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Child In Need Institute

Calcutta, India

Grants

2021 (2 years 7 months)
$750,000

The Child In Need Institute (CINI) is an Indian non-government organization (NGO) regarded as one of the most influential institutions working for poor children in India. For more than four decades, it has used a human rights-based approach to partner with central and state governments, national and international donors, NGOs, and local communities to strengthen the capacity of marginalized, typically-excluded children and women to improve their health, nutrition, education, and safety. With this award, CINI is setting up community-based COVID-19 information centers, making referrals to emergency health services, providing emergency medical supplies to local hospitals, and supplying low-income households with emergency provisions.

2015 (1 year 2 months)
$100,000

Founded in Kolkata in 1974, Child In Need Institute's (CINI) work is guided by an integrated approach that seeks to ensure sustainable development through multiple strategies in the fields of education, protection, health, and nutrition with a focus on women and children. The organization has wide experience in developing pilots and low-cost approaches that have, in several instances, been adopted by the Government of India and replicated in broader systems. CINI has previously received a MacArthur award to implement a project with youth in schools and in the community to deliver sexual and reproductive health information and services, and to prevent child marriage in four districts in the state of West Bengal. With this tie-off award CINI is continuing to implement the intervention in two districts and sharing results of the project so that it may be more widely adopted.

2011 (4 years 4 months)
$285,000

Child in Need Institute works to advance programs on young people’s sexual and reproductive health in India. The grant will support the organization to build on existing health programs for youth in schools and in the community to effectively deliver sexual and reproductive health information and services, and to promote later age at marriage, in select districts in the state of West Bengal.

2001 (5 years 5 months)
$160,000

To support a regional adolescent resource center on reproductive and sexual health and rights (over three years).

1997 (3 years 7 months)
$150,000

To support a program to encourage men to become involved in reproductive health decision making (over three years).