Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC)

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Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), founded in 2005, is a non-profit non-governmental organization that works towards socio-economic empowerment, improving quality of life, health, nutrition, wellbeing and empowered social organizations among disadvantaged urban populations through:
• demand-supply improvement and community-provider linkage focused demonstration programs,
• technical support to government and non-government agencies and
• research, advocacy and knowledge dissemination.

Our vision is an urban India where every resident enjoys optimal health and well-being, realizes his/her full potential and contributes to the nation´s growth and development.

Our mission is to bring about sustainable improvements in the health conditions of the urban poor by influencing policies and programmes and empowering the community.

The UHRC´s demonstration programs utilize community organizing to establish women´s community groups consisting of slum-dwelling women who advocate for community-level infrastructure improvements. UHRC implements demonstration programs among slum-dwelling populations in cities (Indore, Agra, and more recently North-East Delhi) with the intention that they be adapted, replicated and up-scaled by other government and non-government agencies. These demonstration programs focus simultaneously on community empowerment to enhance demand for services and on working with the service providers to improve supply side responsiveness to meet the increased demand.
UHRC programs facilitate the formation of women´s and children´s groups to strengthen the social cohesion in slums and to address gender inequity. The program works toward building their capacity to take charge of processes that affect family economics, health, education, nutrition, housing improvement and overall social wellbeing.
UHRC provides targeted trainings and workshops to community groups on topics such as a) acquiring knowledge, b) building negotiations skills (such as sending collective application to civic authorities) and, c) interfacing with diverse government agencies to improve slum living environments and access to health, nutrition and social entitlements.
Slum communities in UHRC program cities participate in health education and promotion sessions facilitated by UHRC field workers on topics such as maternal and child health, nutrition, hygiene, and environmental health.
The UHRC has been implementing a number of skills-development programs training women and children in various crafts such as tailoring, basket making, and gardening.

UHRC programs
• Health outreach, service access, and behavior promotion
• Collective savings/social resilience funds
• Petition writing and infrastructure improvement
• Social awareness and advocacy
• Government scheme awareness and application suppor
• Technical Support to Government of Uttrakhand's Urban Health Programme
• Research and knowledge sharing

Siddharth Agarwal is the Executive Director of the Urban Health Resource Center (UHRC).

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