible. We water or toilets. The school walls were broken and had an SMC but did not have any meetings, and some the rooms were in horrible condition, causing quite of the parents were not even aware that they were a few students to drop out. Sehgal Foundation a part of the SMC. Sehgal Foundation has instilled a completely changed the way our school looks. They sense of commitment and responsibility in each of us constructed toilets, ensured that we have clean water toward the education of our children and trained us on to drink and that our school compound remains safe. the roles of SMC to improve the day-to-day functioning They created a separate space for us to play, and of the school. We have developed a questioning our school is brightly colored. We all feel like coming attitude, and parents now come to the school to talk to to school now. Our government school has become the teachers.” better than the private school in our village.” —Sangeeta, SMC member in Indragarh, Alwar, Rajasthan —Jilsana, a student of Indragarh, Alwar, Rajasthan
“Sehgal Foundation is creating a better future for “My parents had chosen a boy for my marriage, young people living in poverty in rural India with I am seventeen years old. When I learned at the Transform Lives one school at a time. Dilapidated center that the legal age for marriage is eighteen, government schools are being renovated and I convinced my parents to wait until I am older. My upgraded, and programs in life skills, digital literacy, friends from the center helped me greatly and I feel and good governance are inspiring and empowering really happy” schoolchildren, especially girls, to use these tools to become active and engaged citizens. Enrollment —Tarmeen, Nawli, Nuh, Haryana is up, and the results are powerful!”
—Dr. Yogesh Shah, director, Palliative Care Services, Geriatric Medicine and Memory Center, Des Moines, Iowa
26 27 RURAL RESEARCH PROVIDES EVIDENCE
he value of research lies in its potential to capture existing trends, design strategies, measure impact, make corrections, and influence policy-making with the use of evidence. With this in Tmind, Sehgal Foundation’s Rural Research Center was created to understand what projects and initiative were making a difference and what were not. Rural Research work covers two broad themes, 1) Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation, and 2) Development Research and Policy Initiatives.
RESEARCH, MONITORING, AND in participatory research, impact measurement, and EVALUATION (RME) interactive dialogue to inform actions and disseminate knowledge. RME work maximizes the impact of poverty alleviation initiatives designed for rural communities with the The RME team switched to paperless mode for data use of participatory research and impact assessment. collection in field surveys. Digital data collection helps RME focuses on integrating all components of the in many ways to ensure more accurate and real-time research process undertaken to conceptualize, design, data gathering, eliminate the scope of manual data and implement interventions by Sehgal Foundation entry interface, and is more user-friendly and less in rural areas. This includes needs assessments, time-consuming. baseline surveys, situation analyses, and monitoring and evaluation studies. Overall, the team engages DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND POLICY INITIATIVES (DRPI)
DRPI work creates a policy-coherent intervention framework to bridge research with policy so that knowledge created through experiential learning at the grassroots level is molded into information that can positively influence local policy. This work expands Sehgal Foundation’s contribution in the development arena with research writing and dialogue, participation in thematic discourses, organization of roundtables and conferences, and dissemination of research and policy findings in articles, blogs, and academic papers.
In Sehgal Foundation’s second decade, the Rural Research team completed eighty-eight monitoring, learning, and evaluation studies, and fifty-eight thematic research studies. Their work has been published in multiple academic journals, presented at professional conferences, and shared in print and online media.
“Overcoming poverty . . . is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.”
—Nelson Mandela
28 COMMUNICATIONS ENHANCE REACH
ommunity media (on-air, online, and in print) provides a powerful platform for lifting up village voices, empowering and mobilizing individuals and communities, and for bringing information to potential Cpartners in rural development and accelerating the pace of Sehgal Foundation outreach.
28 29 • Sehgal Foundation’s published newsletters • More than 7,000 unique callers who tune in include online English newsletters, Connect- to radio, share feedback, and participate in India and USA; two quarterly Hindi publications, programming. Vikas Patrika and Sushasan Patrika; and other information, education, and training materials; • Regular programs include: articles and press releases. > Kisse Kahani (old stories from Mewat): one hour > Hello Farmaaish (live phone-in program): one • The Sehgal Foundation website provides hour information about the programs, initiatives, projects, publications, and partners > Gaon ki Baat (interviews with local people www.smsfoundation.org. about the village history, status of health and education facilities): half hour • Sehgal Foundation received extensive coverage > Jal Jangal Jameen (Our heritage/Water, Forest, in print, online, and television in the past two Agriculture): half hour decades. A highlight was a television episode > Mausiki Mewat (local folklore): half hour on the founders, Dr. Suri Sehgal and Mrs. Edda > Saaf Safai Aur Sehat (cleanliness, sanitation, Sehgal, as part of Zee TV’s documentary series, and health): fifteen minutes Those Who Made It. > Sufi Safar (Sufi history and music): half hour, • Sehgal Foundation’s community radio, Alfaz-e- three times a week Mewat (Rural Voices of Mewat) FM 107.8, has > Humse Hai Shasan (toward good governance): provided a media platform for local community half hour, three times a week voices in Nuh, Haryana, since 2012. The station > Gaon ki Chaupal (live discussion of village broadcasts in the local language, and listeners issues): half hour, three times a week learn about and discuss issues of relevance to > Waqt Hamara Hai (by and for schoolchildren): them on agriculture, government services, water fifteen minutes, three times a week management, women and children, etc. Listeners tune into the transmission through live streaming > Radio School: fifteen minutes, twice a week available on the Sehgal Foundation website. In addition, many episodes produced at Alfaz-e- • Special thematic series include: Mewat are freely shared with other stations on > Hinsa Ko No (no to gender discrimination and internet sites such as Mixcloud, EDDA, and Manch. domestic violence) > Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahen (based on • Thirteen hours of programming are broadcast adolescents and gender issues) daily reaching more than 220 villages within a 25- > Ghar Ghar Ghumati Zindagi (life of Behrupiyas, km radius. the nomadic community) > Kanoon Ki Baat (talk on Law) • National and international days are celebrated > Uljhan (mental health) with special radio programs. > Vitya Vani (financial literacy) > Sehat Ka Paigaam (message on health) • The radio station has had a presence at various > Tere Mere Mann Ki Baat (listeners' feedback) national and international conferences in India and abroad sharing its experiences of broadcasting.
30 INTERNSHIPS nterns are welcome and highly valued at Sehgal Foundation. Interns work for a period of weeks or months in India under the supervision of project supervisors in areas relevant to Sehgal Foundation Iand often for the partial fulfillment of academic credit. Sehgal Foundation has formally hosted scores of interns including high school students, undergraduates, and Fulbright scholars from prestigious national and international academic institutions.
Testimonies
“I am thankful for the opportunities provided to my “The visit to the schools (in Nuh) really put things students over the last twenty years. Their internships into perspective for me. I was aware that several with Sehgal Foundation have been invaluable countries and even certain places in the US had life-changing experiences. I teach students about water issues—and they still do—however I never economic development theories that emphasize truly realized how privileged I am to have water safe working with marginalized and disempowered enough to drink or water that does not have high communities to change the systems and structures levels of salinity. Being able to see these children that keep people in a state of hopelessness, and happy simply because the water they can drink at Sehgal Foundation provides them with a rare glimpse school does not give them stomach issues anymore of sustainable micro-level community-centered was very joyful and pleasing. It is vital that more development efforts. Interns see that this work is people become educated about these issues and challenging, slow, and tedious at times; but it is most devote more time to helping those in need have basic rewarding to see the changes, which give them a human rights, such as water and food.” reason to hope that we can all do better.” —Vanessa Lopez, undergraduate, School of —Deep Shikha PhD, professor and chair, Public and Environment Affairs, Indiana University, Economics and Political Science, St. Catherine Bloomington, IN (2017 Intern) University, St. Paul, MN
“During my internship, I understood how rural “I came to realize that there is a stark difference leadership works in Nuh. I witnessed the tremendous in the developmental needs and perceptions of challenges that rural women face to participate rural men and women. Development for women equally with men in household and village institutions. can mean having a say in the household decision- In villages, leadership is largely a male domain. I was making process, a health center in the vicinity, touched to see how Sehgal Foundation initiatives access to computer training, or even a beauty parlor at the grassroots level improved various community in their village! The first step to address this is to necessities, created a sense of oneness among the create a space for women to voice their opinions people, and most importantly increased confidence and aspirations and subsequently realize their in women to participate in leadership.” development.” —Natasha Hill, undergraduate, Global Resource —Adya Parashar, TERI School of Advanced Systems, Iowa State University, Aims, IA (2018 Intern) Studies, New Delhi (2018 Intern)
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SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS • Jha, Vikas, “Decoding Rural Governance in India,” Journal of Management and Public Policy. Vol.8:1. • Chintakindi, Malvya. “Positive Deviance and 5–10, December 2016. Appreciative Inquiry: The Story of Slowly Transforming Sadai.” Village Square Journal. 2018. • Kumar, Pawan. “Laser Leveling an effective low- cost solution for saving water in agriculture,” • Ghosh, P., & Lalit Sharma, “Analysis of water Agriculture Today. 50–52, January 2017. level fluctuations and TDS variations in the groundwater at Mewat (Nuh) district, Haryana.” • Mahajan, Aparna. “CSR partnerships for Rural Current World Environment: An International Development,” IndiaCSR, March 2018. See http:// Research Journal on Environmental Science, indiacsr.in/csr-partnerships-rural-development. August 2016. • Mahajan, Aparna. Partnerships for Rural • Godyal, Anjali, & Anjali Makhija, “Access to Development, in Socio and Political Observer Health and Education for Women in Rural Mewat, (SPO) India Vol II, Issue 10, New Delhi, Haryana,” Empowerment of Rural Women in August 2017. Developing Countries: Challenges and Pathways. 215–223, 2015. • Mahajan, Aparna. “Making CSR effective through Corporate-NGO partnerships in Rural • Godyal, Anjali, & Anjali Makhija, “Empowering Development,” FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre Meo-Muslim Women in Mewat: Experiences and for Excellence Newsletter, New Delhi, Challenges.” Women’s Link, Vol. 18:1. 36–42, Jan– December 2013. Mar 2012. • Makhija, Anjali. “Creating Leaderships through • Gohel, Parth. “Water is the driving force of all Mahila Sangathans (Women Collectives) in nature.” Agriculture Today. 48–49, Jan 2018. Mewat,” Women’s Link. 34–38, April–June 2017.
