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About the Organisation
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In the next five years, C3 India will continue will continue to use the the four types of interventions; advocacy, community mobilization, social marketing, and Behaviour Change Communication to support its cutting edge work in
-improving the quality and sustainability of its community-based reproductive health programmes
- expand capacity building of women and community members,
-upscale efforts for the development of youth/adolescents through new digital innovations,
-effectuate and lead targeted advocacy initiatives for health goals and enhance women’s participation in civil society and in the political arena.
In keeping with the new focus of the Indian government’s on RMNCH+A strategy, C3 India will continue to integrate the 5*5 matrix into its current Adolescent and Maternal Health programmes.
For FY 2021-22, we hope to reach the following targets
● Gender equity and governance- 2000 Elected Women Representatives
● Girls’ education & youth development - All students ( both girls and boys) in 5501 schools in 24 districts of Jharkhand and 10 districts of Bihar
●Reproductive health & rights- Reach out to 200000 women
●Small Grants- Reach out to more grassroots organisations in remote, rural regions of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
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• Scalability and Replicability: C3’s projects are designed to be implemented at-scale – i.e, we always take a broader outlook, building projects that are relevant to not just a single community, but to communities and vulnerable populations across the country. Often, a project implemented within a particular region is designed to ensure replication in another region too.
• Sustainability: At C3, all our projects are designed so that their impact becomes self-sustaining, even after the project period is concluded. Very often, our projects aim to achieve a shift in the larger ecosystem, creating a long-term and deep impact that creates a chain of change that continues to keep the essence and impact of the project is sustained.
• Government partnerships: We are a trusted ally of the government, and work in tandem with government institutions, government schemes, and mechanisms to implement our projects, with several memorandums of understanding across our implementation regions. Moreover, we are also a part of various state and national technical advisory committees, that have helped develop a number of policies and programs that benefit girls and women across the nation.
• Understanding Localized Problems: While C3 focuses on scalability and broader change, it also has unique expertise in identifying and addressing issues specific to local communities and regions, and builds mechanisms within its projects that allow for community participation and buy-in.
• Network: We are the founding member and national secretariat of the White Ribbon Alliance of Safe Motherhood in India, which is an alliance of over 5000 voluntary organizations. Additionally, under C3 Unniti program we have a network of over 250 grassroot organizations working towards advancing solutions for improving the lives of girls and women across India.
Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) has been a leader in designing and implementing quality programs that empower and mobilize women and men to be equal partners in development. We have worked in 21 states and at the national level and with over 250 NGOs and many government departments. One of the key expertise of C3 has been to advocate to national and state governments on issues of maternal, adolescent, child health and family planning issues. The advocacy strategy includes focusing on improving access to health services by supporting the development of national level guidelines, advocating successfully for task shifting and capacity building of front line health workers, strengthening clinical training sites, implementing on the ground and developing monitoring mechanisms for adoption within the public health system.
We have worked extensively with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in initiatives like Ensuring Skilled Attendance at Birth. C3 was requested by MoHFW to develop the Government of India Guidelines for Skilled Attendance at Birth by ANMs, Lady Health Visitors (LHVs) and Staff Nurses (SNs) and we have been part of the part of the expert group which developed the National Quality of Care Guidelines and the RMNCH+A strategy. In Bihar, we are a committee member of the State Level Working Group for Developing Women Empowerment Bill and Integrated Action Plan, Department of Social Welfare, and a TAG member under SCERT for Adolescent Education Program for developing curriculum.
We have been working with state education departments in Bihar and Jharkhand to implement Adolescent Education Programs (AEP) in Government Schools. Udaan, in Jharkhand is being implemented at scale in all 1425 government secondary and higher secondary schools in the state. We are also working with the governments of Delhi and Jharkhand in the implementation the SABLA scheme for empowerment of adolescent girls, and by helping implementation, we are also collecting evidence on what works and what needs to be strengthened so as to advocate for better implementation. In Bihar, the Adolescent Education Programs (AEP) Tarang is being implemented in 809 schools in nine districts in the state.
We have created and incubated model programs that enable and amplify women’s voices for entitlements, address structural issues of violence and use technology to capture quality of maternal health care. Our niche project in Bihar, Pahel, works with empowering elected women representatives to develop their agency and access health care and entitlements. Along with the Population Council, and the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), C3 is implementing the Do Kadam program which aims is testing innovative approaches to mitigate risk factors and promote protective factors underlying Violence against Women and reduce violence and threat of violence experienced by women and girls.
