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Gram Vaani enables
communities to use technologies and share information that can equip them to bring positive changes in their lives.

Technology can support human development only when it is appropriated by people to bring equity. At Gram Vaani, we use technology to create participatory media platforms that people find accessible and adaptable.
We develop communication platforms where people whose voices are often unheard can share their opinions, hear from each other, and build communities.We strive for sustained, positive behaviour change through programmes that are relevant to people’s contexts and needs. We believe that such inclusive, bottom-up media platforms, which are by and for the people, will build empathetic societies.

Our Areas of Work

Health and Health
Tech

Communication channels, meant to help communities make informed choices, are often broken by the barriers of literacy, digital divide and other socio-cultural factors, leading to widespread exclusion. Through our community media platforms, we inform, engage and hear the voices of people from hard-to-reach communities, including the healthcare workforce, to contribute to better health outcomes for the country. And our technologies offer ways to digitally collect and assess data quickly for use by health officials and academics.

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Governance

Millions of citizens in India’s rural hinterlands do not have access to communication channels through which they can be better informed, share opinions and solutions with one another, or raise their voices and seek assistance when they cannot access their rights. The Governance programme provides authoritative and actionable information supported by a strong cadre of community volunteers, through which people can be better informed, and enables people to raise their issues, and highlights these issues to the administration to spur them into action.

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Workforce and Labour Rights

India’s workers are as a whole under-waged and under-protected, but even the 20m or so toiling in the registered factory sector often cannot enjoy the legal provisions due to poor enforcement. Our programmes on Workforce and Labour Rights aim to give a voice to low-income industrial workers across India, offer them information and raise their awareness on their rights as workers, so that they collaborate to hold their employers and governments accountable for working conditions.

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Women and Child Development

Access to media and information is highly unequal across India along the lines of gender, rural/urban locations, caste, class, disability, and other forms of marginalisation. This is especially the case among women in rural areas, where patriarchal norms limit their mobility, accessibility, ownership, and usage of digital medium. We help women overcome these barriers and bridge the digital literacy gap by facilitating their participation in systemic processes to improve health & nutrition, family planning, socio-economic entitlements, livelihoods, and political progress.

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Agriculture and Alternative Livelihood

People from remote and under-served communities do not often have easy access to information about different scientific means and practices of alternative livelihoods. We create awareness among these communities about scientific agricultural practices and different livelihood schemes that can help them to improve their yields.

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Youth Interventions

The YouNITED (Youth Network for Integrated and Tech-Enabled Development) model in Gram Vaani is aimed towards providing platforms to youths, especially from rural India, to become active citizens and act as agents of change for their own and communities’ development. This model involves two primary approaches: one, in which the youth acts as the facilitator. In this model, aided with training on thematic domains, engagement pathways, and community mobilizations, the young volunteers intervene in the community and facilitate positive shifts through awareness, discussion, and participation of the community members.

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Our Services

admin 6 Aug, 2024

Water Crisis: Drying Water-bodies and Contaminated Water Plague Low-Income Families

Each year discussions around water crisis have become a norm. News around long ques for collecting water in urban and semi-urban areas, drying of water-bodies like ponds, falling levels of ground water emerge and are discussed at length, only to dissolve once rains approach. Ponds, rivers, lakes would fill up with water and people would […]

admin 22 Jul, 2024

Enhancing Livelihood of Rural Communities through Voice-Enabled Advisory Services

In a collaborative effort by Gram Vaani, IIT Delhi, and GIZ, with field support from 4S and SSEVS in Bihar, SUPPORT in Jharkhand, Mahatma Gandhi Seva Ashram in Madhya Pradesh, and Centre for Microfinance and PRADAN in Rajasthan, the initiative focuses on providing voice-enabled advisory services to strengthen the livelihood ecosystems of vulnerable households. This […]

admin 5 Jul, 2021

Community Outreach & Empowerment

Leverage our platforms to empower and engage people in underserved areas through awareness and social accountability

admin 5 Jul, 2021

Improving Awareness & Behaviour Change Communication

Learn how our deep community connect can help drive sustained, positive change on a range of issues.

How We Work

We form participatory networks by identifying partners and community volunteers who can facilitate awareness and behaviour change, highlight local issues and work on grievance redressal. With their help, we mobilise our target communities to listen to and contribute to our participatory media solutions.

We create contextual content to engage our target users; users add completeness by sharing their experiences and grievances. This way, our content follows a bottom-up approach, fulfilling our objectives to make our media solution completely participatory and creating high engagement with our target communities.

We develop customised participatory media solutions that partners and volunteers carry forward with the community. These technology solutions are developed by considering the users’ digital literacy levels, availability of internet resources, access, affordability, and various community dynamics. The process also includes training and enabling capacities for adoption of the solution. This approach helps in ensuring that the technology stays relevant on the ground.

Our Reach

5 Countries

Presence

12M

Calls

10+ States

In India

150+

Partners

Highlights

admin 8 Sep, 2022

Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists

Dear Friends of Gram Vaani, Hope you have been well. I had started working on a book during the pandemic, largely based on Gram Vaani’s experiences with the use of technology to secure rights and entitlements for the poor, and for them to discuss and deliberate policies and social issues with one another. I am […]