India Program

In 2008, we began partnerships with Dalit Sthree Sakthi, (a Dalit women’s organization in Andhra Pradesh), Udaan (an educational organization in Gujarat), Hul (an indigenous organization in Assam), Men’s Action for Stopping Violence Against Women (MASVAW, in Uttar Pradesh), and Bosco Seva Kendra and Child Rights Advocacy Foundation (both in Andhra Pradesh).

Two of these five partners are working to integrate gender equality into their programs and organizational culture. For instance, MASVAW is building the capacity of their network partners to improve their gender-equality programming, while Dalit Sthree Sakthi is building innovative structures to support women’s leadership. The CSO Strengthening Program are developing other ongoing collaborations through partner networks. For example, Bosco Seva Kendra and Child Rights Advocacy Foundation are using a team of locally trained audio-visual specialists from Udaan to make a film on their Gender-at-Work-supported organizational change.

For a brochure about our India program, click here.

For a list of our CSO Strengthening Program partners, click here.

And click here for case studies of our CSO program in India.

“What struck me is, as we are sitting in this room, we are all engaging with some sort of activism that’s linking to a broader goal [of bringing change]. And to bring that in context with the state of where the women’s movement is today … [with] us sitting around this room, I see people who form part of the women’s movement. We are doing our work in our different provinces but when we come together like this we see how our work kind of connects with the work other people are doing.”

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