Grants database

The Banyan is one of the largest mental health service organisations in the country and adopts both a person-centric and health systems approach embedded in a culture of upholding social justice and equity. The grant will help Banyan to support women who have spent time in institutional settings to reintegrate with their family and communities post treatment.

SATHEE works to protect the rights of children and to support them to realise their potential. This grant will fund activities to take a multi-pronged approach and implement the newly created village level Nutrition Security Plan that encompasses sanitation and hygiene, clean water, diversified food produce from land and from forests.

Shishu Sarothi works to uphold the rights of disabled people in Assam. This grant will help the organisation to build a regional resource hub, offering training, services and disability-related support. Funding will help to provide staff training, develop support systems for the centre and create awareness about disabilities, rights and entitlements.

Patang works to develop leadership capacity among young people, improve learning outcomes and promote sustainable livelihoods. Through this project, Patang will work to create opportunities for alternative, sustainable livelihood options and to help communities claim their rights on natural resources under individual and community forest rights.

Nirman works with tribal communities to promote sustainable agriculture, support natural-resources governance and management and to improve access to rights and entitlements. This project aims to increase awareness of forest rights in local communities, enhance the capacity of local leaders, help secure legal rights to forest land and to address related policy issues.

NASVI works to protect the livelihoods and rights of thousands of street vendors across India. The grant will continue the process of deepening the intervention in Patna and Bhagalpur to ensure sustainability and build capacity of the vendor organisations to enable them to work directly with and influence the government. NASVI will also start work in Dhanbad to share learning and to raise awareness of the issues faced by local vendors.

MASK is a federation of self-help groups, committed to gender equality, economic development and social change. This project worked with 43 remote forest villages in Assam to support natural resource management and enhance livelihoods. In the next phase, MASK aims to deepen participatory processes by building the capacity of women’s organisations to secure rights and entitlements for communities, scaling up natural-resource management models and supporting ecologically sustainable livelihoods.

JMECT is a community development organisation focusing on education, livelihoods and health in Assam. Working with 15 primary schools, this project aims to improve education and attainment for local children through coaching, and to support parents to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.

DiYA Foundation works to support communities experiencing marginalisation to access education, livelihood opportunities, rights, resources and information. This grant will continue to support the Foundation and evolve their work to build livelihoods at the family level, further strengthen and federate the women’s collectives and create local capacities of women to provide expert advice on livestock rearing, livelihoods planning and managing finances at the self-help group level.

DVS aims to improve the living and working conditions of mine and stone workers in Rajasthan. Through this project, DVS has built awareness of silicosis, developed resources to help employees to access compensation and worked to influence policy. This grant will support the organisation to build partnerships, plan strategically and to expand their geographic reach.

Basic Health Care Services’ vision is to develop a responsive and effective healthcare ecosystem rooted in the community, so that those experiencing disadvantage can access high-quality, low-cost health services. This grant will support the organisation to mentor young physicians working in these communities, and to advocate for healthcare reform.

Agenda campaigns for systems and services to be transformed; to raise awareness across sectors; and to promote public and political understanding of the lives of women and girls experiencing multiple disadvantage. The Girls Speak campaign aims to ensure girls and young women facing inequality, poverty and violence get the support and protection they need, and to influence policy recommendations and service improvements.