Pointers to help you recognise us
In view of the confusion that may arise due to similar sounding names of organisations and also since swaasthya means health in Hindi, here are some pointers to help you recognise us–
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Our logo is displayed above |
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We are spelt as SWAASTHYA |
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We were registered as a trust in February 1995 |
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Our founder is Dr. Geeta Sodhi |
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Swaasthya head office at New Delhi, India |
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Branch office at Malegaon, Maharashtra |
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Some of the completed projects are:
- Delivery of clinical services in Tigri Resettlement colony and Nagla Machi Slum
Supported by Population Foundation of India in which clinical services were provided through a fully equipped mobile unit with the objective to improve the reproductive and sexual health status of women and adolescent girls by providing clinical services through a comprehensive package.
- Indo-Pak Exchange Program
With support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Swaasthya designed and undertook this project to strengthen adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs in South Asia. As a beginning, at the heart of the project was peer learning, or learning through face to face contact and visits to the programs, in both countries. Besides the visits to programs in India (Bihar and Jharkahnd) and Pakistan there were sharing meeting (of cross learning), and documentation of selected programs.
Swaasthya, in its role as a facilitator and coordinator of the learning experience, put in place certain processes essential in successful and meaningful learning. The purpose of the peer learning exchange programme was to learn about strategies that had worked within organizations for achieving objectives, and explore the potential for replicability of these strategies for the same set of objectives.
India visit-21st -30th May 2007
Pakistan visit 9th -16th July 2007
- HIV/AIDS and Gender Based Violence (GBV) : Linking Advocacy at the Grass-Roots in China, India, Thailand and Vietnam
Supported by Havard School of Public Health (HSPH) under the international health and human rights program, this project seeks to integrate HIV/AIDS and gender based violence using human rights and sexual principles. This work was a collaborative effort between Swaasthya and Action India, another Delhi based NGO.
- Assessment of Swaasthya’s Strategic approach to family planning
Using a unique approach to Reproductive and Sexual Health (RSH), Swaasthya has developed a model based on community needs and feedback in an environment of economic and social development. It has focused on women’s empowerment through Mahila Panchayats (MPs) and Micro Credit Groups (Self Help Groups). Wanting to share this experience with others working in the field of RH, Swaasthya conducted this study with support from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, primarily to assess its own strategic approach to family planning and compare and contrast it with other services of private and Government facilities. This study validated Swaasthya’s strategic approach.
- David & Lucile Packard Foundation Supported Leadership Fellows Visit
Following the IWHM, Swaasthya coordinated a visit of Packard supported Leadership Development Fellows from Pakistan, Philippines and Bihar & Jharkhand in India to various ARSH programmes in Delhi.
- The Feasibility and Effectiveness of Transferring a Comprehensive Community Based Model for Adolescent Sexual Health: An Intervention Research Study
Supported by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), this was the research component of the replication project that looks at replicating Swaasthya’s existing Adolescent Reproductive & Sexual Health Model in another community (an urban slum) in Delhi through a partner agency.
The intervention component of the replication project was supported by The Ford Foundation.
- Strategic Assessment of Reproductive Health in Rajasthan
Swaasthya implemented Strategic Assessment (phase I) in the State of Rajasthan with help from IIHMR and technical support from ICOMP, Kuala Lumpur, and in consultation with the Government of Rajasthan.
There were three stages of Strategic Approach. Strategic Assessment was the 1st stage of the approach. It relied on existing information and field based data collection to generate timely answers to strategic questions about how to provide reproductive health services with good quality of care. The findings and conclusions, including answers to strategic questions, result in recommendations for policy changes, programme interventions and for action research.
This project was supported by the World Health Organisation and Rockefeller Foundation.
- Sexual Behaviour Research Among Adolescents in Tigri (supported by Rockefeller Foundation): a qualitative study with adolescent girls and boys of the community to find out their vulnerability, especially of adolescent girls, to HIV/AIDS, STIs, unwanted pregnancy and sexual coercion. The findings of this study informed Swaasthya’s adolescent programme for girls.
- Enhancing Couple Communication in Reproductive Health (supported by Population Council): a study that looked at existing levels of communication between spouses vis-à-vis reproductive health issues.
- Introducing Social Marketing of Reproductive Technologies in Urban Slums (supported by International Council on Management of Population Programmes – ICOMP): an action research, the objectives of which were to introduce social marketing through existing systems and to enhance the reproductive health status of the people in the community through improved practices.
- To Develop, Evaluate and Disseminate a Comprehensive Community Based Model for Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (supported by Ford Foundation): an intervention research, the primary objective was to enhance the sexual health of adolescent girls by addressing them and their “immediate” environment through a participatory, community development approach.
- A Study on Informal Providers of Abortion Services in a Resettlement Colony of Delhi (supported by HealthWatch): a qualitative study to map and profile informal abortion providers.
- Needs Assessment Study on Population and Development Education for Children (supported by UNICEF): the objectives of the study were to study the concerns and information needs of students as perceived by themselves, by teachers and parents and to identify constraints in implementing population education project.
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