SATHI’s Working Group is a democratic body responsible for all major decision making. It monitors and reviews projects/activities, finances, personnel and administrative matters, and takes relevant decisions. It is also responsible for staff recruitment and evaluation, redressal of grievances, and planning future organisational strategies. The WG uses democratic and transparent processes, and decisions are by consensus. Members of the WG are elected by the staff, and it has representation of different levels of administrative and project staff. The WG Co-ordinator is an ex-officio member of the WG.
Members : Ramdas Shinde, Swapnil Vyavahare, and Trupti Malti
Ex-officio : Dr. Dhananjay Kakade
The Program Development Committee (PDC) provides programmatic direction to SATHI, and monitors and maintains quality of work undertaken, to ensure it is in consonance with its overall goals and mission of the orgaanisation. The PDC reviews all materials produced, including reports, working papers, policy briefs, manuals, research proposals, posters and social messages. It scrutinizes methodology related issues of all projects, and certifies them.
Convenor – Dr. Dhananjay Kakade
Internal members (AT trustees) – Dr. Vibhuti Patel, Dr. Mohan Deshpande
External members – Dr. Mathew George, Brian Lobo, Dr Kishor Khillare, and Dr. Ritu Parchure.
Secretariat – Shweta Marathe
Institutional ethics committee at Anusandhan Trust is a multi-disciplinary independent body which reviews all its research activities as defined in the Standard Operating Procedure. The IEC’s panel of external and internal members are selected by trustees of Anusandhan Trust based on their expertise and scientific knowledge. AT-IEC is provisionally registered with National Ethics Committee Registry for Biomedical and Health Research, Department of Health Research National Ethics Committee Registry for Biomedical and Health Research – EC/NEW/IND/2023/MH/0339
The IEC-AT can be contacted via email at iec@cehat.org or the phone on +91 915 24 41949External Members
Secretariate
The Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) responds to employee grievances regarding any decision/action, or dispute. The GRC intervene when all attempts to resolve a grievance informally, within the team fail. The decision of the WG is binding unless the employee appeals against it to the Governing Board (GB), whose decision then, is final. The GB may not be approached directly unless the nature of the grievance makes it unavoidable, e.g. grievance against the Coordinator. Any grievance presented to the GRC must be in writing and should be signed by the complainant. Anonymous grievances are not accepted. For grievances presented on behalf of someone else, consent of the aggrieved party is mandatory.
When the complaint/grievance is accompanied by the resignation
Members : Shweta Marathe, Sharda Mahalle, Deepali Yakkundi, & Swapnil Vyavahare
SATHI offers a working and learning environment, free of discrimination and intimidation. It is committed to tackling complaints of sexual harassment promptly, impartially, sensitively and confidentially. The ICC scrutinises any complaints of sexual harassment. As the definition by the Supreme Court of sexual harassment is open to varied interpretations, SATHI has specified unfavourable behaviour that could constitute sexual harassment.
Internal Members:
Presiding officer: Shweta Marathe
Members: Sharda Mahalle, Deepali Yakkundi, and Swapnil Vyavahare
External Member: Ms. Renuka Mukadam