Breaking the Silence

Domestic violence continues to be inflicted on women from urban poor households disproportionately.

Why the Sahariyas?

The mystery behind some of TB’s most frequent victims.

Age and Agency

Adolescent health programmes try to raise age at marriage. But are they missing the woods for the trees?

Bridges for Barriers in Adolescent Health

Is adolescent health programming ignoring adolescent voices, or are adolescents (and their representatives) not seeing the big picture? Building bridges between old and new may be the answer.

A Plate Half Empty

Any shortfall in nutrition, associated as it is with morbidity, mortality and disability, learning and intellectual ability, economic productivity, and reproductive health, severely impacts the well-being of individuals and their families, across generations.

Human-centered Design for Adolescent Health

Human-centered design appears to be a perfect approach to create adolescent-friendly spaces in healthcare, building the elements that engage adolescents to demand and use health services into its very DNA.

Water in Urban Slums: Life-saving or Life-threatening?

Nelson Mandela and the battle against HIV and AIDS in South Africa: Pertinent Lessons

What's the point of MEL?

Paralegal volunteers - a sustainable way to change the legal landscape at the grassroots

Para Legal Volunteers at grassroots level facilitate informal and early resolution of problems.

POCSO Ordinance- A step in haste

The government has notified an ordinance to make rape of girls younger than 12 punishable by death sentence

Let’s stop losing lives to avoidable illnesses

A community-based, preventive-promotive health intervention can ensure better health of tea garden workers.

Going beyond appearances

Shama writes how running helps growing and protecting her brain

Transforming Lives through Development Communication

Key lessons from the 6th UNICEF C4D Dhaara seminar

Life Skills in LGBTQ youth

Bhavani writes about imparting life skills training to LGBTQAI+ youth.

Equality and Empowerment

Understanding and adopting norms for women’s empowerment

Unlearning for sustainability

Shama writes about alternative menstrual hygiene products

Field intelligence improves WaSH technology in Health Centres

The story behind our WaSH app

Harmonising Health in the Workplace

A strong multi-stakeholder collaboration ensures workers' health and well-being

When maturity's the right attitude...

Bhavani is perhaps the youngest Programme Manager in India. Read more about her here.

What Google search cannot answer?

Swasti Health Catalyst founder Shiv Kumar unpacks the complexities of 'NGOs'.

The story of Single Window models

An innovation to improve social protection access for marginalised communities.

What’s the end game in water testing?

On World Water Day, reflections on community-led behaviour change relating to drinking water.

"Empathy and humility will save lives"

An interview with Hareesh B S - one of the #starsofswasti

Swasti awarded Special Consultative Status by UNECOSOC

The membership enables Swasti to inform global policy based on our work with our partners in the community.