Ekjut is a non profit voluntary organization of India. Ekjut's partnering communities are the indigenous people, people living in the underserved districts and the urban homeless. Ekjut works on the theme of Survive, Blossom, Thrive and Transform.
Ekjut is working in coordination with the development partners and local and national government to strengthen the COVID 19 response initiatives with an aim to reach out to the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in Jharkhand, Odisha, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Bringing Immediate and short-term relief, food security.
Multilevel risk mitigation while working with Adolescents.
Enabling continued education, health & nutrition, and protection to most affected children.
Working with key stakeholders- the government, local bodies, partner NGOs.
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Society of the Clinical Trial – Trial of the Year Award 2011
WHO India Public Health Champion Award 2015
A unique capacity building programme, to empower communities to facilitate Participatory Learning and Action monthly meetings designed, piloted, tested, evaluated for impact on newborn, infant, maternal mortality, post natal depression an among children directly implemented in more than 2000 villages by Ekjut (implemented through Government systems and development organizations receiving core support from Ekjut) is now touching the lives of mothers and babies in 100,000 villages of India. At the peak of the programme 2 million women from some of the most marginalised communities went through this empowering sessions in 4 phases (Identifying problems, discussing causes and effects, implementing feasible solutions and evaluating together) for saving lives and building healthier communities.
Action Against Malnutrition (AAM) is a multi-strategy intervention with the aim to improve nutritional outcomes of children less than three years of age. This initiative has a component of participatory learning and action (PLA) meeting cycle with women’s group and home visit counseling together with running of crèches for children under three years of age.
Community Action Research to Improve Nutrition and Growth (CARING) is initiative that aims to develop and evaluate a community-based intervention to improve nutrition and growth in the first 1000 days of life. The intervention involved empowerment and counselling of mothers for healthy child rearing
Intervention comprising participatory adolescent groups, youth leadership training and livelihood promotion,delivered by a community youth team, for mental well-being, and improve school enrolment and dietary diversity among adolescent girls.
Ekjut has piloted,applied, refined,scaled up a unique community capacity building process called participatory learning and action (PLA) for women's empowerment.
A robust surveillance system for measuring neonatal,infant,maternal mortality, status of undernutrition among mothers and children, adolescents , women,etc. Using sate of the art measurement devices and techniques.
Publishing and sharing findings of our evidence based work(resulting from combining empowerment + monitoring) for scale up. This is research into policies and practice.
To work with the underpriviledged, discriminated and marginalized people, such as those belonging to the tribal population, dalits, children, women, disabled, urban poor, calamity stricken communities aged, persons with HIV AID, poor, under trials and persons with drug addiction. To contribute towards building up of a society which promotes equity and inclusiveness. To contribute towards building capacity for empowering the communities to enable them to secure a life of dignity and quality. To influence the policies and practices of the government in favour of the identified groups and secure justice and rights to the community as mentioned in the constitution. To promote support and develop partnership with individuals, organizations and communities for promotion of similar objective. To promote appropriate technologies for preservation of natural resources primarily for the benefit of the identified group. To accept donations, sponsorships from individuals, societies,associations, corporate bodies, state or central government for achieving the objective. To support persons and associations who are working towards achievement of the similar goals. To subscribe to become a member of or otherwise co-operate with any other associations, whose objects are altogether or in part similar to those of the society. To mobilize individual skills. In furtherance of the above-mentioned objective activities will include socioeconomic programmes, health, education, food security and environment related initiatives. Research, documentation and dissemination will be to promote good practices and influencing governance.
Ekjut will work in the districts in India for the improvement of maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition of partnering underserved,marginalised communities, through their empowerment, community based interventions and influence good governance for improving access and quality of services. This will be done through collaborating with leading agencies for building our research capacities to strengthen evidence base, dissemination of findings, engagement with government and networks and supporting scaling up of effective interventions.
Equity and Justice,Empowerment,Excellence,Transparency & Accountability.
Work will always be with participation of concerned communities, staring from identification of issues to evaluation of work.Respect peoples Knowledge systems and abilities,Ensuring community accountability and transparency,Belief that women should have more than an equal share/say,Recognition that the state has the primary responsibility for ensuring equity and justice to all & Strengthening democratic practices
Women,Children & Tribal population.
