As we celebrate 20 years of being Swasti, we fondly look back at our first symbol as Swasti Health Resource Centre - the grey & pink pinwheel of health and wellbeing - from which we morphed to being Swasti - The Health Catalyst.
We are incredibly grateful to our committed team, alumni, volunteers, interns, fellows, advisors, board members, collaborators, consultants and partners.
The climate exigencies in today’s world coupled with the COVID pandemic has highlighted that it was insufficient to simply focus on interventions directly affecting people’s health and that we need to consider planetary health along with its impact on people’s health and vice versa.
This has strengthened our resolve and renewed our sense of purpose.
The Catalyst Group incubates Swasti as a non-profit to work on public health issues.
Swasti’s first national-level project maps high-risk groups in Mizoram.
Swasti in association with the State AIDS Society, conducts a Project Director Induction program for IAS officers.
Supports KSAPS in implementing the Prevention and Care HIV program in Karnataka by providing supportive supervision to all NGO partners in the State
Swasti is registered as a Society in Karnataka
Swasti, in partnership with CMS, develops methodology for high-risk group mapping in Karnataka. This methodology becomes national guidelines and is used to estimate high risk groups across the country.
Swasti partners with Swathi Mahila Sangha, a collective of women in sex work, to develop an empowerment initiative called Pragati. Based in Bangalore, the initiative is part of the Gates funded Avahan program. The success of this was later replicated and scaled across 84 community-based organizations in 2014.
Expands footprint to 11 countries through workplace interventions focused on women workers, in partnership with GAP Inc., and the Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement (PACE) program.
Swasti co-establishes 11 community-led water plants in Chikballapur district to address the issue of rampant fluorosis affecting smallholder farmers. All 11 are functioning and self-sustained as of 2022.
WHO invites Swasti to present their work on the health workforce at the 3rd Global Human Resources in Health conference in Recife, Brazil.
Implements Avahan India AIDS initiative Phase III (2014- 2017) with 87 community organizations reaching 130,000 women sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), and transpersons.
Launches its flagship innovation in comprehensive primary healthcare, “Invest for Wellness” (i4We).
Swasti awarded Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Swasti is honoured to be the learning partner of one of the countrys’ largest bilateral donors in health - the USAID India Health Office
Swasti becomes a Great Place to Work Certified organization, gets re-certified in 2023
Reaches more than 200,000 women in 250+ factories across 20 brands through workplace programs within supply chains of Walmart, Levis, GAP, Debenham, Primark, Inditex and Swasti’s own Invest4Wellness (i4We) program for factory workers, and supporting BSR’s HER program.
Swasti becomes the National Quality Improvement Coordinating Agency (NQICA) for Manyata led by FOGSI and supported by MSD for Mothers. The decade plus experience in Health Systems Strengthening is brought to small private providers for nuancing quality of care.
As COVID-19 hits India, Swasti incubates the #COVIDActionCollab - an all-India collaborative, united to provide relief, recovery and build resilience among the most vulnerable communities. The collaborative consists of Organizations and Networks working together to support these communities during the period of crisis and enable them to secure their future. The 359 partners strong collaborative has since provided 25 Million+ service instances.
Swasti is recognised as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). This recognition entitles Swasti to receive the required administrative support from the DSIR on scientific research activities.
Swasti completes the pilot of Community Led Monitoring (CLM) methodology across 3 geographies supported by NACO and USAID/PEPFAR. The methodology and lessons find acceptance with the National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for scale up through partners across the country.
Swasti begins its first multi-country work in the space of routine immunization for adults in partnership with Rockefeller Foundation supported Global Vaccine Initiative.
Swasti forms the first Centre for Strategic Communications for Public Health - a platform that offers tailor made solutions to tricky communication problems in the space of Public Health. Since its establishment, the Centre has produced an array of products and hosted learning, evidence and communication events for key partners towards the goal of everyday wellbeing for everyone.
Swasti pilots “Arogya Kavach”, a health insurance product for people above the poverty line with 1000 families in Tamil Nadu, working with KM Dastur and Cholamandalam General Insurance
Swasti pivots to a new Strategic Plan which puts climate change and its impact on the health and wellbeing of communities at the center.
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