• Hanumantharaya, J. N., & Murli D. Gupta, “Role of • Makhija, Anjali. “Strengthening Gram Panchayats: S M Sehgal Foundation in maize improvement“ at A Case Study of Integrated Good Practices,” 10th Asian Regional Maize Workshop at Makassar, Lucknow Management Association (LMA) Indonesia, Oct 20–23, 2008. Convention Journal. Vol. 13:1, 2017.
• Hussain, Rukshat, & Bhawna Mangala, “Toilet as • Makhija, Anjali, & Shruti Kapoor. “E-governance an Asset: Necessity Versus Luxury,” Developing for Mewat,” Geography and You. 44–45, 2015. Country Studies. 4:9, 2014.
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• Makhija, Anjali, & Saurabh Srivastava. “Mahila • Radhakrishnan, Aparna, & Niti Saxena. “Temporal Gram Sabha: The Mewat Experience,” Geography Mapping of Cropping Systems Using Remote and You. 11–12, April 2014. Sensing Techniques. A Case of Khohar Rajasthan.” AFITA/ WCCA 2018. 2018b. • Manchanda, Arti, & Pooja Murada. “Speak Up, Don’t Be Shy: Reflections from Community • Radhakrishnan, Aparna, Niti Saxena, & Prateek Radio’s Work on Gender Issues,” The Journal of Agarwal. “Water Footprint Mapping for Development Communications. Feb 2018. Sustenance and Survival: The case of Khohar, Rajasthan.” Agriculture Today. 2018. • Mehta, Pradeep Kumar. “Farmers’ Behaviour Towards Risk in Production of Fruit and Vegetable • Radhakrishnan, Aparna, Vrindaa Sharma, & Niti Crops,” Journal of Rural Development. Vol. 31:4. Saxena. “A Gender Perspective on Migration.” 457–468, October–December 2012. Governance Now. 40–43. 2018.
• Murada, Pooja O., & Arti Manchanda Grover. • Saxena, Amit, Aparna Radhakrishnan, & Niti “Women’s Voices: Engaging the Excluded.” Review Saxena. “Mobile Agri Clinic for Delivering of Market Integration. Vol. 6:1, 114–130, 2014. Doorstep Extension Services.” Agriculture World. 2018. • Murada, Pooja O., & Charu Khanna. “Power in Empowerment: Role of Community Media in • Saxena, Niti. “Promoting Childhood through Bringing Governance at Local Level.” ICT for Convergence.” Panchayat, Rights and Survival of Development. Vol. 4:2, 61–81, 2014. the Girl Child. 2016.
• Murada, Pooja, & Mahajan, Aparna. “Enabling • Schukoske, Jane. “Book Review of Legal CSR through NGO: Corporate partnership,” CSR Education in Asia,” Asian Journal of Legal Vision. 13–15, Febuary 2013. Education, 2(1), 78–80, 2015.
• Murada, Pooja. “Working together to empower • Schukoske, Jane. “Engaging with Communities for rural India: Institute of Rural Research and Access to Justice,” e-Pg Pathshala: Social Sciences: Development,” Rajagiri Journal of Social Law: Paper 2 Access To Justice, Module 17, Ministry Development. Vol.1:1, 75–90, 2009. of Human Resource Development National Mission on Education through Information and • Palacios, Alison C., & Pradeep Kumar Mehta, Communications Technology, 2015. “Role of Gender in Food Security of Agricultural Households in Rural Mewat.” Asian Journal of • Schukoske, Jane. “Harnessing the Power of New Development Matters. Vol. 7:1, 121–135, June 2013. ICTs for Rural Women in India: NGO Roles,” Empowering Women In Developing Countries: • Pandey, Ajay. “Experimenting with Clinical Legal ICT Applications and Benefits, Centre for Science Education to Address the Disconnect Between & Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other the Larger Promise of Law and its Grassroots Developing Countries, 121–137, 2015. Reality in India,” Maryland Journal of International Law. Vol. 26:1, 135–158, 2011. • Schukoske, Jane. “Identity Writing and Citizen Participation,” Negotiating Margins: African • Radhakrishnan, Aparna, & Niti Saxena. American and Dalit Writings, 20–32, 2014. “Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Mapping the Cropping Systems: A Case of • Schukoske, Jane, & Roopali Adlakha. “Enhancing Rajasthan, India.” American Geophysical Union Good Governance in India: Law Schools and Fall Meeting, 2018. Community–University Engagement,” Journal of Indian Law and Society, Monsoon issue. Vol. 3, • Radhakrishnan, Aparna, & Niti Saxena. “Krishi 206–232, November 2012. Jyoti: A Project to Empower, Equip, and Enable Farmers of Nuh, India.” Agriculture Extension in South Asia. 2018.
32 33 • Sekhar, P. Vani, Mohamed A. N. Mostafa, • Sharma, Lalit Mohan, & Rashmin Kaur Joshi. Mallikarjuna N, & Murli D. Gupta, “Progress and “Reverse Osmosis is not a Viable Option for Accomplishments of S M Sehgal Foundation in Water Purification in Water Stressed Regions of hybrid-related initiatives in Maize,” International India,” IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Maize Conference, Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Toxicology, and Food Technology, 8:8, 23–27, 2014. Indonesia. Nov 22–24, 2012. • Sharma, Lalit Mohan, Aravinda Satyavada, & • Sekhar P., Vani, Hanumantharaya J. N., & Murli Archana Chowdhury. “Water Quality and Human D. Gupta, “Research Initiatives of S M Sehgal Health in Mewat,” Challenges and Innovative Foundation in Developing Hybrid-oriented Solutions. Interlacing Water and Human Health. Source Germplasm of Maize” at 11th Asian Maize 200–229, 2012. Conference at Nanning, China, Nov 8–10, 2011. • Sharma, Lalit. “Soak pit revolution: Two villages • Sharma, Lalit. “Promoting Community Health and in Mewat treat their own wastewater,” Down to Preventing Waterborne Diseases with the JalKalp Earth. December 2012. Water Filter,” Arsenic Knowledge and Action • Sharma, Lalit, Jay Sehgal, & Ellora Mubashir. Network. 22–28, February 2018. “Sustainable Rural Water Management: A replicable case study,” Catalyst for Human • Sharma, Lalit. “Promoting Community Health and Development. 47 52, March 2007. Preventing Waterborne Diseases with the JalKalp Water Filter,” IOSR Journal of Environmental • Sharma, Vrindaa, Aparna Radhakrishnan, & Niti Science, Toxicology and Food Technology. Saxena. “A Study on Gendered Analysis of the February 2018. Livelihood Determinants and Vulnerability of Seasonal Migration in Khohar Village, Rajasthan, • Sharma, Lalit, “Roof rainwater harvesting for India.” In Compendium: Indian Social Institute increasing access to potable water,” USAID & Compendium on Labor Migration in Post Centers for International Projects Trust (CIPT) Liberalisation Era. 2018. Compendium: Best Practices on Water and Agricultural Sustainability, 16 19, May 2017. • Sood, Saurabh. “CSR for Rural Development: Convergence for Sustainable Impact.” CSR • Sharma, Lalit Mohan. “Innovation for Making Watch. Potable Water Available in Saline Groundwater Areas,” Journal of Water Resource and Protection, • Sood, Saurabh. “Measuring Happiness and Vol. 6:14, 1284–1289, 2014. Sustainable Development in India.” SDG Philanthropy. • Sharma, Lalit. “Innovation for Making Potable Water Available in Saline Groundwater Areas,” • Sood, Saurabh. “Where Do Women Figure In The Indian Economy?” Feminism in India. Journal of Water Resource and Protection. Vol 06:14, 2014. • Sood, Saurabh, & Niti Saxena. “Moving Beyond Digital Literacy and Towards E-Governance • Sharma, Lalit, & Sood Saurabh. “Challenges of in Rural India.” in Special Collection on dryland areas and community-based technological EGovernment Innovations in India (ICEGOV ’17), solutions for drought proofing,” IOSR Journal ed. and Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen (Eds.) Rehema of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Baguma, Rahul De, Tomasz Janowski. ACM, New Technology, Volume 9, Issue 4, Ver. II, 53 60, York, NY, USA, 1–5, 2017. April 2015.
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• Sood, Saurabh, & Pradeed Mehta. "Mapping • Palacios, Alison C., and Pradeep K. Mehta. experience and adaptation to climate change "Role of Gender in Food Security of Agricultural across two semi-arid rural sites." Adaptation Households in Rural Mewat." Asian Journal of Futures Conference held in Rotterdam, Development Matters 7, no. 1 (2013): 121-135. Netherlands, 2016. • Makhija, A, Guru, S and Saxena, R. 2019. • Mehta, Pradeep. "Role of Citizen Participation "Empowering Rural Youth with Digital Literacy in Ensuring Governance and Service Delivery" and Life Skills Education". Indian Journal of Adult National convention on good governance through Education Vol. 80, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 2019): pp32-39. people’s participation, 2016. • Saxena, R. and Mukherjee, A. (2019). Education: • Mehta, Pradeep. "Strengthening decentralised Ground reality versus policy. Women's link, Vol. democracy at grassroot level-A case of education 25, No. 2(April-June 2019), pp.33-39. sector in rural India" NIRDPR, 2016 • Bastola, Aditya. "Gender and Governance: A Case • Mehta, Pradeep, & Susmita Guru. "Role of Gender of Jalswarajya Project." Gender Issues in Water in Typology of Migration and its impact on and Sanitation Programmes: Lessons from India Women’s Empowerment" NIRDPR, 2017 (2015): 120.
• Mehta, Pradeep. "Ensuring effective delivery of • Guru, Susmita. (2015). “Locked Doors : A Deserted government programmes: Role of community village.” Countercurrents. based organizations" University of Delhi, 2016 • Guru, Susmita. 2017. "Good Grassroots • Guru, Susmita, & Richa Saxena. "Transforming Governance". Governance Now, 2017. girl-child education through inclusive participation of women teachers; Findings from rural villages in • Saxena, Richa. 2017. "Digital Literacy: The Need district Nuh, Haryana" Institute of Social Sciences, Of A Nation On The Path Of Growth". Rural 2017 Marketing, 2017.
