Young Women Catalysts for Change
A Perspective on Working with Youth
Why India must shift from reaping a demographic dividend to sowing demographic multipliers, and seven design principles for youth-centric work.
Blog
Social Justice and Inclusion
Entering the New Quadrennium with a Promise to Leave No One Behind
Leave No One Behind is the YWCA’s theme for the new quadrennium: who gets left behind and why, and a way forward for youth, communities and nature.
Young Women Catalysts for Change
Involvement & Importance of Youth in Leadership and Decision-making
Lessons from building young feminist collectives: start with the personal, make room for leisure and love, share power, and let young women set the agenda.
Community Development Projects
(Re)Conceptualizing Community Work
Why community work is a necessity in the social sector, and how seeing communities as their members see themselves makes the work reflexive and participatory.
Community Development Projects
Strengthening Communities: Working with Men and Boys
Why community engagement matters, and why programmes that leave out men and boys stop short of the root causes of gender-based violence.
Social Justice and Inclusion
Waste Generation and Its Ground Reality
A waste collector from Seemapuri on who handles the waste we throw away, what the work pays, and the small daily steps that cut our own share.
Livelihood and Skill Development
Waste Management and Informal Livelihood
India’s waste systems run on informal waste pickers and recyclers; here is how cities can recognise, protect and bring them into municipal waste management.
Advocacy and Civic Engagement
Women’s Reservation Bill and the Power of Representation
Twenty-five years after it was first tabled, a young woman asks why the Women’s Reservation Bill keeps stalling, and what the movement must do next.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
Keep Calm and Get Tested
How HIV spreads and how it doesn’t, who is most at risk, and why getting tested matters. With two group activities to start the conversation.
Advocacy and Civic Engagement
Right to Equal Representation of Women in Parliament
Women are half of India but hold a small share of its seats in Parliament. The case for reserving seats for women, and the bill’s long history.
Social Justice and Inclusion
Girls Not Brides: A Rights-Based Issue
Child marriage pulls girls out of school and puts their health and safety at risk. What the law says, and how every YWCA can help end it.
Women Against Violence
Violence Against Women
From taunts and control over money to beatings and rape: the forms violence takes in Indian homes and workplaces, and why so much of it goes unreported.