1. Mr. Snehil Kumar, President 2. Ms. Vidya Nair, Vice-President 3. Dr. Nirmala Nair, Secretary/Chief Functionary 4. Mr. Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Treasurer 5. Mr. Gunaseelan Narayanan Thekken, Executive Member 6. Mr. Raj Kishor Mishra, Executive Member
Programme Managaer- Technical SPMU -Shakti Varta,Mission Shakti Bhawan, Gandamunda, Bhubaneswar-Odisha-751030
Fulbright fellow
14th-28th april2008
graduate engineer in Electrical and Electronics, Padmanav Institute of Engineering, Rourkela,
Final Year Medical Student, University of Birmingham
final year medical student, University of Birmingham, UK.
Director of AERF Foundation Pune
Sundarpahari , Godda
President Ekjut
Psychiatrist
Vice President of Ekjut
Senior Research Fellow with International Perinatal Care Unit at ICH London
Anandi Organization, Gujarat email id: hneeta192@gmail.com
Hyderabad
High Hope Society, Odisha
Mobile Creches, New Delhi Email id: mridula.b@mobilecreches.org
North East Network, Nagaland Thanks and regards,
23rd - 25th September, 2016
October 2015
19th-20th August 2015
Foundation for Research and Community Health (FRCH), 5th June 2015
Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health, London, 5th June 2015
RGMVP 2nd April 2015
Senior Programme Officer, PHFI 2nd April 2015
Project Director, UPBEN Project, PHFI 2nd April 2015
25th March 2015
Kiawah Trust 25th March 2015
13th Jan 2015
13th Jan 2015
Chief of Party, Parivartan Programme Director, PCI India
PCI-India
New Concept
Maharashtra 18th Dec 2014
CRISIL Ltd, Mumbai Contact No.- 08080146016 6th Dec 2014
Maternal Health Young Champion, HSPH & IIE Contact no.- 09810050817 Email id- vasudhachak@gmail.com
Anandi Organization, Gujarat email id: hneeta192@gmail.com
Aug-Sep 2013
17th Aug 2013
Chief of office, UNICEF, Jharkhand 28th June 2013
Contact no.- 09999360007 Email id- hari.menon@gmail.com
CEO, Women & Children First (UK) 1st March 2012
Big Lottery Fund 29th Feb 2012
Email id- consultusho@gmail.com
SEARCH, Gadchiroli Contact no.- 09422628357
SEARCH, Gadchiroli
District Programme Officer USAID-Vistaar Project Contact No.- 09431193706 5th Dec 2011
20th Oct 2011
Contact no.- 08002347492 Email id- sapna.tps@gmail.com 24th Sep 2011
Contact no.- 08002347492 Email id- sapna.tps@gmail.com 24th Sep 2011
Intra Health Vistaar Project 24th April 2011
ACCESS Health Institute Contact no.- 08142770717 Email id- prabal.singh@accessh.org 21st Jan 2011
Nutrition Expert B-TAST (DFID) Sector Wide Approach to Strengthen Health (SWASTH) in Bihar 2010
NEEDS, Deoghar Contact no.- 09934381012 Email id-unni@yahoo.co.in
8th Dec 2010 Email id- andrea.donese@KCL.AC.UK
(BTAST) Patna DFID Supported Bihar Project
UCL Institute of Global Health July 2010 Email id- a.costello@ich.ucl.ac.uk
16th July 2010 Contact no.- 07899780803 Email id- deliahollowell@hotmail.com
Intrahealth Vistaar Project (3.6.2010)
4th May 2010 Contact No.- 09939109173
Journalist.
Postdoctural fellow University of Texas Health Science Centre San Antonio, Texas - 78229 ( Mar.30,2010)
Director Procurement & Administration & Director Finance, Intrahealth Inc, Vistaar (11.02.2010)
NEEDS Deoghar
March 2007
20.10.2006
Medical Student ( Did her elective with ekjut during May 2006) 6.06.06
Jonathan Platts Medical Student (Did his elective with ekjut) 6.06.06
Director AERF (Applied Environmental Research Foundation) 16.03.06 ( www.aerfindia.org) and LEAD fellow ( www.lead.org)
Volunteer Canadian Crossroads international. Amnesty International. Beaver Valley Outreach March2004
(Ms Julia is now the Rector for the University of Peace , Costa Rica, She used to be the Executive Director of LEAD International based at Imperial College London.)
Author of - The People of Jamkhed.
(Mikey Rosato is based in Malawi and looking after the process evaluation part of the project there)