TRIBAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTRE (THRC)
Tribal Health Resource Centre is a unit in the organization in which focus is given mainly on research and community-based programmes.
Ongoing Project
IndiaZooRisk+: Using One Health approaches to understand and co-develop interventions for zoonotic diseases affecting forest communities in India
- To understand complex and interacting impacts of biological and socio-economic drivers on health outcomes and spread of zoonotic diseases.
- To co-develop better measures for managing and preventing human disease.
- Determine the local contextual factors that underpin vulnerability of individuals and forest communities to zoonotic pathogens and their resilience strategies
- Understand how knowledge sharing within forest communities and with cross-sector practitioners affects zoonotic disease management.
- Exploring local contextual factors that determine the vulnerability and resilience of forest communities to zoonotic diseases.
- Determining how the relationship between drivers at the macro- and meso-levels impact and influence knowledge and power relationships at the micro level.
- Evaluating the various aspects of vulnerability and resilience that characterizes local communities affected by neglected zoonotic diseases.
Duration of the Project:
August 2021 to December 2023
Total Budget:
Rs.87,92,898.57/-
Completed Projects
- “Tribal Vaccination Drive Program”, By Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra, Supported by Azim Premji Foundation.
The aim of the project was to achieve universal protection against COVID-19 for the tribal people of Chamarajanagar district in terms of COVID-19 vaccination coverage through a community-led planning approach.
Duration of the Project:
September 2021 – June 2022
Total Budget:
Rs 16,20,800/-
2. Focused Awareness Programme for COVID-19 Vaccination among the Tribal People of Chamarajanagar District.
- To focus COVID- 19 vaccination awareness campaigns in the selected hamlets with poor to below average vaccination uptake and high hesitancy, and thereby improve vaccination uptake.
- To develop a sustained awareness strategy for COVID-19 among tribal people in the district using traditional language, media and involving multiple stakeholders locally.
Duration of the Project:
February 2022 – July 2022
Total Budget:
Rs 10,33,000/-