• Guru, Susmita, & Richa Saxena. "Gender Gaps • Saxena, Richa. 2017. "Education Still Far From The in rural farming: Key challenges and Policy Reach Of Many Girls". Countercurrents. responses" Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Youth • Mukherjee, Amba. 2019. "How Farmers Have Development, 2017 Become Direct Beneficiaries Of Sustainable Zero • Birla, Sonal. "Assessing the Awareness levels of Tillage Intervention In Bihar". Counterview. Anganwadi Workers" NIRDPR, 2016 Note: Fourteen individual or joint submissions • Mehta, Pradeep. "Co-optimising solutions in water were made to enhance the outreach of Sehgal and agriculture: A case of India" World Business Foundation work in development including Council for Sustainable Development, 2017 the Statement to 56th Commission for Social Development entitled, “Strategies for Eradicating • Saxena, Niti, and Pradeep K. Mehta. Poverty to Achieve Sustainable Development "Collectivizing Rural Development: The Bottom- for All,” which was then published in six official Bottom Approach." Centre for Development United Nations languages. Practice, 2016
34 35 BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS • Murada, Pooja O., & Arti Manchanda Grover. "Engaging the Excluded: From the Lens of • Cornell, Marly. Seeds for Change: The Lives and Community radio Alfaz-e-Mewat.” Future Work of Suri and Edda Sehgal. Sehgal Foundation, Directions in Bridging the Digital Divide, 2014. 153-162, 2016.
• Cornell, Marly. Together We Empower: Rekindling • Schukoske, Jane, & Latika Vashist. “Achieving Hope in Rural India, Sehgal Foundation, US & Socially Relevant Legal Education through Rural Sage Publications India, 2016. Legal Aid Clinics,” chapter in Legal Aid: Catalyst for Social Change, eds. Raman Mittal & K. V. • Cronin, Aidan A., Pradeep K. Mehta, & Anjal Sreemithun, University of Delhi, 167–189, 2012. Prakash, eds., Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes: Lessons from India, Sage • Schukoske, Jane. “Harnessing the power of New Publications India, 2015. ICTs for Rural Women in India: NGO Roles,” chapter in Empowering Women in Developing • Mahajan, Aparna. “Corporate Social Countries: ICT Applications and Benefits, eds. Responsibility Today” chapter in Strategy to Finarya Legoh & Suman Kapur, Daya Publishing Leverage CSR for Competitive Advantage, IOD, House: New Delhi, 121–137, 2015. Bangalore, 2014. • Schukoske, Jane. “Legal Education Reform in • Mahajan, Aparna. “Rise of CSR in Emerging India: Dialogue Among Indian Law Teachers,” Economies,” chapter in Social Responsibility: chapter in Legal Education in India: essays in Making CSR and Actionable Business Agenda. honour of Professor Ranbir Singh, eds. Lokendra IOD, Dubai, UAE, 2012. Malik & Manish Arora, Universal Law Publishing • Makhija, Anjali. “SDG-5: Achieve gender Equality Co. Pvt. Ltd: New Delhi, 181 209, 2014. and Empower All Women and Girls.” chapter in • Sharma, Lalit Mohan, Aravinda Satyavada, & Sustainable Development Goals and Panchayats, Archana Chowdhury. “Water Quality and Human ed. Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Rawat Publications, Health in Mewat: Challenges and Innovative 114–134, 2018. Solutions,” chapter in Interlacing Water and • Mehta, P., & N. Saxena. “Unleashing the Gender Human Health. Sage Publications India, Differentials in Water Management: The Rural 200–229, 2012. Milieu,” chapter in Gender Issues in Water and • Sreedher, Dr. R. & Pooja O. Murada. Community Sanitation Programmes, 139–154. New Delhi, Sage Radio in India. Aakar Books, 2019. Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2015.
• Mehta, Prateep, & Niti Saxena, “Exploring the Gender Dimension of Water: A Case of Mewat.” Chapter in Book on Water. Sage Publications India, 2013.
36 MOVING FORWARD IN PARTNERSHIP
ehgal Foundation engages in strategic partnerships to build strong synergies that help make a greater impact in the lives of rural people, partnering with corporations, government bodies, Snonprofits, academia, multilateral organizations, communities, and individuals to help expand the reach and scale of sustainable initiatives.
HIGHLIGHTED PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS
Partner: The Mosaic Company Foundation Partner: Bayer CropScience Limited Project: Krishi Jyoti Project: Samagra Krishi Enhance farm productivity; promote water Promote sustainable farming practices to boost farm conservation and support the development of productivity and remuneration of small and marginal infrastructures in villages to conserve water; and farmers; focus on improved agriculture methods, promote education of schoolchildren with the integrated soil nutrient management practices, provision of potable water, sanitary facilities, and safe horticulture development, livestock management, school infrastructures. rejuvenation of linkages with governance structures and market, and access to information on agronomic practices, schemes, and extension services. Partner: Coca-Cola India Foundation Project: Jaldhara IV Collect rainwater to improve water security through Partner: K+S KALI GmbH Fertilizers (India) Private Ltd resource augmentation; improve livelihoods and Project: Unnat Krishi food security for people by ensuring adequate water Make semi-medium-holding farmers competent in for agriculture and livestock; and create community areas of soil nutrient management and high-yielding sustainability mechanisms for effective management crop varieties through technical handholding, of stored water and watershed structures. information dissemination, and liaising with state agricultural departments.
Partner: Coca-Cola Foundation, USA Project: Jaldhara V Partner: CEB India Private Limited Improve groundwater levels by mass recharging in Project: Bridging the Internet Literacy Gap and over-exploited areas as notified by Central Ground Promoting Life Skills Water Board; desilt and rejuvenate traditional water Bridge the knowledge gap between rural and tanks in Kolar, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh; urban youth; improve participation of rural youth promote best agricultural practices; bring more land in governance; and build their confidence through under irrigation; and make community aware about internet literacy and life skills education. water conservation and government programs on water and agriculture.
36 37 Partner: HDFC Bank enhancement, bridge the information and Project: Parivartan resource gap between women and men farmers Improve the lives of rural communities in areas of by demonstrating best management practices in natural resource management, clean energy, health agriculture. and hygiene, life skills, agriculture livelihoods, and rural infrastructure; and create positive change in Partner: Millennium Alliance the lives of 5,000 villagers including adolescent girls, Project: Install pressurized recharge wells young women and mothers, school-going and dropout for creating freshwater pockets in saline children, farmers, and the elderly. groundwater areas.
Partner: Oracle Partner: FICCI Project: Digital Literacy and Life Skills Training Project: Clean Water Access Bridge the internet literacy gap and promote life Harvest rainwater from school rooftops and through skills education among rural schoolchildren in Mewat pressurized recharge wells; and create freshwater district, Haryana. pockets in saline groundwater areas to makes water available for drinking and cooking purposes.
Partner: CAF India Charities Aid Foundation Project: Digital Literacy and Life Skills Training Partner: Embassy of Japan in India Project: Water Augmentation System Train students from government schools in villages on the workings of digital devices such as tablets and Build a check dam of 185 m in length and 2.4 m in laptops with an eventual focus on internet literacy height at Sukha Khola in Rawli village on the Haryana/ and connecting them with the outside world. Focus Rajasthan border to harvest rainwater runoff from the on development of social and emotional skills, Aravalli hills; with four gabions and nallah bunds, and knowledge about health and sanitation, as well as 98 contour trenches dug on the upstream side of the government programs, schemes, and rights. check dam to manage rainwater runoff and increase the percolation rate.
Partner: PI Foundation Project: Kaushal Krishak Partner: Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government A holistic solution to minimize farmer’s risk, of India decrease cultivation cost, and increase farm income, Project: Promoting Community Health by particularly for smallholder farmers; provide advisory Addressing Incidence of Waterborne Diseases and onsite demonstration services to farmers on in Select Villages of Bihar minimal or no tillage in wheat and paddy; improve yields and quality, and reduce cost of inputs. Set up a Analyze the presence of arsenic, iron, and biological mobile agri clinic to provide diagnostics and advisory contamination in water, and promote the use of services to the farmers. biosand and terracota household water filters; create rainwater-based community-managed sustainable solutions for selected water scarce villages of district Partner: UNDP Mewat (Haryana); and create community-managed Project: Create employment and entrepreneurship water management models to fulfill the domestic opportunities for women in India water needs. Assess needs and aspirations of women and girls in skill development and subsequently encourage Partner: NABARD them to participate in skill training programs Project: Augmenting Productivity of Lead Crops organized by UNDP. Augment productivity of lead crops—wheat and mustard, in five villages of Nagina block, Nuh, Haryana, Partner: Hytech Seed India Private Limited through integrated crop nutrient management, soil Project: Women’s Empowerment: Building Capacities testing, composting, field days, farmers’ training, bank of Women Farmers linkages, and exposure visits; including agriculture allied activities like dairy development, animal nutrition Build capacities of women farming community for management, vaccinations, insurance, deworming. improved agricultural practices and productivity
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Partner: Sapient Consulting Private Limited Partner: PTC Foundation Project: Gram Uday Project: Gram Utthaan Empower rural citizens to play a leading role in Promote sustainable and inclusive growth by the communities; build their capacities to engage providing holistic solutions to farm families including effectively with panchayats (village councils) and solar energy to reduce cost of irrigation and carbon village-level institutions for improving access to footprint, mechanization for improved effectiveness government programs; build knowledge and skills of of farming practices, balanced soil nutrition and farmers to make agriculture and allied activities more crop protection for better productivity, and remunerative; give farmers exposure to agriculture entrepreneurship for better livelihoods. management practices, use of new technology, and encouragement to adopt allied agricultural activities such as horticulture and livestock development; and Partners: (i) National Informatics Center, Ministry of provide information about government programs and Electronics and Information Technology, Hyderabad, services using a toll-free number. and National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, (ii) Ultraseed Tech India Partner: Maruti Suzuki Foundation Pvt. Ltd. Project: Swachhta Hai to Swaasthya Hai Project: Digital Corridor Village Promote Swachh Bharat Abhiyan; ensure participation Include digital issuance and maintenance of records of the local community in village sanitation for long- as well as online monitoring of government programs term sustenance of the infrastructure developed; and through Aadhaar-enabled household-level data; maintain cleanliness in the villages. rural community to digitally obtain services from panchayat functionaries, and the data can be used by government, corporates, village-level institutions, Partner: Axalta and other agencies to effectively plan, execute, and Project: Soil and Water Conservation monitor village development activities. Develop ponds for storing rainwater to support local farming, animal husbandry, and eco services; train community on management of the water catchment Partner: Department of Science and Technology area to ensure the availability of water throughout Project: Science for Women’s Health and Nutrition the year. A radio series Sehat Ka Paigaam (message on health) of 365 episodes on health and nutrition, to improve the health condition of women in rural Partner: JCB (Lady Bamford Charitable Trust) and marginalized villages within the reach area of Project: Saksham community radio. Establish a social mobilization strategy to empower citizens and village institutions, for Lady Bamford Partner: CREA Charitable Trust (LBCT) to create model villages; build Project: Radio Programming on Empowerment LBCT team’s capacity to implement this strategy for its future replication in other villages; and set up and Produce a series of ten radio episodes on selected train mahila sangathans to develop their village. themes of empowerment, especially women’s empowerment, with capacity building, content, and production support to radio stations. Partner: Gartner India Project: Develop Villages to Develop India Partner: DRISHTI Build capacities of rural communities to lead their own Project: Tarang development through an integrated approach focusing on crucial aspects pertaining to their well-being. Build awareness and encourage community action on rights and entitlements among communities in radio station’s coverage area, and build capacity of Partner: ZS Associates India Pvt. Ltd. community radio stations to operate radio programs Project: Meri Paathshaala strategically covering aspects of research, design, execution, promotion, and monitoring listenership. Build new structures and renovate existing infrastructure of government school buildings to provide a safer and more conducive learning environment for schoolchildren. 38 39 Partner: Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Partner: DCB Bank Life Insurance Company Limited Project: Water Augmentation System Project: Samarth Vitya Vani Construct rainwater harvesting structure (check dam) Produce a series of radio programs on financial literacy in villages to improve the volume and quality of in rural communities on Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 107.8 to groundwater in the long term and provide water highlight gaps in awareness and service delivery that security for households and agriculture; and build capacity prevent financial inclusion of the rural communities. in the community for maintaining the structures.
