About RAF Global

RAF Global is a private, non-denominational, not-for-profit international organisation committed to improving the quality of life primarily in selected countries across Africa and Asia. RAF Global has branches and affiliates in 6 countries. RAF Global works with the most marginalised individuals, families, and communities in the poorest areas of Asia and Africa to improve the Quality of Life by acting as a catalyst that brings together resources, technology, systems, and effective grassroots strategies, giving better choices and control to people for a lasting change. In pursuit of its mission, RAF Global endeavours to make long-term, strategic and systemic investments around the key sectors of health, nutrition, education, and sustainable livelihoods, along with advancing good governance at the sub-national level. For more information about RAF Global, please refer to our website www.rafglobal.org

Operational since 2015, RAF Global is registered in India under section 8 of the Indian Companies Act, 2013. With long term interventions in the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Jharkhand, it is reaching out to over 600,000 lives through multi-sectoral programmes. RAF Global presently implements a wide array of long-term and comprehensive projects in seven districts of the intervention states, across the sectors of livelihood, public health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education along with expanding the scale and scope of good governance.

RAF Global in India possesses rich and extensive experience of meaningfully engaging with both international aid agencies and the Government, across various levels.  In the past, RAF Global has collaborated with various state governments, INGOs, and CSOs in a plethora of projects aimed at driving social change and sustainable development through better convergence and optimal utilisation of resources demonstrating an effective and meaningful partnership for development.

Our interventions in India have laid strong emphasis on strengthening education and public health systems aimed at improving the quality of public services thereby influencing Quality of Life on a sustained basis for our primary target group. RAF Global is engaged in skilling the youths with a broad range of trade, and further ushers them to favourable linkages around finance and market, in order to augment and sustain their income. Capacity building of farmers and providing supportive mechanisms for enabling their shift to organic farming has been a growing area of our work. Besides, we work on rain water harvesting in the Thar desert region of Barmer for improving access to drinking water, as well as economic integration of women SHG collectives with banks and Government schemes for livelihood support in three states. With children, we work on Foundational Improvement Learning Programme to build a strong, age-appropriate base in language, numeracy, comprehension and creativity for elementary level children, endeavouring smooth transition to higher classes and addressing school dropout due to learning deficits.

Our Vision

A resilient society that is free from poverty and where every woman, man and child leads a fulfilling life with dignity, peace and security of rights.

Our Mission

RAF Global works with the most marginalised individuals, families and communities in the poorest areas of Asia and Africa to improve the quality of life by acting as a catalyst that brings together resources, technology, systems, and effective grassroots strategies, giving better choices and control to people for a lasting change.

Programme Areas

With the aim of improving the quality of life of the most marginalised and disadvantaged people in select geographies, RAF Global focuses on the following programme areas. 

• Economic Integration and Livelihood Support for Women and Youth (EILSWY)
• Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
• Health and Nutrition Initiative (HNI)
• Education and Technology Programme (ETP)
• Good Governance Programme (GGP)
• Humanitarian Response (HR)

Our core programme focus is on women, young people, children, the elderly, and small and marginal farmers.

• RAF Global is grounded in values that it strives to practice within the organisation, in its relation with the communities it works with, as well as in its partnerships. RAF Global is committed to the values of integrity and demonstrating accountability, faith in the power of people, equality, diversity, pro-poor consideration in decision-making and, the rights and responsibilities of all human beings.
• In India, RAF Global has significant outlays in Junagadh and Porbandar districts in the state of Gujarat towards strengthening the capacity of district hospitals and Community Health Centres with critical medical equipment and medical consumables, organising health camps, series of blood donation camps, providing nutritional supplement for anganwadi children, promoting community led water and sanitation practices and creating awareness on good menstrual hygiene practices among adolescent girls and women. Our work in Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Maharashtra similarly, have seen intensive and effective investments in the healthcare infrastructure for the benefit of local communities. 
• RAF Global has demonstrated strong commitment, matched with high resource allocation, towards improving the lives of leprosy patients in Jharkhand, the economically marginalised Muslim community in Gujarat, the socially marginalised Dalits in Rajasthan, and the tribal community in Jharkhand, aligning with our beliefs of helping the socially excluded & disadvantaged people. 
• RAF Global in India has an efficient project implementation process where maximum benefit reaches to the poorest, most vulnerable and most marginalised individuals, families and communities. RAF Global bears most of its human resources cost, at the level of senior management and technical heads.

RAF Global believes that partnership between INGOs and the private sector companies will co-create opportunities for the poor and marginalized sections of the society to have better access to goods, services, and livelihoods on fair and amicable terms. There is a direct motivation for businesses to get actively engaged with the communities. It not only makes business more inclusive but also creates effective means and channels to give back to society for creating a fair and equitable world that delivers high economic growth on a sustained basis. 

At RAF Global, we recognize the incredible power and scope of partnership with the private sector. By converging our mutual expertise, resources, passion, and focus through meaningful and futuristic partnership, we can bring lasting change in the quality of lives of poor and marginalized communities.