Utthan

Vision Utthan envisions a society that imbibes and ensures the values of gender justice, equality, peace and happiness, in practice. Mission To initiate sustainable gender sensitive processes of empowerment amongst the most vulnerable communities, through a process of building conscientiousness, and organising around their major issues: Promoting peaceful coexistence, ensuring human rights, gender justice and inclusive, sustainable development for positive change in the status of the marginalized(women, youth and children from Dalit, tribal, OBC, religious minorities and economically poor communities) thus forms the core of approach. Strategies which have evolved through our experience a... read more Vision Utthan envisions a society that imbibes and ensures the values of gender justice, equality, peace and happiness, in practice. Mission To initiate sustainable gender sensitive processes of empowerment amongst the most vulnerable communities, through a process of building conscientiousness, and organising around their major issues: Promoting peaceful coexistence, ensuring human rights, gender justice and inclusive, sustainable development for positive change in the status of the marginalized(women, youth and children from Dalit, tribal, OBC, religious minorities and economically poor communities) thus forms the core of approach. Strategies which have evolved through our experience and continue to be relevant:  Participatory situation analysis of challenges in multiple, intersectional contexts  Awareness raising & organising around issues: building community agency through participatory communication  Strengthening leaders & institutions: collective prioritization & planning  Demonstrating best practices: social & technical alternatives based on people's knowledge and new innovations  Building a body of Utthan learnings for sharing and exchange: strengthening its team as a resource pool with core competencies for influence & growth  Policy advocacy through networking and partnerships with various Government & non-Government stakeholders Theory of Change Utthan is founded on the values of equity, democracy, liberty, secularism and social justice. The realisation of these, links everything it does, and every capacity it tries to build and sustain. Institutional Building and Leadership Development is key to bring change in exploitative power relationships and realisation of rights. This leads to socio, economic, political change for those at the margins, enabling a quality of life based on justice, equity and dignity. Developing just and equitable demonstrations, both technical and social, around people's institutions is a mechanism which lends sustainability and a clear multiplier impact.