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Our areas
of impact
and focus

The Hub's projects and initiatives are designed around the following Global Shapers Community impact areas: I-SHAPE

  • I for Inclusion - Create inclusive communities: Advocate for human rights, modernize social norms and disrupt harmful stereotypes related to gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, homelessness, statelessness, and more.

  • S for Skills - Reskill for the future: Provide all people with better education, skills and jobs to ensure no one is left behind in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, along with promoting new standards of work, digital literacy, online safety, and more.

  • H for Health - Improve health and well-being: Achieve health equality, ensure access to health services, address the social determinants of health, advance youth mental health support, respond to pandemics, and more.

  • A for Aid - Deliver basic needs: Respond to local disasters, take humanitarian action, end hunger, fight extreme poverty, and more, to support the world’s most vulnerable communities.

  • P for Planet - Protect the planet: Reduce emissions, hold political and business leaders accountable, promote sustainable consumption, preserve biodiversity, protect nature, and more.

  • E for Engagement - Strengthen civic engagement: Empower minority leadership, mobilize citizen voting, inspire youth to run for local politics, ensure representation in decision-making and solution-building at all levels of society, and more.

I-SHAPE

Projects and initiatives

Health, Inclusion

Nagpur Action Group

The Nagpur Action Group is a collective action initiative led by the Global Shapers Community Nagpur Hub, aimed at enabling solutions by addressing the gaps in several fronts affecting the Nagpur metropolitan region and its people. The group brings together users, experts, practitioners, and service providers from various domains to create a pipeline of ideas as well as feedback that can enable solutions to key issues facing the city. The initiative's primary objective is to represent the interests of Nagpur and its people by identifying key areas of concern and then bringing together all major stakeholders in the region to solve them through the medium of constructive and iterative discourses. This is a long-term solution that aims to create a sustainable future for the social, cultural, economical, and political health of Nagpur and its residents. To achieve its objectives, the Nagpur Action Group will leverage the experience and expertise of its subjects to form focused groups across major verticals affecting the city. These focused groups, comprising of civic society, NGOs, the public sector, the private sector, academia, and research organizations, will work to exchange feedback and key information that can help address topical issues, thereby enabling comprehensive solutions that can address them. Such an approach leverages the collaborative power of an entire indigenous ecosystem coming together to solve problems in identified areas, which will lead to catalyzing action across the city and building a culture of collaborative action.

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Skills, Engagement

Social Impact Collective 

Social impact entrepreneurship is certainly one of the most challenging career trajectory one could choose. That said, it also is one of the most purposeful and rewarding careers that an individual may lead. Our initiative Social Impact Collective is designed to build a community for social entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders, investors, students and aspiring entrepreneurs to communicate, network and co-design solutions to some of the most pressing challenges--whether it be social, economic, environmental or even the smallest challenges in running organisations smoothly. We facilitate all sorts of opportunities possible to help these entrepreneurs scale the most promising solutions through leveraging the community, our existing network of subject matter experts, industry veterans, like-minded entrepreneurs and potentially even investors. By leveraging the experience and expertise of some entrepreneurs from our team, we also foster a seamless support system at all times for ad-hoc challenges and requests from the community members. We have successfully   1) Engaged with 5 local institutions to host Social Entrepreneurship sessions.  2) Built partnerships with atleast 10 local organizations for outreach and support.  3) Mentored 5 social entrepreneurs in the next year. Long Term Change -  1) Create a network of like-minded individuals.   2) Set up an Incubation / Acceleration Program (partly realized under CTF Accelerator Project)

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Impact

5000+

Individuals

Impacted

30+

Social Entrepreneurs
Mentored

35+

Partnerships

Established

50+

Sessions
Conducted

Health, Inclusion

On My Period

On My Period is designed with an objective to deal with the crisis of menstruation hygiene & stigmatisation in India. As per records, only 18% women have access to sanitary hygiene in India. Either the costs associated with sanitary napkins or the taboo around the subject has stalled young girls from standing up for their basic rights. Through the period project, we would be conducting awareness drives in schools to educate girls on the importance of menstrual hygiene and how to implement it in their daily lives. We have collaborated with local enterprises and gynaecologists for distribution of biodegradable sanitary napkins and delivery of learning modules in a number of government schools.

