BRLF promotes a healthy working environment where everyone is encouraged to work freely and transparently. The Foundation is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to opportunities regardless of their race, caste, colour, nationality, religion, ethnicity, disability, or gender. We encourage people from vulnerable and marginalised sections of society to work with us. We aim to ensure that the people we work with are valued for their contributions and have the opportunity to realise their full potential in the organisation.
The main objective of the program is to increase the reach of government welfare schemes and to address challenges in sectors such as education, health, nutrition and innovation in tribal areas, in order to ensure an integrated and focused approach to the socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes population in a coordinated and planned manner. Keeping in mind our core competence in the field of CSO facilitation and screening, MoTA has appointed BRLF to carry out a rigorous screening process for shortlisting proposals from different parts of the country on various themes such as education, health and innovation.
Core Professionals: Engaged usually for a three-year contract period, and their performance is reviewed annually.
Professionals: complementing the Core (No Cost Staff of BRLF)
Representatives from Donors, UN agencies and other organisations
Pro bono Staff consisting of professionals who would be supported by office space and logistics support, travel costs and other related support appropriately.
Consultants: Retainer Consultants (RC) would be professionals who work part-time.
Assignment based Consultants (short term)
Interns: Interns (would-be learners) who turn in for some task delivery and BRLF support their actual costs and provide a stipend to meet the living costs.
The Research and Knowledge Vertical of BRLF received grant support from the Statistics and Documents Division of the MoTA to conduct an evaluation study of the scheme. Under this grant, we will explore the processes of the scheme and its impact on the state, VOs/NGOs and community capacities for addressing the health and educational needs of the Scheduled Tribes.
BRLF achieves its key outcomes through strategic engagement with CSOs. We engage actively with CSOs to reduce gaps in program outlays and outcomes through strengthening of democratic institutions of governance at the grassroots, improving quality of implementation of programmes, and scaling up successful models of interventions.
CSOs often struggle to find sufficient and long-term support for significant budget components like HR and operations which directly influence the efficiency and impact the quality of livelihood interventions. Our grant support and capacity building initiatives are geared to help them find opportunities to scale and integrate with large-scale government interventions.
BRLF also enables institutional partnerships between CSOs and state governments to help them leverage programmatic resources available for national and state level programmes and schemes for rural development and livelihoods.
As of March 2021, BRLF has committed R. 113.39 Cr (USD) toward CSO grants. Partners have leveraged a cumulative total of INR.2035.01 Cr. (USD) from government schemes and raised co-finance of R. 354.75 Cr (USD) from multiple donors.