Partner: Niti Aayog, Government of India Partner: Fluor Daniel India Private Ltd. Project: Identify “Backwardness” of Mewat Region in Project: Government School Renovation Haryana: A Block-Level Analysis Renovate physical infrastructures and deteriorated Analyze the multi-dimensional aspects of government school buildings, in villages; repair development in Mewat region; and map the typology existing structural weaknesses of buildings and build of “backwardness” across blocks within the district new and safer infrastructures to retain and increase in order to suggest appropriate strategies for school attendance and improve students’ academic development of Mewat district. performance.
Partner: Social Sciences and Health Research Council Partner: India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF) (SSHRC), Canada and Living with Climate Change Project: Jagruk Krishak (LCC) Research Network Build capacities of women farmers in major skill areas Project: Mapping Experience and Adaptation to of agriculture, i.e. land use efficiency, high-quality Climate Change production, production efficiency, and water and energy Understand community perceptions on environmental efficiency; and for better access to entitlements. changes occurring for last thirty years; examine adaptive responses of community members in response to impact of climate change on their Partner: Haryana Education Forum livelihoods; and analyze the role of community Project: Renovation of Government School and perceptions in choosing adaptive responses. Training SMCs Renovate physical infrastructures and deteriorated government school buildings in villages, and capacity Partner: Ministry of Women and Child Development, building of SMCs for their active participation in the Government of India management and maintenance of schools. Project: An Assessment of Convergence of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan with Selected Central and State Government Schemes Partner: Gateway Distriparks Ltd. Assess the implementation of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan Project: Better Sanitation for School (SSA) with special focus on girls’ education in the Create access to better sanitation facilities in the Mewat district of Haryana, to identify the gaps of school and build awareness on good hygiene and the program; assess the implementation of other sanitation practices among schoolchildren. relevant schemes of Central and State promoting girls’ education; study the modalities of the convergence of SSA with programs and schemes of the Central and Partner: Sankalp the State Government; and assess the gaps arising Project: Better Sanitation for Government School out of the study and suggest recommendations for Create access to better sanitation facilities in the reformations at policy level. school and build awareness on good hygiene and sanitation practices among schoolchildren. Partner: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Practical Action Partners: Students for Development Project: Livelihood Solutions through Mobile Projects: Technology: An Assessment Water for Success - Varun Myneni Assess the impact of an ongoing ICT intervention Worksheets for Water - Ashwin Sinha (mobile technology) within the culturally withdrawn and socioeconomically backward regions of Mewat Shreeya's Life Skills Education Project - Shreeya Yarlagadda district in Haryana, especially on livelihood; and up- Jinal's Digital Literacy and Life Skills scale the potential of LifeLines Services. Education project - Jinal Amin
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OTHER AFFILIATIONS • Community Radio Rim Jhim, Gopalganj, Bihar, India • Advit Foundation, Haryana, India • Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), New Delhi, • Aga Khan Foundation, New Delhi, India India • Aide-et-Action Private Ltd., Chennai, India • Council of Child Welfare (DCCW), Orthopaedic Center, New Delhi, India • Amity University, Manesar, Haryana, India • Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India • An Association for Development of Harmony and Action Research (AADHAAR), Dehradun, • Delhi School of Social Work, University of Delhi, Uttarakhand, India India • Animal Husbandry Department, Haryana, • Delhi University, New Delhi, India Department of Government of India Education, Government of India • Aravalli Vikas Sangathan (ARAVIS), Gurugram, • Department of Panchayats, Haryana, India India • Des Moines Community Fund, Iowa, USA • Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and • Dharma Vana Arboretum (DVA), Andhra Pradesh, Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, Karnataka, India India • Asian Broadcasting Union, India • District Administration, Bahraich, • Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India Uttar Pradesh, India • Astha Sansthan, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India • Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, New Delhi • Azim Premji University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India • Federation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry • Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India • Haryana Institute of Rural Development (HIRD), India • Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India • Haryana State Rural Livelihoods Mission (HSRLM), Chandigarh, India • Borlaug Ruan Internship/The World Food Prize Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa, USA • Human Welfare Foundation, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India • Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA • Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), Washington, DC, USA • IBTADA, Alwar, Rajasthan, India • Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, • ICICI Fellowship Programme, India ICICI Andhra Pradesh, India Foundation for Inclusive Growth, Mumbai, India • Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation • Ideosync Media Combine, Faridabad, Haryana, Technology (CAWST), Calgary, Canada India • Chanakya Law University, Patna, Bihar, India • India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), Willowbrook, Illinois, USA • Chungath Family Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa, USA • Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, Karnataka, India • Clinton Global Initiative, New York, USA • Indian Institute of Public Health/ Public Health • College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Foundation of India, Gurgaon, Haryana, India University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA • Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India • Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Arts (CEMCA), New Delhi, India • Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Fairfax Co., Virginia, • Community Radio Alwar ki Awaaz, Alwar, USA Rajasthan, India
40 41 • Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, • Ministry of Tourism, Government of India India • Ministry of Women and Child Development, • Institute of Technology and Management, Delhi, Government of India India • Misr Hytech Seed International, Cairo, Egypt • Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), • Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Haryana, India Mumbai, Maharashtra, India • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India • National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, India • International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • National Institute of Research on Jute & Allied Fibre Technology (NIRJAFT), West Bengal, India • International Management Institute, New Delhi, India • National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Karnataka, India • Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA • National Law University, Delhi, India • International Union for Conservation of Nature • National Law University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India • Jamia Millia Islamia University, Department of Social Work, Delhi, India • National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), New Delhi, India • Jamsetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity, Chennai, India • Navjyoti India Foundation, New Delhi, India • Japanese International Cooperation Agency • Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (JICA), New Delhi, India • One World South Asia, New Delhi, India • Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India • Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, Uttar • Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, Haryana, India Pradesh, India • JSS Law College, Mysore, Karnataka, India • Participatory Learning and Action Network (PLANET KERALA), Kerala, India • Key Management Group Foundation, Gurugram, India • Planning Commission, Government of India • KMG Foundation, USA • Population Foundation of India (through Vardaan Consultants), New Delhi, India • Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Mandkhola, India • Practical Action, Rugby, Great Britain, UK • Lady Irwin College, Delhi, India • Public Health Department, Government of India • Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India • Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth • MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child, Development, Chennai, India New Delhi, India • Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for • Mandikhera Hospital, Mewat, Haryana, India Community Health (REACH), Chennai, India • Maraa—A Media and Arts Collective, Bangalore, • Rural Development and Self-Employment Training India (RUDSET) Institute, Gurugram, India • Mewat Development Agency, Haryana, India • Rural Development Department, Rajasthan, India • Mewat Social and Educational Development • S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Society (MSEDS), India Mumbai, Maharashtra, India • Millennium Alliance (USAID, DFID/ UKAID, FICCI, • School Health Annual Report Programme DST-GoI, ICCo India, and ICICI Foundation for (SHARP), India Inclusive Growth) • School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, • Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India Andhra Pradesh, India • Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India • Sesame India Workshop Trust, New Delhi, India
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• Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) and Navajbai Ratan • Zila Panchayat, District Koriya, Chhattisgarh, India Tata Trust, Mumbai, India • UKAID, Government of United Kingdom • Sitaram Jindal Foundation, New Delhi, India • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New • Social Science and Humanities Resource Council, Delhi, India Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • United Nations Educational, Scientific, and • Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses, New Cultural Organization (UNESCO), New Delhi, Delhi, India India • Spark Minda Foundation • United Nations Information Centers (UNIC), New Delhi, India • Sri Venkateshwara College, Delhi, India • United States Aid for International Development • St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (USAID), New Delhi, India • Students of the World, San Francisco, California, • University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, USA Maryland, USA • Sukarya, Faridabad, Haryana, India • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA • Swades Foundation, Raigad, Maharashtra, India • University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA • Swaraj Sansthan, Bhopal, India • University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA • T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal, • University of Pune, Department of Women’s Karnataka, India Studies, Maharashtra, India • TERI University, Delhi, India • Vardaan Consultants, Gujarat, India • The Coca-Cola Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA • Varun Myneni Fund, USA • The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, • Vasant Valley School, New Delhi, India India • West Bengal National University for Juridical • The Restoring Force (TRF), Gurgaon, India Sciences, Kolkata, India • Times Foundation, New Delhi, India • William L. Brown Center (WLBC), Missouri • Times of Money Ltd., Mumbai, India Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA • Toulouse School of Economics, France • York Law School, University of York, North Yorkshire, England, UK • Transparency International India, New Delhi, India • York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Trees for Life, Wichita, Kansas, USA • Tribal Department, District Koriya, Chhattisgarh, India
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MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
• Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA), • ICRISAT Hybrid Parent Research Consortia Hyderabad, since 2018. on Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Pigeon Pea, • Alfaz-e-Mewat Community Radio Association Hyderabad, since 2002. India, New Delhi, member, since 2014. • India Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee. • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington • India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), DC, 2017. Illinois, founding member, since 2003. • Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) • Indian Association of Social Science Institutions District-Level Committee, Mewat, Haryana, since (IASSI), New Delhi, 2018. 2010. • Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), • Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, New Delhi, 2018. Thiruvananthapurum, Kerala, 2019. • Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, • Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Gujarat, designated organization, since 2004. Policy (CRISP), Hyderabad, since 2017. • International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), • Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), New York, since New Delhi, since 2018. 2005. • Jaipur National University, Jaipur, 3-year MOU, • Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), New Delhi, 2018–2021. 2007–2008. • Maharashi Dayanand University. Rohtak, Haryana, • Scientific and Industrial Research Organization NGO Advisory Board, since 2015. status to Crop Improvement Research at ICRISAT, • Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon, national television Hyderabad. series by Population Foundation of India, New • Credibility Alliance, New Delhi, since 2005. Delhi, knowledge partner, 2019. • Central Accreditation Committee (CAC), since • MANAGE, National Institute of Agricultural 2017. Extension Management, Ministry of Agriculture, Hyderabad, 2019. • Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, Mission for Water • Mewat Development Agency (MDA), Mewat, Programme, New Delhi, Water Technology Expert Haryana, since 2008. Panel, since 2010. • Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, • Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity. Government of India website acknowledgment Government of India. New Delhi, since 2012. of innovations: JalKalp water filter and Creating Freshwater Pocket within Saline Aquifer. • ECOSOC, United Nations Economic and Social Council, New York, since 2005. • NGO Darpan directory, NITI Aayog, New Delhi, 2016. • Feminist Evaluation Group, New Delhi, 2017. • RamLal Anand College, Delhi University, Alfaz-e- • Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE), San Mewat Knowledge Exchange Partnership, since Diego, California, 2017. 2018. • Global Empowerment Network, NAMATI, New • South Asian Network for Development and Delhi, since 2016. Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Kathmandu, • Guidestar India, Mumbai, since 2012. Nepal, 2018. • Haryana Education Department, Panchkula, • Swasthiya Kalyan Samiti, Mandikhera Hospital, 3-year MOU, 2017–2020. Mewat, Haryana, since 2010.
