Action India aims to recognize the contribution of women to our food and farming systems. The main objective was to increase the visibility of women farmers- especially smallholder & marginalised women, with a development mindset, and a vision led by social justice.
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The growing incidence of violence and sexual harassment on roads, markets and malls against women and girls needs an adherence now. This campaign in collaboration with Safe City is the beginning of a new partnership.
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The most significant development in Action India’s children’s education programme – “Gyandeep” was stepping up from two non-formal (NFE) centers to active intervention n the formal schooling system.
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There is an increasing consensus that in order to have a meaningful impact on adolescents, it is necessary to work holistically through broad-based programmes covering education and vocational training, health and nutrition, and developing self- esteem.
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Action India initiated the Swachh Delhi Swasth Delhi-Clean Delhi and Healthy Delhi project in Nov 2008 in six resettlement/JJ clusters in North-east district. Bhalaswa in the North-west was included in 2011. The North-east zone in this region has the largest concentration of economically backward and poor families.
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Looking Through A Gender Lens – Continuum of Care to Ensure Safe Birthing-Access to Public Health Services: Enhancing women’s access to health services, working with a focus on pregnant women and children under 6 years, we have addressed the causes of Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR).
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The concept of creating a gender just jurisprudence grew out of our experience of the last 25 years of working with women in the urban slums of Delhi. Women, Law and Social Change was conceived as an action-research project in 1994. Our strategy for intervention has been based on the mobilization of women to actively participate in the debates on the need for legislative reform in the process of social transformation.
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It means a qualitatively conscious plan for facilitating women’s economic initiative and creative potential to enable her to pursue her own choice in producing, trading or providing a service, to gain a sense of self-worth, dignity and control over her own life. Feminization of poverty and growth of the informal sector.
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