Orissa's wonder women
Orissa’s villages are beginning to see the benefits of committed women sarpanchs spearheading projects under the MGNREGS, and taking up problems and issues with government officials
Changing men for gender equity
Praajak, a Kolkata-based NGO which has been working with boys and men for more than a decade now, considers challenging the social construction of patriarchal masculinity a crucial route to achieving the goal of gender equity
Women break out of gender discrimination
Seventy thousand girls across Maharashtra are escaping the oppression of their homes to attend meetings of the Adolescent Girls Group which trains them in gender, health and nutrition and gives them a new confidence
The building blocks of change
Belaku started as a small health research project in rural Karnataka. But then the women said it was all very well to tell them about nutrition and eating right, but who was going to pay for it? Thus began the livelihoods initiative, Kirana
Online war against sex-selective abortions
The Datamation Foundation uses ICT to tackle the problem of sex-selective abortions. Confidential complaints against law-breakers can be registered on its website, registration of ultrasound equipment is tracked online, and computer carts and community radio take messages into rural areas
Safety nets for migrant women
Jabala's Safe Migration Project gets panchayats in West Bengal to keep track of women who migrate into urban areas, providing a safety net for women who get trapped into sex work or slave labour
The MALAR metamorphosis: Linking literacy with economic empowerment
An impressive federation of 1,410 women's self-help groups spread across virtually every village in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, funds literacy, health and economic empowerment at the local level
ANANDI: Helping women set the development agenda
In Saurashtra and the Panchmahals district of Gujarat ANANDI is ensuring that women set the agenda for infrastructure development, food security and much more. Women here have rebuilt 700 quake-damaged homes, and are trained in disaster-proof construction, repair of handpumps and the digging of wells