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• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, • Maharashi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, 3-year MOU, 2018–2021. NGO advisory Board, since 2015. University Outreach Program Advisory Committee, 2017–2019 • UN Global Compact India, NGO member, New Delhi, since 2009. Network Training • Marks and Spencer, Internal Complaints Subcommittee, 2010. Committee member, Gurugram, Haryana, 2017 19. • United Nations Development Program (UNDP) • Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. and the Government of India’s Endogenous Emeritus Trustee for Life (Dr. Suri Sehgal) since Tourism Program, 2005–2010. 2000. • Mosaic India, Gurugram, Haryana, Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), 2014 2016. INDIVIDUAL STAFF AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS • Mother Diary Fruits and Vegetables Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Internal Complaints Committee, 2017–19. • ATREE, Bangalore, Executive Board, since 2000. • National Council of Educational Research and • C. P. Wholesale, Gurugram, Internal Complaints Training (NCERT), New Delhi, expert panel to Committee, 2017-19. develop position paper on work and education, 2014. • CIMMYT-IMIC Asia, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, since 2010. • Network of Expert for National CSR Network, New Delhi, empaneled water expert, since 2017. • Community Radio Association India, New Delhi, advisor, 2018–20; Governing Board member, • Program Advisory Committee (PAC), Department 2016–18. of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2011–2016. • Credibility Alliance, New Delhi, Executive Board, 2019. • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Sanibel, Florida, current. • Editorial Board of School Mantra magazine for schoolchildren, New Delhi, since 2019. • Sea Level Water Rise Committee, Captiva, Florida, current. • e-NGO Challenge Asia-Pacific Awards, Grand Jury, 2014. • Sub-divisional Court, Ferozepur Jhirka, District Nuh, Haryana, Internal Complaints Committee • Environmental Awareness Committee of Captiva member, since 2018. Island Yacht Club, Captiva, Florida, chairperson, since 2015. • Super Group PIC (Superdry), Gurugram, Haryana, Internal Complaints Committee, 2017–19. • IGNOU, New Delhi, advisor, 2018–19. • UN Global Compact Network, Training • India Development Coalition of America, advisor, Subcommittee, New Delhi, 2010–11. since 2010. • University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, • Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, since 2009. Chhattisgarh, Global Summit on Management Cases (GSMC), Advisory Board, 2014. • War for Water, an initiative Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, • IndiaRxiv, advisory board, Bangaluru, 2019. New Delhi, invited panel of experts, 2009–2016. • International Network on Household Water • YMCA, School of Media Studies, New Delhi, Treatment and Safe Storage initiative of WHO guest faculty, since 2018. and UNICEF, since 2007. • Young Citizen Award for Innovation and Social • Li &Fung, Gurugram, Haryana, Internal Impact, United Nations Global Compact and IILM Complaints Committee, 2017–19. University, Jury, 2018.
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Silver Partners (Up to $5,000) Ann Feldman Bhupat N Desai and Kumud B Desai Bibekananda Guru A Allen Bradley Jr Ann M Klein Bill and Margie Abraham A Jyoti Ann Ungs Bill and Sarah Brown Aarti Nayar Annapoorna Arunachalam Bindu S Sharma Abhi Jain Anoop Jaiswal Bindu Sharma and Surinder sharma Abhijeet Kataria Anoop K Mathur and Preeti Mathur Binod Pokharel Abhinav Kappaganty Anoushka Buddhikot Birenra Sinha and Poonam Sinha Abhinav Sharma Anu Pakala BP Makkapati and Nirmala Makkapati Abhinav Shrivastava Anuj Dhingra Brad Dwyer Abhishek A Kantak Anuj Saxena Brad Lones Abhishek Kumar Anuj Sharma Brian or Jennifer Speers Abhishek Sinha Aparna Mahajan Brij Sharma Ada Shissler Archana Verma Brokers International Adam D Walker Arianna Olguin Bruce Trigg Aditi Batta Arti Manchanda Grover C J Kadel Aditi Pare Arun and Saatchi Kalra Caliaperoumal Sattianandame Adnan Fakruddin Arun Movva and Divya Movva Cara Schukoske Adrish and Sumita Mullick Arun Ohri and Shashi Ohri Caravan Hotel Properties LLC Ajailiu Niumai Arvind Kakodkar MD PSC Carl E Syversen P E and Mary C Syversen Akash J Arvind Nandu and Monnica A Nandu Carol Ham Wilson Akhil Rekulapalli Aseem Asthana Caroll A and Ardys A Anderson Akshay Kshetrapal Ashish Agarwal Cassandra M Haller Al Amin Yusuph Ashmith Kumlala Chad Hansen and Sonu Hansen Viren and Rupal Amin Ashu Ahluwalia Chanchala Dhawan Alekhya Tadokonda Ashwani K Sethi Chand Deepak and Malini Deepak Alice Huang Ashwatha Reddy Bachireddy Chanderamohan P Batra Trust/Rita C Alicia Brown-Matthes Asit K Tripathy and Leenu Mishra Batra Trust Alifiya Hirani Atul Chawla and Seema T Chawla Chanderkant H Shah Alma Suvic Atul Gupta Chandra Shekar and Asha Shekar Alpa Desai Avadh Dubey Chandrakanth Vemula Amar Singh Avinash Akhouri Channamallikarjuna Marularadhya Amar Singh Sinsinwar Ayaan Hospital Charles Wang Ambrish and Renuka Vyas Azad Sunkavalli Charlie Dolphin Amit A Pradhan and Prajakta A Pradhan Babu Chimata Chitra Kakkar Amit Chaudhuri Baljit Singh Virdi Chowdary Jampala Amitabh Gupta and Vandana Gambhir Balraj Tadikonda Christopher J Nelson and Anne C Nelson Amrita Singh Balvir Khosla and Usha Khosla Christopher Lambe Amy Yost Bansri Amin Cletus Maychrzak Anand Bandula Benjamin B Steinberg and Maxine K Steinberg Corinne A Kempin Anderson Bailey Bernard I Leman Courtney A Waters and Nicholas D Waters Andrew Allen Bernd Sehgal and Maureen Smith Craig Just Angad Chowdhry Betsy Mitchell Czeslaw Raginiak Anil Minocha Betty C Hanson Daniel J Oh and Lori L Oh Anirban Sharma Beverly Bachel Darshan Patel and Nisha Patel Anirudh Tadikonda Bhagwan Reddy and Preeti Reddy David Skidmore Anish Keshwani Bharat B Pant Deanna Steeg Anish Savani Bharath Radhakrishna and Shirley R Debmit Sarkar Anita Arora MD PC Bharath Deepa Ns Anita Keshwani Bharavi Kilaru Deepthi Bollineni MDPA Anitha Y Vyza Bhaskar Shankar Dennis Williams Inc Anju Bhardwaj Bhavya Annam Reddy Desh Garg Anju Vaid Bhinu Srikala Diane Rinehart Ankush Gulati
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46 47 Manish Mahajan Nipun Shah Rajesh Sodha Manish S Nathwani and Shriti M Nathwani Nisarg Desai Rajeswara Chalamalasetti Manju Gupta Niti Jay Rajiv Malhotra Manpreet Lakhan Nitin P Shirodkar and Suvarna Shirodkar Rakshak Sarda and Babita Sarda Maraa Oliver Sehgal Ram and Padma Chatrath Maria Steele and Patrick Steele Omar Khurshid Ghaffar Ram Maruri Marlene Mandel Omkar Gadewar Ram Vankina Marly Cornell and Ernie Feil Ospro Systems LLC Rama Devi Vallabhaneni Mary Jo Mente Pamela Swatkins Rama V Chauhan Mathews Nad Muralikrishna Parvathaneni Papu Dhawan Ramakrishnan Family Matthais Manz and Perette Manz-Hendrich Paras Jain Ramesh C Bhatheja and Sarita Bhatheja Meenakshi Dhanushkodi Parsha G Hobbs Ramesh Kapahi Meenal Badki Parul Bhaskar and Sudhir K Bhaskar Ranga Rao N Megan Lindmark Patrice Alessandra Rani Makkapati Merle Schukoske Patricia Grote Raosaheb Sawant Michael D McKinley and Paula H McKinley Patricia M Christiansen and John A Rashmi Gupta Michael Paradiso Christiansen Rashmin Savani Michael Tiemchaiyapum Patricia Zambryski Ratan and Karuna Ahuja Mike Blevins Patrik Hudson Ratwinder and Kanwaljit Gill Mike Khetarpal and Hersh Khetarpal Patsy Shors Ravi and Deepika Donepudi Mini Sinha Paul D Bishop and Susan K Bishop Ravi Devaguptapu MissKia Lor Paul Joseph Kirpes Ravi Komakula Modadugu Gupta Paul Schickler Ravi Vemulapalli and S Rani Makkapati Mohan Jha Pawini Khanna Ravinder K and Geeta Agarwal Mohan S Akella and Anupama Akella Peter Barrie Ray Vora Mohan Sunkavalli Philip K Gelbach and Deborah Louise Read-A-Thon Mohinder Singh Bhutani and Kuljeet Gelbach Reid and Val Jansonius Bhutani Pixley Linda and Mike Renuka and Dharmvir Bhatnagar Moinuddin H Haroon Pooja Murada Reshma Molly Miner Tatalovich and Joseph Pooja Ravi Reshma Badiani Tatalovich Pradeep Bhalla and Geeta Bhalla RGGN LLC Mona Patel Pradeep Singh and Anuradha Singh Richard Deming MD Mona Singh Pradeep Thapar and Seema Thapar Richard Hobbs Monika Rai Pranav Kanmadikar and Vaishali Patil Rie Sakamoto Monnica Shah Nandu Pranava Doctor Rita M Meyer Mridul Dhaniwala Pranay Varma Rob Schebel Munira M Patel and Paul S Chona Prasant Atluri Robert Denson and Patricia Denson Murali Dhar Gupta Prathima Moorthy trust Robert L Bender II Murali Krishna Parvathaneni Pratima Bahl Rohan Konan Muralidharan Ramchandran Praveen Bhola Rounak Singh Murugan Nambiar Praveen Prasad