AASAMAN Nepal
AASAMAN Nepal is a voluntary organization head office based in Kathmandu with its main operation in Terai region in Nepal. It works to address discrimination of disadvantaged community including dalits, tribals and other ctivelized community in Nepal.
Save the Children Sweden has supported in addressing early child/forced marriage of girls and boys in Terai community.
Ekta
Ekta is a resource centre for children and women, based in Madurai, India. Save the Children Sweden has been supporting Ekta to strengthen its work on adolescent children’s rights, and promote gender equity at a young age.
Ekta with support of Save the Children Sweden works with 425 adolescent boys (and adolescent girl counterparts) along with school teachers, parents, and education committees, in corporation schools. The idea is to raise awareness of boys (and girls) on their rights and responsibilities, their role in eliminating violence in general and gender based violence in particular and to strengthen their life skills, essential for their education and well being.
Ekta does this by facilitating interactions between teachers, parents, and students on problems that adolescent boys face such as restrictions by parents, punishment by teachers and lack of self-discipline. Screening of mainstream films is held to initiate discussions on violent behaviour, gender discrimination, and discrimination against children. Adolescent boys and girls are brought into school committees to reduce drop outs, monitor progress with regard to education and to reduce violence amongst boys. Adolescent boys were also involved in the 16 day campaign on gender based violence in November 2006, including the White Ribbon Campaign. Adolescent boys (and girls) are also part of Ekta’s Advisory Committee that reviews the programmes with adolescents.
For more information, contact:
EKTA Resource Centre for Women
Bethal Nagar,
Bible Bhavan Street,
Ponmeni,
Bye Pass Road, Madurai
Tamil Nadu – 625010, India
Tel: +91-452-2381309
Fax: +91-452-2382454
E-mail: mdu_ekta@sancharnet.in, bimla_ekta@yahoo.com
Engender Health
EngenderHealth is a leading international reproductive health organization working to improve the quality of health care in the world’s poorest communities. EngenderHealth empowers people to make informed choices about contraception, trains health providers to make motherhood safer, promotes gender equity, enhances the quality of HIV and AIDS services, and advocates for positive policy change. It works in partnership with governments, institutions, communities, and health care professionals in more than 40 countries around the world. Over 65 years, EngenderHealth has reached more than 100 million people to help them realize a better life.
MenEngage is a global alliance of non-governmental organizations that are involved in an array of research, interventions, and policy initiatives seeking to engage men and boys in effective ways to reduce gender inequalities and promote health and the well-being of women, men, and children. SCS is Steering committee member while EngenderHealth and Instituto Promundo are co-chairs.
Institute Promundo
Institute Promundo is a Brazilian non governmental organization with an international reach, having obtained the legal status of OSCIP (organization of civil society of public interest) in 2003 established in 1997 .
In 1999, Promundo began implementing a project to strengthen community based organizations (CBOs) that support children and adolescents, as well as investigating how gender equality could positively contribute to the health of children, adolescents, and their families.
MASVAW (Men’s Action for Stopping Violence Against Women)
MASVAW (Men’s Action for Stopping Violence Against Women) is an unregistered network of individuals and social organisations with a common purpose – the campaign to involve men in the journey towards gender justice. MASVAW understands that violence against women in not only a women’s issue but an issue of concern for society at large. MASVAW holds that it is the responsibility of all members of society to ensure a violence-free society for women. Men are culpable not only as those who often inflict violence, but also as those who endorse the violence through their silence. Therefore men’s role in preventing and eradicating this form of pervasive social injustice has to be more proactive. With this belief, MASVAW works actively in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh, India, through district forums with various groups such as youth in school, colleges and university, academicians, media workers, advocates and social activists among others.
Read more about MASVAW www.sahayogindia.org/masvaw.htm
Save the Children Sweden has captured MASVAW’s experience in the film ‘Changing the Course’. To order a copy of the film Click here
South Asia Coordinating Group on Ending Violence Against Children
UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia has been working to promote children’s rights, including children’s rights to protection.
UNIFEM South Asia Office advocates for rights of women and girls in South Asia.
Plan International works with children, their families, communities, organizations and local governments to implement programmes at grassroots level in health, education, income generation and protection.
ECPAT International: A global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children.
South Asia Forum For Ending Violence Against Children, thereby facilitating cooperative action between governments, civil societies, children and South Asia regional agencies.
TULIR – Centre for Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse
TULIR – Centre for Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse is a NGO based in Chennai, India. It supports and participates in local, national and international efforts to promote and protect rights of children, by raising awareness of child sexual abuse. It works towards improving policy and advancing practise to prevent and address cases of child sexual abuse with a special emphasis on the psychological well being of children. It provides direct intervention services in the areas of prevention and healing of child sexual abuse. In addition, it undertakes research, documentation and dissemination of information on child sexual abuse.
In 2006, Save the Children Sweden and Tulir joined hands to conduct a study on child sexual abuse in schools in Chennai, India. Together both the organisations have also developed a workbook for younger children on child sexual abuse.
Find out more about Tulir www.tulircphcsa.org
United Nations Development Programme, Regional Centre ,Colombo
UNDP's Regional Centre in Colombo (RCC) serves 37 countries in 25 country offices of Asia and the Pacific. The RCC supports country offices by providing policy advice and backstopping services that are delivered by their regional specialists and technical advisors. The Centre is a regional knowledge and development hub helping to capture and spread development successes and best practices throughout the region under its thematic areas of poverty reduction and HIV/AIDS.
Save the Children Sweden, regional office has established a unique partnership with UNDP on supporting Men Engage network in the South Asian region and piloting a project on working with boys in Nepal. UNDP is Steering committee member of MenEngage.