About Chintan - Chintan

Chintan, meaning thought/reflection in Hindi, is an environmental research and action group.

Chintan focuses on Circular Economy, Waste, Air Pollution and Climate Change, especially where the poor and vulnerable are affected across 8 states and UTs in India.

Our Journey

Over the years, we have become as comfortable at a waste dump as in an international meeting.

Chintan began its work with waste and waste pickers – the backbone of waste management and recycling in India. Building from this heritage, while continuing to embrace it, we try to increase resource equity among the poor, reduce exposure to air pollution and mitigate it, lead the way towards a more climate resilient economy that breaks away from the take-make-waste culture and create a circular society.

Our Impact

Chintan improves lives, livelihoods and leadership to equitably reduce consumption and its effects on pollution, air quality and climate.

Our Impact

Chintan improves lives, livelihoods and leadership to equitably reduce consumption and its effects on pollution, air quality and climate.

Lives

Enhancing resilience for the historically marginalised and building circular communities:

5250 Informal Workers Access Social Security
5000 Women Waste Workers Increase Nutritional Resilience
1,000,000 Citizens Understand the Science of Air Pollution through Online Campaigns
12,000 Waste Workers Organize for Self Representation
500 Waste Workers Receive Thermal Comfort Roofs
1000+ Women Trained in Climate-Induced Extreme Heat
6000 Tons of Waste Diverted from Landfill Monthly

Livelihoods

Developing green skills and income opportunities in recycling and repair:

50,000 Waste Workers Trained for Improved Safety and laws Related to them
30 Microenterprises in Waste Run by Wastepickers, especially Women
1250 informal actors trained to become E-Waste Entrepreneurs
2645 Waste Workers’ Incomes Enhanced
4952 Green Livelihoods created
9 Micro Material Recovery Facilities Run by Waste Workers across Delhi NCR
1 Semi Automated Material Recovery Facility
200 Women Trained to be Repair Workers

Leadership

Building gender-inclusive capacity to empower Circular Society actions:

10,000 wastepicker children mainstreamed into schools
12000 plus Citizens Understand Air Pollution through 1000+ Trainings
30 Climate Sakhis, or women climate leaders in low-income communities for hyper local climate resilience
5000 cool roof pilots across technologies to understand needs in urban slums
1000 plus young people trained via volunteering and internships
50000 Tons of Wet Waste Composted Abating Methane Emissions
1,50,000+ School Children and Youth Trained to combat Greenhouse GasEmission
Approximately 1,000,000 Citizens Trained in Zero Waste and Climate Resilience

Policy and Research

Engaging women as solution-makers to conduct research, design policy strategies and drive meaningful change:

55 Research Publications
9 New Policies and Rules
Incubated and supported Safai Sena, a wastepickers’ organization with
over 15,000 members

We campaign for informal and unacknowledged labour, the backbone of India’s green economy.

To enable this, Chintan works with circular economy workers, from women waste pickers to actors in the repair sector to build their capacity in climate-proofing India. Enabling children of waste pickers and child waste pickers to be future ready offers Gen Next other livelihood options ahead.

Our research, outreach and trainings demonstrate impact from the ground upwards.

Chintan uses evidence and data from across India to enrich the understanding of the work, seeking long-term, equitable solutions in the fields we work in. We communicate these widely, creating multi-stakeholder impact.

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