Orissa State Volunteers and Social Workers Association

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OSVSWA hosts the following

Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) India Hub

The ADN India Chapter was launched in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 11 September 2019.Not long after, on 18 December 2019, OSVSWA launched the ADN India Hub by Mr. Dillip Pattanaik. Ms. Neelam Mkhijani, the Country Director Childfund, and Dr. Ambika Prasad Nanda, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Tata Steel. At the ADN India Hub, we implement the Case Station for Avoidable Snakebite Deaths.The ADN India Hub has participated in collaborative projects and enterprise related to three ADN research themes: Disaster Education, Direct and Indirect Disaster Deaths and Snakebite Deaths. For more information, please read the ADN India Chapter Strategy Document or visit the ADN website.

On 12 March 2024, OSVSWA launched the ADN India Hub Annual Newsletter at the three-day event for the global campaign, International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD).

OSVSWA has initiated this national alliance with the aim to phase-out mercury amalgam from the dental practice. The alliance works in line with the Asian Center for Environmental Health based at Dhaka and the World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry based at Washington DC. The goal of the national alliance is to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic releases of mercury and mercury compounds.

OSVSWA is a member of the GNDR since 2011 and involved in its programs i.e. Action at the Front Line (AFL), Views from the Front Line (currently working as the National Coordinating Organization – NCO for India to implement VFL 2019) and activities.

OSVSWA is the key and active member to this network since its inception.

OSVSWA has initiated this young network in the South Asia to protect its future generation

The Asian Center for Environmental Health works to build networks, awareness and governance on environmental health issues across Asia. OSVSWA is one of the founding member.

OSVSWA is the country chapter (Antenna) for the AIODD. This international alliance is working on promotion of SDG globally.

The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint is a voluntary collaborative initiative to focus and catalyse the efforts of a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve international goals to prevent children's exposure to lead from paint and to minimize occupational exposures to lead paint. OSVSWA is a Member of GAELP.

OSVSWA is the key and founding member of NFGI. Its vision and mission is to be the leading platform for articulating and disseminating information on Rural Roads Engineering within the context of poverty reduction

The International Pollutants Elimination Network is a global network of NGOs dedicated to the common aim of eliminating pollutants, such as lead in paint, mercury and lead in the environment, persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and other toxics. OSVSWA is a Member to this network.

GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration. OSVSWA is a Member of GAIA and representing India.

Districts: Keonjhar, Bargarh, and Kalahandi

Implementors:

Department of Water Resources (DoWR)

Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment (DA&FE)

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

OSVSWA (Research organization)

Environmental Risk

Project SAFER (Securing Agriculture from Environmental Risks) is working on implementing a bottom-up approach to reduce the vulnerability of rural communities that rely on farming as their main livelihood activity. Putting the communities’ voices in the centre of the project, SAFER woks with the people of rural Odisha, to identify their challenges in the face of Climate Change and implement their preferred solutions to ensure sustainable community-based development that addresses key issues to create a brighter future it the most remote areas of Odisha

Action for Youth

OSVSWA empowers youth and implementsyouth in action programmes. Recently our European Solidarity Corps (ESC) volunteers have worked with school students in the district of Konark in areas of climate change and menstrual health.

Disaster Relief

When a disaster strikes in Odisha, OSVSWA works collaboratively with state- and national-level partners to provide relief to those in need.In the aftermath of the 2023 Coromandel Train Accident in the district of Balasore, OSVSWA provided relief to XXX survivors and their families through the provision of….

Snakebites

OSVSWAhas focused on research and public engagement activities related to preventing snakebite deaths since 2020through the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) India Hub. On 19 September 2023, the ADN India Hub launched the Case Station for Avoidable Snakebite Deaths (CaSA) enterprise in the district of Ganjam. Since then, the ADN India Hub has facilitated outreach work with high-risk groups (children, women, farmers, and herders).

Environmental Risk

OSVSWA is working in the field of menstrual health management through a 4-part workshop with adolescent girls. In the early stages of project development, it was important to focus on self-empowerment, in order to create a base from which to start working on menstrual strength. In a second phase, complement this first phase with the implementation of a menstrual pad making group, to create livelihoods for tribal women through sustainable menstrual health management.

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