OUR PARTNERS

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HCL Foundation (www.hclfoundation.org) was established in 2011 as the CSR arm of HCL Technologies. It is a not for-profit- organization, that strives to contribute towards national and international development goals, bringing about lasting positive impact in the lives of people, through long term sustainable programs.

The foundation aims to alleviate poverty and achieve inclusive growth and development. Active community engagement ensures optimal long-term gains and upward accountability.

HCL Foundation works through Life Cycle Based, Integrated Community Development Approach with thematic focus on Education, Health, Skill Development &Livelihood, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction & Response. Child protective strategies, inclusion and gender transformative approaches remain central in all initiatives of HCL Foundation, thus ensuring comprehensive development.

HCL Foundation’s integrated approach places the communities at the very center of our efforts, believing in the power of collective action and work closely with communities, both in urban and rural geographies in India, as well as globally. Presently HCL Foundation is implementing four flagship programs, namely HCL Samuday & HCL Grant – Rural Development initiatives and HCL Uday & Clean Noida – Urban Community Development Programs. HCL Foundation is also implementing three special initiatives – HCL Foundation Academy, Sports For Change & Power of One – HCL’s volunteering engagement initiative.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Garo Green Spine Project and Mobile Veterinary Service Units in Assam

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (www.ongcindia.com) is India’s Most Valuable Public Sector Enterprise. The Company won the Petrofed Oil & Gas Industry Awards for 2011 in three categories: “Environmental Sustainability: Company of the Year”, “Human Resource Management:

Company of the Year” and “Innovator of the Year: Team (Won by IOGPT)”. It was also bestowed with the “Most Attractive Employer” Award in the Randstad Awards 2011, and won the “Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability” for the year 2011.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Eastern Swamp Deer Conservation Project

Oracle (www.oracle.com), with more than 420,000 customers and deployments in more than 145 countries, offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and engineered systems.

Tata Chemicals Limited (www.tatachemicals.com) is a global company with interests in businesses that focus on LIFE: Living, Industry and Farm Essentials. The story of the company is about harnessing the fruits of science for goals that go beyond business.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Mithapur Coral Reef Recovery Project | Whale Shark Conservation Project

Bihar State Forest Department (www.forest.bih.nic.in) is responsible for the protection and maintenance of wildlife and wild habitats in the state of Bihar. This includes important terrestrial species such as the tiger, leopard, bear, hyena, bison, chital etc, besides many varieties of fish, crocodilians (including the gharial), gangetic turtles and the freshwater dolphin. Bihar is also famous for its wetlands and its several varieties of local as well as migratory bird species.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Valmiki Conservation Project | Gandak Gharial Conservation Project | Kaimur WLS Project

Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) (www.state.gov/about-us-bureau-of-international-narcotics-and-law-enforcement-affairs/) was historically known as the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters (INM). It has expanded its mandate from reducing drug trafficking into the US to fighting corruption and transnational crime around the world. INL uses a wide range of tools to counter crime and works with partner nations, international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations, U.S. federal, state, and local criminal justice entities to achieve the mission

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Indo-Nepal Transboundary Wildlife crime prevention

Department of Wildlife Protection, Jammu & Kashmir (www.jkwildlife.com) focuses on the maintenance of ecological balance, conservation of bio-diversity, regulation of hydrological regime, promotion of soil and water conservation, climate regulation, carbon sequestration and nutrient recycling in the state.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Kashmir Markhor Recovery

Gujarat Forest Department (www.forests.gujarat.gov.in) forms policies for the conservation of forests and the protection of wildlife and the environment in Gujarat. The unique features of the state include the largest coastline in the country, the saline deserts of the Rann of Kutch, grasslands and wetlands. These factors have bestowed the state with a vast diversity of flora and fauna. The majestic Asiatic lion and wild ass have their last remaining populations in Gujarat. The state’s faunal biodiversity consists of 14% of fish, 18 % of reptiles, 37% of avifauna and 25% of the mammal populations of the country.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Mithapur Coral Reef Recovery Project | Whale Shark Conservation Project

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (www.envfor.nic.in) is the nodal agency in the administrative structure of the Central Government for the planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of India’s environmental and forestry policies and programmes.

