Technology and Action for Rural Advancement
| Mission | Build capacity, incubate business models and manage processes to create economic, social and environmental value on a large scale. |
| Partner Type | Implementer |
| Organization Type | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organizational Expertise | Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Health, Livelihoods, Marketing, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research, Other (please describe) |
| Expertise | TARA is actively involved in microenterprise development, aggregation and cluster development, last mile delivery of BoP products and incubation of new products and technologies. |
| Technologies and Fuels | Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.), Electricity, Pellets / Briquettes, Solar |
| Clean Cooking Activities | TARA enables distribution of "Quality of Life " products in which clean cooking solutions forms a major product line. TARA is also working on an Innovation, Science and Technology based Entrepreneurship Development Program (i-STED) supported by National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board – Department of Science and Technology (NSTEDB-DST). One of the major sector under this program is Eco-friendly processed fuel solutions, which essentially involves supporting innovative and green entrepreneurs to establish new pellet manufacturing by enterprises by provision of Enterprise Support Services or supporting existing enterprises to scale up/scale out. |
| Partnership | Our organisation aims to promote women entrepreneurship opportunities by application of innovative, eco-friendly pellet manufacturing technology based solutions and create an impact in the ecosystem. Women can play an instrumental role in increasing awareness and setting up a sustainable selling and distribution network. Such model can be easily scaled up and scaled out in other geographies. |
| Regions Operating In | Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia |
| Countries Operating In | India, South Africa |
| Address | B-32, Tara Cresecnt,
Qutub Institutioanl Area |
| City | New delhi |
| State/Province | Delhi |
| Postal Code | 110016 |
| Website | http://tara.in/about_us.aspx |
| Primary Point of Contact | |
| Salutation | Ms. |
| First Name | Priyali |
| Last Name | Bhardwaj |
| pbhardwaj@devalt.org | |
| Phone | 09953863128 |
| Secondary Point of Contact | |
| Salutation | Ms. |
| First Name | Kanika |
| Last Name | Kalia |
| kkalia@devalt.org | |
| Phone | 9818740184 |
