AMMACHI Labs has successfully deployed several projects in collaboration with top funding agencies.
WE: CSDP, Champions of Change
The Women Empowerment: Community Sanitation through Democratic Participation (WE:CSDP) is a two year, pan-India initiative, funded in part by the United Nations Democracy Fund. The project seeks to empower 5,000 women in 21 villages across India to become Champions of Change to improve sanitation and community health in their localities.
Project Start Date: Feb 2017
Pi: Professor Rao R. Bhavani
Funding Agency: United Nations Democracy Fund and Co-financed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and MA Math
Reaching the Unreached
“Reaching the Unreached: Skills Development Policies and the Promise of ICT – A Scoping Study from India and South Africa”. This study looks at the potential of cVET in South Africa and India to enhance the reach and accessibility of TVSD among unreached and underserved populations - particularly the informal sector.
Project Start Date: Oct 2016
Pi: Professor Rao R. Bhavani
Funding Agency: NORRAG
The S.A.V.E Project
S.A.V.E is a project in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). S.A.V.E successfully fostered technological innovation in vocational training and was the keystone in our initial pilot to train women plumbers on haptic simulators and women artisans through virtual fabric painting.
Project Start Date: May 1, 2009
Pi: Professor Rao R. Bhavani
Co-Pi: Prof. Delmar Marshall
Funding Agency: NMEICT- Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India and Co-financed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Women Empowerment Project
The Women Empowerment Project sought to empower 3,000 women with the ability to participate in the democratic process and to strengthen their capacity to make decisions at the individual, family, and community levels and far exceeded it’s initial goal.
Project Start Date: April 2012
Pi: Professor Rao R. Bhavani
Funding Agency: United Nations Democracy Fund and Co-financed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and MA Math
MoVE
A solar powered classroom on wheels is what the MoVE project is all about. Bringing skill training to those who would most benefit is why AMMACHI Labs conceptualized, designed and built a mobile vocational training center.
Project Start Date: March 1, 2012
Pi: Rao R. Bhavani
Co-Pi: Sreeram Kongeseri
Funded by: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
mySangham
mySangham is an online community and e-Learning portal which brings skill based education to novice computer users.
Project Start Date: September 27, 2013
Pi: Rao R. Bhavani
Co-Pi: Rangasrinivasan Venkataraman
Funded by: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
