Jana Urban Foundation is a Section-8 not-for-profit company registered in June 2006. The Foundation is an urban think tank based in Bangalore with a vision to transform urban India where enhanced quality of life is assured to all those who aspire to help themselves. The Foundation constantly strives to understand the world of aspirational urban households and incubates viable and scalable social business models that are central to inclusive development.. The Foundation constantly strives to understand the world of urban excluded households and incubates viable and scalable social business models that are central to inclusion.
Jana Urban Foundation has promoted
- Jana Small Finance Bank, Small Finance Bank focused on financial inclusion
- Janaadhar (India) Private Limited , that builds low cost and high quality housing offered at price points that are sustainable and affordable
- Jana Urban Services for Transformation Pvt. Ltd. (JUST), a fee-for-service company set up to provide a host of financial inclusion services to operating companies within the Jana Group
- Jana Capital Limited (JCL) – A Non-Banking Financial Institution, Core Investment Company
- Jana Holdings Limited (JHL) – A Non-Banking Financial Company promoted by Jana Capital Ltd.
Our Work
Recent examples of the Foundation’s work include
- Report to the Dr. Nachiket Mor’s Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services, titled Measuring Financial Inclusion in Urban India
- Pathways to Prosperity, an annual longitudinal study of slums, in collaboration with Dr. Anirudh Krishna of Duke University and Prof. M.S. Sriram of IIM-B, to better understand the base of the pyramid population and identify suitable financial inclusion opportunities
- Study of Dalit entrepreneurs and the bottlenecks faced by them and the CSR Policy