Swasti

Swasti is an established nonprofit in India that hosts COVID Action Collaborative (CAC) – a collective of over 310 community-based organizations that focuses on COVID response and recovery for the most vulnerable groups. A third of these partners work directly with about 4.3 million Indigenous people. This project aims to build the capacities of Indigenous peoples’ organizations (IPO), and to strengthen them to ensure that they survive and thrive during and after the pandemic. Swasti intensively supports 50-70 such organizations representing different Indigenous people, addressing three critical areas: (a) mentoring leaders and building IPO plans that restore hope and provide pathways; (b) financial support for key human resource and operational cost to enable continuance; and (c) enabling connection to peers and access to knowledge.