PROPOSED PROJECTS

RURAL TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE IN NORTHEAST INDIA:
The Foundation has initiated a proposal for the establishment of a Rural Technology Institute in Northeast India and it has been submitted to the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India for the seed grant. The international collaborator in this project is Africa Digital Initiative and Finance Agency (ADIFA) - an international organization supported by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa under African Regional Action Plan for Knowledge Economy (ARAPKE).

The Institute is driven by a long-term vision of building technical skills and services sector and creating a South Asian regional trade hub. The Institute will be committed to reducing rural people’s poverty level by producing skilled people and help entrepreneurship development.

REGIONAL INITITIVE: SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY
The information revolution, along with its attendant explosive growth of knowledge, and the related phenomenon of the globalization of the world economy has brought about the Information Age. South Asia is no exception to this disparity between information rich and information poor. Through a partnership alliance with country development gateways and in collaboration with the Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) the South Asian Regional Development Gateway (SARDEG) is envisaged to be an online communication initiative (Internet portal) that provides and promotes exchange and dissemination of information on development matters in the region initially focused on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

The Mission of the SARDEG is to create a regional development information portal for the South Asia through partnership, networking, sharing and exchanging of knowledge and other resources. Therefore, the overall objective of this project will be the elaboration of an online development communication strategy and plan of action for the region, as well the implementation of an effective development stockholders’ network.

SOUTH ASIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES
The deadline of year of 2015 set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is drawing near and many of the health goals remains as a distant mirage for the South Asian region. In a developing country such as India, Nepal or Bangladesh where an optimal level of health service is a dream to many, there are far too few medical research, health workers training institutions. With a limited number of available training institutions, it is nearly impossible to train large numbers of medical officers and paramedical workers and conduct quality research in medical sciences so as to reach the benefits to the millions of poor in the region.

South Asian countries are very diverse in terms of personnel education, training and research capacity on medical sciences. While India has a vast human resources development infrastructure for health sector, its neighboring countries lack such training infrastructure and face an uphill task on training their health personnel to able to meet the targets of MDGs. In line with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) declarations on knowledge sharing, the present project aims at meeting this challenge in health sector by creating an advanced regional research institution for SAARC forming a cluster with India. PFI Foundation (India) in collaboration other partners has taken up this noble mission to establish a South Asian Research Institute for Medical Sciences in the Northeast India. The Foundation is committed to establish the institute by 2009.