Nafisa Barot
Founder-memberFounder of Utthan
Nafisa Barot is the founder-member of Utthan (1981)[1], an Indian non-profit working on water & sanitation, women & children, rural & agriculture and livelihood from Ahmedabad.
Utthan
Utthan began in 1981 when four women started working in the Bhal region of Gujarat, helping marginalised communities self-organise around livelihood issues and build local leadership. It works on drinking-water security, sanitation, sustainable agriculture, natural resource management and disaster response, and helped form the community-based organisation Mahiti in 1994.
Utthan reports the following, on its own site:
- 120,000 households have been provided with clean drinking water through Utthan's water and sanitation work in Gujarat
- 12,200 women farmers have adopted sustainable farming practices with Utthan's support
- Gram Panchayat Development Plans worth INR 46 crore were submitted by communities Utthan supported between 2022 and 2024
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Ahmedabad
- Founded
- 1981
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “She is a founder-member of Utthan , an NGO based in Gujarat, India, that has a vast experience of mobilising women for better access to water.” — Utthan. Source
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