The Odisha State Forest Department (www.odishaforest.in) is responsible for the protection and management of wildlife and wild habitats in the state of Odisha. The state’s forests are well stocked, diverse, multi-storied and dense. The forests are managed for sustained use providing a range of goods and services to a variety of stakeholders at local and broader levels.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: MVS Similipal | Odisha Management Plan | Vets on Wheels Keonjhar

Charities Aid Foundation (India) (www.cafindia.org) Charities Aid Foundation is a leading international not-for-profit organisation, which works to make giving more effective and charities more successful. CAF India is part of an international network with offices in nine countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Russia, South Africa and the United States of America and distributes funds to over 90 countries around the world. We promote and support all socio development causes that positions us uniquely to address a wide cross sectoral span of donor interests. CAF India, with its dedicated team of experts, brings development sector knowledge and experience to take ‘Giving’ further.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Rapid Action Projects

Chester Zoo (www.chesterzoo.org) constantly strives to help save threatened wildlife from extinction, safe-keeping over 15,000 animals in captive care as well as in their natural realm by providing technical and financial outreach support worldwide. It is also one of the most important zoos in the United Kingdom.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Central India Wild Buffalo Conservation Project, Assam Haathi Project

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (www.davidshepherd.org) is an adaptable and flexible, non-bureaucratic organisation responding promptly to conservation threats by supporting trusted, reputable individuals and organisations operating in the field. Lean on administration but generous on funding, David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation supports a range of innovative, vital and far-reaching projects throughout Africa and Asia, achieving real results for wildlife survival.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Rapid Action Projects

Fondation Segre (www.fondationsegre.org/) was established in 1996, and it is committed to help protect the biodiversity through the active conservation of threatened species and their habitat and the restoration of degraded ecosystems. It pursues this through key strategic priorities. The Foundation either directly undertakes conservation projects or alternatively offers financial support to partner organizations.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Wildlife Crime Prevention Assistance to Five Tiger Reserves of Karnataka

Global Giving (www.globalgiving.org) is the first and largest global crowdfunding community that connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country around the world. We make it possible for nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) to access the tools, training, and support they need to be more effective and make our world a better place.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Wild Aid projects

International Fund for Animal Welfare (www.ifaw.org) Founded in 1969, saves individual animals, animal populations and habitats all over the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW provides hands-on assistance to animals in need, whether it’s dogs and cats, wildlife and livestock, or rescuing animals in the wake of disasters. We also advocate saving populations from cruelty and depletion, such as our campaign to end commercial whaling and seal hunts.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (www.iucn.org) IUCN’s work is driven by two features of life today: Global production and consumption patterns are destroying our life support system – nature – at persistent and dangerously high rates. And people, communities, governments and private actors are under-using the potential power of nature and the solutions it can provide to global challenges in fields such as climate change, food security, social and economic development. IUCN calls these nature-based solutions.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Protecting tigers, people and their vital habitats in Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh

Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (www.jtef.jp), a non-profit and nongovernmental organisation, contributes to protect the world of wildlife representing their voice and interests, so that global biodiversity and the natural environment of human beings will be conserved. As a practice to meet the purpose, JTEF has developed several programs supporting the field activities for conservation of tigers and elephants in their habitat. It also dedicated efforts to reduce Japanese demand for wildlife products.

The Rufford Foundation (www.rufford.org) is an independent grant-making trust based in the UK. The Foundation concentrates its funding on nature conservation projects in developing countries undertaken by small to medium-sized organisations.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Core grant

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (https://www.fws.gov/) is the premier government agency dedicated to the conservation, protection, and enhancement of fish, wildlife and plants, and their habitats. They are the only agency in the federal government whose primary responsibility is the conservation and management of these important natural resources for the American public.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Terai tiger project

UNDP India UNDP India (https://www.in.undp.org/) is working in India since 1951 and have over 30 projects on the ground in almost every Indian state. It works to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by transforming traditional models to do development differently targeting almost all areas of human development, from systems and institutional strengthening to inclusive growth and sustainable livelihoods, as well as sustainable energy, environment, and resilience.

UNDP’s programs continue to fully integrate a global vision for catalytic change with India’s national priorities, as with the ‘SECURE Himalaya’ project which aims to secure livelihoods, conservation, sustainable use, and restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystems.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Secure Himalayas: Strengthening wildlife enforcement mechanism and mitigation of wildlife crime & illegal trade in wildlife in SECURE Himalaya Project landscapes in Jammu & Kashmir, including neighboring trade routes/transit States

World Land Trust (www.worldlandtrust.org) is an international conservation charity that protects the world’s most biologically important and threatened habitats acre by acre. Since its foundation in 1989 (as the World Wide Land Conservation Trust), WLT has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves, and give permanent protection to habitat and their wildlife.

ASSOCIATED PROJECTS: Garo Green Spine Conservation Project | Chamrajnagar Mudahalli Corridor Project | D’Ering Dibru Saikhowa Corridor

The Whitley Fund for Nature is a nature conservation charity that provides funding, training, and recognition to support conservation leaders in developing nations. Established by Edward Whitley OBE in 1993, the Whitley Award has completed 25 years and over the period has funded 200 conservationists across 80 countries that need immediate conservation action.

ASSOCIATED PROJECT: Right of Passage