Description: Best Practices Foundation (BPF) is a Bangalore-based NGO founded in 1999, to improve the quality of life for poor and marginalised communities through participatory approaches to co-create innovations that are pro-poor, inclusive and gender sensitive.
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Development programmes often ask the poor to invest time, capital, learn how to manufacture a specific product and then leave them to struggle with markets and through the initial challenges of starting a business. Government and banks also focus only on skills rather than working backwards from market demand. This often leaves the poor with livelihood options that are not market-driven and therefore unsustainable.
BPF has created a major livelihoods innovation called MOVE (Market Oriented Value Enhancement) which won an award from the World Bank-ILO-YEN MarketPlace. BPF’s innovation branch in Dharwad has worked for two decades on livelihoods with a fair degree of success. The innovative elements of this model include:
Organisation’s Goal: BPF aims to create at least 20,000 businesses over the next 5 years and to scale up MOVE by partnering with METSCON to create a Centre of Excellence.