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, YP Foundation
Manak is a feminist, 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. This organisation 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 joined Breakthrough as a consultant in 2010, as the Resource Mobilisation head and helped the organization scale up its annual budget from 150,000 USD to 2.5 million in 2016. She joined Breakthrough full-time in 2014 and became the CEO when the founder and president decided to step down in 2017. As part of the Global Management Team, she also contributed significantly to the strategy for an initial growth phase of the organization from 2012-2016. At the same time, she also worked as the India Strategy Consultant in a start-up – the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), a unique platform for and by people interested in Venture Philanthropy, across India, Japan, and Greater China.
Feminist Activist, Advisor, Sangat
Kamla Bhasin has engaged with issues related to development, gender, education, media and others since 1970. She wears different hats from being an advisor to a feminist organisation such as Sangat and JAGORI, to coordinating One Billion Rising, a global campaign to end violence against women and girls in South Asia and Co-Chair of the worldwide network Peace Women Across the Globe; and member of South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR). She deeply engages with issues related to gender, development, peace, identity politics, militarization, human rights and democracy.
She seeks to explore and articulate connections between these issues and promote synergies between different movements. She is committed to the creation of a peaceful, democratic and pluralist South Asia.
⚧ 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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