Maternal Health and Rights - Partners
Partnerships and cooperation with others is a key element of SAHAYOG’s approach to its work on maternal health and rights. Most of our work is planned and implemented in collaboration with other groups and networks. Currently, SAHAYOG has formal organizational partnerships with the following NGOs: State Level Astitva (MSAM Partner) Astitva works mainly on the issue of violence against women with poor, Mulsim, and Dalit women in Saharanpur and Muzzafarnagar Districts. Through this work, Astitva hopes to create a society that is free from gender-based violence. The organisation also works on women’s health and rights, children’s education and youth sexual and reproductive health rights in Saharanpur and Muzzafarnagar. Baba Ramkaran Das Grameen Vikas Samiti (MSAM Partner) Baba Ramkaran Das Grameen Vikas Samiti works with youth on health and rights issues in 10 villages of Gorakhpur District. They work through health education with men and youth on the right to safe motherhood (including gender discrimination and right to choice regarding marriage) and violence against women. Centre for Environment and Rural Technology (C.E.R.T) (MSAM Partner) C.E.R.T works with rural communities on health and rights with women and adolescents in 47 villages. They conduct health trainings and awareness programmes. Grameen Punarnirman Sansthan (MSAM Partner) Grameen Punarnirman Sansthan works with rural communities on health and rights. They work with women, men, youth, adolescents, and government in 98 villages of Azamgarh District. GRAMYA (MSAM Partner) GRAMYA works on the rights of extremely poor and marginal communities, including forest dwellers, tribal and economically deprived groups. Purvanchal Grameen Seva Samiti (P.G.S.S.) (MSAM Partner) P.G.S.S. is a church supported organisation of the Diocese that works on health and women's issues, including safe motherhood, in Gorakhpur and Kushinagar Districts. The organisation works with rural women, adolescents and also men through organizing community groups and conducting health education activities, TBA training and school health programmes. Shikhar Prashikshan Sansthan (MSAM Partner) Shikhar Prashikshan Sansthan is associated with the Mahila Adhikar Manch which is a mass-based organization of women labourers of Mirzapur district. Its membership consists of tribal and Dalit women who work as agricultural labour and in stone quarries in 35 villages of two blocks. The organization has been working on issues such as the right to food, women’s health, labour rights and children and women’s rights for the last three years. Tarun Vikas Sansthan (MSAM Partner) Tarun Vikas Sansthan works on women’s health and rights, violence against women, youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, education and fundamental rights issues. The organization has a mission to establish a gender-equal community and works to fulfil this mission through coalition-building, advocacy, casework and research.
Adivasi Adhikar Samiti Adivasi Adhikar Samiti (AAS) of Chhattisgarh is a mass-based organization (sangathan) of tribal women in Koriya district. Its membership mainly consists of women forest produce collectors spread across 300 villages in 3 blocks. It has been active for the past three years and its main struggles have been in securing food, health and forest rights of tribal women. Center for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) CHSJ is a health policy resource centre working with the mission “to promote human development, gender equality, human rights and social justice with specific reference to the field health, in its widest interpretation.” CHSJ was established in 2006 and works with civil society and government to facilitate the formulation and implementation of health policies and programmes to ensure social justice. Healthwatch Forum Healthwatch Forum is a network active in several north Indian states for advocacy and monitoring on reproductive health and rights. Healthwatch Forum maintains the Reprohealth Listserve which is used by advocates and concerned civil society members to communicate about maternal and reproductive health and rights across India. SAHAYOG is anchoring the secretariat of Healthwatch Forum. PRAYAS PRAYAS has been associated with an apex organization of community women leaders from 30 villages of Nainital district called the Betalghat Block Mahila Natritva Sangathan. Its membership consists largely of Dalit women as well as women who are elected councillors (Panchayat Raj Institutions), single women and survivors of gender based violence. Since 2005, PRAYAS has been working on issues such as violence against women, women’s health, and women’s issues in Panchayats.
Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) is a regional non-governmental, non-profit organisation based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that works with local, national and global women's organizations and networks to improve the capacity of women NGOs in Asia and the Pacific to influence health policies and programmes at national, regional and international levels. ARROW's current programme focus is on women and health, in particular reproductive health. The Danish Family Planning Association (DFPA) is a private, non-commercial association (NGO) working to create greater awareness on issues concerning sexuality, pregnancy, contraceptive methods and sexually transmitted diseases. The DFPA is committed to ensuring that health and sex education are recognised worldwide as human rights, irrespective of age, gender, religion, marital or social status, and works together with associations and organizations within the sphere of sexual and reproductive health and rights in order to achieve this goal. University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for International Public Health Policy (CIPHP) has been established at the University of Edinburgh to carry out research on health policy, disseminate its research, and provide exceptional postgraduate teaching based on the principles of equity, access, and universality. WHRAP brings together women NGO partners who are committed to strengthening civil society capacity to effectively advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), especially safe motherhood and young people’s SRHR at the local, national and regional levels. Currently implemented in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, this initiative is eventually planned to cover the Asia-Pacific region. |
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