Some Key Challenges that our programmes are aimed at are as follows;
1. While a majority of women have very limited access to or knowledge about digital technology, an alarmingly low percentage of women make their own financial decisions. This lack of digital and financial literacy puts them at a distinct disadvantage, and adolescent girls are perhaps the most vulnerable – at a constant risk of losing out on education, sustainable livelihoods, and all the endless possibilities for agency and confidence-building that digital and financial literacy would afford them.
2. Women’s needs, issues, grievances and voices cannot be heard or addressed effectively without women knowing their rights and participating in processes of governance and policy-making. We need many more elected women representatives to bring about long-lasting change.
3. Stigma and silence around reproductive health, income inequalities, or simply a lack of knowledge and accurate information, hinder a lot of women from seeking out family planning services.
4. Very often, young people do not have a say in policy decisions that have a direct impact in their lives. Either they are seen as incapable of mature decision-making, or they are seen as vulnerable and meant to be protected from the outside world.
Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic:
Historical evidence has shown that the adverse effects of any calamity is felt most adversely by women and girls. When the COVID-19 lockdown first began, C3 had realized the need to provide immediate relief to the communities we work with, grappling with the socio-economic impact of the pandemic (closure of schools, loss of jobs, return of migrant workers to villages, rise in domestic violence, and so on). Our relief efforts in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam (and beyond) included both providing food, ration, hygiene kits, as well as educating communities on domestic violence, ensuring that girls do not drop out of school during the pandemic, educating pregnant women and new mothers on the precautions to take to protect themselves from COVID-19, distributing sanitary napkins to adolescent girls in remote areas, and so on. We also had to build new innovations to ensure that our projects could continue during the pandemic. As face-to-face trainings became unfeasible in Bihar, we started training elected women representatives (EWRs) through digital mediums and providing them with tele-support so they could look after the health and nutrition needs of their community. As schools were closed, our in-school projects became a challenge so we doubled our efforts to reach adolescents through community interventions and digital platforms. We also began building online training platforms and manuals for the service providers and maternal health institutions where we conduct trainings on respectful maternity care.
C3 began transitioning back to normalcy from March 2021 onwards but then the second wave of COVID-19 and consequent lockdowns again impacted our work. Our projects and field activities were once again hindered. We have therefore continued to leverage digital platforms, tele-support, and online communication to make sure that the needs of our beneficiaries continue to be addressed in these trying times.
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Centre for Catalyzing Change (formerly CEDPA India) designs and implements programs to improve the lives of women and girls with the core belief that women are critical for advancing global development, democracy and progress. Till date, we have touched the lives of over 1,900,000 girls across the country through our interventions. We have MIS reports, school lists, requests collected from grass roots and other methods to track progress.
As per Annual Report FY 2019-20
Girls’ education & youth development:
289458 reached through our in-school projects, 84798 reached through our community based, out-of-school projects, 7633 digitally and financially empowered through the Catalyzing Stakeholders that include 6800 schools. 6057 anganwadi workers, 5640 peer educators, 1060 school principals, 538 nodal teachers and 2812 ASHA workers
●YouthBol:1,10,092 young people surveyed across 27 States and 4 Union Territories of India across 3 different age groups (10 to 14 years, 15 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years.). We released the findings of the nationwide study at an event which brought together representatives of the government, civil society,and the media. ● More information and services to deal with substance abuse, including helplines and free rehabilitation centres. ● Information and resources to manage menstrual pain; information on and access to contraception and family planning services. ● Ending the stigma around mental health, and more awareness around mental health issues as
well as better access to non-judgemental, and affordable mental healthcare. ● Nutritious midday meals and clean toilets in schools. ● Essential life skills like decision-making, problem solving, conflict resolution, etc, to be a part of
their school curriculum. ● Information on gender-based violence and discrimination, gender identity and sexual orientation.
