Information Resource Centre
The objective of the Kriti Resource Centre is to support capacity building and advocacy on gender equality and women’s health through making accurate information available, timely, accessible, easily understood and relevant.Our strategy includes:
1. Information Generation, such as research studies, reports, papers; action research programmes; fact-finding and case documentation; process documentation of successful practice in print or video.2. Information Collection, such as literature reviews; bibliographies; internet based investigations, and media scanning.
3. Information Collation, such as maintaining a document library (books, pamphlets, reports, documents, folders etc); archiving news-clippings (print media incl. Journals and magazines); as well as audio-visual collections (films, music, posters).
4. Information Repackaging, such as designing and production of materials for community awareness, for training and for advocacy; Preparing cartoons, posters and video films on issues; publishing a newsletter and informational updates.
5. Information Dissemination, such as pro-active outreach (such as media briefings, policy briefings, film shows for students, etc – specifically planned for a certain audience); putting up stalls; Sending out materials for wide dissemination; re-active dissemination (providing information/materials and books upon request); maintaining of the Sahayog website; and advocacy mailing lists (e-groups)
6. Information Technology such as capacity building of staff in using IT and framing systems for using IT.