About Us

JAYA Foundation was established in 2021 as a not-for-profit organisation registered under Society Act 1960. Jaya stand for female, the mother earth, all these words are confining with the single beautiful word Creator. Jaya Foundation is established to tribute to serve the Society, to save the earth, the female, the mother and human being. The Foundation aims to brings positive impact in life and livelihoods of targeted women. It works across all the categories of female of socio-economic strata: Women farmers, Women labour (both farm, Non-farm), Tribal, Single women. Jaya foundation does the activities and interventions with believe that to have happy and healthier society we need to save/protect the earth, the mother (she) and the women.

Jaya Foundation is carrying a crystal clear serving purpose. Its origin is based on a true incidence during COVID phase 2 in the year 2021. A volunteer “Jaya” working with UPPRO which is a state level federation of FPOs of small and marginal farmers lost her life due to COVID infection. In honour to fulfill the commitment and continuity of her work for small and marginal farmers specially the women and women farmer, UPPRO founded Jaya Foundation to works specially for overall empowerment of women covering health, education with special focused on employment generation in agriculture and allied sector.

Vision

Empowering the women across different socio-economic groups to achieve socio, economic, ecological equality and equity

Mission

The three year mission is to work with the female farmers for their socio-economic, ecological equality and equity

Achievements

1600

Digitisation of Women led Farmers Collectives

5

Strengthening of Women lead and managed FPO

230

Training of women on financial literacy and Business Literacy

46

Organising Disability camp to provide early detection of disability in Children

Reach & Presence

7 District

Uttar Pradesh

1 District

Madhya Pradesh

1 District

Jharkhand

Leadership

Mr. Lal Mani Tiwari

Holds Master in Master in Botany and PG Diploma in forestry from Sagar University. He has 25 years of experience in development sector work both at national and international level programme with government and social sector institutions as Regional Research Laboratory Bhopal (CSIR Lab 1996-98), IIFM Bhopal (1998-2001) and with BASIX Social Enterprise group (April 2002 to Mar 2021). He expertise in rural livelihoods, financial inclusion, management of rural enterprises, especially Farmer Producer Organizations and Economics with special emphasis on Community Institution Building. He is one of founding members of Jaya Foundation.

Prativa Sundarary

Masters in International development from Cornell University, Newyork and post graduate diploma in Rural Development from XIMB, Odisha. She has 16 years of experience in supporting livelihood activities for rural communities in India in the development sector –both in NGOs and in consulting agencies in managing projects in agricultural value chains, impact assessments and skill development the beneficiaries drawn from different institutions such as SHGs, Cooperatives and Farmer Producer Companies. She was the co-founder of Urvii Khadyam pvt.ltd. Currently, she continues as the founder director of Softskillz LLP that imparts softskills to graduate students.

Mr. Rajnikant Prasad

Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from XIMB having more than 20 years of work experience. Have worked with organizations like PRADAN, BASIX, IIM-A, Access Livelihoods, Bandhan, Grameen Foundation. Extensive experience in promotion and strengthening of around 200 FPOs in Uttar Pradesh. He has expertise and work experience in FPOs and Agri-value chain interventions, market led livelihood promotion, Community based institutions development (SHGs, FPOs), development microfinance etc.

News & Media

Testimonial

Rajendra pathak a teacher in a remote village of dubhai khurd block of rewa district , MP school see firsthand the lack of access to proper healthcare. The Jaya Foundation health camp brought much-needed medical attention to our community

The camp opened my eyes to the importance of gender equality and womens rights. hank you, Jaya Foundation, for giving me the wings to fly!"

Thanks to Jaya Foundation for introducing 4L concept ( Learning, Leadership, Legal and Livelihood ) ….this has brought wholestic development of women and Girls.