Our Current Projects

What We Do

Multiyear Health and Nutrition Support Services

Supported By : CRY

CRY has been one of the oldest partners of SRISHTI. Over the past two decades SRISHTI and CRY have collectively designed and implemented a series of projects.
The current project is on providing a systems approach to health and nutrition.
SRISHTI has identified gaps and issues in the effective functioning of health service providing units and systems - from district to village level - to overcome.
SRISHTI also work closely with identified stakeholders from systems as well as community levels and builds their capacities and creates awareness in order to ensure the provision and access to quality health services.
To tackle malnutrition, SRISHTI follows a continuum of care approach. Malnutrition begins from the womb – a weak, anemic mother is most likely to give birth to a small, low birth weight baby, who grows up to be a malnourished toddler if she is not cared for sufficiently.
Our model is comprehensive and innovative due to 3 main differentiators: The continuum of care model; which begins with preventive and includes the tertiary care curative Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers; the use of technology in data monitoring and analysis and the integration of program processes with the Integrated Child Development Services.

Development of Natural Resource Based Livelihoods in Tribal Areas (NRL)

Supported By : SWISSAID

The overall goal of the project is to increase fish productivity of local freshwater bodies using native communities’ traditional knowledge of habitat restoration and by introducing modern techniques of fisheries management.
Increased fish productivity is expected to result in to enhanced household income of 3900 individuals (780 households) from PVTG, ST, NT and SC communities, over the next 2- 3 years.
The intervention is also expected to increase supply of nutritious fish food in the project villages.
The project has created infrastructure and know-how required for accomplishing these goals. The infrastructures and services created and provided during the project include: (1) restoration of aquatic habitats of 14 community managed water bodies, (2) creation of 16 fish seed rearing units by constructing 06 earthen water tanks, 07 pen culture units and 03 bamboo cages in 14 villages; and (3) capacity building of 16 community institutions (06 fisheries cooperatives, 08 Gram Sabha authorised fishing groups and 02 women collectives).
Learnings from the project are captured in the form of a policy brief which would be useful for promoting project activities through existing government welfare schemes.

DEVELOP SKILLS AND GENERATE SCOPE FOR EMPLOYMENT AND RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF TRIBAL POCKET

Supported By : PwC Foundation

This project improves access to sustainable livelihoods by introducing sustainable fisheries and honey collection practices and production to the vulnerable rural and tribal communities in Kurkheda and Desaiganj of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra.

This project helps household access fisheries and honey related information and market knowledge, provides skills and resources to the community (and individual) in becoming entrepreneurs, as compare d to the current state of using their produce only for personal consumption.

The Project has is currently running in seven villages with 259 households, impacting more than 1150 community members.

Supplemental Online Education in Govt Schools

Supported By : eVidyalok

The program is tied to local government schools and provides online training by volunteer teachers in remote locations such as Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore as well from outside of the country.
Through this program, in school training is supported with material and content from online teachers.
The program is being run in over 10 Zilha Parishad schools in the villages of Shankarpur, Kasari, Gothangaon, Yengalkheda, Malewada, Jambhulkheda, Gewardha, Kasari, Boldha and Choup.
The school was provided with internet connectivity, video conferencing equipment and also trainer-volunteer at the school.
We have 10 volunteers for a center, and they teach the approx. 2000 students of zillha parishad schools.

Strengthening Economic Opportunities for the Rural Poor through Natural Resource based Livelihood initiatives

Supported By : Foundation for ecological security

Through project interventions, SRISHTI is carrying out selected village-based interventions in 70 villages in Gadchiroli that have the potential to improve the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities. 10,000 beneficiaries are benefiting from the proposed participation in these villages. Efforts are being made to increase the income of beneficiaries by 20-30% following various forest and agriculture-based interventions. These interventions are based on forest and agriculture-based livelihood activities that benefit 60% of households including 100% female-headed households. Funds from government programs such as MGNREGA are used to restore forests and water bodies in project-affected villages where rights under the CFR have been secured. There is a consolidation of various available government schemes for the benefit of village communities entitled under CFR.