Client Name: IPE Global Location: Rajasthan Background Context: IPE Global India seeks to commission a study to understand stakeholder perspectives, especially those belonging to SC, ST, and OBC communities on adolescent girl’s (aged 13-16 years) education, with a focus on the pre-matric scholarship scheme and the impact of Covid-19, in Rajasthan. Objectives This study, done by […]
Client: Population Foundation of India (PFI) Background Context: While numerous efforts have been made by the Government of India (GOI) to address the concerns faced by adolescents, areas of improvement exist. This study assesses the current programs and schemes of the Government of India for adolescents and provides recommendations for program and policy. The […]
Client Name: Freedom from Hunger India Trust, India Location: Rajasthan Background Context: The Rajasthan Nutrition Project (RNP) is an integrated intervention to address malnutrition in two blocks of Rajasthan, India. The intervention is supported by Freedom from Hunger India Trust along with two field partners – Vaagdhara and Pradan – in the districts of Banswara […]
Client Name: Triggerise India Location: Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Ajmer Background Context: Triggerise India through its network of TIKO PROs delivers health information, products, and services to people in low-income communities urban and peri-urban geographies of Ajmer, Jaipur, Agra, and Delhi. The network structure includes the TIKO System Managers (TSM) and TIKO System Facilitators (TSF) […]
Client Name: Central Square Foundation (CSF) Location: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat Background Context: Diksha, a national education technology program of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), supports teachers and students with access to digital resources. One of the products under the Diksha program is the Extended Textbooks (ETB), which includes embedded QR […]
Client Name: Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Central Square Foundation and Boston Consulting Group Location: Rajasthan Background Context: The Adarsh Vidyalaya Yojana was launched in the year 2015 by the Department of Education, Government of Rajasthan to address systemic inefficiencies in the public education system in Rajasthan. The Adarsh Yojana aimed to address these inefficiencies […]
Client Name: SRHR Alliance and Bihar Voluntary Health Association Location: Jharkhand & Bihar Background Context: In the context of the Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Health + Adolescents (RMNCHA) and Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) programs launched by the Government of India (GOI), the SRHR alliance has been identifying opportunities for advocating and promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and […]
Client Name: Quest Alliance Location: New Delhi Background Context: Quest Alliance, with support from Central Square Foundation, implemented a General Employability (GES) skills program for students in classes 9, 10, and 11 in Delhi Government Schools. This pilot program, implemented in 250 Government schools, 20 schools where it’s being monitored, began in July 2017 and concluded in February 2018. […]
Client: Central Square Foundation (CSF) Location: Karnataka Background Context: The Central Square Foundation and Akshara Foundation were implementing a 40-day accelerated school readiness program in 100 schools, across 13 districts, in Karnataka. The objective of the intervention was to equip teachers with the skills, knowledge and the right mindset to enable the five to six-year-old students to be […]
Client Name: Central Square Foundation (CSF) Location: Banaskantha, Ahmedabad, Narmada, Dang, and Porbandar. Background Context: Gujarat piloted the Activity Based Learning (ABL) method of teaching in 256 primary schools. Since then, it has been scaled up across the state in 22,000 schools for grades 1 and 2, as the Pragna program. The Department of Education, Government […]
Client Name: NASSCOM Location: Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore Background Context: As a part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the ARISE On-Campus program was conceptualized in 2015 by Altran Technologies India Private Limited (then known as Aricent Technologies Limited), an engineering company based in India. The primary focus was to enhance engineering students’ technical skills such as programming […]
Client: Milindia Location: Rajapalayam in Tamil Nadu and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh Background Context: In the year 2016-17, as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Milindia provided educational scholarships to students from marginalized communities pursuing Mechanical/Chemical/Oil technology engineering in two institutes of higher education in India. An endowment fund was established in two institutions, […]
Client: i-Saksham Location: Bihar Background Context: The Saksham Education and Learning Foundation (i-Saksham) initiated a fellowship program to empower females as edu-leaders and leverage education as a medium of change in Munger and Jamui districts in Bihar. In the two-year fellowship program, the edu-leaders underwent educational and personal transformational training and are placed in government schools […]
Client: NITI Aayog and Susan Dell Foundation Location: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan Background Context: NITI Aayog outlined a framework for the transformation of the Government schools, which sought to strengthen administrative systems and human capacity, enable academic reforms, drive accountability and engage stakeholders, to ultimately impact student academic performance. Several states have undertaken initiatives […]
Name: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Location: Madhya Pradesh Background Context: The Umang program was introduced in 2017, in secondary schools in district headquarters of all the 51 districts of Madhya Pradesh for class 9-12, with the objective of enhancing the skills of adolescent students to achieve their goals and to make informed decisions for better […]
Client Name: Foundation to Educate Girls Globally Location: Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh Background Context: The Foundation to Educate Girls Globally (FEGG) initiated a community intervention to enroll girls in school by identifying out-of-school girls through door-to-door surveys. Engaging with the community, FEGG makes them understand the value of schooling. In addition, it also counsels parents and […]
Client: Central Square Foundation (CSF) Location: Surat and Narmada, Gujarat Background Context: ‘School readiness’ and enabling children to be ‘ready for school’, has gained currency in the last few decades and is globally defined by two features – ‘transition’ and ‘gaining competencies’. To enable school readiness among students, in Gujarat, UNICEF with support from CSF piloted […]
Client Name: Central Square Foundation (CSF) Location: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh Background Context: India boasts a dynamic EdTech ecosystem; however, it has struggled to effectively reach the low-income segments with limited EdTech solutions. The lack of comprehensive grassroots data and reliable insights into the behaviors and needs of these end-users has been a […]
Client: Tata Institute of Social Sciences Location: Mumbai Background Context: iCALL – Initiating Concern for All, is a pro-bono mental health service that was started in 2012 by the School of Human Ecology, TISS – Mumbai. iCALL endeavors to provide professional and free counseling through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) assisted mediums such as telephone, email, and chat. […]
Client Name: Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) Location: Madhya Pradesh Background Context: A blended capacity-building program called Samvaad was launched and implemented by iCALL (TISS), in partnership with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and National Health Mission (NHM), to enhance the knowledge and capacities of counselors, part of the Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya […]
Client Name: Terre Des Homme, India Delegation Office Location: Ranchi, Jharkhand Background Context: Terre des Hommes (TDH) partnered with Dimagi (software development company) to develop a mobile application for use by the Health Care Workers (HCWs) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have developed the CommCare application and WhatsApp chatbot for use by the Auxiliary […]
Client Name: Voluntary Health Services – Centers for Disease Control Location: Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Telangana Background Context: The PLHIV-ART Linkage System (PALS) is a web-based, real-time, case-based information system for people living with HIV. It enables information capture for each individual, and data linkages across facilities, districts and states in India. Aggregated information at each […]
