This report was published in February 2004 by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) as a part of the Women Centered Health Project in collaboration with the Public Health Department of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the Royal Tropical Institute. It describes the process of implementing Stepping Stones (SS) Workshops with health care providers such as Auxiliary Nurse Midwives, Multi-Purpose Workers, Community Health Volunteers, and Full-Time Medical Officers within the Public Health Department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), and participants from community-based NGOs. The method of Stepping Stones Workshops provides a framework to train health care providers to address sexual health concerns and issues of sexuality with adequate knowledge and sensitivity. The report documents the process of implementing the SS training package on HIV/AIDS, gender, communication, and relationship skills, aimed at behavioural change for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS/STDs in the context of Mumbai. The report spans across 40 pages, outlining the proceedings of the workshops for trainers as well as for health care providers conducted in Mumbai. The report offers a blueprint to institutionalize the SS methodology within BMC as well as for NGOs.

This report was published in May 2004 by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) as a part of the Women Centered Health Project (WCHP) in collaboration with the Public Health Department of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the Royal Tropical Institute. It was authored by Swati Pongurlekar, Deepa Venkatesh, Renu Khanna, Anagha Pradhan, and Usha Ubale describes the achievements, challenges, and functioning of the counselling centre established by WCHP at a gynaecology clinic in a municipal hospital in Mumbai. The counselling centre was set up to improve communication between clients and healthcare providers, recognizing that communication and the client-patient relationship are key factors in rendering effective sexual and reproductive healthcare, particularly to marginalized women. The centre was evaluated by an external counsellor to develop an assessment of the quality of services it provided. The report is 121 pages long.

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Folder Description: This report was published in November 2004 by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) as a part of the Women Centered Health Project (WCHP) in collaboration with the Public Health Department of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the Royal Tropical Institute. It was authored by T K Sunadari Ravindran and edited by Lakshmi Menon. It is a third-party review and evaluation of the Women Centred Health Project's work, achievements, and challenges over its seven years of operation from 1996 to 2003. It traces the efforts of the project to integrate the gender perspective in the services offered by the Public Health Department of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai to make healthcare for women more accessible and inclusive. In this regard, it reflects on the project's interventions in increasing men's involvement in the same, capacity building of health practitioners to adequately deal with women's issues, and introducing counselling services in hospital clinics. It has three sections that cover the following themes: backdrop and context within which the WCHP emerged and the project's vision/objectives; reflections on the achievements of the project in relation to specific interventions; and the scope for potential upscaling and the relevance of the project to global and national settings. The report is 59 pages long.

The policy briefs were created and published by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) in 2005 as a culmination of the work of the Women Centered Health Project (WCHP) in collaboration with the Public Health Department of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the Royal Tropical Institute. The policy briefs in this set draw out the essence of the WCHP's experiences, learnings, and strategies from seven years of institutionalizing the gender perspective in the Public Health Department of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Included in the set are policy briefs on: 1. "Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Health Care Services" 2. "Capacity Building of Male Multi Purpose Workers for Working with Men in Reproductive Health" 3. "Training for Communication Around Sexuality and Sexual Health" 4. "Implementation of Women-Friendly and Client Centred Information, Education, and Communication (IEC)" 5. "Simple Interventions to Improve Client-Provider Communication in Public Sector Health Facilities" 6. "Role of Counselling in Gynaecology Out-Patient Clinic" 7. "Developing Patients' Charter of rights and responsibilities - A Tool for Sensitising the Public Health System to Clients' Rights" Each policy brief contains the background, description, results, and recommendations arising from each intervention, translating the extensive work and findings of the WCHP to scalable policy suggestions.

This book was published in 1992 by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) and SARTHI (Social Action for Rural and Tribal Inhabitants of India) and authored by Renu Khanna. It is about the efforts of (SARTHI), a voluntary organization based and working in tribal areas in Panchmahals district in Gujarat, to develop a women-centered model for healthcare at the primary level during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The booklet gestures towards the importance of a progressive understanding of health as espoused and implemented by the health programme at SARTHI - it broadened the definition of women's health by including aspects of gynaecology, psychological health, and issues of violence and exploitation. Moreover, SARTHI's health efforts also challenged the natural primacy of an allopathic approach to health, recognizing the need for healing that integrated and built on traditional healing practices. The book records the processes, methodologies, conceptual frameworks, and challenges that arose during implementation of their programme, integrating healthcare as part of women's empowerment at the local level. It is 143 pages long.

