About
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Headquarters
Kolkata, West Bengal
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Since
1960
MANT is a non-profit, non-racial, non-political, and non-religious organisation that, since 1960, has been working in development, livelihood promotio Read moren, research, advancing community action for the preservation of local ecology, promoting the adoption of community media like community radio, health service delivery, and health behaviour change to reduce the massive health burden in the poor and marginalized sections of society. We primarily work in the eastern and northeastern parts of India and have a team of 120 trained workers and 12 volunteers. We have been touching almost 1.5 million lives, mostly tribal, annually through our different activities.
Issue
Education: Addressing language barriers in tribal education, establishing non-formal schools, and integrating tribal folklore into pre-primary education. Health: Providing healthcare through mobile medical units, training tribal women in neonatal care, and establishing a surveillance system for health indicators. Social Enterprise: Empowering tribal women through initiatives like PRANTIK, creating value chains, and promoting micro-enterprises. Climate Resilience: Promoting climate-smart practices, restoring degraded lands, and setting up a Peoples’ Science Centre. Culture and Communication: Preserving tribal culture through documentation, community radio, and cultural centres. Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR)- Impact Assessment (Including Social Return on Investment, Cost Effectiveness, modelling and simulation), health data for surveillance, doctoral training, Australia Award Fellowship, health research, evidence synthesis and implementation, JBI affiliate centre.
Action
Education: Running 50 non-formal schools Introduce primary education in indigenous languages Build the capacity of the tribal youths to facilitate these informal schools Health: Reach out to one million people for providing reproductive and child health care, curative, diagnostics, x-rays, and free medicines through Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) Reach out to one thousand underserved villages in eastern India to control outbreaks of infectious diseases, prevention and management of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Train and engage young tribal women to promote neo-natal care, run vaccination and immunization program Livelihood Promotion: “PRANTIK” (means marginal or terminal) owned and managed by 378 tribal women, trained in weaving, using natural dyes, producing hand-woven fabric, with hand embroidery, and promoting tribal motifs in their designs on 100% linen / cotton / tussar fabrics. Train and engage tribal women in preparing yoga mats out of Madur Kathi as a part of NTFP value chain. Climate Resilence: Share inputs with farmers to integrate different subsystems to increase the total varied farm output and yield. Restore degraded forest land through rewilding and agro-forestry Culture of endangered and nutrition-rich fish varieties along with excavation and renovation of water bodies. Community Media and Culture: Preserve and perpetuate life and traditions - document folklore and tribal dance forms, exhibit tribal arts and paintings, hold festivals Run a community radio station - Nityananda Janavani 91.2FM, which broadcasts 7-8 hours of edutainment in Santhali language. Train tribal girls and utilize their storytelling skills and cultural nuances to create dramatized award-winning audio-visual content which fosters awareness, dialogues, and positive change. Ensure the participation of people to express and exchange views starting from program inception, implementation and feedback. Established an indigenous tribal cultural center - Adivasi Lakchar Talma (ALT).
Demographies Served
Cause Area
Sector
Impact
Healthcare Services: Over 15 million people have received healthcare services. Community Media: Reaching more than 200,000 people monthly through media initiatives. Cultural Activities: Engaging over 1 million tribal people in cultural activities and festivals. Adolescent Programs: Covering over 150,000 adolescent girls. Evidence Generation: Establishing effective systems for evidence generation and implementation in public health. Education: Established an educational complex from nursery school to a degree college. Community Radio and Video- First ever tribal woman radio jockey from our radio station and many videos prepared by tribal women shown in different international film festivals. MANT has implemented a public engagement project through community media action to promote Antenatal and Child Care in the tribal areas of Purulia with support from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine under IMPRINT during 2020-21. It has been selected as a case study that was presented on 6th and 7th February 2023 at the Annual Networking Meeting held in London, UK. It has also implemented a project on human rights promotion through community media action (Radio programmes, community videos, narrow-casting, community screening in village assembly meetings) by tribal youths with support from Gothenburg University, Sweden (January 2022 to June 2023). This project's success was presented at the International Conference on Social Work Research, Education, and Practice: NASSW/FORSA 2024, held in Gothenburg from June 17th to 19th, 2024
Programs
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SFURTI Project in respect of Prantik Handloom & Handicraft Cluster, Purulia, West Bengal.
