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India Open Grants Programme - Grants made from September 2016

Paul Hamlyn Foundation is very pleased to announce that since September 2016, we have made the following grants from our India Open Grants Programme.

India Open Grants The Banyan Grant amount: ₹16,200,000 Grant duration: 36 months Location: South/Tamil Nadu and Kerala, West/Maharashtra and Central/Chhattisgarh Project: Clustered Group Homes - alternate and inclusive assisted living options - Phase 2 Description: The Banyan is one of the largest mental health service organisations in India. They will set up alternative and inclusive assisted living options to systematically address the issue of long term care for people recovering from serious mental illnesses. The Banyan will work towards successful transition of 300 people from care institutions to shared homes. It will also develop a ‘replication through adaptation toolkit’. Dang Vikas Sansthan, Karauli Grant amount: ₹6,771,516 Grant duration: 36 months Location: North/Rajasthan Project: Working to ensure the entitlements of the mine workers of Karauli District of Rajasthan - Phase 2 Description: Dang Vikas Sansthan (DVS) was formed to address local development issues relating to poverty in the Karauli region of eastern Rajasthan. A first phase grant focused on work with mine workers in the region. During that period, progress was made towards improving working conditions and 4,500 new suspected cases of silicosis were identified. This second phase grant will help to improve the lives of mine workers by improving working conditions in the mines and exploring alternative safe livelihoods.

Digdarshika, Institute of Rehabilitation and Research Grant amount: ₹ 6,891,704 Grant duration: 36 months Location: Central/Madhya Pradesh Project: Spreading a model of comprehensive inclusive education for children with disabilities- Phase 3 Description: Digdarshika provides specialised services for people with disabilities, including early intervention and special schools. As part of its programme of community-based interventions, Digdarshika has developed and tested a methodology for working towards inclusive education in government schools for children with Special Educational Needs. This third phase grant will support a collaboration with Parvarish, another PHF grantee based in Gwalior, to help them to take on this work and expand this approach to the rural areas of Gwalior. Institute for Psychological Health Grant amount: ₹ 6,180,030 Grant duration: 24 months Location: West/Maharashtra Project: TRIDAL: Community-based rehabilitation project for patients recovering from schizophrenia Description: Institute of Psychological Health (IPH) is a specialist organisation working on the management and treatment of mental illnesses. This grant will focus on the social rehabilitation of patients living with Schizophrenia. IPH’s approach focuses on understanding the mental health needs of the patient, providing counselling and treatment, and ensuring the patient’s community plays a positive role in their care. IPH will work to help improve lives of around 100 schizophrenia patients over a two year period: reducing the burden of caregivers and providing greater visibility to treatment of mental illnesses. Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed Grant amount: ₹5,072,600 Grant duration: 24 months Location: East/West Bengal Project: Responding to gender issues through theatre Description: Jana Sanskriti uses a form of forum theatre called Theatre of Oppressed to address the social issues of marginalisation and oppression that emerge from a patriarchal mind-set. Jana Sanskriti, which has over thirty years of experience using these tools, will create a network of theatre teams in local communities to act together to address issues of child marriage, trafficking and the drop-out of girls from education.

Nedan Foundation Grant amount: ₹ 4,185,000 Grant duration: 24 months Location: North East/Assam Project: Combating trafficking in source areas through education and creating livelihood Description: Nedan is a well renowned organisation in the field of counter-trafficking and have received awards for their work in the North East India. Nedan works to create a protective environment to prevent trafficking in Kokrajhar District, Bodoland Territorial Council of Assam. This grant will allow Nedan to set up an adolescents’ club, survivors’ network and to work closely with police to intervene and counter trafficking in the region. Nedan will also work to provide more livelihood opportunities to vulnerable families. New Alipore Praajak Development Society Grant amount: ₹ 10,742,170 Grant duration: 36 months Location: East/West Bengal Project: MUKTANGAN - Phase 2 Description: Set up in 1997, Praajak, works to build a gender equitable and just society for children vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. Its primary focus is to address issues of children living on railway platforms. It provides walk in open shelters near stations where children can receive counselling and emergency services. This grant will continue this work and demonstrate that this model is a viable alternative to closed shelters. The grant will also establish newer and innovative practices. North East Network Grant amount: ₹ 4,975,071 Grant duration: 24 months Location: North East/ Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram Project: Green Hub: youth-based digital ‘docu-center’ for people's biodiversity Description: North East Network (NEN), which has been working in the north eastern region of India since 1995, adopts an intersectional approach to various forms of rights violations and discrimination. The NEN's Green Hub will engage young people and communities in the conservation of biodiversity. They will use innovative audio-visual mediums to renew and revive love and respect for protecting natural resources and encouraging these communities to be the environmental spokespersons of tomorrow. The grant will create a platform for young people to connect with each other, learn a livelihood and to provide new avenues of opportunity. The main focus of the grant is a fellowship programme for youth from the region to learn filming, biodiversity and conservation.

Society for Rural Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI) Grant amount: ₹ 15,804,993 Grant duration: 36 months Location: East/Jharkhand and Orissa. Central/Chattisgarh Project: SRUTI Fellowship Programme - from Peoples Organisation to Panchayati Raj - Phase 3 Description: Society for Rural Urban and Tribal Initiative works towards social change at the grass roots level across rural and urban India, through its Fellowship programme. It is committed to empowering marginalised people to lead a dignified life with access to livelihood, resources, rights and justice. This grant will take the learning from the first two phases, which focused on building linkages between collective action initiatives and panchayats with eight fellows in three states, and expand this practice to all of SRUTIs 21 fellows in 10 states.