Vikas Sahyog Pratishthan

An Alliance of Social Justice & Sustainable Development

 

Vikas Sahyog Pratishthan (means Development Collaboration Foundation) is a voluntary organization working on livelihood and dignity issue of deprived communities especially dalits, nomadic tribes, destitute women and other resource less poor in rural areas of Maharashtra since 1990. This organization is constituted by 16 grassroots voluntary organizations working in various parts of Maharashtra. 

Reach out in various forms

• 19 Districts 
• 16 Member organizations, 32 CBO’S, 21 alliance partners in network 
• 15 Lac People associated

Interventions in Maharashtra in a Network Mode

1.   Demonstrating and educating farmers on nature farming as a sustainable livelihood.
2.   Promoting self-help groups and cooperatives for credit access and organizing entrepreneurial activities.
3.  Educating women and youth for their participation and transparency in local Panchayat raj.
4.  Undertaking awareness campaign on the issues related to human rights and asserting rights over livelihood resources such as land, water, forest and its conservation. 
5. Inculcate democratic values and skills within student and non-student youth for their development.
6. Relief and rehabilitation in the crisis of natural disaster such as recent floods in Konkan, or manmade crisis such as atrocities on deprived communities.
7. Capacity building of grassroots community leaders and organizations.

Legal Registration 

VSP is legally registered under Society Registration Act 1960, Mumbai Public Trust Act 1950, Regd. No. F/18691

Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976 No. 083780697, Registered - 80-G of Income Tax Act 1950.

VSP’s Vision & Mission Statement Vision of Vikas Sahyog Pratishthan is “a society based on equality, social justice and harmony with nature.” The mission of this collective is “to facilitate a process of social change with associated voluntary development organizations to create just and human societies that is sensitive to nature and gender”.

 

Organizations Governance and Leadership

VSP is a value based collective upholding the principles of transparency, accountability, participatory working and decentralized decision-making. VSP offers organizational and individual membership and through the invitation. As per the constitution members from the General Body that provides strategic direction and focus for the work. General Body elects Executive Body for its undertaking executive role. Executive body members are active in field process.  Currently there are 2 female and 5 male are the members of Executive body. They play conscious role in program management and also the governance process of the organization. We have an advisory board of the four persons. This Advisory board is also closely connected with the ongoing work of the organization. 

Professional strength 

VSP has appointed 13 full time professional that has strong experience of managing projects in a networking mode at a regional as well as a State level and 2 part time staff that represents 9 male and 6 female in the core staff team. There are 28 volunteers are associated in the field. And they also represent 20 male and 8 females.  Being this is a network organization we have experts available from the member organizations as consultants/ Resource persons. The organization has adequate capacities in terms of maintaining activity record, financial records. The systems are monitored at the level of management and governance. Over the years VSP has evolved basic transparent program and financial management systems.

 

Working on sustainable livelihood and dignity 

Since the inception of the organization VSP has been working and focusing its activities in a networking mode. The policy related matters were addressed through advocacy and alliances similarly the constructive experiments related to Nature Farming, Water Conservation, developing cooperatives, promoting role of women and youth in village governance, educating communities on rights over natural resources etc.