A PROGRAM FOR ENSURING RIGHTS OF GIRL CHILD AND GENDER EQUALITY
ActionAid India works in 25 states and 1 union territory of India, with a vision to A world without poverty, patriarchy and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to life with dignity.
A PROGRAM FOR ENSURING RIGHTS
since: 2012
Name Of The Initiative
A Program for ensuring rights of girl child and gender equality
Schedule Caste & Tribes, OBC, Minorities and Physical disable.
Focus Areas Of Intervention
restoring rights of women and girls, and ensuring their safety; ensuring the rights of children, their education and protection
Basic Information about the initiative
"Action India has been based in Delhi since 40 years and has been working to strengthen democratic institutions by enhancing the participation of women at the grassroots level. Founded in 1976, their work has been centered on empowering women-who are disproportionately vulnerable to crime and gender-based violence. It has adopted a two-pronged approach with an emphasis on: • Creating awareness and dissemination of information and knowledge • Building self-reliance by organizing grassroots groups to struggle for their rights Action India facilitates and enables poor and marginalized women to organize themselves, to demand a rightful share of social and economic resources, and to be a political voice in all spheres of development. The growth and development of Action India’s community based work has emerged as an integrated programme addressing the needs of women, children and youth, identifying its constituency among all classes of women challenging the established systems of inequality and injustice within patriarchal structures, Action India works for social transformation through policy advocacy, legislative reform, networking and alliance building from the grassroots to national forums for effective strategies to impact change. "
KeyWords
Women; Girls; Women's rights; Safety; Education; Child rights
Families Benefited
1,100
Population Benefited
5,500
Women Benefited
3,000
Men Benefited
1,800
Children Benefited
700
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