PROJECTS
The Dharana Project
The Dharana Project is a combined psycho-education and yoga project that aims to improve coping and resilience among at risk adolescents. The project is planned as a pilot project to begin with adolescents in the Somali and Afghan community. If the intervention proves promising, Diode plans to share this information with other groups of adolescents that may need it.
Status update: Looking for funding
Project ECCO
The CARE Tool
The Chronic and Rehabilitative Illness Empowerment Tool (CARE Tool) is a handheld record for patients to have ownership of their medical information, and in which doctors would update as necessary. The tool would include necessary information for continuity of care and goal setting. Data collection and analysis has been completed. A final internal report was completed in April 2025 and one dissemination activity with the MSF Penang Project was conducted in September 2025.
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Status update: Completed
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Covid-19 and Access to Health
Project REFEM
Project REFEM (Research towards the Elimination of Forced and Early Marriage) aims to collect data and create an effective intervention, using user-centred design, against forced and early marriage in affected communities in Malaysia. Project REFEM is a multi-phase project that will last for 3 years.
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Status update: Looking for funding
Birth Registration Project
Project ECCO is a research project that explored ethical challenges faced by vulnerable communities and service providers in Peninsular Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, the qualitative study explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for populations on the move, and the Indigenous populations in Peninsular Malaysia through an ethical lens. The project aims to provide recommendations and educational tools to improve protective policies in future crises.
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Status update: Completed
The research project aims to identify and understand barriers and opportunities to accessing education and healthcare faced by refugee and asylum-seeking children in Malaysia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also aims to identify and understand how these barriers and opportunities for access have been exacerbated or improved based on age, gender, ethnicity, location, and disability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project is commissioned by UNICEF Malaysia and is done in collaboration with IDEAS Malaysia.​
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Status update: Completed
The research project aims to identify and understand barriers and gaps to accessing birth registration faced by refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children in Malaysia. This project is commissioned by UNICEF Malaysia and is done in collaboration with Anthrologica UK. Diode has been primarily responsible for the quantitative and qualitative data collection activities. Findings from the research will be used to inform policy changes.​
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Status update: Completed