- Organisation de mise en œuvre : citiesRISE
- Type de projet : Ecosystem Catalyst Grant
- Lieu : Inde
Nos Ecosystem Catalyst (EC) Grants help scale youth-led ideas, remove barriers to mental health prevention and promotion support, and test how youth-led innovation can work within and improve existing systems.
Ecosystem Building in India
Mental health programming in India often overlooks the vital role of parental involvement, despite its potential to improve young people’s wellbeing. Strengthening policy support to endorse approaches that enhance family functioning presents a key opportunity to scale and sustain mental health innovations.
The Ecosystem Catalyst Project
citiesRISE is a global multi-stakeholder initiative that accelerates interventions and systems supporting young people. It operates as a system orchestrator, working across Research and Development, Scaling Innovations, and Field Building. Over the past seven years, they have collaborated with partners through an India-Kenya-Colombia-U.S. network of city research and innovation hubs to develop the Core Capacities model, which translates inner development into large-scale public mental health interventions for young people. With Ecosystem Catalyst Grant funding, citiesRISE aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Health Priorities: citiesRISE will establish a network of domestic and international funders to align heir investment strategies with national youth mental health priorities and develop vital resources for the funding ecosystem, such as investment briefs, collaborative financing models, and opportunity maps.
- Mapping the Youth Mental Health Ecosystem and Identifying Strategic Opportunities: through a rapid scoping study aimed at analyzing the current landscape of youth mental health interventions.
- Building Consensus on National Youth Mental Health Priorities, including family functioning through Multisectoral Collaboration: In partnership with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), citiesRISE will facilitate strategic convenings that bring together stakeholders from various sectors including education, health, youth affairs, and urban development and codevelop national priorities for youth mental health through a collaborative approach.
- Engaging Funders and Enhancing the Funding Ecosystem in Support of Youth Mental Health
