On Tuesday, Mahila
Housing SEWA Trust, was notified by the Global Resilience Partnership, an initiative spear-headed by The
Rockefeller Foundation, United States Agency for International Development, and
the Swedish International development Cooperation Agency, that we have been selected as a
finalist in the Global Resilience Challenge.
The partnership is
looking to build resilience to acute shocks and chronic stresses in the Sahel,
Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia – complex regions with high
resilience needs.
We are excited for
our nomination and look forward to the second-stage of the three-stage grant
competition convening multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral teams to craft
locally-driven, high-impact solutions that build resilience, with the
opportunity to qualify for up to
$1 million for implementation and continued innovation.
“A great
achievement for the entire team. " said Bijal
Brahmbhatt, Director, Mahila Housing SEWA Trust. "
Out of nearly 500
applications submitted, the Mahila Housing SEWA Trust team was selected as one
of the 16 organizations to
identify resilience problems and produce transformative solutions in South Asia
region.
Mahila Housing SEWA
Trust (MHT) proposed to create and
implement resilience plans to address four major climate risks: heat stress,
flash floods, acute water shortages and vector borne diseases through the
project, “Devising Local Coping Mechanisms and Adapation
Technologies to Build Climate-Resilience Capacities of the Urban Poor in South
Asia.”
