Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan has been working with poor and marginalised people in India since 2017. We work in Haryana's most backward region i.e., Mewat region in the sub-divisional area of Hathin which is currently positioned in the Palwal district and earlier it was in the Mewat district. Hathin is also the operational area of Mewat Development Agency. Although we are operationally limited to Hathin because of our limited financial capacity and resources. In the days ahead, we are aspired to expand our activities to all States, UTs, reaching out to the most marginalized and excluded groups in India as per the aspirational demands of NITI Aayog, Government of India from time to time. We work as grassroots based organization, help marginalized communities to enhance their capacities to make local government departments accountable and citizen friendly and to build their own forums, and community-based organizations and people's movements to collectively address poverty, inequality and injustice.
Our focus is on the rights of India's most marginalized communities: Dalit and indigenous people, rural and urban poor, women, children and minorities. These groups face an acute lack of access to and control over resources, services, and institutions and our efforts are to equip them with knowledge about their rights and develop capacities in them to demand their constitutional rights.
We are highly ambitious to pay special attention to those in vulnerable situations, such as people living with chronic hunger; people with disabilities; migrant and bonded workers; children who are out of school; city-dwellers without a home; and people whose land or livelihood is under threat. We will also work with women, men, girls and boys who have been trafficked, displaced, or hit by natural and human-made disasters. .

In 2017, a group of highly ambitious and likeminded youths for social change- who had Mewat as their homeland and Jamia Millia Islamia as their Alma mater-came together to set up a government registered humanitarian aid and development organization to end poverty, inequality, injustice and to achieve United Nation's development goals with the scope of national level area of intervention.
Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan was founded in 2017 to enable people to respond to and change their situations of poverty, inequality and injustice. We focus on education and awareness, community involvement and collective action as the driving forces of social and economic change.
'Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan' which means 'Public Life Care Foundation' - consists of a dedicated team of grassroots leaders chosen by the communities and facilitated by a group of development professionals. Our work is guided by the philosophy that a person should not be treated as a passive beneficiary of a handout; rather, we believe they should be seen as a potential resource, someone who can be honed with the skills and knowledge that will help lift them out of poverty, inequality and injustice.

Mr. Ruknuddin Bhadas is among the founder members of Jeevanlok and is playing pivotal role as the Chief Functionary of the organization since its inception in 2017. He has 13 years social development sector experience and excellent instructional leadership and bureaucratic administration competence, a class apart in the areas of Project Execution, Advocacy and Documentation. He is a professional social worker, obtained B.A. (Honors) in Social Work & M.A. in Social Work from UGC Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Social Work, (A premier School of Social Work of India) Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central University at New Delhi in 2008 & 2010 respectively.

He is also alumnus of Jamia Riyazul Uloom based at Delhi. He completed his Fazeelat degree (equivalent to M.A. in Islamic Studies) in November 2002. Nowadays he has impressing engagements in setting up a Knowledge City in Delhi-NCR under the aegis of Jeevanlok. "Jamia Alamia Islamia"-a Haryana based university project- is an integral part of the Knowledge City being set up in Bhadas village of Haryana.
For the past 13 years, he has provided training and assistance in areas of NGO startups, program / organizational planning and management, evaluation, governance, fund raising, advocacy, and community organizing under the aegis of "NGO Support Center based at Faridabad. He is the author of 12 books in non-profit sector. He too has rich experience of working at grassroots level. His areas of expertise include development of Community based Institutions; Milestone based planning, NGO management, leadership development, etc. His areas of interest include development of successful replicable innovative models for fulfillment of Women Rights, Child Rights, Poverty Eradication, Health and Nutrition, Natural Resource Management, Livelihood Development etc. at grassroots level.

