Our Mission: To capture the vast and diverse knowledge emerging from the development community, facilitate sharing and cross fertilisation of knowledge and create innovations that address the identified gaps. Towards this end, BPF strives to improve the quality of life for poor and marginalised communities through documentation, innovation, implementation and dissemination of best practices.

Our Vision: The Best Practices Foundation envisions widespread identification and institutionalisation of best practices in the fields of development, particularly in livelihoods, governance and gender equity. To fulfil this mandate, BPF aims to become an agile, knowledge-based innovation agency and a network hub for the institutionalisation of best practices through multi-sector partnerships.

Our guiding principles are fundamental to the way we operate and direct what we do, why we do it and how we do it.

• Commitment to the ground: We seek participation, listen to voices and build innovations together with the communities to ensure their relevance.
• Dynamic, flexible and multi-disciplinary approaches: We believe that for new solutions to emerge cross-learning that arises from synergies across disciplines and actors is vital.
• Teamwork and effective collaborations: We encourage diversity and creatively use it to spread and adapt our innovations by fostering partnerships towards inclusive development.
• Quality and integrity: We are committed to these values, which reflect in our work through our investment and critical reflection in both process and outcome.

Our implementation staff at BPF-Dharwad has done innovative work in areas such as livelihoods, vocational education, natural resource management, health and governance. Each of our team members has field experience of over 30 years. This has proved instrumental in creating innovations with the very poor. It is through their efforts that BPF has won the global award for its livelihood model MOVE, where they have personally built over 200 robust businesses. They are also well versed in tailoring the model to new populations and geographies.

At BPF, we possess the human expertise to work across the governance, gender, livelihoods, education, health, vocational training, and natural resource management sectors. Our values and work culture attract professionals, researchers and developmental practitioners from all over the world. Our multi-disciplinary team hails from premium institutes including the Delhi School of Economics, London School of Economics, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Emory University, University of East Anglia, Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), St Stephen's College, and the English and Foreign Languages University, to name a few.

BPF brings a wide range of expertise to the table through its panel of experts in specialized areas. These include gender, health, psychology, quantitative economic analysis, governance, climate change and disaster risk management, natural resource management, agriculture and marketing.