WHO ARE WE?
The Community Action & Campaign Foundation is a non-profit agency dedicated to applying a community-based approach to addressing key development issues. Our focus areas remain health, particularly infectious diseases like TB, poverty, gender, and human rights-issues that we see as inextricably linked to each other.
Using community-based knowledge and approaches, we develop and execute collective action and campaigns that engage key stakeholders for more empathetic and sustainable policies and programmes. Our work has included working with collectives like Survivors Against TB, and other associates on the gender and human rights aspects of TB in India. It has also included working on issues of mental health and LGBTQIA++ populations as also building awareness on development issues among youth.
OUR VALUES
We aim to build a distinctive, ethical, people-centric organization that works to create substantial and long-term impact in human development using the skills of creative, talented and committed people.
We believe our success lies in the success of communities and in meeting their needs. We also believe that our success lies in creating paradigms of sustainable change led by communities as equal stakeholders.
We believe that development requires people and communities to take a lead role and combine it with creativity, knowledge, compassion, and respect for human dignity and rights. These ideas guide our work on issues and the long-term strategy as an organization.
OUR WORK
ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS
Our work in advocacy is multifaceted, and primarily involves engagement with key stakeholders, such as the government and community partners, to emphasize and advocate on key development issues. Our focus areas include health, nutrition and food security, financial inclusion, and skill-building for vulnerable populations. We collaborate with partners with the same value system, work ethic and rigors, and other key stakeholders to champion the rights of individuals and communities through conscious and active advocacy at all levels.
We wish to help build self sustaining communities and networks that are equipped with, and cognizant of, their rights, relevant information and other skills. The foundation for this work lies in developing social networks and public awareness, that brings together communities to develop their own responses to development issues. Our work in the past on TB, HIV and mental health is woven around this very concept of empowered communities that initiate and sustain collective action.
There is no one way to approach these concepts of building knowledge communities, and our team works with multiple approaches that range from addressing development challenges and information gaps to creating public information campaigns on innovative solutions for key issues.
BUILDING COMMUNITIES
HEALTH
One of the most urgent challenges facing human development is that of health. Our approach to this critical issue is rooted in the belief that everyone is born with the right to a healthy and dignified life. To that end, our specialization is in health advocacy, communications and research, and program design. Our work is guided by notions of equity, social justice and solidarity with a primary focus on sustainable systemic change, community empowerment, and innovation.
Our work in health, particularly in infectious diseases (TB and HIV), sexuality, mental health among others, seeks to look beyond just the provision of services but also focuses on transforming environments to impact the social and cultural determinants of health.
In today’s world, access to healthcare services, knowledge of one’s rights and an ability to live safe lives are all impacted by one’s sexual and gender identities. Through our work, we wish to comprehend, navigate and eliminate the adverse effects people with non-normative genders and sexuality may encounter. The intersection of various identities in different communities also hinders access to various services including health, education, financial inclusion and so on. Our interventions seek to address the same.
The primary focus of our work at present is on the issues of TB, HIV, and mental health from the lens of gender and sexual identity. By forging alliances and partnerships with affected communities, we work to create networks and build awareness on and support them to advocate for their health needs.
The members of our team have been involved in researching, creating and disseminating the first public campaign on TB and Women targeted at the government, the broader public and the media. We also work with members of the LGBTQIA++ community, to understand and document the barriers they face in accessing health care.
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
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