Gender Equity

Mentoring women to play leadership roles in every field.

When women are part of decision-making, there are better chances of engendering development and programs. C3 is committed to ensuring women’s equal participation in decision making as a step towards building gender equal societies. We partner with communities, women leaders, Self Help Groups (SHG) and others to strengthen women’s participation in decision-making and build strong women’s leadership. We mentor grassroot women leaders and train them to take the lead in handling structural problems that encourage gender inequalities and become barriers in access to quality healthcare, education, and work opportunities. We believe in engaging with men and boys as well to address issues of gender inequity. The approach is to build models and evidence for finding solutions to concerns such as violence against women, barriers to women's participation in the work-force, or non-integration of gender in reproductive health programing.

Our work is supported by in-depth research on identifying needs and building sustainable solutions that can be implemented at scale.

Gender Equity

Program Objectives

Build women’s leadership at grassroots to enhance their role in decision-making
Amplify women’s voices to demand gender equity in healthcare, infrastructure and every aspect of community life

Milestones

Under Hamara Swasth Hamari Awaaz campaign, voices of 150,000 women in Bihar amplified and supported.

In our village, usually, people refer to women as ‘his/her mother/wife’. Today, people refer to my sons as Prabha Devi’s sons, which is unusual for our social milieu. It’s a man’s world, and educated people like the Block Development Officer would not even notice me earlier. Now, I have the confidence to question them on their work! I have overcome my fears and I am not scared of talking to people. In the initial days, I felt lost without my husband representing me in meetings. Now, I prefer going alone.

Prabha Devi, Member, Village Council

Our projects

Pahel

Pahel (‘to initiate’ in English) builds leadership capacities and mentors women leaders in Bihar to participate effectively in local decision-making, ensuring quality of health services

Sakshamaa

Sakshamaa (‘the empowered woman’) focuses on collecting robust and credible evidence in Bihar to drive on-ground interventions addressing gender-based issues.

Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore

Do Kadam (‘two steps towards equality), an initiative to build the evidence base on what may work to prevent and address violence against women and girls in Bihar.

Amplifying Influencer Voices

Prioritization of access and availability of contraception for spacing by low parity women and young people.