Nav Nirman Chetna Manch
Nav Nirman Chetna Manch is working with the local marginalised communities in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. NCM has organised and mobilised the local communities on the Forest Rights Act, 2006 by building awareness for demanding their rights. NCM has formed women collectives, and increased their participation in the Gram Sabhas. Women’s collectives have been crucial for taking up the issues of alcoholism, single women, gender discrimination and domestic violence. NCM has been working closely with youth on raising awareness on gender discrimination and violence against women.
Contact Details:
Address: H. N. 1104, Ward N. 10, Ambedkar Chowk Gariyaband District – Gariyaband, Chhattisgarh 493889
Tel: +91 7828625176
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Badabon Sangho
Badabon Sangho is a women’s rights and women-led organisation working in the areas of women’s rights to land, work, water-bodies, climate justice, natural resources and sexual and reproductive health. It has developed a number of tested tools and methods in order to support women migrant workers, especially their control over on resources and lands. The organisation provides capacity building support to groups and local women’s rights organisations challenging existing social, political and economic power systems that exclude, oppress and violate their human rights, and that have internal structures which reflect feminist principles.
Contact details:
Address: Vill: Katamari, Post: Vakotmari, Upazila: Rampal, Bagerhat, Bangladesh
Tel: +88 01732 396585
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Website: badabonsangho.org
Shramajivi Mahila Samity
Shramajivi Mahila Samity was formed in 1995 to develop a balanced and just society which provides equal opportunity to men and women.The prime aim of the organisation is to enable tribal and other women to become self-dependent in the socio-economic spheres, motivating women groups to be part of the decision-making process and ensuring participation in natural resource management and sustainable development.
SMS takes a community participation approach to combat poverty through right to food and other entitlements and livelihood development. SMS works with underprivileged women, men and children of 12 districts in the state of Jharkhand, India so they can live with dignity and have access to all the legal and constitutional rights they are entitled to. SMS' programmes include strengthening local self-governance for established good governance of marginalised community and reducing the gender gaps in society. SMS provides training and capacity building, and support to link people with the flagship government programmes both in-rural and urban marginalised men, women and children.
SMS has assisted about 2 lakhs people, including single women-headed households and different stakeholders, to become aware of different government support programmes. It has submitted more than 53,000 applications for government schemes like MNREGA job card, job claims, pension schemes, Indira/PM Awas Social security etc. out of which 32,462 applications have been sanctioned and 2,065 single women received labour cards. 16,000 families have enrolled under RSBY (health insurance) scheme.
Contact Details:
Address: Holding no – 06, 2 Floor, Gunomoy Colony, Mango, Jamshedpur – 831012, Jharkhand, India
Tel: +91 9431304140
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Website: smsjhar.org
Pourakhi Nepal
POURAKHI Nepal works with Nepalese women migrant workers and their families to sensitise them of their rights to take informed choices in the entire cycle of migration: pre-departure, migration, employment at the country of destination, and after return to the country of origin.
POURAKHI Nepal facilitates and provides information, advice and counselling, policy advocacy, capacity building of women migrant workers and other stakeholders regarding migration and the rights of women migrant workers, entrepreneurial and psychosocial trainings to support their social and economic empowerment, and reintegration support to the potential, current and returnee women migrants. It has played an active role in making the domestic and foreign labour migration a safe, orderly, regular, and decent one through coordination and collaboration with government, non-government, and private sector stakeholders.
Contact Details:
Address: House No-39, Chadke Marg, Ganesh Basti, Chundevi, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: + 977 984 913 5206
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Website: pourakhi.org.np
Light House
Light House is a non-profit organisation working for the development of rural and urban poor, marginalised and high risk population, particularly the landless, homeless, sex workers, drug users, men who have sex with men, Hijra, transgender, distressed, school dropouts, child labourers, Adibashi and other disadvantaged adults and children in Bangladesh.
It was founded in 1988 following a devastating flood. Since then, the organisation has grown and has established relationships with civil society, district and upazilla level administration and local government. At present, Light House workis in 29 districts of 7 divisions of Bangladesh. The organisation promotes decentralised and sustainable facilities through increasing the capacity of marginalised communities and facilitating their access to basic health services, public health (HIV/AIDS prevention) awareness, community legal service and justice (Human rights & Good Governance), food security for poverty reduction, and disaster risk and reduction.
Contact Details:
Address: Jahurul Nagor, Bogra 5800, Bangladesh
Tel: +88 02 8836323
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Website: lighthousebd.org
Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK)
Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK) works to promote and protect rights of Bangladeshi women migrant workers. It was founded in 2010 and registered in 2012 with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.
BNSK’s programmes are – (i) Mass awareness campaigns for safe migration and protection of the rights of migrant women; (ii) Capacity building for potential migrants and socioeconomic reintegration of returnee migrants; and (iii) Advocacy to promote and protect rights of the migrants and victims of trafficking.
It works all over Bangladesh for safe migration, especially for women workers involved in both the formal and informal sector. It capacitates workers on decision making, life skills and leadership skills development. It supports potential and returnee migrants especially victims of trafficking and irregular migrants. BNSK regularly conducts research among migrants in order to create evidence for advocacy purposes. It provides psychosocial and economic reintegration services for returnee women migrants and survivors of trafficking. It organises campaigns for protecting the rights of women and workers.
Contact Details:
Address: 35/17, Road No. 4, Shyamoli, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
Tel: +88 01715155198; +88 01942374564
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Website: bnsk.org
Sunita Foundation
SUNITA FOUNDATION is an organisation established and run by survivors of human trafficking. It focuses on youth empowerment to prevent human trafficking at the grass root level and to establish the issue of human trafficking as an issue of national importance in Nepal. SUNITA FOUNDATION works in the areas of prevention of human trafficking, protection of survivors and capacity building, as well as lobby and advocacy.
As a new initiative, SUNITA FOUNDATION also works for youth empowerment via providing employment opportunities to youth through the Modern Agriculture Farming. A large number of young people in Nepal are lured by traffickers with promises of quick job opportunities and foreign employment. In order to prevent this, SUNITA FOUNDATION works with young people and acts as a bridge between youth and local, provincial and federal authorities to utilise the available resources for modern agriculture farming. The aim is to reduce the risks of human trafficking and exploitation by providing employment opportunities for young people within Nepal.
Contact Details:
Tel: +977 985-1147103
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Facebook: facebook.com/Sunita-Foundation
Women's Initiatives (WINS)
Women's Initiatives (WINS) works on gender equality and diverse sexuality issues and enables poor and marginalised social groups, such as sex workers, HIV positive women, single women and migrant women, to articulate the issues of gender discrimination in a rights based structure. WINS creates an enabling environment where communities can live a life with dignity, access resources and build capacities and competencies to deal with challenges, their own productive resources and rightful access to government support and services.
WINS supports women in the struggle for justice and human rights and against those who would deny access to services or rights because of their livelihood.
WINS believes that sex workers are capable of making decisions and encourages them to hold influential positions that matter to the community. WINS extends skill enhancement so that they can use the opportunities available to them and thereby help them move up the social ladder. WINS insists on sex worker leadership at every level of decision making on policies around sex work.
Contact Details:
Address: 6-8-938, NGO’s Colony Tirupati 517507 Andhra Pradesh, India
Tel: +91 984-9204-711
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Website: womensinitiatives.in