Roz Schneider Muthukrishnapandain Kamatchipillai Prerit Srivastava Ryan Saini Muthusami Kumaran Principal Financial Group S S Sethi and D D Mathur Nainesh Shah Priti Marwaha Sagar Dedhia Nallu S Reddy and Pooja N Reddy (from Pritiksha Desai Sahil Subhash LLC) Priyanka Gopathi Sailaja Manne Nandita Bedi Puneet Jain Saima Kamran Naresh Chintawar Puneet Mahajan Salim Chandani Naresh Sharma Punit Pallav Sally Pederson Natalie Hershberger Purushotham Namani Sami Kopparapu Nataliya Bazhenova Pushpa Manukonda and Vijay Medithi Sampath Yamasani Natasha Hausmann Pushpender Nath Jhingon Sandeep Gupta Neal Jhanji R P Chatrath Sangita Devan Neel Patel Rachna Jain and Naveen Kumar Jain Sangram Chavan Neeraja Kakade Radhakrishna Brahmarouthu and Praveen Sanjay and Vandana Srivastava Neerja Aggarwal DDS PC Brahmarouthu Sanjay Chatrath and Poonam Chatrath Neeru Chadha Raghu Kumar M V Sanjay Kumar Neha Singh Raghu Kv Sanjay Kumar Sah Nicholas Battles Rahul Sharma Sanjay Photography Nidhi Kapoor Rajagopal Koganti and Anupama Koganti Sanjeev and Rajshri Agarwal Nidhi Sharma Rajalakshmi Iyer Sanjeev Joshipura Nikhil Patel Rajat Sehgal Sanjita Roylance Nikki Jhanji Rajat Varma Santokh and Sandeep Walha Nikola Monterio Rajeev Nayar and Manju Nayar Santosh Nandagiri Nilam Engstrom Rajendra Sinha and Kay D Sinha Santosh Sabharwal Nilay Arun Rajesh K Khanna and Asha R Khanna Sapna Vadlamudi
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Saraju KSRA Sudhakar and Uma Salini Pochiraju Vidya S Taneja and Sudesh C Taneja Sarangapani Baruri and Neelima Baruri Sudhir G Deshmukh and Kalpana S Vijay Chava Sarat Sabharwal and Anita Sabharwal Deshmukh Vijay Puri Sarbpreet M Singh Sudka Bahtic Vijaya Egambaranadhan Sarita Jain Sukanya and Vijay Mahajan Vikram and Kavitha Shenoy Satbir Pinder Chohan Grewal Sukhpreet Preeti Bhutani Vinod Gupta Satish P Jain and Sushma Jain Sumathi Sivam Vinod K Arora and Kiran Arora Satya Chennupati and Neelima Chennupati Sumuk Anand Vinod Munipalli Satyabrata Das Sunandan Kapoor Virendar Miglani and Lalita Miglani Satyanarayana Talatam Sundar Lal Vishal Choudhary Saurabh Dua Sunpreet Tandon VJ Agarwal Saurabh Mittal Supria Sahni Water Management Forum Saurabh Sood Suraj Kothari and Vandana Kothari Wayne Huang Saurabh Srivastava Suren K Gupta and Vimlesh Gupta Wells Fargo Community Support Scott Sindelar and Jocelyn Sindelar Surender Roperia Wilfriede Van Assche Seema Paul Surendra P Agrawal and Vijaya Agrawal William H Woodward and Mary M Selina Liu Suresh Bhalla and Rita D Bhalla Woodward Selvi Ashok Suresh Gupta Woodridge Clinic LC Shahid M Hameed and Dr Saima Z Shahid Suresh Kumar Yasmeen Tandon Shailendra Prasad Sigdel Sureshbabu Shanmugam and Meenakshi Your Cause LLC (Donor - Sravan Shakti Rathore Dhanushkodi Mandumula) Shakuntala Advani (Praveen Prasad) Surya Boon Industries Your Cause LLC Trustee for Accenture LLP Shalini Prabha Suryaprakash Kopparapu Zeke Hausmann Shameda Saffee Suryasen Kundu Shantha RL Susan Judkins Gold Partners ($5,000 - 50,000) Shanti Shah Swati Narayan Alexander and Christine Niemeyer Sharath Aluri Sweta Gandhi Arun and Sarada Penukonda Shariq Alavi Systematic Investment Partners LLC Association of Boards of Certification Shashank Aurora and Swapna Aurora Ta RS BNY Mellon Wealth Management Shashi P Agarwal Tagore Mallineni Chander and Rumiko Mehra Shashikant Babra Takumi Izuno and Doris M Izuno Dhiraj Kanta Panda and Nirmala Panda Shekhar Singh Tanvi Bhavsar ERM Group Foundation Shelley Cranston Tara Lamb Frank W Babka Shibu Abraham Tara Travel and Tours LLC Godan and Savithry Nambudiripad Shipra Nagpal Ted Schierer Gopika Myneni and Nagendra Myneni Shivani Amin Terence Mathews James Berg and Susen Berg Shobha Sasalatti Thomas D and Rose Mary Hagemann Janet M Gage and Curtis G Gage Shreedhar Somisetty and Lavanya Tim D Blutt and Jeanne M Blutt Pravin Tandlay Somisetty TPG Companies Inc Rajat Jay Sehgal and Veena Sehgal Shridhara Bhat Tracy Wolfe Rakesh (Rick) Anand Shyamli and Ajit Kumar Trudy Holman Hurd Ram and Neena Gada Sitaram Jindal Uday Kumar Jha Raman, Loida and Alexandria Sehgal Site for Smiles and Smarts Inc Umesh Shetye and Shamini Shetye Ramiah and Lakshmi Krishnan Skasewasms Skasewasms United Way of Minneapolis Razak Dosani Somdatta Somdatta University of Florida Richard H Anderson and Susan K Anderson Sonny Sinha University of Hyderabad Robert L Norton and Pamela Norton Southwest Dental Center Ltd Usha Bhaskar Ryan J Clutter and Vicki D Sehgal Sravan Mandumula Usha Dewani Das Shaila Singh Sreehari Mogallapalli V Rao Chalasani and Purna Chalasani Sita Dash (India Association of Minnesota) Sreekanth Kamojjala Vaishali Dihenia Subhash Kshetrapal and Seema Kshetrapal Sreenivas Checka Vaishali Prahalad Sunil and Bharti Lalla Sridevi Anasthi Vani Shekhar Palli Tej and Karen Dhawan Srikrishna Bedbak Vanitha Singaram and Rajasundar Van or Prafulla Rana and Kaushal Rana Srikrishna Darbha Senthilnayagam Victor Ghysels Srikrishna Marupudi and Seshasree Varuna Sahni Vijay B Dixit and Rekha Dixit Marupudi Vasdev Sharma and Sudesh Sharma World Food Prize Foundation St Catherine University Vasudha Satsangi Yogesh Shah Steve and Diane Hammond Vatsala Menon Ved Kumari Steve Sherlock Platinum Partners ($50,000 +) Steven C Noah and Jane M Noah Ved Prakash Gupta Arun and Vijayalakshmi Maheshwari Subhash Kumar Rana Vedant Rathi Hytech International LLC Subira Educational Center LLC Venkat Prasad Jan Leemans Subrahmanyam Kayala Venkata S Yarlagadda and Shankaran, Vyoma and Aditi Nair Subrat Kumar Sahoo Kiranmai V Talasila Surinder and Edda Sehgal Sudeep K Gupta and Anushree Gupta Vicky Ahluwalia Sudesh Sharma Victor Alessandra
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SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
2019 • Emerson Cup for Phase II Green Building under IGBC Green New Buildings (Tenant Occupied) • Water Digest Award for Best Water NGO, Category. supported by UNESCO and the Ministry of Water • Guidestar India Gold Certification for maintaining Resources, Government of India, for providing high level of organizational accountability and rural drinking water solutions. good governance. • National Community Radio Award by Ministry of • Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Leader Award for Information and Broadcasting, GoI, to Alfaz-e- Outstanding Service in Agriculture for progress, Mewat FM 107.8. innovative solutions, and commitment to serving • NGO of the Year Award by UBS Forums at CSR communities through collaboration and hard work. Summit. • Bhamashah Award for improving school • CSR Implementing Partner Award by UBS Forums infrastructure in government schools of district at CSR Summit. Alwar, Rajasthan. • Winner Sandvik India Gender Awards, • Certificate of Appreciation for contribution Community radio Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 107.8. to Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan in • Aarohan Social Innovation Award finalist district Alwar, Rajasthan. for Sehgal Foundation’s rural drinking water technology, JalKalp water filter, by Infosys Foundation, Bangaluru, India. 2016 • 9th Global Agriculture Leadership Award by 2018 Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA). • International Book Award first place in the social • Bhamashah Award for improving school change category for Together We Empower: infrastructure in government schools of district Rekindling Hope in Rural India by Marly Cornell, Alwar, Rajasthan. published by Sehgal Foundation. • Certificate of recognition for Best Non • International Book Award first place in biography Governmental Organization Practices by district category for Seeds for Change: The Lives and administration, Gurugram, Haryana. Work of Suri and Edda Sehgal by Marly Cornell, • Bhamashah Award Certificate of recognition published by Sehgal Foundation. by village panchayat for renovation of village • National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) gold winner Bhandwara school, Alwar, Rajasthan. Together We Empower: Rekindling Hope in Rural India • International Impact Award, University of Iowa, to by Marly Cornell, published by Sehgal Foundation. Jay Sehgal, Sehgal Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa. • Certificate of Appreciation by District Administration, Alwar, at CSR Conclave for school renovation projects being supported by Mosaic 2017 Fertilizers India Pvt. Ltd. and Mosaic Company • FICCI Water Award, third prize for Innovation in Foundation. Water Technology for our innovation, Creating • Bhamashah Award by the Government of freshwater pockets in saline aquifers. Rajasthan for doing work in government schools of Alwar district.
