Forum for Advancing Women's Agenda: Empowering Women, Driving Change

Advancing Women’s Agenda is a collective impact forum, an initiative by Vatsalya in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, whereby we extend our vision for creating a healthy, equitable society for women. The society we dream to create is one where every woman irrespective of their societal position could create a meaningful life, while feeling safe secure and valued. To fulfill that dream, empowering women and girls across all sections of the society by creating awareness is of utmost importance. This initiative will connect CSOs, community individuals, various CBOs, advocates, media and academia via digital medium as of now to come together and pursue issues concerning women and girls. The forum will look at history of development of women’s agenda but the prime focus will be on the impediments to development and empowerment of women and how can we mitigate those. The forum will work as an umbrella encompassing issues related to women to create a wide range of cognizance on matters such as, Sexual Harassment faced by women at work place, awareness about their reproductive rights, Gender Based Violence, representation of women at the economic front and governance, encompassing education, health, livelihood and WASH issues.
 

Objectives

1. To collaborate with CSOs, media, community individuals, various CBOs, advocates, and academia, for a collaborative to further women’s issues, to    support, advocate and influence policy.
2. To develop a better understanding of forum members on these issues, while connecting with women across different sections of the society.
3. To explore possibilities for future and curate programs for on ground implementation.
Dissemination of appropriate information and communication has proven to be crucial in order to empower an individual so, that they are able to make informed choices. Our organisation is planning to take its first step under this initiative in this direction itself. Increased digitalization in the times of Covid will act as a bonus to create a wider reach while creating better strategic generating inter-agency collaborations.

Establishment of a non formal network 

District -15 Block- 17 Gram panchayat -170 3 Slum 2 Ward