Collaborative Interventions

SAMYAK consciously decided to work in collaborations with various organizations in Maharashtra to reach out to wider society in different regions. It provides technical support and involved in handholding processes with these organizations. SAMYAK also links these initiatives with the regional and global processes on working with boys and men for gender equality.

• NT-DNT Networks

• Pilot of Gali Band (Stop Verbal Abuse) Module

  SAMYAK has initiated a process of developing a training manual for boys in grade 8 and 9 (age 14 and 15 years). It contains six interactive sessions developed in wider consultation and participation of school counsellors, a practicing psychologist, representatives of women’s movement and gender experts. The draft of this module is prepared by SAMYAK and it is being piloted in 5 Municipal Corporation Public Schools in Pune and two urban slums in the city. This initiative is inspired by MASVAW (Men’s Action to Stop Violence Against Women) campaign in Uttar Pradesh on stopping verbal abuse.

• Working with Men of Arogya Sakhis (Rural Women Community Health Workers)

• Farmers Groups

  As part of FEM facilitation process in Konkan, SAMYAK is conducting workshops with men and women farmers’ groups in collaboration with local NGO ‘Shramik Sahayog’ and ‘SAMVAD’. Workshops address issues of gender inequality in agriculture, access to and control of women on agricultural resources, products, profits and decisions related to that. Workshops also discuss about what men and women could do together to bring gender equality in connection with agricultural labour, access to and control over resources. Workshops also analyse gendered nature of tasks involved in organic farming and sustainable agriculture.

SAMYAK Collaborations in Maharashtra: List of Organisations