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A national capacity building programme, Empowering Grassroots is aimed at handholding, training and enabling community based organisations (CBOs) to maximise their impact on the ground. Under ‘Empowering Grassroots’ initiative, CBOs are trained on vital issues relevant to the development sector in the country like scalability, sustainability, communication, resource mobilisation and governance by industry experts from reputed Indian and international organisations. Handholding meetings and face to face learning sessions are held round the year to help the CBOs effectively resolve their day to day operational challenges, helping achieve the highest social return on investment (SROI).
Empowering Grassroots is not only an effort to strengthen the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid in India, but also an attempt to bring transparency and accountability in the workings of the development sector at the grassroots level. So far, Smile Foundation has built the capacities of more than 5000 grassroots development organizations under the initiative
Built on Smile Foundation’s 20 years of extensive experience working with the grassroots in India, Change The Game India is an India focused offshoot of an international alliance that aims to strengthen the capabilities of social changemakers and grassroots organizations towards better governance and self-sustainability. The program enables them to gain credibility and support. It also helps them become self-sufficient by honing their skills in identifying, accessing and mobilizing locally. available resources.
