Presentation of Awareness and Empower Team on the AGM of 2023

Team members: Lead by Sohini with team Nandita, Amuna, Pinaki, Apurba, Shibu & Krishna.

Projects under Awareness and Empowerment Program
Amplifying Community Voices (ACV)	Mukti Voice	Shahoshin
Supported by OAK Foundation	Supported by AID	Supported by Kolkata Foundation

 

Objectives of the Projects:

Amplifying Community Voices –  Helping to develop community leadership to ensure a rights-based community-led approach for sustainable development in Patharpratima Heramba Gopalpur GP.

Mukti Voice – Developing a Gender lens among women’s community to address and reduce gender discrimination at various levels in society – project area – 20 villages in Mathurapur II block.

Shahoshini – To reduce gender-based violence/domestic Violence through a capacity-building program led by women groups. Project area – Mathurapur I, II, Patharpratima, Jaynagar I, II and Kultali Block area.

Impact Created Since Inception:

• The community became more aware of their rights. A basic gender lens has developed among women and adolescent groups through the support of the ACV project.
• Women started challenging the existing gender Social norms on a personal level.
• Community people especially men became gender sensitive and gradually created fair opportunities for women in terms of decision-making, opinion sharing in community meetings, adopting new livelihoods etc.
• community people are gradually taking initiative to increase accountability of different stakeholders/duty barriers through community-led advocacy.

 

Notable Achievements:

• We are able to reach around 540 community people in Heramba Gopalpur GP through empowerment programs.
• 6 community-led / women-led programs were organized under ACV and Voice.
• More than 55 people are taking an active role in Community-led Advocacy.
• Through the Gender sensitization program of the Mukti Voice project, we are able to reach more than 250 women in the Mathurapur II block.

Activities Done in Last Year
Capacity Building workshop under Shahoshini	Awareness campaign under Voice	Gender sensitisation training under Voice	Community-led event organised with the support of ACV	Livelihood-related training under ACV	Capacity building program under ACV
2 training conducted on women’s rights and gender-based violence	4 Awareness campaign organised by WAG with 1400 audience.	13 Gender Sensitization training conducted with 20 women action group members	3 community-led events organised by the community members of Heramba Gopalpur GP	16 training conducted for skill building to adopt additional sustainable livelihood	In the last year  around 180 capacity-building programs were conducted among Heramba Gopalpur community members to raise rights-based awareness

 

Future Plan
Community-led action on Gender Discrimination	More advocacy to resolve local issues	More people will adopt additional sustainable livelihood for better living	Women will start taking action to reduce gender-based violence
The community especially youth and women collective will take an active role to reduce gender discrimination under ACV and Voice project	Issues regarding drinking water, road, river embankment, and Health services will be resolved through community-led advocacy	Through the ACV project, Govt networking, and linkages will be created to create more livelihood opportunities for community people to reduce vulnerability	Through the Shahoshini project, women will be capacitated enough to reduce violence in their own lives