Samruddhi Foundation is a secular and non-profit trust created by a group of people with a dream of making this world a better place to live.

Our mission is to build capacities of individuals and groups deprived of resources required for leading empowered lives. Samruddhi Foundation functions as a centre for knowledge building, training and dissemination of information on issues of equity, social justice, and sustainable development with stakeholders such as communities, civil society/advocacy groups and policy makers.

Research Resource Centre

The Research Resource Centre is a unit of Samruddhi Foundation which mainly aims at building and honing research skills of fresh entrants, fellows mid-way through their research and interested faculty, besides serving as a forum for sharing, documenting and discussing research findings with interested faculty, students, fellow professionals and public.

The Research Resource Centre has the following primary goals:

  • Building research capacities of young research scholars and faculty by organizing training programmes in research concepts and processes, use of statistical and computer based applications and methodologies in humanities and social science research.

  • Creating a forum for sharing research outputs and research concerns and identifying new research areas.

  • Undertaking sponsored research projects, training field support staff and offering consultation and guidance to project teams.

  • Creating data bank on social development themes from a multi disciplinary perspective.

  • Organizing lectures by experts in various fields with a special focus on themes relating to social development.