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• The Ministry of Water Resources, Government Technology, Government of India, and USAID), of India, recognized Sehgal Foundation New Delhi, India, Millennium Alliance Award for Innovative practices of groundwater for Outstanding Work on Pressurized Recharge augmentation through rainwater harvesting and Wells for Creating Fresh Water Pockets in Saline artificial recharge. Ground Water Areas. • American Bazaar Philanthropy Award, Washington • National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) 9th DC, to Dr. Suri Sehgal. Annual Indie Awards first place winner in biography for Seeds for Change: The Lives and Work of Suri and Edda Sehgal by Marly Cornell, 2015 published by Sehgal Foundation. • Best Learners Award, Namati Global Justice • World Women Leadership Congress & Awards, Prize, Special Category Winner for a project Mumbai, India, Women Leadership Award to that focuses on demand and supply or local Sehgal Foundation CEO Jane E. Schukoske. governance and justice. • Manthan Award Winner, Community Radio Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 107.8 for giving voice to Mewat 2013 community through community broadcasting. • Arcelormittal, New Delhi, India, Special Recognition for Women’s Empowerment to Kamlesh Sherawat, Block Facilitator, Taoru, Mewat 2014 District, Haryana, India. • Amity University, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India, • Arcelormittal, New Delhi, India, Special Woman Achiever award to Sehgal Foundation Recognition for Women’s Empowerment to CEO Jane Schukoske for her “Outstanding Devika Batra, Project Coordinator, Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Accomplishments and Contribution in the Social Sector.” • Arcelormittal, New Delhi, India, Special Recognition for Women’s Empowerment to Sehgal • Benjamin Franklin Awards silver award winner in Foundation Communications Director Pooja O. two categories, biography and multicultural, The Murada, for providing a grassroots platform for 27th Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards™ women to share their voices and document their sponsored by IBPA for Seeds for Change: The cases. Lives and Work of Suri and Edda Sehgal by Marly • Global Indian Karmaveer Puraskaar Lifetime Cornell, published by Sehgal Foundation. Achievement Award to Dr. Suri Sehgal, a Global • DNA & Stars of the Industry Group, Mumbai, Award for Social Justice and Citizen Action, from India, Innovative B-School Award in Education the Indian Confederation of NGOs (iCONGO), Leadership. New Delhi, India. • Felicitation certificate to Sehgal Foundation from • Manthan Award Asia Pacific Finalist, Community Chief Minister, Haryana, as one of the partners in Radio Alfaz-e-Mewat FM 107.8. Haryana Education Department event on Haryana • Indian Green Building Council, Platinum Shiksha Utsav, held at Bohra Kalan, Haryana, India. certification under Leadership in Energy and • Foreword Reviews Indie Fab Book of the Environmental Design (LEED) for Core & Shell, Year Award, silver award winner in biography, Phase II building, Gurgaon. sponsored by Foreword Reviews magazine, for • Rockefeller Foundation Top 100 Next Century Seeds for Change: The Lives and Work of Suri Innovators Awards Short List, Sehgal Foundation and Edda Sehgal by Marly Cornell, published by project, “Strengthening the Demand and Supply Sehgal Foundation. for Better Village Governance.” • ICRISAT Plaque of Appreciation and Thanks • FICCI Water Award, NGO Category First Prize, from Director General Dr. William Dar, 42nd New Delhi, India. Anniversary Celebration. • Water Management Forum, Institution • Midwest Book Awards first place winner of Engineers, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, in two categories, social science and cover Recognition for Outstanding Work in Water design, sponsored by Midwest Book Publishers Conservation. Association (MIPA), for Seeds for Change: The • Certificate of Appreciation from Haryana School Lives and Work of Suri and Edda Sehgal by Marly Education Department under Mukhya Mantri Cornell, published by Sehgal Foundation. Shiksha to Deeksha Yojana. • Millennium Alliance (FICCI), India, Technology Development Board, Department of Science of
50 51 2012 • Times Foundation and FICCI Women Achievers Award, New Delhi, India, to Sehgal Foundation • Bhaskar Foundation Jal Star Award, Dainik health specialist Shaheena Khatoon. Bhaskar Group, New Delhi, India. • Water Digest and UNESCO Best Water NGO Award, New Delhi, India. 2011 • Suri Sehgal Lake named by ICRISAT Patancheru for Dr. Sehgal’s contributions to water • American India Foundation, New York, USA, management in semi-arid regions. Leadership in Philanthropy Award to Dr. Suri Sehgal. • Department of Education, Haryana, India, Letter 2008 of Appreciation for participation in Dastak-e- • Mewat Development Agency, Haryana, India, Taalim Program. recognition as Premium Organization for • Indo-US Education Conclave and D. Y. Patil Undertaking Water Resource Management in University, Pune, Maharashtra, India, recognized Mewat. Sehgal Foundation CEO Jane Schukoske for her • Water Digest and UNESCO Best Water NGO “Significant Contribution to Indo-US Education Award, New Delhi, India. Cooperation.”
2010 2007 • Pinnacle NRI Award, NRI Institute, New Delhi, • CII Woman Exemplar Award to Kamlesh India. Sherawat, Block Facilitator, Taoru, Mewat District, Haryana, for her contribution in the field of • Rashtriya Samaj Gaurav Samman (Pride of Nation) education. award to Jay Sehgal. • Japanese Award for Most Innovative • Pride of India Gold Award, NRI Institute, Development Project (MIDP), Global Washington DC Chapter to Dr. Suri Sehgal. Development Network, Bogota, Columbia, Third Place for Good Governance Now model. 2006 • National Groundwater Augmentation Award, Government of India, Ministry of Water • Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Resources, New Delhi, India. (DSIR), Government of India, New Delhi, India, • Sehgal Foundation model project “Improving R&D Recognition for Crop Improvement. Sustainable Livelihood Security Using Proven • Institute of Directors, New Delhi, India, Golden Solutions to Land Degradation in Semiarid Peacock Award for Philanthropy in Emerging Regions of India” selected in top-30 most Economies, Finalist. innovative projects, at 2010 Global Conference • Samaj Gaurav Samman National Award, Manav on Agriculture, Food Security, and Climate Dharm Mission, New Delhi, India. Change, The Hague, Netherlands, organized by Dutch, Norwegian, and Ethiopian Awards and Recognitions governments, FAO (UN), and the 2005 World Bank. • Bharat Samman Excellence Award, NRI Institute, • U.S. Green Building Council, Platinum certification New Delhi, India, to Sehgal Foundation. under Leadership in Energy and Environmental • Bharat Samman Excellence Award, NRI Institute, Design (LEED) for New Construction, Phase I New Delhi, India, to Dr. Suri Sehgal. building, Gurgaon. • Centre for Development and Population • Water Digest and UNESCO Best Water NGO Activities Recognition to Better Life Options Award, New Delhi, India. Program for adolescent girls in India. • United Nations Economic and Social Council 2009 (ECOSOC) Special Consultative Status awarded to Sehgal Foundation. • Bharat Samman Lifetime Achievement Award, NRI Institute, New Delhi, India, to Dr. Suri Sehgal for promoting cultural, academic, and socioeconomic 2002 interests of Indian diasporas. • ICRISAT “Best Friend of ICRISAT” Trophy from • Information Integrity Coalition, USA, Award Director General Dr. William Dar. Finalist Excellence in Information Integrity.
52 FINANCIALS 1999 to March 31, 2019
ince 1999, Sehgal Foundation (USA) granted to S M Sehgal Foundation Rs. 1,441 million (equivalent to US$ 27.32 million). S M Sehgal Foundation also received funding from other Sorganizations amounting to Rs.581 million (equivalent to US$ 11 million).
Abridged Balance Sheet as Abridged Income & Expenditure Account on 31st March 2019 (Amount in '000) 1999 to March 31, 2019 (Amount in '000)
Particulars Current Year Particulars Current Year Amount (Rs.) Amount (Rs.) Income Assets Self Generated Income Fixed Assets 297,414 Rent, Interest and other receipts 454,289 Loans and 6,744 Grants Advances Indian Sources 282,128 Current Assets 191,557 International Sources 1,739,874 Tot al 2,476,291 Tot al 495,715 Expenditure Liabilities Program 1,456,880 Corpus Fund 1 Management* 287,170 Current liabilities 36,564 Others (Depreciation) 273,092 General Funds 459,150 Tot al 2,017,141 Tot al 495,715 Deficit/Surplus 459,150
OPERATING EXPENSES from 1999 to March 31, 2019 US$ 33.06 MILLION (Rs. 1,744 MILLION)* Avg. Exchange rate: Rs. 52.75 per US$ Building Maintenance 8%
General Administration Good Rural Governance 11% 20%
Crop Improvement 12% Water Management 23% Communications & Resource Mobilization 8%
Rural Research Agriculture Development 6% 12%
*Includes costs incurred on leased-out facilities.
