Access to Justice Project
Project Title
Access to Justice Project
Goal
This project seeks to inculcate Constitutional values among the masses for promoting equality and fraternity, and address incidences of violence against women and adolescent girls by providing expeditious resolution of cases outside the formal official and legal framework.
Objectives
- Inculcate Constitutional values among the masses for promoting equality and fraternity
- Resolution of incidences of domestic violence at the village level
- Create an environment against violence against women
Activities
- Selection of 25 fellows and five mentors, their induction workshop and cross-learning workshops on regular basis
- Para-legal volunteers engage with victims of domestic violence and help them in resolving the disputes and preventing violence against them
- Nari adalats (women’s court) are organised every month in some project village
- Take up the cases that cannot be resolved at the village level with the police/ sakhi one-stop centre/ judicial service authority, etc.
- Involve personnel of these formal institutions in capacity building
- Training/workshop each of CBO members, police officials, media professionals, grassroots health workers, schoolteachers, sensitisation of high school and intermediate students
- Organise camps and street plays on violence against women in the project area
- Wall writing in the project area
Expected Outcome
- Twenty-five community leaders in are awarded fellowship to inculcate Constitutional values among the masses for promoting equality and fraternity
- 900 women and adolescent girls facing domestic violence in 120 villages of Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh are helped
Target Groups
Women, youth and general people
Coverage
Saharanpur, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Dehradun and Haridwar districts
Funder
Azim Premji Foundation