Change Initiatives is a Kolkata-based non-government organisation working in the areas of education, livelihoods and environment. We work mainly among women, children and the youth.
Our work has a strong focus on ICTs, and we work on proven solutions to development problems — both of which help us to quickly achieve the desired results.
Our collaborators include Unesco, EU, DFID, Governments of India and West Bengal, CapGemini, Nasscom, University of Manchester, Natural Resources Institute,UK and Radboud University of the Netherlands.
We are a Gender & ICT award winner at the World Summit of Information Society and have received Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica.
Change Initiatives is an organisation which works with the poor to implement at scale solutions to the most pressing problems of the day in a multi-stakeholder framework.
Work on 3Es: Education, Environment and Empowerment among women, children and youth — the most vulnerable sections of society and the true change agents
We want A Gender Just and Climate Resilient Society where every individual is an Active Citizen, Aware of their Choices and Capable of Exercising Them
An effective co-ordinator among instititions at the grass roots to make them enablers of change in our projects
An organisation that promotes Digital Inclusion and ICT for Development through innovative mobilisation strategies among the grassroots
An organisation which follows an evidence-based, data driven approach towards monitoring and evaluation
A practioner of Ethnographic Action Research that enables us to embed technical solutions within a local lcontext
An organisation which uses the principles of behavioural science within a data-driven framework to bringabout true change in the grassroots
Our Women in STEM project is into its fourth month, and the response has been very encouraging. In this project, we are mentoring 25 women undergraduate students from 7 Kolkata colleges to build a sustainable career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math). The project is supported by the American Centre, Kolkata.
Change Initiatives has undertaken a novel effort on environment awareness — we are recycling saris into carry bags. We are inviting donations of old saris, which our girls are turning into bags that can be folded and kept inside smaller bags and pockets.
