Jaipur Rugs Foundation
British Asian Trust
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Taabar provides children with safe spaces and emotional support to ensure rehabilitation and social reintegration. They do this through Bal Basera Temporary Shelter and Bal Basera Secondary Home.
For us, sustainable livelihoods embody all income generating activities with the people & the planet at the core of all operations. RRF aims to create sustainable end – to – end value chains for doorstep livelihood opportunities for the empowered women of Rajasthan. The foundation partnered with various organizations like Jaipur Rugs Foundation, Srijan, Arpan Seva Sansthan & British Asian India Foundation, in projects each to enable sustainable livelihoods for more than 3000 women.
Implementation Partner: Jaipur Rugs Foundation
Location: Manpura, Dhanota, & Tigiriya villages of Rajasthan
Duration: Oct 2023 – May 2023
Key Highlights:
The project aims to offer skill sets for sustainable livelihoods, particularly through rug weaving, benefiting illiterate and impoverished women, in remote rural areas. The traditional art of rug weaving is significant for poverty alleviation and skill development as it can be done from home, allowing for flexible hours and output-based payments while creating an end-to-end value chain for women ensuring access to livelihoods & employment.
Implementation Partner: Jaipur Rugs Foundation
Location: Aspura village of Rajasthan
Duration: Oct 2023 – May 2023
Objectives: Facilitate transition of women rug weavers to rug designers
Key Highlights:
In collaboration with the Jaipur Rugs Foundation, we have established a unique first of it’s design lab in Aspura, where grassroots women designers can collaborate and acquire the skills to design and craft exquisite, innovative hand-knotted rugs. This initiative has enabled women rug weavers to transition into rug designers, achieved through a series of workshops led by industry experts that encouraged these women to expand their creative horizons.
Implementation Partner: British Asian India Foundation
Location: Jaipur city
Duration: February 2022 – June 2023
Objective: To transform the lives of 400 women artisans, through emerging Producer Companies in neighbourhoods of Jaipur city.
Key Highlights:
At the heart of this partnership is the income augmentation of marginalised women through skill development & direct market linkages. Women in batches of 20-25 were trained 6 months in crafts such as embroidery, lac bangle making, creating products from fabric among other hard skills after which the women are linked to the already existing producer company.
Implementation Partner: Gram Chetna Kendra
Location: 15 villages of Sambhar region, Jaipur District, Rajasthan
Duration: 15th September 2021 to 15th September 2023
Objectives: To enable animal husbandry to become a source of secondary income for women to enable them to overcome any future economic crisis through resilience and sustainable solutions.
Key Highlights:
Animal husbandry is vital for rural women in Rajasthan as it provides them with economic opportunities, nutritional security, skill development, and a means to adapt to the region's unique environmental and socio-economic challenges.
Implementation Partner: SRIJAN
Location: 24 tribal Villages of Kotra block of District Udaipur in Rajasthan.
Duration: 1st December 2021 to 31st December 2022
Objective: Enhance the income and livelihood opportunities of tribal women by establishing & strengthening the value chain of non-timber forest produce (NTFP).
Key Highlights:
The project organizes women collectors into groups, who deposit their produce at community collection centers run by trained local women. These centers manage bookkeeping, weighing, sorting, and storage. The processed NTFP, which adds value and increases income, is then sent to the central unit. The project formalized NTFP collection and distribution, ensuring sustainability and fair wages. NTFPs are vital for economic stability, food security, culture, and the environment in rural Rajasthan, making support for sustainable resource utilization crucial.
Implementation Partner: Arpan Seva Sansthan
Location: Ugariyawas, Gudha Bairsal, Dhindha and Dhani Boraj Gram Panchayats of the Phulera and Maujamabad block of the Jaipur district
Duration: 1st December 2021 – 30th November 2022
Objectives:
Key Highlights:
The project identified 657 young girls in the age of 13-19 years and trained them in basic life skills. Among these girls, 100 were designated as Royal Champion girls and received advanced skill development training, which enabled them to secure a stable income. The project also incorporated a comprehensive module on adhering to COVID-appropriate behavior, encompassing best practices for dealing with pandemic situations and daily life. The remaining 400 girls participated in activities such as social audits and collective actions, including letter writing campaigns, among other initiatives.
