Swaniti Initiative

“Rwitwika bhattacharya shantanu agarwal ceo/director sec/director family & business relationship”

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“The organization received a grant to establish a sustainable and scalable model of carbon dioxide removal through enhanced rock weathering technique along with co-benefits to marginal farmers in the global south. Project mati was conceived as a pilot project in the year 2022 to address the challenges faced by marginal farmers in the context of climate change. Enhanced rock weathering (erw) holds great potential as a tool for carbon removal and empowering paddy farmers in india. Erw process offers a promising solution by leveraging natural processes to sequester carbon, improve soil fertility, and enhance crop yields. Erw involves the application of crushed rocks, such as basalt, on agricultural fields. As these rocks weather over time, they naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and lock it away in the form of stable carbonates. The weathering of rocks releases essential minerals and nutrients into the soil, replenishing nutrient levels and improving soil health. This leads to increased nutrient availability for crops, resulting in higher yields and improved productivity for paddy farmers. Mati carbon's mission is to scale carbon removal in agricultural fields by enhanced weathering. The mati process leverages naturally occurring silicate rocks weathering phenomenon by accelerating the process many orders of magnitude to allow for carbon removal to occur in just a few years. Mati offers several benefits based on carbon removal in paddy agriculture fields, particularly for smallholder farmers in india, zambia and tanzania. The key advantages include carbon removal, increased soil fertility, reduced need for chemical fertilizers, soil acidification mitigation and climate resilience. Mati carbon's enhanced rock weathering (erw) based carbon removal project followed a systematic methodology, ensuring efficient farmer enrollment and targeting the whole community rather than a few big farmers. Through community outreach, capacity-building, and knowledge-sharing platforms, we empowered farmers to implement erw techniques effectively and embrace sustainable agriculture practices. By adhering to a structured approach and maintaining a strong monitoring and evaluation framework, we maximized the impact of erw on carbon removal, soil fertility improvement, and crop yields, contributing to a more sustainable agricultural system and benefitted farmers and the community at large. We used a proprietary logistics platform and technology stack to enable our deployments. The following objectives were accomplished during different cropping cycles in the project area duly validating our methodologies and mrv techniques. Mati carbon project was validated as a true application of high tech mrv and latest carbon removal science in rural paddy fields which enabled farmers with better crop productivity and livelihood generation. We have been able to equip farmers with the necessary knowledge and ensured the wider dissemination of new technology for sustainable agriculture, fostering a more resilient and environmentally conscious farming community. These benefits support the sustainable development and well-being of marginalized farmers, empowering them to combat climate change and enhance their livelihoods.”

“Swaniti was able to support the staffing requirements of 25 parliamentarians to drive the air quality issues in their respective constituencies, sensitize them with the help of external experts on various emerging issues having linkages with the subject and it was all coordinated by a delhi office based team. The project witnessed multiple groundbreaking innovations in the constituencies of parliamentarians. The activities under the project ranged from community awareness to the parliamentarians' oversight of efficient usage of government resources for better program delivery. Some specific deliverables of the period are mentioned below: a knowledge workshop on the surat emissions trading scheme: learning from indias first pollution market was attended by 6 parliamentarians on 17th december, 2022 at gandhinagar, gujarat. The secretariat facilitated the placement of 25 clean air associates under the mentorship of parliamentarians, crucial in supporting honble mps in their air quality endeavors. Between july 2022 and june 2023, the associates along with the secretariat produced 168 policy briefs or documents. Review of national clean air program (ncap) and other programs having components of air quality in 09 district development coordination and monitoring committees (disha committees) meetings by the parliamentarians training of media personnel (june 2023): parliamentarian anchored a capacity building workshop on air pollution reporting in june 2023 to produce an informed group of journalists who would create constructive narratives while reporting on air pollution and allied issues. Five local innovation systems were created by 5 parliamentarians in their respective constituencies, with the support of the clean air associates to address the local air quality issues. The efforts of parliamentarians leading to the publication of the air quality data of a state pollution control board: parliamentarians have taken several steps for transparency in areas where such data was not being displayed. For instance, in one constituency, a parliamentarian ensured the public visibility of uniform aqi data by requesting it from the state pollution control board. The board acted promptly by rectifying the data and communicated the same to honble mp. Engaging youth and children in the pursuits of clean air: 6 parliamentarians, spearheaded various initiatives to engage youth and children in their constituencies. Yuva tourism clubs, climate warrior program and yuva tourism club, and paryavaran rakshak program are few examples of exemplary work undertaken by the parliamentarians with support of associates to engage youth and children”

“This program was funded with a grant enabling us to provide technical assistance to state and local governments in west bengal to enable tea worker communities to access fair wages, plantation-specific entitlements, and benefits. Under this grant swaniti took the following objectives to identify the availability and extent of accessibility of tea workers to government social welfare schemes and entitlements in wb and to strengthen systems and processes by collaborating with state departments and district administration and build capacity, knowledge insights, etc. Of local officers to ensure tractable public program delivery by identifying interventions suited for the local context. Some of the major deliverables acheieved here were: 1. Baseline assessment to understand ecosystem and extent of challenges faced by tea garden workers to access social protection schemes, conducted via focus group discussions (fgds), personal interviews, and door-to-door surveys 2. Aadhar correction/enrolment camps and awareness camps following the baseline study findings 3. Establishing and creating credible relations and trust with the local admin bodies to strengthen public service delivery. 4. Creating and distributing capacity building document on 'enhancing social protection services to the tea- garden communities in wb.”

“Swaniti initiative is a social enterprise supporting government administration and elected representatives to ensure last-mile public service delivery and policy reforms. The organization receives grants from other organizations to complete projects on energy transition, green recovery, sustainable planning and green livelihood. The organization also works with state governments and local bodies for reengineering scheme implementation strategies to ensure the expansion of social security coverage to unskilled migrant workers and vulnerable groups and to enhance the efficiency of development planning processes.”

“Part v line 2a filing of federal employment returns - the organization utilizes a professional employee organization, justworks employment group llc ein 46- 2283648. Therefore, there are no federal employment returns filed by the organization under its employer identification number.”

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