Covid Action Collab hosted a webinar on emotional and mental wellbeing of vulnerable groups – children, adolescents, young women and women in the workplace. The session covered the following: Exclusion of vulnerable groups by their own communities in the name of social distancing Challenges related to adoption of behaviour...
With more than 77 million confirmed cases across the globe, COVID-19 pandemic is a global emergency that calls for unprecedented multi-sectoral collaboration for social good. As international partners work together on the response, tracking the pandemic, advising on critical interventions, distributing vital medical supplies to those in need, they...
The Covai Trans Kitchen is probably a first of its kind. This restaurant in Coimbatore is entirely managed and operated by a group of transgenders. Just around the corner of the busy bus stop, it serves delicious biriyani and set-menu meals. Their most popular item being the ‘unlimited biriyani’. ...
Priya (name changed) was among the many who lost their jobs and found themselves facing an uncertain future during the COVID-19 induced lockdown in India. As a sex worker and a daily wage labourer at local APMC, the 34-year-old widow and mother of two, from Peresandra village in Chikkaballapur,...
CDD Society is a non-governmental organization in the water and sanitation sector, involved in designing and implementing integrated and decentralized nature-based solutions for the growing water and sanitation management issues across India and South Asia. The #COVIDActionCollab spoke with Rohini Pradeep (Project Manager, CDD Society), to understand their experience as part...
Background In order to explore how tele-care innovations are working to address service gaps and help communities adapt to COVID-19 realities, the COVID Action Collaborative is publishing a series of articles that highlight various tele-care initiatives launched by CAC partners. This piece is the second article in this series....
Background As COVID-19 spreads throughout India and globally, the availability of essential and primary care services is critical now more than ever. Diversion of resources to the COVID-19 response coupled with lockdowns and mobility restrictions have compromised the availability of these services. Many communities are unaware of how to...
The #COVIDActionCollab congregated online for its first ever partner’s conference, on #StrongerTogether, to celebrate power of networks and collaborations for social good, centered around collaborative actions around the COVID-19 response. The virtual conference was attended by over 210 participants, including stakeholders from the government, private sector, civil society and...
Fieldscope is a social-enterprise catalyzing skilled-collaboration for India’s development sector practitioners and researchers, using technology. They do this in two ways: Fieldscope Marketplace: A platform for flexible and remote-work collaboration through a marketplace of independent talent. Fieldscope Managed: Bespoke solutions to meet the communications needs for development researchers...
On March 24th, 2020, the Government of India put a nation of 1.3 billion people under lockdown to contain the raging spread of COVID-19. While on one hand, COVID-19 and the lockdown disrupted the economy and put millions of livelihoods at risk, on the other hand, they increased demand...
