Vision,Mission,Goal

Our Vision

To build a gender just society where girls and boys, women and men are equally valued and have equal chances to a life of dignity.

Our Mission

• To bring together stakeholders from diverse fields to collectively fight against declining CSR and create an enabling environment for women and girls by challenging deep-rooted patriarchy.
• To raise the accountability of the state machinery to implement all gender related laws and policies in the country.

Goal

To arrest the decline in the number of girls; and develop positive attitudes, policies and practices with regard to them.

Objectives

Using a comprehensive, multi-layered and multi-pronged approach, the initiative has four key objectives:

• Challenge patriarchy and its manifestations in government policies, programmes and schemes to ensure equal opportunities for women and girls.
• Ensure effective and accountable implementation of the PCPNDT Act.
• Ensure that declining child sex ratio is a critical agenda of the public domain through proactive engagement with influential social and political formations, and
• Strengthen and build coalitions with civil society networks and alliances.

Principles

• An inclusive space with certain non-negotiable.
• A platform approach - openness to different ideas.
• Move towards building alliances and networks.
• Reach out to new actors leading to expansion.
• Decentralization as core value of the coalition.
• Adapt a multilayered and multipronged strategy.
• Willingness to work under the leadership of others and adding our voice to existing campaigns.
• Confront and engage.
• Build partnerships with government.

Non-Negotiable

• No compromise on the sexual and reproductive rights of women.
• No compromise on safe and legal abortion.
• No interaction that deepens and reinforces patriarchy directly or indirectly.
• No use of terminologies that comprise women’s access to safe and legal abortion.
• Exercising caution in working with religious and spiritual leaders.