Programmes

The gamut of CWS's activities can broadly be grouped into Issued-based Programmes and Land & Environment-based Programmes:

Issue-Based Programmes

To promote and strengthen networks and prop up solidarity among individuals and organisations working towards empowerment of women and gender equality.

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To join forces with organizations working for the cause of dalits to enable them reassert and defend their right for personal dignity in social milieu and equitable stake in economic opportunity.

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The dalits are forced to remain as manual scavengers, Jogins, bonded labourers, agricultural labourers etc. The children are also forced to become child labour NDF is a collective response to overcome these problems.

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BODHI makes a serious effort to help the humiliated castes to overcome the negative self-condemnatory attitudes within themselves. This Centre locates the Dalitbahujan writings, encourages new writings to be taken up and all such writings will be popularized among masses.

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To encourage NGOs actively take up and work together with them in defending victims of individual and collective human rights violations and to campaign for human rights awareness and protection on a large sclae.

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CWS Minorities Program is working through NGOs for mainstreaming the development of Muslim minority. It supports Muslim women in A.P., Bihar and Jharkahnd into self-help groups, identify needs in specific areas and support them to access government schemes.

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Working in Orissa and Jharkhand, the project tries to understand support initiatives like forest conservation and address the issue of displacement. Polavaram dam on Godavari river in A.P. is an issue taken up by the project.

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The programme is implemented by partners and networks in AP, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand with a special focus on girl children. The programme works for children’s rights on education and their survival and development.

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To work at the micro-level with and strengthen the effectiveness of Panchayati Raj institutions which are the hubs of rural development for the empowerment of historically marginalized groups and rural womenfolk.

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Internal and External Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS within CWS and among its partner organizations and constituents through various development and livelihood programs.

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To improve the quality of life in rural communities by emphasizing environmentally safe and sustainable methods that would enhance the quantity and quality of crop yields in the agricultural production systemn.

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To establish Regional Resource Centres, strengthen the 'Vanasamakhya' and ally with Government Forest Departments for sustainable forest management, with a special thrust on developing livelihood security of the marginalized sections among the forest-dwelling communities.

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To educate, train and actively involve the local populace in conserving and improving on their water resources through effective water harvesting, irrigation and management programmes.

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To set up a resource centre and enlist the services of resource persons to conceive, plan and implement flood control programmes and to develop a model flood control programme for easy replication elsewhere.

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To spread widespread awareness of the impending repercussions of environmental abuse and exhort for a concerted action involving individuals and organizations at every level for environmental protection and recuperation.

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