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Impact

3000+

Menstruators
Educated

25+

Partners
Across India

30+

Sessions
Conducted

350+

Non-menstruators
Educated

Planet, Engagement

CommuniTREE

As opposed to the targets of bringing 33% of India’s geographical area as envisaged in the National Forest Policy, 1988 and Strategy for New India, NITI Aayog 2018 -- the country’s total forest and tree cover sums up to a mere 24.62% (21.71% and 2.91%). With India’s population projected to grow to 1.5 billion by 2030, its dependence on natural resources, land and energy is bound to skyrocket through this decade and beyond. However, this growth cannot be deemed sustainable without striking a balance between urban development and nourishing our natural ecosystems while also influencing many other UN Sustainable Development Goals. CommuniTREE is a forest restoration initiative that mobilises resources from MSMEs across the country to expand India’s forest cover, generate fair-pay employment opportunities for rural and tribal communities, create additional carbon sinks, and support biodiversity growth. We mobilise funds received from these partner businesses to facilitate tree plantations on designated forest land. With each tree planted, an eCertificate shall be dedicated to the brand or their customers (as per the brand’s requirement) and offers customisable communication strategies for the brands taking planetary action. Dedicating eCertificates to customers can be leveraged for the following-- 1) Continued engagement with the customer even after sale 2) Enhanced brand recognition through personalised messages 3) Communicating a purpose beyond ‘business-as-usual’ Each of these eCertificates comprise the following-- 1) Name of the recipient 2) Your brand name & logo 3) A personalised message from the brand to the customer 4) A geotag (hyperlink to navigate the tree on the map) Join the CommuniTREE in 4 simple steps-- 1) Establish a partnership plan that suits your ambitions 2) Fund forest restoration 3) Create tangible impact 4) Communicate your contributions through the eCertificates and social media.

United Nations SDGs

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Impact

3000+

Trees Planted

58,000

KGs of carbon
sequestered

250

Days of employment
generated

Planet, Skills

Shades of Blue

The average temperature and instances of heatwaves in Nagpur have been on a constant rise since last two decades. This and many other worrying facts have come to the fore in the latest environmental status report for the city, which for the first time scientifically establishes that the city is severely getting impacted from climate change. Source: TOI According to 2021’s NEERI Report, Regional Meterological Centre’s 49-year-weather pattern data states that the average annual temperature for the last two decades is higher than 50-year mean with an increasing trend. 80% of the years in 2000-2019 decades have their annual average temperature higher than the baseline value. ​ A NEERI Report from 2021 based on an in-depth analysis of the Regional Meteorological Centre’s 49 year weather pattern data states that the average annual temperature for the last two decades is higher than the 50-year mean with an increasing trend.  What’s worse: Without intervention, in the next 50 years, Nagpur is predicted to reach a catastrophic 3°C rise in average temperature, making it uninhabitable.  With these irrefutable facts in mind, through the ‘Shades of Blue’ project, we are working towards an ambitious goal of achieving 100% climate literacy in the city within the next five years.  In this endeavour, we will establish the ‘Global Shapers Sustainability Center’ at 50 academic institutions in Nagpur.  At these centers, students will receive education, mentorship, and access to meet-ups on climate action. We are on a mission to educate 10,000 students every year.

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Impact

9000+

Students trained

30+

Presentations and Session

15+

Schools and Partners

Engagement

Break It Down

The project, as the name suggests, aims to disseminate noteworthy government policies, amendments, schemes and subsidies to simple and intelligible language in order to educate the masses about their rights, shifts & amendments in existing government frameworks with, an ultimate aim to raise awareness and empower the common citizens to exercise their democratic rights and foster a participative democracy. Through the activities under this project, we create opportunities for dialogue and civic participation through petitions and public consultation of draft policies and bills before being notified as a law.

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Health, Inclusion

Mind Your Head

Mind Your Head is an initiative by the Global Shapers Nagpur Hub to gauge the youth’s understanding about mental health and leading efforts to sensitise them towards prevalent issues such as anxiety, depression, peer pressure, inferiority complex among others.  This project is a step to raising awareness and providing the much needed guidance to the youth so they can not only help themselves but also the people around them. In a collaboration with the Global Shapers Surat Hub, we virtually conduct the Pop Up festival, that aims to create safe spaces for school students and working professionals to find an outlet for their emotions. Through a mix of sharing cirlces and mental health fests, we hope to break down stiff emotional walls for 50,000 students across the city.

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