Building a common facility center
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Procurement of equipment
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Capacity building
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Technology transfer
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Agency building
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Forward linkage establishment -
Antenatal and Neonatal Care among tribal people in India
Community radio broadcast
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Community video and screening at the village level
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Use of tribal language for communication
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Forum theatre on air -
Promotion of youth participation in Civic Management
Community radio broadcast
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Community video and screening at the village level
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Use of tribal language for communication
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Forum theatre on air
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Community media lives
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Engagement of traditional tribal leadership and village assemblies -
Study on Tobacco Litters
Tobacco Litter Assessment
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Observational study on Tobacco Advertisements, Promotion and Sponsorship Ban
Compliance Study
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Operation of Mobile Medical Clinics
To provide primary health care services in hard-to-reach areas to the last-mile population
Curative services
Diagnostic services
RCH services
Radiology services
Family planning counselling
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Tobacco Control Programme
StateCapacity building of government officials, elected representatives, media and the like
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Evidence generation through research
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System strengthening -
SAG-Kanyashree convergence Programme
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Awareness about health, hygiene & nutrition, including Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) and family and child care;
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Upgrade their home-based skills, life skills
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Mainstream out-of-school adolescent girls into formal/non formal education; and provide information and guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, Post Office, Bank, Police Station, etc. -
Access to justice – Prevention of child marriage, child labour, child Sexual Abuse
Guidance and facilitation for access to entitlements among the targeted population
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Awareness campaigns and pledges
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Capacity building
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Networking -
Study on BIDI rolling
Research on Socio-economic Profile of Bidi Rollers
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Having champions for ensuring rights of women bidi rollers -
Social Return on Investment (SROI) study
StateSROI Study on CSR Project interventions
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Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round12- TB Prevention
Community radio broadcast
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Community video and screening at the village level
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Use of tribal language for communication
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Forum theatre on air
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Community media lives
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Engagement of traditional tribal leadership and village assemblies
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Operation research and SROI -
Nationwide study to estimate incidence, mortality, morbidity and economic burden due to snake bite in India
Data collection, analysis and incidence of snakebites in respective topographical areas
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Treatment pattern for venomous and non-venomous snakebites, which may help strengthen the national protocol and find out the gap between regular reporting and reporting from project districts.
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Medical attention seeking behavior pattern among the snakebite victims (preference for modern medicine vis-à-vis alternate systems of medicine)
Impact Metrics
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No of People Received Treatment
Program Name
Operation of Mobile Medical Clinics
Year-wise Metrics- 2018-19 767748
- 2019-20 601717
- 2020-21 513532
- 2021-22 359583
- 2022-23 167440
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No of People Trained
Program Name
Tobacco Control Programme
Year-wise Metrics- 2023-24 7500
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Gainful Employment
Program Name
SFURTI Project in respect of Prantik Handloom & Handicraft Cluster, Purulia, West Bengal.
Year-wise Metrics- 2021-22 55
- 2022-23 122
- 2023-24 378
Leadership Team
Demographics & Structure
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No. of Employees
100+
M&E
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Internal, External Assessors
No
Policies
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Ethics and Transparency Policies
No
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Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy
No
Political & Religious Declarations
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On Affiliation if any
No
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On Deployment Bias if any
No
Registration Details
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PAN Card
AAATM7627B
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Registration ID
Registration No-S/3863
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VO ID / Darpan ID
WB/2009/0006624
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12A
AAATM7627BE20214
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80G
AAATM7627BF20216
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FCRA
147070029
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CSR Registration Number
CSR00000046
Location
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Headquarters
The Chambers, Space no. 006 & 007, Ground floor, 1865 Rajdanga Main Road, Kolkata, 700107
Directions
Other Details
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Sister Organisation
Manbhum Prantika
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Type & Sub Type
Non-profit
Society
Website
Financial Details
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2020-21
IncomeRs.86,267,749ExpensesRs.76,638,564Admin ExpensesRs.3,864,453Program ExpensesRs.72,774,111Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2021-22
IncomeRs.82,122,293ExpensesRs.62,517,941Admin ExpensesRs.4,972,331Program ExpensesRs.57,545,610Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2022-23
IncomeRs.49,531,614ExpensesRs.48,370,316Admin ExpensesRs.12,522,509Program ExpensesRs.35,847,807Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it.