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with agility in helping rural communities support, aid to Migrants, deepening of local
tackle the imperatives brought forward by democracy, and livelihood interventions.
the pandemic. Our teams were at the at the Our engagement with the National Health
forefront of the COVID-19 response that Mission in Jharkhand for strengthening
ranged from providing relief, to ensuring health care systems has been instrumental
the continuity of services across health and in the prevention and management of
education, to re-establishing the economic COVID-19, as well as in the integration of
cycle and restoring livelihood public service delivery of Health &
opportunities. We were fortunate to garner Nutrition. TRIF is deepening its engagement
invaluable support from our donors, new with the State Health Mission through a
Chairperson's and existing, for the entire range of partnership on reducing the burden of
interventions. We are grateful for their
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD),
generosity and their belief in our ability to specifically cervical cancer, in the coming
Message deliver. With their assistance, we were also year. Further, as anchor partner to the
able to mobilize institutional resources to
Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN),
support our colleagues and their families a multi stakeholder initiative for the youth
during the difficult times of the pandemic. that was launched last year, we saw
We learned many lessons from the past significant engagement in the development
Dr. Sanjiv Phansalkar Dear Friends year. In the areas where we helped, our of the local eco-system for systematically
teams witnessed the rise of the community creating dignified and sustainable
As we reflect on the year that has gone by, we champions, and a growing wave of entrepreneurship and employment
move forward with gratitude and humility, empowered groups of women shouldering pathways for the Youth. As TRIF completed
guided by a clear strategic vision to deepen our non-household responsibilities and care five years since the India inception, we took
impact and reaffirm our purpose. I am pleased work during the pandemic. This affirmed time out to look back, reflect, and pivot as
For us at the Transforming to present our 5th annual report for your our belief that TRIF’s focus on we ‘look ahead’ at the developmental
Rural India Foundation, it was perusal. community-led, multi-thematic landscape in the coming years. We
a year of gratitude, and a engagement has created pathways for undertook a thorough Quinquennial Review
reckoning to move forward The year 2020 was like no other. The pandemic galvanizing action for a larger impact. The (QQR) and engaged our partners, staff,
impacted us all in unimaginable ways, and
with agility in helping rural exacerbated the inequities that exist in the processes and protocols developed as part development professionals, mentors, and
of these engagements have systematically
advisors for developing a point of view on
communities tackle the society. The vulnerable and the marginalized cultivated confidence, and nurtured the the strategic choices to be made, and
imperatives brought forward communities were struck the hardest, communities to take charge of their pivoted an emergent theory of change as
suffering not only loss of lives, but income and
by the pandemic. livelihood, while also facing the burden of development. The past year gave us a our response to navigate the changed
glimpse of the very foundation that was
landscape. In this year's report, we bring to
infrastructural deficits. The same year, created - atop the evolving context of you learnings from our programs, areas of
however, also saw the coming together of massive social mobilization of women synergies with the Government systems
citizens, communities, and organizations to under National Rural Livelihood Mission, and glimpses of the innovations launched
protect their own, and also going above and complemented by the growing leadership in the past year. We thank all those who
beyond to address the common challenges of the Panchayati Raj Institutions. During continue to stand by us, inspire us, and
facing the country. For us at the Transforming the year 2020-2021, we also expanded our help us in achieving this shared vision of
Rural India Foundation, it was a year of footprint through new programs. The transforming rural India.
gratitude, and a reckoning to move forward programs were spread across COVID-19

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