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SAMVAAD

Tribal Identity

• Client: Tata Steel Foundation
• Scope: Consultancy, Documentation and Facilitation

Samvaad is a homage to the global conviction that indigenous peoples and their collective wisdom may lead humanity into a truly sustainable and equitable future. Since 2014, it has emerged as an ecosystem that ties together tribes of India and beyond for constructive dialogue. It has brought more than 30,000 women, men, and children from 157 tribes across 25 states and five Union Territories of India, and 17 countries, into
impartial contemplation of indigenous narratives in diverse formats.

MISSION SUNEHRA KAL

Empowerment of Women in Agriculture

• Client: ITC (Mission Sunehra Kal)
• Scope: Documentation for Community Engagement

ITC’s flagship social investment programme, Mission Sunehra Kal, focuses on women in agriculture. It improves livelihood earnings by empowering women to take on a more value-added, decision-making role in agriculture. This is facilitated via capacity building and enterprise management opportunities. Three types of activities are undertaken: Plant Nurseries, Agri-Business Centres, and Farmer Field Schools in Telangana, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan.

WE, THE PEOPLE

Workers’ Rights and Mitigation

• Client: Montfort Social Institute
• Scope: Consultancy and Documentation

MSI addresses the three most important issues of our times – protection of human rights, sustainable development, and governance.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Earth Charter and the Social Teachings form the basic framework of the task of MSI. The institute uses these instruments to create a culture of respect and dignity of all persons — with a special focus on slum dwellers, unorganised workers, domestic workers, rights of children in disadvantaged communities, and housing rights.

MEIN PRAGATI

Financial Inclusion Programme

• Client: CRISIL Limited
• Scope: Training Manual and Communication Toolkit Design for 1 lakh women.

Mein Pragati is a financial literacy and micro-finance based, capacity-building initiative to empower rural women. Run by CRISIL Limited, a global leader in Credit Rating space, the programme has a national footprint.

PERIOD OF PRIDE

Menstrual Hygiene Awareness

• Client: Network18 (Whisper – P&G)
• Scope: Campaign Design and Content Management

A 360◦ national campaign to advocate for Menstrual Health Management in classrooms, and influence policy, because even today 1 out of 5 girls in India drop out due to lack of awareness, access to menstrual hygiene, and social pressures.

EVERY LIFE COUNTS

Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health

• Client: NDTV (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
• Scope: Campaign Design and Execution

A three-year national campaign, using the Solutions Journalism format, it networked with community correspondents in 15 states to track stories that pose a yawning developmental gap. The coverage began with identification of the issue, hit the middle with a call for action, and ended with the change that the campaign facilitated in tandem with the community and the government.

MISSION PAANI

Water Conservation & Sanitation Security

• Client: Network18 (Reckitt)
• Scope: Content Design and Implementation

An ongoing campaign, Mission Paani is a nationwide movement for sustainable sanitation, water security, and Right to Dignity, that brings together governments, nonprofits, sanitation warriors, women’s movements, innovators, changemakers, policy experts, celebrities, and a considerable spread of voices of citizens.

FIRST aMONG EQUALS

• Client: Asia Indigenous People’s Pact (AIPP)
• Scope: Documentation

AIPP is committed to the cause of promoting and defending indigenous peoples’ rights and human rights. At present, AIPP has 46 members in 14 countries in Asia. It works to secure the rights of and enable the progressive growth of the indigenous peoples through effective engagements, innovative partnerships, and inclusive actions to empower, uplift and secure the rights, dignity and adaptive capacities of communities

I AM…

Informal Workers’ Rights

• Client: Working People’s Coalition (WPC)
• Scope: Documentation and Outreach

India has 50 crore workers, 90% of whom are unorganised or informal. WPC has built a wide network, consisting of trade unions, organisations working with informal labour, lawyers, academicians, activists, and researchers. It advocates the implementation of key labour policies, negotiates with the government, strengthens grassroots organisations, provides help for mediation and legal aid to workers, and nurtures space for the workers’ voice at the center of the movement.