India • Workforce and Employment; Entrepreneurship; Cities and Urbanization
- Sector: Workforce and Employment; Entrepreneurship; Cities and Urbanization
- Headquarters Country: India
- Operating Regions: India,south Asia,africa
- Founders: Rajendra joshi
- Problem Identified: Rajendra Joshi saw the need to provide basic public services in the face of government failures.
- Solution Offered: market-based approach can successfully generate socio-economic wealth for slum populations while creating market opportunities at the base of the pyramid for companies. Its Integrated Slum Development (ISD) approach offers an array of services across healthcare, education, livelihood development, microfinance, infrastructure and information
- Social Impact: these programmes impact 14,000 households annually. Since the 1990s, Saath’s Slum Networking Programme has brought slum residents, utility companies and the Gujarat government together to provide water, electricity and road infrastructure to over 6,000 households on a fee-paying basis. Saath’s livelihood programmes with employers have placed 25,000 youths and housewives into formal sector employment, and are complemented by its growing microfinance practice. Saath has also expanded these services to rural Gujarat along with its natural resource management programmes, impacting over 7,000 households.
- Awards: Ashoka award,social enterprise award india
- Website: http://www.saath.org/
- Score: 7 Spice production cooperative
