Manjari Corner
Manjari has partnered with Uttarakhand Gramin Bank for a Financial Literacy program in Pantnagar. Training session organized for SHG members at Dariba location on MGNREGA, labour rights and entitlement. Banda, Uttar Pradesh, where Manjari Foundation is actively working on water conservation, wins Best District award at 5th National Water Awards. Manjari signs MoU with GBPUAT, Pant Nagar to revolutionize livestock, agriculture, and allied sector-based livelihoods. Capacity-building workshop hosted on effective communication in finance & accounting.

Social Enterprises

Producer Organisations For Strengthening Livelihoods

We believe in collaborating with marginal women farmers across diverse regions to implement a comprehensive livelihood strategy. This approach encompasses mobilization, local resource assessment, skill enhancement, product development, pricing strategies, packaging, and facilitating market access. 

Our endeavors stem from recognizing the multifaceted challenges encountered by small-scale farmers and artisans, including low income, limited access to inputs, inadequate knowledge of modern techniques, and constrained market opportunities, hindering their progress and prosperity.

In today's era of burgeoning startups and digital innovation, there exists considerable potential for fostering entrepreneurship, particularly among rural youth and women. We offer a suite of services such as training, mentorship, networking, seed funding, financial linkages, and tailored support to empower youth for holistic development and entrepreneurial success. Some of our interventions include:

Katori

Women are one of the most powerful investments we can make in building a better future, Katori stands for “seed-to-katori” a platform that promotes women self help group’s, farmers, and artisans through providing a platform to hone new skills and linking them with the markets.

A key function under this initiative is to promote the brand as a premium, preserving and celebrating traditional practices and promoting sustainable farming, up scaling smallholdings, and improving rural livelihoods in Rajasthan & Uttarakhand.

Visit: https://katori.co.in/

Jhulki

Every stitch tells a story of tradition and craftsmanship at Jhulki. Our women artisans are toiling day and night to bring you the best of sustainable fashion.

Each product is a work of art. With a team of 200 women artisans we are weaving dreams on caps, bags, and more

From the heart of Jaipur, UP and MP, Jhulki brings you the finest in handwoven fashion.

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/Jhulki

GraamHaat

GraamHaat is a one-stop agri-tech platform for all livestock needs, powered by women Self-Help-Group members of rural Rajasthan. This app helps buyers to connect directly with our exclusive network of verified livestock farmer-preneurs from some of the remotest parts of India.

Visit: https://www.graamhaat.com

 

Mahsie

MaHSIE is the first innovation hub of its kind to be established in the aspirational district of Dholpur. Over time, we seek to create a vibrant ecosystem that nurtures ideas and innovations emerging from the grassroots and ushers in a new wave of entrepreneurship in India’s untapped hinterland.

We build capacities and nurture ideas, allowing the market to determine viability. We hand-hold entrepreneurs, offering tools, training, guidance and resources to bring ideas to action. We have an excellent grassroots network of 9000 + SHGs in 900+ villages in 4 states.

Visit: https://mahsie.org/

 

Production Cluster

Social enterprises that address social issues

We believe skill building and creating opportunities asan important aspect of empowerment. Opportunities can be created in villages and small towns through setup of local village enterprises. Agro-processing needs medium-level entrepreneurs to mobilize themselves into producer groups. It is difficult for small and marginal farmers to set up an agro-processing unit on their own. Most investors don’t want to go to small towns and remote rural areas because of poor infrastructure, transport, erratic electricity supply, and access to finance and market issues. So, there is a need for special efforts to promote investment in these areas. Given this context, promoting Producer Organisations can be an important intervention.

To improve the local economy, we need to improve rural entrepreneurs' access to the market and infrastructure support. They need access to storage, and transport. Most importantly, the need to organize themselves into farmer-producer groups so that they can access the market collectively. Getting the right information at the right time is critical in ensuring better prices for their produce.

The focus of our interventions has been on unleashing the potential of women through enterprises. We have promoted enterprise units where women are engaging in the production of spices, pulses, pickles, apparel, craft products, and the agriculture value chain as well. We achieve this by setting up robust farmer-producer institutions that have capital and risk-taking ability. There is a need to channel support from the government and philanthropic organizations to make our endeavoursustainable and scalable to a large section of the rural poor.

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'Manjari’ literally translates to “seed of Tulsi”, a sacred Indian plant. When women mobilise themselves to form institutions, they are empowered to sow their own ‘seeds of change’.