Foundation for Emancipation of Marginalised (FEMALE)
District : West Singhbhum
Theme :
Non-discriminatory access to livelihood rights through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGS) and Forest Rights Act (FRA). |
The FEMALE project aims to improve access for socially excluded communities to MGNREG and FRA schemes.
The project's purpose is to strengthen the capacity of socially excluded communities to claim their rights and entitlements.
The FEMALE project is working in 67 villages in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. PACS is supporting the project for four years.
FEMALE aims
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Capacity building of leaders of village-level institutions to raise, demand and present issue of basic human rights.
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Capacity building of communities on entitlements under MGNREG, FRA and means to make them effective.
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Building of social capital through mobilisation of marginalised communities.
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Dialogue and needful action initiated among community and block and district administration.
About FEMALE
FEMALE was founded in 1998. The organisation was started by a group of students from a premier social science college in the state, Xavier Institute of Social Sciences, due to their concern with issues of rights and control over resources of marginalised communities. This group felt the need to lend a voice to the voiceless, by helping them to vocalise their opinions against exploitation and neglect by government.
FEMALE primarily works with financially disadvantaged sections of the community, who are settled in geographically challenging locations. Therefore, the majority of people targeted by the organisation belong to the Muslim community, below-poverty-line (BPL) segments, scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (ST) and other backward classes (OBCs) - locally known as the Munda, Pike and Rautia.
Find out more:
HEC Colony, Dhurwa,
Ranchi- 834004,
Jharkhand, India