Maulana Mohd Shakir was born and brought up in Mewat region of Haryana. He obtained his highest degree of Fazeelat from Madrasa Hussain Baksh, based at Delhi. He is the youngest and worthy son of Haji Ismail, a great disciple of Maulana Saad Saheb-the Amir of Tablighi Jammat . Maulana Mohd Shakir has a conviction to transform the dream into reality of establishing an educational institution whose students would be inculcated with the required competence and potential to perform their duties both in the religious and worldly matters. This dream is being fulfilled in the form of ‘Jamia Alamia Islamia’ the fully residential Islamic University being set up in the Tabligh Knowledge City, in Mewat of Haryana .

Registration Details

Our organization is registered in India under the following Acts:

• The Indian Trust Act, 1882
• The Permanent Account Number (PAN), Income Tax Act, GOI
• The Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA), 1976
• The Income Tax Act, 1961, section 12AA
• The Income Tax Act, 1961, section 80G
• The Employee's Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
• The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

Along with the above, the organization is also registered on the following:

• Darpan portal of NITI Aayog, Government of India
• CSR portal of Ministry of Corporate Affairs for undertaking CSR Activities
• Central Vigilance Commission, Government of India
• National Human Rights Commission, Government of India

OUR MISSION

"To address discrimination and injustice in all its forms and to work in solidarity with the poor and excluded and participate, facilitate in their struggle to eradicate poverty, social exclusion and injustice."

OUR VISION

"To create a world of hope and opportunities; advancing empowerment and social justice, where poverty, social exclusion and injustice have been overcome and in which every person enjoys the right to life with honourable existence and dignity"
In pursuit of this vision, our Sansthan works to enable people facing inequality and injustice to help themselves. We aim to strengthen ties in local communities so that people can work together to bring about positive changes in their lives. We particularly encourage women to participate in this process, as they are the most marginalized, downtrodden and powerless social group in India. Our Sansthan gives them the opportunity to develop their decision-making skills and leadership capacity so that they can address the issues affecting their lives. Playing the role of catalysts, we help to implement sustainable development processes that will make communities self-sufficient in the long term.

OUR OVERALL GOAL

A just social order brought about by the dispossessed claiming their right to dignity and identity through enhanced democratic participation and structural transformation.

OUR CORE STRATEGIES

• Enhancing local capacity to address developmental needs and ensuring appropriate access to entitlements thereby developing community-based systems and mechanisms;
• Engaging with institutions for accountability, thereby developing operational partnership and collaboration to ensure access of partner communities to entitlements;
• Experimenting and developing child and women-centred development processes for broader replication;
• Developing experience-based knowledge management model, thereby working out training programmes for sharing of knowledge with development workers, academician, government departments and development professionals.

Development and strengthening of CBOs
We enhance local capacity by organizing local communities in the form of community-based institutions having proper vision of development, due awareness and indigenously developed community-based systems and mechanisms to achieve the vision. These institutions include collectives of children, adolescents and adults which are formed at village level and are later networked into federations at cluster, block and district level.
Convergence
We engage with local service providers and democratic institutions like schools, health centers, government officials, elected representatives, etc., through constructive and innovative ways to build their capacity and bridge gap between them and the community so that their services become available to community in qualitative and effective manner and democratic system at grassroots level is strengthened.
Networking & Advocacy
We network with other civil society organizations for mutual sharing of experiences and learning, and collectively engage with policy makers for addressing developmental issues at wider level.
Research & Documentation
We undertake researches and documentation aimed at improving our understanding of situation, learning how to improve the situation and sharing the same with others for wider knowledge development and use.

OUR VALUES

We reiterate our values and stress on 'praxis' in our work, in our effort to deepen our commitment to transform our organizational culture. Solidarity, camaraderie and sisterhood with the poor, the powerless and excluded women, girls, boys and men will be at the core of our struggle against poverty, inequality and injustice.

EXCELLENCE

We consistently strive for excellence. Since 2017, our organization has flourished due to the hard work, passion and professionalism of our staff. We aim to excel in all that we do in order to provide the most effective humanitarian aid and the fruits of development and welfare schemes to those who are suffering.

ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY

We believe in being open and honest about our work, exploring the challenges we face and sharing our successes. Good communication, regular feedback and the ability to admit failure are essential features of a transparent organization. Our stakeholders need to be confident that they are informed about how we use our resources and accomplish our goals.

COMPASSION

Compassion is the humane response to the pain of others, coupled with a strong desire to help ease or eradicate this suffering. Compassion lies at the heart of everything Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan does. We appreciate the perspectives of others when they are different from our own. We give freely with no hidden motives, and we provide comfort to those in distress no matter who they are.

JUSTICE

Living and working justly means treating others as you would wish to be treated yourself. We believe in distributing aid equally, regardless of faith, race or gender. We strive to demonstrate fairness to our stakeholders through the decisions we make, whilst achieving outstanding results in our work.

EMPOWERMENT

Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan seeks to empower everyone who has contact with our organization, from the stakeholders and beneficiaries to our employees in all areas of operation. We strive to create an environment where our employees can grow, develop and take initiative in their work. By creating a 'learning culture' around the aid we distribute, we can empower our beneficiaries to become self-sufficient and meet sustainable development goals.

TRUST AND RESPECT

At Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan, we promote trust and respect among our stakeholders, partners, employees and beneficiaries. We seek to honour each individual impacted by the work of our organization and the environment in which we all live.

OUR APPROACH

Our Sansthan has worked in charity mode, development mode as well as rights-based mode in past. Through our experience, we learnt that in the country full of diversity, single approach may not be able to provide solutions to complex socio-economic issues. The organization, therefore, started experimenting with mix of approaches that gradually took shape of Model Development Approach. In this, we try to analyse the problem and understand root causes and then develop and demonstrate solution for resolving complex social issues by addressing all the dimensions of the problem simultaneously. To ensure that the model is duly developed, documented and disseminated, we lay high emphasis upon defining the processes of working, planning, implementation and monitoring elaborately in written form, abiding by them in strict manner and reviewing them from time to time. We believe that if process of working is not right, the true change that we aim to achieve will not materialize. Our innovative system of Stakeholder-wise Milestone based planning, implementation and monitoring, under which quarterly milestones of changes for each type of stakeholders are defined in advance and pursued, has proved to be very effective in achieving the desired change in each of the stakeholders in the long run; and hence, ensuring desired impact in the situation.

OUR GOOD GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE :

Credibility and accountability have always been the bench mark for Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan and it was achieved through the promotion of principles of good governance in its processes and practices. Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan has audit and evaluation mechanism to ensure impact of investment and complete transparency and accountability in utilization of funds. This audit mechanism review programs and projects, internal operations, compliance of statutory norms and conducts an external evaluation for the impact and outcome of various development programs.
The entire management processes and practices of Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan are in compliance with the principles of good governance.

OUR POLICIES

Jeevan Lok Nirman Sansthan is dedicated to protecting the rights of the people we support, and of those who support us. We are completely transparent about the procedures that guide our work – you can find details on all of our policies here.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & CREDIBILITY ASSURANCE

• Board Delegation of Authority Policy
• Delegation to Executive Management Policy
• Addressing Extremism Policy
• Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Policy
• Complaints Policy
• Lobbying and Political Activity Policy

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT & EXECUTION

• Aid Diversion and Reporting
• Child Protection Policy
• Gender Policy

FINANCE PLANNING & MANAGEMENT

• Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Policy
• Capital Expenditure Policy
• Financial Manual
• Investment Policy
• Preventing Bribery and Corruption Policy
• Reserves Policy
• Use of Charitable Funds Policy

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

• Data Protection Policy
• Social Media Policy

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

• Conflict of Interest Policy
• Equality and Diversity Policy
• Code of Conduct Policy
• Recruitment Policy
• Safeguarding Policy
• Whistleblowing Policy

PROCUREMENT

• Procurement Policy
• Engaging Third Parties Policy