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RURAL

TRANSFORMATION

INTRODUCTION Highlights 2022-2023

Reliance Foundation aims to enable rural communities to be income secure, nutrition-sufficient,
climate-resilient and gender-just. It works towards these goals by addressing challenges and enhancing 2.7 Million+ 0.22 Million+ 56,538+
farm and off-farm livelihoods, with a focus on climate-resilience and women empowerment. Reliance
Foundation's approach leverages synergies with communities and people’s institutions, peer or partner persons reached fisher folk received critical people including 60% women
weather and fishing zone in SHGs supported to diversify
organisations and the government. information their income sources

Reliance Foundation’s Rural Transformation initiatives implemented by the RF-BIJ and RF-IS
programmes have rallied rural communities around tailored development action plans at household, 1,346 54,900+ 14,500+

village or district level; facilitated resources and enabled pathways to collectivization, access to
finance and markets; helped improve management and efficiency of resources, mainly water; villages engaged in water individuals provided access youth trained for jobs in
empowered communities with information to safeguard livelihoods and help address challenges, resources development to financial services the retail sector
reaching several million communities across rural India.