Swaniti Initiative

Swaniti was able to support the staffing requirements of 25 parliamentarians to drive the air quality issues in their respective constituencies, sensitize them with the help of external experts on various emerging issues having linkages with the subject and it was all coordinated by a delhi office based team. The project witnessed multiple groundbreaking innovations in the constituencies of parliamentarians. The activities under the project ranged from community awareness to the parliamentarians' oversight of efficient usage of government resources for better program delivery. Some specific deliverables of the period are mentioned below: a knowledge workshop on the surat emissions trading scheme: learning from indias first pollution market was attended by 6 parliamentarians on 17th december, 2022 at gandhinagar, gujarat. The secretariat facilitated the placement of 25 clean air associates under the mentorship of parliamentarians, crucial in supporting honble mps in their air quality endeavors. Between july 2022 and june 2023, the associates along with the secretariat produced 168 policy briefs or documents. Review of national clean air program (ncap) and other programs having components of air quality in 09 district development coordination and monitoring committees (disha committees) meetings by the parliamentarians training of media personnel (june 2023): parliamentarian anchored a capacity building workshop on air pollution reporting in june 2023 to produce an informed group of journalists who would create constructive narratives while reporting on air pollution and allied issues. Five local innovation systems were created by 5 parliamentarians in their respective constituencies, with the support of the clean air associates to address the local air quality issues. The efforts of parliamentarians leading to the publication of the air quality data of a state pollution control board: parliamentarians have taken several steps for transparency in areas where such data was not being displayed. For instance, in one constituency, a parliamentarian ensured the public visibility of uniform aqi data by requesting it from the state pollution control board. The board acted promptly by rectifying the data and communicated the same to honble mp. Engaging youth and children in the pursuits of clean air: 6 parliamentarians, spearheaded various initiatives to engage youth and children in their constituencies. Yuva tourism clubs, climate warrior program and yuva tourism club, and paryavaran rakshak program are few examples of exemplary work undertaken by the parliamentarians with support of associates to engage youth and children

This program was funded with a grant enabling us to provide technical assistance to state and local governments in west bengal to enable tea worker communities to access fair wages, plantation-specific entitlements, and benefits. Under this grant swaniti took the following objectives to identify the availability and extent of accessibility of tea workers to government social welfare schemes and entitlements in wb and to strengthen systems and processes by collaborating with state departments and district administration and build capacity, knowledge insights, etc. Of local officers to ensure tractable public program delivery by identifying interventions suited for the local context. Some of the major deliverables acheieved here were: 1. Baseline assessment to understand ecosystem and extent of challenges faced by tea garden workers to access social protection schemes, conducted via focus group discussions (fgds), personal interviews, and door-to-door surveys 2. Aadhar correction/enrolment camps and awareness camps following the baseline study findings 3. Establishing and creating credible relations and trust with the local admin bodies to strengthen public service delivery. 4. Creating and distributing capacity building document on 'enhancing social protection services to the tea- garden communities in wb.

Swaniti initiative is a social enterprise supporting government administration and elected representatives to ensure last-mile public service delivery and policy reforms. The organization receives grants from other organizations to complete projects on energy transition, green recovery, sustainable planning and green livelihood. The organization also works with state governments and local bodies for reengineering scheme implementation strategies to ensure the expansion of social security coverage to unskilled migrant workers and vulnerable groups and to enhance the efficiency of development planning processes.