Vishakha is celebrating its 28th year of establishment for right based intervention in the area of education, health, and combating violence against women and girls. In the past two decade Vishakha has worked towards empowerment of women, girls and marginalized communities primarily in Rajasthan and other parts of the country. Vishakha was one of the key litigants in filling a joint a joint PIL[1] in the case where the Supreme Court of India issued the landmark Guidelines for Prevention of Sexual harassment at the Workplace in 1997, popularly known as the Vishakha Guidelines read more...
HIGHLIGHTS
What We Do
Donors: 10 People
Pedagogies for empowering marginalized adolescent girls and young people: ‘from Self to citizenship’
Raised: $600
Goal: $800
Donors: 10 People
Capacity building and advocacy for gender responsive institutions
Raised: $600
Goal: $800
Strategies
- Empowering women, girls and young people through facilitating the ‘enquiry, analysis, action’ framework.
- Co creating transformative processes that challenge marginalization and violence and nurture collectivity, equality and harmony.
- Implementing Interventions to challenge gendered power relations and violence in interpersonal, social, institutional and community spaces.
- Engaging, strengthening capacities of and advocating with community & state institutions for improved responsiveness towards strengthened gender equality.
- Highlighting the links between SRHR, GBV and mental health to improve awareness, strengthen services and create integrated models of intervention
- Strengthening framework of Safety & Wellness through revitalizing cultures of self and community care integrated with the political movements for dignity and justice
- Being reflective, creative and collaborative in our practice.