Amplifying Community Voices

Project Objective

• Providing support to CBOs in mainstreaming child protection and gender issues into their existing body of work and in the process amplify voices within the community on issues of gender-based discrimination, violence and violations of child rights and child protection.
• Achieving highest standards of cooperation among collaborating organizations, leading to deep institutionalization of values of partnership and commitment for community-led approaches to development that are visibilised before other geographies, contexts and donor organisations.

Description of the Project

Praajak has been implementing the project Amplifying Community Voices in conjunction with other 5 CBOs of South 24 Parganas as a collaborative initiative since 2019 in the Patharpratima Block of the Sunderbans. In this collectively implemented project, Praajak is working as a Resource Organization providing support to CBOs in mainstreaming child protection and gender issues into their existing body of work and in the process amplify voices within the community on issues of gender-based discrimination, violence and violations of child rights and child protection.

Number of locations where the project is currently being implemented
Patharpratima Block in Sunderbans (South 24 Parganas)

Number of children (boys and girls), families, and communities reached under the project
As a part of this project, Praajak is working with senior leadership and staff members of three grassroots organizations.

Future plans and vision for the project
As part of the consortium, Praajak looks forward to consolidate the collective work and explore possibilities of scaling up.

Donor: Southern Voices
Website: https://southernvoice.org/
Location: South 24 Pargana