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Promotion
of Women's Rights through Networking, Lobbying, Advocacy and
Capacity Building
About
the Study:
This
project is based on the human right approach in which emphasis
is on providing minimum condition of living to the
participants with dignity. It also aims at providing peaceful
living and development of full potential of participants.
This
project is in two parts. The first part of project endeavors
at providing a life of dignity and justice to the women within
the family, community and in the society at large in the
National Capital Territory of Delhi. The Second part of the
project aims at capacity building of civil society
organisations at the grass root level by imparting gender
mainstreaming training so that gender could be incorporated in
the development process in the Hindi Speaking Eastern Part os
state of U.P. of India.
Objective:
Objectives
for the Crisis Intervention Centre:
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Developing
and strengthening a network of counsellors and community
leaders by providing services to women and girl children
who are victims of violence.
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To
make society aware about the women's rights by organising
legal literacy and awareness programs regarding social,
economic, political, legal and human rights of
women.
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To
mobilise community to take initiative to stop anti-social
activities like harassment of women, alcohol related
violence, dowry harassment, gambling etc. in thir area.
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To
strengthen the existing networks to advocate prevention of
violence against women and to provide integrated services
to the victim of violence.
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To
strengthen the existing women's collective centres as a
model to enhance capacity of other community based
organisations to act as pressure groups within the
community.
Objectives
for the Strengthening of Training Centre for Gender
Mainstreaming in the development process:
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To
build the capacity of grass-root organisations to
incorporate gender in the development process in Hindi
Speaking Eastern Part of the State of U.P.
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To
Establish network of grass root level community
organisations to deal with any form of violence and
discrimination against women.
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Community
mobilisation and advocacy to protect women's rights by
establishing strong linkage of grass root community based
organisations.
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Promotion
of women's economic self reliance by building the capacity
of existing Self-Help Groups.
Project
Area:
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6
Counselling Centres in National Capital Territory of Delhi
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Chiraigaon
Block of Varanasi District, U.P.
Duration:
Study
will span over a period of 36 months.
Expected
Outcome:
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An
atmosphere will be created in which participants will tend
to oppose any form of violence against women not on
individual but on community basis.
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Participants
will take direct action to deal with the issues of
violence against women at home and in community with the
support of the strong network created during the project
to deal any kind of violence against women.
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CSR's
model counselling centre would be developed as a training
centre and it would impart training to the members of
community level organisations on the issue of how to
effectively handle the cases of violence against women. It
will replicate the learning's of effective case handling
with other organisations.
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The
whole effort will help in establishing women's right in
the community and society.
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The
Training Institute in Sarnath, will function with prime
objective of restructuring gender relations in the
Hindi-speaking belt of State of Uttar Pradesh. The focus
of this training institute will be to impart training so
that participants learn to integrate gender in the
development process.
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While
promotion of SHG promotion, participants will be able to
market their products and it will lead to economic
self-reliance of participants.
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