●Udaan is our niche in-school adolescent life skills programme in Jharkhand.: 234695 girls, 220446 boys in 5501 schools in 24 districts of Jharkhand
●Tarang equips schoolgoing adolescents in Bihar studying in class VI, VII and VIII with accurate, age appropriate and culturally relevant information that promotes healthy attitudes and enables them to effectively respond to real-world situations. : 68175 girls and 58575 boys in 909 schools of 10 districts of Bihar
●Akanksha trains girls in digital literacy and life skills and Badhtey Kadam seeks to equip adolescent girls aged between 14-19 from the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh with essential digital and financial literacy skills such as using an ATM card, browsing the internet etc.: 7273 through AKANKSHA across 53 Govt. Schools and 23 Anganwadi centres and 360 girls through Badhtey Kadam
●Manjari is our most recent project and has completed a year. It provides technical expertise in effective implementation of government policies in Gumla, Lohardaga and West Singbhum districts of Jharkhand by trainings for service providers, frontline workers and peer educators, and engagement with policymakers to ensure quality life skills education. It hopes to cover 850 schools, 4500 Anganwadi centres, 33 Blocks covering +500000 Adolescents.
Gender equity and governance:
●Pahel seeks to empower elected women representatives (EWRs): 1943 ERs from 201 Panchayats in Bihar.In Total 204 complaints were filed under the Bihar government’s Lok Jan Shikayat Act and 283 calls made to the state government’s toll free helpline number
●Hum Hain Champions project fosters interaction of elected women representatives (EWRs)with local health institutions and Anganwaadi Centres improving accountability: 2100 ERs from 358 Panchayats in Bihar.
Reproductive Health and Rights:
160 Midwives engaged, 15 batches of trainings of 327 service providers across 4 States Odisha, Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh, West Bengal. 191013 women reached through 'What Women Want'campaign
Small Grants:
Unniti disburses small grants to grassroots community-based organisations to bring about change in their own communities, build their capacities and maximize impact.: 38 lakhs worth of small grants to seven community-based organisations in remote, rural regions of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
FIVE Reports Released
● Women’s Economic Empowerment in Bihar: Opportunities and Challenges
● Ending the Practice of Dowry in Bihar: Young People’s Perceptions and Recommendations for Action
● Investing in Adolescent Girls in India – A Critical Need
● Amplifying Voices, Promoting Choices: Improving Access to Family Planning & Contraception Among Young Couples in Bihar
● Women & Girls in Bihar: Taking Stock, Looking Ahea; The Gender Report Card
POLICY ADVOCACY
● White Ribbon Alliance India (WRAI) for Safe Motherhood and C3’s Respectful Maternity Care guidelines were incorporated within trainings of healthcare providers under The National Health Mission’s LAQSHYA guidelines. The LAQSHYA guidelines are a government initiative that aims to improve quality of care in labour rooms.
●In another landmark achievement, WRAI and C3 helmed the drafting of multiple chapters for the Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN) national operational guidelines. Under the SUMAN scheme, pregnant women, mothers up to 6 months after delivery, and all sick newborns, are entitled to avail free healthcare benefits. The initiative also aims at assuring dignified, respectful and quality health care and zero tolerance for denial of services for every woman and newborn visiting a public health facility
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FY 2020-2021
FOOD AND ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES: COVID 19 RESPONSE
• provided food and basic hygiene kits to nearly 500 families of homeless and migrant workers in and around areas of Jama Masjid.
• supplied essential rations to 150 tribal families that live in remote villages around Surguja District, Chhattisgarh for at least a month.
• provided rations to 30 families for an entire month in Khandwa District, Madhya Pradesh.
• provide rations to 200 families in UP who have been
• Delivered one month’s rations to 300 families in Karnataka.
• Distributed health and nutrition kits to 4437 family members in Gumla, Jharkhand.
• Distributed 70 home shelter kits, 1800 masks and 250 soaps among community members in Howrah, West Bengal. Also distributing 1700 ration kits across 4 districts in West Bengal.
• Families in 3 developmental blocks of Assam (that is populated mainly with scheduled tribes) were endowed with 550 sq ft. of ‘homestead’ land to grow and sell their own food.
• Provided ration and essential supplies to 150 vulnerable community members in the Masaudhi and Paliganj blocks of Patna, Bihar.
• Supporting 100 malnourished children and 100 adolescent girls in East Champaran, Bihar, with essential rations and hygiene supplies.
SUPPORTING FIRST RESPONDERS: COVID 19 RESPONSE
• Distributing 2000 masks and sanitizers in 7 police stations in West Bengal.
• Providing basic hygiene kits (face masks and sanitizers) to ANMs and Sahiyas in 5 blocks of Lohardagga district, Jharkhand.
