S M Sehgal Foundation (Sehgal Foundation) is a public, charitable trust registered in India since 1999. Their mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve positive social, economic, and environmental change across rural India. They envision every person across rural India empowered to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.

Sehgal Foundation has a skilled and dedicated team that creates sustainable programs to address rural India’s most pressing needs. Sehgal Foundation has five main program areas: Water Management, Agriculture Development, Local Participation and Sustainability, Transform Lives one school at a time, and Outreach for Development. These programs are supported by a skilled research team that engages in participatory research, impact assessment, and interactive dialogues to determine informed actions to achieve sustainable results.

Partnerships:

Sehgal Foundation engages in strategic partnerships to build strong synergies and collaborate with organizations that help make a greater impact in the lives of rural people. Sehgal Foundation continues to strengthen its knowledge base and expand village interventions by working with government, non-profits, academia, and corporate organizations.

With support from donors and partners around the world, Sehgal Foundation's grassroots programs and development interventions have already reached 2.5 million people across India, empowering individuals and communities in need to escalate and enhance their own development

Want to partner with them, write to partnerships@smsfoundation.org

The Foundation works with the following objectives:

• Empower villagers, especially women and build capacities of village level institutions to play a leading role in village development.
• Increase crop yields and improve soil fertility by training marginal and smallholder farmers on improved agricultural practices
• Mitigate water scarcity and water-related health concerns by applying appropriate technologies to sustain local water supplies for household and agricultural purposes
• Maximize impact of poverty alleviation initiatives for rural communities through using participatory research and impact assessment.