This year, FORUT launched the Civil Society Impact Series to feature articles from FORUT’s partners.
These articles focus on civil society interventions and projects, particularly featuring the results and lessons learned from their implementation. The first two articles in the series can now be accessed on FORUT’s Resources page.
The first article features the work of the Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA) with Project Soukhya in India.
The second article features the work of the Foundation for Innovative Social Development with the workbook ‘A World Filled with Happiness’ for children and youth in Sri Lanka.
Working in urban slums to prevent alcohol-related domestic violence
- Devaraj S, Raman AS and Raman L. (2024). Civil Society Impact Series. FORUT and Association for Promoting Social Action. Go to FORUT Resources.
This article focuses on the interventions of APSA, particularly Project Soukhya, to reduce alcohol-related domestic violence and the lessons learned from these interventions.
APSA – the Association for Promoting Social Action – is a non-governmental organization that has been working in over 80 urban slum communities for the past 40 years in the cities of Bengaluru (Bangalore) and Hyderabad in the states of Karnataka and Telangana, respectively.
Young people as agents of change in preventing alcohol consumption and drug use in Sri Lanka
- Sugathimala S, Kandiah R, Wazeema TMF and Kanishka I. (2024). Civil Society Impact Series. FORUT and Foundation for Innovative Social Development. Go to FORUT Resources.
In this article, the Foundation for Innovative Social Development (FISD), a non-governmental organisation working to create an alcohol- and drug-free society in Sri Lanka, shares the lived experiences of young people as agents of change through its ‘A World filled with Happiness’ workbook programs in the Monaragala and Hambantota districts from 2019 to 2023.
