10-12 December, 2020
NEXT GEN ADVOCATES
FOR GENDER EQUITY
India’s largest youth gathering on gender equity
#FarakPadtaHai
NGAGE – Next Gen Advocates for Gender Equity is designed for young citizens to understand how one can engage in meaningful dialogue and make conscious efforts in bridging prevalent gender gaps.
At this initiative, young citizens can garner insights from thought-leaders, who have dedicated their efforts towards societal equity, and be reassured that their concerns, opinions and suggestions are heard and that the guidance they seek in solving problems for the future is available at hand.
Executive Director, The YP Foundation
Manak is a feminist, and queer activist who works on issues of gender justice, sexuality rights, health equity and inclusive education. Manak is part of the women's rights and queer rights movement in India and currently leads The YP Foundation, an organisation that develops young people's rights-based, feminist and intersectional leadership of social change.
CEO and President, Breakthrough
Sohini Bhattacharya is an intrepid intrapreneur and social change enthusiast who has 25+ years of experience in the development sector. Currently she is CEO & President at Breakthrough, a transnational organization working in the U.S. and India using multi-media, popular culture, leadership development and community engagement strategies to prevent gender-based violence. Breakthrough works with 400,000 adolescents and 12,000 women and men across 5 states of India.
Sohini started her career working on an Unicef-funded project to create communication materials for the Year of the Girl-child. In 1992 she helped set up Jeevika Development Society, where she worked with rural women enabling them to start income generation and micro-credit programs.
In 1996 she co-founded Sanhita, a Gender Rights Centre, in Calcutta. She joined Ashoka Innovators for the Public, an international organisation focused on creating the field for social entrepreneurship in 2000, where she led institution building for the organisation in South Asia.
Sohini joined Breakthrough as a consultant in 2010, as the Resource Mobilisation head and helped the organisation scale up its annual budget. Later she also contributed significantly to the strategy for an initial growth phase of the organisation from 2012-2016. Sohini joined Breakthrough full-time in 2014 and became the CEO when the founder and president decided to step down in 2017.
Sohini serves on the advisory board of Dastkar, a national organization working with crafts and craftspeople. She is also a founding trustee of Read India, an organization that sets up libraries for rural communities to kickstart income generation initiatives and also serves on the board of Kolkata Sanved, an organization using the power of Dance Movement Therapy to work with underprivileged populations.
Advisor, Sangat
A feminist activist by training, Kamla Bhasin has been actively engaged with issues related to development, gender, education, media and others since 1970. Currently, she works with Sangat – A Feminist Network as Adviser as well as JAGORI, a Women’s Resource and Training Centre and Jagori Rural Charitable Trust as an active member. She is the South Asia Coordinator of One Billion Rising, a global campaign to end violence against women and girls; Co-Chair of the worldwide network Peace Women Across the Globe; and a member of South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR). Prior to this, she worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 27 years. Kamla Bhasin is deeply engaged with issues related to gender, development, peace, identity politics, militarization, human rights and democracy and seeks to explore and articulate connections between these issues and to promote synergies between different movements. Her main work is at the South Asian level, and has included capacity building of South Asian and other young activists and networking amongst civil society organizations in South Asia. She has also been conducting gender sensitization workshops for senior non-governmental organization leaders and managers, government officials, police personnel, and members of Parliament in various countries in South Asia. Kamla Bhasin has written extensively on gender, women’s empowerment, participatory and sustainable development, participatory training, media and communication. Most of her books are written for activists and development workers. She has also written a large number of songs and slogans for the women's movement, books for children, and has created many posters and banners for various people’s movements. She is committed to the creation of a peaceful, democratic and pluralist South Asia. She lives in New Delhi, India.
⚧ India witnessed an average of 87 recorded rape cases every day in 2019 -NITI Aayog
⚧ 122/189: India’s shocking rank in the Gender Inequality Index -UNDP 2020 Report
⚧ Only 13.9 percentage of operational land owners are women
⚧ 9 in 10 men and women hold bias against women -UNDP 2020 Report
⚧ 92% of transgender peoples are unable to participate in any economic activity
⚧ 6 in 10 India’s youth view homosexuality as wrong -Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
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• Access to all networking sessions
• Personalized Certificate of Participation
• Letter of commendation from
Durga recognising you as a gender equity champion
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