UNICEF implemented a multisectoral flood response intervention facilitating on the ground implementation raising community awareness, promoting WASH and COVID-19 preventive behaviors, and facilitating access and inclusion in government relief assistance programs in affected districts. The current implementing partners were expected to facilitate an assessment of the humanitarian cash transfers being provided during floods. As SIGMA… Continue reading Inclusive Social Policy
Terres des hommes (Tdh), an impartial and independent international NGO, presently working in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha on child right desired to have an appropriate analysis of the situation of access to child right, protection of children, access to juvenile justice, status of child survival including safe delivery and perinatal care, implementation of various… Continue reading Situation Analysis of the Status of Child Rights and Child Protection in West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar
WFPI took up a programme for improving WASH in Rajnagar & Khoyrasole blocks of Birbhum. The staffs engaged for the project as well as the Panchayat officials of the project area were to be trained on various aspects of WASH, which was taken up by SIGMA Foundation. The issues of water security, source sustainability, access… Continue reading Training & workshop & module development by Water for People India Trust (WFPIT) in collaboration with National Stock Exchange Foundation in Birbhum district of West Bengal
Save the Children India intends to implement a project on Child Poverty entitled, “New Horizons Plus, 2020-2023’’ in Kolkata and South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal. They desire to scale up its on-going New Horizons Programme in West Bengal. The proposed project is for the vulnerable adolescents and youths (15-24 years) who are engaged… Continue reading Baseline Study for project titled New Horizons Plus 2020-2023 in West Bengal
NSE Foundation is a Section 8 company that undertakes the CSR activities of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and its subsidiaries (NSE Group) across India. They funded a project entitled, Creating Disaster Resilient and Child Friendly Model Schools in Odisha implemented by Plan International (India Chapter). In total 9 schools in Khordah district… Continue reading Impact Assessment of Creating Disaster Resilient and Child Friendly Model Schools in Odisha
ITC desired to explore the feasibility of improving solid waste management in Ward No. 80 of Kolkata Municial Corporation. (KMC) The work order was issued by its partner WFPI. Apart form quantifictin of the solid waste generate the system of collection and disposal of waste by the KMC was to be evaluated along with suggestions… Continue reading Solid Waste Management in Ward No. 80 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Ajim Premji University accepted a proposal of SIGMA Foundation to study the system of Gram Kachhari of Bihar, the unique system of elected judiciary at the Gram Panchayat level based on request for proposal in the sector for local governance. The study was conducted through collecting qualitative and quantitative data across all the divisions of… Continue reading Study of the Institution of Gram Kachahari in Bihar
The PCA was made with UNICEF with multiple deliverables such as (i) Initiate roll out of Implementing Support Agencies (ISAs) and Village Action Plans (VAPs) /Gram Panchayat Action Plans (GPAPs) in 5 blocks of four Districts as per JJM Operational Guidelines with a Climate risk and COVID-19 lens, (ii) Carry out specific climate resilient WASH… Continue reading Facilitating Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission, Climate Resilient WASH Interventions and Mainstreaming Hand Hygiene in Context of COVID-19 Pandemic in West Bengal
Regeneration of the endangered ecosystem on the Sundarban Islands through afforestation and strengthening the capacities of the target group and local stakeholders to manage natural resources independently and sustainably and to build sustainable livelihoods. Lobbying and sensitisation of the target group, civil society, and government institutions to incorporate climate change adaptation strategies into local development… Continue reading Baseline Evaluation of Adaptation to climate change and resilience building on the Sundarbans Islands through afforestation and promotion of sustainable livelihoods
The target of the project is to conserve Sundarbans’s rich yet threatened natural resource base of flora and fauna; increase the number of trees which are important for CO2 absorption; enhance coastal protection and biodiversity of the region; empower the climate vulnerable coastal communities of Sundarbans through their transition to sustainable eco-friendly livelihoods, improvement of… Continue reading Endline evaluation on Climate Adaptation and resilience building on the Sundarbans Islands