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Centre for Catalyzing Change

New Delhi, India

Grants

2015 (5 years 2 months)
$400,000

Established in 2002, the Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) works in India to improve the lives of girls, women, and young people by empowering them with skills to build better lives. This award to C3 provides support for the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood India (WRAI), a national network of civil society advocates devoted to the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity in India; C3 serves as the Secretariat for the WRAI. C3 is partnering with WRAI to mobilize its members, broad-based stakeholder group, and citizens to address the need for respectful maternity care within the ambit of quality of care, in order to improve services for women and accelerate action toward reduction in maternal mortality. WRAI is also building awareness among key players on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and advocating for tools to track key maternal health indicators in India.

2013 (2 years 11 months)
$225,000

The grant will support CEDPA India to develop and deliver a digital media and learning curriculum on sexual and reproductive health to young adolescents in schools in Delhi and Jharkhand. It is expected that the project will equip the adolescents with enhanced knowledge and life skills to make healthy life choices.

2012 (1 year 2 months)
$153,591

The Centre for Catalyzing Change in India seeks, through its YouthLIFE program, to improve adolescent girls' and boys' knowledge and decision making around critical life choices that advances their sexual and reproductive health rights via education, information sharing, peer support, access to services and new technologies.

2012 (3 years 5 months)
$290,000

The grant to CEDPA India will provide support for the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood India (WRAI), a national network of civil society advocates devoted to the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity. The grant will enable the WRAI to implement a social accountability project in two states that will help demonstrate how civil society efforts can hold service providers and policy makers more accountable for ensuring access to and the quality of public health services mandated under the government’s National Rural Health Mission.