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SOSVASociety for Service to Voluntary Agencies |
Activities:
Managing Projects
SOSVA works with field NGOs to implement projects, ensure that funds are used effectively, monitor performance; and assure transparency.
SOSVA is one of the main implementing partners of Family Health International (FHI) to initiate, guide and monitor interventions with marginalized groups in Mumbai and Thane as part of the HIV/AIDS prevention project of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
SOSVA provides technical and management expertise to 7 NGOs implementing the project, and trains their staff which includes outreach workers and peer educators, in collaboration with STAPI.
SOSVA is designated Mother NGO for the RCH project of the Ministry Of Health in Pune and Raigad districts.
Capacity Building
STAPI, our Staff Training And Promotion Institute aims to build and enhance the capacity of voluntary organizations to enable them to play a more effective role in all sectors of socio-economic development.
STAPI offers training primarily in the areas of Health and Population , Women and Child Development, HIV/AIDS, Micro Finance , Social Welfare and Governance. This makes it a full fledged Training Institute with hostel facilities for its trainees.
STAPI trains NGOs on a wide range of issues such as project promotion and formulation, project management, fund raising, procedures on forming new NGOs, Charity Commissioner’s Guidelines, legal procedures, taxation, audit and accounting, and budget preparation.
STAPI has conducted 180 workshops for nearly 4000 participants drawn from 1200 NGOs over the period 2001-2007.
STAPI publishes books in English and Marathi on various topics of interest to NGOs.
See http://www.stapi.org/ for more information.
Promoting Volunteerism
| " | Without the help of 10 million volunteers, UNICEF and its partners would not have been able to immunize 550 million children against polio. The value of that support as of 2001 was an estimated $10 billion – well beyond the reach of what the U.N. or its partner organisations could have handled on their own. | " |
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Dr. Kofi Annan, then U.N. Secretary General , speaking on International Volunteer Day, (December 5, 2001) |
Another unique initiative of SOSVA, VOLACT inculcates and encourages volunteerism.
VOLACT registers volunteers from all walks of life, matches and places them with voluntary agencies who need such support.
VOLACT has since its inception, placed over 1300 volunteers with nearly 200 NGOs in Mumbai & Pune since 1995.
VOLACT’s corporate partners include Ernst & Young, Lehman Brothers, Bank of Baroda, Kodak, Societe Generale Bank and Asian Paints, amongst others.
Kindly click here for Volunteer Registration Form.
Medical Supplies for Needy Hospitals
Under the Indo-US Bilateral Agreement, SOSVA receives medical supplies from US donor agencies and distributes these to charitable and needy hospitals after a careful process of selection.
By 2006, SOSVA had received and disbursed a total of 17 shipments of supplies valued at Rs. 270 Million, benefiting 38 hospitals.
A major contribution made by SOSVA through this programme was the timely help rendered to hospitals during the time of the Latur earthquake, Tsunami and Mumbai floods.
SOSVA partners with tshree International Agencies for providing these supplies:
- Direct Relief International - http://www.directrelief.org
- Medisend International - http://www.medisend.org
- AmeriCares - http://www.americares.org
Food & Nutrition Programmes
Recognising the adverse effect of malnutrition and ill health on children, SOSVA has initiated a Food & Nutrition programme at various local NGOs/CBOs and other civil society organisations.
The pilot project has started with a Mumbai-base NGO - RNCT in 3 schools around Chembur area of Mumbai..
Rural Initiatives
In 2007, SOSVA started supporting a education programme in Dhabon in Palghar Taluka of Maharashtra.
Along with College of Social Work, Nirmal Niketan, SoSVA has initiated a project in Mokhada Taluka of Thane District. Ashram Schools and local (Women) Self Help Groups and Youth are part of the initiative. It envisages implementing rural technologies (rain water harvesting, raised bed agriculture, biogas) in the school premises. The idea is that students will learn and be trained in these technologies. Once the success of these efforts is evident these technologies will spread outside the school to the villages and, in them, be adopted by the local villages.
Corporate Initiatives
SOSVA has formed fruitful partnerships with a number of NGOs over the last few decades and has also worked with number of NGOs and Donor Agencies alongwith various Government Agencies.
CSR Outsourcing
Going forward on these relationships, we are initiating CSR Outsourcing, so that corporate bodies can make use of our services to fulfil their CSR commitments and identify and contribute towards various developmental projects.
NGO Theme Tours
The NGO theme tour is designed to provide orientation to national and international participants on widely recognized development projects in India, through field visits.
The programme was initiated in 2006 for students of the International Health Programme of the Ben Gurion University in Israel, in collaboration with the School of Health Sciences, Pune. Visits were undertaken to 3 projects in Maharashtra, the FRCH Project in the Parinche Valley, Snehalaya in Ahmednagar and the CRHP in Jamkhed to give participants the opportunity to understand the interrelatedness of health with other development programmes and innovative strategies being adopted to bring health for all.
With the success of the first Tour and the subsequent tour for the Israeli University, we are initiating NGO Tours for Corporate Groups and Groups of Individuals and Students who wish to see different kinds of Developmental work going around.
Further Initiatives
Vocational training – SOSVA is now initiating new projects in the field of providing vocational training.
Health Support Group - In recognizing the importance of health support groups in the care and coping of patients having long term illnesses, SOSVA plans to form an apex society at the national level which would promote new health support societies and expand existing ones.
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