Azim Premji University has been organizing the ‘Stories of Change' - Case Study Challenge, on documenting good practices of social change from NGOs, government programs, Social Enterprises, and other organizations directly involved in the design and implementation of development interventions.

This year, India, as well as most parts of the world, has witnessed an unprecedented pandemic, Covid-19, killing over a million people, crippling the health system, the economy, employment and livelihoods, education and other vital aspects of public life. While it exposed several weaknesses of the policy and institutional regimes of the country as regards healthcare, migration, welfare and livelihoods, small and medium businesses, etc. the last six months also witnessed the display of incredible collective action of larger citizenry in areas of humanitarian response, healthcare, livelihoods, entitlements, including influencing policy around these issues.

They plan to dedicate the third edition of Stories of Change initiative to social actions in response to Covid-19. 

Themes 

It will be organized around the following sub-themes, relating to the response to widespread critical needs. These are

• Humanitarian response to specific communities in rural, urban and forest areas
• Healthcare responses specific to Covid-19
• Livelihoods response to specific communities
• Welfare and entitlement responses e.g. MGNREGA, PDS, Pension, DBTs and many others
• New initiatives cutting across these above themes and more including matters related to policies

Recognition

Ten selected submissions will be edited and published as part of the third volume of the Impacts Cases: Stories of Change 2020 with credits duly acknowledged. Authors (Organisations/individuals) of these ten selected submissions will be awarded Rs. 50,000 as a token of appreciation. 

Who can participate?

Participants can be representatives of NGOs, social movements, informal citizen groups, networks and individuals. Students / researchers / academics and funding organizations can also participate in collaboration with any of the organizations mentioned above.

For more information, visit Azim Premji University.