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Founded in 1976

Organizing Grassroots collectives for social actionand radical change

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Living with Hope

Action India

Vision A Gender Just and Egalitarian Society

MissionEmpowering Women

to achieve

Equality and Equity

and the Right to Live with Dignity and Self-esteem

SAARC Day of the Girl ChildDecember 8th, 2012

Action India mobilized more than 1400 adolescent girls and boys of the communities in Delhi to listen to speakers Kamla Bhasin and Rashmi Singh and view an exhibition of oil painting on the Girl Child by artist Anjali Sinha.

We work to

Eliminate Discrimination

Stop Violence Against Women and Girls

We say

Women’s Rights are Human Rights

Facilitate access to education and health care

Enhance access to property and economic rights

We Enable

community participation in development to achieve social, political

and economics rights

Our Programs

• Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights

• Women Law and Social Change

• Gender Equality and Identity

• Women’s Economic activity and empowerment

• Education for Equality and Community participation

• Right to water and sanitation to live life with dignity

• Stree Shakti Suvidha Kendra – Mission Convergence

Action India is committed to social change, working at the grassroots, focused

in 14 urban resettlement colonies and slums in Delhi and 16 villages in Hapur

District in U.P.

Campaign Against Sex Selection and Pre-birth Elimination of Females

Missing 36 million girls in the last decade

• 2001 Network of 52 Delhi NGOs- Karvan campaigned against Declining Child

Sex Ratio across NCT Delhi

• Study in North West Delhi– Rising Sons Setting Daughters - a case for public

advocacy

• National Seminars organized in collaboration with NMML in 2004 and 2005 –

The New Paradigm of development and sex selection

• Stop Sex Selection , Save the Girl Child – Beti Utsav celebrating the birth of

daughters and honouring the mothers of girls at the community level.

• Monitoring the PCPNDT through the AA East district

• Appointed member of State Supervisory Body (NCT Delhi)

Think Tank- 31 August 2012TIME AGENDA SUB AGENDA PANEL

9:30-9:45 AM REGISTRATION TEA

9:45-10:00 AM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Gouri Choudhury, Director, Action India Dipali Sharma, Senior Manager, ActionAid India,Delhi

10:00-11:00 AMSAVE THE GIRL CHILD INITIATIVES-CIVIL SOCIETY OUTLOOK AND RESPONSES

CONTEXT SETTING: GROUND REALITY OF DECLINING CHILD SEX RATIO CHAIR : Pamela Phillipose-Women Feature Service1.Dr. C. Chandramouli-Registrar General and Census Commissioner

2.Dr. Suman Parashar Consultant-Census Commission

11:00-1:00 PM CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE, LEARNINGS AND CHALLENGES-WORKING ON THE ISSUE OF SEX SELECTIVE ABORTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PCPNDT ACT

CHAIR: Dr. Imrana QadeerPANELISTS:1.Rizwan Parvez, CFAR, Rajasthan2.Manmohan Sharma, VHA Punjab3.Meera- ActionAid India Partner –M.P. Member of State Supervisory Board 4. Sulekha Singh,Project Coordinator, Action India, Delhi5. Haryana

1:00-1:30 PMOPEN DIALOGUE

MODERATORS : Smita Khanijow, Programme Manager, ActionAid India, DelhiGouri Choudhury

1.30-2.30 PMLUNCH

2:30-3:30 PMDELHI ‘S RESPONSES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PCPNDT ACT.

INITIATIVES AND THE CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTING OF THE ACT.-PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE AND HOW THEY CAN HELP CIVIL SOCIETY IN IMPROVING THE IMPLEMENTATION

CHAIR: Ena Singh, UNFPAPANELISTS:1. Dr. Shalley Kamra - State Program Officer, PCPNDT 2. Dr. D.K. Dewan, Director Health and Family Welfare, Delhi

3.30-4.30 OPEN DIALOGUE MODERATORS : Dr Mira Shiva and Smita Khanijow

4:30-5.30PMVALEDICTORY SESSION STRATEGIES FOR FUTURE PLAN OF ACTION

RESPONSE FROM STATEIMPORTANCE OF ROLE OF MEDIA Vote of thanks

CHAIR and Sharing of brief: Akhila Sivadas, Executive Director, CFAR Guest of Honour – Dr Syeeda Hameed, Member- Planning CommissionDr Anshu Prakash, Health SecretaryDelhi State Supervisory BoardArti Dhar- The HinduGouri Choudhury, Action India Tanveer Kazi,Regional Manager, Action Aid India, Delhi

5.30PM TEA