Our Approach
Social Art & Communication
“When stories are crafted sitting around in a circle, when voices own the spoken words, and when margins merge with the center, art empowers.”
Complex constructs such as gender equality, gender-based violence, social norms, and empowerment are not always easy to communicate. We at Sakshi focus on developing our resources for awareness creatively and innovatively. Sakshi’s forte is to design interventions inviting debates, discussions, and a call for action around some of the most pressing social issues globally. We use arts-based mass communication mediums like theater and film and experiential learning workshops to reach our stakeholders. We use the concept of social arts to leverage these mediums to affect positive social changes, especially in the area of gender equality and justice.
Research & Advocacy
“Legal equality is the first step towards gender equality.”
We recognize that when a country’s law does not consider violence – then it perpetuates and sanctions this violence. Our research and advocacy work, in the form of PILs over the initial decades, helped shape several gender-based laws.
Sakshi spearheaded many national-level consultations to ensure that the legislation on Prevention, Prohibition, and Redress of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace is placed under the equality umbrella and upkeeps the progressive aspects of the Vishakha Guidelines.
Through research & advocacy, Sakshi continues to understand better behavioral patterns and laws to inform our programs, strengthen policies, and enable institutions to focus on creating a culture of accountability to prevent harm.
Training & Capacity Building
“Equality is more than passing laws. When change takes root in the hearts and minds of people, we move closer to building a just world.”
Through capacity-building and systemic intervention, we work to prevent Sexual Harassment, Gender-based Violence, and Child Sexual Abuse. Our focus lies on building the capacities of individuals and institutions to prevent harm. We use rights-based experiential pedagogy, integrated trans-media communication, and social arts to inspire collective action and institutional responsibility. Our capacity-building initiatives further our aim of developing a force of social catalysts which would help nurture a gender-just society.
Institutional-to-Individual Engagement
Sakshi has signed two MoUs with the Government of India to implement its two flagship projects Pan India.
The MoU with The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Directorate of NSS, has given Sakshi access to 40,000 colleges pan-India, 40 Lakh Students to build their capacity on PoSH and POCSO and train them to interrupt the cycle of sexual violence with a special focus on child sexual abuse and workplace sexual harassment as preventers of harm,
The MoU with the Ministry of Rural Development, National Rural Livelihood Mission, has given Sakshi access to 10 Crore Households pan-India to strengthen legal literacy on gender-based laws and interrupt the cycle of gender-based violence.