52 53 FOUNDER TRUSTEES RAJAT JAY SEHGAL, executive vice president of Sehgal Foundation, former managing director of Hytech Seed India Private Limited, and former SURINDER (SURI) M. SEHGAL PhD, is cofounder managing trustee and executive director of S M and chairman of Board of Trustees of S M Sehgal Sehgal Foundation. Foundation and Sehgal Foundation in the USA; founder and chair of Hytech Seed, India; founder SUHAS P. WANI, PhD, advisor; Research Program of William L. Brown Center for Economic Botany at director, Asia Region, and director, ICRISAT the Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, Development Center, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, and emeritus trustee of the Garden. He served in India (www.icrisat.org). executive positions at Pioneer Hi-Bred International (now Corteva Agriscience), Plant Genetic Systems, Belgium (now owned by BASF); as founder, with his COUNCIL OF ADVISORS wife Edda, of Proagro Group, India; and founder and ANITA ROY, president, Doctor on Call Pvt. Ltd., New chair of Misr Hytech Seed, Egypt. Delhi and winner of President’s Medal for Meritorious EDDA G. SEHGAL is cofounder and trustee of S M Service (2005). Sehgal Foundation in India and Sehgal Foundation GENSUKE TOKORO, professor (special appointment) in the USA. She was educated at Hohenstaufen at the Institute of Innovation Research of Hitotsubashi Gymnasium, Goppingen, Germany. With her husband University, Japan (2008–2014); president and CEO of Suri, she cofounded and served actively on the board NAI Inc. and Kyoto Biopharmaceuticals Inc.; and board of Proagro Group in India and of Global Technologies member of Institute for the study of Panspermia and Incorporated, USA, from 1990 to 1998. Astroeconomics. JAN LEEMANS, PhD, member board of directors, Misr Hytech Seed International, Egypt; Solynta, Note: Read about the founders of Sehgal Foundation Wageningen, The Netherlands; and Agrosafve, Gent, in Seeds for Change: The Lives and Work of Suri and Belgium; former research director of Plant Genetic Edda Sehgal by Marly Cornell, available in print or Systems, Belgium. ebook on Amazon.com JANE E. SCHUKOSKE, BA, JD, LLM, development consultant based in USA; executive director of US- BOARD OF TRUSTEES India Educational Foundation; associate professor at University of Baltimore School of Law; former BEN SEHGAL, PhD, member of the board of directors Fulbright scholar in Sri Lanka; and former CEO of S M of Sehgal Foundation in the USA, and board member Sehgal Foundation (2011–16). of the William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. M. D. ASTHANA, multiple former positions in the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) in Haryana BHAMY SHENOY, PhD, activist with Mysore government and the Government of India; director of Grahakara Parishat, Pratham, and other NGOs. the Council for Social Development (January 2001– December 2004). GANESAN BALACHANDER, PhD, director, former director, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and RAMAN K. SEHGAL, MBA, managing director and the Environment, Bangalore, India, and member of a member of the Board of Directors of Misr Hytech Consortium Board of the Consultative Group on Seed International, Egypt; and a member of the Board International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). of Directors of Hytech Seed, India. S. K. VASAL, PhD, plant breeder and geneticist KAMAL BAWA, PhD, distinguished professor of from CIMMYT, World Food Prize laureate, and biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and recipient of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Award for founder/president of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Leadership in Agriculture. Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India. www.atree.org. TAKAFUMI MATSUI, PhD, professor emeritus, University of Tokyo, and director of the Planetary PUSHPA SUNDAR, author of Giving with a Thousand Exploration Research Center at Chiba Institute of Hands; 1963 batch Indian Administrative Service Technology. officer (resigned 1966); worked at Ford Foundation, Government of Gujarat, FICCI, and National Foundation for India; consulted for World Bank, “Power resides in the people, Asian Development Bank, Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation; and senior fellow of 1995 International they can use it at any time.” Fellows in Philanthropy Program, Johns Hopkins University. —M K Gandhi
54 OUR TEAM
RURAL DEVELOPMENT (GURUGRAM) Purushottam Goud, MSc, manager, Projects – Agriculture (South) Amba Mukherjee, MA, senior research associate, Research Ramesh Kapahi, MBA, chief financial officer Monitoring and Evaluation Richa Saxena, MSc, senior research associate, Research, Anjali Godyal, PGDip, director, Projects and Fundraising (North) Monitoring and Evaluation Anjali Makhija, MA, chief operating officer Salahuddin Saiphy, MSc, senior manager, Projects (South) Ankit Ojha, MA, assistant program leader, Strengthening Village- Sam Kapoor, MS, manager, Projects and Fundraising (South) Level Institutions Saurabh Sood, MA, social scientist, Development Research and Anvesha Ranjan, MSc, associate, Projects and Fundraising Policy Initiatives (North) Saurabh Srivastava, PGDip, program leader, Strengthening Village- Aparajeeta Vaibhav, MSc, assistant program leader, Adaptive Level Institutions Technologies-Water Shipra Baduni, MA, assistant program leader, Strengthening Village- Aparna Mahajan, MBA, director, Projects and Fundraising Level Institutions (South) Siprian Kiro, MBA, assistant manager, documentation Arti Manchanda Grover, MA, program leader, Communications Sonia Chopra, MA, program leader, Communications Bhawna Mangla, MSc, social scientist, Research, Monitoring and Subhransu Kumar Bebarta, PGDip, manager, Project Development Evaluation Susmita Guru, MPhil, senior social scientist, Research, Monitoring Chander Shekhar, MBA, senior manager, and Evaluation Finance & Accounts Vikas Jha, PGDip, PhD, director, Governance and Policy Advocacy Debika Goswami, MA, program leader, Vrindaa Sharma, MA, research associate, Development Governance and Policy Advocacy Research and Policy Initiatives Devika Batra, PGDip, manager, CSR and Fundraising (North) CONSULTANTS Gurpreet Singh, BCom, accountant Ellora Mubashir, Marly Cornell Hari Bhagwan Sharma, PhD, documentation consultant, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Harmanjeet Singh, PG Dip, program leader, Water and SUPPORT TEAM (GURUGRAM) Infrastructure Management Arjun Singh, Arvind Kumar, Jitender Kumar, Kuldeep Chand, Jagdish Prasad, BA, manager, Administration Laxman, Ram Bahadur, Ram Krishan, Shoorveer Singh, and Surender Singh Jincy Chacko, MA, communication associate Lalit Mohan Sharma, MTech, director, Adaptive Technologies- Water CROP IMPROVEMENT (HYDERABAD) Manoj Sharma, MBA, manager, Information Technology G P Shravan Kumar, BA, accounts and administration officer Meenakshi Mrinalini, PG Dip, officer, Human Resources Lakshman Gupta, MS, research associate N P Singh, MSc, program leader, Governance and Policy P Vani Sekhar, MSc, principal scientist Advocacy Navneet Narwal, MA, program leader, Governance and Policy SUPPORT TEAM (HYDERABAD) Advocacy C Venkatesh, K Chandrasekhar, Syed Ghouse, and V Raghu Neema Joshi, MSc, manager, Project Development Niti Saxena, MSc, director, Development Research and Policy FIELD TEAMS Initiatives Sehgal Foundation field teams work in the districts of Faridabad, Pankaj Gaur, MBA, manager, external reports and indirect taxes Kurukshetra, Gurugram, Nuh, Rewari, Mahendergarh, Palwal, Haryana; Pawan Kumar, MSc, director, Agricultural Development Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh; Alwar and Karauli, Jodhpur, Barmer, Pali, Pooja O Murada, MA, director, Communications Bharatpur, Rajasthan; Kolar district in Karnataka; Medchal district in Telangana; Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh; Aurangabad district Pradeep K Mehta, PhD, director, Research, Monitoring and in Maharashtra; and East Champaran, Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Evaluation Sitamarhi, Begusaria, Vaishali, Darbhanga, Bihar. Prateek Aggarwal, MA, research associate, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation * Team members are listed as of July 31, 2019
54 FIELD OFFICE RAJASTHAN S M SEHGAL FOUNDATION Alwar Office Community Radio Station and Mohalla Kala Kuan Plot No. 34, Sector 44, Training Center Near Saini Dharmshala Institutional Area, Gurugram, Kanaha Tower Village Ghaghas, Nagina block Haryana 122 003, India District Nuh, Haryana 122108 Main Road, Alwar, Rajasthan 301001 Tel: +91-124-474 4100 BIHAR Fax: +91-124-474 4123 Samastipur Email: [email protected] C/O Mr Gunendra Prasad Sinha PROJECT OFFICES Ward No. 10 S M Sehgal Foundation is a Near Dharampur High School HARYANA Post Dharampur public, charitable trust registered Nuh Block Samastipur in India since 1999. First Floor Samastipur, Bihar 848101 www.smsfoundation.org Yahuda Building Ward No. 8 Muzaffarpur Behind Bijli Ghar C/O Mr Shiv Chandra Near Maruti Apra Service Centre Brahmarsi Nagar, CROP IMPROVEMENT District Nuh, Haryana B B Ganj In front of Sewa Sadan RESEARCH Tauru Muzaffarpur, Bihar 842001 Village Goela Building 303, Room # 9-13, Post - Tauru KARNATAKA ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Tehsil - Tauru Kolar Telangana 502 324, India District Nuh, Haryana #1490, Kavalugiriyanhalli Village Tel: +91-40-3071 3312 Ferozepur Jhirka Tekal Hobali Fax: +91-40-3071 3044/75 Post office: Malur Taluk C/O Mr Atul Email: p.vanisekhar@ Kolar, Karnataka, 563137 G44 smsfoundation.org Ferozepur Jhirka, district Nuh Chikkaballapur Haryana C/O Smt R N Padmavathi Rewari Charakamattanahalli Village SEHGAL FOUNDATION C/O Mr Mahabir Prasad Thondebhavi Hobali Gowribidanur Taluk Khatawali Village 100 Court Ave, # 211, Des Moines, Chikkaballapur, Karnataka Rewari, Haryana, 122414 IA 50309-2256, USA Mahendragarh ANDHRA PRADESH Tel: +1-515-288 0010 C/O Ms Sulochana Yadav Anantpur Fax: +1-515-288 4501 Ground Floor C/O Mr D A Venkata Ramana Email: [email protected] Plot No 402, Sector 1 2-65, Brahmin Veedi Street, Narnaul, Haryana Chilamathur Sehgal Foundation USA is a Anantapuram, 501(c) (3) tax-exempt private Andhra Pradesh 515341 nonprofit established in 1998.
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