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Strategic Priorities

Empowering Women and Girls

  • Fostering gender sensitivity within the communities we work with by sensitising community leaders and youths on women’s issues.
  • Building leadership of Women, Adolescent girls, Young Urban Women to resist gender-based violence in the society.
  • Supporting survivors of gender-based violence and helping them restore a life of dignity.
  • Supporting women’s access and ownership to housing, land, dignified livelihoods and safe working spaces.
  • Promoting collectives of women for entrepreneurship support and enterprise development.

Strengthening Children’s Education, Development and Protection

  • Promoting children’s right to development and protection by facilitating children’s access to education, nutrition, health and protection from violence and exploitation.
  • Creating safe and favourable environment for children living in difficult circumstances, girls in particular, where children can thrive and reach their full potential.
  • Supporting government schools to provide quality education by strengthening community participation and ownership, strengthening School Management Committees and Teachers towards making government schools functional.
  • Strengthening collectives of children and adolescents for awareness generation and developing scientific temper.
  • Strengthening child protection committees, supporting state agencies towards elimination of child / early marriage and child labour.

Promoting Climate Justice

  • Fostering strategies to mitigate the impact of Climate change upon poor and marginalized communities and finding ways to help them to adapt.
  • Strengthening vulnerable people, particularly women and youth from poor and marginalised communities, to be more resilient to climate induced disasters.
  • Prioritizing their protection through targeted policies by ensuring equitable access to disaster relief, healthcare, and climate-resilient infrastructure.
  • Supporting vulnerable communities towards developing framework for reparations and compensation for climate-induced losses.
  • Promoting community-led climate change mitigation interventions such as afforestation, protection and conservation of natural resources including water, forest and land and working towards an environment suitable for flourishing of flora and fauna.
  • Promoting sustainable agriculture to reduce wastage and input cost by using the available resources, sowing of less water consuming traditional varieties, suitable to the local climatic conditions and offer resilience to climate change.

Promoting sustainable and collective livelihoods

  • Promoting livelihoods and income generation options for the marginalized communities, with focus upon women.
  • Facilitating collectives of women and building skills, leadership, literacy numerical and digital, marketing to promote collective livelihood enterprise.
  • Fostering women-led FPOs, Cooperatives, groups and various initiatives to strengthen economic condition of women and their families.
  • Empowering women farmers, particularly single women towards collective farming and value-added production through collective enterprise.
  • Encouraging collective farming by women’s groups, preservation of local seeds through seedbanks, availability of food grains through grain banks and vegetables through kitchen gardens to meet the nutritional needs of women and children.
  • Building capacities of the collectives of marginalized communities – small and marginal farmer, peasants, pastoralists, etc. to access land and strengthen livelihoods by promoting sustainable and integrated farming combined with poultry, animal husbandry and fishery etc.

Urban- Inclusive Cities for all

  • Fostering safe, accessible and inclusive cities for vulnerable people – Women, Persons with Disabilities, Elderly, etc.
  • Engaging with the collectives of urban poor communities to enhance their lives and living conditions.
  • Promoting access to affordable housing, basic public services, dignified livelihood spaces to urban poor and safe spaces for women and children.
  • Facilitating collaboration of collectives of women, urban poor, slum dwellers, vendors, hawkers and state agencies to facilitate their inclusion in pro-poor city planning –basic amenities, services for informal workers, vending and hawking zones, pro-women labour addas, night shelters for homeless, etc.

Supporting dignified life for Workers

  • Skill building of informal sector workers in rural and urban areas and facilitating linkages with government schemes and programmes.
  • Supporting collectives of construction workers, domestic workers, home-based women workers, street vendors, fisher folks, bidi workers, bonded labour, artisans, blacksmiths, weavers, teagardens and coffee estates workers, agricultural workers, MGNREGA workers, sugarcane workers, plantation workers, migrant workers, stone quarry workers, gig workers, choultry workers, sanitation workers, rag pickers, handloom weavers, etc. towards ensuring social security, decent wages, dignified work.
  • Strengthening collectives towards abolition of forced labour and caste-based menial occupations and addressing gender and social exclusions in the labour market and working with focus upon women workers.

Emergency Response and Resilience Building

  • Building capacities and strengthening the resilience of the vulnerable communities in disaster prone areas.
  • Engaging with community leaders, panchayats, CSOs and state agencies to collaborate efforts to reach out with humanitarian support to the affected marginalised communities including children without care, single women, persons with disabilities, elderly, etc. in the event of disasters.
  • Strengthening the agency of women and girls and their leadership during humanitarian response.

Strengthening Solidarity with Struggles and Progressive Actions Beyond Local and National Boundaries

  • Encourage critical debate and policy interventions on international issues related to India
  • Build solidarity with social movements and progressive organizations and individuals in the Global South
  • Push for alternatives that articulate a new internationalism.