This project empowers pregnant and lactating women and their 0 to 3 years children by improving awareness about public health and nutrition services, and increasing access to these services through local interventions. To enable this, beneficiaries, community level stakeholders orientation workshop was conducted with the involvement in the project including frontline service providers ANM, Anganwadi, and ASHA workers, in the selected slum areas.
Objectives
The COVID pandemic underlined the importance of well-functioning public health services. Although public health services are chronically underfunded and understaffed, poor and marginalised people depend critically on them. In the post-pandemic recovery period, nationally and globally, there is a renewed call with urgency to invest and improve public services without further delay. On this background, SATHI’s perspective to improve public health services by enabling local communities, particularly marginalised sections, to create inclusive mechanisms for dialogue between communities and public health functionaries while deepening the accountability culture is valuable. So, SATHI is activating institutionally mandated participatory forums to enable communities to access improved health services.
Objectives
SATHI focuses on specific rural and urban health institutions and processes to enhance access to health services. The organization has initiated community-level dialogues between health functionaries and the public, with the goal of highlighting community perceptions of health services in meetings with health officials.
Objectives
Strengthening access to maternal and child health nutrition services in the tribal area of four districts of Maharashtra by empowering local community, thereby improving ANC, PNC care and reducing malnutrition.
Objectives
While pandemic-related academic and epidemiological research is abundant, there is undoubtedly a dearth of narrative analysis that captures people’s stories. Almost every house in India has a Covid – 19 story to tell. These stories are predominantly about who died, who was exploited in the hospital, who took a bribe, and who can help get a vaccine; a mind boggling variety of distress experiences.
Predictably, the massive state machinery is out to control the narrative, and hide its abject failure in protecting citizens. The contestation is to fix the meaning of the pandemic experience. We at SATHI, believe this is an opportune time to work on health narratives, to enhance the effectiveness of our work on transparency, accountability and governance. We endeavour to combine extended individual monologues related to experiences of seeking health care during the pandemic, and create a collage of voices to puncture the dominant narrative that abdicates the government of gross neglect.
We seek to work on equitable health systems for the post-Covid world, using narrative strategies to change discourse on universal health care, for strengthening public healthcare, and regulating the private health sector.
Three broad objectives