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Initiative highlights across RIF's four pillars.

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Peacebuilding

RISE PECOWorld Summit / RISE World Summit

A convening platform for purpose-led leaders, institutions and community ecosystems.

Highlights

  • A flagship convening platform for purpose-led institutions and ecosystem actors.
  • Designed to support exchange, partnership and responsible collective action.

2024-2025 | Global / hybrid

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Humanitarian Aid

COVID Response and Maha PECOnet

Relief and coordination efforts supporting communities facing urgent need, migrants and frontline systems during COVID.

Highlights

  • Connected relief work with partner-led community support.
  • Linked to public reports and response documentation.

2020-2022 | Maharashtra, India

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Community Development

Dhan Gyan

A financial awareness and outreach initiative for young people and communities.

India

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Community Development

Micronutrition Enhancement Pilot

A food-based Aanganwadi nutrition pilot in Narmadapuram district using fresh vegetables, seeds and local community engagement.

Highlights

  • Focuses on locally available nutrition solutions.
  • Works through Aanganwadi centres, SHGs, parents and community systems.

2024-2025 | Narmadapuram District, Madhya Pradesh

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Community Development

Accesslife Employment Engagement Activity

A partner engagement activity connected to employment, volunteering and youth support.

India

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Community Development

MLWB Skill Development Program

A Maharashtra youth skilling programme with UNICEF, YuWaah and Maharashtra Labour Welfare Board, focused on employment and entrepreneurship pathways.

Highlights

  • Connects post-COVID recovery with youth employment pathways.
  • Works through institutional partnerships and worker-family networks.

2022-2023 | Maharashtra

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Community Development

Women Entrepreneurs, SHGs and Market Access

A long-running livelihood stream supporting women entrepreneurs and self-help groups through exhibitions, mentoring, training and market access.

Highlights

  • Connected women entrepreneurs and SHGs to corporate spaces and mentoring pathways.
  • Supported practical skills including packaging, hygiene, time management and market readiness.

2014-2020 | Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Peacebuilding

Story of a Saree

A dignity-focused initiative that collected and distributed heritage sarees to women and communities facing exclusion.

Highlights

  • Turned household giving into a dignity-building community initiative.
  • Linked practical assistance with psychosocial wellbeing and inclusion.

2017-2022 | Maharashtra, India

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Humanitarian Aid

Health, Disability Inclusion and Critical Care Awareness

Health and inclusion activities spanning camps, disability confidence-building, hospital process awareness and community medical assistance.

Highlights

  • Combined direct assistance with awareness and confidence-building.
  • Connected inclusion, health and resilience across multiple activity years.

2015-2019 | Mumbai, Delhi

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Climate Action

Environment, Climate Action and Youth Green Initiatives

Environmental action and youth programs around seed balls, tree plantation, waste, solar energy, water and sustainable living.

Highlights

  • Connected youth, volunteers and partners to local sustainability action.
  • Embedded ecosystem-friendly action inside broader community development work.

2015-2025 | Maharashtra, India

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Community Development

Skill Survey / Rozgaar Report Release

Livelihood and employment insight work connected to skills, opportunity and public discussion.

India

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Peacebuilding

Game of Life

A reflective learning experience that helps students, communities and workplace groups explore choices, resources, sustainability and collective responsibility.

Highlights

  • Creates accessible spaces for reflection and dialogue.
  • Connects everyday choices with sustainability and shared responsibility.

2024-2026 | India

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Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Roundtables

Dialogue spaces that bring youth leaders, educators, practitioners and civil-society actors together around Everyday Peace.

Highlights

  • Focused on peace at personal, community and systemic levels.
  • Positioned young people as active peace ambassadors.

2023 | Online, India

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Peacebuilding

International Yoga Day 2024

An employee volunteering and community wellness initiative linking workplace engagement with school communities and holistic wellbeing.

Highlights

  • Connected employees with school communities.
  • Promoted holistic wellbeing through accessible yoga sessions.

