Grameen Foundation India is a social organization with the mission to enable low-income communities, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger. Inspired by the work of Nobel Laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and a global leader in the fight against poverty, Grameen has impacted over one million low-income households to reach their full potential by providing access to essential financial services and information on agriculture and health for over thirteen years. Grameen works across the domains of innovations in digital finance, agriculture and livelihoods, women's economic empowerment, and health and nutrition. Grameen's pioneering contributions that create a differentiation in the social impact ecosystem include:
- Inclusive Development: Working with the most vulnerable and low-income communities on enhancing their livelihoods & access to digital financial services, especially for women, smallholder farmers, and small and medium enterprises.
- Data, evidence, and insight for impact – Grameen's work is rooted in research-generated insights, with strong evaluation and evidence backed decision making. Grameen built the Poverty Probability Index Tool for getting deep socio-economic insights and related problems, and other internal tools like the Grameen Vulnerability Index to map vulnerability of low-income communities beyond socio-economic parameters, CARE (Credit Assessment and Review of Enterprises) Index to benchmark investment readiness and business performance of women-owned small businesses, and the farmer producer organization diagnostic tool to track the performance of farmer producer companies in India.
- Digital Platforms for Social Impact: Pioneered MIFOS, MOTECH, Grameen Mittra Connect app (Digital Financial Services platform), G-LEAP (learning platform), Grameen Kisan Connect (Agriculture platform for agri-input, agri-marketplace, and agri-advisory services).
Grameen aims to impact over 10 million households in the next five years through its work.