Schumacher Society Delhi

Schumacher Centre s mission is to touch lives in rural India by enhancing the livelihoods of the poor, deprived and marginalized. The Centre (SC) functions as a bridge to link India s rural poor with government, business and the civil sector, in an effort to improve their lives. , Our work focuses on the entire value chain when addressing livelihood such that the continuum of Production Technology Market is taken into account. Markets must work for the poor and inversely, the rural poor must come to the market in a socially and environmentally coherent manner. As such, a tri sector approach is needed: the government sector for legal support, civil society as facilitators and social mobilisers, and the private sector for technology, finance and market. If any of the links in the chain is missing, the livelihood prospect is diminished. , , Most development organizations look at either of the three, not the whole chain because it calls for a developmental approach which ought to lead to self-empowerment and entrepreneurship. There are attempts being made but few replicable models presently exist. SC has spent the last few years working on livelihood from multiple angles in order to best understand how to intercede efficiently. This holistic approach allows us to on those projects where we can bring value addition to those in the villages. , , The Centres achievement is the collaborative developmental activities that it completed with various national and International organisations and experts.