Cohesion Foundation Trust

cohesionfoundation@gmail.com

+91-79-27450171

Striving For Holistic Development

COHESION Foundation Trust was set up in 1996 by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals. The team equipped with the experience of different facets of development, started as a support body, providing professional services to other organizations. The support included services like community organization project finance & management services including planning, monitoring & evaluation designing & maintenance of Impact assessment and Management Information Systems research, capacity building, democratization of development process & empowerment advocacy works etc. As a strategic move in the year 2000-01, Cohesion initiated its implementation units, with a view to enrich the exchange of learning through support activities. The organization got formally registered in 2001 under Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950.

Latest Updates

We need experts to volunteer for following causes:

1. Support our women Self Help Groups for Market linkages in Mehsana district.

2. Support our women farmers for enhancing their livelihoods in Navsari district.

3. Support our children who are going in aanganwadis by linking our work with ICDS Department and other Government line departments at Gautambudhanagar, UttarPradesh.

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Vision

We see ourselves as an organization committed to striving for a World in which people and the natural environment are in harmony with each other, a World in which people, men and women, are in harmony with each other, a world in which all have enough to meet their genuine emotional and physical needs, and a world in which the diversity of humankind is celebrated.

Mission

Cohesion, guided by transparency and accountability, is committed to sustainable socio-economic development of the vulnerable in under-serviced areas with a special focus on women.

Awards & Recognition

1996

Establishment as support organization

2000

Establishment as Implementation organization in Gujarat

2001

Registered under Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950
Earthquake response work in 100+ villages in Gujarat

2002

Envisioning exercise for Mission and vision

2007

10 years Strategy Document (2007-17)

2011

Expansion to Chhattisgarh rural

2012

Expansion to Maharashtra

2015

Expansion to Chhattisgarh urban slums working for Domestic Workers and Transgenders
Sharpened its perspective building efforts to specifically address the challenges and issues faced by single women, prioritizing their empowerment and well-being.

2017

Strategy Document (2017-25)

2020

Expansion in Uttar Pradesh for Early Childcare and Development

2021

Extended COVID relief efforts to over 400 villages, reaching out to more than 45,000 households and administering over 133,034 vaccinations.

2022

Organizational focus evolved to support and uplift women farmers.
Established a presence within multiple national and international networks addressing pressing concerns like climate change, women empowerment and sustainable livelihoods.

Facts & Figures

3

States

3

States

11

Districts

11

Districts

17

Blocks

17

Blocks

248

Villages

248

Villages

33

Urban Wards

33

Urban Wards

59463

Households

59463

Households

85% +

Households from Marginalized Communities

85% +

Households from Marginalized Communities

75% +

Women Participants

75% +

Women Participants

525

Community Based Groups

525

Community Based Groups

Our Work in 2021-22

Annual Report 2021-22

CFT works for both Rural and Urban Poor

Economic Priorities

• Farm based livelihoods

CFT emphasizes better agricultural practices and market linkages by mobilizing farmers and forming Farmer Producer’s Organisation (Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices)
• Microfinance
• Non-farm based livelihoods

CFT initiates small scale enterprises by promoting and strengthening People’s Institutions including Women Groups

Social Sector Priorities

Besides Livelihoods promotion, CFT integrates other basic entitlements and services for poor and vulnerable families such as Education, Health, Decentralized Governance, Human Rights including Women rights, Tribal Rights, Child Rights, water and sanitation, Strengthening of Local Governance, Disaster Management and linking poor with mainstream i.e. Government Departments and their Schemes. Priority is given to Women and disadvantaged sections of society under all sectoral priorities.