FSD partners with several community-led organizations in the Udaipur and Jodhpur regions to increase economic opportunity for underserved populations. These grassroots initiatives offer thousands of marginalized groups the training, financial resources, and job opportunities needed to rise out of poverty.

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Interns, volunteers, and donors work with FSD to provide support for programs that:

• Initiate and maintain of self-help groups that offer financial guidance and credit, promote savings, free members from unfair debt burdens, and create collective action opportunities that minimize exploitation of women and other marginalized groups.
• Offer skills training and capacity-building workshops to increase economic independence, empowerment, and local employability of women and other underserved groups.
• Develop small businesses that produce saleable goods, such as traditional handicrafts.
• Consult start-up microfinance programs that struggle with operational, financial, or institutional sustainability.
• Provide entrepreneurial skills training to conduct feasibility studies, perform cost/benefit analyses, write business plans, acquire financing, and initiate start-ups.
• Research and analyze numerous topics that include local economic conditions, migration patterns, obstructions to economic growth, and efficacy of microfinance programs.
• Increase the productivity and distribution of local farmers' goods, while providing drought relief to vulnerable families.
• Expand and increase exposure of microfinance programs to outlying villages.
• Offer marketing, distribution, pricing, and management training to local microenterprises.

Read more about Microfinance programs and opportunities initiated by our Community Partners in India.

For a description of the opportunities available in each development subject addressed by FSD in India, click on the links below:

Microfinance • Environment • Health • Youth and Education
Women's Empowerment • Community Development • Human Rights

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