• Providing masks, sanitizers, and gloves to frontline workers, ASHAs, Chief Medical Health Officers in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.
• Distributing sanitizers to 142 frontline workers in Gumla, Jharkhand.
• Digitally sensitizing 180 Rogi Kalyan Samiti (RKS) members from the Kalahandi dist and 210 RKS members from the Balasore dist of Odisha.
AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS AND WEBINARS
- Creating and disseminating audio-visual messages in 4 languages with information around the care of and precautionary measures for pregnant women and new mothers during COVID-19 - delivered door-to-door in Rajasthan, Assam and West Bengal.
- Spreading door to door awareness around gender-based violence, preventive and legal measures, and information and access to help lines and connecting support services, to over 1000 families in 11 blocks of Gumla, Jharkhand.
-34 weekly webinars organized and 875 adolescents participated from the Bilaspur and Surguja districts of Chhattisgarh. They offered a safe space for adolescents to express their struggles during the pandemic, with discussions around their health, wellbeing, and personal experiences during COVID-19 often taking centre stage.
-761 health and wellness sessions conducted, out of which 700 Sessions conducted in Mohalla Classes, 61 sessions conducted online and 21515 students engaged under the School Health and Wellness Programme (SHWP)
-9 Virtual Mental Health sessions organized in Jharkhand with the support of state, district, and block level officials and 600 adolescents participated. These sessions often had mental health professionals talk about the importance of self-care, of identifying one’s mental health struggles, and to offer resources for seeking professional help.
-939 sangwari meetings (i.e a platform for the entire community to gather and discuss and strategize issues that collectively impact them) conducted and 7682 adolescents participated. 78 para meetings leveraged and 562 adolescents
- Adolescent Health Days (AHDs): Under the Government of India’s Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), C3 conducted 114 “Adolescent Health Days” in close collaboration with block and district officials in Surguja District, Chhattisgarh. 1891 adolescents, 27 Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), 80 members of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and 97 Mitanins participated
MENSTRUAL HYGIENE:
- Partnering with the Government of Jharkhand to ensure that even during lockdown, the government's supply of sanitary napkins (which was usually distributed in schools and community centres) reaches young girls.
- Distributing sanitary napkins to 1150 adolescent girls (including Peer Educators) in 5 blocks of Lohardagga, Jharkhand.
- Distributing sanitary napkins to 800 adolescents in Gumla, Jharkhand.
- Supplying sanitary pads to 240 girls from Bhadrak district and 3015 adolescent girls from 28 villages of Basudevpur block and 30 villages of Chandbali block, Odisha.
-Organised over 50 sessions (both virtual and face to face) to highlight why and how menstrual hygiene needs to be prioritized and also provided free sanitary napkins to the adolescent girls who participated in these sessions.
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
- a Livelihood Platform for sex workers in GB Road, Delhi, helping them earn their livelihood through alternative means. In the initial stage of this project, 5 women from 5 brothels were equipped to produce nearly 10,000 masks.
- Providing tele-support to 2000 elected women representatives (EWRs) from Bihar Gram Panchayats to equip them to understand COVID-19 protective measures and essential information on government entitlements.
- Providing sewing machines and raw material to women from self-help groups in the Balasore Municipality, Odisha, so they can manufacture and sell masks. As of February 2021, 1139 masks were made and 400 distributed per month.
DIGITAL LITERACY:
-Badhtey Kadam: We trained around 150 girls (in 10 groups) in various aspects of digital and financial literacy, imparting knowledge around the use of computer softwares, cybersecurity, the use of online wallets and e-commerce platforms, and the internet.
-Akanksha: With the easing of lockdowns in June 2020, the C3 team could gradually begin organizing adolescents into small groups and conduct digital literacy sessions (while following the required COVID-19 protocols) in Jharkhand. a total 1480 adolescent girls successfully completed these trainings.
PROMOTING RESPECTFUL MATERNITY CARE (RMC): Since 2020, C3 and WRAI (White Ribbon Alliance International) have been working to build recognition and value around midwifery-led care, and facilitating inter-professional collaboration between midwives and other healthcare providers especially nurses and doctors.
• C3/WRAI has been facilitating the inclusion of RMC in 3 high caseload facilities in the Cuttack district of Odisha, through mentoring and trainings of care providers, and constant monitoring of the quality of service delivery in these institutions.
