The Hunger Project (THP), India is a non-profit organisation committed to ending hunger through a holistic approach that is sustainable, rooted in lived realities, and women-centric. Foregrounded in the 73rd Constitutional Amendment of 1992, THP India has been working on strengthening the capacities and leadership of elected women representatives in gram panchayats (village councils). Over the last two decades, 1,97,000 elected women leaders have been engaged.
THP India’s interventions have steadily built and bolstered the leadership skills of elected women representatives in village councils towards development of their panchayats. Elected women commit themselves to pathways that strengthen practices of good governance, accountability and transparency in gram panchayats. They exercise their leadership to ensure better access to rights and entitlements and equitable access to public services – education, health services, food security, water, sanitation, livelihood, housing, forest conservation, and safe and violence-free panchayats.
THP India operates in 6 states – Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Simultaneously, the adolescent girls’ programme continues its critical engagement of advancing, accelerating and amplifying girls’ voice, agency, and active citizenship with a considered focus on making local governance institutions more responsive to adolescent girls’ rights and issues Your giving will support our efforts to strengthen local democracy and continue facilitating spaces for bolstering individual leadership and community participation. We will be able to empower and amplify women, girls, marginalised people’s voice and agency in rural areas, and bring to reality a world where every woman, man, and child leads a healthy, fulfilling life with dignity, justice and equality.
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