SMVM believes that no society can claim to be progressive where women are treated as second-class citizens, experiencing exploitation, violence and being deprived of her constitutional rights. SMVM is committed to protect and safeguard the rights of women and girls by facilitating condition for them to claim and advance their rights for enjoying meaningful and dignified lives.
- • Strengthened engagement of individuals, communities and institutions in reducing violence against women and girls
- • Enhanced access to support services and economic opportunities for womsen and girls, including those affected by domestic violence and child marriage.
- • Increased use of knowledge by institutions and alliances to influence change
- • Community-based programme on preventing and responding to child marriage and domestic violence
- • Family Counseling Centre
- • Conduct session with college students on child rights
- • Undertake participatory assessment on the incidence of violence at a community level
- • Provide counseling and legal support to the victims of child marriage and domestic violence
- • Conduct sessions with identified community influencers and government officials, PRI on positive norms, laws on domestic violence and child marriage
- • Conduct sessions with identified community influencers and government officials, PRI on positive norms, laws on domestic violence and child marriage
Quality Education is a fundamental human rights and a key to ensure gender equality and empowerment. SMVM ‘s education programme seeks to fill critical gaps in the quality and reach of education inputs amongst the poor and most marginalized through onsite academic support, strengthen school institutions and adopting child centric pedagogy.
- • Ensure 100% children of 6-14 years are enrolled and retained at schools
- • Teachers practice gender sensitive and child centric classroom processes
- • Children have access to basic life skills and activity-based learning opportunities
- • Functional school level institutions (Bal Sansads/ SMCs)
- • Empowering marginalised girls through quality education (Support to KGBVs)
- • Special Learning Centre for children to have access to facilities for age appropriate educational skills and competencies
- • Remodeling of schools and AWCs remodeling for retention of children
- • Provide onsite academic support to children through academic fellows
- • Equip schools with relevant teaching learning materials
- • Capacitate teachers on child centric teaching approach, gender and child rights issues
- • Strengthen libraries and science labs through additional resources
- • Conduct trainings of SMC members on their roles and responsibilities under RTE
- • Conduct regular parent-teacher interface to discuss children progress and their vulnerabilities
- • Provide scholarship support to meritorious students from socially and weaker section for higher education
Addressing growing incidence of child rights violation is one of the India’s development priorities. Putting in place multiple legislatives frameworks, institutions coupled with policy instrument is a progressive step to address children multiple vulnerabilities. SMVM is committed to protect and safeguard the rights of children through effective implementation of the policy instruments, mobilizing families and communities for providing alternative care and support and provide direct services to at risk children.
- • Work with communities and families to reduce vulnerabilities of children
- • Generate gender disaggregated data on child vulnerability and develop case management plans
- • Offer technical support to district agencies, community institutions for taking up child protection measures
- • Draw linkages with various child protection networks to for preventing and responding to child rights abuse
- • Community-based programme to offer child protection services
- • Child Care Institutions for girls under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act
- • The community cadre empowered to work with VLCPC members resulting in a stronger child protection mechanism
- • Establish case management system for children to receive better services
- • Link children and families with social security schemes
- • Formulate an Individual Care Plan for each child based on understanding the child‘s background, interest and need
- • Offer counseling support, education inputs through digital class, vocational training to children as part of rehabilitation plan
SMVM believes that children irrespective of social, religious, linguistic identities and different learning needs deserve an opportunities to learn and grow to their full potential without experiencing fear, violence and stigma. Our work with persons with disabilities focuses on engaging class-room processes by creating a child-friendly environment; building capacity of teachers; liaisoning and establishing linkages with departments for delivery of services; and anchoring skill development trainings.
- • Provide educational, skill building, medical coupled with social, psychological and emotional support to children with different learning needs to improve their well being
- • Work with communities and families to address the stigma attached to this medical conditions
- • Link children with various social protection schemes
- • Provide rehabilitation support through sports, physiotherapy and counseling
- • Residential support to Deaf and Dumb Children
- • Residential support to Spastic Children
- • Transact school based programme for children up to 8th standard
- • Organise health checkups
- • Provide vocational trainings in computer application, painting, stitching
- • Prepare individual care plan of children and follow up on their progress
- • Organise learning cum exposure visits for children and teachers
- • Offer individual as well as group counseling to children for stress management and well being
- • Provide sport training to children for leadership development
Our livelihood interventions focus on enhancing family income through micro level diversification and livelihood mix strengthening to meet the livelihood stress. This is done through analyzing the household level vulnerability and risks, asset base, and mapping the knowledge and skills available within the household. Identifying and moblising households, linking them with livelihood appropriate options and supporting them technical inputs lead to sustainable livelihood.
- • Enhance and promote the rural and urban livelihoods through wage labour and self employment
- • Diversify livelihood needs to the individuals and families
- • Support in asset creations to check migration and women empowerment
- • Provide asset building support to vulnerable families
- • Support to government agencies in the implementation of poverty alleviation and skill building schemes
- • Financial Inclusion
- • Conduct financial literacy programme for women to inculcate financial discipline
- • Prepare village planning exercise under MGNREGA
- • Organise training of mates, CBOs and PRI members on the technical aspects of MGNREGA
- • Mobilse labour for wage employment and skill training under government schemes
- • Promote nutrition garden amongst poor families
- • Strengthen community monitoring initiative to address bottleneck and gaps in the service delivery
- • Link farmers with various government departments
Attainment of ODF status is an important milestone in the journey of SBM-G programme, but it is not the end of the programming for sanitation and hygiene benefits. SMVM as a technical agency working the concerned departments to ensure sustainable access to drinking water, facilitate development of ODF sustainability plan for blocks and district and improve WASH facilities in schools
- • Capacitate community institutions and PRIs representatives to improved access to IHHL
- • Sustainable access to drinking water
- • Improve Wash facilities in schools/ AWCs
- • Conduct village- level triggering to promote usages of IHHL
- • Conduct orientation prorgammes for Nigrani Samiti and VWSC members on IHHL sustainability
- • Develop district and block level plan for ODF sustainability
- • Conduct school based programmes on MHM and hand wash
- • Install school handwashing units through mobilizing local resources
- • Provide technical support to schools under Mukhyamantri Swachh Vidyalaya Purashkar
- • Orient water user committee on operation and management aspect of water supply scheme
- • Conduct village- level triggering to promote usages of IHHL
- • Conduct orientation prorgammes for Nigrani Samiti and VWSC members on IHHL sustainability
- • Develop district and block level plan for ODF sustainability
- • Conduct school based programmes on MHM and hand wash
- • Install school handwashing units through mobilizing local resources
- • Provide technical support to schools under Mukhyamantri Swachh Vidyalaya Purashkar
- • Orient water user committee on operation and management aspect of water supply scheme