Sangeetha Purushothaman is the founder of Best Practices Foundation (1999)[1], an Indian non-profit working on livelihood, women & children and rural & agriculture from Bengaluru.
Best Practices Foundation
Best Practices Foundation is a Bangalore-based NGO founded in 1999 to improve the quality of life of poor and marginalised communities through participatory approaches, co-creating innovations that are pro-poor, inclusive and gender sensitive. Its livelihoods innovation MOVE, or Market Oriented Value Enhancement — an experiential, gamified 'desi-MBA' built for self-help groups and developed at its Dharwad innovation branch — won an award from the World Bank-ILO-YEN MarketPlace. It also works on research and documentation, alliances, advocacy and evaluations.
Best Practices Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- MOVE has been successfully tailored in the past to many vulnerable populations including quarry workers, beedi workers, MSMs, sexual minorities, slum youth and self-help group rural women totalling 365 successful businesses.
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 1999
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Founder and Director of BPF, has headed national and global research and evaluation projects related to innovative participatory methods with grassroots communities.” — Best Practices Foundation. Source
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