The Swadhikar project aims to improve health indicators of  socially excluded communities, especially women and children.

The project's purpose is to increase non-discriminatory access to healthcare services and accountability of the public health system, through community action within the framework of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

The Swadhikar project is working in 275 villages in the Raisen, Betul and Chindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh.

Swadhikar aims

• Build and establish sustainable community level systems of monitoring and supervision for Public Health Systems (PHS), with at least 50% participation and representation by socially excluded communities

• Improvement in the healthcare delivery system to increase accessibility, affordability, acceptability and quality of services.  To increase utilisation of public health services at various facility levels by socially excluded communities by at least 40%.

• Reduction in maternal mortality by 30% and infant mortality by 40%, through substantial increase in ante-natal and post-natal care for all women, with a special focus on women from socially excluded groups.

About Swadhikar

Swadhikar was founded in 2005, but had started work in 1998 as a network of organisations and individuals working on human rights across the country. The network works towards strengthening the voice of the socially excluded and marginalised.

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it was resolved to form a National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) to raise the visibility of caste-based discrimination, engage in international advocacy and raise these issues at UN level; as well as promote and provide support to other Dalit movements across India.

This campaign continued aggressive work to demand state accountability towards Dalit Human Rights violations, to ensure the criminal justice system and Human Rights institutions pay heed to the demands of Dalits.

Network partners

PACS encourages projects to collaborate with like-minded organisations to deliver the best results in the designated project area. These collaborations are called network projects. Swadhikar is implementing the project with the four network partners:

• Centre for Health and Social Justice

• Krishak Sahyog Sansthan

• Pradeepan

• Satyakam Jankalyan Samiti.

Find out more:

• PACS in Madhya Pradesh

• PACS work on right to basic services

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