Pioneering digital public goods, sustainable livelihoods, and female financial agency across 22 Indian states since 2010.
Grameen Foundation stands at the forefront of the financial inclusion movement, serving as a global leader in this field. With a focus on the most marginalized communities, particularly women, our organization strives to enhance access to finance, sustainable livelihoods, and health and nutrition worldwide. Leveraging the potential of digital technology, Grameen Foundation connects impoverished individuals to vital resources such as information, markets, capital, and skill development opportunities. By collaborating closely with banks, financial institutions, farmers’ organizations, and agribusinesses, we empower people to build assets, navigate crises, mitigate risks, and cultivate resilience.
Over the past decade, Grameen Foundation India has experienced remarkable growth, bolstering its efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger, particularly among women. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, our focus has been on expanding our endeavors in women’s economic empowerment, deepening our impact in agriculture and livelihoods, and fostering innovation through various initiatives.
To enable the poor, especially women, to create a world free from poverty and hunger by engineering accessible digital financial systems, climate-resilient agriculture, and scalable women-led enterprise ecosystems.
A world where every rural woman is equipped with the knowledge, technological tools, and financial resources to transform her own life, protect her family from climate shocks, and lead her community toward generational prosperity.
The ethical anchors and behavioral commitments guiding our team, field workers, and institutional partnerships.
To respect individual human rights and privacy, eliminating all kinds of discrimination across every community we serve.
To demonstrate ethical principles and cultivate an open, trustworthy, and honest work environment for all stakeholders.
To promote the ability to listen deeply and understand others' perspectives, circumstances, and grassroots challenges.
To strive relentlessly for the highest standards in the execution of our programs, services, and sustainable social impact.
In 1998, Grameen Foundation began working in India, and in 2010, it established Grameen Foundation India. While continuing to innovate in the field of microfinance, Grameen Foundation also developed digital technologies to help rural and low-income communities access financial services, improve their livelihoods, and safeguard their health.
The organization is constantly making breakthroughs, developing tailored poverty-alleviation solutions that leverage digital technology and trusted intermediaries to reach those in the “last mile.”
Our integrated model ensures women gain financial power, agronomic resilience, and decision-making agency.
Deploying female Business Correspondents (BC Sakhis), micro-ATMs, and biometric AEPS services to bring banking to doorstep thresholds.
Strengthening 100+ Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) with weather forecasts, regenerative farming, and direct market offtake.
Incubating 75,000+ female nano-entrepreneurs through customized business tools, financial scoring, and gender dialogues.
Equipping families with preventative health literacy, micro-health insurance plans, and nutritional resilience tools.
Guided by veteran practitioners, institutional governance leaders, and passionate field specialists.
Governance
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2006), founder of Grameen Bank, and visionary architect of the 3-Zero World (Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, Zero Net Carbon emissions).
Governance
Young Global Leader (WEF), pioneer of inclusive product design and social business models empowering women across Africa and Asia.
Governance
Former Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) and veteran public policy and rural livelihoods scholar.
Senior Lead
Over 25 years of cross-sector leadership in microfinance institution building, inclusive digital payments, and institutional partnerships.
Senior Lead
Expert in rural fintech architecture, digital micro-ATMs, BC Sakhi agent management frameworks, and banking correspondent operations.
Senior Lead
Leading gender transformative methodologies, women-led nano-enterprise incubation, and grassroots empowerment research across 12 states.
Team
Spearheading climate-resilient crop advisories, market linkages, and institutional capacity building for 100+ Farmer Producer Organizations.
Team
Overseeing on-ground field facilitation, training modules, and cash liquidity coordination for 15,000+ certified women business correspondents.
Team
Economist specializing in randomized control evaluation, socioeconomic baseline diagnostics, and data-driven program reporting.
Team
Architecting resilient digital platforms, micro-services, and mobile applications deployed across rural low-bandwidth ecosystems.
GFI's annual national dialogue uniting senior policymakers from the Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Rural Development, multilateral donors, and commercial banks to champion SAFE (Safety, Agency, Financial Inclusion & Enterprise) for rural women.
Whether you are a donor, corporate CSR fund, banking institution, or researcher, we invite you to collaborate on our national missions.
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