Who we are


Who we are

Who we are

The Heinrich Böll Foundation is headquartered in Berlin and is a legally independent Foundation. The Foundation carries the name of Heinrich Boll, one of the most important writers of Federal Republic of Germany.
The Heinrich Böll Foundation's most important areas of activity are its projects in developmental co-operation and international policy. It currently supports about 130 projects in 60 countries on four continents. By way of its international collaboration with a large number of project partners, such as governmental institutions, public bodies and voluntary organizations, the Foundation provides intellectual and financial support for protection of the environment, art and culture, science and research, developmental cooperation and cross cultural understanding. To attain these objectives, the foundation cooperates with other societal initiatives, public bodies and voluntary organizations, and supports development cooperation on partnership and long term basis.
The representative office of the Heinrich Boll Foundation in India oversees and supports the various projects of the Foundation in India.
 
The overall approach of the Heinrich Böll Foundation is to:

  • generate opportunities of sharing, analysing and learning among formations of civil society
  • engaging in independent and critical analysis of societal trends and issues
  • enabling dialogue across varied perspectives, sectors and institutions of the concerned stakeholders.

The mandate of the Foundation's work in India include:

  • To support enhanced commitment to democratic processes and social innovation, ecological solutions and sustainable development
  • To support, facilitate and contribute to civil society engagement, participation, and intervention
  • To provide a forum for open debate and promote dialogue between politics, business, academia, and society
  • To support and promote respect for the rule of law and democratic participation
  • To ensure that the debates of opinion shapers, decision makers and the general populace reflect comprehensively different perspectives and new assessments of ground realities
  • To place gender as a cross-cutting issue in all measures and programmes.