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.
Establishment as support organization
Establishment as Implementation organization in Gujarat
States
States
Districts
Districts
Blocks
Blocks
Villages
Villages
Urban Wards
Urban Wards
Households
Households
Households from Marginalized Communities
Households from Marginalized Communities
Women Participants
Women Participants
Community Based Groups
Community Based Groups
CFT emphasizes better agricultural practices and market linkages by mobilizing farmers and forming Farmer Producer's Organisation (Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices)
CFT initiates small scale enterprises by promoting and strengthening People's Institutions including Women Groups