India Fund

The India Fund centres around funding small NGOs working with the most vulnerable communities in priority geographical areas of India. The fund believes that communities must be central to the work partners undertake and should place people facing disadvantage in India at the heart of leading change and designing solutions to overcome inequality. The strategic aims include encouraging NGOs to take on community-centric development programmes, enabling communities to take charge of their own development and improve their lives, encouraging development funding to address systemic change, and enhancing the capacity of organisations and people who facilitate these aims. The fund operates at two levels: micro-level funding for small to medium NGOs with direct implementation roles with communities (70-80% of funding), and meso/macro-level funding for larger organisations that can consolidate learning and advocate for policy change (10-15% of funding). Organizations must be local Indian NGOs with FCRA registration working in specified priority states and regions.