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Landscaping the Problem
4,000 women surveyed. Three cities mapped. Expert roundtables shaping strategy. This is how we understand what we are up against.
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Funding Innovations
Our Open Funding Call: Up to INR 50 lacs for bold ideas. Plus evaluation support to prove what works and scale what succeeds.
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Evaluating Solutions
Rigorous testing. Measurable impact. We do not guess. We prove what works through rigorous evaluations.
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Dissemination
From Jaipur Literature Festival panels to policy briefs. We bring evidence to every audience that can drive change.
Strategic Priorities
Our Top Focus Areas
Identified through expert consultations and proven by research
Supporting Grassroots
Caseworkers, constables, frontline workers, paralegal volunteers. Building their capacity and providing long-term funding to women-led organizations.
Legal Services
Mobilizing lawyers, providing legal aid, creating fellowships at district level. Making justice accessible where it is needed most.
Engaging Men and Boys
Men are part of the solution. Engaging them through multiple platforms with counselling and mental health programs that work.
Bystander Interventions
Bystanders can act. Government incentives, social campaigns, and training that turns witnesses into allies who intervene.
Training Service Providers
Bus conductors, auto drivers, delivery workers. Training those who see harassment daily to become first responders.
What Works
Proven Solutions
Not theory. Proven results from rigorous evaluations.
Reshaping Gender Attitudes
NGO Breakthrough reached 800,000 students across Punjab and Odisha. Proven effective in reshaping how young people think about gender.
Police Reform for Violence Against Women
Developed with Madhya Pradesh Police, scaled to 999 stations. More cases registered means more women getting justice.
Sexual Harassment Training
NGO Safecity trained 5,405 at Delhi University. Proven effective in reducing harassment. This is what evidence-based looks like.
● Our Grantees
Meet the changemakers we support
Six organizations from 460 applications — UP to Mizoram, Haryana to Delhi — backed by ₹5 crores in funding.
Red Dot Foundation (Safecity)
Using data and technology to make spaces safer through the Safecity platform, with a focus on evidence-based safety audits and police training.
Mission Foundation Movement (MFM)
A Mizoram-based non-profit empowering youth and women through skill-building and community partnerships to prevent gender-based violence.
Hum Kadam Consortium
A consortium implementing systemic GBV interventions across three districts of Uttar Pradesh, strengthening institutional responses to violence.
Chambal Media
A digital media enterprise amplifying the voices of women through India's only women-run rural news network, Khabar Lahariya.
CEQUIN
Using sports for development to transform gender norms and address structural violence in Delhi's resettlement colonies.