We are working for :

Child rights

We’ve learned that the only way to make lasting change happen is to adopt what we call the ‘child rights approach’ by   looking at children’s issues in their entirety, rather than through the narrow prisms of education, health, child labor, child abuse, foeticide / infanticide etc.  then  seeking the underlying root causes  of the deprivation-gender, caste, livelihoods, displacement and the like . Finally, mobilizing each local community to find long-term solutions to these problems by ensuring the relevant laws and policies that guarantee their rights are actually implemented. to run this movement following steps taken-

To be an advocate on behalf of children by raising awareness about the Convention. To promote and facilitate, through specific programmes like BAL PANCHAYATS  and actions, the full implementation of the programmes. To facilitate a flow of information between the Committee on the Rights of the Child, concerned.

To facilitate co-operation and information sharing regarding the monitoring and implementation of the programme  within the community.

To draw up policies and strategies and undertake action in fields covered by the agenda

To contribute to the monitoring work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

To facilitate the creation and support the work of National Coalitions for the movement on the Rights of the Child.

Rights to children for which we are working:

Right to Survival

1. To sensitize community on issues related to birth registration and issuance of birth certificate to children
2. Ensure birth registration and birth certificate of children born before year 2006
3. To  create awareness among people on various provisions and schemes  under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
4. To facilitated community driven process for better immunization of pregnant women and children.
5. To track cases of IMR, CMR,MMR and child malnutrition, malnutrition deaths
6. To activate ICDS, AWC and SHC and functioning of other health Institutions .
   

Right to Protection

• Capacity building of CBOs and women groups on government schemes and programme (PDS/ICDS/MDM)
• Ensure community monitoring for effective implementation of PDS, ICDS MDM
• Mobilizing and motivating people to seek employment under NREGA and get due wages
• Awareness generation on creation of livelihood asset through NREGA
• To ensure effective implementation of  Forest Right Act  and community control over forest resources
• Capacity building of CBOs and Bundelkhand Mazdoor Kisan sangathan (BMKS) to ensure community control over forest resources, protest against displacement due to sanctuary
• To organize Bidi Madoors to enhance their bargain power, appropriate special schemes
•  and programme for bidi Mazdoor
• To create awareness on decentralized governance with emphasis on role and function of Gram Panchayats in development process

Child Protection Programme is a core sector of our work. Utilizing a child rights programming framework and bearing in mind the cross-cutting themes of child participation, non-discrimination and best interests of children, our child protection work focuses on three key “evidence” groups: children affected by disasters/emergencies and conflict, including Disaster Risk Reduction, exploitation, child trafficking and children in the worst forms of labor and children with inadequate parental care including alternatives to institutional care. Understanding good and best practices in care and protection is a major focus of our work. This requires quality monitoring and evaluation (research & studies) in order to identify good practice and the documentation and sharing of this evidence. Some of the most important activities of our Child Protection programme include:

Improving the understanding of the situation of vulnerable children in need of care and protection.
Building children’s resilience and supporting their participation in their own protection, including child-led organizations and child-to-child support.
Demonstrating the benefits of preventative approaches and early intervention over interventions at a later stage.
Supporting the development of community-based care and protection systems.
Support to the co-ordination and integration of services and support to vulnerable children.
Encouraging moves away from services directed towards particular problems towards services addressed to supporting the functioning and coping strategies of children and families.
Building the care and protection of children into broader social welfare, poverty reduction and other national development strategies.
Building the capacity of duty bearers to deliver effective care and protection.
Advocating for legal and policy reform in line with the principles and standards of the Child Rights For Change and other relevant international and regional instruments.

Right to development

• To generate awareness among community on Right to Education and its various provisions
• To ensure enrollment and retention of children in school and effective functioning of primary school
•  To check school dropouts and linking of out-of-school/dropout children in formal school

Right to Participation

 -Leadership capacity building among children’s groups

-Creation of enabling environment of learning for children groups  through promotion of child participation,  creative activities including game/sports, theatre workshop.