Partner of PACS

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INDCARE Trust (Integrated National Development Centre for Advancement Reforms and Education Trust)

INDCARE Trust, a national-level NGO, has been working for the uplift of underprivileged sections of urban and rural populations in India through various income-generation, women’s empowerment, health and educational programmes. Since 1989, INDCARE has benefited a number of communities through its awareness-generating activities and programmes using a rights-based approach.

INDCARE has substantial experience in the area of self-help groups. It has a strong presence in Delhi, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and, more recently, in Jammu and Kashmir.

The organisation has initiated several income-generation activities among women. Recently, it set up a midday meal kitchen employing SHG members from Delhi’s slums to provide meals to 60,000 children every day.


INDCARE Trust works for the empowerment of rural poor through a livelihood support programme in the Bundelkhand area. The programme targets poor women from 110 gram panchayats in Tikamgarh, Chattarpur and Lalitpur districts in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states.

INDCARE’s key objectives are:

Long term

To bring about visible, measurable, sustainable and progressive changes in the lives of women (and through them, their respective communities) in the target areas by enhancing their livelihood options through cooperative movements, using the self-help approach.

Short term

Designing and conducting MUDRA (Mainstreaming of Urban Poor Women in Design for Resource Assessment) in the target areas in order to assess the socio-economic profile and identify the human resources needed to adopt and promote the self-help approach.
Consolidating and strengthening NGO partner networks for the formulation and enhancement of SHGs.
Providing capacity-building support to NGOs and SHGs through networking and training programmes, in order to facilitate the promotion of group-based livelihood options, while focusing on gender, leadership and credit-line management.
Creating a people’s forum that can act as an advocacy pressure group for the issue of self-governance, among stakeholders, and to initiate people-centred development.

INDCARE’s activities include:

Formation of self-help groups.
Building networks.
Setting up multipurpose cooperatives.
Building the capacities of SHG members, cooperative members and partner agencies.

INDCARE works with the following network partners:
1 Chattarpur Mahila Jagriti Manch
2 Parhit Samaj Seva Sansthan
3 Sai Jyoti
4 Sumitra Samajik Kalyan Sansthan
5 Parmarth