This book was published in 1989 by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) and Pune Medical Mission Sisters. It is the first of three volumes and has contributions from Carol Huss (Editor), Renu Khanna, Celine Appilly, and S Srinivasan (Chinu), titled "Move Towards Holistic Health". This book covers the first five lessons of the first year of the correspondence course for holistic health practitioners, and includes perspectives on traditional healing systems in India, environment and health, and the modern pharmaceutical industry, among others. The first volume provides an overview of the various systems that have a bearing on health, setting the stage for a holistic conceptualization of health and healing. It contains five chapters and is 385 pages long.

Published in 1989 by SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives) and Pune Medical Mission Sisters, this book is the second of three volumes of the textbook series on holistic health for practitioners, titled "Bringing Change." The contributors to the book are Carol Huss (Editor), Meera Iyengar, Renu Khanna, Stephanie Maas, Celine Payyappilly, and S Srinivasan (Chinu). It contains the final five chapters of the text for the correspondence course, in continuation of the first volume. The book draws from the work of the authors for voluntary health institutions and people's movements focused on securing the rights of marginalized communities. The book is intended as a guide for holistic health practitioners on how to bring about change, from appropriate nutrition to legal aid and organizational development in bringing social change and better health. It is 325 pages long.

This book was published in 1990 by Pune Medical Mission Sisters, and SAHAJ (Society for Health Alternatives). It is the last of the three volumes of the textbook series on holistic health for practitioners, titled "Action Research in Holistic Healing". The contributors to the books are: Carol Huss, Celine Payyappilly, Meera Iyengar, Renu Khanna and S Srinivasan (Chinu). The book is a culmination of the Banyan Tree textbook series, serving as a guide for practitioners interested in clinical research (in holistic healing) by presenting a new paradigm for research methodology. It contains six chapters devoted to clinical research methodology, assertiveness training, psychosynthesis, getting meaning from dreams and case studies on holistic healing. The textbook is 327 pages long.

The material in this workbook was first available in cyclostyle versions in 1988, and this edition was published in 1997 by the Medical Missions Sisters. It was authored by Celine Payyappilly, Carol Huss, Renu Khanna, Mira Shiva, Chinu Srinivasan. It was finally developed in the form of a comprehensive workbook in this printed version in 1997, based on collective deliberations over a 6-day seminar. Though created for the Basic Holistic Health course by the Medical Missions Sisters, it is also a resource for self-study for the broader public, expanding the mainstream approach to health as primarily a medical concern. The workbook provides frameworks to train practitioners to conceptualize health outside of 'diseases' and through the lens of psychological and spiritual well-being, environmental factors, and socio-political factors. It pushes for an approach that centres agency, identifying not just the symptoms but the causal roots of ill health (which extend beyond the individual body). Spanning across 242 pages, the workbook contains 8 units with exercises on conceptualizing and practicing holistic health.

Published in 2009 by Society for Health Alternatives (SAHAJ), this is a select compilation of stories from the documentation of accounts of 23 youth from slums in Vadodhara, at a residential workshop discussed social expectations from them as men, the influence of religion and cultural values on their masculinity, their perceptions about what it means to be a "Real Man" and the kind of men they aspire to become. It is 43 pages long.

Published in 2012 by Society for Health Alternatives (SAHAJ), this publication reflects the lives of 26 change-agents associated with SAHAJ who have worked as community organizers working on health issues, SAHAJ field officers, and adolescent peer educators. It is 84 pages long.

This report was published in May 1991 by the Society for Welfare, Education and Action (SWEA-Rural), and authored by Renu Khanna (SAHAJ), N R Mehta (SWEA-Rural) and Anil Bhatt (IIM, Ahmedabad). The booklet/report is a review of 9 years of work of the Community Health Project (CHP) at SEWA-rural. It is a documentation of the project's experiences and learnings for other community health efforts/organizations, policymakers, academics and the voluntary sector. Written by external evaluators, this report includes an outline of the organization (SEWA-Rural), the CHP, its processes, its programmes and the challenges faced. It spans over 75 pages.