Tata Steel Foundation 7th Annual Report FY 22-23
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ANNUAL REPORT 2022-23
Chairman's Desk
From the
Dear Reader,
It is my privilege to present the Annual
Report of Tata Steel Foundation for FY23.
The world today has a keen
understanding of an evolving societal
development framework where issues
like economic inequality, climate change
and demographic challenges are firmly
part of mainstream conversations.
Newer technology, policy and capital
allocation frameworks are also evolving
to address these challenges. The Tata
Steel Foundation continues to work
on core development gaps with those
who remain outside the margins of
development. In this, it seeks to combine
established models with emerging
paradigms as befitting solutions to
existing challenges.
The Foundation, in FY23, recognised
the continued, deep effects of the
recent pandemic amongst the most
vulnerable communities. Subsequently,
it introduced a multi-year programme
for elimination of non-communicable
diseases in 10 blocks. These were
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Chairman,
Tata Steel Foundation
designed to foster health seeking
behaviour amongst communities.
Our Education Signature Programme
imbibed the National Education Policy,
2020’s Foundational Literacy and
Numeracy model for 2,00,000+ children.
The intent was to help address learning
deficits emerging from extended school
closures. A unique Johar Haat was
setup in Jamshedpur as a permanent
marketplace for tribal artisans from
across the country who faced significant
market and confidence erosion during
the pandemic.
The Foundation combined aspects
of reforestation, livelihoods and
conservation of species to develop
programmes that reflected voice of
communities and addressed climate-
induced challenges. A cumulative
capacity of 50 million cubic feet of water
conservation was also created in FY23
through community embedded water
assets and institutions.
A quest to stand by enablers
and individuals who, in turn, can
transform entire communities led
to the introduction of the first batch
of 39 Corridor Fellows who worked
with 72 panchayats to unlock public
entitlements for 25,000+ households.
At the same time, our work on
decentralised planning unlocked more
than ₹39 crore in public allocations to
community institutions.
The Foundation also recognised the
need to build empathetic leaders as a
base for responsible business. It initiated
an immersion programme designed
for managers to imbibe wisdom from
communities; those arising out of
life experiences, and not limited to
classrooms. We had 595 managers and
business school students experiencing
the immersion in FY23. The Foundation
also designed and delivered courses
on management for social impact with
leading business schools in the country.
The ongoing programmes of the
Foundation retained their strong impact
reaching 3.15 million lives in FY23, the
highest ever annual achievement, while
creating thousands of small, meaningful
stories. Our programmes like Akanksha
and Masti Ki Pathshala working with
children from particularly vulnerable
tribal groups and urban vulnerable
groups, respectively, for several years
had the first ever set of children take
their seminal grade X examinations
and clear them successfully. Alumni
from our tribal leadership programmes
and Samvaad fellowships setup new
community schools, published first
ever dictionaries of their languages and
were elected as people’s representatives
now crafting a change story of their
own. MANSI worked with 29,000+
high risk pregnancies, DISHA worked
with 1,699 women in creating a felt
leadership narrative, SABAL brought
2 entire blocks in Jharkhand close
to 100% documentation for persons
with disabilities and our agriculture
programmes brought 1,750 additional
acres under cultivation in FY23.
I would like to take this opportunity
to express my deep appreciation for
the trust that communities vest in our
programmes and teams, the confidence
of our partners who invest their capital
through the Foundation and the role of
our NGO partners who help craft some of
our key narratives of change. In closing,
I extend my warm acknowledgement
for colleagues at the Foundation who
are resolutely building a community first
institution with an innately strong sense
of purpose.
I am confident that the Tata Steel
Foundation will continue to build
stronger impact, ideas, individuals and
ecosystems which come together to
create a transformative societal story.
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