TRIFED joins hands with The LINK Fund for tribal development
- Recently, the TRIFED and The LINK Fund have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for tribal development.
Key Highlights
- The MoU is aimed at employment generation by providing support to tribals for increasing value addition in their produce and
- It has called for sustainable livelihoods and value addition for increase in income and employment generation through technological intervention for efficiency in value addition for
- Both the organizations will also work together to creating women-centered infrastructure and innovation and
- The LINK Fund is excited to commence the intervention working in close coordination with TRIFED’s leadership team and to draw out Detailed Project Implementation Plan, Estimate budgetary estimates for impactful interventions and to mobilize funds
- The aim of MoU is to pooling strengths together and undertakes work that will help in boosting the income and livelihoods of the tribal people.
What is The Link Fund?
- It is a practitioner-led fund headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland.
- It works to end extreme poverty and mitigate the effects of climate
- It bridges the gap between the financial and philanthropic worlds, providing an optimal solution both to funding and implementing integrated development
- The Fund addresses basic human needs – food and nutrition security, education, women’s economic empowerment and large-scale
What is TRIFED?
- The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) came into existence in
- It is a national-level apex organization functioning under the administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
- The ultimate objective of TRIFED is socio-economic development of tribal people in the country by way of marketing development of the tribal products on which the lives of tribals depends