Constitutional Values, VAW
Project Title
Promoting Constitutional values and addressing incidences of violence against women
Objectives
- Award fellowship to 25 community leaders to inculcate Constitutional values among the masses for promoting equality and fraternity
- Resolution of incidences of domestic violence at the village level
- Escalate the incidences which cannot be resolved at village level to official channels for resolution
- Create an environment against violence against women
Activities
- Selection of 25 fellows and five mentors
- Induction workshops for fellows and mentors
- Cross learning workshops and reviews
- PLVs 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 Outcomes
- Twenty-five community leaders in are awarded fellowship to inculcate Constitutional values among the masses for promoting equality and fraternity
- Nine hundred women and adolescent girls facing domestic violence in 120 villages of Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh are helped
Funder
Azim Premji Foundation