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.
Farmers and cultivators
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.
Volunteers
Farmers and cultivators are not formally organized in most of the areas but their participation in collectives is growing over the last few years. Our volunteers engage with the farmers and cultivators through farmer collectives as well as broader community meetings, encourage them to ask questions and seek information from the subject matter experts.
Experts and partners
We are collaborating with different partner organizations to provide relevant and contextual information to the farmers and cultivators to improve their produce.
Impact Pathways
Information and Awareness
Our change agents motivate farmers and small holders in the community to ask questions using our platform which gets redirected to the subject matter experts for a response. As these responses are accessible for all the people active on the platform, it addresses many other unspoken concerns as well. Other than the question answers, experts also share contextual information related to schemes and entitlements, scientific development and best practices to motivate people to take the benefits of the relevant information.
Behaviour change
The impact of our behaviour change programming is measured through people’s testimonies and impact stories shared on the media platform encourage other users to adopt practices relevant to their context.
Systemic Change
Access to information on the ground has resulted in systemic change in multiple geographies. This includes improved access to Natural Resource Management (NRM) services as a part of the MGNREGA and making informed decisions around crop management.
Our Projects – Agriculture
Voice Technology Innovations by Gram Vaani
Voice-based conversational interfaces hold significant potential to build interactive applications
What can make Direct Benefit Transfers safer for India’s rural citizens?
For five years, Arun Lodhiya from Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, tried multiple times to withdraw his NREGA wages from his bank account at the local Customer Service Point
What’s next in ICT4D
Breakthrough and Gram Vaani worked together in Jharkhand to discuss the community’s feelings towards early marriage
Building healthy and equitable societies
Mobile phones have become instrumental in global efforts to drive awareness and encourage behaviour change to build equitable societies across the world.
लोग अपना पेट काटकर मिटा रहे हैं बच्चों की भूख, कहां गया 68% बच्चों के मिड-डे मील का पैसा?
कोविड संकट और लॉकडाउन ने हमारे समाज की उन बुनियादी आवाश्यकताओं की कमर तोड़ दी है, जिनके बारे में समाज का रईस तबका बात तक नहीं करता. जरूरत भी नहीं है, क्योंकि उनके पास रोजगार है, घर में रसोई गैस है, किचिन के डिब्बे राशन से भरे हैं
Mobile Vaani solution for reducing exclusion wins the Global Prize for Mission Billion Challenge
Gram Vaani’s Mobile Vaani solution for reducing exclusion in collaboration with Dvara Research has won the Global Prize as part of the World Bank Group’s Mission Billion Innovation Challenge.
