Sector
SDG 12
Project Brief: SDG 12 Ensures Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns. The organisation is committed to more efficient and environmentally friendly management of resources including improving energy efficiency, and access to basic services to ensure a better quality of life for all.
The project addresses the goal by developing a perspective related to understanding environmental and social impacts and how these are affected by individual lifestyles among children and communities through different Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) activities executing the concept of 4R (Respect, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle). Storytelling sessions and extracurricular activities with the school children along with a mid-media campaign in the form of street play helped in raising awareness for making informed choices in reducing food waste, single use of plastics, carrying reusable bags, and being thoughtful about choosing sustainable options whenever possible.
- Operating States: Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat & Maharashtra
SDG 6
Project Brief: Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation calls for the global community to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. The project complemented largely the objectives of SDG -6 in terms of bringing a behavioural change in the areas of hygiene and sanitation and witnessing remarkable success through different innovative activities and events. It also created a movement to promote hygiene practices in schools, health facilities, and communities.
The project reached out to 12 crore population including children across 36 states and Union Territories and worked in close association with Ministries, Government Departments, Public institutions, and civil society organisations.
- National Campaign on Promoting Good Habits
- Operating States: Pan India (Across 36 States & UT)
SDG 7, 11, 13
Project Brief: The following SDG Goals to address Climate change and sustainability are the following.
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy.
Goal 11: Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
Goal 13: – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
As it is critical to survive on our planet and the judicious use of resources, an innovative approach has been undertaken in the project to make children sensitive to the issues of sustainable development as children are already affected by climate change. Storytelling sessions were conducted with school children for promoting an environment-friendly lifestyle and the importance of respecting, reducing, reusing, and recycling resources overall complementing SDGs 7,11,13
Through this project 3525 schoolchildren from 105 schools have raised their awareness and are taking small actions towards saving resources in their communities.
- Social Programmes for Children to address Climate Change and Environment Lifestyle
- Implementing the 4R Principle in Model Villages of Jharkhand and Complementing Mission LiFE – Lifestyle for environment
- Operating states: Jharkhand, Haryana, Gujarat & Delhi
SDG 5, 10
Social Protection
Project Brief: Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Goal 10: Reducing inequality within and among countries. The project intervened on gender-related issues. A feasibility study on Business Verification Survey was undertaken to complement the above-mentioned SDGs on assessing the impact of comics which can motivate and empower women and deal with gender-related issues. Through these comics, the issue of women’s empowerment is addressed through the broad concept of information with fun.
- Addressing Women’s Empowerment Through Comic Books
Operating States: PAN India
SDG 1, 2, 5, 16
Rural Livelihood & Governance
Project Brief:
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 2: Zero Hunger,
Goal 5 – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Goals 1,2 & 5 strive to end poverty in all forms and address gender equality in the livelihood sector with equal pay and wages. To address a project was carried out in support of a large research organisation of Japan to find solutions by studying their business ecosystem, the rural needs of the farmers, and the role of farmers’ organizations, and cooperatives, contributing to the overall improvement of the livelihood of farmers.
- Contributing Factors for the Overall Improvement of Farmers
- Assessing the Human Well-being Index of Farmers
- Operating States: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal
SDG 17
Inclusive Partnership
Project Brief: Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development In this Inclusive Partnership vertical, the organization is committed to forging partnerships between the Government, the private sector, and civil society organizations at regional and national levels.
- Operating States: Pan India (Across 36 States & UT)