Browsing by Author "Shantanu Menon"

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    Community Development Centre (CDC): A Covenant with the Baiga (Tribe)
    (2022) Shantanu Menon; Satender Rana; Kushagra Merchant; Aruna Pandey
    This case study documents the journey of CDC and shows how the organization has created a resilient and responsive organizational culture in a remote and resource starved environment to address multiple developmental challenges of the region, particularly the Baiga tribe.
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    National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People: Dignifying the Disabled
    (2022) Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant; Satender Rana
    This case study documents the role of NCPEDP in empowering people with disabilities through research, campaigns, mentoring and leadership development. Its primary intervention area is Policy Advocacy for inclusion and rights of people with disabilities. This case study examines how the organization sustained its rights based advocacy character and its commitment to the disability cause for the last two decades. Besides, how a small step could turn into a social movement and the variables required to sustain it.
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    Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA): An Ethos of Care
    (2023) Menaka Rao; Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant; Aruna Pandey
    This case study documents the journey of SNEHA- a public health organization that works in dense poor and low income urban settlements. It emphasizes on prevention and adopting community based approaches to reduce excessive reliance on institution-led public health delivery. It also documents organizational culture of appreciative inquiry, and use of technology and community based models that has allowed SNEHA to flourish in a rapidly urbanizing agglomeration.
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    Umeed Child Development Center: A Hope for Acceptance
    (2023) Urvashi Thakur; Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant
    This case study documents the journey of Umeed Child Development Centre- that works in the domain of developmental disabilities among children. It is partly the story of Vibha Krishnamurthy, a developmental paediatrician along with her team at Umeed to wean developmental disabilities and design interventions and create awareness and solutions about them. It also shows what it means to build and sustain a culture that must deal with multiple interventions and on which such a practice can stand.
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    Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA): Instituting an Ideal
    (2023) Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant; Devika Menon; Aruna Pandey
    This Case Study traces the journey of YUVA co-founded by a young graduate Minar Pimple along with a group lecturers and peers to evolve an indigenous model of social work practice. Its work with socio-politically marginalized youth driven by the principles of social justice, feminism and rights and responsibilities allows the readers to learn and explore the idea, relevance and practices of a feminist organization.