We are excited to announce that Gram Vaani, in collaboration with Dvara Research, University of Montreal, and Tika Vaani has been selected for the Azim Premji University COVID-19 Research Funding Programme 2020, to conduct action-research on designing better grievance redressal in social welfare schemes. This will help push our work forward emerging from the #NotStatusQuo campaign. Read more about this work here.

We are also winners in the World Bank’s Digital ID challenge, where we pitched in collaboration with Dvara Research to build a well-organized database of grievances to do with access to social protection. Watch our pitch here. The grievances will be sourced through our Mobile Vaani platforms and will help understand the reasons for exclusion, so that appropriate policy changes can then be proposed. More details.

We are finalists in the CGIAR 2020 Inspire Challenge, for our proposed FarmPhone solution to bring together producers, agricultural laborers, processors, traders, transporters, and resident associations, to enable transparent and connected fair trade. In collaboration with Magasool and ICARDA, watch our pitch here.

We are proud at having been shortlisted as a finalist for the Agami 2020 Shamnad Basheer Citizenship Prize, together with Aajeevika Bureau, IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access), and IIF (Internet Freedom Foundation). According to the Agami team, our work scored highly in terms of the level of innovation, the scale of impact, the strength of the team and the sustainability of the model.

We are winners in the Ayushman Bharat PMJAY startup grand challenge for 2020. The award was given for our Mobile Vaani platform to create awareness, drive healthcare demand and monitor services throughout the continuum of care.