Our Impact Spans Across 6 Indian States

We currently engage with gram panchayats in the 6 states of Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand.

We work through local partners which include women’s rights groups, community based organisations, and NGOs working with women from marginalised groups including minorities, dalits, adivasis on a range of human rights issues – education, health, forest rights and environment, violence against women, food security, to name a few.

These are some of the most difficult states when it comes to the issue of women’s empowerment and visibility in the decision-making spaces. Many harmful practices like child marriage, dowry, unfavourable sex ratio and patriarchal attitudes continue to dictate women’s choices and mobility. Once in office, numerous challenges in the form of threats, harassment, false charges, hostility, finding themselves under constant scrutiny and the critical social gaze, all these pose as barriers in the everyday functioning of their duties.