• The Government of Telangana sought out our help to shape a cadre of 380 Master Trainers master trainers in 160 health institutions across 33 districts
• C3/WRAI, in an effort to assess the impact of COVID-19 on their day-to-day lives, including their access to reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health services, conducted a phone-based survey in 5 states of India - Rajasthan, WB, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. This lived realities survey ultimately helped us build a concrete call to action to tackle issues brought on by the pandemic, and helped build community-level interventions to encourage women belonging to rural communities to access essential reproductive health services during the pandemic.
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FY 2020-2022
• In the last five years we have reached over 1.3 million girls and women across 15 states in India. Er have trained over 30,000 women leaders across Bihar and UP. Trained over 1000 health care professionals on Respectful maternity care
• Proportion of girls in our project Gumla (Jharkhand) attending school/ college increased in the intervention group from 82% in the baseline to 95% in Endline and More girls from the intervention group (76%) in the endline aspire to study up to Graduation and above than baseline (46%).
• In another project in West Singhbum There is an increase in knowledge about Jharkhand Skill Development Mission (JSDM) from 27% in baseline and 34% in comparison arm to 61% in intervention arm in endline, 46% girls & 48% married girls in endline intervention group know that DV is physical or mental violence between husband and wife, while this proportion was 30% in baseline and 20% in comparison group
• Knowledge about methods of contraception among adolescents in the age group 15-21 years has increased from 62% (girls: 60%, boys: 64%) in baseline to 76% (girls: 80%, boys: 70%) in intervention arm during endline.
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Since its inception in 1987, Centre for Catalyzing Change’s (C3’s) work has centred around equipping women and girls in India to realize their rights, access opportunities, and make informed choices. We have been among the pioneers of innovative at-scale projects in India, from creation, design, implementation, to impact. Formerly an American organization known as ‘Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)’, we registered as an Indian entity in 2002. While making this shift, we realized the importance of understanding the lived experiences of grassroots communities and building change from ground up. Hence, we have since advocated and collaborated with various government entities to address these often-ignored lived realities. Since adolescence is a critical foundational time, our first ever program in India revolved around adolescent development, and today, our adolescent education projects are implemented across multiple high-burdened states of India and are widely recognized by various state governments. In 1992, while working on the largest triparty grant that any Indian organization had implemented, we realized the dire need for respectful maternity care in India. In 1999, this led to the inception of the White Ribbon Alliance (WRAI), an alliance of local and national organizations to shape quality maternal and newborn healthcare in India. Today, this alliance has grown into a global movement. We also strengthen women’s voices in local governance. In 2006, we began training grassroots women leaders to champion women’s health and nutrition in their communities, and today, this project is in its 15th year of implementation, and going strong.
The very ethos of C3’s work has hinged on two important things: long-term engagement in high-burden states, by entering into partnerships and collaborations with state governments; and working at scale, to bring extensive, sustainable, and long-term impact. Our district saturation model enables us to take our projects to every corner of an entire district, by leveraging government resources for activities and extending technical support to effectively implement government programs within the district. C3’s strength also lies in advocacy, through which we often also influence inclusions to existing implementation plans for government schemes and programs. C3’s approach of working within the framework of government collaboration rather than creating a parallel structure ensures sustainability and optimum utilization and ownership of resources in an already resource-constrained setting. Currently, we have signed MOUs with various state governments to implement government schemes like the RKSK and the School Health and Wellness Program.
We also ensure that the baseline and end-line assessments of our projects are done externally, for greater accountability and transparency.
A future in India where girls and women are fully empowered, enabled and realize their rights and opportunities achieving gender equality.
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31/03/2023
Dr. Aparajita Gogoi holds a PhD (International Politics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a Post graduate diploma in Journalism and has 20 years of extensive experience in program management, with expertise in designing and implementing programs, advocacy campaigns, and defining approaches and strategies for policy issues in population. Graced by WIE Humanitarian Award, Dr. Gogoi was also named as one of the 100 of world’s most inspiring women by the newspaper, Guardian, UK. Dr. Gogoi is the Executive Director, of Centre for Catalyzing Change (Formerly CEDPA India)
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We are always on the lookout for volunteers who share our mission for empowering and equipping women and girls in rural, remote regions, and who can help us implement our projects on the field by engaging with communities and with the issues we work on. If you are interested in volunteering with us on the field, you can find more details here: https://www.c3india.org/volunteer-with-us
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