Transforming Rural India Foundation

Transforming Rural India Foundation (TRIF) is focused on designing solutions that work at scale to impact lives in the bottom 100,000 villages. It is deeply focused on challenges faced by marginalized communities and in particular of women in the poorest geographies of India. TRIF blends deep expertise of working with communities at the grassroots with deep knowledge of working with public systems for scaling-up working solutions. TRIF is one of the leading NGOs officially part of Government of India’s rural poverty alleviation and livelihood enhancement programs – Mission Antyodaya, TA-NRLM, NRLM-25 million Livelihoods, PTSP – Uttar Pradesh etc, - and other rural development programmes such as Transformation of Aspirational Districts (TADP) - LWE by Niti Aayog & MHA, SAGY by MoRD etc. In the above-mentioned States, TRIF teams are working at various levels in the government departments for impacting policy level dialogue. TRIF’s community footprint has enabled it to be the agency of choice for Global Defeat-NCD Partnership with United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and bring in innovative global programs such as Global Opportunity Youth Network to India. The organization has also been at the forefront of India’s COVID response, with a comprehensive response encompassing humanitarian relief, economic restoration, working with vulnerable segments (children, women) and returning migrants. TRIF was recognized by the World Economic Forum as amongst the top 50 Covid-19 last mile responders.