2024 | Multiple cities

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Peacebuilding

RISE Club

A student leadership initiative that helps teachers and students work on real-world challenges through Responsible, Inclusive, Sustainable and Eco-system Friendly values.

Highlights

  • Nurtures student leadership through practical challenges.
  • Links classroom action with wider community change.

2024-2025 | Schools

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Humanitarian Aid

Women Micro-Entrepreneur Support

Targeted post-COVID livelihood support for women micro-entrepreneurs from low-income communities.

Highlights

  • Focused on existing businesses rather than one-time relief alone.
  • Used direct bank transfers and follow-up to support transparency.

2022 | Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Humanitarian Aid

Appapada Fire Relief

A rapid, coordinated response supporting families affected by the Appapada fire in Malad through assessment, relief and psychosocial support.

Highlights

  • Activated a joint relief group for coordinated, non-duplicative response.
  • Linked immediate relief with community-led recovery.

2023 | Appapada, Malad, Mumbai

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Humanitarian Aid

Jeevan Rath: Relief on Wheels

A rapid humanitarian response with UNICEF Maharashtra and the Maha C19 PECOnet coalition, supporting stranded migrants and communities facing urgent need during COVID-19.

Highlights

  • Responded within 48 hours of the migrant crisis launch window described in the source register.
  • Connected emergency aid with structured coordination and recovery support.

2020-2021 | Maharashtra

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Humanitarian Aid

MahaPECOnet and Co-MARG

A statewide humanitarian coordination and recovery platform strengthening COVID response, disaster risk reduction and rural outreach across Maharashtra.

Highlights

  • Strengthened statewide humanitarian coordination.
  • Integrated rural outreach, public health messaging and recovery support.

2021-2022 | Maharashtra

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Climate Action

MahaPECOnet DRR Coordination

A multi-stakeholder Disaster Risk Reduction platform bringing government, NGOs and humanitarian partners together for preparedness and resilience.

Highlights

  • Created practical spaces for preparedness, coordination and knowledge exchange.
  • Connected DRR, climate resilience and community-led response planning.

2023-2024 | Maharashtra

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Community Development

Road Safety for Children and Adolescents

A Pune district initiative with UNICEF and CEE to improve road safety awareness, planning and safe systems for young people.

Highlights

  • Focused on safer roads, safer users, safer vehicles and stronger emergency response.
  • Connected road safety with adolescent wellbeing and local planning.

2023 | Pune, Maharashtra

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Community Development

AstraZeneca Bridging Market Access

A women entrepreneurship programme strengthening market readiness, mentorship and corporate procurement access.

Highlights

  • Improved market readiness and procurement preparedness for participating entrepreneurs.
  • Linked mentorship with corporate supply-chain opportunity.

2024 | Bengaluru, Chennai

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Community Development

IMPAct4Nutrition Ecosystem Study

An ecosystem mapping study supporting private-sector engagement, CSR investment and convergence around nutrition outcomes.

Highlights

  • Supported evidence for strategic CSR engagement in nutrition.
  • Focused on convergent ecosystems rather than isolated interventions.

2023-2024 | Narmadapuram, Khandwa

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Community Development

PwD Entrepreneurship Incubation

An incubation programme helping entrepreneurs with disabilities strengthen capacity, market access and enterprise confidence.

Highlights

  • Combined training, mentoring, business strategy and digital marketing support.
  • Focused on practical enterprise growth for entrepreneurs at different stages.

2024-2025 | Pan India, Virtual

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Climate Action

Tata Mumbai Marathon 2026

A public engagement effort using the marathon platform to advance Everyday Peace, resilience and community action.

Highlights

  • Connected fitness, resilience and public-purpose participation.
  • Positioned Everyday Peace as an action people can carry into daily life.

2026 | Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Climate Action

Glenmark Joy of Giving Climate Engagement

An employee engagement activity combining seed balls, microgreens, nutrition kits and a nature trail with tribal women, adolescent girls and children.

Highlights

  • Connected environmental action with nutrition awareness.
  • Created a structured volunteering experience rooted in community participation.

2022 | Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai

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