COVINDIA

Screenshot from The COVINDIA Project documentary

The ODRIIS Team set up a research-action project to analyse direct socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis. The project COVINDIA (Appuyer, comprendre et valoriser les pratiques de solidarités villageoises en Inde du Sud), was selected by a flash call on the pandemic by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) among 92 projects in 44 countries, the only one selected for India. It has three main objectives:

  • to relieve vulnerable households living in the NEEMSIS villages of Cuddalore and Villupuram districts by providing emergency food distribution with the help of SHGs;
  • to conduct qualitative fieldwork to reflect on the consequences of the COVID-19;
  • to produce a film documentary on the living conditions of rural population in Tamil Nadu during the pandemic.

A short and preliminary version of the documentary is now visible here:

The COVINDIA Project: Unmask the Collective Action

This first documentary has been largely publicized by the IRD as part of projects lead by women to face the COVID-19 consequences over the world (newsletter IRD ; Canal-U TV ; Le Mag’ IRD).

This short documentary is part of a broader project of long documentary to observe the itinerary of labour migrants before, during and after the Indian lockdown, thereby accounting for living conditions in rural areas of Tamil Nadu


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