TRIFED joins hands with The LINK Fund

TRIFED has entered into a collaborative project titled ‘Sustainable Livelihoods For Tribal Households in India’ with The LINK Fund, a philanthropic operational foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, which is mandated to implement and scale and business solutions to extreme poverty and climate change.

TRIFED and The LINK Fund have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recently to work together towards Tribal Development and employment generation by providing support to tribals for increasing value addition in their produce and products; Sustainable livelihoods and value addition for increase in income and employment generation through technological intervention for efficiency in value addition for MFPS, produce and crafts diversification, skill training and enhancement of value additions in minor forest produce.

The MOU was signed by Pravir Krishna, Managing Director TRIFED, and Tony Kalm, CEO and Co-founder, The LINK Fund and was attended by senior officials of TRIFED and The LINK Fund.

As a part of this association, both the organisations will also work together to creating women-centered infrastructure and innovation and entrepreneurship. The LINK Fund (TLS) is a practitioner-led fund that ends extreme poverty and mitigates the effects of climate change. TLF has its major offices in Washington, DC, USA and Geneva, Switzerland.